Naples, designs of Charles VIII. on, vi. 107,

111.

conquered and lost by Charles VIII. vi. 158.
revolts to Ferdinando the younger, ib.
Henry VII. contemplates marriage with

the Queen, widow of Ferdinando the
younger, vi. 226, 227.

Narcissus, or self-love, interpretation of the
fable, vi. 705, 706.

the flower, why sacred to the infernal
deities, vi. 706.

gathered by Proserpine, vi. 758.

takes his name from torpor or stupor, vi.
759.

sive Philautia, vi. 632, 633.

a Proserpina carptus, vi. 680.
Narcissus relating to Claudius the marriage of
Silius and Messalina, vi. 429.
Narses, the eunuch, vi. 394.

Nativity of the French king truly cast, vi.

464.

Natura, Pan symbolum naturæ, vi. 636-638.
nulla simplex, vi. 638.

Naturalization, case of the postnati of Scot-
land, vii. 641-679.

privilege and benefit of, vii. 647.

grades of,

alien enemy, vii. 648.

alien friend, ib.

denizen, ib.

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.
suminary 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 407., 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-
mances 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 deinonstrationem
falsam, quæ competunt in limitationem veram,
vii. 361, 362.

Non obstante, vii. 369-372.

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

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.

Opera Dci, vii. 233.

Opinion, that which relates to truth is higher
than that which relates to opinion, vii. 79,
80.

Opportuniti s, a wise man will make more
than he finds, vi. 501, 577.

Opposita juxta se posita magis elucescunt, vii
588, 601.

Opposition, many a man's strength is in, vi.

499.

Opus et usus, vii. 410.

Orange, Prince of, taken prisoner at the
battle of St. Alban's, by Charles VIII. vi.
83.
Orange-tawny, gentleman at the tilt in, vii.

151.

Orators, likened by Solon to winds upon the
sea, vii, 158.

Order, the life of dispatch, vi. 435, 556.
Ordinances in Chancery, vii. 304.

made by Bacon when Chancellor, vii. 759
-774.

Ordnance, invention of in India, vi. 516.
in China, ib.

excellences of, ib.

Orleans, Duke of, takes refuge with the Duke

of Brittaine, vi. 65.

directs him in all things, vi. 69.

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., v. 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. 684-686.

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, 103, 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 Frank'in
the apothecary, respecting his murder, vi.
321.

Paget, Lady, to Queen Elizabeth, vii. 161,
162.

Painter, who became a physician, vii. 160.

may make a better face than ever was, vi.
479, 570.

Palace, description of a perfect one, vi. 482—
485.

Pallas, birth of, vi. 610, 697, 702.

meaning of the legend, vi. 424, 554, 763.
ex Jove nata, vi. 630.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 683.

Pan, or Nature, interpretation of the fable, vi.
707-714.

his origin, vi. 707, 709.
represents Nature, vi. 709, 710.
the Fates his sisters, ib.
why horned, vi. 710.

why hairy, ib.

why biform, ib.

bis emblems explained, vi. 711.
his offices, ib.

the god of countrymen, vi. 712.
president of mountains, ib.
his attendants, ib.
Panic terrors, ib.
challenge to Cupid, ib.

capture of Typhon, vi. 713.

discovery of Ceres, ib.

matched in music with Apollo, ib.
marriage with Echo, vi. 713, 714.

sive Natura, interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 635
-641.

origo ejus, vi. 635, 636.

universitatem rerun, sive Naturam re-
præsentat, vi. 636-638.
sorores ejus, Fata, vi. 637.
cornua ejus, ib.

cur hirsutus, ib.

cur biformis. ib.

pedes capreæ habet, vi. 638.
insignia ejus. ib.

officium, ib.

deus venatorum et ruricolarum, ib.

montium præses, vi. 639.
comites ejus, Satyri et Sileni, ib.
terrores Panici, quid, vi. 639.
cum Cupidine pugnat, ib.
Typhonem in retibus implicat, ib.
inventio Cereris, vi. 640.
cum Apolline contendit, ib.
uxor ejus Echo, ib.

Pandora, vi. 669, 674, 746, 751.
Panic terrors, what, vi. 712.

Panici terrores, vi. 639.

P.

Pannage of timber, belongs to the lessee, vii. 532.
Panther's skin, why worn by Pan, vi. 711.
Parables, the interpretation of, vi. 611, 689.
their use in teaching, vi. 698.

Parabolæ, interpretatio earuan, vi. 625—628,
usus duplex, vi. 627.

argumentis antiquiores, vi. 628.
Paradoxes, Christian, vii. 292-297.

probably not by Bacon, vii. 289–291.
Pardi maculæ, quid referunt, vi. 638.
Pardon, general, proclaimed by the council of
Henry VII. at Shine, vi. 50.

general, granted by Henry VII. in the
last year of his reign, vi. 237.

Parental authority, by the law of England,
vii. 634, 635.

by the law of Nature, vii. 644.

Parents and children, essay on, vi. 390, 391.
unequal distribution of parental affection,

vi. 390.

treatment of children, ib.

Parker, Sir James, killed at the tournament
at Shine, by Hugh Vaughan, vi. 127.
Parliament, first of Henry VII. vi. 35.

second of Henry VII. vi. 61.
again assembled, vi. 74.

subsidies granted to Henry VII. vi. 82.

of the 4th of Henry VII. vi. 91.
eager for war with France, vi. 120.

in the 7th year of Henry VII. vi. 116–122.
date of this meeling, ib.

preceded by a Great Council, vi. 117.
speech of the king, vi. 117-119.
a parliament of war, vi. 121.

in the 11th of Henry VII. vi. 158.
by a precedent act, cannot bind a future,
vi. 161, vii. 370.

of the 12th of Henry VII. vi. 173.
summoned in the 19th of Henry VII. vi.
222.

distinguished from the Great Council, vi

247-252.

have power to extinguish their own au-
thority, vii. 370, 371.

Parmenio, Alexander to, vii. 142.
Parricide, vii. 357, 737.

Parsimony, vi. 461.

Parties in a state, vi. 498-500, 532, 533,
580, 581.

Parts, plurality of, makes a show of magni

tude, vii. 81.

Pasquil, saying of the Duke of Sesa respect-
ing, vii. 130.

Passion or Desire, described in the person of
Bacchus, vi. 741.

Paston correspondence, vi. 249, 250.
Pasturages, great, vi. 410.

Patent Offices, created by Elizabeth, and by

James I. vii. 683.

list of, vii. 699, 709.-See Letters Patent.

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.

Podum 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, saving 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 eoruin 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.
ì 10.

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

his qualifications for the part, vi. 133.

Edward IV. whether his godfather, .

parentage, vi. 134.

lives with John Stenbeck, at Antwerp, ib.
trained for the imposture by Lady Mar-
garet, vi. 135.

sent to Portugal, vi. 136.

arrives at Cork in Ireland, ib.

received by Charles VIII. at his court, as

Duke of York, vi. 138.

flies again to Flanders, to Lady Margaret,

ib.

excitement in England at the news, vi.

140.

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 Northum-
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.

Petitions continued.

Petronius, his levity at the approach of
death, vi. 763.

moriturus, vi. 685.

Petrucci, Cardinal, his conspiracy against
Leo X. vi. 91.

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,

Pius Quintus, worthy to be canonized, vii.
19.

Place, great, essay on, vi. 398-401, 550—
552.

Placita juris, opposed to regulæ juris, vii.

359.

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

Planets, princes should resemble in their mo-
tions, vi. 498.

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. 523.
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.