Seigniory, by homage, fealty, and rent, vi. 334.
Seisure, an argument of property, vii. 535.
Seized, in Statute of Uses, vii. 424.
Seizins, premier, vi. 218.

Sejanus, favourite of Tiberius, vi. 439.

Self, speech of a man's selt ought to be seldom,
vi. 456, 565.

wisdom for a man's self, essay on, vi.
431-433, 561, 562.
Self-commendation, vi. 504, 586.
Self-love, illustrated by the fable of Narcissus,
vi. 705, 706.

Seldom cometh the better, vii. 202.
Selfishness, essay on, vi. 431-433, 561, 562.
Semele, her fate, vi. 740.

signifies the nature of good, vi. 741.

Jovis pellex, vi. 664.

Sequestrations, vii. 763, 764.

Serjeant's feast in Ely Place, Henry VII.
present at, vi. 158.

a second in the reign of Henry VII. vi.
225.

Sermones Fideles, vi. 369.

Sermons without divinity, Bishop Andrews
on, vii. 159.

Serpens, nisi serpentem comederit, non fit
draco, vi. 472, 574.

Serpentum juventus perpetua, vi. 669,
673.

Serpent, how possessed of perpetual youth, vi.
745, 750.

be ye wise as serpents, vii. 245.
Servants, gambling by, prohibited by a statute
of Henry VII. vi. 224.

felony by, when not within 21 H. VIII.
vii. 349.-See Followers.

Sesa, Duke of, his saying concerning Pasquil,
vii. 130.

Seven wise men of Greece, vii. 154.
Severance of timber, vii, 527-545.

four manners of, vii. 533.

Severus, Septimius, his favourite Plautianus,

439.

madness of his youth, vi. 477.
Sewers, commissions of, vii. 771-773.
Sfortza, Ludovico, services to Charles VIII.
vi. 158.

Shadow of Philip no longer after Cheronea
than before, vii. 152.

Shakespeare, resemblance between Perdita's
list of flowers and Bacon's Essay on Gardens,
vi. 486, 487.

Shaving, Zelim shaved his beard, why, vii.

157.

Sheep-hook of Pan, why curved, vi. 711.
Shell, the Prior of, his case, vii. 656, 674.
Sheriff, false return by, vii. 346.

judge of hundred courts, vii. 467.
county-courts kept by, ib.

office of, vii. 466, 779.
Sheriff's Turn, institution of, vii. 466.
Sheriffwicks, patents of gaols reannexed to,
by Henry VII. vi. 223.

Shepherd, his government over his flock, vii.

644.

Shine, Henry VII. calls a council at, vi. 49.
now Richmond, tournament at the King's
Palace, vi. 126.-See Shyne, Rich-
mond.

Shrewsbury, Earl of, joins Henry VII. at
Newark, vi. 57.

Shyne, palace of Henry VII. at Richmond
burned down, vi. 195.

Perkin Warbeck takes sanctuary at, vi.
201.-See Shine.

Sickness, three things material in, vii. 162.
Sidney, Sir Henry, to the cuckold, vii. 131.
Sigismund the Transylvanian Prince, vii. 19.
Silence succeeded the fables of the poets, vi.
695.

of the Grecian sage, vii. 155.
Sileni, in the train of Bacchus, vi. 712.

quid referunt, vi. 639.

Silentia antiquitatis, fabulæ poetarum exce-
perunt, vi. 625.

Silk, manufactured, importation of, prohibited
by statute of Henry VII. vi. 223.

Simnell, Lambert, the Pretender, vi. 44—59.
crowned at Dublin, vi. 54.

ends as a scullion in the royal kitchen, vi.

59.

Single life, essay on, vi. 391, 392, 547, 548.
doth well with churchmen, vi. 392.
Sirens, or Pleasure, meaning of the legend, vi.
762-764.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 684-686.
Sixtus Quintus, Pope, his adventures after
death, vii. 135.

Skeleton of Lord Lovell discovered, vi. 58.
Skelton, a tailor, one of Perkin Warbeck's
councillors, vi. 189.

Skory, Sir Edward, vii. 132.
Slade's case, vii. 611.

Slavery, advantages of, in encouraging
military spirit of a nation, vi. 449.
Slubbering on the lute, vii. 103.

the

Sluice, held by Lord Ravenstein against Maxi-
milian, surrenders to the English and the
Duke of Saxony, vi. 125.

Socage tenure, vii. 482-484, 548.
Society, well ordered, is the basis of the im-
provement of human nature, vi. 472, 573.
Socrates, like the apothecaries' gallipots, vii.
152.

when pronounced by the oracle to be the

wisest man in Greece, vii. 158.

on the book of Heraclitus the obscure, ib.
Solitude, he who delights in is either a wild
beast or a god, vi. 437.

Solitudo, magna civitas, magna solitudo, vi.
437.

Solon to Croesus, vi. 446.

to one who reproved him for weeping for
his son's death, vii. 139.

of his own laws, ib.

compared the people to the sea, and ora-
tors to the winds, vii, 158.
to Croesus, vii. 40, 55, 151, 178.
Somerset, Earl and Countess of, concerned in
the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, vi. 321.
Somerset, Sir Charles, head of a naval expe-

dition in the reign of Henry VII, vi. 67.
friendly to suit of the four Shires, vii. 582,
583.

Sonnet, written by Bacon, vii. 268.
Song combined with dance hath extreme grace,
vi. 467.

sun never sets on her dominions, ib.
war with the Low Countries, vii. 51.
jest of the Spanish soldiers in Portugal
when forbidden to plunder, vii, 634.
Spangs or Oes, vi. 468.

Spaniards of small dispatch, vi. 434.

seem wiser than they are, the French are
wiser than they seem, vi. 435, 565.
Spanish invasion of England, note by Bacon
in Camden respecting, vi. 358-361.
Sparta, the state like a river, why, vii. 140.
Spartan boys, their constancy under torture,

vi. 471.

Speculative studies acquire new vigour when
transplanted into active life, vi. 691.

Speed, character of his history, vi. 4.

his account of Perkin Warbeck misunder-
stood by Bacon, vi. 133.

Speech, like cloth of Arras, vi. 440.

the art of, vi. 455-437, 564, 565; vii.
109, 110.

discretion of, is more than eloquence, vi
456, 565.

forbearance of, vii. 209.

of Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, to
the Parliament, vi. 76–81.

of George Gagvien, Prior of the Trinity,
to the Council of Henry VII. vi. 104—
109.

of Morton, the Chancellor, in answer, vi.
111.

of Henry VII. to the Parliament sum-
moned in the 7th year of his reign, vi.
117-119.

of Sir William Warham sent ambassador
from Henry VII. to the Archduke
Philip, vi. 145, 146.

of Perkin Warbeck to the King of Scots,
vi. 162-166.

Speeches inserted by Bucon in his History
of Henry VII. character of, vi. 75.
Spelling modernised, vi. 367.

Spenser, Sir Hugh, his banishment, vii. 669,
670.

Spes in fundo vasis vix servata, vi. 670.
vigilantis somnium, vii. 230.
terrestris inutilis, vii. 236.

omnis in futuram vitam cælestem consu-
menda, vii. 237.

Sphinx, meaning of the legend, vi. 755.
her riddles of two kinds, vi. 757.
used by Augustus as his seal, ib.
interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 677-680.
Spials, employed by Henry VII. vi. 241, 242.
Spices, virtuous men likened to, vii. 160.
Spirit ethereal within the earth, represented
by the legend of Proserpine, vi. 758-761.
Spirits, creation of, vii. 220.

invocation of wicked, is felony, vii. 738.
Spiritus ætherius sub terrâ, per Proserpinam
significatus, vi. 681.

Spleen, steel taken for disease of, vi. 437.
Staddles of coppice wood, vi. 95, 446, 583.
Stafford, Edward, restored to his honours
and lands, vi. 40.

Stafford, Humphrey, his unsuccessful rebellion
against Henry VII. vi. 42, 43.

Stafford. Thomas, rebels against Henry VII.
vi. 42, 43.

Stag, why Nemesis mounted on, vi. 739.
Stairs in a palace, plan for, vi. 482.
Stanhope's case, of revocation of uses, Bacon's
argument in, vii. 447, 556-566.
Stanley, Thomas, Lord, created Earl of
Derby, vi 34.

Stanley, Sir Thomas, entertains Henry VII.
at Latham, vi. 156.

Stanley, Sir William, crowned Henry VII.
at Bosworth Field, vi. 30.
favours Perkin Warbeck, vi. 140.
chamberlain to Henry VII. impeached
by Sir Robert Clifford, vi. 149.

his wealth, vi. 150.

beheaded, vi. 151.

his past services and rewards, vi. 152.

Stanley, Ferdinand, Earl of Derby, lawsuit

at his death for the dominion of the Isle of
Man, vi. 358.

Star Chamber, Court of, one of the noblest in-
stitutions of England, vi. 85.

its authority confirmed by Parliament, ib.
its composition and jurisdiction, ib.
authority of, vii. 379.

Stars of natural inclination, sometimes ob-
scured by the sun of virtue, vi. 480, 570.
Statua, why Cato had none, vii. 158.
Statutes of the realm, what, vii. 509.

mode of interpretation of, vii. 423, 424.
a statute cannot provide against its own
repeal, vii. 371.

of Uses, Bacon's reading on, in Gray's
Inn, vii. 395-445.-See Uses.
quoted by Bacon,

14 Edward III. c. 5, vii. 654, 655,
671.

25 Edward III. of treason, vii. 736.

27 Edward III. c 5, vii. 678.

35 Edward III. vii. 652.
42 Edward III. c. 4, vii. 513.

c. 10, vii. 672.

50 Edward III. c. 6, vii. 412.

1 Richard II. c. 9, vii. 411, 412.

2 Richard II. c. 3, ib.

7 Richard II. c. 12, ib.

15 Richard II. c. 5, ib.
4 Henry IV. c. 7, ib.

c. 18, vii. 514.

1 Richard III. c. 1, vii. 413.
c. 5, vii. 417.

11 Henry VI. c. 3, vii. 413.
c. 5, ib.

1 Henry VII. c. 1, vii. 414.

Statutes continued.

19 Henry VII. c. 10, vi. 224.
c. 12, ib.

c. 13 & 14, ib.

c. 15, vii. 414.

c. 21, vi. 233.

1 Henry VIII. c 8, vii. 514.
21 Henry VIII. c. 20, vii. 515.
22 Henry VIII. c. 14, vii. 514.
23 Henry VIII. c. 10, vii. 414.
27 Henry VIII. vii. 588.
28 Henry VIII. c. 17, vii. 371.
32 Henry VIII. c. 16. vii. 653.
c. 28, vii. 632.

c. 37, vii. 606.

c. 50, vii. 570.

33 Henry VIII. c. 1, vii. 515.
34 & 35 Henry VIII. c. 26, vii. 587.
35 Henry VIII. c. 2, vii. 651.

1 Edward VI. c. 11, vii. 371.

2 Edward VI. c. 13, vii. 606.

5 Elizabeth, c. 4, vii. 515.

13 Elizabeth, c. 7, ib.

1 William & Mary, c. 27, vii. 570.
Stealing, property acquired by, vii. 500.
Steel, to open the spleen, vi. 437.
Stella, loved by Plato, vii. 172.
Stellionate, crimes of, vi. 85.

Stenbeck, John, kinsman of Perkin Warbeck,
at Antwerp, vi. 134.

Stile, John, sent by Henry VII. to report on
the young Queen of Naples, vi. 227.
Stilpo, when the people flocked to stare at him,
vii. 159.

Stoics, their felicity that of a player, vii.
79.

Stoke, near Newark, battle at, vi. 58.

Stone, the philosopher's, vi. 440.

Stowe, character of his History, vi. 4, 12.
Strange, Lord, joins Henry VII. at Newark,
vi. 57.

Strangers, tradesmen, within the realm,
policy of, vii. 653.-See Alien.

Strangeways plots Perkin Warbeck's escape
from the Tower, vi. 202, 203.
Straying of cattle, vii. 501.

Student's prayer, vii. 259.

Studies, set hours for, vi. 470, 572.

essay on, vi. 497, 498, 525, 575, 376.
advantage of, vi. 497, 525, 575.

method of, ib.

Subsidy-continued.

granted by Parliament to Henry VII. vi.
175.

whether a Great Council had the power of
granting, vi. 82.

indispensable to Queen Elizabeth, vii. 41.
Suffolk, Earl of, flies to the Lady Margaret,
in Flanders, vi. 211.

flies again to Flanders, vi. 220.
excommunicated, vi. 222.

joins the Archduke Philip, ib.

returns to England, assured of his life, vi.
231, 232.

committed to the Tower, vi. 232.
Sugar, wealth of the first sugar man in the
Canaries, vi. 462.

Suitors, essay on, vi. 495-497, 528, 529,
577, 578.

Suits after judgment, vii. 764.

Sulphur, flower of, for the lungs, vi. 437.
Summa lex, sumina crux, vii. 602.
Summum jus, summa injuria, vii. 602.
Sumptuary laws, vi. 410.

Sun good by aspect, evil by conjunction, vii.
86.

Superstition, essay on, vi. 415, 416, 560,
561.

worse than atheism, vi. 417, 561.
causes of, ib.

without a veil, a deformed thing, ib.

hardens men to bloodshedding, vi. 471,

573.

Supplicavit supersedeas, the writing of, a
patent office, vii. 699.

Surety to keep the peace, vii. 463.
Surrey, Earl of, left by Henry VII. to keep
down the northern malcontents, vi. 90.
pursues James IV. into Scotland, vi
184.

takes Aton Castle, ib.
Suspicion, essay on, vi. 454, 455.

among thoughts, like bats among birds, vi.

454.

how to guard against, ib.

Swans, the companions of Diomede why
changed into, vi. 733.

Swart, Martin, leader of the Almaine auxili-
aries against Henry VII. vi. 53.
killed at Newark, vi. 58.
Sweating sickness, an epidemic at the begin
ning of Henry VIIth's reign, vi. 33, 34.
Switzers, without a nobility last well, vi. 405.

why some states are compelled to employ
them as mercenaries, vi. 95.
Swords, amongst Christians, two, vi. 383.
Mahomet's sword is a third, ib.
Sybil raised the price of her last book, why,
vii. 90.

Sylla, Cæsar's saying respecting, vi. 412.

his treatment from Pompey, vi. 438.
chose the name of Felix, not Magnus, vi.
473.

Cæsar of, that he could not dictate, vii.
144.

Symnell, Lambert, vi. 21.

Syringa, or Echo, fable of her marriage with
Pan explained, vi. 713, 714.
uxor Panis, vi. 640.

Tacitus, on the reverence due to governments,
vi. 408, 589.

on discontent in states, vi. 412.

on mathematicians and fortune-tellers, vi.
736.

de mathematicis et genethliacis, vi. 660.
Talk, the honourablest part of, vi. 455, 564.
Tall men have ever empty heads, vii. 182.
Tanto buon che val niente, vi. 403, 545.
Tate, Lord Mayor of London, arms against
the Cornish rebels, vi. 180.

Taunton, Cornish rebels against Henry VII.
march through, vi. 177.
kill the Provost of Perin, ib.
Perkin Warbeck at, vi. 192.

Tauri, duo Jovi a Prometheo immolati, vi. 669.
Taxes, effect of, on the military spirit of a
people, vi. 446, 587.

Taxation, vii. 60.

in the time of Henry VII, vi. 82.
Taylor, Sir John, joins Perkin Warbeck at
Paris, vi. 138.

Tellus Jovi consilium dat, vi. 632.
Tempests of State, vi. 406, 589.

Tenant in ancient demesne, vii. 330, 483.

in capite, vii. 482, 483.

three, Frankalmoigne, knight service,
socage, vii. 547, 548.

in capite, vi. 218; vii. 482, 546, 556.
Bacon's argument in Lowe's case, vii.
546-556.

Tennyson,image used by, coincident with a Greek
myth, vi. 615.

Terpsichore, mother of the Sirens, vi. 762.
mater Sirenum, vi. 684.

Terretenant, vii. 433, 434.

Territories, true greatness of a kingdom does
not depend upon its size, vii. 48-55.
should be compacted not dispersed, vii.
51, 52.

the provinces not out of proportion to the
seat of government, vii. 52, 53.

to a sick man seems longer when without
a clock, vii. 82.

trieth troth, vii. 203.
Timotheus used to say, "and in this Fortune
had no part," vi. 473, 575.

Tirrell, Sir James, employed to murder the
princes in the Tower, vi. 142.
Richard III's grants to him, vi. 142.

imprisoned and beheaded by Henry VII.
vi. 143, 221.

Tissick, Henry VII. suffers from, vi. 235.
Tithes not paid for timber trees, why, vii. 531.
Tithonus in cicadam versus, interpretatio fa-
bula, vi. 653.

Thales, looking at the stars, fell into the water,

vii. 133.

on marriage, vii. 156.

life and death all one, ib.

Theatre, God's, if a man can be partaker of,
he shall likewise be a partaker of God's rest,
vi. 399, 551.

Thebes, two seen by Pentheus under the in-
fluence of Bacchus, vi. 720.
duæ a Pentheo visæ, vi. 646.
Themistocles, his speech to the king of Persia,
vi. 440.

when asked to play the lute, vi. 441,

586.

to a lover who scorned him when fallen,
and sought him when great, vii. 128.
to the ambassador of a mean state, vii.
144.

likened himself to a plane tree, vii. 153.
likened speech to an Arras, ib.

If I had not been undone, I had been un-
done, vii. 172.

Theobald's, Lord Burleigh's, Queen Elizabeth
at, vii. 157.

Theodosius, to a suitor, vii. 143.

Theseus and Pirithous, their attempt to rescue
Proserpine, vi. 758, 760.

apud inferos, vi. 680, 682.

Thomas, Richard, joins Henry VII. with
Welsh troops at London, vi. 128.

Thomas, Sir Rice Ap, sent by Henry VII.
to relieve Exeter, vi. 191.

Threats, vii. 369, 378.

Thwaits, Sir Thomas, favours the cause of
Perkin Warbeck, vi. 140.

tried for Perkin Warbeck's rebellion and
pardoned, vi. 148.

Tobacco in Virginia, vi. 458.

Toleration in religion, vi. 384, 543.

Tongue, cutting out, felony, vii. 464.

Torch-races in honour of Prometheus, vi. 746,
753.

Tortures, voluntarily suffered by the Indians,
vi. 471.

things to be observed, vi. 417.
Treason, cases of, vii. 733-735.

punishment, trial, and proceedings in
cases of, vii. 735, 736.

misprision of, vii. 736.
petit treason, vii. 737.

Treasure trove, vii. 150.

Treaties, meaning of the fable of the river
Styx, vi. 633, G34.

Tree, man's life compared to, vi. 602.
Trenchard, Sir Thomas, receives Philip King
of Castile at Weymouth, vii. 230.
Trent, Council of, vii. 164, 416.
Trespass, by lessee for trees, vii. 537.
by lessor not vi et armis, ib.
Tressham's case, vii. 561.
Trial, new, granted upon a verdict, in cases
above the value of 401., by Statute of 11
Henry VII. vi. 160.

Tribute paid by France to England in the
reigns of Henry VII. and VIII. vi.
130.