Coke was the great lawyer of the day, a man whom the Government could not dispense with, and whom it was dangerous to offend.

And Coke thoroughly disliked Bacon.

He thought lightly of his law, and he despised his refinement and his passion for knowledge.

He cannot but have resented the impertinence, as he must have thought it, of Bacon having been for a whole year his rival for office.
It is possible that if people then agreed with Mr.Spedding's opinion as to the management of Essex's trial, he may have been irritated by jealousy; but a couple of months after the trial (April 29, 1601) Bacon sent to Cecil, with a letter of complaint, the following account of a scene in Court between Coke and himself: "_A true remembrance of the abuse I received of Mr.
Attorney-General publicly in the Exchequer the first day of term; for the truth whereof I refer myself to all that were present._ "I moved to have a reseizure of the lands of Geo.

Moore, a relapsed recusant, a fugitive and a practising traytor; and showed better matter for the Queen against the discharge by plea, which is ever with a _salvo jure_.