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Capel, Sir William, alderman of London, an instance of the
king's extortion, i. 767.

Capital to conspire the death of a lord, or any of the king's
council, i.,748.

Capite, lands held in capite in knight's service, in what
manner and parcels they may be devised, i. 626, 627.
Capon drink for a consumption, i. 89.

Caracalla, famous for driving chariots, i. 275.

Cardinal, whence so called, i. 534.

Cardinals of Rome, their affected wisdom, i. 303.

Carew, Sir George, some account of him, ii. 37 note §.
Carrying of foreign roots with safety, i. 152.
Carvajal, i. 319.

Cary, Mr. Henry, his letter to lord Falkland, ii. 243.
Cary, under-keeper of the Tower, displaced, and is suc-
cceded by Weston, in order to effect the poisoning of
Overbury, i. 707.

Casaubon, Isaac, letter to him from Sir Francis Bacon, ii.

152.

Case of Marwood, Sanders, Foster, and Spencer, relating

to property in timber-trees, i. 619, of Sir Moyle Finch,
of the statute of Marlbridge, Littleton, and Culpeper on
the same, 622. Of Carr, relating to tenures in capite,
626, of the bishop of Salisbury upon the same, 627, of
Fitz-Williams, 628, of Colthurst about the sense of si
and ita quod, 629, of Diggs on the same, ib. of Jermin
and Askew about the interpretation of some words in
devising of lands, 630, of Corbet about uses, 600, of De-
lamer on the same, 601, of Calvin about his freedom in
England, 652, of 8th of Henry VI. 660, of Sir Hugh Cholm-
ley and Houlford, that the law does not respect remote
possibilities, 660, of lord Berkley brought to prove that
the body natural and politic of the king are not to be
confounded, 662, of Wharton, concerning challenges to
duelling, 682, of Saunders upon poisoning, 696.
Cassia, an odd account of it from one of the ancients, i.
152.

Cassius in the defeat of Crassus by the Parthians, i. 326.
Cassytas, a superplant of Syria, i. 156.

Castello, Adrian de, pope's legate, i. 750.

Castile, Philip, king of, driven on the English shore, i. 789.
Casting of the skin or shell, i. 166, the creatures that cast
either, ib.

Casting down of the eyes proceedeth of reverence, i. 164.
Catalonia, a name compounded of Goth and Alan, i. 467.
Cataracts of the eye, i. 115, of Nile, said to strike men
deaf, ib. remedy for those of the eyes, 153.

Caterpillars, their produce and growth, i. 165, several kinds
of them, ib.

Catharine. See Katharine.

Cato Major compares the Romans to sheep, i. 322, his
reason to his son for bringing in a step-mother, 323, says,
wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men,
326, his character, 293.

Catullus, his sarcasm upon Clodius, i. 322.

Causes dismissed in chancery, after full hearing, are not to
be retained again, i. 717.

Cecil, Sir Robert, some account of him, i. 396, ii. 31 note||,
letters to him from Sir Francis Bacon, ii. 154, 155,
156, character of him by the same, 153, his letter to
Mr. Francis Bacon, 142, his answer to Mr. Bacon's let-
ter, 144.

Cecile, Duchess of York, mother of Edward IV. her death,
i. 769.

Celsus, his great precept of health, i. 287.

Cements that grow hard, i. 182. Cement as hard as
stone, 173.

Cephalus, an Athenian, a saying of his upon himself, i. 394.
Ceremonies and respects, i. 302, their slight use and great
abuse, ib. often raise envy, and obstruct business, ib.
Certainty, there be three degrees of it; first, of presence,
which the law holds of greatest dignity; secondly, of name,
which is the second degree; thirdly, of demonstration
or reference, which is the lowest degree, i. 568. There
is a certainty of representation also, cases of which see,
ib. what the greatest kind in the naming of lands, 569,
what sort is greatest in demonstrations of persons, ib. of
reference, two difficult questions relating thereto answer-
ed, ib.

Cestuy que use, cases relating thereto, i. 598, had no

remedy till Augustus's time, if the heir did not perform
as he ought, 602. cases concerning him in statute of
uses, 607, 608, 609, 611, what person may be so, 613.
See Use.

Charonea, battle of, won by Philip of Macedon, ii. 443.
Chalcites, or vitriol, i. 161.

Chalk, a good compost, i. 149, good for pasture as well as
for arable, ib.

Challenges to duelling punishable, though never acted,
i. 682.

Chaloner, Sir Thomas, some account of him, ii. 26 note ¶.
Chamberlain, John. Esq. a correspondent of Sir Dudley
Carleton, ii. 154 note +.

Chambletted paper, i. 167.

Chameleons, their description, i. 125, their nourishment of
flies as well as air, ib. their raising a tempest if burnt,
a fond tradition, 126.

Chancery, one formerly in all counties palatine, i. 637,
rules proper to be observed for the direction of that
court, 709, 710, its excess in what particulars to be
amended, 712, some disagreement between that court
and King's Bench, ii. 61, letter upon the same to Sir
George Villiers, 62, the ground of their disagreement,
61, our author's advice relating thereto, 63, more pro-
ceedings between them, 75.

Chandos of Britain made earl of Bath, i. 735.

Change in medicines and aliments, why good, i. 93, vide
287.

Chanteries, statute of, explained, i. 559.

Chaplains to noblemen's families, should have no other
benefice, i. 358.

Charcoal vapour, in a close room, often mortal, i. 192.
Charge against lord Sanquhar, i. 677, against duels, 679,
against Priest and Wright concerning duels, 683, against
Talbot, 686, against Oliver St. John for traducing the
letters touching the benevolence, with the sum of his
offence, 689, against Owen for high treason, 693, against
several persons for traducing the king's justice in the
proceedings against Weston for poisoning Overbury, 695,
with an enumeration of their particular offences, 697,
against the countess of Somerset for poisoning Overbury,
699, against the earl of Somerset for the same, 704.
Charges warily to be entered upon, i. 284.

Charities, why not to be deferred till death, i. 290.
Charlemaign, i. 307.

Charles, duke of Burgundy, slain at the battle of Granson,
i. 199.

Charles, king of Sweden, a great enemy to the Jesuits, i.
318, hanging the old ones, and sending the young to the
mines, ib.

Charles V. emperor, passes unarmed through France, i.
320, has the fate of great conquerors, to grow supersti-
tious and melancholy, 275, married the second daughter
of Henry VII. i. 791. See i. 535.

Charles, prince of Wales, our author's dedication to him,
i. 731, another, 532, a Charles who brought the empire
first into France and Spain, ib.

Charles VIII. of France, marries Anne, inheritress of Bri-
tany, i. 733, fortunate in his two predecessors, 742, his
character and conduct in re-annexing Britany, ib. treats
with great art and dissimulation, 744, 753, resolved upon
the war of Naples and a holy war, how, 754, marries
the heir of Britany, though both parties were contracted
to others, 753, 756, restores Russignon and Perpignan
to Ferdinando, 760, besides present money, grants an
annual pension or tribute to Henry VII. for a peace, ib.
despatches Lucas and Frion in embassy to Perkin, 762,
to invite him into France, ib. conquers and loses Naples,
768, his ill conduct recapitulated, ib.

Charles IX. advice given him by Jasper Coligni, to dis-
charge the ill humours of his state in a foreign war, i.
535.

Charms, i. 195, 196.

Charter-house, what sort of persons most proper to be re-
lieved by that foundation, i. 495, no grammar school to
be there, but readers in the arts and sciences, 495, 496
should be a college for controversies, 496, a receptacle
for converts to the reformed religion, ib. See Sutton.
Cheap fuel, i. 172.
Cheerfulness, a preservative of health, i. 287.

Cheshire, exempted from the jurisdiction of the court of
Marches, i. 635.

Childless men authors of the noblest works and founda-
tions, i. 265.

Children, a foolish pride in having none, from covetousness
and a fondness to be thought rich, i. 266.
Children born in the seventh month, vital; in the eighth
not, why, i. 124, over-much nourishment ill for children,
ib. what nourishment hurtful, ib. what nourishment good
for them, ib. sitting much, why hurtful for them, 125,
cold things, why hurtful, ib. long sucking, why hurtful,
ib. sweeten labours, imbitter misfortunes, 266.
Chilon, his saying of kings, &c. i. 321, his saying of men
and gold, 325.

Chinese commended for attempting to make silver, rather
than gold, i. 121, paint their cheeks scarlet, 167, eat
horse flesh, 184, had ordnance two thousand years ago,
307.

Choleric creatures, why not edible, i. 184.
Christ Jesus, sent by God according to promise, i. 338,
his incarnation, ib. is God and man, ib. his sufferings are
satisfactory for sin, 339, to what persons they are appli-
cable, ib. the time of his birth and suffering, 338.
Christendom, its disturbances what owing to, i. 388.
Christian priest, a description of a good one, i. 204.
Christianity, how commended by Æneas Sylvius, i. 320.
Chronicles, i. 29.

Church of England, the eye of England, i. 330, the disputes
about the policy, government, and ceremonies of it car-
ried very high, 346, considerations touching its pacifica-
tion, 351, the faults of those who have attempted to re-
form its abuses, 353, is commended, 352, yet wants
reformation in some things, 353, that there should be
only one form of discipline alike in all, an erroneous con-
ceit, ib. want of patrimony therein, 359, methods of sup-
plying its decayed maintenance, ib. parliaments are
obliged in conscience to enlarge its patrimony, ib. its
affectation of imitating foreign churches condemned as a
cause of schism and heresy, 347.

Church catholic, that there is one, i. 339, that there is a
visible one, ib.

Church of Rome, the ill effects of our condemning every
thing alike therein, i. 347.

Church-livings, caution necessary in presenting persons to
them, i. 511.

Cicero, i. 310, 321, gives an evidence upon oath against
Clodius, 322, what he observes of the bribery of the pro-
vinces, 325, his character of Piso, 281, his letter to Atti-
cus about Pompey's preparations at sea, 286, his com-
mendation of Rabirius Posthumus, 289, his observation
upon Cæsar, 258.

Cider ripeneth under the line, i. 189.

Cincas, how he checked Pyrrhus's ambition, i. 315.
Cinnamon dry, properties of that tree,

152.

Cion overruleth the stock, i. 133, 135, 137, must be su-
perior to it, 136, regrafting often the same cions may
enlarge the fruit, 135, grafted the small end downwards,
183.

Circuit, counties divided into six of them, i. 574, times ap-
pointed for the judges to go them, ib.

Circuits of judges, how rendered more serviceable to crown
and country, i. 512.

Citron grafted on a quince, i. 142.

Civil history, i. 29.

Civil war prevails in Gascoigne, Languedoc, &c. i. 468.
Civil war like the heat of a fever, i. 286.
Clammy bodies, i. 117.

Clarence, duke of, his death contrived by his brother
Richard, i. 731.

Cla-

Clarification of liquors, by adhesion, i. 83, 119, three causes
thereof, 119, several instances of clarification, ib.
rification by whites of eggs, 171, of the Nile water, ib.
Claudius, a conspiracy against him, i. 326.
"Clausula derogatoria," called also "clausula non ob-
stante," is of two sorts, i. 564, &c. its force explained by
several instances, ib.

Clay grounds produce moss in trees, i. 144.

Cleon's dream, i. 291.

Cleopatra, her death, i. 154.

all cases except treason and robbing of churches; but is
now much limited, ib. to what cases now confined, ib.
their maintenance is "jure divino," 359, equality in their
order condemned, ib. an assembly of them much com-
mended, 357.

Clergy pared by Henry VII. i. 748.
Clerk and inferior ministers of justice, i. 651.
Clerk of the crown, his office, i. 650, of the peace, his office,
651, is appointed by the Custos Rotulorum, ib.
Clifford, Sir Robert, embarks for Flanders, in favour of
Perkin, i. 763, deserts him, 764, returns and impeaches
Sir William Stanley, lord chamberlain, who had saved
the king's life, and set the crown upon his head, 765.
Clifford thought to have been a spy from the beginning,
767.

Clifford, lady, letter from her to the lord chancellor, ii.
210.

Clifford, Nicholas, queen Elizabeth much displeased at
him, ii. 143.

Clifton, lord, how to be proceeded against, ii. 104, to be
punished for speaking against the chancellor, 105.
Climates, i. 255.

Clocks, i. 214.

Clodius acquitted by a corrupted jury, i. 322.
Clothing business at a stay, ii. 86, a remedy hereof pro-
posed, 86, 87, some further thoughts upon the same, 87,
the new company not to be encouraged in the clothing
trade, ib.

Cloves attractive of water, i. 94.
Coasting of plants, i. 136.

Cocks may be made capons, but capons never cocks, ap-
plied to the Epicureans, i. 325.
Coffee, its virtues, i. 167.

"Cogitata et Visa," Bodley's opinion of that book, ii. 39.
Coke, Sir Edward, i. 317, 318, an account of his errors in
law, ii. 71-73, his Reports much commended, i. 668, ii.
95, are thought to contain matters against the preroga-
tive, ib. note +.

Coke, when attorney-general, insults Mr. Francis Bacon, ii.
155, knighted, ib. note †, and made lord chief justice of
the Common Pleas, ib. called the Huddler by Mr. Bacon,
143, innovations introduced by him into the laws and go-
vernment, 168, fills part of the charge against the earl of
Somerset with many frivolous things, 172, answers for
the earl's jewels, 174, active in examining into the poison-
ing of Sir Thomas Overbury, 175, cited before the coun-
cil, 180, and forbid to sit at Westminster, ib. letter of
lord viscount Villiers concerning him, ib. remembrances
of the king's declaration against him, 181, his letter to the
king concerning the case of murder or felony committed
by one Englishman upon another in a foreign kingdom,
184, exasperates the earl of Buckingham against the lord
keeper Bacon, 194, 195, his Reports examined by the
judges, 196, he attends the council, but is in a bad state
of health, 215, the marquis of Buckingham has no power
with him, 229.

Colchester oysters how improved, i. 162.

Cold contracts the skin, and causes defluxions, i. 88, how
it relaxeth, ib. stanches blood, 92, heat and cold Nature's
two hands, 93, intense cold sometimes causeth mortifica-
tion, 122, 173. Cold in feet, why it hindereth sleep, 168.
Cold the greatest enemy to putrefaction, 180.

Cold, the production of it a noble work, i. 93, seven means
to produce it, ib. the earth" primum frigidum," ib. tran-
sitive into bodies adjacent as well as heat, ib. all tangible
bodies of themselves cold, ib. density cause of cold, ib.
quick spirit in a cold body increaseth cold, ib. chasing
away the warm spirit, increaseth cold, 94, exhaling the
warm spirit doth the same, ib. Cold causeth induration,
95, and quickens liquors, 120, hinders putrefaction, 123,
irritateth flame, 128. Cold sweats often mortal, 163,
how to help a mortification arising from cold, 178.
Coleworts furthered in their growth by sea-weed, i. 135,
by being watered with salt water, 136, apple grafted on
them in the Low Countries, 135, hurt neighbouring plants,
138, apples grafted on them produce fruit without core,
183.

Colic cured by application of wolf's guts, i. 198.
Coligni, Jasper, admiral of France, his advice, i. 595.

Clergy, benefit thereof, its first rise, i. 575, was allowed in College for controversies proposed, i. 496.

275.

Conquest, distinction between conquest and descent in the
case of naturalization confuted, i. 659, subjects gained
thereby are esteemed naturalized, ib.

Colles, Mr. recommended by lord viscount St. Alban to Conquerors grow superstitious and melancholy, when, i.
Edward earl of Dorset, ii. 263.
Colliquation, whence it proceedeth, i. 122.
Coloquintida, being stamped, purges by vapour, i. 192.
Coloration of flowers, i. 141, different colours of flowers
from the same seed, whence, ib. Colours of herbs, ib.
Colours vanish not by degrees as sounds do, 110, the
causes thereof, ib. mixture of many colours disagreeable
to the eye, 179. Colour of the sea and other water, 186,
light and colours, 214, which show best by candle light,
292.

Colours in birds and beasts, i. 83, the nature of, 96.
lours orient in dissolved metals, 117.
Colours of good and evil, i. 254.
Colthurst's case, i. 629.

Co-

Columbus, Christopher, his discovery of America, i. 780.
Columbus's offer to Henry VII. relating to the Indies, i.
659.

Combats of two sorts seem to have been looked upon as
authorized, i. 681, by way of judicial trial of right, by
whom introduced, ib.

Comets rather gazed upon than wisely observed, i. 306.
Comforting the spirits of men by several things, i. 167.
Commendams, ii. 196, letter to the king about them, 77, 78,
some proceedings therein give offence to the king, 76,
king denied to have a power of granting them, 78, judges
proceed therein without the king's leave, 79, the king
writes to them upon it, ib. he charges them with several
faults therein, 80, the judges submit, ib. and commen-
dams are allowed to be in the king's power, 82.
Commineus, Philip, his observation of Charles the Hardy,
i. 199.

See

Commissioners for plantation of Ireland how to act.
Ireland.
Commissions for examinations of witnesses, i. 720, for cha-
ritable uses, 722, suits thereupon how to proceed, ib. of
sewers, ib. of delegates, when to be awarded, ib.
Committees for ripening of business in affairs of state, i.
278.

Common law, what method to be observed in the digesting
of it, i. 669, what points chiefly to be minded in the re-
duction of it, ib.

Common people, state of them in queen Elizabeth's time,

i. 386.

Common Pleas, court of, erected in Henry III.'s time, i.
574, its institution and design, ib. its jurisdiction, 716.
Common vouchee, who he is, and in what cases made use
of, i. 583.

Comparison between Philip of Macedon and the king of
Spain, i. 388.

Compositio et mistio, the difference naturalists make be-
tween them, i. 451.

Composts to enrich ground, i. 149, the ordering of them
for several grounds, ib. six kinds of them, ib.
Compound fruits, how they may be made, i. 137.
Compression in solid bodies, cause of all violent motion, i.
83, not hitherto inquired, ib. worketh first in round,
then in progress, ib. easily discernible in liquors, in solid
bodies not, ib. Compression in a brittle body, ib. in
powder, in shot, ib. Compression of liquors, 185.
Compton, Spencer, lord, ii. 219.

Concoction, what, i. 180, not the work of heat alone, ib. its
periods, ib.

Concord final upon any writ of covenant, i. 592.
Concords in music, i. 99.

Concretion of bodies dissolved by the contrary, i. 181.
Condensing medicines to relieve the spirits, i. 167.
Condensing of air into weight, i. 167.

Condition, its significancy in statute of uses, i. 610.
Confederates, their great importance to any state, i. 543.
Confederation, tacit, i. 529.

Conference between the lords and commons upon petition-
ing the king to treat of a composition for wards and
tenures, i. 484.

Confession of faith, i. 337.

Conquest, the inconveniences of that claim in the person
of Henry VII. i. 732.

Consalvo, i. 319, his saying of honour, 306, 682.
Conscience, how persons are to be treated in religious
matters upon pretence thereof, i. 387.
Conservation of bodies long time, i. 171, the causes and
helps thereof, ib.

Conservation of bodies in quicksilver, i. 174.
Conservators of the peace, their origin, office, and continu-
ance thereof, i. 573, who are such by office, ib. were
succeeded by justices of the peace, ib.

Conservatory of snow and ice, i. 93, great uses to be made
thereof in philosophy, ib. and likewise in profit, 95.
Consiliarii nati, who, i. 514.

Consistencies of bodies how divers, i. 180.
Consistory at Rome, whereof it consists, i. 354, performs
all ecclesiastical jurisdiction, ib.

Conspiracies against princes, the peculiar heinousness of
them, i. 694.

Constable, his office, i. 571, was settled by William the
Conqueror, ib. two high constables appointed for every
hundred by the sheriff, ib. a petty one appointed for
every village, ib. the original of their authority very
dark, 648, original of their office still more obscure, ib.
whether the high constable was ab origine, ib. by whom
elected, and where, 649, of what condition they ought
to be in estate, ib. their office, ib. their authority, ib. et
seq. their original power reducible to three heads, ib. by
whom they are punishable, ib. their oath, 650, their office
summed up, ib.

Constable, Sir John, ii. 219.

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Contiguous things, or such once, their operation, i. 191.
Continuity, solution of it, causes putrefaction, i. 122.
Contract, the difference of dissolving a contract and
making a lease of the thing contracted for, i, 565.
Contraction of bodies in bulk, by mixing solids and fluids,
i. 88, of the eye, 185.

Controversies are no ill sign in a church, i. 343, college for

controversies proposed, 496, are to be expected, 343,
those of the Church of England not about great mat-
ters, ib. by what means they are easily prevented, 344,
are carried on amongst us with great indecency, 345,
five points wherein both the controverting parties are to
blame in these matters, ib. the occasions of them, ib.
their progress, 347, they grow about the form of church
government, 353, unbrotherly proceedings on both sides
in these controversies, 347, should not be discussed be-
fore the people, 350, few are qualified enough to judge of
them impartially, 351.

Conversation, some observations relating thereto, i. 334.
Converts to the reformed religion, a proposal for making a
receptacle to encourage them, i. 496.

Conveyance, property of land gained thereby in estates in
fee, in tail, for life, for years, i. 581, of lands is made six
ways; by feoffment, by fine, by recovery, by use, by
covenant, by will, 583, 584, these ways are all explain-
ed, ib. by way of use ought to be construed favourably,
630.
Conway, secretary, letter to him from lord viscount St. Al-
ban, ii. 251, to lord viscount St. Alban, 252, wishes that
lord well, 260.

Copies in chancery, how to be regulated, i. 720.

Confirmation, whether we are not in our church mistaken Copper-mines, case relating to them determined by re-

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Coral participates of the nature of plants and metals, i. 150.
Coral much found on the south-west of Sicily, 172, its
description, ib. Coral said to wax pale when the party
wearing it is ill, 197.

Coranus, answered by Sir Henry Savil, i. 320.

Cordes, lord, would lie in hell seven years to win Calais
from the English, i. 752, appointed to manage the treaty,
760.

Cordials, i. 250.

Core in fruits, want of it how obtained, i. 142.

Corn changed by sowing often in the same ground, i. 142,
changed into a baser kind by the sterility of the year, ib.
the diseases thereof, 156, 157, their remedy, 157, choice
of the best corn, ib.

Cornish insurrection, i. 773.

Corns, why most painful towards rain or frost, i. 178.
Coronation of our kings, where to be held after the union
of England and Scotland, i. 455.

Coroners, their office, i. 651, how they came to be called
so, ib. by whom they are chosen, ib.

Corporations, excluded from trust by statute of uses, i.
608.

Corruption and generation, Nature's two boundaries, i. 122.
Corruption to be avoided in suitors as well as ministers,
i. 269.

Cosmetics, i. 41.

Cosmography, i. 38.

Cosmus, duke of Florence, says, we no where read that we
are to forgive our friends, i. 264, temperate in youth,
295.

Cottington, Sir Francis, letters to him from lord viscount
St. Alban, ii. 250, 253.

Cotton, Sir John, ii. 201 note **, 202.

Cotton, Sir Robert, backward in furnishing lord Bacon
with materials for his life of king Henry VIII. ii. 254.
Cotton, Sir Rowland, ii. 204 note **.

Cotton, Mr. imprisoned on suspicion of being author of a
libel against king James I. ii. 164 note +.
Covenant, a manner of conveyance, i. 584, how it is effect-
ed, ib.

Coventry, Sir Thomas, his character by Sir Francis Bacon,
ii. 183, did his part well in the prosecution of the earl of
Suffolk, 214, ordered to come well prepared for the king,
223, ordered to prepare a book for the king's signature,
227, made attorney-general, 228, his letter to the lord
viscount St. Alban just before he was made lord-keeper
of the great seal, 263.

Covin, how made and discharged, i. 601.
Councils of state, how to be ordered after the union of
England and Scotland, i. 457, one to be erected at Car-
lisle or Berwick upon the union, with the extent of its
jurisdiction, 454, in Ireland, whether they should be re-
duced or not, ii. 84.

Counsel, to give it, is the greatest trust between man and
man, i. 277.

Counsel to be asked of both times, ancient and present,
i. 269.

Counsel, i. 277, for the persons and the matter, ib. incon-
veniences attending it, ib. Counsel of manners and
business, 283, scattered counsels distract and mislead, ib.
Vide 284.

Countenance greatly to be guarded in secrecy, i. 265.
Counties, the division of England into them, i. 571, lords |
set over each, and their authority, 572, this authority
given afterwards to the sheriff, ib. County court held
by the sheriff monthly, ib. this dealt only in crown mat-
ters, 573, its jurisdiction, 574.
Court-barons, their original and use, i. 579.
Court-rolls, their examination to be referred to two mas-
ters in chancery, i. 719.

Court of Vulcan, near Puteoli, i. 173. Courts obnoxious,
305.

Courtney, Edward, made earl of Devon at the coronation
of Henry VII. i. 734.

Courtney, William, earl of Devon, married to Catharine,
daughter of Edward IV. i. 787, attached by the king his
brother-in law, ib.

Courts of justice how to be ordered after the union of Eng-
land and Scotland, i. 458.

Courts of justice, an account of them, i. 748.

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Cox, Sir Richard, ii. 165 note .

Crafty cowards like the arrow flying in the dark, i. 264.
Cramp, its cause and cure, i. 197.

Cranfield, Sir Lionel, some account of him, ii. 101 note †.
Crassus wept for the death of a fish, i. 323, defeated by
the Parthians, 326.

Creatures said to be bred of putrefaction, i. 122, 142, 160.
Creatures moving after the severing of the head, the
causes thereof, 130. Creatures that sleep much eat
little, 161. Creatures that generate at certain seasons,
169, that renew their youth or cast their spoils, 198.
Crew, Sir Randolph, ii. 172, 212.

Croesus's gold liable to be rifled by any man who had bet-
ter iron, i. 285, 324.

Crollius, his dispensatory, i. 201.

Cromwell, lord, his examination relating to lord Essex's
treason, i. 430, 431.

Crook, Sir John, some account of him, ii. 49 note §.
Crowd is not company, i. 281.

Crown, the title to it descanted upon, i. 732.

Crown of England, goes by descent, i. 662, ceremonial of
it, how to be framed after the union of England and
Scotland, 455.

Crudity explained, i. 180.

Crystal in caves, i. 126, designation of a trial for making of
it out of congealed water, ib. how made use of in Paris-
work, 197, formed out of water, 247.

Cucumbers made to grow sooner, i. 135, to bear two years,
ib. by steeping their seeds in milk prove more dainty,
136, made more delicate by throwing in chaff when they
are set, ib. they exceedingly affect moisture, ib. will grow
towards a pot of water, ib. may be as long as a cane, or
moulded into any figure, 140.

Cuffe, Henry, his remark on lord Bacon's "Novum Or-
ganum," ii. 222 note §.

Cuffe, is employed by lord Essex in his treasons, and in
what manner, i. 414, his character, ib. the effect of what
passed at his arraignment, 424.

Culture, plants for want of it degenerate, i. 142.
Cunning, i. 278, difference between a cunning and wise
man in honesty and ability, ib.

Cure by custom, i. 92, caution to be used in diseases count-
ed incurable, ib. Cure by excess, ib. its cause, ib. Cure
by motion of consent, ib. physicians how to make use of
this motion, ib.

Curiality, the king master of this as master of his family,
i. 519.

Curiosities touching plants, i. 140, et seq.
Curled leaves in plants, whence, i. 154.

Curzon, Sir Robert, governor of the castle of Hammes, i.
787, flies from his charge in order to betray or get into
the secrets of the malcontents, ib. occasions the spilling
of much blood, and the confinement of many, ib. but is
cursed by the pope's bull at Paul's cross, in order to de-
ceive the more effectually, ib.

Custom familiarizes poisons, infections, tortures, and ex-
cesses, i. 92. Custom no small matter, 324.

Custom

subdues nature, 293. Custom and education, ib. Cus-
tom in its exaltation, ib.

Custom of towns, are by our laws to be construed strictly,
with the reasons of this, i. 661, they are the laws in
Touraine, Anjou, &c. 468.

Cutting trees often causeth their long lasting, i. 147. Cut-
tings of vines burnt make lands fruitful, 156.
Cuttle's blood, the colour from its high concoction, i. 167,
as we see by boiling of blood, which turns it black, ib.
Cyprus, a kind of iron said to grow there, i. 175.
Cyrus the Younger, defeat of, i. 326.

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Density of the body, one cause of cold, i. 93.

Deodand, what it is, i. 571, to whom disposed of by the
king, ib.

deputy of Calais, raises the siege of Dixmude, 752, ap-Dennis, Gabriel, ii. 211.
pointed to treat with lord Cordes about peace, 760, made
lord chamberlain in the room of Sir William Stanley,
766, commands the king's forces against the Cornish
men, 774, 775, taken, but rescued, 775.
Daubigny, Bernard, i. 744.

Daubigny, William, beheaded in Perkin's affair, i. 765.
Davers, the effect of what passed at his arraignment, i. 423,
his confession relating to lord Essex's treason, 427.
David, how he propounded to make choice of his cour-
tiers, i. 520.

Davies, chief justice of the king's bench, ii. 28 note †, 214.
Davis, the effect of what passed at his arraignment, i. 423,
his confession relating to lord Essex's treason, 427.
Day showers not so good for fruit as night showers, i. 156.
Dead sea abounds with bitumen, i. 173.

Deans and chapters, what authority they once had, and
how it came to be lost, i. 354.

Death without pain, i. 154, the pomp of it more terrible
than the thing itself, 262, opens the gate to fame, ib. in
causes of life and death, judges ought to remember
mercy, 305.

Death, an essay thereon, i. 334, ought to be esteemed the
least of all evils, ib. most people dread it, ib. is desirable,
ib. is most disagreeable to aldermen and citizens, 335,
dreadful to usurers, ib. to whom it is welcome, ib. we
generally dally with ourselves too much about it, ib. is
made easy by the thoughts of leaving a good name be-
hind us, 336, desirable before old age comes upon us, ib.
Debts, what sort of them must be first discharged by ex-
ecutors, i. 587.

Decemvirs, an account of their laws, i. 671.

Declarations, the opinion of the law about them, i. 561, of
the lord keeper and earl of Worcester, &c. relating to
lord Essex's treason, 428.

Decoction takes away the virtue and flatulency of medi-
cines, i. 84, 88. Decoction maketh liquors clearer, in-
fusion thicker, why, 119.

Decrees, none are to be reversed or explained but upon a
bill of review, except in case of miscasting, i. 716, none
are to be made against an express act of parliament, 717,
a person is to suffer close imprisonment for the breach
of one, or for contempt of it, ib. cases wherein they are
binding, or not so, ib. after judgment in chancery, their
effect, 718.

Deer, in them the young horn putteth off the old, i. 166.
Deer, their generating at certain seasons, 169.
Defendant, not to be examined upon interrogatories, unless
in some cases, i. 720.

Deformed persons generally even with nature, i. 296, mostly
bold and industrious, ib.

Degenerating of plants, its causes, i. 142.
Delays to be avoided, i. 269. Delays, 278.
Delays of the Spaniards, what owing to, i. 476.
Delegates to be named by the chancellor himself, i. 722.
Delicate persons often angry, as anger proceeds from a
sense of hurt, i. 306.

Demades, the orator, like a sacrifice, i. 323.
Demetrius, king of Macedon, i. 326.

Democritus, his "motus plaga," i. 85, 97, the relation how
he kept himself alive by smelling at new bread, 193, his
school, 273.

Demosthenes, his reply when reproached for flying from the
battle, i. 315, his reply to Eschines, 323. Vide 327.
Demosthenes, his advice to the Athenians in giving their
votes, i. 461.

Demosthenes, his chief part of an orator, i. 269, how he
reprehends the Athenians, 258, reprehends the people
for listening to the unequal conditions of Philip, 259,
exposes to scorn wars which are not preventive, 534.
Demosthenes, his violent death, i. 521.

Demurrers, what is their proper matter, i. 720.

Depositions taken in any other court, are not to be read in
chancery but by special order, i. 720.

Deputies, in what sort of cases never allowed, i. 354.
Descent, property of lands gained thereby, i. 576, three
rules to be observed therein, ib. is restrained by certain
customs, 577, this concerns fee-simple estates only, ib.
Desiccation, i. 123.

Desmond, countess of, who lived till she was sevenscore,
said to have new teeth, i. 169.

Despatch, i. 280, affected despatch like hasty digestion, ib.
order and distribution the life of it, 281. Despatch in
business, i. 510.

Dew upon hills better than upon valleys, i. 173. Dew of
the rainbow, 178.

Diamond, Cornish, i. 83.

Diana, how patiently the boys of Sparta suffered on her
altar, i. 293.

Diapason the sweetest of sounds, i. 99, the diapason, or
number of eight, rather a thing received than a true
computation, ib. half notes of necessity, the unison and
the diapason, ib.

Diet-drinks, most troublesome at first, i. 93.

Diet of a woman with child affects the infant, i. 198, what
diet is good, 252.

Differences of plants, i. 148. Differences of several pas-

sions in matter, i. 182.

Digby, Sir John, lieutenant of the Tower, i. 781.
Digby, Sir John, ii. 169, 179, additional instructions to
him, 185, appointed to speak with the countess of Exe-
ter, 216, letter to him from lord viscount St. Alban, 236.
Digby, Thomas, ii. 213.

Digest of the laws of England, proposed to king James I.
i. 670.

Digestions three, i. 179, extended to liquors and fruits, as
well as living creatures, 180, four digestions enumerated,
ib.

Digging of the earth healthful, i. 193.
Diggs's case, i. 629.

Dilatation and extension of bodies, i. 181.

Dilatation in boiling, i. 184. Dilatation and contraction in
excess hurts the eye, 186.

Dioclesian, in his later years superstitious, i. 275.
Diogenes begging, i. 321, why he would be buried with his
face downwards, 322, Plato's reason why he came into
the market-place naked on a cold morning, ib. his pride
chastised by Plato, 323. Vide 327.

Dionysius, his rebuke to his son, i. 314, being deposed, he
kept a school at Corinth, 322.
Discipline of our church, i. 510.

Discipline, the opinion that there should be but one form
thereof in the church censured, i. 353, this hinders re-
formation in religion, ib.

Discontents, their cause and cure, i. 272, 273.
Discontinuance, how avoided in fluids, i. 85.

Discords in music, i. 99. Discord of the bass most disturb-
eth the music, ib.

Discovery of persons, how made, i. 300.
Discourse, whether wit or judgment the greater ornament
of it, i. 288, of a man's self should be seldom and well
chosen, ib.

Diseases contrary to predisposition, whether more difficult
to be cured than concurrent, i. 92, what the physician is
to do in such cases, ib. Diseases infectious, 48. Dis-
eases epidemical, their causes, 128.

Dismissions from chancery how to be regularly obtained,
i. 717.

Displacing courtiers should always proceed from manifest
cause, i. 520.

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