:Naturally I will second that, and bring yet another proof of the controversy which surrounded the man in his lifetime:
"...which caused some bold and forward man to write these verses following in a whole sheete of paper, & to cast it down in some part of Yorkehouse in the strand, wheere Viscount St. Alban yet lay:

    Within this sty a *hogg doth ly, That must be hang'd for Sodomy.

    (*alluding both to his sirname of Bacon, & to that swinish abominable sinne.)"
Would you, Emery, in light of all the above, like to retract your assertion that there was no controversy during his own life?