natural-born subject, vii. 649.

confutation of false opinions upon, vii.
650-663.

either place or parents should suffice, vii.
664.

of foreigners, vii. 52.

what suffices for, vii. 665.

Nature, essay on nature in men, vi. 469, 470,
571, 572.

custom only can alter and subdue, vi, 469,
571.

rules for disciplining, ib.

is best perceived in privateness, vi. 470,
572.

happy they whose natures suit with their
vocations, ib.

runs either to herbs or weeds, ib.

deformed people generally have their re-
venge on, vi. 480, 570.
Pan a symbol of, vi. 709-711.
summary law of, vi. 730.

described under the person of Minerva,
vi. 736.

outstripped by art, vi. 744.

fable of Proserpine relates to, vi. 759.

is nothing but the laws of the creation,
vii. 221.

the law of, vii. 663, 664.
Navigation laws, vi. 95, 96.
Nebuchadnezzar, his tree of monarchy, vi.
447.

Necessitas inducit privilegium quoad jura pri-
vata, vii. 343-346.

publica, major est quam privata, vii. 345.
culpabilis, ib.

Necessity, why represented by the river Styx,
vi. 707.

when a good defence, vii. 343-346.
of three kinds,

for conservation of life, vii. 343, 344.

of obedience, vii. 344.

of the act of God, or of strangers,
vii. 344, 345.

privilegeth only quoad jura privata, vii.
345, 346.

Negative more pregnant of direction than the
indefinite, vi. 435, 556,

side, easiest to uphold, vi. 436, 566.
Negligence, homicide by, vii. 348.
Negotiating, essay on, vi. 492-494, 533,
534, 579, 580.

whether by letter or in person best, vi.

492, 493, 533, 579.

choice of instruments, vi. 493, 494, 533,
534, 580.
Nehemiah, his politic sadness before the king,
vi. 429.

Nemesis, or the vicissitude of things, meaning
of the fable, vi, 737-739.

daughter of Ocean and Night, vi. 738.
why winged, ib.

why crowned, ib.

armed with a spear, vi. 739.

mounted on a stag, ib.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 662, 663.

Nero, of Seneca's style, vii. 134.

called a youth wife, vii. 135.
cause of his fall, vii. 174.

Nerva, at supper, vii. 149.

Neville, Sir George, joins Perkin Warbeck
at Paris, vi. 138.

New trial granted upon a verdict, in cases
above the value of 401., by Statute of Henry
VII. vi. 160.

Newark, battle of, vi. 57-59.

Newbury, Henry, his case, vii. 704.
Newport, in Flanders, besieged in vain by the
French under Lord Cordes, vi. 100.

Nicolas, Sir Harris, his proceedings and ordi-
nances of the Privy Council, vi. 249, 250.
Night, the parent of Cupid, vi. 729.
Nimrod, the first conqueror, vii. 646.
Nisi Prius, commission of, vii. 474, 475.
Nobles, how to be dealt with by kings, vi.
422.

Nobility, essay on, vi. 405, 406, 549, 550.
new, the act of power; ancient, the act
time, vi. 406, 549.

of birth, abateth industry, ib.
numerous, impoverish a state, ib.

not to be multiplied, vi. 410, 446, 587.
Noel, Henry, his saying, courtiers are like
fasting days, vii. 159.

Nomination to a church, vii. 354.

Non accipi debent verba in demonstrationem
falsam, quæ competunt in limitationem veram,
vii. 361, 362.

Non obstante, vii. 369-372.

Non potest adduci exceptio ejusdem rei,
cujus petitur dissolutio, vii. 330-333.

Non videtur consensum retinuisse, si quis ex
præscripto minantis aliquid immutavit, vii.
378, 379.

Non-claim, Statute of, passed by Edward III.
vi. 93.

fit for times of war, ib.

Norham Castle, besieged in vain by James
IV. of Scotland, vi. 184.

Scottish gentlemen murdered at, vi. 199.
North, northern nations more martial than
southern, vi. 515.

Northumberland, Earl of, employed by Henry
VII. to quiet the malcontents of Dur-
ham and Yorkshire, vi. 88.
murdered by them, vi. 89.
invaded by the King of Scots, with Per-
kin Warbeck, vi. 166, 171.

Norway, prophecy respecting the fleet of, vi.

464.

Norwich, Henry VII. at, vi. 55.
Notebook of Henry VII. torn up by his mon-
key, vi. 243.

Nox excludit ovum undè Cupido oritur, vi.
655.

Nul tiel record, no error on, vii. 367.
Nullum tempus, prerogative of, not grantable,
vii. 511.

Nunc dimittis, the sweetest canticle, vi. 380.
Nuptiæ, Orpheus nuptiis cur. inimicus, vi.
648.

Nymphæ Pana oblectant, animæ scilicet, vi.
639.
Nymphs, the souls, why attendants of Pan,
vi. 712.

Oath of the gods by the river Styx, vi. 706.
Ocean, an apt emblem of vicissitude, vi. 738.
Odiam, case of the manor of, vii. 563.
Odours introduced at masques, vi. 468.

of ointments, more durable than those of
flowers, vi. 502, 582.

Oes or spangs, vi. 468.

Office, how to bear oneself in, vi. 398-401,
550-552.

Offices, false, against his rich subjects by Henry
VII. vi. 218.

Old age, second childhood not to be desired,
vi. 604.

Olive branch, rather than a laurel branch, in
his hand, vi. 106.

0.

Orleans, Duke of ― continued.

taken prisoner by Charles VIII. at the
battle of St. Alban's, vi. 83.
Ormond, Thomas, Earl of, ambassador to
Charles VIII., vi. 112.
Ornamenta Rationalia, vii. 189.
Orpheus, or Philosophy, interpretation of the
fable, vi. 720-722.

his singing of two kinds, vi. 721.
why averse to marriage, vi. 722.

at the islands of the Sirens, vi. 763, 764.
his death, vi. 741, 743.

musician who like him drew stones, vii.
148.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 646–648.
duplex ejus cantio, vi. 647.
nuptiis cur inimicus, vi. 648.

apud insulas Sirenum, vi. 684-636.
a mulieribus discerptus, vi. 665, 667.
Orthography of Bacon's time, vi. 367, 522.
Osbeck, the true name of Perkin Warbeck, vi.
134.

Ostentation, the use of, vi. 504, 586.
Other, in Statute of Uses, vii. 425.
Ottoman Empire, designs of Charles VIII.
against, vi. 107, 108, 111.
family, its origin, vii. 56.

Outlawries, one means of extortion used by
Empson and Dudley, vi. 219.
proceedings to, vii. 485.

Overbury, disclosures promised by Franklin
the apothecary, respecting his murder, vi.
321.

Ovum Noctis, vi. 654.

Oxford, John, Earl of, one of Henry VIIth's
generals, vi. 55, 128.

his brother killed at the siege of Sluice,
vi. 124.

entertains Henry VII. at Henningham,

fined 15,000 marks, vi. 219.
Oxidrakes, in India, ordnance used by them
against the Macedonians, vi. 516.

Oyer and terminer, commission of, vii. 472.

Paternoster, wager about repeating, vii. 172.
Patres patriæ, vi. 506, 532.
Patriarchal government, vii. 645.
Patrick, an Austin friar, sets up a counterfeit
Earl of Warwick, vi. 202.

Paulet, Sir Amice, his saying, "Stay awhile,
that we may end the sooner," vii. 136.
Paul's Cross, Pope's bull published at, vi. 221.
Paul's, Church of, great ceremony on receipt
of the news of the conquest of Grenada,
vi. 126.

black eagle blown from the spire, an
omen, vi. 232.

Payne, his engraving of Henry VII. vi. 6.
Peace, surety to keep, vii. 463, 469.

commission of the, vii. 476.

conservators of, their office, vii. 468.-See
Justices.

Pedigree, dispute as to, vii. 149.
Pedum Panis cur recurvum, vi. 638.

Peers of the kingdom, mode of trial of, vii. 736,
741.

Pegasus, interpretation of the fable, vi. 720.
famam denotat, vi. 643.

Peile, saying of a Lacedæmonian prisoner at,
vii. 127.

Pembroke Castle, Henry VII. born at, vi.

245.

Pembroke, Jasper, Earl of, created Duke of
Pembroke, vi. 34.

Penal Laws, administration of by Judges, vi.
507, 583.

shall not be taken by equity, vii. 360.
Penances of Russian monks, vi. 471.

greatness of suffering endured, vii. 99.
Penelope, whether the mother of Pan, vi.
708, 709.

utrum Pan filius ejus, vi. 633.

Pensions from Charles VIII. of France to the
ministers of Henry VII. vi. 130.
Pentheus, or Curiosity, the fable interpreted,
vi. 719, 720.

his death, vi. 741, 743.
interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 646.

a mulieribus discerptus, vi. 665, 667.
Perfection, that which is best in perfection is
best altogether, vii. 78.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures,
vi. 398.

Perin, provost of, killed by the Cornish re-
bels, vi. 177.

Peripatetici, de stimulo materiæ per privatio-
nem, vi. 655.

philosophia eorun nimis venerata, vi. 672.
Peripatetics refer the original impulse of mat-
ter to privation, vi. 730.
held in too great honour, vi. 749.
Perkin Warbeck, vi. 21.

defensive preparations against him perhaps,
and not against French invasion, vi.
110.

raised up by Lady Margaret of Burgundy,
to personate Richard Duke of York,
vi. 132, 163.

his qualifications for the part, vi. 133.

measures taken by the king to expose the
imposture, vi. 141–144.
Archduke Philip of Flanders declines to
deliver him up to Henry VII. vi. 146.
trials and executions of his adherents, vi.
148-153.

lands in Kent, vi. 156.

his troops cut to pieces, and the prisoners
hung, vi. 157.

from Flanders sails to Ireland, vi. 162.
in Scotland welcomed by the King of
Scots, ib.

his speech to the King of Scots, vi. 162—
166.

with the King of Scots, invades Northun-
berland vi. 166, 171, 172.

his proclamation, vi. 167-171, 252-
255.

James IV. refuses to deliver him up to
Henry, vi. 186.

but dismisses him, vi. 187.
sails for Ireland, vi. 188.

invited by the Cornish men, vi. 189.
goes to Bodmin, ib.

besieges Exeter, vi. 190.

takes sanctuary at Bewlay, vi. 192.
dragged into London in a triumphal pro-
cession, vi. 195.

escapes to the sanctuary at Shyne, vi.
201.

again imprisoned in the Tower, vi. 202.
'executed at Tyburn, vi. 203.

Perpetuities, vii. 491, 544.
Persecutions, religious, vi. 733.

Perseus, or War, interpretation of the fable,
vi. 714—717.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 641-643.
Persia, her weakness, by reason of her extent
of empire, vii. 49, 50, 53.

its geographical position, vii. 63.
Person, in Statute of Uses, vii. 424, 425.
Persona conjuncta æquiparatur interesse pro-
prio, vii. 368.

Personal qualities, descriptions of, vii. 197,
198.

Persuasion, the art of, vii. 77.

Peru, conquest of, whether justifiable, vii. 21,

22.

Peryman's case, vii. 563.
Petitions to the king's council, set days
should be appointed for, vi. 426.

Phaeton, his car went but a day, vi. 512.
Phantasm appearing to M. Brutus, vi. 463.
Philautia, Narcissus, sive, vi. 632,633.—Vide
Narcissus.

Philip of Macedon, of one who spoke evil of
him, vii. 140.

the prisoner's appeal, vii. 147.
answer of the musician to, ib.

his dream respecting his wife, vi. 463.
Philip, Archduke, Henry VII. sends an em-
bassy to, into Flanders, demanding the
dismissal of Perkin Warbeck, vi. 144.
declines to deliver him up, vi. 146.
interview with Henry VII. at Calais, vi.
206.

proposed cross-marriages between their
children, ib.

Philip, King of Castile, in right of Joan his
wife, vi. 222, 226.

on ill terms with Ferdinando, vi. 228.
sails from Flanders with a great fleet
for Spain, vi. 229.

driven by a storm into Weymouth, ib.
interview with Henry VII. at Windsor,
vi. 230.

concludes a treaty, the Intercursus malus,
with him, vi. 232.

dies soon after his arrival in Spain, ib.
Philo Judæus, compared the sense to the sun,
vii. 142.

Philosophia, Orpheus, sive, vi. 684.

naturalis, opus ejus nobilissimum est in-
stauratio rerum corruptibilium, vi. 648.
Philosophy, a little, inclineth man's mind to
Atheism, vi. 413, 559.

can induce contempt of pleasure, vi. 763.
natural, its noblest work the restitution
of things corruptible, vi. 721.
Philosopher's stone, vi. 440.

Phocion, when the people applauded his
speech, vii. 129.

to Alexander's messenger, vii. 154.
Physic, rules for the use of, vi. 452, 453, 562,
563.

Physicians have the power of the Church to

bind and loose, vii. 171.

how to select one, vi. 454, 563.
Pilate, jesting, said, What is Truth? vi. 377.
Pillars of government, four, vi. 408, 589.
Pillow, on which a debtor could sleep, vii. 148.
Pine-apple trees, vi. 486.

Pipe of Pan, an allegory, vi. 711.
Pirates, of Algiers, vii. 3, 4.

lawfulness of wars on, vii. 32.

Pisistratus, correction in Camden's report of
Bacon's speech, comparing Essex with him,
vi. 363.
Piso, his solemnity of countenance, vi. 436, 566.

Plague in the 15th of Henry VII. in London
and elsewhere, vi. 205.

Planets, princes should resemble in their mo-
tions, vi. 408.
Plantagenet, Edward, son to the Duke of
Clarence, created Earl of Warwick by
Edward IV. vi. 45.

confined by Richard III. vi. 46.
reported to have escaped from the Tower,
vi. 47.

counterfeited by Lambert Symnell, vi. 48.
paraded through the streets of London, vi.

51.

arraigned of treason and beheaded, vi.
204.- See Warwick.

Plantations, essay on, vi. 457–459.
Plato, his character of Prodicus, vi. 436, 566.
his great year, vi. 513.

all knowledge is but remembrance, vi.
512.

to one that pitied Diogenes shivering,
vii. 137.

to Diogenes, vii. 140.

to a young man at a dissolute house, vii.
151.

enamoured of Stella, vii. 172.
Plautianus, favourite of Septimius Severus,

vi. 439.

Play, the sin against the Holy Ghost, vii.
210.

Pleading shall ever be taken strongest against
him that pleads, vii. 338.

for ambiguity of words, vii. 338-340.

ambiguity that grows by reference,
ib.

incertainty of intendment, vii. 339,
340.

impropriety of words, ib.

repugnancy, ib.

a man shall not disclose that which is
against himself, vii. 340.

the ancient and exact form of, vii. 642.
Pleasure, the fable of Tithonus, vi. 728.
or Pandora, vi. 751.

fable of the Sirens, vi. 762, 764.

springs from the union of abundance with
hilarity of mind, vi. 763.

Pliny on the arts of self-commendation, vi.
504, 586.

Pliny, Caius, made a collection of the mis-
fortunes of Augustus Cæsar, vi. 738.
Plough, yieldeth the best soldiers, vi. 588.
Plutarch on base conceptions of the Deity, vi
415, 560.

of Timoleon, vii. 89.

of the commonwealth of bees, vii. 174.
in Chancery, vii. 770, 771.

of men of weak abilities in great place, ib.