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Henry VII. sends an embassy to the Pope, 197.

his truce with Scotland, 199.

answer to the French King's embassy respecting Britany, 204.
propounds the cause of Britany to Parliament, 218.
sends an army to assist the Duke of Britany, 222.

marches against the insurgents in the north, 230.
his character as a lawgiver, 233.
designs in favour of Britany, 239.
sends relief to Maximilian, 240.
embassy from Charles of France, 245.

his answer to France, 252.

his iniquitous mode of extorting money, 380.

his interview with king Phillip, 397.

his treaty of marriage with Margaret of Savoy, 401.
decline of his health, 403.

his death, 406.

character of, 406.

Henry, Prince, (afterwards Henry VIII.) birth of, 256.

created Duke of York, 265.

Henry VIII. fragment of a history of, 418.

Hercules liberating Prometheus, a type of Christian redemption, 82.
Hippomenes and Atalanta, fable of, 66.

Horns, why attributed to Pan, 15.

Houses of husbandry, law respecting, 285.

Icarus and Scylla, exposition of the fable of, 82.

Inclosures of arable land become frequent, 234.

Ivy, why held sacred to Bacchus, 65.

James III. of Scotland, (see Scotland,) 231.

John a Chamber, an insurgent, executed at York, 229.

Juno's suitor, explanation of the fable of, 42.

Jupiter and Juno, a type of a Prince and his Dominions, 4.

Jupiter and Semele, fable of, 61.

Bacchus, parable of the confusion of, 65.

Justices of Peace, statute relating to, £37.

Kildare Earl of, supports the counterfeit Edward Plantagenet, 130

slain near Newark, 194.

Labyrinth of Dædalus, allegory of, 53.

Land, statute for alienation of, 262.

Laws, various improvements in, 226.

Leagues, typified in the fable of Styx, 9.

Lewis XI. of France, his custom of mixing with his inferiors, 27.

Lincoln Earl of, joins in Simnell's conspiracy, 186.

his designs upon the crown, 136.

departs for Flanders, 187.

conducts his followers to York, 192.

defeated and slain, near Newark, 194.

Love, generation an attribute of, 44.

Lovel Viscount, his attainder, 119.

his rebellion, 193.

his flight to Flanders, 124.

drowned in the Trent, near Newark, 194.

Margaret of Burgundy assists in the conspiracy against Henry, 187.

sets up a counterfeit Duke of York, 276.

Maximilian, assisted by Henry, 249.

marries the Duchess of B.itany, 242.

how assisted in Flanders by King Henry, 265.

Mechanical Wisdom, story of Dædalus applied to the perversion of, 51.

Mint, King Henry's laws for the correction of, 237.

Medusa, fable of her being slain by Perseus, 22.
Memnon, exposition of fable of, 40.

Proserpina, exposition of the fable of, 88.

Proteus, fable of, expounded, 38.

Providence, represented by Prometheus, 71.

Queen Elizabeth. See Elizabeth.

Queen Dowager, confined in the nunnery of Bermondsey, 133.
the strange reverses, 134.

Ratcliffe Richard, his attainder, 119.

Rebellion of Lord Lovel and the two Staffords, 123.

Religious sects, effects of extirpating by violence, shadowed out in the fable

of Diomedes, 50.

Richard III. enormities committed by, 106.

Rusticks, why Pan the God of, 18.

Sanctuary, the privileges of qualified, 198.

Scotchmen, statute for voiding them out of England, 262.

Scotland, truce with, 199.

Perkin Warbeck's reception in, 313.

King of, ravages Northumberland, 818.
preparations for a war with, 381.

King of, lays siege to Norham, 339.

treaty of peace with, $42.

peace with, 360.

Sects in religion, effects of extirpating by violence, shadowed out in the fable

of Diomedes, 50.

Scylla and Charybdis, exposition of the fable of, 82.

Self-love, typified in Narcissus, 7.

Semele and Jupiter, fable of, 61.

Sheen Palace, burning of, 855.

Simnell made to personate Edward Plantagenet, 127.

is taken to Ireland, 130.

his entry into Dublin as Edward VI., 181.
crowned in Dublin, 189.

taken prisoner near Newark, 194.

made a scullion in the king's kitchen, 195.

Simon the priest imprisoned for life, 195.

Sphynx, exposition of the fable of, 84.

Stafford, Humphrey and Thomas, their rebellion, 123.

executed at Tyburn, 124.

Stanley, Sir William, lord chamberlain, joins in Perkin Warbeck's conspiracy,

285.

impeached by Sir Robert Clifford, 290.
his great power and riches, 221.

bebeaded, 292.

Star Chamber, court of, confirmed by parliament, 224.

constitution of, 224.

Statute to frustrate a future statute, effect of, 310.
Styx, exposition of the fable of, 9.

Subsidies, refusal to pay in Yorkshire and Durbam, 227.
insurrection respecting, 229.

insurrection in Cornwall respecting, 528.

Suffolk, Earl of, seduced to return to England, 398.

committed to the Tower, 398.

Superstitious ceremonies, why attributed to Bacchus, 65.
Surry, Earl of, his attainder, 119.

Sweating sickness rages in London, 113.

Terrours, Cyclops the ministers of, 6.

and fears, why Pan said to be the author of, 19.
Tithonus and Aurora, exposition of fable of, 41.
Tyberius, his habit of descending to his inferiors, 27.
Typhon, exposition of the fable of, 3.

VOL. 3.

meaning of his being caught in a net by Pan, 20.

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Military power, how advanced under King Henry VII., 235.
Morton, made Archbishop of Canterbury, 121.

Lord Chancellor, his speech to parliament respecting Britany, 213.
salutary laws made on the administration of, 223.

Mountains, why Pan the resident of, 18.

Murder and Manslaughter, amendment of the laws respecting, 226.
Muses, why fabled to be the companions of Bacchus, 64.

Music of Orpheus, explained to mean philosophy, 33.

Mysteries, danger of prying into, exemplified in the fate of Pentheus, 30.
Nakedness, attributed to Love, 46.

Narcissus, exposition of the fable of, 7.

Nature, Pan a type of, 11.

Naval power how advanced under King Henry VII., 287.
Nemesis, exposition of the fable of, 56.

Nobility, superfluity of, decreases military power, 236.

Norfolk, Duke of, his attainder, 119.

Norham, besieged by the Scotch, 339.

Northumberland, Earl of, slain by insurgents, 229.

Northumberland ravaged by the Scotch, 818.

Edipus, his solution of the riddle of Sphynx, 85.
Orpheus, exposition of fable of, 31.

Pan, exposition of the fable of, 11.

Parable. See fable.

Pegasus, generation of, 26.

Pentheus and Acteon, exposition of fables of, 29.

Perkin Warbeck, set up to personate the young Duke of York, 26.
his birth and education, 277.

arrives in Ireland, 280.

is supported by the King of France, 281.

conspiracy in England in favour of, 285.

approaches the coast of Kent, 305.

returns to Flanders, and thence to Ireland, 312.

secretly assisted by Maximilian and Charles of France, 313.
arrives in Scotland, 313.

his address to the king of Scotland, 313.

is kindly entertained by the Scotch king, 318.

enters Northumberland and publishes a proclamation, $18.

the King of Scotland refuses to deliver him to Henry, S4%.
embarks for Ireland, 344.

enters Cornwall, 246.

insurrection in Cornwall in favour of, 347.

takes sanctuary, 350.

accepts Henry's mercy, 353.

his confession, 354.

attempts to escape, 360

confined in the Tower, 361.

conspiracy in the Tower in favour of, 362.
executed at Tyburn, 364.

Perseus, exposition of fable of, 22.

Philip, king of Castile, driven upon the English coast, 395.

his interview with King Henry, at Windsor, 397.
Philosophers, (ancient) their excellencies and defects, 45.
Philosophy, typified by the music of Orpheus, 33.

Poynings, Sir Edward, sent to clear the seas and invest Sluice, 265.
sent with a martial commission to Ireland, 30%.
his memorable law, 303.

Princes, married to their dominions, as Jupiter to Juno, 4.

fable of Endymion, relates to dispositions of, 27.

Proclamation of Perkin Warbeck, 318.

Prometheus, exposition of, the fable of, 68.

Tyrell, Sir James, his account of the murder of the princes in the Tower, 287.
Usury, laws against, 227.

Venus, desire of procreation excited by, 48.

War, Perseus a type of, 22.

requisites for, typified in the gifts of the gods to Perseus, 23, 24, 25.

Warbeck. See Perkin Warbeck.

Warnham, Dr. his speech to the Archduke Philip respecting Perkin Warbeck,

290.

Wilford, Ralph, personates the Earl of Warwick, 363.

Wine, invention of, attributed to Bacchus, 63.

Wisdom of the ancients, 1 to 99.

Woodvill, Lord, sails to the aid of Britany, 210.
slain in battle, 222.

Zouch, Lord, his attainder, 119.

END OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

Thomas White, Printer,
Johnson's Court.

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