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Antalcidas, of Spartan ignorance, vii. 148.
Antecamera, vi. 484.

Antigonus, Then we shall fight in the shade,
vii. 142.

to Demetrius, when the fever left him,
vii. 147.

overhearing evil of himself, vii. 149.
Anti-masques should be short, vi. 468.
angels not to be introduced, ib.
Antipater to Demades, vii. 141.
Antiperistasis, vii. 85.

Antisthenes, saying of, on necessary learning,
vii. 159.

Antitheta, vii. 207.

Antonius, Marcus, only two great men of his-
tory carried away by love, he one, vi. 397.
Antwerp, English merchants return to, after
the treaty made by Henry VII. vi. 173.
Ape, his deformity increased by his likeness
to man, vi. 416, 561.

Apelles would take the best parts of divers
faces, vi. 479, 570.

Aphorisms, why preferable to a digested
method of delivering knowledge, vii. 321.
Apollo, slayer of the Cyclopes, vi. 704.

his musical contest with Pan, meaning of
the fable, vi. 713.

sagittis Cyclopes confecit, vi. 632.
certamen ejus cum Pane, vi. 640.
Apollonius, derided by Vespasian, vii. 132.

his description of Nero's government, ib.
his answer to Vespasian concerning Nero's
fall, vi. 419, 553; vii. 174.
Apomaxis calumniarum, by Sir R. Morysine,
vi. 215.

Apophthegms, new and old, vii. 124-165.
preface, vii. 113-120.

from the Resuscitatio, vii. 167-173.
from the Baconiana, vii. 174-178.
from Dr. Rawley's Common-place Book,
vii. 179-184.

spurious, vii. 185, 186.

mucrones verborum, vii. 113.
Apostolical succession, vii. 225.
Appeal, of murder, vii. 360, 463.
grounds of, vii. 366-368.

of Mayhem, vii. 366, 367, 463.

Appius Claudius, only two men great in his-
tory carried away by love, he one, vi. 397.
Apples, golden, of Atalanta, vi. 744.
Arbela, battle of, vi. 445.

Arbitrium solutum, vii. 346.

Archers, English, their execution upon the
French troops, vi. 83.

Cornish, their arrows reputed to be of the
length of a tailor's yard, vi. 182.
Archery, of Cupid, signifies what, vi. 731.
Archidamus to Philip after Chæronea, vii.
152.

Arden v. Darcey, case of, vii. 691, 718, 719.
Argument with an emperor who owned thirty
legions, vii. 141.

Arguments of property are three, damages,
seisure, and grant, vii. 533.

of law, by Lord Bacon, vii. 301.

VOL. VII.

Arguments-continued.

in the case of impeachment of waste,
vii. 527-545.

in Lowe's case of tenures, vii. 546—
556.

in the case of revocation of uses, vii.
557-566.

on the jurisdiction of the marches, vii.
587-611.

dedication of, vii. 523.
Preface to, vii. 569.

in Chudleigh's case, vii. 615.

in case of Postnati, vii. 639.

in the case De rege inconsulto, vii. 683.
Ariadne, loved by Bacchus, vi. 666, 742.
Aristander, his explanation of Philip's dream,
vi. 463.

Aristippus, to one who reproved him for fall-
ing at Dionysius' feet, vii. 138.

why men give to the poor rather than to
philosophers, vii. 139.

when reproved for luxury, vii. 150.
likened those, who cultivated the sciences

and neglected philosophy, to Pene-
lope's suitors, vii. 151.

to a sailor who taunted him with fear,
vii. 161.

when asked what Socrates had done for
him, ib.

why he took money of his friends, ih.
to a strumpet with child, ib.
Aristotle, his theory of usurpation, vi. 9.

Empedocles and Democritus rather to be
approved, vi. 749.

no ill interpreter of the Law of Nature
respecting conquest, vii. 29.

we are beholden to him for sundry arti-
cles of the Christian faith, vii. 164.
Aristoteles, philosophia ejus minùs probanda
quàm Empedoclis aut Democriti, vi. 672.
Armada, Spanish, defeat of, vi. 295-309.
invincible and invisible, vi. 361.
Arms flourish in the youth of a state, vi. 516.
Arrows of the Cornishmen, vi. 182.
Art represented under the person of Vulcan,
vi. 736.

contest of, with nature, shown in the
story of Atalanta, vi. 744.

Artes mechanicæ faciunt et nocumentum et
remedium, vi. 660.

Arthur, Prince, son of Henry VII. vi. 185.
dies soon after his marriage with Katha-
rine, daughter of Ferdinand and Isa-
bella, vi. 204, 215.

his saying the morning after his wedding,
vi. 215.

Artifices excellentes maximè invidiosi, vi. 659.
artifici præstanti exilium vix supplicii

locum tenet, vi. 659.
Artists, envy one of their predominant vices,
vi. 734.

3 E

Arundel, Earl of, sent by Henry VII. to wel-
come Philip King of Castile, at Wey-
mouth, vi. 230.
correction by Bacon in the account of his

Arundel, Earl of,—continued.

trial in Camden's Annals of Queen
Elizabeth, vi. 353.

his statues at Highgate, vii. 177.
Asellus donum Deorum pro potu paciscitur,
vi. 669.

videtur esse Experientia, vi. 673.
Ashburnham, Lord, Reading on Stat. West-
minster 2nd, c. 5, by Bacon, in the Stowe Col-
lection, vii. 305.

Ashes more generative than dust, vi. 435, 556.
Ass, gift of the gods laid on the back of, vi.
745, 750.

signifies experience, vi. 749.

Assassins of the Levant, vii. 32.
Assize, commission of, vii. 476.

Astley, a scrivener, one of Perkin Warbeck's
councillors, vi. 189.

Astrologer, vi. 512.

Astwood, Thomas, tried for Perkin War-

beck's rebellion, and pardoned, vi. 148.
plots Perkin Warbeck's escape from the
Tower, vi. 202, 203.

Atalanta, meaning of the fable, vi. 743, 744.
interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 667, 668.
Atheism, essay on, vi. 413-415, 559, 560.
causes of, vi. 414, 561.

better than superstition, vi. 417, 561.
Atheismus, meditatio de, vii. 239.

Atheist, miracles never wrought to convince,
why, vi. 413.

the fool hath said in his heart, There is no
God, vii. 251.

Athens, where wise men propose and fools
dispose, vii. 158.

Atlantis, whether destroyed by earthquake or
deluge, vi. 513.

Atom, typified by the fable of Cupid, vi. 729.
the sidelong motion of, vii. 253.
Atomus sive Cupido, interpretatio fabulæ, vi.
654.

opinio Peripateticorum, vi. 655.
Democriti, ib.

Epicuri, vi. 656.

declinatio ejus, vii. 241.

Aton Castle, taken by the Earl of Surrey
from James IV., vi. 184.

Attainder, vii. 330, 331, 357, 358, 359, 360,

437.

what shall give the escheat to the lord,

vii. 485-488.

of the partizans of the House of York, vi. 35.
Audley, Lord, heads the Cornish rebels against
Henry VII. vi. 177.

beheaded at Tower Hill, vi. 182.
Augustus Cæsar.-See Cæsar, Augustus.
Aurora, in love with Tithonus, vi. 727.
Tithonum adamat, vi. 653.

Aurum, durationis tessera, vi. 682.
Authority, four vices of men in, vi. 400, 551.
that of the adversary himself is the
strongest of all, vii. 659.
Autumn of life, vii. 145.

Autumnus pulchrorum pulcher, vi. 479, 570.
Avarice doth ever find in itself matter of am-
bition, vi. 225.

of Henry VII. vi. 155, 175, 217, 225,
235, 236.

Aviaries in gardens not commended, vi. 492.
Azo, his definition of a trust, vi. 401.

B.

Babylon, excellence of its geographical posi-
tion, vii. 63.

Bacchus, his history an allegory, vi. 740—
743.

represents passion or desire, vi. 741.

birth and nurture, ib.

invention of the vine, vi. 742.

a conqueror, ib.

lover of Ariadne, ib.

ivy, why sacred to, vii. 743.

why confounded with Jupiter, ib.
interpretation of the fable of Bacchus and
Pentheus, vi. 719.

Jovis natus, vi. 664.

a Proserpina nutritus, vi. 665.
desiderium boni apparentis significat, ib.
interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 645, 646.
Bacon, Lord, charge against him, of colouring
his history of Henry VII. to flutter James Ï.
vi. 8-16.

his jest to the queen concerning Dr.
Hayward's felony, vii. 133.

his advice to the queen, hesitating whom
to appoint, vii 134.

to the fishermen who refused to sell him
the draught, vii. 168.

Bacon, Lord,continued.

to a lady in Gray's Inn Gardens, ib.
to Lord Exeter, ib.

to Sir Edward Cooke, vii. 169.

to Queen Elizabeth, ib.

on the building Verulam House, by the
pond-yard, ib.

when the exchequer was empty, vii. 170.
sayings and anecdotes of, 177, 178, 179,
182, 184.

of his own disgrace, vii. 179.

his industry in small matters, vii. 197.
his confession of faith, vii. 215–226.
his talent as a poet, vii. 266-270.
reader at Gray's Inn, vii. 304, 305.
affection for Gray's Inn, vii. 524.
Bacon, Mr. Anthony, anecdote of his man
Prentise, vii. 184.

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, to Queen Elizabeth, of
the size of his house, vii. 144.

to Lord Leicester, vii. 168.

to a nimble-witted counsellor, vii. 171.
on a difficulty in setting forth lands, ib.
stopped at heaven's gate on account of an
unjust decree, vii. 171.

to his barber, vii. 183.

Baconiana, publication of, by Dr. Tenison, vii.

115, 116.

apophthegms from, vii. 174-178.
Bailee, felony by, vii. 349.

Banks, cunning propositions of, vi. 474.
Bannerets created by Henry VII, upon the
field, at Blackheath, vi. 182.
Bannocksbourn by Strivelin, battle of, vi.

91.

Banyan, man's life compared to, vi. 602.
Bar, good to a common intent, vii. 339.
Baragan, vii. 207.

Barba Panis, radii corporum cælestium, vi.
637.

Barbarous nations, their inundations on other
nations, vi. 516.

Barckley, Lord, case of, vii. 668.

Bargains, gains by, are of a doubtful nature,
vi. 461.

bargains and sales, vii. 495.
Barkhamsted, Cecile Dutchess of York dies
at, vi. 159.

Barley, William, joins Perkin Warbeck in
Flanders, vi. 140.

makes his peace with the king, vi. 153.
pardoned by Henry VII. vi. 153.
Barnaby's Day, the longest in the year, vii.

142.

Barnesey, Prior of, his case, vii. 707.

Baron and feme, vii. 3:8, 329, 340, 344,
345, 348, 351, 367, 432, 436, 437, 439,
443.

Barriers and Tourneys, vi. 468.

Bartholomew's Day, "No, by St. Bartholo-
mew, Madame," vii. 136.

Bartholomew's, St., charter of Henry II. to
the prior and monks of, vii. 510.
Barton, Elizabeth, the words on which she
was condemned of treason, vi. 151.
Bashfulness, a great hindrance to a man, vii.
110.

Bastards, envious, vi. 393.

Diogenes to one throwing stones, vii. 163.
Bastardy, trial of by the bishop, vii. 367.
Baths, saying of the bishop, who bathed
twice a day, vii. 130.

Beard of Pan, why long, vi. 710.

Zelim shaved, why, vii. 157.

Beauty, essay on, vi. 478-480, 569–570.

its relation to virtue, vi. 478, 569.

of favour is more than of colour, and of
gracious motion more than of favour,
vi. 479, 570.

-the best part of, cannot be expressed by a
picture, ib.

is as summer fruits, ib.

Beck, as good as a Dieu vous garde, vii. 202.
Bedingfield's case, vii. 715.

Bedford, Jasper, Earl of, one of Henry VII.'s

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Behaviour-continued.

of some men is like a measured verse,
500, 527, 576.

Belgic lion held by the ears, vii. 177.
Bella, fabula Persei bella significat, vi. 641—
643.

præcepta tria de bello gerendo, vi. 642.
Belly, rebellions of the, are the worst, vi. 409.
Benedictions, vii. 210.

Benevolences, history of the tax, vi. 121.

act to make arrears leviable by course of
law, vi. 160.

Bermondsey, Queen Dowager cloistered at, vi. 46.
Bernard, St., on scandal of priests, vi. 414.
Besom-seller at Buxton, vii. 178.

Bettenham, Mr., riches, like muck, require
spreading, vii. 160.

virtuous men, like spices, are best when
crushed, ib.

Bewdley exempt from the jurisdiction of the
Council of the Marches, vii. 601–602.
Bewley in the New Forest, Perkin Warbeck
takes sanctuary in, vi. 192.

Bias to the sailors at their prayers, vii. 129.
his rule of friendship, vii. 150.

how a man should order his life, vii. 157.
Biform, Pan so, why, vi. 710.

Biformia omnia revera sunt, vi. 638.
Bills of Review, vii. 759-760
Bion, But where are they painted that were
drowned? vii. 129.

of Socrates, ib.

to an envious man who was sad, vii. 158.
Bishops, Prælati paribus, vii. 182.
Black will take no other hue, vii. 200.
Blackbourne, his edition of Bacon's Works,
vii. 116.

Blackheath, the Cornish rebels against Henry
VII. encamp at, vi. 178.

defeated by Lord Dawbeney, vi. 181.
Blame, whom to blame for ills happening, vii.
160.

Blewet plots Perkin Warbeck's escape from
the Tower, vi. 202, 203.

Blood, when a good consideration, vii. 368-
369.

challenge of, vii. 369.

Bodmin, Perkin Warbeck arrives at, vi. 189.
Body, pliancy of the human, vii. 99.
Boldness, Essay on, vi. 401-403.

in civil business, is first, second, and
third, vi. 402.

the child of ignorance and baseness, ib.
ever blind, vi. 403.

a better quality in a follower than in a
leader, ib.

Bonance, a, vii. 207.

Bone, if not true set, will never be well till
broken, vii. 200.

Books, some to be tasted, some swallowed,

some chewed and digested, vi. 498, 525, 575
Borgia, Cæsar, his bark not St. Peter's, vi. 113.
his murder of the Lords of Romagna, vii.
126.
Bosworth Field, battle of, vi. 27.

Bothwell's attempt to seize the King of Scot-
land, insertion by Bacon in Camden's Annals
of Queen Elizabeth, vi. 353.

Bouchier, Sir John, left as a pledge at Paris,
by Henry VII. vi. 40.

Bouchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry
VII. dines with, vi. 34.

Boutefeu, vi. 89.

Bowne, Secretary, his son, vii. 131.
Bows of the Cornishmen, vi. 182.
Brackenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower, refuses

to murder the two young princes, vi. 142.
Brain, castoreum taken for disease of, vi. 437.
Brampton, Lady, Perkin Warbeck travels in
her train to Portugal, vi. 136.
Brandled the fortunes of the day, vi. 182.
Brandon, Thomas, commander of Henry
VIIth's fleet against the Irish rebels, vi. 54.
Bray, Sir Reignold, his downfall sought by
the Cornish rebels, vi. 176.
his death, vi. 217.

Braybrooke, James, sent by Henry VII. to
report on the young Queen of Naples, vi. 227.
Briareus, emblem interpreted, vi. 411.
Bribery, vi. 400, 551.

Cicero on, vii. 152.

Bridewell, discourse on commission of, vii.
509-516.

date of, vii. 507, 508.

charter of, repugnant to Magna Charta,
vii. 512, 513.

Brisquet, jester to Francis I., vii. 153.
Britain, the true greatness of, vii. 47-64.
Prefuce, vii. 39-44.

Brittaine, object of the ambition of Charles
VIII. vi. 63.

invaded by him, vi. 70, 116.

Lord Woodville joins the Duke with
English auxiliaries, vi. 68, 72.
speech of Chancellor Morton, respecting
the invasion, vi. 76–81.
death of Francis the Duke, vi. 83.
conquered by Charles VIII. vi. 84.
Henry VIIth's policy, vi. 97, 98, 238.
Anne, duchess of Brittaine, by proxy mar-
ried to Maximilian, vi. 101.

what became of the English forces, vi.
101, 102.

French embassy respecting, vi. 104—114.

Cabinet counsels, a remedy worse than the
disease, vi. 424, 555.

the doctrine of Italy, and practice of
France, ib.

meaning of the term, vi. 425.

Cabot, Sebastian, his discoveries, vi. 197.
Cæsar to the pilot, vi. 473; vii. 89.

his saying respecting Sylla, vi. 412.
desired a sudden death, vi. 604.

of Sylla, that he could not dictate, vii. 144.
Seneca of, ib.

to Metellus, protecting the public treasury,
vii. 156.

C.

Brittaine-continued.

Charles VIII. himself married to the
Dutchess Anne, vi. 114, 115.

arrangement of the dates of the above
transactions, vi. 109, 110.

Henry VIIth's preparations for war with
France, vi. 117.

Brocage of an usurper, vi. 2, 8.

Bromley, Mr. his answer to counsel, vii. 132.
Brooke, Robert Lord, leads 8,000 men into
Brittaine, against Charles VIII. vi. 83,
84.

sent by Henry VII. to raise the siege of
Exeter, vi. 191.

Brothers, younger, commonly fortunate, but
not where the elder are disinherited, vi. 391.
Broughton, Sir Thomas, shelters Lord Lovell,
vi. 43.

joins the standard of Symnell, vi. 56.
dies on the field, vi. 58.

Browne, Dr., on Sir Edward Dyer's story of
Kelley the alchemist, vii. 162.
Browne, Sir Thomas, possibly author of the
Essay on Death, vi. 594.

Brownlow v. Michell, vii. 687-725.
Bruges rebels against Maximilian, vi. 98.

submits, vi. 123-125.

Brutus, Decimus, his treatment of Julius
Cæsar, vi. 438.

Brutus, Marcus, phantasm appeared to, vi. 463.
Buckingham, Duke of, raises troops to relieve
Exeter, besieged by Perkin Warbeck,

vi. 191.

Bacon's essays dedicated to, vi. 373.
Building, essay on, vi. 481-485.

use to be preferred to uniformity, vi. 481.
salubrity of site, ib.

a perfect palace described, vi. 482-485.
Bulloigne, siege of, by Henry VII. vi. 129.
Bulls, two sacrificed by Prometheus to Jupiter,
vi. 745, 750.

Burning in the hand, vi. 87.

Burrowash, conveyance of the manor by Sir
John Stanhope, vii. 557.

Busbechius, anger of the Turks at cruelty to
a fowl, vi. 403.

Business, three parts of, preparation, exami-
nation, and perfection, vi. 435, 556.
Butler's case, vii. 713.

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Cæsar, Augustus-continued.

had better never been born, or never died,
vii. 139.

of his infamous descendants, vii. 159.
Cæsar, Julius, his character, vi. 341-345.

Published by Dr. Rawley among the

Opuscula Posthuma, vi. 333.
method of his rise to the sovereignty, vi.
343.

talents in war, vi. 344.

friends and pleasures, vi. 345.

his affection for Decimus Brutus, vi. 438.
youth of, vi. 477.

his collection of apophthegms, vii. 123.
to a soldier who boasted of the wounds in
his face, vii. 130.

to one who feasted him poorly, vii. 142.
of Alexander, ib.

to Livia, ib.

address to his mutinous soldiers, vii. 143.
when the mob called him king, vii. 151.
imago civilis ejus, vi. 335-338.
ambitio ejus, v. 335, 336.

viam ad regnum quomodò sternebat, vi.
336.

virtus in bellicis, vi. 337.

amici ejus, et voluptates, vi. 338,

Cæsar, Tiberius, his favourites, vi. 718.

conversatio cum parasitis, vi. 644.

Caius Marius, for the noise of arms could not
hear the laws, vii. 159.
Calais, Lord Cordes saying, "that he would

be content to lie seven years in hell, so
he might win Calais," vi. 100.
Henry VII. at, vi. 131.

retained by the English, why, vii. 51.
Calanus, the Indian, his advice to Alexander,
vii. 63.

Calendars of tempests of State, vi. 406, 589.
Callisthenes, how to be the most famous man
in the world, vii. 142.
Calpurnia, her dream, vi. 438.

Calvin's case, Bacon's argument in, vii. 639,
641-679.

Cambridge: De Sapientiâ Veterum, dedicated
to the University, vi. 691.

Camden, his Annals of Queen Elizabeth, history
of the manuscript, vi. 351, 352.
Bacon's additions and corrections, vi. 353
-364.

Campbell, Lord, his statement that James I.
made Bacon expunge a legal axiom, vi.
38.

his opinion of the value of the speeches
inserted by Bacon in his history, vi. 75.

Cannibalism, vii. 34.

Canonization of saints, vi. 233, 234.
Cantabrigiensi Academiæ, Baconus librum
De Sapientiâ Veterum dedicat, vi. 121.
Cap of maintenance, and sword, sent by
Pope Alexander to Henry VII. vi. 188.
Capel, Sir William, fined 20007. for mis-
government in his mayoralty, vi. 155,
236.
sent to the Tower, ib.

Capra pedes, cur Pan habet, vi. 638.
Cares human, moderation of, vii. 246, 247.
twofold excess of, vii. 246.

Carews, the, march to the relief of Exeter,
besieged by Perkin Warbeck, vi. 192.
Caroe, Sir John, receives Philip, King of Cas-
tile, at Weymouth, vi. 230.

Caroon, Lord Henry Howard's pun on his
name, vii. 170.

Cartilio, Alonzo, Bishop, when asked to turn
away his servants, vii. 132.
Carvajal, Francis, to Diego Centeno, vii. 146.
when taken on a hurdle to death, ib.
Case, action on, for slander, battery, and maim-
ing, vii. 463.

Cases at Law, the principle to be extracted,
vii. 319, 321.

if a case have no cousin, it is a sign it is
illegitimate, vii. 607.

Cassandra, or plainness of speech, the fable
interpreted, vi. 701, 702,

sive Parrhesia, fabula de, vi. 629, 630.
Cassius to the astrologer, vii. 142.
Castello, Adrian de, the Pope's ambassador
to Scotland, vi. 91.

honoured and employed by Henry VII. ib.
excited by a prophecy to aim at the
papacy, vi. 92.

Castile, policy of Ferdinando, respecting, vi.
226, 228.

three aspirants for the government, at the
death of Philip, vi. 234.

Casting counters, vii. 143.

Castoreum taken for disease of the brain, vi.
437.

Cat in the pan, turning the, vi. 430.

knows not whose lips she licks, vii. 202.
cat's nature, and the wench's fault, ib.

Catches, sung anthem wise, vi. 467.
Cato rejoiced that he had no statue, vii. 158.
they that found Cato drunk were ashamed
instead of Cato, vii. 160.

how to keep good acts in memory, ib.
Cato Major, Livy's description of, vi. 472, 574.
Cato Marcus, an example of profitless plain
speaking, vi. 702.

parrhesiæ inutilis exemplum, vi. 629.
Cato the elder, his saying respecting the
Romans, vii. 128.

on his second marriage, to his son, vii. 146.
Catulus, to the juryman who acquitted Clodius,
vii. 127.

Catullus quoted, vi. 685, 763.

Catyline, Mr. Justice, his suggestion to Mr.
Bromley, vii. 132.

Caucasus, Prometheus chained to, vi. 748.
Promethei carcer, vi. 670.

Causa, in jure non remota, sed proxima, spec-
tatur, vii. 327-330.

Cause, the proximate, not the remote, regarded,

ib.

Cavendish, one of Elizabeth's patentees, vii.
684.

Cecile, Dutchess of York, mother of Edward
IV., dies at Barkhamsted, vi. 159.

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