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from that lord, 253-255, arrives at Madrid, 253, a
petition of lord viscount St. Alban put into his hands,
261, letters to him from lord viscount St. Alban, 267, his
letter to that lord, 268.

Maturation, i. 120, of drinks, ib. 180, of fruits, 120,
121, 184. Maturation or digestion, how best promoted
by heat, 120, 121.

Maule, Patrick, ii. 201, 225.

Maximilian, king of the Romans, i. 742, 743, unstable and
necessitous, 745, encouraged by Henry VII. to proceed
to a match with Ann, heir of Britany, 752, and married
to her by proxy, ib. but when defeated, his behaviour,
756, disappoints king Henry VII. 759, his league with
Henry VII. 768.

Maxims in law, several advantages of a collection of them, i.
548, the method followed by our author in this collection,
which is set down, and explained by instances; doubtful
cases in them cleared up, where they take place, and in
what cases they fail, 548-570.

Maxwell, James, wishes lord viscount St. Alban well, ii.
260.

Maxwell, Robert, ii. 203..

May, Sir Humphry, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster,
ii. 223, letters to him from the lord Bacon, 230, 261.
Mayor and companies of London receive Henry VII. at
Shoreditch, i. 733, meet pope Alexander's nuncio at
London Bridge, 777.

Meats inducing satiety, i. 119.

Meautys, Thomas, brought to kiss the king's hand, ii. 233,
letters to the lord St. Alban, 237, 238, 242, 244, 246, 248.
Mecænas, his advice to Augustus touching Agrippa, i. 282. |
Mechanics, i. 29.

Mediator, the necessity thereof, i. 337, the mystery of this
dispensation, ib.

Medicinable herbs, i. 139, soporiferous medicines, 198.
Medicine, i. 41.

Medicines changed, helpful, i. 93.

Medicines which affect the bladder, i. 96, 97. Medicines

condensing which relieve the spirits, 167.

Megrims, whence, i. 166.

Melancholy, preservative against it, i. 250.

Melancholy persons dispose the company to the like,

i. 194.

Melioration of fruits, trees, and plants, i. 133, et seq.

cerned in it also, ib. from the king to the commons are to
be received by their speaker, ib.

Metals, the colours they give in dissolution, i. 117, the
causes thereof, ib.

Metals and plants, wherein they differ, i. 150, growing of
metals, 175, drowning of metals, ib. refining of metals
not sufficiently attended to, 182. Metalline vapours
hurtful to the brain, 192.

Metals, an inquisition touching the compounding of them,
i. 240, for magnificence and delicacy, 241, drowning of
metals, ib. separation of them, 244, variation of them,
245, all metals may be dissolved, 246, often fired and
quenched grow churlish, and will sooner break than
bow, 778. Bell-metal, how compounded, 244, sprouting
of metals, 245, tinging of metal, ib. volatility of metals,
its degrees, ib. fixation of metals, ib.
Metaphysics, i. 37.

Metellus opposes Cæsar, i. 324.
Methusalem water, i. 250, 251.

Meverel, his answer touching-minerals, i. 243.

Mildew on corn from closeness of air, i. 139, 156, but seldom
comes on hills and champaign grounds, ib.

Military men, when dangerous to a state, i. 273, 277, love
danger better than labour, 286, had greater encourage-
ment from the ancients than the moderns, 287, how im-
proved here, 751.

Military men, how to be punished if they go abroad without
proper leave, i. 675.

Military puissance consists of men, money, and confeder-
ates, i. 542.

Milk, warm from the cow, a great nourisher, i. 90, a remedy
in consumptions, ib. how to be used, ib. cow's milk bet-
ter than ass's or woman's milk, ib. Milk in beasts how
to be increased, 172. Milk used for clarification of
liquors, 120, 121, good to steep divers seeds in, 136, pre-
serving of milk, 129. Milk in plants, 153.

Minced meat a great nourisher, i. 90, how to be used, ib.
Mind, cultivation of, i. 56, 66.

Minerals, i. 162, 242, should be industriously followed,
517.

Minerals, questions and solutions about incorporating them,
i. 242.

Mines, a law case relating to them between lessor and
lessee, i. 619, are part of an inheritance, 616.

Melo-cotones, i. 134, grow best without grafting, 135, the Ministers, are the eyes, ears, and hands of kings, i. 509.
cause thereof, ib.

Melting of metals, observations thereon, i. 244.

Memory, the art of, i. 46, 196, persons better places than
words, ib. Memory, how strengthened, 198.

Men, are all by nature naturalized towards one another,
i. 661.

Mendoza, i. 326.

Menstruums, i. 245.

Merchandises, an argument proving the king's right of
impositions on them, i. 489.

Merchandising, how to be ordered after the union of Eng-
land and Scotland, i. 459.

Merchants, their importance, i. 276, how they convey
blessings to any country, 294, promoted by Henry VII.
747, 772, &c. negociations about them directed by queen
Elizabeth, 515.

Merchants, several errors in their complaints about trade,
i. 475, &c. the hardships of those who trade to Spain and
the Levant, ib. they ought not to urge to a direct war
upon account of their particular sufferings by the enemy,
476, their injuries further shown to be not so great as
represented, ib. a report of the earl of Salisbury and earl
of Northampton's speeches concerning their petition
upon the Spanish grievances, 474-480, are divided into
two sorts, 475, several considerations relating to them,
ib. &c.

Mercurial and sulphureous bodies, i. 125.

Mercy and justice the two supports of the crown, i. 511, 513.
Merick, Sir Gilly, the effect of what passed at his arraign-
ment, i. 423.

Meroë, the metropolis of Ethiopia, i. 130.

Messages of the king, whether to be received from the body
of the council, or from the king's person only, i. 487,
how far the authority of the king is concerned in this
question, 488, how far the house of commons is con-

Ministry, equality therein in the church is condemned, i.
348, an able one to be chosen, 357, a very good method
in training them up, ib.

Minorities, states often best governed under minorities,
whence, i. 4.

Minos, in what his laws were famous, i. 672.

Mint, a certificate relating to the scarcity of silver there,
i. 492.

Miracles to be distinguished from impostures and illusions,
i. 205, the end of them, ib. were never wrought but with
a view to man's redemption, 338.

Mitchel, Sir Francis, ii. 201 note ||, 203 note ||.
Misadventure, what it is, i. 681, in case thereof cities of
refuge prepared, ib.

Misprision of treason, how a man becomes guilty thereof,
i. 643, the method of trial, punishment, and other pro-
ceedings relating thereto, ib.

Misseltoe, a particular account of it, i. 145.
Mithridates, i. 325.

Mixture of solids and fluids diminishes their bulk, i. 88,
what bodies mix best together, 117, 118.
Mixture of earth and water in plants, i. 125. Mixture of
kinds in plants not found out, 137. Mixture imperfectly
made, 180, of liquors by simple composition, 248.
Mixtures, concerning perfect and imperfect ones, i. 451,
452, two conditions of perfect mixture, 452.
Moist air, how discovered, i. 177.

Moisture adventitious cause of putrefaction, i. 122. Moist-
ure qualifying heat, the effect, 163. Moisture, the
symptoms of its abounding in human bodies, 160.
Moisture increased by the moon, 188, trial of it in seeds,
ib. in men's bodies, ib. force of it in vegetables, 138.
Mompesson, Sir Giles, censured for his severe oppressions,
ii. 88, 201, 203.

Monarchy without nobility absolute, i. 271. Nebuchad-

nezzar's tree of monarchy, 285, abridgement of monarchy | Mountains, great, foreshow tempests early, i. 177.
to be master of the sea, 286, elective and hereditary,
653.
Monarchical government, difference between it and com-
monwealths, i. 653, commended, 500, 653, is founded in
nature, ib. two arguments in proof thereof taken from
the patterns of it, found in nature and original submis-
sions, with motives thereto, ib.

Mountebanks in state as well as private life, i. 270.
Mountfort, Sir Simon, i. 763, apprehended, convicted, and
beheaded, for adhering to Perkin, 765.
Mountjoy, lord deputy of Ireland, i. 541.

Monarchies, the poor beginnings of several taken notice of,
i. 467.

Money, like muck, not good except it be spread, i. 272.
Monies, upon the union of England and Scotland, to have
the same image, superscription, &c. i. 456, to counter-
feit, clip, &c. the king's money, is high treason, 675, the
fineness of it an advantage of queen Elizabeth's reign,
381.

Monk, Sir Thomas, ii. 203.

Monopolies, their improvement, i. 290, the cankers of all
trading, 517.

Monopoly, a company so called, dissolved, i. 475.
Monsters in Africa, their original, i. 137.

Montagu, Sir Henry, ii. 172, made lord chief justice of the
king's bench, 183, 202, 206, 213, made lord treasurer,
225.

Montagu, Dr. James, bishop of Winchester, ii. 202.
Montagu, bishop of Bath and Wells, some account of him,
ii. 83 note +.

Montaigne, his reason why the lie given is so odious a
charge, namely, because it implies a man's being brave
towards God, and a coward towards men, i. 262.
Montgomery, Philip earl of, ii. 238, commended for his
honesty, 257.

Moon attractive of heat out of bodies, i. 94, means of the
trial of it, ib.

Moon's influences, i. 188, it increaseth moisture, ib.
Moors, eat no hares' flesh, i. 327, of Valentia, their extirpa-
tion, 523.

More, Sir Thomas, i. 318, his pleasant way of repressing
bribery, ib. See 326, 328.

Morley, lord, sent with 1000 men to aid Maximilian, i. 752,
raises the siege of Dixmude, and is slain, ib.
Morley, acts the part of the secretary of state, in the earl
of Essex's Device, ii. 148, note.

Morris dance of heretics, a feigned title, i. 262.
"Morsus diaboli," an herb, why so called, i. 155.
Mortification proceeding from opiates, or intense colds,

i. 122.

Mortified parts by cold must not approach the fire, i. 173,
cured by applying snow, ib. or warm water, ib.
Morton, John, bishop of Ely, made counsellor to Henry
VII. i. 735, and archbishop of Canterbury, ib. his speech
to the parliament as chancellor about the affair of
Britany, 745, thought to advise a law for his own pre-
servation, 748, grows odious to court and country, ib.
his answer to the French king's ambassadors, 755, his
crotch or fork to raise the Benevolence, 757, created
cardinal, 758, reckoned a grievance by the people, 783,
his death, ib. an inveterate enemy of the house of
York, ib.

Moss, a kind of mouldiness of earth and trees, i. 123, 150;
vide 144; where it groweth most, ib. the cause of it, ib.
what it is, ib. Moss, sweet, ib. in apple trees sweet,
ib. 179, in some other trees, 153, of a dead man's skull
stanched blood potently, 199.

Moth, i. 160.

Mother, suppressed by burning feathers, and things of ill
odour, i. 193.

Mother's diet affecteth the infant in the womb, i. 198.
Motion hindereth putrefaction, i. 123.
Motion of bodies caused by pressure, i. 83. Motion of
liberty, ib. Motion of gravity, 170.
Motion of consent,

92. Motion in men by imitation, &c. 118. Motion
after death, 130. Motion of attraction would prevail,
if motion of gravity hindered not, 162. A body in motion
moved more easily than one at rest, why, 170.
of nexe, 188. Projectile motion, its cause, 170.
Motto of king James, i. 515.

Motion

Mouldiness, an inception of putrefaction, i. 123, 150.
Moulds to make fruits of any figure, i. 140.
Mountain, Dr. George, bishop of London, ii. 244.

Mouth out of taste, i. 477, what taste it will not receive, ib.
Mucianus, his advice to Vespasian, i. 264.
Mucianus, how he destroyed Vitellius by a false fame, i. 309.
Mulberry more fair and fruitful by perforating the trunk,
&c. i. 135, the black mulberry preferable to the white,
141.

Mulberry leaf, i. 172.

Mullin's case taken notice of, concerning the inheritance of
timber-trees, i. 617.

Mummy said to be three thousand years old, i. 171.
Mummy stancheth blood, 199.

Munster, a design of planting it, with the reason why it did
not go on, i. 471.

Murder, cases relating thereto explained, i. 555, how to
be prosecuted, and what to suffer for it upon conviction,
571. Self-murder, how to be punished, 580, what de-
grees of murder are highest, &c. 676, a difference be
tween an insidious one and a braving, is ridiculous, 681.
Murdered body bleeding at the approach of the murderer,
i. 197, applied to love, 319.

Murdering of princes, the great sin of maintaining the
lawfulness of this doctrine, i. 694, the doctrine upon
which it is founded, accused, ib. the calumny it brings to
our religion, ib. the defence of it is impious, 695, is the
destruction of government, ib.

Murray, John, letters to him from Sir Francis Bacon, ii.
165, et seq. created a viscount and earl, ib. note.
Murray, Thomas, provost of Eton, dies, ii. 250 note §.
Muscovy hath a late spring and early harvest, whence,
i. 147.

Mushrooms, i. 144, their properties, ib. several productions
of them, ib. where they grow most, 150, 153.
Music, i. 38.

Music in church, how far commendable, and how far not
so, i. 356.

Music in the theory ill treated, i. 98. Musical and immusi-
cal sounds, ib. bodies producing musical sounds, ib.
diapason the sweetest of sounds, 99, fall of half notes
necessary in music, ib. consorts in music, the instruments
that increase the sweetness not sufficiently observed,
116, the music in masques, 292, consent of notes to be
ascribed to the ante-notes, not entire ones, 99, concords,
perfect and semi-perfect, which they are, ib. the most
odious discord of all other, ib. discord of the bass most
disturbeth the music, ib. no quarter-notes in music, ib.
pleasing of single tones answereth to the pleasing of
colours, and of harmony to the pleasing of order, ib.
figures or tropes in music have an agreement with the
figures in rhetoric, 99, 100. Music hath great operation
upon the manners and spirits of men, 100, why it sounds
best in frosty weather, 112, concords and discords in
music are sympathies and antipathies of sounds, 116,
instruments that agree best in consort, ib. instruments
with a double lay of strings, wire, and lute-strings, ib.
Musk, its virtue, i. 193.

Musk-melons, how improved, i. 138.
Muster-masters of the lieutenancy, i. 513.

Mute, any one that is so in trial forfeiteth no lands, except
for treason, i. 580, how such a one is to be punished, 574.
Myrobolanes, i. 154.

NAILS, i. 168.

N

Nakedness uncomely in mind as well as body, i. 265.
Vide 528.

Name, union in name, of great advantage in kingdoms,
i. 452, what it is to be of England and Scotland after
their union, 455, 456, alterations herein considered as a
point of honour, and as inducing new laws, 456.
Nantz, the strongest city in Britany, now closely besieged,
i. 745.
Napellus, the strongest of all vegetable poisons, i. 139, and
yet a maid lived of it, ib. and poisoned those who had
carnal knowledge of her, ib,

Naphtha, i. 191, 246.

Naples, i. 754, 755.

Narcissus, his art with Claudius, i. 279.

Narratives, or relations, i. 29.

Nasturtium, or cardamom, its virtue, i. 125.

Nations by name, not so in right, i. 527.

Nativity of queen Elizabeth falsely said to be kept holy,
instead of that of the Blessed Virgin, i. 397.
Natural-born subjects, their privileges by our law, i. 655.
Natural divination, i. 176.

Naturalization, the privilege and benefit of it, i. 654, the
nice care of our laws in imparting it, ib. its several de-
grees, as belonging to several sorts of people, 654, 655,
the wisdom of our law in its distinctions of this privilege,
655, several degrees of it among the Romans, ib. argu-
ments against naturalization of the Scots, 655, 656, is
conferred by our laws on persons born in foreign parts,
of English parents, 656, the inconveniences of a general
naturalization of the Scots, urged, 658, whether con-
quest naturalizes the conquered, 659, did never follow
conquest among the Romans till Adrian's time, but was
conferred by charter, &c. ib. 660, how it is favoured by
our laws, 660, case of the subjects of Gascoigne, Gui-
enne, &c. in relation thereto, when those places were
lost, 664, a speech in favour of the naturalization of the
Scots, 461, an answer to the inconveniences of natural-
izing the Scots, ib. is divided into two sorts, ib. the in-
conveniences of not naturalizing the Scots, 465, the ad-
vantages of it, 466, instances of the ill effects in several
nations of non-naturalization, ib. may be had without a
union of laws, 468, the Romans were very free in them,
451. See Conquest.

Nature, advice of the true inquisition thereof, i. 117.
Nature, better perceived in small than in great, i. 160.
Nature, a great consent between the rules of nature and
of true policy, i. 449, &c. its grounds touching the union
of bodies, and their farther affinity with the grounds of
policy, 451, the laws thereof have had three changes,
and are to undergo one more, 337, spirits are not in-
cluded in these laws, ib. what it is we mean thereby, ib.
Nature in men concealed, overcome, extinguished, i. 292,
happy where men's natures sort with their vocations,
293, runs to herbs or weeds, ib.

Naunton, Sir Robert, surveyor of the court of wards, at-
tends the king to Scotland, ii. 189, made secretary of
state, 200 note +, recommended to the duke of Bucking-
ham for his grace to apply to, 223, 225.
Navigation of the ancients, i. 206, 207.

Navy, how to be ordered after the union of England and
Scotland, i. 458, 459, its prosperous condition under
queen Elizabeth, 381.

Necessity is of three sorts-conservation of life-necessity
of obedience-and necessity of the act of God, or of a
stranger, i. 554, it dispenses with the direct letter of a
statute law, ib. how far persons are excused by cases of
necessity, ib. it privilegeth only "quoad jura privata,"
but does not excuse against the commonwealth, not even
in case of death, ib. an exception to the last-mentioned
rule, 555.

Negotiating by speech preferable to letters, i. 300, when
best, ib.

Negotiations between England and Spain, wherein is shown
the treachery of Spain, i. 392.

Negroes, an inquiry into their coloration, i. 130.

Nero much esteemed hydraulics, i. 98, his male wife, 321,
his character, 322, dislike of Seneca's style, 326, his
harp, 276.

Nerva, his dislike of informers to support tyranny, i. 323,
what was said of him by Tacitus, 483.
Netherlands, revolt from Spain, i. 391, proceedings between
England and Spain relating to them, ib. are received into
protection by England, 392, they might easily have been
annexed to the British dominions, ib.

Nevill, Sir Henry, is drawn into Essex's plot by Cuffe, i.
414, his declaration, ib.

Nevill's case relating to local inheritances, 616.

Neville, lord, the house of commons desire he may be put

out of office, ii. 233.

"New Atlantis," i. 202. Dr. Rawley's account of the de-
sign of it, ib.

Night-showers better for fruit than day-showers, i. 156.
Nights, star-light or moon-shine, colder than cloudy, i. 185.
Nilus, a strange account of its earth, i. 167.

Nilus, the virtues thereof, i. 171, how to clarify the water
of it, ib.

Nisi prius, is a commission directed to two judges, i. 575,
the method that is holden in taking nisi prius, ib. the
jurisdiction of the justices of nisi prius, ib. the advan-
tages of trials this way, ib.

Nitre, or salt-petre, i. 86, 87, whence cold, 93. Nitre,
good for men grown, ill for children, 125. Nitrous water,
126, scoureth of itself, ib. Nitre mingled with water
maketh vines sprout, 134.

Nitre upon the sea-sands, i. 171.

Nobility, the depression of them makes a king more abso-
lute, and less safe, i. 276. Nobility, 271, attempers
sovereignty, ib. should not be too great for sovereignty
or justice, ib. too numerous causeth poverty and incon-
venience to a state, ib. reason why they should not mul-
tiply too fast, 285, their retinues and hospitality conduce
to martial greatness, ib. Nobility how to be ordered
after the union of England and Scotland, 457, the state
of them in queen Elizabeth's time, 385, their possessions
how diminished, ib. how to be raised and managed in
Ireland after its plantation, 472.
Noises, some promote sleep, i. 168.
Non-claim statute, i, 750.

Non-residence, is condemned, i. 358, the usual pleas for
it, ib. &c. the pretence of attending study thereby more
in the universities, removed, ib. several other pleas re-
moved, ib.

Norfolk, duke of, plots with the duke of Alva and Don
Guerres, to land an army at Harwich, i. 392.

Norris, Sir John, makes an honourable retreat at Gaunt,
i. 538.

Northampton, earl of, some account of him, ii. 31 note *.
Northumberland, earl of, slain for demanding the subsidy
granted to Henry VII. i. 749.

Northumberland, earl of, conveys the lady Margaret into
Scotland, i. 785.

Northumberland destroyed with fire and sword by James
IV. in favour of Perkin, i. 772.

Notions, all our common ones are not to be removed,
as some advise, ii. 40.

Nourishing meats and drinks, i. 89, 90.

Nourishment, five several means to help it, i. 131, 132.
Nourishment mended, a great help, 139.

"Novum Organum," Wotton's commendation of that book,
ii. 120 note*, presented to the king, with a letter, 117,
the king's and Mr. Cuffe's remarks upon it, 222 note §.
Nuisance, matters of, how to be punished by the constable,
i. 649, several instances thereof, and how they are to be
punished, 677.

Numa's two coffins, i. 171, a lover of retirement, 281.
Nurseries for plants should not be rich land, i. 134.

OAK bears the most fruit amongst trees, i. 153, the cause,
ib. our oaken timber for shipping not to be equalled,
515.
Oak-leaves have honey-dews, probably from the closeness
of the surface, i. 139, an old tradition, that oak-boughs
put into the earth bring forth wild vines, 142. Oak-
apples, an excrescence with putrefaction, 145.
Oath ex officio, is condemned, i. 355, a new oath of allegi-
ance, ii. 38 note .

Obedience, two means of retaining conquered countries in
it, i. 659.

Objects of the sight cause great delight in the spirits, but
no great offence, i. 186, the cause, ib.

Ocampo, the Spanish general in Ireland, i. 541, taken pri-
soner, ib.

Occhus, a tree in Hyrcania, i. 151.

Occupancy, when it grows a property in lands, i. 576, 581.
Odious objects cause the spirits to fly, i. 174.
Odours, infusions in air, i. 85. Odours in some degree
nourishing, 193.

Officers in court, ministerial, how to be treated. i. 520.
See Great Officers.

Officers of the crown, how to be ordered after the union of Oxford, John, earl of, designed general, i. 740, created
England and Scotland, i. 457.

Oil, whether it can be formed out of water, i. 125.
Oily substances and watery, i. 123, commixture of oily
substances prohibiteth putrefaction, ib. turning of watery
substances into oily, 125, a great work in nature, ib.
some instances thereof, ib. Oil of sweet almonds a great
nourisher, 90, how to be used, ib.

Ointment, fragrant, i. 253. Ointments shut in the va-
pours, and send them powerfully to the head, 191, said
to be used by witches, 198, preserving ointments, 250.
Old men conversing with young company, live long, i. 194.
Old trees bearing better than the same young, i. 153.
Onions shoot in the air, i. 86.

Onions made to wax greater, i. 136, in growing carry the
seed to the top, 154.

Openers, a catalogue of them, i. 251.
Operations of sympathy, i. 191.

Opinion, a master-wheel in some cases, i. 509.

Opium, how to abate its poisonous quality, i. 85, inquired
into, 93, 94, hath divers parts, 97, causes mortification,
122. Vide 154.

Oquenda, Michael de, the Spanish admiral, lost, i. 539.
Orange-flowers infused, i. 84. Orange-seeds sown in April
will bring forth an excellent salad-herb, 146.
Orange, prince of, is murdered by the papists, i. 695.
Orators, were as counsellors of state among the Athenians,
i. 388.

Orbilius, i. 194.

Order in curing diseases, i. 92.

Orders in chancery, are to be registered, i. 719, a copy of
them is to be kept by the register, ib. where they vary
from general rules, they are to be set down with great
care, ib.

Ordinances made for the court of chancery, i. 716.
Ordinary, in what cases he shall administer, i. 588.
Ordination, more care ought to be taken therein, i. 357.
Ordnance, its antiquity, i. 307, called by the Macedonians,
thunder, lightning, and magic, ib.

Orleans, duke of, i. 744, routed and taken, 747.
Ormond, earl of, i. 755. Thomas, earl of, 759.
Ormonde, Walter, earl of, ii. 207-210.

Ormus taken from the Spaniard by the Persian, i. 542.
Orpheus, i. 320.

Orrice, only sweet in the root, i. 185.

D'Ossat, cardinal, a writing of his upon king James's acces-
sion, ii. 30 note *.

Ostrich, ran some space after her head was struck off, i.
130, lays her eggs in the sand to be hatched by the sun's
heat, 184.

Otho, when he slew himself many followed the example,
whence, i. 262.

Ottomans, when they first shaved the beard, i. 320, when
divided, 754, without nobles, gentlemen, freemen, or
inheritance, 524.

Outlawry, of an attainder thereby, and its consequences,
i. 580, how far the lord's title by escheat in this case
shall relate back, ib.

Overbury, Sir Thomas, several charges relating to his
murder, i. 695, some account of him, 696, of the manner
of his being poisoned, ib. the proceedings of the king in
the discovery and punishment of his murder, commended,
ib. 699, some account of his death, 699, 700, how it came
to be discovered, 700, a narrative of the proceedings in
poisoning him, 706, great friendship between him and the
earl of Somerset, and the occasion of the breach that
was made between them, ib. he was a man of no religion,
ib. he deters Somerset from marrying the countess of
Essex, ib. the proofs urged of Somerset's guilt in poison-
ing him, 707, he had all the king's business put into his
hands by Somerset, 708, he is murdered rather for fear
of revealing secrets, than from showing his dislike to
Somerset's marrying lady Essex, ib. the plot to murder
him, ib. letter to him from the earl of Somerset, ii. 163,
his cypher with the earl, 172, poisoned, 175.
Owen, condemned for traitorous speeches, ii. 166, note §.
Owen, the charge against him for maintaining the doctrine
of killing excommunicated kings, i. 693, some farther
particulars concerning his cause, ii. 53.

Ox-horn, whether it will ripen seeds, i. 144.

such under the king for the French expedition, 759, com-
mands in chief at Blackheath, 774, made high steward
for the trial of the earl of Warwick, 782, a monstrous
account of the king's usage of him, 786.

Oxford, Mr. Bacon's letter to that university, ii. 187.
Oxford, Henry Vere, earl of, letter to him from the lord
viscount St. Alban, ii. 259.

Oxidraces, a people of India, i. 307, had ordnance in the
time of the Macedonians, ib.

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Palliation in diseases, i. 92.

Palm-tree, a strange relation of its growth, i. 151.

Pamphlets, advice to suppress several scandalous ones
about religion, i. 345.
Panicum, i. 134.

Pantomimi, their exact imitation, i. 113.
Paper chambletted, i. 167.

Papists, concerning the proceedings against them under
queen Elizabeth, i. 387, laws made against them, with
the reasons thereof, ib. have been guilty of frequent
treasons, conspiracies, &c. 395.

Papists, ii. 256, 257.

Parabolical poetry, i. 32.

Paracelsus, his pigmies, i. 98, principles, 125, 159.
Paradoxes relating to the belief and practice of every good
christian, i. 341.

Parents finding an alteration upon the approach of their
children, though unknown to them, i. 194.

Parents and children, i. 265, their faults in their education,
266, those that have children have the greatest regard
to future times, ib.

Parham, Sir Edward, ii. 170.

Paris, our author there at his father's death, i. 199.

Paris,

our author there when he was about sixteen, 200, the
massacre there, 263, 312.

Parisatis, poisoned a lady by poisoning one side of a knife,
and keeping the other clean, i. 705.

Parker, Sir James, slain by Hugh Vaughan, at tilts, i. 759.
Parliament, court superlative, i. 413, by the king's authority
alone assembled, ib. their bills are but embryos till the
king gives them life, ib.

Parliament, consultations in it in the first year of king
Charles I. ii. 261, 262.

Parliaments, how to be managed after the union of Eng-
land and Scotland, i. 457, the difference between those
of England and Scotland in the manner of making pro-
positions, ib. are the great intercourse of grace between
king and people, et vice versa, 690, several things relat-
ing to their institution and use, 501, four points con-
sidered relating to the business of them, ii. 116, liberty of
them necessary, i. 487.

Parma, prince of, attacks Sir John Norris, i. 538, one of
the best commanders of his time, ib. blamed by the
Spaniards, 539, was to have been feudatory king of Eng-
land, ib.

Parmenides's tenet, that the earth is primum frigidum, i. 93.
Parmenio, his rough interrogatory to Alexander, i. 324.
Parrots, their power of imitation, i. 112.
Parts

living creatures easily reparable, and parts hardly
reparable, i. 91. Parts of living creatures severed, their
virtues in natural magic, 200, four parts of a judge, 305.
Passions of the mind, their several impressions upon the
body, i. 163, 164, all passions resort to the part that
labours most, 163, all passions conquer the fear of death,
262, in excess destructive of health, 287.

Pastimes and disports, how far allowable in courts, i. 520.
Patents, some proceedings in the passing them, ii. 106.
Patrick, an Augustin friar, makes a counterfeit earl of War-
wick, i. 782, condemned to perpetual imprisonment, ib.
Patrimonies of the crown, how to be managed after the
union of England and Scotland, i. 458.

Patrimony of the church, not to be sacrilegiously diverted,
i. 511.

Paul, St. a Roman by descent, i. 451.

Pawlet, Sir Amyas, his censure of too much haste, i. 319.
Peace containeth infinite blessings, i. 263, two instances of
a false one, ib.

Peace, what care is taken by our laws to preserve it among
the subjects, i. 571, the breach of it how to be punished,
649, king James's care to maintain it, 692, of England,
was remarkable in queen Elizabeth's time, 380, mock
articles relating to one, imagined to be proposed by Eng-
land to Spain, in a libel, 393, articles relating to one
that would be just between England and Spain, ib. has
very often ill effects flowing from it, 471.
Peacham, Edmund, interrogatories of his examination about

his reflections on king James, ii. 48, his denial in and
after torture, ib. his case similar to Algernon Sydney's,
49 note †, his examination at the Tower, 55, whether
his case be treason or not, ib. 165, 166.
Peaches prove worse with grafting, why, i. 135.
Peacock, Mr. examined, ii. 218, personates Atkins, ib.
Pearl, said to recover colour by burial in earth, i. 128.

Peers of England are to be trusted without oath or chal-
lenge, i. 419.

Pelopidas, i. 315.

Pembroke, lord, some account of him, ii. 57.

Pembroke, William, earl of, sworn of the council in Scot-
land, ii. 191, his character, 257.

Penal laws, not to be turned into rigour, i. 304.

Penal laws, a multitude of them very inconvenient, i. 668.
Penal statutes, how to be construed, 560.

People, to put the sword in their hand subverts govern-
ment, i. 263.

People, the interest of the king in them, i. 575, offences
capital against them, how punishable, 676, not capital,
ib. their griefs to be represented to the king by the
judges of the circuits, 713, the increase thereof in queen
Elizabeth's time, 380, concerning the consumption of
them in our wars, 386.

Pepper, why it helps urine, i. 89.

Pepper, Guinea, causeth sneezing, i. 192.

Perception in all bodies, i. 176, more subtle than the sense,
ib. it worketh also at distance, ib. the best means of
prognosticating, ib.

Percolation makes a separation according to the bodies it
passes through, i. 82, 83.

Percolation inward and outward, i. 171.

Percussions of metals, air and water, creates sounds, i. 98,

difference of tones in music caused by the different per-
cussions, 106. Percussion and impulsion of bodies, 170.
Perfumes, their virtue, i. 193, said to procure pleasant and
prophetical dreams, ib.

Pericles, his preservative against the plague, i. 198, studies
how to give in his accounts, 326.

Peripatetics, their element of fire above, exploded, i. 87.
Perjury, how to be punished, i. 674.
Perkin, i. 761. See Warbeck.

Perpetual, how wisely our laws distinguish between that
and transitory, i. 617.

Perpetuities, a sort of entails, i. 582, their inconveniences,
ib. a query concerning them, ib.

Persia, monarchy thereof was founded in poverty, i. 467,
education of its kings, 449.

Persians demand of the Greeks land and water, i. 536, take
Ormus from the Spaniard, 542, 543.

Persons near in blood, or other relations, have many secret
passages of sympathy, i. 199, doing business in person,
when best, 300.

Perspective, i. 100.

Pertinax, the revenge of his death, i. 264.
Peruvians, their commendations, i. 524.

Pestilent diseases, if not expelled by sweat, end in loose-
ness, i. 92, a probable cause of pestilences, 122. Pesti-
lences, though more frequent in summer, more fatal in

winter, 128. Pestilent fevers and agues, how to be re-
pressed, 197.

Pestilential years, i. 166, their prognostics, 159, 166, 176,
177.

Petitions, several cases relating thereto, i. 721, &c. of the
merchants concerning the Spanish grievances, consider-
ed, 474, mistakes in their preferring them, 476, account
of the contents of their petition, ib. the inconveniences
of receiving into the house of commons any concerning
private injuries, 478, about war or peace to the king,
having received but small encouragement, ib. concern-
ing the Spanish grievances rejected by the house of lords,
with the reasons of doing so, 479.

Petre, Sir George, i. 177.

Petrifying springs, i. 95.

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Philip, king of Castile, is cast upon the coast of Weymouth,
i. 789, king Henry VII. forces him to promise to restore
the earl of Suffolk, 790.

Philips, Sir Edward, ii. 231 note *.

Philo Judæus, his account of sense, i. 323.
Philosophers resembled to pismires, spiders, and bees, i. 330.
Philosophy, how divided, i. 33, primary or first philosophy,
what, 34, divine philosophy, ib. natural philosophy, 35,
speculative philosophy, ib.

Philosophy received, i. 233.

Phocion's reply to Alexander's tender, i. 324.

Physic, if avoided in health, will be strange when you need
it, i. 287, some remarks upon it, ii. 40.

Physicians, both too studious and negligent of the patient's
humour, i. 287.

Physics, i. 35.

Physiognomy, i. 176.
Pickles, i. 252.

Piercy, earl of Northumberland, some account of him, ii.
28 note .

Pilate, his question about truth, i. 261.

Pilosity, caused by heat, i. 158, in men and beasts, the
cause thereof, ib.

Piony, its virtue, i. 159.

Pipe-office, whence denominated, i. 588.

Pisa, its union and incorporation with Florence, i. 465.
Pistachoes, an excellent nourisher, i. 90.

Pit upon the sea-shore, filleth with water potable, i. 82,
practised in Alexandria, ib. and by Cæsar, who mistook
the cause, ib. in time will become salt again, 187.
Pity, what, i. 164, the impressions thereof, ib. Pity heal-
eth envy, 267.

Pius Quintus, his revelation touching the victory at Le-
panto, i. 199.

Plague, prognostics that preceded it, i. 159.

Plague, when taken, often giveth no scent at all, 191,
said to have a scent of the smell of a mellow apple, 192,
who most liable to it, ib. persons least apt to take it, ib.
Plagues caused by great putrefactions, ib. preservatives
against it, ib.

Plagues from the putrefaction of grasshoppers and locusts,
i. 192, a great one in London, 782.

Plaister as hard as marble, its composition, i. 173, rooms
newly plaistered, dangerous, 192.

Plantagenet, Edward, son of George, duke of Clarence, i.
733, had been confined at Sheriff-Hutton, by Richard
III. ib. shut up in the Tower, ib. rumour that he was to
be murdered in the Tower, 736, had not his father's title,
but created earl of Warwick, 737, carried through Lon-
don streets in procession on a Sunday, 738, seduced into
a plot by Perkin to murder the lieutenant of the Tower,
781, arraigned and executed on Tower-hill, 782, the male
line of the Plantagenets ends with him, ib.
Plantations of colonies encouraged by the Romans, i. 285
the wisdom of that conduct, ib.

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