Celibacy, Essay on, vi. 391, 392, 547-548.
Celerity in execution, vi. 428.

Celestial bodies, their influence on earthly
matters, vi. 513.

Celsus, a wise man, as well as a physician, vi.
453, 563.

Centeno Diego, Francis Carvajal to, vii. 146.
Ceremonies and respects, Essay on, vi. 500,
501, 527, 576, 577.

ceremonies and green rushes are for
strangers, vii. 198.

Ceres, her search for Proserpine, vi. 758, 761.
Proserpinæ mater, vi. 680.

discovered by Pan, meaning of the fable,
vi. 713.

a Pane inventa, vi. 640.
Certainty, three degrees of, presence, name,
and demonstration or reference, vii. 380,
381.

person uncertain, how far within the Sta-
tute of Uses, vii. 437, 438.
in pleading, vii. 339, 341, 361.
Ambiguity.

Certiorari, vii. 762.

See

-297.

probably not by Bacon, vii. 289-291.
Chariot-driver of cruelty, Reason employed as,
vi. 543.

Charitas, de exaltatione ejus, vii. 235.
Charities, defer not until death, vi. 462, 566.
Charity, the exaltation of, vii. 244.

Charles the Bald, Scottus' answer to, vii. 141.
Charles the Hardy, Duke, vi. 439.
Charles, Prince, of England, his proposed
marriage with the Infanta, vii. 3.
Charles, Prince of Castile, marriage treaty be-
tween him and Mary, daughter of Henry
VII. vi. 236.

Charles, King of Sweden, his treatment of
the Jesuit colleges, vii. 136.

Charles VIII. of France, his relations with
Henry VII. of England, vi. 63.
his ambition, ib.

projects respecting Brittaine, vi. 63, 64.
sends ambassadors to Henry VII. vi.
64-67.

besieges Nantes, vi. 70, 116.

ambassadors of Henry VII. outwitted
by him, vi. 82.

conquers Brittaine, vi. 84.

Treaty of Frankfort with Maximilian, vi.
102.

contracted to the daughter of Maximilian,

ib.

Chaste women often proud, vi. 392, 548.
Chattels, property in, how gained, vii. 499.

not within the Statute of Uses, vii. 424.
See Property.

Chepstow Bridge, who charged with the re-
pairs of, vii. 599.

Cheshire proverb, "God send him joy, and
some sorrow too," vii. 184.
Chess, vi. 402.

Chester, Earldom of, an appanage to the prin-
cipality of Wales, vi. 152.

exempt from the jurisdiction of the Court
of the Marches, vii. 571, 593, 598,
599, 609.

Chester's wytt to deprave, and otherwise not
wyse, vii. 209.

Chievances, unlawful, which is bastard usury,
vi. 87.

Children, and Parents, essay on, vi. 390, 391,
548, 549.

benefit of having children, vi. 390, 548.
unequal distribution of parental affection,

ib.

treatment and education of, vi. 390-394,
548.

Chilon on gold, vii. 157.

China, ordnance used in for 2000 years, vi.
516.

Chivalry, orders of, vi. 451.

Chressenor, Thomas, tried for Perkin War-

beck's rebellion, and pardoned, vi. 148.
Christ, incarnation of, vii. 223.
Christian Paradoxes, vii. 292–297.
probably not by Bacon, vii. 289–291.
Christianity, a war for its propagation, whe-
ther justifiable, vii. 23.

a bond among nations, vii. 35.

worthy to be received, though not con-
firmed by miracles, vii. 159.

Chudleigh's case, vii. 391, 393, 395, 402, 408,
446-448.

Bacon's argument in, vii. 617-636.
limitations in, vii. 617.

Church, unity in the, vi. 381.

controversies in, vi. 382-383, 543, 544.
Catholic, vii. 224.

visible, ib.

the keeper of the Scriptures, vii. 254.
penalties for dissuading from attendance
at, vii. 743.

Churmne of reproaches and taunts, vi. 195.

Chymista theorica eorum sine fundamento,

practica sine certo pignore, vi. 682.
Cicadam, Tithonus cur versus in, vi. 653.
Cicero on the piety of the Romans, vi. 415,
560.

of the vanity of Pompey, vi. 432.

of Rabirius Posthumus, vi. 460, 567.
his books, De Oratore and Orator, vi. 482.

to Piso, vi. 436, 566.

warned beforehand against Octavius, vi.
663, 739.

his conduct in banishment, vii. 12.
his eulogy on the Academics, vii. 78.
Clodius' retort to, vii. 128.

of a lady's age, vii. 130.

to Pompey, vii. 134.

on the law against bribery by the gover-
nors of provinces, vii. 152.

quæ miremur, habemus ; quæ laudemus,
expectamus, vii. 89.

Cineas to Pyrrhus, of the value of conquests,
vii. 152.

Cioli, Andrea, his translation of Bacon's Essays
for Cosmo de' Medici, vi. 370.
Circuits of the Judges, vii. 471–476.
Civil conversation, notes for, vii. 109, 110.
Civil law and English, diversities between,
vii. 321.

Uses in time of Augustus, vii. 407, 408.
Claudius Appius, only two men great in his-
tory carried away by love, he one, vi. 397.
Clarence, Duke of, vi. 45.

Clausula derogatoria, vii, 369-372.

vel dispositio inutilis, per præsumptionem
remotam, vel causam ex post facto, non
fulcitur, vii. 374-378.

Clerks convict, to be burned in the hand, vi.

87.

and ministers of law courts, vi. 509, 584.
Clement, Pope, his reply to the cardinal re-
presented in M. Angelo's picture, vii. 130.
Clement VII. vii. 19.

Clement, James, murderer of the Duke of
Guise, correction by Bacon in Camden, vi.

355.

Cleon, his dream, vi. 464.

Clergy, benefit of, vii. 367, 473, 474.

curtailed by statute of Henry VII. vi.
87.

an overgrown, brings a state to necessity,
vi. 410.

Clifford, Sir Robert, vi. 252.

joins Perkin Warbeck in Flanders, vi.
140.

declares him to be the Duke of York, vi.
141.

won over by King Henry's spies, vi. 144.
gives information to Henry VII. of the
partizans of Perkin Warbeck, vi. 149.
pardoned by the king, ib.

inpeaches Sir William Stanley, ib.
Chilon, that kings' favourites were like dice,

vi. 143.

Clipping coins, statute of Henry VII. relating
to, vi. 224.

Clodius to Cicero, vii. 128.
Closeness, vi. 387.

Cloth of estate, the king sat under, vi. 117.
Coape, Sir Walter, carried the mastership of
the wards against Bacon, vii. 182.
Cobali, attendants of Bacchus, vi. 741.

circa Bacchum subsultabant, vi. 665.
Cobham, Lord, firm to Henry VII. against
the Cornish rebels, vi. 177.

Cocks may be made capons, but capons not
cocks, vii. 165.

Codification of the law, vii. 731–743.
Cœlum, or the origin of things, the fable in-
terpreted, vi. 723-725.

his genitals cut off by Saturn, vi. 723.
is the concave which encloses all matter,
ib.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 649, 650.

genitalia ejus a Saturno demessa, vi. 649.
concavum quod materiam complectitur, ib.
Coinage, regulated by statute of Henry VII
vi. 224.

his profitable recoinages, vi. 225.

statutes of Henry VII. respecting, vi.

96.

counterfeiting foreign coin current, ib.
Coke, Sir Edward, mentions the Great Coun-
cil, but not its functions, vi. 248.
what he knew about the death of Prince
Henry, vi. 321, 322.

to an unexpected guest, vii. 143.

his argument in Chudleigh's case, vii.

402.

Cokers, a name given to labourers from Shires
on the Welsh borders, vii. 608.
Collyweston, Henry VII. brings his daughter
Margaret so far on her way to Scotland, vi.
216.

Colonization, essay on, vi. 457-459.
who fit for colonists, vi. 457.
choice of site, ib.

government of, vi. 459.

support of, by the parent country, ib.
by the Romans, vii. 661.

Colour, beauty of, inferior to beauty of favour,
and of motion, vi. 479, 570.

Colours that show best by candlelight, vi.

468.

of good and evil, vii. 78-92.
preface, vii. 67—71.

Colthurst's case, vii. 560.

Columbus sends his brother Bartholomæus to

Henry VII. vi. 197.

his offer of the Indies to Henry VII. vii.
659.

Columbina innocentia, et serpentina prudentia,
vii. 234, 235.

Comets, their influences, vi. 513.

Comineus, on Duke Charles the Hardy, vi.
439.

Commandments, the old woman's answer to
the minister, vii. 180.

Commission of Union between England and
Scotland, vi. 426.

standing commissions commended, vi. 426.

Commissions of the Judges, Oyer and Termi-

ner, vii. 472.

gaol delivery, ib.

assize, vii. 474.

nisi prius, vii. 474, 475.

of the peace, vii. 476.

examinations and depositions in Chancery,
vii. 768, 769.

Committing a cause, Lord Keeper Egerton's
saying, vii. 171.

Common, grants of, vii. 342.

Common Place, Court of, its jurisdiction, vi.
85.

Common Pleas, institution of, vii. 471, 472.
Commons, House of, substituted for "Lower
House" in 2nd edition of Apophthegms,
vii. 118.

little danger to be apprehended from, in
a state, except, &c., vi. 422.
Comnenus, Manuel, his heresy, vii. 23.
Comparative Mythology, Max Müller's Essay
on, vi. 610-614.

his theory contrasted with Bacon's, vi.
611.

Composition implies neediness, vii. 83.
Concordia, Lionel, Bishop of, nuntio from Pope
Alexander VI. to France and England, vi.
113.

Condition, collateral, vii. 353.

Conditores imperiorum, vi. 505, 506, 532.
Confession, proof of the antiquity of in the
Church, vii. 155.

of faith, vii. 219-226.

Constable, the office of, vii. 464.

two high constables for every hundred,
one petty constable for every village,
vii. 465.

appointed by the lord of the hundred,
vii. 467.

answers to questions touching the office
of, vii. 749-754.

origin and election of, vii. 749-751.
office annual, vii. 751.

from what rank of men, ib.

duties performed gratis, ib.

their authority, vii. 751-753, 780, 781.
for matter of peace, vii. 752.

of peace and the crown, ib.

for matter of nuisance, disturbance, and
disorder, vii. 753.

their oath, ib.

difference between high and petty con-
stables, vii. 754.

may appoint deputies, ib.
Constantinople, Henry VII. called on by the
Pope to invade, vi. 210.

Elizabeth's agent at, correction by Bacon
in Camden respecting, vi. 356.
Christian boy like to have been stoned
at, vi. 403.

Contemplationes in vitam activam translatas
nonnihil novi vigoris acquirere, vi. 621.
Contempt putteth an edge on anger, vi. 511.
Contibald, James, Maximilian's ambassador
to England and Spain, vi. 115, 116, 127.
Contracts, dissolution of, vii. 373.
Contraries, vii. 85.

Controversies in the Church, how to avoid,
vi. 382, 544.
two classes of, ib.

Conversation, the art of, vi. 455—457, 564,
565.

110.

notes for civil, vii. 1
Coparceners, lease by, vii. 359.

Copulatio verborum inclinat acceptionem eo-
dem sensu, vii. 337.

Copyholds forfeited to the lord, and not to the
crown, vii. 487.

uses compared to, vii. 408, 409.
Cor ne edito, vi. 440.

Coranus the Spaniard, vii. 150.
Corbet's case, vii. 402.

Cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull,
vi. 409.

Cordal, Master of the Rolls, vii. 171.
Cordes, Lord, aids the rebels in Flanders
against Maximilian, vi. 99.
besieges Newport in vain, vi. 100.
his hatred of the English, ib.

brings overtures of peace from Charles

VIII. to Henry VII. vi. 128, 129.

Cork, Perkin Warbeck lands at, vi. 136.
mayor of, executed with Perkin Warbeck,
vi. 203.

Cornage, tenure by, vii. 607.
Cornish men, a hardy race, vi. 175.

rebel against a subsidy levied by Henry
VII. vi. 175-183.

Cornish men-continued.

march up to London, vi. 177-179.
defeated at Blackheath, vi. 181.
strength of their bows, vi. 182.

invite Perkin Warbeck over from Ireland,
vi. 189.

Coronation of Henry VII. on Bosworth field,
vi. 30.

in London, vi. 33, 35.

of Lambert Symnell at Dublin, vi. 54.
of Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII. vi. 60.
Coroner, office of, vii. 780.

Corporalis injuria non recipit æstimationem
de futuro, vii. 346, 347.

Corporations, by-laws of, restrained by sta-
tute of Henry VII. vi. 223.
cannot be seized to a use, vii. 435.
may take a use, vii. 438.
may limit a use, vii. 442.

do not take by descent, vii. 668.
Corruptio unius, generatio alterius, vii. 90.
Corruption and bribery of men in authority,
vi. 400, 551.

Cornua Panis, quid referunt, vi. 637.
Cosmo de Medici, Italian translation of Bacon's
Essays dedicated to, vi. 370.

his saying against perfidious friends, vi. 385.
of forgiveness of friends, vii. 154.
Cotton, Sir Robert, supplies materials to Bacon
in compiling his History of King Henry
VII. vi. 4.

less liberal in that of Henry VIII. vi. 267.
Cottonian library, manuscripts destroyed by
fire, vi. 66.

Council of the Marches, Bacon's argument on
the jurisdiction, vii. 587-611.
ancient, vii. 588, 590.

its objects,

to bridle the Welch, vii. 589.

to facilitate commerce between Eng-
land and Wales, ib.

to dignify the Prince of Wales, ib.
Great, what, vi. 74.

summoned by Henry VII. in his seventh year,

before calling his Parliament, vi. 117.
called by Henry VII. vi. 174.

distinct from Parliament, vi. 247-252.
its composition, vi. 250.

matters referred to it, vi. 251.

Council of York, vii. 569, 576, 577 n., 579, 583.
Council-chamber, arrangement of seats in, vi.
427.

Counsel, essay on, vi. 423-427, 553–556.

the greatest trust between men, vi. 423,553.
legend of Metis, vi. 424, 554, 763.
inconveniences of, are three,

want of secresy, vi. 424.

weakening of authority, vi. 425.
unfaithful counsellors, vi. 425, 426.
for these, cabinet counsels are a remedy
worse than the disease, vi. 424, 425.
defects of the present mode of meeting, vi.
426.

ask of the ancient, what is best, and of
the latter, what is fittest, vi. 400, 551.

Counsel-continued.

of two sorts, concerning manners, con-
cerning business, vi. 441.

behaviour of judges towards, vi. 508, 584.
Countebalt, ambassador from Maximilian to
Henry VII. vi. 115, 116, 127.

Countenance, necessary command of, vii. 109.
Counterfeit coin, vii. 733.

Country people, Pan why god of, vi. 712.
County, charge of taken from the earls, vii.
466.

County-courts divided into hundreds, ib.

kept monthly by the sheriffs, vii. 467.
Court leets, origin and jurisdiction of, vii. 467,
750.

Court-yards for palaces, vi. 483-485.
Courtesy, tenant by the, vii. 421.
Courtiers, like fasting days, vii. 159.

bowing to lawyers and citizens, vii. 175.
Courtney, Edward, created Earl of Devon,
vi. 34.

William, Earl of Devonshire, committed
to custody by Henry VII. vi. 221.
Courts of Justice, the attendance of, subject
to four bad instruments, vi. 509, 584.
provincial, instituted by Henry VIII.
vii. 569, 570.

Covenants to stand seized, vii. 495, 496.
Covin, a use no covin, vii. 400, 448.
Cranfield, Treasurer, vii. 180.

his saying of men who shake their heads
after others' speech, vii. 128.

Crassus, on the death of his fish, to Domitius,
vii. 147.

Creation of the world, vii. 220, 221.

Cretine d'eau, vii. 344.

Crispus murdered by his father Constantine,

vi. 421.

Critics, brushers of noblemen's clothes, vii. 134.
Croesus to Cambyses, of war, vii. 145.
Croft, Sir Herbert, vii. 576-583.
Crofts v. Lord Beauchamp, vii. 712.

v. Kemperden, vii. 711.

Cross set up by Ferdinando on the great tower
of Grenada, vi. 125.

Crusade meditated by Charles VIII. vi. 107.
Pope Alexander attempts to organise one,
vi. 209.

invites Henry VII. to join, vi. 210.
money for, raised in England, ib.
against the Turks, vii. 4.

Bacon's opinions respecting, vii. 5.
Cruzada, vii. 25.

Cuckoo, the form assumed by Jupiter, when
wooing Juno, why, vi. 728.

Cuculus, Jupiter Junonem sub formam cuculi
petit, vi. 654.

Culpepper's case, vii. 543.

Cunning, essay on, vi. 428-431, 546, 547.
a sinister or crooked wisdom, vi. 428,
546.

stratagems of, vi. 428-431, 547.
Cupid challenged by Pan to fight, meaning of
the fable, vi. 712, 713.

meaning of the allegory, vi. 729-731.

Cupid-continued.

most antient of the gods, vi. 729.

an egg of Night, ib.

the son of Venus, vi. 729, 731.

signifies the natural motion of the atom,
vi. 729.

why a child, vi. 731.
why naked, ib.
why blind, ib.

why an archer, ib.

Cupiditas sub personâ Bacchi describitur, vi.
665.

Cupido, a Pane provocatus, interpretatio fabulæ,
vi. 639, 654-657.

deorum antiquissimus, vi. 651.
ex ovo Noctis, ib.

Veneris filius, vi. 655.

motus generalis atomi significat, ib.
cur infans, vi. 656.

cur nudus, ib.

cur cæcus, ib.

cur sagittarius, ib.

Dacre, Lord, his case, vii. 402.

Dædalus, or the mechanic, interpretation of
the fable, vi. 734-736.
interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 659, 660.
Dam, the seaport of Bruges, vi. 123.

taken by stratagem, by the Duke of
Saxony, vi. 124.

Damages, vii. 348, 349.

an argument of property, vii. 533.
Dammasin trees, vi. 486.

Dances to song, have extreme grace, vi. 467.
turned into figure, a childish curiosity, ib.
Dangers are no more light, if they once seem
light, vi. 427.

Darcy, Lord, sent into Cornwall to impose
fines, after the rebellion of Perkin Warbeck,
vi. 194.

Dawbeney, Lord, defeats the Cornish rebels
at Blackheath, vi. 178, 181.

Giles, Lord, made Lord Chamberlain, vi.
152.

William, tried for Perkin Warbeck's re-
bellion, and beheaded, vi. 148.
Daubigny, Bernard, sent by Charles VIII.
to Henry VII. vi. 71.

Daubigny, Lord, deputy of Calais, raises the
siege of Dixmue, vi. 99, 100.

negotiates the treaty of Estaples with
Lord Cordes, vi. 129.

Daunus, entertainer of Diomede, vi. 732.
Diomedis hospes, vi. 657.

David's harp has as many hearse-like airs, as
carols, vi. 386.

De fide et officio judicis, non recipitur quæstio,
sed de scientia; sive sit error juris sive facti,
vii. 366-368.

De non procedendo rege inconsulto, Bacon's
argument on the writ, vii. 687-725.
Proceedings in the case, vii. 683–686.

Curæ, mensura curarum, vii. 235, 236.

excessus earum duplex, vii. 236.
Curiosity, its results illustrated, by the fables
of Actæon and Pentheus, vi. 719, 720.
Cursitors for original writs, instituted, vii. 700.
Curson, Sir Robert, Governor at Hammes,
joins the Earl of Suffolk as a spy, vi. 221.
excommunicated together with the Earl,
vi. 222.

returns to England, ib.

Custom and education, essay on, vi. 470-
472, 572, 573.

examples of the force of, vi. 471, 573.

the principal magistrate of man's life, ib.
most perfect when begun in youth, ib.
Customs, law of Henry VII. for the security
of, vi. 87.

Customs of the Realm, vii. 509.

Cyclopes, or ministers of terror, interpretation
of the fable, vi. 704, 705.

ministri terroris, vi. 631, 632.
Cycniæ cantiones, vi. 658.

De non procedendo-continued.

antiquity and worth of the writ, vii.
688.

the end of the writ, vii. 689, 690-700.
the efficient, vii. 689, 700–705.
the matter, vii. 689, 705-714.
the form, vii. 689, 714—723.

two kinds of this writ, vii. 697.

De Sapientiâ Veterum, Latin, vi. 629–686.
English translation, vi. 701-764.
Editor's Preface, vi. 607–616.
Dedications, vi. 689-691.
Preface, vi. 695-699.

former popularity and present neglect,
vi. 609.

text, vi. 616.

dedicatio Comiti Sarisburiensi, vi. 619.
Academiæ Cantabrigiensi, vi. 621.
Præfatio, vi. 625–628.

De Victoria, his maxim, non fundatur impe-
rium nisi in imagine Dei, vii. 30.
De Thou, memorial of Q. Elizabeth, communi-
cated to, vi. 283, 321.

Death, Essay on, vi. 379, 380, 544, 545.

another Essay, not by Bacon, possibly by
Sir Thomas Browne, vi. 594, 600-604.
fear of, vi. 379, 544, 600.
pains of, vi. 379, 544, 603.
approach of has little effect on good spirits,
vi. 380, 544.
deaths of remarkable

we die daily, vi. 600.

men,

ib.

unagreeable to aldermen and citizens, vi.
602.

gracious only to those in misery, ib.
early deaths of men of promise, vi. 727.
comes to young men, old men go to it, vii.
142.

Deathbed sayings, vi. 380, 545.