Colonization must be voluntary, ii. 386.
Colours, which show best by candle light, i. 45; of
good and evil, fragment of, i. 72; have little necessi-
tude with the properties of things, i. 89; producing
hair of divers, ii. 282: of feathers, what causes the
different in birds, ii. 7; of good and evil, account of
the publications of, i. 7.

Combat, trial of right by, Spanish custom, ii. 298.
Comets, have power over the mass of things, i. 60;
causes and effects of heat, i. 100.
Commendams, to the king about, ii. 488; evils of,
ii. 429.

Comnenus, Emanuel, poisoning of the air by, ii. 127.
Commentaries and annotations, i. 217.
Commerce, considerations respecting, ii. 148.
Commission, of bankrupt, when granted, ii. 485; for
examination of witnesses, when to be discharged,
ii. 484; a constant one given to honest men subor-
dinate to the council board, suggested, ii. 385; of
suits, advice to the king for reviving, ii. 520.
Commissions, as to suits for, ii. 485; to examine wit-
nesses, ii. 483.

Commissioners, report on, ii. 149.
Common, as to enclosing, ii. 384.

i. 175; and action, union between, ii. 173, 174, of
nature, men have withdrawn from, i. 173.
Contempt, puts an edge upon anger, i. 60.
Contempts, as to taking away possession for, ii. 472;
on force or ill words, ii. 484; imprisonment for, ii.

484.

Contentions, learning, i. 169, 170.
Contraction produces cramp, ii. 133.
Contributions, against, ii. 514.
Controversies, church, ii. 411.

Controversy, mind, state of, ii. 420; church, errors in,
ii. 414.

Conversation, i. 228; ii. 424; short notes for civil, i.
131; its wisdom, i. 228.

Cookery, receipts for, ii. 15.
Copernicus's theory of astronomy, i. 200, 201; ii. 577.
Copies, in chancery, survey of, ii. 474; in chancery,
ii. 483.

Copper and tin, mixture of, ii. 456.
Copyholds, commissions granted for, ii. 275.
Coral, touching the growth of, ii. 105; use of to the
teeth, ii. 101; near the nature of plant and metal,
ii. 81.

Cordials, as medicines, ii. 468.

Common law, when it controls acts of Parliament, ii. Corn, erection of granaries for foreign, ii. 283.
506.

Common laws, elements of the, iii. 131.

Corn, as to diseases of and accidents to, ii. 88.
Cornelius Tacitus, i. 190.

Common prayer, swerving from in divine service, Cornish diamonds the exudations of stone, ii. 7.
punishable, ii. 290.

Commonplace books enumerated, i. 212.
Commons, House of, their power, ii. 380; to repre-
sent, not personate the people, ii. 286; speech on
grievances of, ii. 272.

Commonwealth, nature of, first seen in a family, i.
188; Plato's, ii. 286.

Communication and transmission of discoveries and
inventions, i. 434.

Comparative instances of heat, iii. 379.

Compass, effects produced by the invention of, i. 431.
Compound metals now in use, ii. 459; fruits and
flowers, ii. 66.

Composts, different sorts of, for ground, ii. 79.
Compositio, its difference from mistio, ii. 40; one
of the internal points of separation with Scotland,
ii. 146.

Compression of bodies, ii. 8.

Concoction, experiment touching, ii. 113.
Concord, to discord, ii, 26.

Concords, perfect or semi-perfect, ii. 25.
Concretion of bodies, ii. 115.

Conference makes a ready man, i. 55.
Confession of faith, ii. 407.

Confirmation, ii. 426.

Confusio serii et joci, ii. 413.

Conquest, effects of, ii. 453.

Consalvo, answers of, i. 115, 117.

Consent, touching cures by motion of, ii. 17.
Conservation of bodies, ii. 104.

Considerations on church pacification, ii. 420.
Consolations of Christianity, ii. 435.
Conspirators, Elizabeth's conduct to, ii. 445.
Constantinople, the excellence of its situation, ii. 229.
Constable, Sir John, dedication of essays (edit. 1612)
to, i. 3.

Constables, office of, iii. 315.
Consumption, drink for, ii. 15.

Consumptions, Aristotle's advice in, ii. 16.
Contemplation and action, i. 220; of God's creatures
produceth knowledge, i. 163; and action figured in
Abel and Cain, i. 175; man's exercise in Paradise,

Corns and wens, how to remove, ii. 136.
Corpulency, how to avoid, ii. 11.

Corrupt bodies, effect of medicine on, ii. 543.
Cosmetic, i. 205.

Cosmography, history of, i. 191; exemplified in the
book of Job, i. 175.

Cosmus, Duke of Florence, his saying about perfi-
dious friends, i. 14.

Costs, defendant to pay, upon insufficient answer, ii.
483; in chancery suits, ii 474.
Cotton, examination of Sir Robert, ii. 515.
Cotton's case, Sir R., letter concerning, to the Lord
Chancellor, from Buckingham, ii. 522, 523.
Cotton's cause, letter to the king touching, ii. 511
Council, act of, ii. 491; board, a commission subordi-
nate to, ii. 385; privy, how to form, ii. 381; choice
in clerks of, ii. 381; of Ireland, advice to reduce the
number, ii. 191; business, account of, ii. 537, 538.
Counsel, pleading, i. 58; essay of, i. 28; one of the
fruits of friendship, i. 35; its two sorts, i. 35; ho-
nest, rare, but from a perfect friend, i. 3; bounds of,
i. 168; fined for long bills, ii. 482; as to refusing
to be, ii. 509.

Counsels, cabinet, a motto for them, i. 29.
Counsellor of state, capital offence to conspire the
death of, i. 333.

Counsellor, privy, his duty, ii. 381.

Counsellors, privy, bound by oath to secrecy, ii. 381;
their delivery by one of the principal offenders, ii.
359; degenerate arts of some by which they gain
favour; others "negotiis pares," yet unable to am-
plify their own fortunes, i. 36; in plantations,
should be noblemen and gentlemen, not merchants,
i. 41; of state, choice of as to their number, ii. 381;
for what bills punishable, ii. 482; of state, ii. 381.
Countries, Low, ii. 451.

Court, the king's, ii. 387; of the green cloth, ii. 267;
rolls, examination of, ii. 482.

Courtier, the boon obtained of an emperor by a, ii.
376.

Courtiers, H. Noel's opinion of, i. 121.
Courts of justice, their four bad instruments, i. 59;

leet, sheriff's turn, &c., iii. 315; of chancery, de-
lays how to be remedied, ii. 472; of common law,
growth of, ii. 494; for the borders of Scotland, sug-
gestions for, ii. 143; several, of justice, one of the
internal points of separation with Scotland, ii. 146;
of justice, the ordinary, ii. 380; as to their jurisdic-
tion, ii. 379.

Coventry seasoned by Lord Coke in his ways, ii. 501;
Covering, defects of, i. 234.

Cramp, comes of contraction, ii. 133.
Cranfield's, Sir Lionel, saying, i. 109.
Craniology, i. 202.

Crassus, answers of his, i. 116.

Creatures, perfection of history of, i. 187; living,
comparative magnitude of, ii. 117; bred of putre-
faction, ii. 92.

Credulity and imposition, concurrence between, i. 172;
adamant of lies, ii. 429.
Critical knowledge, i. 217.

Critics, their rash judgment, i. 217; absurd mistakes
of, i. 217.

Croesus, reason of for preferring peace to war, i. 115;
Solon's answer to him, i. 118.

Crollius, chymical dispensatory of, ii. 136.

at Kinsale, ii. 200, 211; his abuse of the Irish, ii.
212.

D'Aubigny, Lord, i. 353.

D'Avila, Gomez, carries letters for Lopez and Ferrera
in their plot against Queen Elizabeth, ii. 219; brings
back answers from Manuel Louis, ii. 219; appre-
hended at landing, ii. 219.

Deafness from sound, persons deaf from sound, ii. 28.
Death, learning mitigates the fear of, i. 182; motion
after the instant of, ii. 59; the essay of, inserted from
the remains of 1645, remarks upon it, i. 10; essay
of, i. 11; essay on, i. 131; history of life and, iii.
467; porches of, iii. 508.

Debate, haste should not be used in matters of weighty,

ii. 381.

Decemvirs, make the twelve tables, ii. 231; grafted
the laws of Greece upon the Roman stock, ii. 234.
Decorations of body, i. 205.

Decree pronounced should be speedily signed, ii. 473;
breach of, ii. 480.

Decrees in chancery after judgment against the, ii. 514;
special order for reading, ii. 483; not enrolled, no
exemplification of, to be allowed, ii. 485; in chancery,
ii. 479; drawn at the rolls, ii. 482.

Cross-row, second letter of the, ii. 460; third letter, Dedications to books, i. 169; objections to Seneca's,

ii. 460; fourth letter, ii. 462.

Crowd is not company, i. 34.

Crown, one of the external points of separation with
Scotland, ii. 144; no crown of Europe has so great
a proportion of demesne and land revenue, ii.
228.

Crown's revenues, ii. 388.

Crudity, experiment touching, ii. 113.

ii. 435.

Deer, the nature of, ii. 102.
Defects, covering, i. 234.

Defence of Cuffe, ii. 365; of Earl of Essex, ii. 360.
Defendant, when to be examined upon interrogatories,
ii. 483.

Deformity, essay on, i. 49; deformed persons bold, in-
dustrious, i. 49.

Crystal, congealing water into, ii. 54; comes of water, Delays, essay of, i. 29; mature advice should not be

ii. 463.

Cuffe, evidence against, ii. 365.

Cuffe, Henry, enemy to all superiors, ii. 354.

Culture of the mind, i. 223.

Cunning, essay of, i. 30.

Cupid and heaven, fable of, i. 435.

Cupid, or an atom, i. 298.

Cure in some ulcers and hurts, ii. 106.

Cures worked by the imagination, ii. 136; by motion
of consent, ii. 17.

Curiosity unprofitable, i. 171.

Custom and education, essay on, i. 45; cure by, ii. 17;
its froward retention as froward as innovation, 1. 32;
only alters nature, i. 45; the principal magistrate of
man's life, i. 45; power of on meats, &c., ii. 46;
cannot confirm what is unreasonable, ii. 295.
Customs, statutes of, 6 R. II., 9 R. II., 13 H. IV., 1
H. V., ii. 280; statutes of, 3 Ed. I., 1. Ed. III., 14
Ed. III., 17 Ed. III., 38 Ed. III., 11 Ed. II., 47 Ed.
III., ii. 279, 280; ancient commencement of, ii.
279; to the king from colonies, ii. 386.
Cuttle ink, experiment touching, ii. 100.
Cyclops, or ministers of terror, i. 288.
Cyrus, from whom he sought supply, ii. 281.

DAMPS in mines, which kill, ii. 127.
Daniel's prophecy of the latter times, i. 191.
Dark, on wood shining in the, ii. 52.
Darcy's case, ii. 528, 529.

confounded with, ii. 489.

Delegates, commission of, ii. 485.

Delicate learning, and different kinds of, i. 169.

Delivery, style of, i. 214; methodical, i. 214.
Deluges, bury all things in oblivion, i. 60.
Demetrius, answers made to him, i. 116.
Democritus, i. 198; effect of odour upon, ii. 128; opi-
nion of the cause of colours, i. 89; of truth, i. 122;
his doctrine respecting an atom, i. 299; his philo-
sophy, i. 198, 435, 437; his saying of nature, i.
195; primitive remarks on the theory of Democritus
and Leucippus, ii. 578: intermixtum and coacerva-
tum, theories of, ii. 578; whether the interstellar
space, or pure ether, be one entire, unbroken stream,
or consist of a variety of contiguous parts, ii. 578;
his theory of the universe, ii. 576.
Demonax, his answer respecting his burial, i. 109.
Demosthenes, ii. 435; his scorn of wars which are
not preventive, ii. 204; his answer to Eschines,
i. 114; to others, i. 118, 209; said action was the
chief part of an orator, i. 20; his speech in many
orations to the Athenians, i. 76; reprehends the
people for hearkening to King Philip's condition,
i. 77; answers of his, i. 116; answer to Eschines
as to times of leisure, i. 166; a water-drinker, i.
228; his sayings, i. 235.

Demurrers for discharging the suit, ii. 482; not to be
overruled on petition, ii. 483; defined, ii. 482 re-
ference upon, ii. 482.

Davers, Sir Charles, first confession of, ii. 368; second Dendamis, the Indian, i. 239.
confession of, ii. 369.

David sought by Samuel, i. 208; saying of his respect-
ing adversity, ii. 498.

David's military law, i. 185.

Davis, Sir John, confession of, ii. 368; set guard over
chief justice and the lord keeper, ii. 358.
D'Aquilla, D'Avila. the Spanish general, taken prisoner
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Denham, Sir John, ii. 477 ; speech to, in the exchequer
ii. 477.

Denizens, privileges and disabilities of, ii. 169.
Denmark, state of, during the time of Queen Elizabeth,
ii. 248; king of, incorporated to the blood of Eng
land, and engaged in the quarrel of the Palatinate,
ii. 213.

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Dense bodies coldest, ii. 19.
Density and rarity, history of, iii. 464.
Desire of memory, i. 190.

Desmond, Countess, teeth of, ii. 101.

Despatch, essay of, i. 32; its measurement, i. 32; order
and distribution, its life, i. 32; proceeding upon
somewhat conceived in facilitates despatch, i. 32.
Despatches, for facilitating, ii. 377.

Deucalion or restitution, i. 301.

Dew of May for medicine, ii. 106.

Dews and rains, how produced, ii. 10.

Diagoras's saying of Neptune's temple, i. 211.

Divination, natural, two sorts, i. 206; artificial, of two
sorts, i. 206; superstitious, i. 206; division of, 1.
artificial, rational, superstitious; 2. natural, native
influxion, i. 206.

Division, of learning, i. 187; of history, i. 187; of
human philosophy, i. 201; of natural prudence,
i. 199; of doubts, i. 200.
Divided state, i. 201.

Dodderidge made judge, ii. 498.

Dogs, know the dog-killer, ii. 134; sense of scent
almost a sixth sense, ii. 92.

Dog-killer, dogs know the, ii. 134.

Diamonds, Cornish, are the exudations of stone, ii. 7. Domitian, happy reign of, i. 177.
Diapason, not the true computation, ii. 25.
Dice and cards, when to be used, ii. 388.

Diets, experiments touching, ii. 18; good which makes
lean, ii. 469; beware of sudden change in, i. 39;
importance of to the mind, i. 202.

Digestion, touching, ii. 54.

Digests of laws of England and Scotland, ii. 147; of
laws of England, offer of, ii. 233.
Dignity, of governors, depends on the dignity of the
governed, i. 182.

Dilatation and swelling in boiling, ii. 118.
Dioclesian, melancholy in his latter years, i. 27.
Diogenes, how he would be buried, i. 109; answers
of his, i. 115, 116, 120, 121, 122; sharp answer as
to the morigeration of learned men, i. 169; Alexan-
der's observation respecting, i. 179.

Diomedes, or zeal, i. 299.

Dionysius, or passions, i. 303.
Discontinuance of the prosecution, ii. 480.
Discord to concord, sweetness of, ii. 26.
Discords, which, most odious, ii. 25.
Discourse, touching the safety of the queen's person,
ii. 214; eseay on, i. 40; accords with a man's
learning and expressed opinions, i. 45; in praise of
Elizabeth, ii. 445.

Discovery, impression, i. 201; of forms, i. 197; a
branch of human philosophy, i. 201.
Disease of Naples, origin of, ii. 10; origin of French,

ii. 10.

Diseases, epidemical, ii. 57; appropriate exercises for,
i. 55; infectious, ii. 46.
Dispositions of men, i. 224.

Dissimilarity of things celestial and sublunary, in re-
gard to eternity and mutability, not proved to be
true, i. 415.

Dissimulation, essay of, i. 14.

Dissimulations discovered by physiognomy, i. 201.
Dissolution of metals, ii. 461, 462; of bodies, ii. 115;
of metals, ii. 460.

Dissolved metals, ii. 465.

Distempers of learning, i. 169.

Distribution, the life of despatch, if not too subtile, i.
32; the real use of great riches, i. 42.
Divination, natural, ii. 109.

Divinity, university lectures of, advice to raise the
person of, out of the Sutton estate, ii. 241; its pro-
gress under James I., ii. 285; should not be all in
all, but only above all, i. 98; or philosophy cannot
be searched too far, i. 164; its two parts, i. 241;
its four branches, i. 243.

Divine voice above the light of nature, i. 239.
Divine influxion, i. 206.

Domitian's dream, i. 43; dream before his death, ii.
233.

Doubts, division of, particular total, i. 200; evils of,
i. 200; registry of, i. 200; manner of registering,
i. 201.

Drake's expedition to the West Indies, ii. 208; his
expedition in 1587 showed the weakness of the
Spaniards, ii. 208; his terming it the singeing of
the King of Spain's beard, ii. 208; his and Sir
John Hawkins's voyage to the West Indies, unfor-
tunate, ii. 212; his death, ii. 212.
Draining, land improved by, ii. 384.
Dreams, exposition of, i. 201; to be despised, but the
spreading of them is mischievous, i. 43.

Drink, dissipation of melancholy by, ii. 9; ripening
of before the time, ii. 89; a restorative, ii. 467.
Drinks in Turkey, ii. 94; maturation of, ii. 47.
Drowned mineral works, speech for the recoveries of,
ii. 463.

Drowning of metals, ii. 457.

Droughts, great ones in summer, ii. 109.
Drums, sound in, ii. 30.

Drunkenness, pleasures of, ii. 92; causes and effects
of, ii. 97; experiments in, ii. 97.

Druse in Normandy, valour of the English at, ii. 212.
Drury House, consultation and resolutions taken al
ii. 355.

Dye of scarlet, ii. 122.

Dyer, Mr., his opinion of customs, ii. 279.
Dionysius the tyrant, answer of his, i. 112.
Dionysius the elder's answer to his son, i. 115.
Dudley and Empson, the people's curses rather than
any law brought their overthrow, ii. 236; wicked in-
struments of Henry, i. 374.

Dudley made Speaker of the House of Commons,
i. 376.

Duels, French law of, ii. 297; causes of ii. 296;
Turkish emperor's censure of, i. 298; despised
even by barbarous nations, ii. 298; nature and great-
ness of the offence of, ii. 296; decree of Star Cham-
ber against, ii. 300; edict against by Charles IX. of
France, ii. 297; accessaries before, punishable,
299; charge against, ii. 295; the practice not among
Greeks or Romans, ii. 298; remedies for, ii. 196;
English law of, ii. 297.

Duelling, a presumptuous offence, ii. 300; weakness,
and conscience of small value, ii, 302; a breaking
of the law, ii. 302.

Dulcorating of fruit by ancients, ii. 65.
Dust, how it helpeth the growth of plants, ii. 88.
Dutch, the perpetual duellist of Spain, ii. 213; the in-
crease of their power since 1588, ii. 213.

Divine philosophy, no deficience in but excess, i. Duty, i. 74; of a king, i. 222.
195.

Divine providence, i. 198.

Divine proofs of the advantages of learning, i. 174.
Divines, objections of, to learning answered, i. 162.
Divines, objections to learning by, i. 162.

EARTH, differences between sand and, ii. 7; increase of
weight in, ii. 100; mode of strengthening, u. 464;
not necessary to the sprouting of plants, u. 55; veins
of medicinal. ii. 94; the cosmographers who first