Cornish men-continued.

march up to London, vi. 177-179.
defeated at Blackheath, vi. 181.
strength of their bows, vi. 182.

invite Perkin Warbeck over from Ireland,
vi. 189.

Coronation of Henry VII. on Bosworth field,
vi. 30.

in London, vi. 33, 35.

of Lambert Symnell at Dublin, vi. 54.
of Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII. vi. 60.
Coroner, office of, vii. 780.

Corporalis injuria non recipit æstimationem
de futuro, vii. 346, 347.

Corporations, by-laws of, restrained by sta-
tute of Henry VII. vi. 223.
cannot be seized to a use, vii. 435.
may take a use, vii. 438.
may limit a use, vii. 442.

do not take by descent, vii. 668.
Corruptio unius, generatio alterius, vii. 90.
Corruption and bribery of men in authority,
vi. 400, 551.

Cornua Panis, quid referunt, vi. 637.
Cosmo de Medici, Italian translation of Bacon's
Essays dedicated to, vi. 370.

his saying against perfidious friends, vi. 385.
of forgiveness of friends, vii. 154.
Cotton, Sir Robert, supplies materials to Bacon
in compiling his History of King Henry
VII. vi. 4.

less liberal in that of Henry VIII. vi. 267.
Cottonian library, manuscripts destroyed by
fire, vi. 66.

Council of the Marches, Bacon's argument on
the jurisdiction, vii. 587-611.
ancient, vii. 588, 590.

its objects,

to bridle the Welch, vii. 589.

to facilitate commerce between Eng-
land and Wales, ib.

to dignify the Prince of Wales, ib.
Great, what, vi. 74.

summoned by Henry VII, in his seventh year,

before calling his Parliament, vi. 117.
called by Henry VII. vi. 174.

distinct from Parliament, vi. 247-252.
its composition, vi. 250.

matters referred to it, vi. 251.

Council of York, vii. 569, 576, 577 n., 579, 583.
Council-chamber, arrangement of seats in, vi.
427.

Counsel, essay on, vi. 423-427, 553–556.

the greatest trust between men, vi. 423,553.
legend of Metis, vi. 424, 554, 763.
inconveniences of, are three,

want of secresy, vi. 424.

weakening of authority, vi. 425.
unfaithful counsellors, vi, 425, 426.
for these, cabinet counsels are a remedy
worse than the disease, vi, 424, 425.
defects of the present mode of meeting, vi.
426.

ask of the ancient, what is best, and of
the latter, what is fittest, vi. 400, 551.

Counsel-continued.

of two sorts, concerning manners, con-

cerning business, vi. 441.

behaviour of judges towards, vi. 508, 584.
Countebalt, ambassador from Maximilian to
Henry VII. vi. 115, 116, 127.

Countenance, necessary command of, vii. 109.
Counterfeit coin, vii. 733.

Country people, Pan why god of, vi. 712.
County, charge of taken from the earls, vii.
466.

County-courts divided into hundreds, ib.

kept monthly by the sheriffs, vii. 467.
Court leets, origin and jurisdiction of, vii. 467,
750.

Court-yards for palaces, vi. 483-485.
Courtesy, tenant by the, vii. 421.
Courtiers, like fasting days, vii. 159.

bowing to lawyers and citizens, vii. 175.
Courtney, Edward, created Earl of Devon,
vi. 34.

William, Earl of Devonshire, committed
to custody by Henry VII. vi. 221.
Courts of Justice, the attendance of, subject
to four bad instruments, vi. 509, 584.
provincial, instituted by Henry VIII.
vii. 569, 570.

Covenants to stand seized, vii. 495, 496.
Covin, a use no covin, vii. 400, 448.
Cranfield, Treasurer, vii. 180.

his saying of men who shake their heads
after others' speech, vii. 128.
Crassus, on the death of his fish, to Domitius,
vii. 147.

Creation of the world, vii. 220, 221.
Cretine d'eau, vii. 344.

Crispus murdered by his father Constantine,
vi. 421.

Critics, brushers of noblemen's clothes, vii. 134.
Croesus to Cambyses, of war, vii. 145.
Croft, Sir Herbert, vii. 576-583.
Crofts r. Lord Beauchamp, vii. 712.

v. Kemperden, vii. 711.

Cross set up by Ferdinando on the great tower
of Grenada, vi. 125.

Crusade meditated by Charles VIII. vi. 107.
Pope Alexander attempts to organise one,

vi. 209.

invites Henry VII. to join, vi. 210.
money for, raised in England, ib.
against the Turks, vii. 4.

Bacon's opinions respecting, vii. 5.
Cruzada, vii. 25.

Cuckoo, the form assumed by Jupiter, when
wooing Juno, why, vi. 728.

Cuculus, Jupiter Junonem sub formam cuculi
petit, vi. 654.

Culpepper's case, vii. 543.

Cunning, essay on, vi. 428-431, 546, 547.
a sinister or crooked wisdom, vi. 428,
546.

stratagems of, vi. 428-431, 547.
Cupid challenged by Pan to fight, meaning of
the fable, vi. 712, 713.

meaning of the allegory, vi. 729-731.

Dacre, Lord, his case, vii. 402.

Dædalus, or the mechanic, interpretation of
the fable, vi. 734-736.
interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 659, 660.
Dam, the seaport of Bruges, vi. 123.

taken by stratagem, by the Duke of
Saxony, vi. 124.

Damages, vii. 348, 349.

an argument of property, vii. 533.
Dammasin trees, vi. 486.

Dances to song, have extreme grace, vi. 467.
turned into figure, a childish curiosity, ib.
Dangers are no more light, if they once seem
light, vi. 427.

Darcy, Lord, sent into Cornwall to impose
fines, after the rebellion of Perkin Warbeck,
vi. 194.

Dawbeney, Lord, defeats the Cornish rebels
at Blackheath, vi. 178, 181.

Giles, Lord, made Lord Chamberlain, vi.
152.

William, tried for Perkin Warbeck's re-
bellion, and beheaded, vi. 148.
Daubigny, Bernard, sent by Charles VIII.
to Henry VII. vi. 71.
Daubigny, Lord, deputy of Calais, raises the
siege of Dixmue, vi. 99, 100.

negotiates the treaty of Estaples with
Lord Cordes, vi. 129.

Daunus, entertainer of Diomede, vi. 732.
Diomedis hospes, vi. 657.

David's harp has as many hearse-like airs, as
carols, vi. 386.

De fide et officio judicis, non recipitur quæstio,
sed de scientia; sive sit error juris sive facti,
vii. 366-368.

De non procedendo rege inconsulto, Bacon's
argument on the writ, vii. 27-725.
Proceedings in the case, vii. 63-685.

D.

Curæ, mensura curarum, vii. 235, 236.

excessus earum duplex, vii. 236.
Curiosity, its results illustrated, by the fables

of Actæon and Pentheus, vi. 719, 720.
Cursitors for original writs, instituted, vii. 700.
Curson, Sir Robert, Governor at Hammes,
joins the Earl of Suffolk as a spy, vi. 221.
excommunicated together with the Earl,
vi. 222.

returns to England, ib.

Custom and education, essay on, vi. 470-
472, 572, 573.

examples of the force of, vi. 471, 573.
the principal magistrate of man's life, ib.
most perfect when begun in youth, ib.
Customs, law of Henry VII. for the security
of, vi. 87.

Customs of the Realm, vii. 509.

Cyclopes, or ministers of terror, interpretation
of the fable, vi. 704, 705.

ministri terroris, vi. 631, 632.
Cycniæ cantiones, vi. 658.

De non procedendo-continued.

antiquity and worth of the writ, vii.
688.

the end of the writ, vii. 689, 690-700.
the efficient, vii. 689, 700—705.
the matter, vii. 689, 705-714.
the form, vii. 689, 714-723.
two kinds of this writ, vii. 697.

De Sapientiâ Veterum, Latin, vi. 629–686.
English translation, vi. 701-764.
Editor's Preface, vi. 607–616.
Dedications, vi. 689-691.
Preface, vi. 695-699.

former popularity and present neglect,
vi. 609.

text, vi. 616.

dedicatio Comiti Sarisburiensi, vi. 619.
Academiæ Cantabrigiensi, vi. 621.
Præfatio, vi. 625–628.

De Victoria, his maxim, non fundatur impe-
rium nisi in imagine Dei, vii. 30.

De Thou, memorial of Q. Elizabeth, communi-
cated to, vi. 283, 321.

Death, Essay on, vi. 379, 380, 544, 545.

another Essay, not by Bacon, possibly by
Sir Thomas Browne, vi. 594, 600—604.
fear of, vi. 379, 544, 600.
pains of, vi. 379, 544, 603.
approach of has little effect on good spirits,
vi. 380, 544.

deaths of remarkable men, ib.

we die daily, vi. 600.

unagreeable to aldermen and citizens, vi
602.

gracious only to those in misery, ib.
early deaths of men of promise, vi. 727.
comes to young men, old men go to it, vii
142.

Deathbed sayings, vi. 380, 545.

Declarations, distinguished from grants, vii.

362.

Dedications, Seneca's, vii. 13.

Deed ever imports a consideration, vii. 403,
404.

Deer pasture, vii. 342.

Deformed people envious, vi. 393.

commonly even with nature, vi. 480, 570.
extreme bold, vi. 480, 571.

observers of the weak points of others, ib.
sometimes excellent persons, vi. 481, 571.
Deformity, essay on, vi. 480, 481, 570, 571.
not a sign of character, but a cause, vi.
480, 570.

in a great wit is an advantage in rising,
vi. 480, 571.

Deipara, vii. 223.

Delamer's case, vii. 400, 406, 622, 635.
Delapole, William, committed to custody by
Henry VII. vi. 221.

Delays of men in authority, vi. 400, 551.
essay on, vi. 427, 428.

Deluges, vi. 512.

Demades, Antipater to, vii. 141.

Demeanour, the art of, vi. 435-437, 565-
567.

Demetrius, when he had refused a petition to
an old woman, vii. 147.

Demetrius of Macedon, when the fever left
him, vii. 147.

Democritus, charged with Atheism, vi. 413,
559.

his philosophy illustrated by the fable of
Celum, vi. 723.

his opinion that the world might again
revert to chaos, vi. 724.

his atomic theory, vi. 730.

more to be approved than Aristotle, vi.
749.

truth, like ore, needs refining, vii. 162.
philosophia ejus non multùm discrepat a
fabula Coli, vi. 649.

opinio ejus mundum in antiquam confu-
sionem posse relabi, vi. 650.
de motu atomorum, vi. 655.

philosophia ejus magis probanda quàm
Aristotelis, vi. 672.

Demonax, concerning his burial, vii. 128.
Demosthenes, his conduct in banishment, vii.
12.

his grounds of hope for Athens, vii. 87.
his reproof to the Athenians, vii. 90.
when upbraided by Aschines, vii. 141.
when charged with cowardice, vii. 148.
when warned that the Athenians would
kill him, if they waxed mad, vii. 154.
Demurrer on evidence, vii. 341.
Denization, vii. 648, 649.
Deportment, the art of, vi. 435-437, 565—
567.

Deptford Bridge, action at, between Lord
Dawbeney and the Cornish rebels, vi. 181.
Derby, Ferdinand Earl of, lawsuit for the
Isle of Man at his death, note in Camden
by Bacon, vi. 358

Detractor portat Diabolum in linguâ, vii. 200.
Deucalion and Pyrrha, meaning of the fable,
vi. 737.

interpretatio fabulæ. vi. 661.

Devonshire, Cornish rebels against Henry
VII. march through, vi. 177.

Earl of, relieves Exeter, besieged by
Perkin Warbeck, vi. 192.

Devil, envy his proper attribute, vi. 397.
Diana and Actæon, interpretation of the
fable, vi. 719.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 645, 646.
Diaries of travels, how to be kept, vi. 417.
Diem solvit extremum, the writing made
into a patent office, vii. 699.

Diet, how to regulate, vi. 453, 563.
Digby, Sir John, Lieutenant of the Tower, in
charge of Perkin Warbeck, vi. 202,
ambassador to Spain, vii. 3, 4.

Digestion, vi. 434, 556.

Digg's case, vii. 560.

Dighton, John, one of the murderers of the
two princes in the Tower, vi. 141–143.
Dilatories, the king's prerogative of, vii. 700,
701-703.

Diogenes, when asked how he would be
buried, vii. 128.

to Plato, vii. 140.

begging of a prodigal, vii. 144.
looking for a man, vii. 157.

when the mice came about him, vii. 160.
Alexander's visit to, vii. 163.

to a young man dancing daintily, ib.
called an ill musician, "cock," ib.
seeing a bastard throwing stones, ib.
Diomedes, or religious zeal, explanation of
the fable, vi. 732-734.
interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 657, 658.
Dionysius, when a schoolmaster, to one tha.
insulted him, vii. 137.

the elder, to his son, vii. 143.
Dionysus, or Desire.-See Bacchus.
Disclaimer, vii. 355.
Discontentment, vi. 396.

public, how to remove, vi. 410-412.
Discontinuance, vii. 351, 352.

Discourse, Essay on, vi. 455-457, 564,
565.

Dishonour, or Juno's suitor, meaning of the
fable, vi. 728.

Dissimulation, essay on, vi. 387-389.

a faint kind of wisdom, vi. 387.
follows on secrecy by a necessity, vi. 388.
advantages of it, vi. 389.
disadvantages, ib.

Dissolution of contracts, vii. 372-374.
Distress, right of, vii. 339.

Divers, their power of holding the breath, vii.

99.

Divinatio, non interpretatio est, quæ omninò
recedit a literâ, vii. 337.

Dixmue, besieged by the French under Lord
Cordes, vi. 99.

relieved by Lord Daubigny, vi. 100.
Doctors' reports in Chancery, vii. 171.

Dog, his courage in presence of his master, vi.
414, 560.

death of Lord Bacon's, vii. 184.
Dogmatica facultas cum Empiricâ adhuc non
benè conjuncta, vi. 673.

Dogmatical and Empirical faculty, not well
united, vi. 750.

Dorset, Marquis of, left as a pledge at Paris
by Henry VII. vi. 40.

committed to the Tower by the King, vi. 55.
set at liberty, vi. 61.

Double vexation, in Chancery and at Common
Law, not permitted, vii. 762.

Dove, the spirit of Jesus was the spirit of the
Dove, vii. 244.

Earl v. Snow, vii. 635.

Earls, the turn first held by, vii. 466.
charge of county taken from, ib.

Earth gives counsel to Jupiter, vi. 704.
Earthquakes, vi. 512.

East and West, wars anciently moved from

east to west, vi. 515.

have no certain points of heaven, ib.

Ecclesia scripturarum custos, vii. 242.
Echo companion of Narcissus, vi. 705.

fable of her marriage with Pan explained,
vi. 713, 714.

Narcissi comes, vi. 632.

uxor Panis, vi. 640.

Edgecombe, Sir Richard, ambassador to
France, vi. 62.

at Rennes, vi. 98.
Edmondsbury, Henry VII. at, vi. 55.
Edmund, son of Henry VII., dies in infancy,
vi. 201.

Education, essay on, vi. 470-472, 572,
573.

the power of, vi. 471, 573.

most perfect when begun in youth, ib.
is but an early custom, ib.
Edward the Confe sor, title to the crown
founded on his will, vi. 30.

Edward Plantagenet, prisoner in the Tower,

vi. 49.

paraded through the streets of London,
vi. 51.

Drunkenness, why no defence, vii. 346.
Dublin, coronation of Symnell at, vi. 54.
Dudley, and Empson, horse-leeches and shear-
ers for the king, vi. 217.

their oppressions, vi. 218, 235, 236.
made speaker of the House of Commons,
vi. 222.

Duress, vii. 369, 378, 379.

Dutch, free fishing on the coasts of England
not confirmed to them, vi. 232.

Dyer, Sir Edward, his story of Kelley the
alchymist, vii. 162.

Edward I., the principal lawgiver of our
nation, vii. 314, 647.

Edward II., vii. 141.

Edward IV., his popular reign, vi. 29.

invented benevolences, vi. 121.
godfather of Perkin Warbeck, vi. 133.
godfather not of Perkin, but of Edward,
the converted Jew, ib.

Egerton, Lord Keeper, vii. 171.
Egg of Night, Cupid, vi. 729.

self lovers will burn the house to roast
their eggs, vi. 562.

Egremond, Sir John, heads the rising in
Yorkshire and Durham against Henry
VII. vi. 89.

flies to Lady Margaret of Burgundy, ib.
Egypt, excellence of its geographical position,
vii. 62.

Egyptians, vagabonds calling themselves, vii.
739.

Elias, or Hialas, ambassador from Ferdinando
and Isabella to Henry VII. vi. 184.
Elizabeth, Queen, question of her legitimacy,
vi 215.

Bacon's notes to Camden's Annals of her
reign, vi. 353-364.

her agent at Constantinople, note by
Bacon in Camden respecting, vi. 356.
conspiracy of Roderigo Lopez to poison
her, note by Bacon in Camden respect.
ing, vi. 357.

Elizabeth-continued.

how dealt with, when bills were to be
signed, vi. 429.

applications of two for the office of secre-
tary, vi. 430.

not independent of subsidies, vii. 41.
playing on the virginals, vii. 124.

her reply to Sir John Rainsford, vii.

125.

Sir Nicholas Bacon to, ib.

and Pace the fool, vii. 125.

to Lord Essex, ib.

concerning the Commission of Sales, vii.
133.

her instructions to great officers, ib.
her dilatoriness with suitors, vii. 135.
when the archduke raised the siege of
Grave, vii. 136.

to Master Sackford in his new boots, vii.
137.

when warned of conspiracies against her
life, vii. 157.

at Theobald's knighted seven gentlemen,
ib.

to Lady Paget, vii. 161, 162.

of her successor, vii. 167.

to Sir Edward Dier, vii. 174.
concerning magistrates, vii. 175.
her reign a fit time for remodelling the
English law, vii. 315.

foiled in creating a new patent office, vii.
684.

Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII. her title to
the crown, vi. 29.

ordered to reside with the Queen Dow-
ager, vi. 31.

again betrothed to the king, vi. 33.
marriage,
and married life, vi. 41, 42.
coronation, vi. 60.

dies in childbed in the Tower, vi. 217.
Elizabeth, widow of Edward IV. vi. 62.

Ellesmere, Lord, of a man newly married, vii.

184.

anecdote of, vii. 176.

Emmanuel, king of Portugal, vii. 21.
Empedocles complained that we know no-
thing, vi. 749.

philosophia ejus magis probanda quàm
Aristotelis, vi. 672.

Empire, essay on, vi. 419-423, 552, 553.
true temper of, vi. 419, 553.

great empires enervate their subject na-
tions, vi. 515.

Empirical philosophers, like pismires, vii.

177.

Empson and Dudley, their relation to Henry
VII. vi. 22, 240.

horse-leeches and shearers for the king,
vi. 217.

their oppressions, vi. 155, 218, 235, 236.
cause of the overthrow of, vii. 514.
Enclosures, statute of Henry VII. respecting,

VI. 93.

Endymion, fable of, interpreted, vi. 717, 718.
interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 643, 644.

Endymion-continued.

as explained by Max Müller, vi. 612—
614.

England and Flanders, man and wife, vi. 145.
why an overmatch for France, vi. 447.
riches of the kingdom, vii. 61.

Entails, how created, vii. 489.

began by statute of Edward I. vi. 490.
inconveniences of, remedied by Act of
Parliament, vi. 490, 491.

Entreprenant, vi. 473, 574.

Entry, title to lands gained by, vii. 476–—
478.

Envy, essay on, vi. 392-397.

its relation to love, vi. 392.

called in Scripture, an evil eye, vi. 393.
a gadding passion, ib.

what persons apt to envy oth rs, vi. 393,
394.

what persons most subject to be envied,
vi. 394, 395.

redoubleth from speech and fame, vi. 394.
ever joined with the comparing a man's
self, vi. 394.

mollified by chanting a "Quanta patimur,"

vi. 395.

cure of it, vi. 396.

difference between public and private, ib.
public is a disease in a state, ib.

the most importune and the vilest of affec-
tions, vi. 396, 397.

the proper attribute of the Devil, vi. 397.
the canker of honour, vi. 505, 532.
predominant in great artists, vi. 734.
Epaminondas refused Pelopidas that which he
granted to his concubine, vii. 155.
taught the Spartans to speak long, ib.
Epictetus, who to be blamed, vii. 160.
Epicureans never join other philosophies,
though other philosophers become Epicureans,

vii. 165.

Epicurus, his atomic theory, vi. 730.

his atheism, vi. 413, 559.

tentamenta, vii. 91.

got rid of Fate, and made room for For-
tune, vii. 253.

de motu atomorum, vi. 656.

Fatum sustulit, et Fortunæ locum dedit,
vii. 241.

Epidemic sweating sickness, vi. 34.
Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, vii. 411,
590, 746.

his followers the improvident, vi. 751.
frater Promethei, vi. 669, 674.
Equivocation, distinguished from variance, vii.
386.

Erasmus, extracts by Bacon frem his Adagia,
vii. 193.

Erichthonius, or Imposture, meaning of the
fable, vi. 736.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 660.

Error, grounds on which it may be assigned,
vii. 366-368.

in fact, ib.
in law, ib.