The works of Francis Bacon, Lord High Chancellor of England : with a life of the author, by Basil Montagu, Esq

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Sylva sylvarum: or a natural history

Century I

Straining or percolation, outward and inward

motion upon pressure

Separations bodies liquid by weight

Infusions in water and air

Appetite continuation in liquids

Artificial springs

Venomous quality man's flesh

Turning air into water

Helping or altering shape the body

Condensing air, to yield weight or nourishment

Flame and air commixed

Secret nature flame

Flame, in the midst, and on the sides

Motion gravity

Contraction bodies in bulk

Making vines more fruitful

Several operations purging

Meats and drinks most nourishing

Medicines applied in order

Cure by custom

Cure by excess

Cure by motion consent

Cure diseases contrary to predisposition

Preparation before and after purging

Stanching blood

Change ailments and medicines

Diets

Production cold

Induration bodies

Preying air upon water

Force union

Making feathers and hairs divers colors

Nourishment young creatures in the egg, or womb

Sympathy and antipathy

Spirits or pneumaticals in bodies

Power heat

Impossibility annihilation

Century II

Music

Nullity and entity sounds

Production, conservation, delation sounds

Magnitude, exility, and damps sounds

Loudness and stness sounds

Communication sounds

Equality, inequality sounds

treble and base tones

Proportion treble, base

Exterior, interior sounds

Articulation sounds

Century III

Lines in which sounds move

Lasting, perishing sounds

Figures bodies yelling sounds

Medium sounds

Figures bodies yelling sounds

Mixtures sounds

Melioration sounds

Imitation sounds

Reflection sounds

Consent, dissent between audibles, visibles

Sympathy, antipathy sounds

Hindering or helping hearing

Spiritual, fine nature sounds

Orient colors in dissolution metals

Prolongation life

Appetite union in bodies

Like operations heat and fire

Differing operations fire and time

Motions by imitation

Iinfectious diseases

Incorporation powders and liquors

Exercise the body, the benefits or evils there

Meats soon glutting, or not glutting

Century IV

Clarification liquors, the acceleration there

Maturation, and the acceleration there: maturation drinks and fruits

Making gold

Several natures gold

Inducing, accelerating putrefaction

Prohibiting, preventing putrefaction

Rotten wood shining

Acceleration birth

Acceleration growth, stature

Bodies sulphureous and mercurial

Chameleon

Subterrany fires

Nitrous water

Congealing the air

Congealing water into crystal

Preserving the smell, color in rose leaves

Lasting flame

Infusions or burials divers bodies in earth

Effect on men's bodies from several winds

Winter and summer sickness

Pestilential years

Epidemical diseases

Preservation liquors in wells, or deep vaults

Stutting

Sweet smells

Goodness and choice waters

Temperate heats under the equinoctial

Coloration black and tawny Moors

Motion after the instant death

Century V

Aaccelerating or hastening forward germination

Retarding or putting back germination

Meliorating, or making better, fruits and plants

Compound fruits and flowers

Sympathy and antipathy plants

Making herbs, fruits medicinal

Century VI

Curiosities about fruits, plants

Degenerating plants, their transmutation one into another

Procevity and lowness plants, artificial dwarfing them

Rudiments plants, excrescences plants, or super-plants

Producing perfect plants without seed

Foreign plants

Seasons several plants

Lasting plants

Some principal differences in plants

Manner composts, helps for the ground Century VII

Affinities and differences between plants and bodies inanimate

affinities and differences between plants and living creatures, the confiners and participles both

Experiments promiscuous

Healing wounds

Fat diffused in flesh

Ripening drink speedily

Pilosity and plumage

Quickness motion in birds

Clearness the sea, the north wind blowing

Different heats fire and boiling water

Qualifications heat by nature

Yawning

Hiccough

Sneezing

Tenderness the teeth

Tongue

Mouth out taste

Prognostics pestilential seasons

Special simples for medicines

Venus

Insects, or creatures bred putrefaction

Pleasures and displeasures hearing, and the other senses

Century VIII

Veins earth medicinal

Sponges

Sea-fish in fresh waters

Attraction by similitude substance

certain drinks in Turkey

sweat

the glow-worm

the impressions upon the body from several passions the mind

drunkenness

the hurt or help wine, taken moderately

caterpillars

the flies cantharides

lassitude

casting the skin, and shell, in some creatures

the postures the body

pestilential years

some prognostics hard winters

certain medicines that condense and rarefy the spirits

the paintings the body

the use bathing and anointing

cham bletting paper

cuttle ink

earth increasing in weight

sleep

teeth and hard substances in the bodies living creatures

the generation, and bearing living creatures in the womb

Species visible

impulsion and percussion

titillation

scarcity rain in Egypt

clarification

plants without leaves

the materials glass

prohibition putrefaction, and the long conservation bodies

abundance nitre in certain sea-shores

bodies borne up by water

fuel consuming little or nothing

cheap fuel

gathering wind for freshness

trials air

increasing milk in milch beasts

sand the nature glass

the growth coral

the gathering manna

the correcting wines

bitumen, one the materials wild-fire

plaster growing as hard as marble

the cure ulcers and hurts

the healthfulness or unhealthfulness southern wind

wounds made with brass, and with iron

mortification by cold

weight

supernatation bodies

the flying unequal bodies in the air

water, that it may be the medium sounds

the flight the spirits upon odious subjects

the super-reflection echoes

the force imagination imitating that the senses

preservation the bodies

the growth or multiplying metals

the drowning the more base metal in the more precious

fixation bodies

the restlessness nature things in themselves, and their desire to change

Century IX

perception in bodies insensible, tending to natural divination or subtile trials

the nature appetite in the stomach

sweetness odor from the rainbow

sweet smells

fetid and fragrant odors

the causes putrefaction

bodies imperfectly mixed

concoction and crudity

alterations, which may be called majors

bodies liquefiable, and not liquefiable

bodies fragile and tough

the two kinds pneumaticals in bodies

concretion and dissolution bodies

bodies hard and st

ductile and tensile

several passions matter, and characters bodies

induration by sympathy

honey and sugar

the finer sort base metals

certain cements and quarries

the altering colors in hairs and feathers

the difference living creatures, male and female

the comparative magnitude living creatures

producing fruit without core or stone

the melioration tobacco

several heats working the same effects

swelling and dilation in boiling

the dulcoration fruits

flesh edible and not edible

the salamander

the country operations time on fruits and liquors

blows and bruises

the orrice root

the compression liquors

the nature air

the working water upon air contiguous

the eyes and sight

the color the sea or other water

shell-fish

the right side and the left

frictions

globes appearing flat at a distance

shadows

rolling and breaking the seas

the dulcoration salt-water

the return saltness in pits upon the seashore

attraction by similitude substance

attraction

heat under earth

flying in the air

the scarlet dye

maleficiating

the rise water by means flame

the influences the moon

vinegar

creatures that sleep all winter

the generating creatures by copulation, and by putrefaction Century X

the transmission and influx immateriate virtues, and the force imagination

the transmission spirits, and the force imagination

the emission spirits in vapor, or exahalation, odor-like

emission spiritual species which affect the senses

emissions immateriate virtues, from the minds and spirits men, by affections, imagination, or other impressions

secret virtues and properties

the general sympathy men's spirits

Tracts relating to Scotland

A discourse on the happy union

Articles touching the union

Certificate the commissioners

Naturalization the Scottish nation

Union laws

Proposition towards the union laws

The post-nati

Tracts relating to Ireland

Considerations touching the plantation

Letter to Mr. Secretary Cecil

Considerations touching the queen's service in Ireland

Letters to Sir Geo. Villiers

Tracts relating to Spain

Report the Spanish grievances

Notes a speech concerning war with Spain

Considerations touching a war with Spain

Report Lopez's treason

Tracts relating to England

the true greatness Britain

Proposition touching the amendment the laws

fer digest the laws

Certificate touching the penal laws

Advice touching the charter-house

Observations on a libel

Speeches

Touching purveyors

About undertakers

To the king upon the grievances the Commons

On wards and tenures

Declaration for the matter the wards

receiving the king's messages

Concerning impositions on merchandises

To grant supplies to the king

Relating to the mint

To the speaker's excuse

On the motion a subsidy

Charges

Commission for the verge

subordinate magistrates

Against duels

Decree Star-Chamber against duels

Against Mr. Oliver St. John

Mr. Lumsden, & etc

Lord Sanquhar

Mr. Owen

Countess Somerset

Earl Somerset

Letter to the king

To Sir G. Villiers

Somerset's examination

To Sir G. Villiers, about Lady Somerset's pardon

William Talbot

Papers relating to the earl Essex

Apology Sir Francis Bacon

The proceedings the Earl Essex

Declarations his treasons

Arraignment Blunt, Davis, & etc

Cuffe

Merrick

Confession Lee

Knowd

Gorge

Sir J. Davis

Sir C. Davers

Sir C. Blunt

Lord Sandys

the Earl Essex

Declaration Sir William Warren

Thomas Wood

David Hethrington

the Lord Keeper

Examination Lord Rutland

Lord Cromwell

Lord Southampton

Speech Sir Christopher Blunt

Advice to Sir George Villiers

Theological tracts

Prayers

A prayer, or a psalm, made by the Lord Chancellor Bacon

The student's prayer

The writer's prayer

A confession faith

The characters a believing Christian, in paradoxes and seeming contradictions

An advertisement, touching the controversies the church England

Certain considerations, touching the better pacification and edification the church England

The translation certain psalms into English verse

An advertisement touching a holy war

Questions about the lawfulness a war for propagating religion

Miscellaneous

Mr. Bacon's discourse in praise his sovereign

A proclamation drawn for his majesty's first coming in

A draught proclamation touching his majesty's style

Physiological remains

Medical remains

Judicial charges and tracts

Speeches

On taking his place in chancery

Before the summer circuits

To Sir W. Jones

To Sir J. Denham

To Justice Hutton

Ordinances for regulating the court Chancery

Papers relating to Sir Edward Coke

An expostulation to the Lord Chief Justice Coke

To the king, about the commendams

A memorial for his majesty

To Sir George Villiers

Tracts relating to commendams

A remembrance abuse received from Lord Coke

Reasons for removing Lord Coke

To the king

To the king

Sir Edward Coke to the king

The king to the lord keeper

Sir Henry Yelverton to the Lord Keeper Bacon

To the Marquis Buckingham

The Lord Chancellor Ellesmere to the king

Lord Coke's answer to the fourth question arising out Dr. Bonham's case

Lord Coke's answer to the last question arising upon Bagg's case

Letter to the judges

Charge against Whitelocke

Letters relating to legal proceedings

Robert, Earl Somerset, to Sir Thos; Overbury

To the king

To John Murray

To Mr. Murray

To Mr. Murray

To the king Supplement passages omitted in Bacon's speech against Owen

To the king

To Sir George Villiers, touching the examination Sir Robert Cotton

Sir Francis Bacon to the judges

Legal questions for the judges

Questions for convenience

A particular remembrance for his majesty

Heads the charge against Robert, Earl Somerset

To Sir George Villiers

To the king

Advice to the king, for reviving the commission suits

To the Earl Buckingham

To the lord keeper

To the lord keeper

To the lord chancellor

To Sir Henry Yelverton

To the lord chancellor

To the lord chancellor

To the lord chancellor

To the lord chancellor

To the lord chancellor

To the lord chancellor

To the king

To the lord chancellor

To the Marquis Buckingham

To the lord chancellor

Notes a speech the lord chancellor

To the Marquis Buckingham

To the Marquis Buckingham

To the king

To the king

Notes upon Michael de la Pole's case

Observations upon Thorpe's case

Notes upon Sir John Lee's case

Notes upon John Lord Neville's case

Questions demanded the Chief Justice the King's Bench

Lord Coke's answer to the questions upon the case o the Isle Ely

Lord Coke's answers to the questions upon D'Arcy's case

Lord Coke's answer to the question arising upon Godfrey's case

John Selden, Esq. to the Lord Viscount St. Alban

Miscellaneous

The first copy my discourse touching the safety the Queen's person

The first fragments a discourse touching intelligence and safety the Queen's person

The speeches drawn up by Mr. Bacon for the Earl Essex, in a device exhibited by his lordship before Queen Elizabeth, on the anniversary her accession to the throne, Nov. 17, 1595

Remembrances for the king, before his going into Scotland

Account council business and other matters committed to me by his Majesty

A draught an Act against a usurious shift gain, in delivering Commodities instead money

A proposition for the repressing singular combats, or duels

Advice to the king for reviving the commission suits

Reasons why the New Company is not to be trusted and continued with the trade clothes

Miscellaneous tracts [translated from the Latin]

On the interpretation nature

True hints on the interpretation nature

The phenomena the universe; or, natural history for the basis natural philosophy

Description the intellectual globe