Nathaniel Bacon (English politician)

Nathaniel Bacon (12 December 1593 – 1660) was an English Puritan lawyer, writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1645 and 1660.

[1] The remark appears in The Fearefull Estate of Francis Spira It is cited by John Bunyan in Grace Abounding,[4] as being by Francesco Spiera, but is misattributed, and is really Bacon's, from this work on Speira.

[9] Glenn Burgess describes it as "a work of considerable scholarship as well as a piece of political propaganda".

[11] It was generally aristocratic and republican in tone, strongly anti-clerical, favouring government by an elected council.

[14] However the first text, "The Perambulation of the Liberty of Ipswich", has been questioned by Keith Briggs as lacking authenticity.