He reported the result of conferences, even when his own opinion was adverse to that of the House.

And he reported the speeches of such persons as Lord Salisbury, probably throwing into them both form and matter of his own.

At length, "silently, on the 25th of June," 1607, he was appointed Solicitor-General.

He was then forty-seven.
"It was also probably about this time," writes Mr.Spedding, "that Bacon finally settled the plan of his '_Great Instauration_,' and began to call it by that name.".