cases our author is resolved to prosecute offences herein,
682, decree of the star-chamber relating to them, 683,
are contrary to the oath of every subject to the king,
685, a letter against them, ii. 90.

Dulcoration of metals, i. 125, of several things, as malt,
&c. 154, of fruits several ways, 136, 184, the causes
thereof, ib. Dulcoration of salt water, 187.
Dunging of grounds, the properest time for it, i. 149.
Dungs of beasts to enrich grounds, i. 149, which of them
the best, ib.

Dissolution of metals, i. 246.

Distilled waters last longer than raw, i. 123.

Distilled waters from salt, wormwood, lose their saltness
and bitter, &c. i. 187.

Distribution and order the life of business and despatch,
i. 281.

"Distringas," a writ so called, in what cases to be executed,
i. 575.

Divination natural, i. 176.
Dixmude, i. 752.

Dodderidge, Sir John, some account of him, ii. 49 note,

202.

Dogs, how made little, i. 25, biting in anger a stone
thrown at him communicates a choleric quality to the
powder of it, 198. Dogs know the dog-killer, though
they never saw him before, 199.

Dolabella, i. 321.

Dominion how founded, i. 528.

Domitian the younger son of Vespasian, i. 321, tyrannical,
323, what he excelled in, 275.

Domitian, a dream of his just before his death, i. 671.
Domitius, contention with Crassus, i. 323:

Dorset, marquis, hostage for Henry VII. i. 735, committed
to the Tower, 740, released, 741.

Double flowers, how to produce them, i. 141.

Doubts about our laws, a good rule in any such cases, i.
668.

Douglas, Sir Robert, ii. 221.

Dower, tenant in dower, how much favoured by our laws,
i. 606.

D'Oyley, Robert, ii. 220.

Draining salt water by descent doth not make it fresh, i.
83, of lands under water would make excellent pasture,
517.

Drake, Sir Francis, his prosperous expeditions into the
West Indies, i. 538, burns, sinks, and carries off ten
thousand ton of their great shipping, 538, his death, 541.
Dramatical poetry, i. 33.

Dreams pleasant and prophetical, procured by some smells,
i. 193, several remarkable dreams, 290, 291.
Drinks, the maturation of them how wrought, i. 120,
wherein it differs from clarification, ib. degrees of ma-
turation by enforcing the motion of the spirits, ib. quick-
ening of drink that is dead or palled, 119, ripened by
being immerged in the sea, 158.

Drowning of metals, the baser in the more precious, i. 175,
the methods to perform the operation, 241.
Drums, cause of sound in them, i. 103.

Drunken men, their sperm unfruitful, i. 165, they are unapt
for voluntary motion, ib. imagine false things as to the
eye, ib. men sooner drunk with small draughts than with
great, ib.

Drunkenness, i. 165.

Drying the adventitious moisture prohibiteth putrefaction,
i. 123, mixture of dry things prohibits putrefaction, 124.
Dryness turneth hair and feathers gray and white, i. 183.
Ductile bodies, i. 181.

Dudley, i. 786, made speaker of the house of commons, i.
787. See Empsom.

Duels, a charge concerning them, i. 679, how they affront
our laws, 680, the danger and mischief of them, 679,
causes of this evil, and how it is nourished, 680, some
remedies proposed for this mischief, ib. edict of Charles
IX. of France concerning them, with the strict pro-
ceedings in France against them, ib. our laws thought
erroneous, in two points relating to them, ib. are con-
demned in all civilized states, 681, never practised by
the Romans, ib. are condemned by the Turks, ib. in what

Dust maketh trees fruitful, as vines, &c. i. 156.

Dutch, proposal of hindering their going out of the king-
dom, i. 330, account of the proceedings against them,
ii 111.

Dutch, not to be abandoned for our safety, nor kept for our
profit, i. 330.

Dutch merchants prosecuted for exporting gold and silver
coin, ii. 209, 214, 217, 218.

Dutchman, his project for making gold, i. 121.
Dutchy of Lancaster, i. 512.

Duty of a privy counsellor, i. 514.

Dwarfing of trees, i. 143, dwarf trees proceed from slips, b
Dwarf-oak, or holly-oak, in Cephalonia, i. 188.
Dwarf-pine good for the jaundice, i. 159.
Dyer, Sir Edward, i. 320, ii. 198.

Dyers, some proposals relating to the new company of
them, ii. 57, letter to king James against this company,
59, advice to the king about them, 65.

E

EAR erected to hear attentively, i. 114. Ear dangerous to
be picked in yawning, 158.
Early flowers and plants, i. 146.
Ears wax red in blushing, i. 186.

Earth and sand differ, i. 82. Earth "primum frigidum,"
93, infusions in earth, the effects thereof, 128, cautions
to be used therein, ib. several instances thereof, ib.
Earth taken out of the vaults will put forth herbs, 146, |
the nature of those herbs, ib. what earth taken out of
shady and watery woods will put forth, ib. Earth upon
earth a good compost, 149. Earths good and bad, 156,
large clods, and putting forth moss, bad, ib. Earths me-
dicinal, 162. Earth taken near the river Nilus, said to
increase in weight till the river comes to its height, 167,
new turned up, hath a sweet scent, 178, pure, the health-
fullest smell of all, 193, fruitful, 212.

Ebbing and flowing of the sea, the cause of it, according to
Galilæus, i. 174, by Apollonius called the respiration of
the world, 190.

Echoes, a repercussion only, i. 102. Echo of an echo,
113, artificial echoes not known, ib. natural echoes,
where found, ib. the differences between the concurrent
echo and iterant, ib. no echo from a trunk stopped at
one end, why, ib. Echo from within a well, ib. whether
echoes move in the same angle with the original sounds,
ib. plurality of echoes in one place, ib. back echoes, ib.
Echoes returning many words, ib. Echo upon echo, .
Echo will not return the letter S, when it begins a word,
why, 114, difference of echoes, ib. mixture of echoes, ib.
resemble the ear, ib. and have a resemblance of hearing,
116, super-reflection of echoes, 174.

Edgar made a collection of the laws of England, i. 672
Edgecomb, Sir Richard, comptroller of the king's house,
sent into Scotland, i. 742.

Edible flesh, and not edible, i. 184, the causes of each, ib.
Edmondes, Sir Thomas, recommended by the lord keeper
Bacon to his niece for a husband, i. 188.

Edmund, earl of Richmond, father of Henry VII. i. 795.
Edward I. commended for his excellent laws, i. 544, his de-
sign of conquering Scotland, 464, is wounded by a
votary of a Saracen prince treacherously, 694, his an-
swer to the commons petitioning him for a redress from
the subjects of Flanders, 478, his reign accounted pros-
perous, 379.

Edward II. is murdered in Berkeley castle by rebels, i.
422, his deposition and murder owing to his queen, 276.
Edward III. his answers to the commons relating to mat
ters of peace and war, i. 478, he rejects the petition of

the commons to make the Black Prince prince of Wales,
and afterwards makes him so of his own mere motion,
480, the troubles of his reign, 379.

Edward IV. i. 296, the trains and mines laid for him by
the duke of Gloucester, 732, his interview and treaty of
peace with Lewis XI. ib. touched with remorse for the
death of his brother, the duke of Clarence, 737, first de-
vised the tax called Benevolence, 757.

Effiat, Monsieur d', letter to him from the lord viscount St.
Alban, ii. 264.

Egerton, master of the rolls and lord keeper, i. 318.
Egerton, Sir Thomas, lord keeper of the great seal, letter
to him from Mr. Francis Bacon, ii. 154, twice lord high
steward, 174, employed in the inquiry into the death of
Sir Thomas Overbury, 176.

Egerton, Sir Rowland and Mr. Edward, their cause in
chancery, ii. 197.

Eggs, the yolks of them great nourishers, i. 90, how to be
used, ib. yolk conduceth more to the nourishment, white
to the generation, of the bird, 96, hatched in an oven,
184. Egg petrified, 247, white of an egg long lying in
the sun said to turn to stone, ib.

Egremond, made leader of the Yorkshire riot against the
subsidy, i. 749, flies to lady Margaret into Flanders, ib.
Eight, the sweetest concord in music, i. 99, though it is a
received rather than a true computation, ib.
Elder-flowers good for the stone, i. 159.

Elder-stick put to consume taketh away warts, i. 200.
Elections for parliaments, advice to the subjects thereupon,

ii. 119.

Electric bodies, i. 191.

Electrum of gold and silver, i. 243.

Electrum, ancient, its proportion of silver and gold, i. 175.
Elements and their conjugations ruinous to knowledge,
i. 179.

Elision of the air a term of ignorance, i. 101.

Elizabeth, eldest sister to Edward IV. i. 784, married for
her second husband John de la Pool, duke of Suffolk,
784.
Elizabeth, queen dowager of Edward IV. i. 733, cloistered
in the nunnery of Bermondsey, 737, forfeits all her lands
and goods, 738, her great variety of fortune, ib. dies in
the cloister, ib. has burial with her husband at Windsor,
ib. founds Queen's college in Cambridge, ib.
Elizabeth, lady, i. 732, not mentioned in the claim of
Henry VII. ib. repairs to London, by direction, to the
queen dowager her mother, 733, married to Henry VII.
738, crowned at Westminster to give contentment to the
people, 741, in the third year of the ing's reign, ib. dies
in childbed at the Tower, 786.
Elizabeth, queen, her life attempted by several votaries of
the Romish church, i. 687, her conduct commended, 441,
her fair treatment of the king of Spain, 376, is conspired
against and libelled by the Spanish direction, 371, the
prosperous condition of England under her reign, 378,
her reign compared with other princes, 379, the remark-
able length of her reign, ib. the nation had great health
and plenty in her time, 379, 380, reformation of religion
was settled by her, 381, she is excommunicated by the
pope, 387, an account of the justness of her proceedings
with Spain, upon the defection of the Low Countries,
391, refuses the inheritance of the United Provinces, 392,
a treaty of marriage between her and the duke of Anjou,
very forward, 393, is charged with setting up her image
at Ludgate to be worshipped, 397, is accused of a design
of making illegitimate offspring of her own king, 497, a
design of poisoning her by Lopez, 398, the reasons given
for the poisoning of her, 399, allots stipends for preach-
ers in Lancashire, 359, the design of poisoning her dis-
covered, 401, she seems inclined to receive lord Essex
again into favour, 439.

Elizabeth, queen, a discourse in her praise, i. 370, petition-
ed to release the four evangelists, being prisoners, 310,
her speech about the archduke's raising the siege of
Grave, 311, said, she had rather be dead than put in
custody, ib. her remarks upon sales, and instructions to
great officers, ib. retorted upon, that a man thinks of
nothing when he thinks of a woman's promise, 329, 330,
has great regard to personage, 330, a princess of extreme
caution, 796, yet loved admiration above safety, ib. car-

ried a hand restrained in gifts, but strained in preroga-
tive, 797, had not a numerous but wise council, 514.
Elizabeth, princess, eldest daughter of king James, some
account of her, ii. 136 note

Ellesmere, lord chancellor, i. 330.

Ellesmere, lord chancellor, his relation to the king about
Coke's reports, ii. 95 note †, joint letter of him and Sir
Francis Bacon concerning the lord chief justice Coke,
180, his exceptions to Sir Edward Coke's Reports, and
Sir Edward's answers, 268, his letter to king James
about that matter, ib. dies, 184 note .

Elm grafted, i. 135.

Ely, isle of, questions to the chief justice of the king's bench
about it, ii. 269, answers to these questions, ib.
Embalming of dead bodies, i. 123.

Embassies, how managed by queen Elizabeth, i. 514, 515.
Ember-weeks, how observed formerly, i. 357.
Emissions of several kinds, i. 191, 192.

Emmanuel Comnenus poisoned the water when the chris-
tians were to pass through his country to the Holy
Land, i. 191.

Empedocles the Sicilian, his love of solitude, i. 281.
Empire, its true temper, i. 275, 276, states liberal of natu-
ralization fit for empire, 285, what most importeth em-
pire, 286.

Empsom, the son of a sieve-maker, i. 786, his method of
extortion in conjunction with Dudley, ib. his book of
accounts signed by the king, ib.

Empty coffers in a prince make the people forget their
duty, i. 520.

Enclosures, when frequent, and how guarded against, i.

England, arguments to prove that it is not well enough
peopled, i. 463, it was never severed after it was united,
466, its safety and greatness if united with Scotland,
467, the external points wherein it stands separated and
united with Scotland, 455, the internal points, &c. 456,
what its name is to be, after the union with Scotland,
ib. in great danger from Spain, 442, an inquiry into its
condition under queen Elizabeth, 378 et seq. the state of
it compared with others abroad, 381, concerning its
foreign enemies, 383, its proceedings towards the neigh-
bouring states censured, with an account of those pro-
ceedings, 389, accused as the author of troubles in Scot-
land and France, 390, account of its proceedings with
Spain, 391, solicits a renewal of treaties with Spain upon
queen Mary's death, with their answer, ib. is ill used by
the Spaniards, 392, idly accused of confederating with
the Turk, 395, reasons to fear it might become subject
to France, 657.

England compared to France, though less in territory, i.
285, compared to Spain, 541, compared to other states
abroad, 381.

Englefeld, Sir Francis, his letter to the lord keeper Bacon,
ii. 197, fined for charging the lord keeper Williams with
bribery, ib. note §, his cause in chancery recommended
by the marquis of Buckingham, 206, 209.
English valour remarkable, 540, 541.
Englishmen hurt in the leg hard to cure, i. 173.
Entails of lands, how created, i. 581, were so strengthened
by a statute of Edward I. as not to be forfeited by at-
tainder, ib. the great inconvenience of this statute to the
crown, 582, these mischiefs prevented by later acts of
parliament, ib. some privileges still remaining to estates
in tail, ib.

Entry, a particular case how property in lands may be
gained by it, i. 577.

Envious and froward men not like dogs licking the sores,
but like flies and vermin, i. 270.

Envy, how most forcible in an oblique cast, i. 194. Envy
most predominant in a man that hath no virtue, 266, who
are most exposed to this infirmity, 267, public not so
pernicious as private envy, ib. contracted by great men's
followers, 300, the canker of honour, 304.
Epaminondas grants that to a whore which he refused to

ii. 147, 148, substance of a letter written to the queen
for him by Mr. Francis Bacon, 154, his letter to Mr.
Bacon, 141, his letter to him about speaking to queen
Elizabeth in his behalf, 143, his two letters to Mr. Bacon,
144, 145, his letter about a meeting with him, 146, his
letter to him before his expedition to Cadiz, 153.
Essex, earl of, Bacon's apology in relation to him, i. 433,
ii. 20.

Estates for years, how made, i. 581. See Leases.
Estates in tail, how created, i. 581, were not forfeitable by
any attainder, ib. impediments in a man's disposing of
them, 606.

Eternity divided into three portions of time, i. 339.
Ethelwold, bishop of Winchester, his charity in the time of
famine, i. 319.

Ethics, i. 46, 56.

Esculent plants, i. 152, not esculent at all, ib.
Essays, civil and moral, i. 261. Vide ii. 44.

Essex, earl of, said to have but one enemy and one friend,
i. 311, 312, made twenty-four knights at the succour of
Roan, 312, his famous expedition to Cadiz, 540, his
treaty with the Irish rebels, 541.

Essex, earl of, his kindness to Sir Francis Bacon, i. 434,
gives Bacon an estate, ib. Sir Francis Bacon's advice
to him about the queen, 435, is dissuaded from going to
Ireland, ib. Mr. Bacon advises the queen to send for him
from Ireland, 435, 436. Bacon speaks very favourably
for him to the queen, 436, the queen resolves to proceed
against him in the star-chamber, 438, the queen seems
again well disposed towards him, 439. Bacon solicits for
his being restored to his fortunes, ib. papers relating to
his examination, &c. at that time were suppressed by the
queen's order, ib. queen grows incensed against him, ib.
Bacon's advice to him about his conduct, ii. 10. Bacon
advises him to take upon him the causes of Ireland, 15,
16, concerning his treaty with Tyrone, about the Irish
affairs, 16, advice to him about the Irish, and how he
ought to treat them, 17, a declaration of his treasons, i.
408, &c. highly favoured by the queen, 409, his vast
ambition, ib. desirous of the government of Ireland, ib.
his method to persuade the queen to increase the army,
410, makes wrong proposals to the queen about methods
of proceeding with the rebels, ib. will have the power in
himself of pardoning all treasons, ib. will not be bound
by the council of Ireland, ib. makes a fruitless journey to
Munster, ib. is for making a peace with the rebels, ib.
secret correspondence between him and Tyrone, 411,
several confessions against him, ib. his design of landing
an Irish army at Milford-haven, 412, comes into England
contrary to the queen's orders, 413, promises Tyrone a
restitution of all their lands to the rebels, ib. the queen's
tender proceedings against him, 403, 413, his design of
seizing the queen's person, and the manner how, 413,
415, confers with several about the method of compassing
his designs at Drury-house, 414, what his designs were,
ib. is summoned to appear before the council, 416, he has
a design of attempting the city, 417, suspects his treasons
to be discovered, 416, pretends an ambuscade laid for
him by Cobham and Raleigh, 417, draws together a tu-
multuous assembly at Essex-house, ib. four persons are
sent to him from the queen, with offers of justice, who
are confined and rudely treated by him, ib. goes into the
city, but nobody there joins with him, 418, is declared a
traitor in the city, ib. he pretends the kingdom was to
be sold to the Infanta, ib. the reason of his saying so,
with the foundation of this report, 418, 421, he is blocked
up by several persons in his own house, upon which he
surrenders himself, 419, makes three petitions to the
lord-lieutenant, and then surrendering, is conveyed to the
Tower, ib. the effect of what passed at his trial, ib. &c.
the charge against him, 419, his defence, 420, the reply
to his defence, ib. &c. is found guilty of treason, and
receives judgment, 422, accuses Sir Henry Neville, ib.
his execution and behaviour at it, 423, abstract of his
confession, under his own hand, 432, his confession to
some clergymen, concerning the heinousness of his
offence, 433.

Essex, earl of, his device exhibited before queen Elizabeth,

Evergreens, their cause, i. 148.

Evil, the best condition is not to will, the next not to can,
i. 269.

Eunuchs dim-sighted, why, i. 160. Eunuchs envious, 296.
Euphrates, the philosopher, i. 326.

Euripides, his saying of beautiful persons, i. 315.
Europe, state of in 1580, i. 364.

i. 387.

Exactions, some complaints concerning them removed,
Examinations in chancery not to be made by interrogations,
except in special cases, i. 720, other cases relating to
examination of witnesses, ib.

Example gives a quicker impression than argument, i. 521.
Excess in clothes and diet to be restrained, i. 519.
Exchequer, how to be managed, i. 715.
Excommunication by the pope, not lawful to kill princes
thereupon, i. 694, the greatest judgment on earth, 358,
never to be used but in weighty matters, ib. to be decreed
by none but the bishop in person, assisted by other clergy,
ib. what to be used ordinarily instead of it, ib.
Excrements are putrefactions of nourishment, i. 160. Ex-
crements of living creatures smell ill, why, 179, of the
three digestions, ib. why some smell well, ib. most odious
to a creature of the same kind, 179, 199, but less per-
nicious than the corruption of it, 199.

Excrescences of plants, i. 143, et seq. two trials for excres-
cences, 145. Excrescences joined with putrefaction, as
oak-apples, &c. ib. Excrescences of roots, 153.
Execution, the life of the laws, i. 511.
Executorship, how a property in goods is gained thereby,
i. 587, of what extent it is, ib. the office of an executor,
ib. &c. his power before and after the probate of a will,
ib. how he may refuse, ib. what debts he is to pay, and
in what order, ib. any single one may execute alone, ib.
Exemplifications not to be made in many cases, i. 722
Exercise, i. 48, in what bodies hurtful, ib. much not to be
used with a spare diet, ib. benefits of exercise, ib. evils of
exercise, ib. Exercise hindereth putrefaction, 123, that
exercise best where the limbs move more than the sto-
mach or belly, 166. Exercise impinguates not so much
as frictions, why, 187, no body, natural or politic, bealth-
ful without it, 286, manly exercises commended to the
court, 520.

Exercise, a good sort of one recommended to divines in the
country, and in the universities, i. 357.

Exeter besieged by Perkin, prepares for a good defence,
i. 778.

Exeter, countess of, falsely accused by lady Lake and lady
Roos, ii. 212 note §, her cause in the star-chamber, 216.
Exigent, a writ so called, what punishment follows it, i

580.

Exile, cases relating thereto, with the proceedings in them,
i. 646.

Exossation of fruits, i. 183.

Expect: blessings not expected increase the price and
pleasure, i. 259.

Expense, i. 284, rules for the regulation of it, ib.
Experiments for profit, i. 248.

Extortions, how to be punished, i. 676.

Eye of the understanding like the eye of the sense, i. 96.
Eye thrust out of the head hanging only by the visual
nerve, recovered sight, 130. Eyes, why both move one
way, 185, sight, why better one eye shut, ib. some see one

thing double, why, ib. pore-blind men see best near hand,
why, ib. old men at some distance, 186. Eyes are
offended by over-great lights, ib. by interchange of light
and darkness on the sudden, 186, by small print, ib. wax
red in anger, in blushing not, why, ib.

F

FABIUS MAXIMUS, was feared by Hannibal, i. 324.
Fable of Hercules and Hylas, i. 104, of the fly, 303, of the
frogs in drought, 256.

Facility in ministers, worse than bribery, i. 269.
Factions, those who are good in them mean men, i. 302, to
govern by them low policy, ib. when one is extinguished,
the others subdivide, ib.

Factions ought to be depressed soon, i. 713, a remedy pro-
posed by Cicero for preventing factious persons, ib.
Faith, the absurdity of an implicit one, i. 689.

607-609.

Feoffees, cases concerning them in the statute of uses, i.
Feoffment, cases relating thereto, i. 607, more cases, 566,
conveyance by it in what manner performed, 583.
Ferdinand duke of Florence, his character, ii. 43 note *.
Ferdinando king of Naples, a bastard-slip of Arragon, i.
754, how he was supported by Henry VII. 760, his
league, 535.

Ferdinando of Spain, his conjunction with Maximilian, i.
757, sends to Henry VII. the account of the final con-
quest of Granada, 758, recovers Russignion and Perpig-
nan from the French, 760, sends Hialas, by some called
Elias, into England, 776, to treat of a marriage between
Arthur and Catharine, ib.

Ferrera, plots with Lopez to poison queen Elizabeth, i. 400,
is discovered and committed to prison, 401.
Fetid smells, i. 179.
Fibrous bodies, i. 181, 182.

516.

Falkland, lord, ii. 236, 243.

Falling sickness, its cause and cure, i. 198.

Fame, like fire, easy to preserve, but difficult to re-kindle,
i. 329, like a river bearing up light things and sinking
weighty, 333.

Fame made a monster by the poets, i. 308, on what occa-
sion said to be daughter of the earth, 309, how to dis-
cern between true and false fames, ib. increases virtue, as
heat is redoubled by reflexion, 255.

Family of love, a heresy which came from the Dutch, i.
383.

Fanatics, their preaching condemned, i. 350, their manner
of handling the Scriptures censured, ib.

Fascination, the opinion of it ancient, and ever by the eye,
i. 194, ever by love or envy, ib.
Fat, extracted out of flesh, i. 158.

Father, his prerogative is before the king's, in the custody
of his children, i. 485.

Favour, how to be dispensed, i. 300.

Favourites, judges should have none, i. 305, kings and
great princes, even the wisest, have had their favourites,
509, to ripen their judgments and ease their cares, ib.
or to screen themselves from envy, ib. should never in-
terpose in courts of justice, 511.

Fealty was sworn to the king by every tenant in knight's
service, i. 578.

Fear, how it loosens the belly, and causes trembling, &c.
i. 89. Fear, the impressions thereof, 163, 195, paleness,
trembling, standing up of the hair, screeching, 163.
Fearful natures suspicious, 287, just fear sufficient
ground of war, 534. Fears in dimmer lights than facts,
535.

Feathers of birds, why of such fine colours, i. 83, how the

colour of them may be changed, 96, age changeth them,
ib. Feathers burnt suppress the mother, 193.
Features and proportions improved, or altered for the
worse, i. 86.

Fee-farms, what, i. 588.

Fee-simple, estates so held, i. 582, their advantages, ib.
Felo de se,
how to be punished, i. 571, several cases relating
thereto, 645.
Felons, if penitent, recommended to expiate their offences
in the mines, i. 247.

Felony, if committed by a mad-man, why excusable, but

not so if by a man drunk, i. 555, cases in the statute re-
lating thereto explained in many instances, 560, by mis-
chance, how to be punished, 571, other cases of felony,
ib. flying for it makes a forfeiture of the goods, 580,
several cases in which a man becomes guilty of it, 644,
the method of punishment, and other proceedings relat-
ing to it, ib. punishment of it is hanging, and it is a ques-
tion whether the king has power to change it to behead-
ing, ib. accessaries therein, when punishable or not, 645,
a farther account of the trial, punishment, and other pro-
ceedings in it, ib.

Female and male in plants, i. 151, the differences of female
and male in several living creatures, 183, the causes
thereof, ib.

De Feodis, all laws about them are but additionals to the
ancient civil law, i. 485.

ing life, i. 184.

Fig tree improved by cutting off the top, i. 135.

Figs in the spring, i. 134. Indian fig taketh root from its
branches, 151, hath large leaves, and fruit no bigger than
beans, ib.

Figurable and not figurable, plebeian notions, i. 182.
Figures of plants, i. 148.

Figures, or tropes in music, have an agreement with the
figures of rhetoric, i. 99.
Filum Medicinale, i. 91.

Finances, how to be ordered after the union of England
and Scotland, i. 458.

Finch, Sir Henry, some account of him, ii. 104 note ‡.
Fine, what it is, i. 583, how conveyances are made this
way, ib. claim must be made in five years after proclama-
tions issued in the common pleas, or else any one loses
his right herein for ever, ib. some exceptions to this, ib.
is a feoffment of record, ib.

Fines for alienations of the greatest antiquity, i. 590, of
several kinds, ib.

Fir and pine-trees, why they mount, i. 143.

Fire and time work the same effects, i. 117, preserve bo-
dies, 123. Fire tanneth not as the sun doth, 130. Fire
and hot water heat differently, 158. Fires subterrany,
eruptions of them out of plains, 126. Fire and air fore-
show winds, 177.

Fire of diseases how to be put out, i. 198, to be extinguish-
ed as the fire of a house, ib.

Firmarius, the derivation and force of this word, i. 618.
Fish of the sea put into fresh water, i. 162. Fishes fore-
show rain, 178. Fishes greater than any beasts, the
cause, 183.
Shell-fish, some have male and female,

some not, 186.
Fishery, no mineral like it, i. 517, 519.
Fitz-Gerard, Thomas, earl of Kildare, and deputy of Ire-
land, proclaims Simnel, the counterfeit Plantagenet, i.
738, invades England in conjunction with the earl of
Lincoln and lord Lovel, 740, slain in battle near Newark,

741.

Flame, of powder, how it dilateth and moveth, i. 83.
Flame and air mix not, 86, except in the spirits of ve
getables, ib. and of living creatures, ib. their wonderful
effects, mixed, ib. form of flame would be globular, and
not pyramidal, 87, would be a lasting body, if not ex-
tinguished by air, ib. mixeth not with air, ib. burneth
stronger on the sides than in the midst, ib. is irritated
by the air ambient, ib. opinion of the peripatetics of the
element of fire, ib. preyeth upon oil, as air upon water,
96, experiments about its duration, 126, et seq. taketh
in no other body into it, but converteth it, 175, more
easy to move than air, 177. Flame causeth water to
rise, 188. Flame, the continuance of it according to
several bodies, 126, observation about going out of
flame, 127, lasting thereof in candles of several mixtures,

ib. of several wicks, ib. in candles laid in bran, ib. in lamps,
ib. where it draweth the nourishment far, ib. in a tur-
reted lamp, ib. where it is kept close from air, ib. ac-
cording to the temper of the air, ib. irritated by cold, ib.
experiment about flame, 188.

Flammock, the lawyer, Thomas, incites the Cornish men
to rebel against the subsidy, i. 773, is taken and exe-
cuted, 775.

Flatterer, his words make against the man in whose behalf
they are spoken, i. 308, no such flatterer as a man's
self, 283, several sorts and ranks of them, 303. Flat-
tery of princes as criminal as drawing the sword against
them, 509.

Fleming, Sir Thomas, lord chief justice of the king's bench,
dies, ii. 163 note †.

Fleming, Adrian, the son of a Dutch brewer, made cardi-
nal of Tortosa, i. 750, preceptor to Charles V. and
pope, ib.

Flemings, i. 752, 757, 759, 765, 773, call the treaty at
Windsor, made between Henry VII. and Philip king of
Castile, "intercursus malus," 790. England a back of
steel to the Flemings, 536.

Flesh, human, its venomous quality, i. 85. Flesh dissolved
into fat, 158. Flesh edible and not edible, 184, the
causes of each, ib. horse's flesh sometimes eaten, ib.
man's flesh likewise, 85, 184, said to be eaten by witches,
184.

Flies in excess, why a sign of a pestilential year, i. 166.
Flight of birds, why the swiftest motion, i. 158.

Flint laid at the bottom of a tree, why it helpeth the growth,
i. 133.

Float and refloat of the sea, i. 191.

Flowers smell best whose leaves smell not, i. 129, how to
enlarge flowers, and increase their odours, 133 et seq.
Flowers growing amongst the corn, and no where else,
138, to have flowers open at the sun's approach very
obvious, ib. Flowers, inscription of them on trees, 140,
to induce colour into flowers, 141. Flowers, how made
double, ib. to make them double in fruit-trees, 142.
Flowers all exquisitely figured, 148, numbers of their
leaves, ib. Flowers in gardens, 298.

Fly, the fable of it, i. 303.

Flying in the air of a body unequal, i. 174, of a body sup-
ported with feathers, 187.

Foliambe, Francis, i. 207.

Folietanes, feeding on leaves, a religious order, why put
down by the pope, 89.

Followers and friends, i. 300, costly ones make the train
longer than the wings, ib. their several denominations, ib.
Fomentation, or bath for the gout, i. 253.

Food, the selling of that which is unwholesome, or at un-
reasonable rates, how to be punished, i. 677.
Force, all oppressions thereby how to be punished, i. 676.
Foreign plants, i. 146, how best removed, 152.
Foresight, the wisdom of it, ii. 90 note +.

Forest and chases, much good land recoverable from them,
i. 517.

Forfeitures, how a property in goods is gained thereby, i.

Formalist worse for business than an absurd man, i. 281.
Forming of parts in young creatures, i. 86.

Fornication, the guilt and odiousness of it represented, i.
210, 211.

Fortescue, Sir John, under-treasurer and chancellor of the
exchequer. i. 596, ii. 153.

Fortitude, the true notions of it are lost, i. 680, distinguishes
rightly between the grounds of quarrels, ib.
Fortune, like a market, i. 278.

Fortune, i. 293, though blind is not invisible, 294, confi-
dence and reputation the daughters of Fortune, ib.
Fortunes, inequality between those of England and Scot-
land, i. 464.

Fossils, how they differ from plants, i. 150, their many me-
dicinal uses, 162.

Foundations and gifts, i. 290.

Fowls, water-fowls foreshow rain, i. 178.
Fowlys, Sir David, some account of him, ii. 26 note
Fox, bishop of Exeter, made counsellor to Henry VII. i.
735, made lord privy-seal, and successively bishop of
Bath and Wells, Durham, Winchester, ib. sent on em-
bassage to James III. of Scotland, 742, one of the com-
missioners of trade, 772, his great diligence in opposing
the king of Scots, 776, takes a journey to Scotland about
the breach of truce, 781, his character, 784, the main
instrument of the marriage between the lady Margaret
and the king of Scots, 785, concludes the match between
Charles prince of Castile and Mary second daughter of
Henry VII. 792.

Fragile bodies, i. 180. Fragility, its cause, 181.
France, its flourishing state, i. 742. Vide Charles VIIL
France, the union of its duchies, &c. i. 450, king of, changes
his religion, 442, its afflicted condition, 381.
Francis, duke of Britany, loses his memory, and is under
the direction of the duke of Orleans, i. 744, his death
after his army was beaten, 748.

Francis I. i. 314, his noble nature, 320.

Francis, Matthew, serjeant-at-arms, has a quarrel with
Mr. Colles, ii. 263.

Franckalmoigne, a sort of tenure, i. 624, its origin and dig-
nity, ib.

Frauds, how to be punished, i. 676.

Freedoms, of four kinds among the Romans, i. 452, how to
be managed after the union of England and Scotland, 459.
Freeholders of some manors do hold by suit of court, i. 579.
French disease, its supposed original, i. 85.

French king's titles how they rival the emperor's, i. 257.
Frenchmen hurt in the head hard to cure, i. 173, wiser
than they seem, 281.

Friar Bacon's illusion, i. 170.

Friction, a fartherer of nourishment, i. 91, why it maketh
the parts more fleshy, 186, why it impinguateth more
than exercise, 187.

Friends ought not to be forgiven, according to Cosmus
duke of Florence, i. 264, the world a wilderness without
friends, 282, the manifold fruits of friendship, 282, 283,
a false friend more dangerous than an open enemy, 509.
Friendship, i. 281.

Frion, Stephen, secretary in the French tongue to Henry
VII. i. 762, gained by lady Margaret, ib. deserts Perkin,

777.

Frogs in excess, why a sign of a pestilential year, i. 166,
the fable of the frogs in a drought, 256.
Fruits, causes of their maturation, i. 120, several instances
thereof, ib. the dulcoration thereof by other means, 184.
Fruit cut or pierced rots sooner, 122, enlarged, how, 133
et seq.
Fruit pricked as it groweth ripens sooner, 135,
made fairer by plucking off some blossoms, ib. Fruit
tree grafted upon a wild tree, 135. Fruit why dulco-
rated by applying of swine's dung, 136, also by chaff and
swine's dung mingled, ib. enlarged by being covered with
a pot, as it groweth, ib. Fruits compound, 137. Fruits
of divers kinds upon one tree, 140. Fruits of divers
shapes and figures, ib. Fruits with inscriptions upon
them, ib. Fruits that are red within, 141. Fruits
coming twice a year, 147. Fruits made without core or
stone, 142. Trees with and without flowers and fruits,
148, preserved, how, 152. Fruits that have juices fit
and unfit for drink, 153. Fruits sweet before they be
ripe, 154, which never sweeten, ib. Fruit blossoming
hurt by south winds, 156.

Fuel consuming little, i. 172. Fuel cheap, ib.

Full of the moon, several effects of it, i. 188, 189, trials for
further observations, ib.

Fullerton, Sir James, letter to him from the lord keeper
Bacon, ii. 200.

Fumes taken in pipes, i. 193.

Fumitory, a preservative against the spleen, i. 159.

G

GABATO, Sebastian, a native of Venice living at Bristol,
i. 780, his reflections on the discoveries of Columbus, ib.