Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, his last words, ii. 265; the Kermes or scarlet powder, ii. 99. construction of them by the Catholics, ii. 265.
Job, the book of, pregnant with natural philosophy, i. 175; full of natural philosophy, i. 98. Jonson, Benjamin, one of the Latin translators of the essays, i. 5.
Jones, Sir William, speech to, on being made Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, ii. 476.
Jotham, parable of, ii. 270.
Journals and annals commended by Tacitus, i. 190. Jovinianus, how death of caused, ii. 127. Joy, effects of, ii. 96.
Joy of Pius Quintus, ii. 135.
Judah and Issachar's blessing will never meet, i. 37. Judge, grants of, ii. 413; a popular one a deformed thing, ii. 475.
Judges fall upon their knees to the king, ii. 495; the duties of, defined, ii. 478; duties of, ii. 475; direc- tions how and what they are to study, ii. 478; their office, i. 58; the four parts of, i. 58; strange that they should have noted favourites, i. 59; necessity of their knowing the law, ii. 295; their stay upon cir- cuit, ii. 379; choice of good, ii. 378; as to a charge to be made by the king or lord chancellor, ii. 379; Sir E. Coke's letter, ii. 507; letter to the king in the case of commendams, ii. 492; as to the Welsh, ii. 379; their honour the king's whom they represent, ii. 378; king's admonition to the, in case of com- mendams, ii. 493; people not competent, ii. 419; holding their places during his majesty's pleasure, ii. 499; lines and portraitures of good, ii. 478; Sir F. Bacon to the, ii. 515; puisne, when they should be preferred, ii. 379.
Judges of circuits, directions to, ii. 475. Judgment at common law, persons suing to be relieved
against to enter into good bond, ii. 472. Judgment, ii. 210; a minister should not trust wholly in his own nor in servants', ii. 377; arts of, i. 210; where deficient, i. 211.
Judicial charges and tracts, ii. 471.
Juggler, tricks of a, ii. 130.
Julianus's edict against Christians, i. 176.
Julius Cæsar, an instance of excellence in arms and learning, i, 164; forsook eloquence for the wars, i. 234.
Julius III., Pope, his apophthegms, i. 108. Juno's suitor, or baseness, i. 298.
Jurisdiction of the pope confined by Edward I., ii. 390. Jurisdiction of the courts, ii. 379; of Court of Chancery, ii. 471.
Jury of the verge, directions to, ii. 290.
Justice, commutative and distributive, coincidence be- tween, and arithmetical and geometrical proportion, i. 194.
Justice, chief, his behaviour to deputies, ii. 477. Justice, the lantern of, ii. 321; the ordinary courts of, ii. 380; delays of, torture, ii. 487; ordinances for he right administration of in chancery, ii. 469; ex- amples of, for terror, ii. 380; next to religion, ii. 378; panegyric on King James's administration of, i. 306.
Justice and protection necessary for the recovery of the hearts of the Irish, ii. 189; summary justice recom- mended for an interim, ii. 189.
Justices of peace, choice of, ii. 380.
Kernels laid at the roots make plants prosper, ii. 13; better reason of, ii. 13.
Kernes, their licentious idleness one of the roots of the Irish troubles, ii. 190.
Kildare, Earl of, supports the counterfeit Plantagenet, i. 321; slain near Newark, i. 325.
King James's correction of Lord Bacon's MSS., i. 277; letter to the, on legal proceedings, ii. 512; eulogium on, ii. 272; compared to Nerva and Trajan, ii. 272; answer to, from Gorhambury, touching Lord Coke and Buckingham, ii. 519; letter from Lord C. Bacon to, touching patents, ii. 527; duty of, i. 222; duties of professions, i. 223 ; of affections, i. 223; praise of the, i. 161, 162; letter to, touching the examination of Peacham, ii. 511.
King's admonition of the judges for their freedom of speech touching the commendams, ii. 493; style and titles, suggestions as to the, ii. 145; his prero- gative, cases of, ii. 165; in war and peace, ii. 165; in trade, ii. 166; in the persons of his subjects, ii. 166; in his person solutus legibus, yet his acts limited by law; ii. 169; the corporation of the crown differs from all other corporations, ii. 177; several privileges of the king stated, ii. 178; the doctrine respecting homage to the crown in that act of Parliament for the banishment of the Spencers, ii. 178; observations upon it, ii. 178; the Commons entertaining certain petitions concerning private injuries of merchants from the Spaniards asserted to be a derogation from his prerogative, ii. 197; letter to the judges touching the case of commen- dams, ii. 493; right of purveyance, ii. 388; entry, proclamation on the, ii. 451.
Kings, conduct of their servants, i. 161; laboured speech unbecoming in, i. 161; advantages of learned, i. 177; duty of subjects to, i. 168; learned, advan- tages of, i. 164, 165; truly learned, almost a miracle for to be, i. 162; style, proclamation on, ii. 453; styled gods on earth, ii. 376; not envied but by kings, i. 17; in council not to open his own inclina- tion too much, i. 29; the high rate they set upon friendship, i. 33; the power of princes to add great- ness to their kingdoms, i. 39; a wise prince to dis- cern the intentions of aspirers, i. 44.
King's Bench, power of, laid down in Bagg's case, ii. 507.
King's court, choice of officers for the, ii. 387. King's College, Cambridge, phenomenon in, a wooden building there containing bells, iii. 543. Kingdoms, essay on their true greatness, i. 36; their power in the warlike disposition of the people, i. 36 ; for greatness should profess arms as their principal occupation, i. 38; should beware of siding with factions, i. 55; too high factions a sign of weakness in princes, i. 56; description of a king, i. 62; a prodigal king nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious, i. 63; five things of which he should have a special care, i. 63.
Kinsale, Spaniards defeated at, and their general, d'Avila, taken prisoner, ii. 200, 211; bravery of the English at the battle of, ii. 211; treaty at, ii. 211. Knighthood, advice to bestow some among the under- takers of the plantations in Ireland, ii. 185.
Justinian's reduction and recompilation of the civil Knowd, James, the confession of, ii. 366; sent to laws, ii. 231, 235.
Justs, their glories chiefly in the chariots, i. 45.
KEEPER, lord, letter from Buckingham to the, ii. 521; declaration of, ii. 370.
Knowledge, praise of, i. 79; on the ends of, i. 81; to be limited by religion and to be referred to use, i. 81; a preservative against unbelief, i. 83; impedi- ments of, i. 84; the different desires of the delivered
and received of, i. 85; like water, never arises higher than the level from which it fell, i. 85; its end generally mistaken, i. 87; on the errors in the mind in the inquisition of, i. 91; Bacon's thoughts of, i. 96; generates pride, i. 162; is power, i. 182; of man like water, springing from below, descending from above, i. 193; divided into divinity and philo- sophy, i. 193; Plato's opinion of, i. 161; advantages of to its possessor, i. 182; insures immortality, i. 183; pleasures of the greatest, i. 183; not the quality of, that can swell the mind, i. 162; not like lines, i. 193; like branches of a tree, i. 193; desire of perfect, the cause of the fall of man, i. 175; dignity of, is to be sought in the archetype, i. 174; true, is wisdom, i. 174; uses of, i. 163; objections to advancement of, i. 162; praise of, in the Scriptures, i. 176; aspiring to the cause of the fall, i. 162; contemplation of God's creatures produceth, i. 163; delivery of, by aphorisms, i. 214; critical, i. 217; pedantical, i. 217; is pabulum animi, i. 207; as pyramids, whereof history is the basis, i. 197; is a representation of truth, i. 171; of ourselves, i. 233; Solomon's observations on the nature of, i. 163; when a cause of anxiety, i. 163; increases anxiety, Solomon says, i. 163; limits of, i. 163; humanizes men's minds, i. 181; improves private virtues, i. 181; removes temerity, levity, and inso- lency, i. 182; and vain admiration, i. 182; miti- gates the fear of death or adverse fortune, i. 182; tradition of, not ingenuous but magistral, i. 173; erroneous motives for the acquisition of, i. 174; error of too early reducing into method, i. 173; advantages of, i. 174; true end of, i. 174; civil, i. 228; of others, i. 232; advancement of, interrupted by being applied to professions, i. 174; improves morals, i. 182.
LABOUR encouraged by reward, i. 184. Labyrinth of Dædalus, i. 300. Labyrinthi filum, i. 96.
Lace, making it in England, ii. 384.
Lacedæmon, their niceness in admitting naturalization, ii. 224; its strength compared to a river, stronger at a distance, but weak at the fountain, ii. 224.
Lakes, artificial, i. 266.
Lamech, his boast of murder, ii. 298.
Land improved by draining, ii. 384; statute for aliena- tion of, i. 343.
Lands, how to improve, ii. 384; no such usury as from improving, ii. 387.
Lancaster, court of the duchy of, ii. 513.
Lancashire being backward in religion, Queen Eliza- beth erected four stipends for preachers therein, ii. 241.
Lantern of justice evidence, ii. 321. Lard, its use in removing warts, ii. 136. Lassitude, experiments touching, ii. 98. Latin, character of language, iii. 222.
Latimer's, Bishop, saying how to make the king rich, i. 108.
Latimer's case, notes upon Lord, ii. 528. Latter times prophesied by Daniel, i. 191. Laud's, Dr., saying about hypocrites, i. 122. Laughing, effect of, ii. 97.
Law tracts, iii. 219.
Law of revolt, ii. 364.
Law, i. 238; the king its life, i. 63; its life in the exe- cution, ii. 292; reaches every wrong or injury, ii. 507; the common law more worthy than the statute law, and the law of nature more worthy than them both, ii. 169; favours three things, life, liberty, and
dower, ii. 176; where a prince's title is by law he can never change the laws, for they create his title, ii. 181; as mixed as our language, ii. 230, 235; the objec- tions to our laws, ii. 230; university lectures, advice to raise the pension of out of the Sutton Estate, ii. 241; elements of the common, iii. 219; maxims of, iii. 219--247; use of the, iii. 247; arguments in, iii. 267; the civil, not to be neglected, ii. 380; the just use to be made of, ii. 486.
Laws, the treatise de regulis juris most important to the health of the, ii. 232; good laws some bridle to bad princes, ii. 234; execution of the old, ii. 267, 286; English second to none, ii. 378; multiplicity of, evil, ii. 285; against usury, i. 333; against man- slaughter, i. 333; various improvements in, i. 333; their three natures, jura, leges, and mores, ii. 141; several laws are of the internal points of separation with Scotland, ii. 146; considerations touching them, and touching a digest of them, ii. 147; Sir Francis Bacon's speech in the House of Commons for the union of the laws of England and Scotland, ii. 158; a preparation towards the union of those laws, ii. 160; the division of jus publicum, ii. 161; the great organ by which the sovereign power moves, ii. 168; although the king is solutus legibus, his acts are limited by law, ii. 169; penal, during James I., ii. 306; work on, ii. 435.
Laws of England, i. 239; their dignity, i. 239; their defect, i. 239; civil, i. 239; how pressed, i. 238; how expounded, i. 238; proposal for amendment of, ii. 229; objections to, and answers to those ob- jections, ii. 230; offer of digest of, ii. 233. Laws written upon by philosophers or lawyers, not statesmen, ii. 238.
Lawyers, not judged by the issue of their causes, i. 203; not always the best statesmen, i. 164; not the best lawmakers, i. 238; write what is, not what ought to be, law, i. 238; fees of, ii. 474. Lawgivers are kings after their decease, ii. 230. Lea, Sir James, temper and gravity of, ii. 477. Learned men, discredit to learning from their errors, i. 166; are not slothful, i. 165; patriotism of, i. 168; objections to learning by, i. 162; morigeration of not disallowed, i. 169; negligence of, i. 168; sometimes fail in exact application, i. 168; poverty of, i. 166; meanness of their employment, i. 167; would impose ancient precepts, i. 167; should be rewarded, i. 185; works relating to, i. 185; should be countenanced, i. 185; influence of studies on the manners of, i. 167; in obscurity in states com- pared to Cassius and Brutus in the funeral of Junia, i. 167; errors in their studies, i. 169; have preferred their countries' good to their own interest, i. 168. Learned kings, &c., advantages of, i. 164, 165. Learning, will defend the mind against idleness, i.. 166; pleasures of the greatest, i. 183; humanizes men's minds, i. 182; improves private virtues, i. 182; improves morals, i. 182; represses inconve niences between men, i. 177; its effects illustrated by the fable of Orpheus, i. 177; does not under- mine reverence of laws, i. 166; peccant humours of, i. 172; want of inquiry in unlaboured parts of i. 186; division of, i. 187; objections of learned men to, i. 166; makes men more ready to agree than obey, i. 164; impediments to, i. 163; soft- ens men's minds, i. 164; enlarges military power, i. 179, 180; scriptural praise of, i. 176; ancient preserved by the Christian church, i. 176; relieves man's afflictions, i. 176; ministers greater strength: than infirmity, i. 165; places of, i. 184; books of i. 185; insures immortality, i. 183, uses of, i. 163;
contentious, i. 169, 170; unprofitable, i. 171; times most renowned for arms most admired for, i. 164; objections of politicians to, answered, i. 164; ad- vantages of, proficiency of, i. 174; teaches the use of distinctions and exceptions, i. 165; human proofs of the advantages of, i. 177; advantages of in kings, governors, and senators, i. 177; endues the mind with tender sense, i. 168; erroneous, and dif- ferent errors of, i. 169; advantages of, in princes and governors, i. 164, 165; takes away levity, te- merity, and insolency, i. 182; and vain admiration, i. 182; and mitigates the fear of death or adverse fortune, i. 182; flourishes in the middle of a state, i. 62; has its infancy, youth, strength, and old age, i. | 62; why learning now has the curse of barrenness, i. 87; Antisthenes's opinion to unlearn what is naught was the most necessary thing, i. 120; of Eliza beth, i. 166; excellence of and propagation of, i. 162. Learning and arms, instances of concurrence in, i. 164, 165; comparison of, in advancing men, i. 183. Lead incorporates with copper, ii. 459; mixed with silver, ii. 108; salt of, with lead, ii. 460; weight of, in water, ii. 464.
Leaf of burrage, its virtue, ii. 9.
Leagues typified in the fable of Styx, i. 289. Leaves not so nourishing as roots, ii. 14.
Lecturers should be the ablest men, i. 185; inade- quacy of rewards for, i. 185.
Lee, Sir Thomas, suffered for rebellion, ii. 350; his confession, ii. 365.
Lee, Sir John, notes upon the case of, ii. 527. Left side, experiment touching the, ii. 121.
Legacies, suits for, ii. 514.
Letters from Lord Bacon, continued. Cary, to Sir George, iii, 33. Cecil, to Sir Robert, ii. 187; iii. 9, 51, 54, 55, 61, 92 93, 162, 192, 203, 206. Challoner, to Sir Thomas, iii. 37. Chancellor, to the Lord, iii. 23, 26, 35. Chancellor of Ireland, to the Lord, iii. 113. Chief Justice of Ireland, to the, iii. 114. Clifford, to Lady, iii. 118. Coke, to Sir Edward, ii. 485; iii. 34. Conway, to Mr. Secretary, iii. 148, 149. Cottington, to Sir Francis, iii. 148, 149. Cotton, to Sir Robert, iii. 165. Davis, to Sir J., iii. 38, 200. Devonshire, to the Earl of, ii. 333. Digby, to Lord, iii. 138. Dorset, to the Earl of, iii. 156. Effiat, to the Marquis of, iii. 65, 158. Egerton, to Sir Thomas, iii. 91, 207. Ely, to the Bishop of, iii. 30.
Essex, to the Earl of, iii. 3, 5, 6, 8, 51, 53, 55, 59, 61, 62, 200, 202, 203, 209, 210.
Falkland, to Henry Cary, Lord, iii. 142. Fenton, to Lord, iii. 104.
Feoffees of St. Aldat's, Oxon, to the, iii. 171. Foules, to Mr. David, iii. 9, 38. Friend, to a, iii. 189, 190. Fulgentio, to Father, iii. 64. Fullerton, to Sir James, iii. 111.
Gondomar, to Count, iii. 170, 216, 217. Grevil, to Foulk, iii. 52.
Hickes, to Mr. Michael, iii. 162, 164, 165, 166. Howard, to Lord Henry, iii. 56.
Legal questions for the judges in the case of Earl and Jones, to Dr. Thomas, iii. 113.
Countess of Somerset, ii. 516.
Legends, their origin, i. 70.
Legs, how to form the calves of the, ii. 11. Leicester, Thomas, Earl of, his library, ii. 508. Lepanto, battle of, arrested the greatness of the Turk, i. 38.
Leprosy most contagious before maturity, i. 175.
Lethe, the river, runs as well above ground as below, i. 60.
Letters, in business, when good, i. 53; relating to Chief Justice Coke, ii. 497.
Letters patent, exemplification of, ii. 485.
Letters from Lord Bacon.
Arundel, to the Earl of, iii. 91.
Bacon, to Sir Anthony, iii. 205, 210. Barnham, to Sir Francis, iii. 155.
Bodley, to Sir Thomas, iii. 27, 31, 198. Bristol, to the Earl of, iii. 79, 149. Buckhurst, to Lord, iii. 26. Buckingham, to the Countess of, iii. 146. Buckingham, to the Duke of, ii. 375, 504, 521, 525, 526; iii. 26, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 138, 140, 141, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184, 185, 186, 187, 194.
Keeper, to the Lord, iii. 105, 145, 192, 193, 194, 195,
Kemp, to Robert, iii. 8, 201.
King, to the, ii. 233, 326, 328, 331, 488, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 510, 511, 512, 519, 524, 526, 527; iii. 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 32, 33, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 72, 76, 78, 82, 87, 93, 94, 95, 96, 100, 101, 125, 129, 131, 134, 136, 148, 152, 158, 177, 180, 183, 184, 198.
Kinloss, to the Lord, iii. 34.
Lea, to the Lord Treasurer, iii. 169. Lenox, to the Duke of, iii. 140. Lords, to the, iii. 25, 137.
Lucy, to Sir Thomas, iii. 53.
Master of the Horse, to the, iii. 19.
Matthew, to Mr. Tobie, iii. 10, 21, 31, 70, 71, 143,
149, 151, 152, 160, 168.
Maxey, to Mr., iii. 211.
May, to Sir Humphrey, iii. 135, 156, 158. Maynard and Hickes, to, iii. 163. Mayor, to the Lord, iii. 39. Meautys, to Thomas, Esq., iii. 143. Morison, to Dr., iii. 197.
Murray, to Mr., ii. 511; iii. 97, 197. Niece, to his, iii. 102.
Northampton, to the Earl of, iii. 27. Northumberland, to the Earl of, iii. 8, 16, 34, 38. Oxford, to the Earl of, iii. 154. Oxford, to the University of, iii. 211.
Burghley, to Lady, iii. 161; to Lord, iii. 1, 2, 53, 161, Packington, to Lady, iii. 197. 164.
Calvert, to the Secretary, iii. 125.
Cambridge, to the Mayor of, iii. 168.
Palatine of the Rhine, to the Count, iii. 161. Palmer, to Mr. Roger, iii. 157.
Petition intended for the House of Lords, iii. 137.
Cambridge, to the University of, iii. 50, 63, 64, 166; Pierce, to Mr., iii. 39.
to Trinity College, iii. 64.
Canterbury, to the Archbishop of, iii. 62.
Playfer, to Dr., iii. 27.
President, to the Lord, iii. 168.
Queen, to the, iii. 37, 54, 55, 56, 201, 205.
Salisbury, to the Earl of, iii. 5, 21, 25, 39, 40, 164. Saville, to Sir Henry, i. 104; iii. 71.
Servant, to his, iii. 191.
Skinner, to Sir Vincent, iii. 35. Southampton, to the Earl of, iii. 38.
Stanhope, to Sir John, iii. 51.
Treasurer, to the Lord, iii. 1, 9, 52, 142, 162, 163. Villiers, to Lord, iii. 73, 74, 75, 171.
Villiers, to Sir George, ii. 326, 328, 330, 518; iii. 12, 15, 19, 20, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 72, 97, 194, 199. Wake, to Mr. Isaac, ii. 115.
Weston, to Sir Richard, iii. 155. Williams, to Dr., iii. 64, 137, 145. Winchester, to the Bishop of, ii. 435. Wotton, to Sir Henry, iii. 522. York, to the Archbishop of, iii. 160. York, to the Lord President of, iii. 168.
Letters to Lord Bacon.
Bacon, from Sir Edmund, iii. 101. Bodley, from Sir Thomas, iii. 28. Buckingham, from the Duke of, ii. 54, 522, 523, 524, 525; iii. 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 138, 150, 171, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 184, 185, 187, 188, 211. Burghley, from Lord, iii. 201.
Cambridge, from the University of, iii. 166, 167. Cecil, from Sir Robert, iii. 201.
Coventry, from Sir Thomas, iii. 157. Englefyld, from Sir Francis, iii. 107.
Essex, from the Earl of, iii. 37, 196, 200, 202, 203,
204, 205, 209; to the queen, iii. 55.
Franklin, from Edward, iii. 169.
Friend, from some, iii. 105.
Grevil, from Foulke, iii. 204.
Keeper, from the Lord, iii. 147.
King, from the, ii. 502; iii. 50, 167.
Lenox, from the Duke of, iii. 140.
Martin, from Richard, iii. 100.
Libel, observations on one published in 1592, ii. 242. Libels, when frequent the signs of troubles, i. 22; always favoured, ii. 413.
Liberators the third in honour, i. 58.
Liberty, motion of, what, ii. 8.
Licenses, good certificate required for granting, ii. 485. Lie, enormity of giving the, rose from opinion of Francis I., ii. 298; ancients did not consider it deep offence, ii. 298.
Lies, why men love them, i. 11; why it is such a dis- grace, i. 11; great effect of cross, i. 57; breed opi- nion, and opinion brings on substance, i. 57. Lieutenants, lord of counties, choice of, ii. 380. Life, prolongation of, Aristotle's remarks concerning, ii. 16; prolongation of, ii. 47; iii. 467; and death, history of, iii. 467; length and shortness of, in animals, iii. 475; in man, iii. 479; medicines for long, iii. 488; canons of the duration of, iii. 512.
Light, topics of inquiry concerning, i. 452; kindling of natural, i. 454; by refraction, ii. 402; moves quicker than sound, ii. 37.
Light and sound, the agreements and disagreements of the phenomena of, iii. 537, 539, 541, 542. Light of nature, i. 239.
Light on water like music, i. 194.
Limits of reason, i. 240.
Lincoln, Earl of, joins in Simnell's conspiracy, i. 322; his design upon the crown, i. 322; departs for Flanders, i. 323; slain at Newark, 325. Lincoln, case of the Bishop of, ii. 490. Lincostis, herb growing in the water, ii. 85. Liquefiable bodies, which are not, ii. 114. Liquids, separation of, by weight, appetite of, conti-
nuation in, ii. 10; effects of percussion on, ii. 8. Liquors, clarifying of, ii. 7; commixture of, ii. 465; preservation of in wells, ii. 57; alteration of in deep vaults, ii, 57; experiments touching the clari- fication of, ii. 47; operation of time upon, ii. 119; touching the compression of, ii. 119.
Liquor and powders, incorporation of, ii. 46. Lisbon, expedition to, ii. 200.
Literary history, deficiency of i. 187; uses of, i. 187. Littleton's advice to the professors of the law, ii. 167; his book not of the nature of an institution, ii. 232. Littleton and Fitzherbert, peculiarities of their writ- ings, iii. 222.
Liturgy, i. 243; ii. 425.
Matthew, from Mr. Tobie, iii. 97, 98, 99, 114, 118, Liver, a purge for opening the, ii. 466. 126, 127, 160.
Meautys, from Thomas, Esq., iii. 138, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 170.
Oxford, from the University of, iii. 65. Sackville, from Sir Edward, iii. 144. Selden, from John, Esq., ii. 530.
Villiers, from Sir George, ii. 498; iii. 101, 173. Williams, from Dr., iii. 137.
Yelverton, from Sir Henry, ii. 503, 528. Coke, Sir Edward, to the king, ii. 502. Council, to the, from the Earl of Essex, iii. 56. Council, privy, to the king. iii. 175.
Deodati, to, from Dr. Rawley, iii. 67.
Livia settled Tiberius's succession by giving out that Augustus was recovering, i. 62; her speech to Au- gustus on being met by naked men, i. 113; impoi- soning figs on the tree, ii. 322.
Living creatures and plants, affinities and differences in, ii. 81.
Livius, Titus, his censure against Perseus's, King of Macedon, mode of carrying on war, ii. 216; his judgment of Alexander the Great, ii. 223. Livy, his description of Cato Major, i. 46; of Scipio Africanus, i. 48; his remark in the case of Antiochus and the Etolians, i. 57; his saying respecting Alex- ander, i. 84.
Essex, from the Earl of, to Mr. Anthony Bacon, iii. 3, 4. Loadstone, discovery of the uses of the, i. 188.
Gruter, Mr. Isaac, to Dr. Rawley, iii. 68, 69, 70. Maynwaring, Dr. Roger, to Dr. Rawley, iii. 66. Rawley, to Dr., from Mon. Deodate, iii. 67. Levant, their behaviour to princes a good moral, i. 168.
Lewis XI. of France, his mode of mixing with in- feriors, i. 294; saying of, i. 118; his closeness was his tormentor, i. 34; his intention to make a perfect law out of the civil law Roman, ii. 231, 235.
Logic, too early taught in universities, i. 186; con- sidereth things as in notion, i. 194; its difference from rhetoric, i. 216; induction by nature better than as described in logic, i. 208; does not invent sciences, i. 207; Alexander's reprehension of, and his use of, i. 180.
Logicians, induction of, errors of, i. 208. Long life, medicines for, iii. 488. Lopez, Dr., report of his treasonable design against
the queen's person, ii. 216; the means he had to poison the queen and to conceal his crime, ii. 217; a Portuguese and secretly a Jew, sworn physician of the household, ii. 217; gives intelligence to the King of Spain, ii. 217; his conduct with Andrada, ii. 218; assents to poison the queen, ii. 218; sends Andrada to Spain to contract about the reward, ii. | 218; communicates with Ferrera thereon, ii. 219; his manner of corresponding, ii. 219; demands 50,000 crowns, ii. 219; asks the queen whether a deceiver might not be deceived, ii. 219; Ferrera discovered to have intelligence, ii. 219; Lopez called in question, ii. 220; denies his conferences, ii. 220; | confronted by Ferrera, ii. 220; falsehood of his ex- cuses, ii. 220; justice of his condemnation, ii. 220; executed, ii. 220, [note.]
Love, vain, and divine, i, 227; Xenophon's opinion of, i. 227; without love faces but pictures, and talk a tinkling cymbal, i. 33; is goodness put in motion, i. 81; his attributes, i. 298.
Lovel, Viscount, his attainder, i. 318; his rebellion, i. 319; his flight to Flanders, i. 319; drowned near Newark, i. 325.
Low Countries, ii. 451; their state in the time of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 247; observation that the same weather in, returns every thirty-five years, i. 60. Low's 's case of tenures, iii. 276.
Lucius, Commodus Verus, a learned prince, i. 178. Lucretius's praise of knowledge, i. 183; his verse on Agamemnon's sacrificing his daughter, i. 13; makes his invectives against religion the burden of his other discourses, i. 70.
Lucky, some men are, ii. 129, 132.
Mahometans, propagation of religion of, ii. 314. Mahomet, ii. 439.
Maize, Indian, its use, ii. 467. Majoration of sounds, ii. 31. Majors, alterations which may be called, ii. 114. Maleficiating, experiment on, ii. 122. Male and female, differences between, ii. 117. Mallet's Life of Bacon, notice of wisdom of the ancients, i. 273.
Malmsey, what nitre good for when dissolved in, ii. 128.
Malt, experiments touching, ii. 86. Man, fall of, induced by desire of perfect knowledge, i, 175; knowledge of, i. 201; as an individual, i. 201; a member of society, i. 201; divided state of the body of, i. 202; the mind of, i. 202; faculties of, use and object of, i. 206; in society, i. 228; delights in generalities, i. 198; nature of mind of, i. 161; as an individual undivided state, i. 201; ancient opinion that man was microcosmus, i. 202; aliment of, 202; condition of, ii. 543.
Man's understanding, i. 187; knowledge like water, i. 193; flesh, venomous quality of, ii. 10; body, in- stances how it may be moulded, i. 105. Man, Doctor, Ambassador of Queen Elizabeth, ill treated by Philip of Spain, ii. 260. Manlius, his protestation, ii. 364. Manna, gathering of, ii. 105.
Manners of learned men, objections to learning from the, answered, i. 167; less corrupted by vicious, than half evil, men, i. 175; of learned men, discredit to learning from, i. 166.
Manus Christi for the stomach, ii. 470.
Lucullus's answer to Pompey's remark on his rooms, i. Manufactures, sedentary manufactures contrary to a
50, 113; his saying of Pompey, i. 121.
Lumsden, Mr., charge against, ii. 307.
Lungs the most spongy part of the body, ii. 35. Lust, effect of, ii. 97.
Luson, Sir John, commands a body of pikemen against the Earl of Essex, ii. 359,
Luther praised for awakening human learning, i. 98. Lycurgus, saying of his, i. 109, 119. Lycurgus's answer to one who counselled him to dis- solve the kingdom, ii. 168; his laws spoken of by grammar scholars, ii. 231, 234; continued longest without alteration, ii. 234.
military disposition, i. 38; advantage of ancient states, that they had slaves to do the manufactures, i. 38.
Marble, plaster growing as hard as, ii. 106. Marcasite of metals, ii. 460. Marcellus, humour of, ii. 487.
March, a dry one portends a wholesome summer, ii. 110.
Marches, jurisdiction of the, iii. 285.
Margaret of Burgundy sets up a counterfeit Duke of York, i. 346.
Mariners, how furnished, ii. 383.
Lysimachus, remark on Lamia, power over Demetrius, Mariners' needle, i. 207. i. 118.
MACHIAVEL, i. 235, 236, 237; his saying of custom, i. 45; his opinion on the cause of the greatness of the Roman Empire, ii. 140; his saying touching the true sinews of war, ii. 157, 225; his saying on the Christian Faith, i. 21; on partial princes, i. 22; on the effects of the jealousy of sects, i. 60; his ob- servation on the poverty of friars, i. 166. Macrocephali esteemed, ii. 11.
Marius Caius, his conduct to the Cadurcians and de- fence of it, i. 121.
Marriage and high life, Essay of, i. 16. Marrow more nourishing than fat, ii. 14. Marseilles, Spaniards had it and left it, ii. 213. Mart, letters of, against the Spaniards desired by the English merchants, ii. 195; considerations thereon, ii. 196.
Martial law, useful in plantations, i. 41 Martial men given to love, i. 19.
Mæcenas, his advice to Augustus Cæsar about the Mascardus de interpretatione statutorum, ii. 528. marriage of his daughter Julia, i. 34. Magic, Persian, i. 194; Persian, the secret literature of the kings, ii. 138; natural, is defective, i. 199; ceremonial, i. 206.
Magicians, means used by, more monstrous than the end, i. 199.
Magistrates, of subordinate, ii. 293.
Magistrates, considerations touching the recusant ma- gistrates of the towns of Ireland, ii. 191; advice not to tender the oath of supremacy to them, ii. 191. Magnificence, a regal virtue, i. 63. Magnanimity, its nature, ii. 445.
Magnetical, sun and moon of what, ii. 19.
Mason, Mr., witty answer of his, i. 111. Masques and triumphs, essay on, i. 44. Masques, when to be given at court, ii. 388. Master of chancery taking affidavits, ii. 483. Masters of the chancery, ii. 472. Masters, reference to, ii. 482; certifying state of cause, ii. 482.
Marvels, history of, deficient, i. 187; uses of, i. 188. Mathematical and logical part of men's minds, i. 236. Mathematical house, i. 269.
Mathematics, no deficience reported, i. 199; pure, i. 199; sharpen the dull wit, i. 199; if wandering, fix the mind, i. 199; if too coherent in the sense,
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