tells tales, i. 84; admiration of an impediment to
knowledge, i. 94; knowledge not to be sought in
the obscurity of, but in the light of nature, ii. 547.
Antipater, of all Alexander's lieutenants, wore no pur-
ple, i. 113; his sayings of Demades, i. 114;
Antisthenes' opinion what was most necessary, i. 120.
Antitheta, examples of, i. 217.

Antoninus Pius, a learned prince, i. 178.
Antonio, King, mortal enemy to the King of Spain,
ii. 217; his retinue, therefore, free from all suspicion
of conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth, ii. 217; yet
suspected by some of her majesty's counsel, ii. 217.
Antonio, Don, enterprise to settle him in the kingdom
of Portugal failed, ii. 210.

Antonius, Marcus, transported by love, i. 18.

Antonius' mind weakened by the Egyptian soothsayer,
ii. 129.

Ants, instinct of, ii. 93.

Armada, ill success of the Spanish, ii. 200; account
of it, ii. 208.

Arms, the importance of to nations, i. 38; flourish
in the youth of a state, i. 62; and learning, com-
parison of in advancing men, i. 183.

Arragon, united with Castile, but not naturalized, ii.
155; its rebellion suppressed, and subsequent incor-
poration with Castile, ii. 155.

Arthur, King, i. 199.

Art, duty of to exalt nature, i. 208; of memory, visible
images in the, ii. 131; the time extent of, ii. 572.
Articulation of sounds, ii. 35.

Arts, military, flourish most while virtue grows, i. 205;
liberal, flourish when virtue is in state, i. 205; volup
tuary, flourish when virtue declines, i. 205; history
of, deficient, i. 188.

Arts and methods, error of over-early reduction of
science into, i. 173.

Anytus' accusation against Socrates, i. 164.
Apelles, his mode of painting, i. 49.
Ape's heart, what good for, ii. 134.

Aphorisms, iii. 427; the way of delivering ancient
wisdom, iii. 222; the pith of sciences, i. 214; know-
ledge when in, is in growth, i. 173.

Apollonius's judgment of Nero, ii. 277; reason for
Nero's overthrow, delight in solitude, i. 34.
Apollonius of Tyana, ii. 124.

Apophthegms, i. 107; account of, i. 9; loss of Cæsar's,
i. 192.

Apothecaries, how they clarify syrups, ii. 8.
Apology for the Earl of Essex, ii. 333.
Apparel, vanity in should be avoided, ii. 386.
Appendices to knowledge of the soul, i. 206; division
of, divination, fascination, i. 206; of history, i.

192.

Appetite, or will of man, i. 218.

Appius Claudius transported by love, i. 18.
Arbela, the number of the Persians at, i. 36.
Archidamus's answer to Philip of Macedon, i. 118.
Arch-traitor Tyrone, the, ii. 349.

mory, Tradition, i. 207.

Arts and sciences, invention deficient, i. 207; their
flourishing condition under the reign of King James,
ii. 285.

Arts of judgment, i. 210.

Arundel and Surrey, Earl of, from Lord Bacon, men-
tioning his being taken ill and staying at his house.
iii. 91.

Ashton, Abdy, chaplain to the Earl of Essex, ii. 363.
Assertion and proof, i. 214.

Astringents, a catalogue of different sorts, hot and cold,
ii. 467; purgative, ii. 468.

Astrologers, means used by, more monstrous than the
end, i. 199.

Astrologers' judgment that the King of France should
be killed in a duel, i. 43.
Astrology, Chaldean, i. 206.
Astronomer, predictions of, i. 206.

Astronomical observations, admonition respecting, 1.
421; ii. 580.

Astronomy, theory of, i. 200; exemplified in the Book
of Job, i. 175.

Atalanta and the golden ball, i. 174.

169.

Aristotle, ii. 198, 210, 212, 219, 221, 224, 226, 227;
school of, i. 90; put all his opinions upon his own
authority, i. 99; full of ostentation, i. 57; goeth for
the best author, i. 72; character of, i. 72; admired
the invariableness of the heavens, i. 79; saith our
ancestors were gross, i. 84; said that we are be-
holden to him for many of our articles of faith,
i. 123; remarks concerning the prolongation of life,
ii. 16; opinion of the colours of feathers, ii. 7; advice
in consumptions, ii. 16; framed new words in con-
tradiction to ancient wisdom, i. 196; mentions the
ancients only to confute them, i. 196; took the
right course for glory in reproving the more ancient
philosophers, i. 196; inquiry in physiognomy, i.
201; error in mixing philosophy with logic, i. 173;
his sparing use of feigned matter in history, i. 172;
observation on the power of the mind and reason,
i. 206; emulation of, i. 216; followed the example
of Alexander in conquering all opinions as the other
all nations, i. 196; remarks on his system of natural
philosophy, i. 427; his custom to prefer the obscure,
ii. 581.

Atheism, learned men and times incline to, i. 163;
superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the
mind to, i. 164; learned times have inclined to, i. 162;
caused by ignorant preachers, ii. 427; meditations
upon, i. 6, 70; their disposition light, i. 71; Essay
of, i. 24; never perturbs states, i. 25.
Athens, poisoned capital offenders, ii. 85; their Sex-
viri standing commissioners to watch the laws, ii.
231, 235.

Athletic, i. 205; philosophy relating to not inquired
i. 205.

Atlantis, New, i. 255.
Atlas, i. 210.

Atmosphere, artificial, in New Atlantis, i. 267.
Atoms, equality or inequality of, i. 407.
Attachment for not answering, ii. 481.
Attemus, the start of in Epicurus, a frivolous shift,
i. 71.

Attorney and solicitor-general should not be ignorant
in things though unconnected with their profession,
ii. 379.
Attorney-general's place and commission, ii. 489.
Attorney-general, abuse of to Mr. Bacon, ii. 497.
Attraction, by similitude of substance, ii. 94; expen-
ment touching, ii. 121; experimental remarks on,
ii. 466; by similitude of substance, ii. 121.
Attractive bodies, if in small quantues, ü 466; ob-

servations on, ii. 466.

Calendar of things not invented, i. 200; supposed im-
possibilities, i. 200; discoveries leading to inven-
tions, i. 200; popular errors, i. 200; of inventions
now extant, i. 200.

Callisthenes's praise and dispraise of the Macedonian
nation, ii. 229, 235; mode of becoming famous,
i. 115.

Calore et Frigore, De, the rudiment of the affirmative
table in the Novum Organum, i. 9.

Calves of the legs, how to form, ii. 11.

Calvin's case, Sir F. Bacon's argument in it, ii. 166.
Canals, making profitable, ii. 384.

Candles, how to make them last, ii. 56.
Cane, the properties of, ii. 86.

Cannibalism, ii. 443.

Cannibals in the West Indies, ii. 10.

Capital offence to conspire the death of a counsellor of
state, law contrived by the chancellor, ii. 333.

his saying of Sylla, i. 115; his reply when saluted
king, i. 117; his conduct to Metellus the tribune,
i. 120; a remark of his in his book against Cato,
i. 121; did greater things than the wits feigned
King Arthur or Huon, of Bordeaux, to have done,
i. 88; did himself hurt by a speech, i. 24; his friend-
ship for Decimus Brutus, i. 35; his speech to the
pilot in the tempest, i. 46; took Pompey unprovided,
by giving out that his soldiers loved him not, i. 62;
his saying of Pompey, i. 31; of Piso, wrote a col-
lection of apophthegms, now lost, i. 107; know.
ledge of getting water upon the sea-coast, ii. 7; imi-
tation of Sylla, only in reforming the laws, ii. 234;
witty saying of, i. 110; lovers of, i. 300.

Cæsar, Augustus, his dissimulation, i. 235.
Cæsar Borgia's treachery to the lords at Cinigaglia,
and Pope Alexander's remark on it, i. 108.
Cesars, Lives of, i. 284, 401.

Captains, promotion of, ii. 383.

Cardamon, or water-cresses, ii. 53.

Cardan, saying of, ii. 488.

Cardinal, meaning of, ii. 423.

Cards and dice, when to be used, ii. 388.

Cares, meditation on the moderation of, i. 68.

Carew, Sir George, i. 283; President of Munster, ii. 211.
Carlisle, state of, ii. 506.

Carneades, Cato's conceit of the eloquence of, i. 164.
Carvajall, Francis, sayings of his, i. 116.
Cartels of the Pope of Rome, ii. 389.
Carthagena, taking of, by Drake, ii. 208.

Case, Low's, of tenures, iii. 276; of revocation of uses,
iii. 280; of impeachment of waste, iii. 268.
Cassander's subtle answer to Alexander, i. 180.
Cassandra, i. 287.

Cassius, a witty answer of his to an astrologer, i. 114.
Cassytas, an herb growing in Syria, ii. 87.
Castlehaven yielded to the Spaniards at the treaty of
Kinsale, ii. 212.

Catalogue of particular histories, iii. 431.
Catesby, his attainder, i. 318.

Caterpillars, experiments touching, ii. 98.

Catharine of Spain married to Prince Arthur, i. 373.
Catholics, ii. 450.

Cato, Major, Livy's description of him, i. 46; saying
of, i. 116.

Cato's conceit of the eloquence of Carneades, i. 164;
punishment of, for his blasphemy against learning,
i. 166; satire of the Romans, i. 228; his foresight,
i. 287; his saying of sheep, ii. 270.

Cato the elder, his saying of the Romans, i. 109; on
his having no statue, i. 120; saying of, i. 121.
Categories, i. 210.

Cattle, breeding of, profitable, ii. 384.

Cause and effect, iii. 525.

Causes, physical, knowledge of, new, i. 199.
Cantharides flies, experiments on, ii. 98; fly poison,
ii. 318.

Caves, in Solomon's house, i. 266.
Cæsar, (Julius,) i. 401; an instance of military great-
ness and learning, i. 164; wit in his speeches, i. 181;
noble answer to Metellus, i. 181; Apophthegms, loss
of, i. 192; excellence of his learning declared in his
writings, i. 180; an instance of conjunction of mili-
tary excellence and learning, i. 180; ambition, i. 235;
his contempt of Cato, i. 236; saying of, i. 231;
raised no buildings, i. 401; enacted no laws, i. 401;
avoided envy by avoiding pomp, i. 402; well read in
bistory, expert in rhetoric, i. 403; by his address to
his mutinous army appeased their sedition, i. 115;

ii. 336.

Cecil, Sir Edward, his eminent service at the battle of
Newport, ii. 211.

Cecil, Sir Robert, his ability, ii. 264.
Cecile, Duchess of York, i. 355.
Celestial hierarchy, degree of, i. 175.
Celsus's observation on medicines, i. 207; his precept
for health, i. 39; remark on the causes of uses, i. 87.
Cements, experiments touching, ü. 116,
Ceremonial laws respecting meats, i. 202.
Ceremonial magic, i. 206.

Ceremonies and respects, essay on, i. 56.

Certiorari can only be once in the same cause, ii. 484;
causes removed by special, ii. 480.
Chaldean astrology, i. 206.
Chambletting of paper, ii. 100.
Chamaepytis, what good for, ii. 136.
Chamelions, experiment touching, ii. 54.

Chancellor, Sir Francis Bacon, when made, i, 522;
rules for a, ii. 471; his jurisdiction as to writs, ii. 434;
excess of jurisdiction of, ii. 472; contrivance of a
law to protect the, i. 333; lord deputy, i. 424;
Bacon to Marquis of Buckingham, touching Sir H.
Yelverton's sentence, ii. 526.

Chancery, master's reports in, ii. 472; court, defects in
the practice of the, ii. 472; court, regulations for
practice in the, ii. 472; ordinances in, ii. 479; Lord
Bacon's speech on taking his place in, ii. 471; not
restrained by premunire, ii. 490; decrees after judg-
ment, ii. 514.

Change, desire of, and restless nature of things in
themselves, ii. 108.

Chanteries, stat. 1 E. vi. c. 14, ii. 506.

Chaplains of noblemen non-residents, ii. 429.
Character of Julius Cæsar, i. 401; of believing Chris-
tians, ii. 410.

Charcoal, vapour of, ii. 129.

Charges, judicial, ii. 471; judicial, upon the commis-
sion for the verge, ii. 289.

Chariots, invention of, attributed to Ericthonius, i. 301.
Charitable uses, suits for, ii. 485.
Charity, on the exaltation of, i. 68; what is the height
of charity, i. 68.
Charles VIII., i. 326; state of France under, i. 326;
embassy to King Henry, i. 326: invades Brittany,
i. 328; marries the Duchess of Brittany, i. 341;
supports Pekin Warbeck, i. 348; his death, i. 369.
Charles, Prince of Castile, marriage with the Princess
Mary, i. 381.

Charles, an imperial name, ii. 201; considerations
touching a war with Spain, inscribed to Prince
Charles, ii. 201.

Charles IX. of France, edict against duels, ii. 297.
Charles V., melancholy in his latter years, i. 27; his
rigour to Pope Clement, ii. 390; forced from Is-
burgh, ii. 200, 213.

Charles the Hardy, his closeness, i. 35.
Charter-house, advice to the king concerning, ii. 239.
Children, essay of parents and, i. 15.

Chilon's remark of kings, friends, and favourites, i. 114;
of men and gold, i. 120.

China, ordnance used in, 2000 years, i. 61.
Chineses paint their skins, ii. 99; mad for making sil-
ver, ii. 49.

Christian, believing, characters of, ii. 410; paradoxes,
ii. 410; religion, Eneas Sylvius's praise of the
honesty thereof, i. 121; church, the, preserved the
relics of heathen learning, i. 176.

Christianity, injurious effect of Julianus's edict against,
i. 176; consolation of, ii. 435; war to disseminate,
.440; affection of, ii. 413; the lawyers its most
violent opponents, ii. 443.
Chuets, when used, ii. 15.

Church, its government, i. 244; history, prophecy, and
providence, i. 191; music, ii. 426; controversy, five
errors in, ii. 414; controversies, ii. 411; pacification,
considerations on, ii. 420; contempt of, punishable,
ii. 290; reform, ii. 421; fear of the subversion of, a
just ground for war with Spain, ii. 200, 202, 206;
its condition is to be ever under trials, ii. 249; its
two trials, persecution and contention, ii. 249; mis-
sions, ii. 437; meditations on the church and the
Scriptures, i. 71; preserved the books of philosophy
and heathen learning, i. 98.

Chylus, ii. 15.

Chymists, principles where, ii. 460.

Cicero, i. 209, 229; was resolute, i. 165; error in form-
ing sciences, i. 173; his idea of a perfect orator, i.
237; complaint against Socrates for separating phi-
losophy and rhetoric, i. 201; complaint of the school
of Socrates, i. 85; his evidence against Clodius dis-
believed, and his reply to Clodius, upbraidings on
that account, i. 108; his answer to Decius Brutus,
i. 302; his speech on the law against bribery, i.
118; of Rabirius Posthumous, i. 42; of Hortensius,
i. 48; his fame lasted because joined with vanity in
himself, i. 57; his proof that the academic was the
best sect, i. 73; a saying of his to Cæsar, i. 77;
answer respecting an old lady who affected youth, i.
109; other answers of, i. 111; reason for the power
of the Romans, i. 25; ii. 435; of faction, ii. 476.
Cineas, his questions and advice to Pyrrhus respecting
his intended conquests, i. 118.
Cinnamon and cassia, ii. 83.
Ciphers, i. 213.

Circular motion, eternity cannot be predicated from,
ii. 581,583.

Circuit judges' stay upon, ii. 379.

Circe and Æsculapius, exposition of credulity by fable
of, i. 203.

Cistertians, order of, ii. 506.

Civet, the strength of its perfume, i. 89.

Civil law not to be neglected, ii. 380; history by Ba-
con, i. 273; discipline, i. 169; history, i. 189, 190;
knowledge, i. 228.

Clarification, experiment touching, ii. 103.

Clarified hippocras, how, ii. 8.

Clarifying water, syrups, &c., ii. 8.

Clay countries, ii. 462.

Cleanliness of Alexander, ii. 8.

Clearchus, his answer to Falinus, i. 108.

Clearing by degrees better than clearing at once, i. 36.
Clemency of Elizabeth, ii. 446.

Clerks, convict, to be burned in the hand, i. 333; of
council, choice in, ii. 381.

Clifford, Sir Conyers, disaster of, ii. 351.
Clifford impeaches the lord chamberlain, i. 352.
Clifford, Sir Robert, joins in Perkin Warbeck's conspi-
racy, i. 349; won over to the king, i. 350.
Clinias, in Plato, his opinion of war, ii. 204.
Clodius's acquittal, and Catullus's question to his jury,
i. 108.

Cloth manufactory, laws regarding, i. 376.
Cloves, power of on water, ii. 20.
Clouds mitigate the heat of the sun, i. 100.
Calum's exposition of fable, i. 296.
Cœlum, or beginnings, i. 296.
Coffee, effects of, ii. 99.
Cogitation, words the image of, i. 212.
Coin of Pope Julius, ii. 390.
Coins, one of the external points of separation with
Scotland, ii. 144.

Coke, expostulation to Lord Chief Justice, ii. 485; book-
wise, but comparatively ignorant of men, ii. 486;
admission of his great legal knowledge, ii. 486, 487;
his faults in pleading shown, ii. 486; his faults ex-
posed, ii. 486; his too much love of money, ii. 486;
advice to as to charity, ii. 486; plainly told how he
got his money, ii. 487; defence of judges, letter to
the king concerning commendams, ii. 495; his sin-
gleness of conduct in the case of commendams, ii.
496; abuse offered to Mr. F. Bacon in the Exche-
quer, ii. 497; reasons for promoting to Lord Chief
Justice of the King's Bench, ii. 497; Reports, cha-
racter of them, ii. 230; obligation of the law to, ii.
230; censure of his Reports, ii. 498; commanded
to forbear sitting at Westminster, ii. 498; seques-
tered from the table of the circuits, ii. 499; Reports,
expurging of, ii. 499; his behaviour in church
affairs, ii. 500; not changed by being made one of
the king's council, ii. 500; his corrections in his
Reports scorn rather than satisfaction to the king,
ii. 500; justification of his Reports, ii. 500; removed
from King's Bench, ii. 500; answers to objections
taken to parts of his Reports, ii. 506; saying of, i.
115; his opinion of Lord Bacon's Instauratio Magna,
ii. 508; a paper on laws designed against, ii. 513;
Sir Francis Bacon confesses he was sometimes too
sharp to Sir Edward, ii. 520; questions demanded
touching the Reports of, by the king's command-
ment, ii. 528; answers to questions put upon his
reported cases, ii. 529, 530; Reports, faults in, the
acts of courts, ii. 499.

Cold, effects of, i. 102, 103; condensation of air, by
ii. 10; cause of taking, ii. 14; prohibits putrefaction
ii. 51; on the production of, ii. 18; the sun mag.
netical of, ii. 19; causes of, ii. 19; mortification by
ii. 106.

Colleges and schools to be encouraged, ii. 378.
Colic, cure for the, ii. 133.

Coligni, Admiral, his advice to Charles IX. to wa
against Flanders, ii. 205.

Colonies, how to be formed, ii. 385; management of,
ii. 385; what first to be done in, ii. 385; how to be
governed, ii. 385; customs and rents' to the king
from, ii. 386; how to choose for, ii. 385.