Plutarch-continued.

good fame like fire, vii. 770, 771.
Pluto, helmet of, is secresy in counsel, and
celerity in execution, vi. 428.
better to Ferdinando than Pallas, vi. 228.
his rape of Proserpine, vi. 680, 758.
represents the earth, vi. 759.

Plutus timidus, vii. 59.

Poco di matto, vi. 473, 574.

Poesy, vinum Dæmonum, vi. 378.

Poets, those much conversant with, become
conceited, vi. 18.

the best writers, next to those who write
prose, vii. 134.

Poison, intended for A. taken by B. vii.
364, 365.

Poland, cause of its martial greatness, vi. 447.
Politique, Eupolis a, vii. 17.

malignant men make great politiques, vi.
405, 506.

Polycrates, his daughter's dream, vi. 463.
Polydore, his mistake of a Great Council for a
meeting of Parliament, vi. 74, 117.
Polydore Vergil, character of his History, vi.
4, 12.

Pomegranate eaten by Proserpine, vi. 758,760.
Pompey, Julius Cæsar's mode of dealing with
him, vi. 343.

his treatment of Sylla, vi. 438.

his war on the Cilician pirates, vii. 32.
likened by Lucullus to a carrion crow, vii.
160.

his saying to Lucullus, vii. 140.

when advised not to embark during a
storm, ib.

Tons, Gaspar, emissary from Pope Alexander
to Henry VII. vi. 210.

Pope likes no Tramontanes in Italy, vi. 118
Popham, Speaker, his jest to the queen re-
specting what passed in the Commons, vii.
133.

Popish recusants, vii. 743.

Population, effect of inclosures on, vi. 93-95.
ordinance respecting houses of husbandry,

vi. 94.

should not exceed the stock of the king-
dom, vi. 410.

Porcelain, vii. 529.

Portugal, Perkin Warbeck sent to, vi. 136.
Postilled in the margent in the king's hand,
vi. 220.

Postnati, Bacon's argument in the case of,
vii. 611-679.

corrected by himself, vii. 302.
Fostscript, most important matter in, vi. 420,
Potestas ipsa scientia est, vii. 241.

suprema seipsum dissolvere potest, ligare
non potest, vii. 371.

principis non est inclusa legibus, ques-
tioned, vii. 510.

Poverty, the origin of seditions, vi. 408, 409,

590.

its removal their cure, vi. 410, 590.
the foundation of all great monarchies,
vii. 40, 56, 57.

Power, a good thing, vii. 81.

knowledge itself is, vii. 253.
Poynings, Sir Edward, sent with forces into
Flanders by Henry VII. to aid Maxi-
milian, vi. 124.

sent as ambassador by Henry VII. to the
Archduke Philip in Flanders, vi. 144.
sent by Henry VII. to subdue the Wild
Irish, vi. 154.

sends the Earl of Kildare prisoner to
England, vi. 155.

introduces the law of England into Ire-
land, ib.

Ireland quieted by his commission, vi.
162.

Præmunire, cases of, vii. 741, 742.

punishment, trial, and proceedings in
cases of, 742.

Præsentia corporis tollit errorem nominis ; et
veritas nominis tollit errorem demonstra-
tionis, vii. 380-384.

Prætor fidei commissarius, v. 408.
Pragmatical Sanction, vi. 448.
Praise, essay on, vi. 501-503, 581, 582.
the reflection of virtue, vi. 501, 581.
arising from flattery, vi. 502.
from good wishes, ib.

from malice, ib.

Prayer, a great office in the church, vii. 249.
Prayers composed by Bacon, vii. 257-262.
Pre-digestion, vi. 434, 556

Precedents, Sir Fulke Greville on, vii. 153.
Prelates, when dangerous to kings, vi. 421,
422.

Premier seizins, vi. 218.

Prentise, Mr. Anthony Bacon's man, vii. 184.
Preoccupation ever requireth Preface, vi. 435,
557.

Prerogative, royal, in the reign of Henry VII.
vi. 239.

nature and exercise of, vi. 597-600;
vii. 511.

notes on by Bacon, vii. 305.

may dispense with politic statutes, vii.
370.

power of denizenation, vii, 650.
in parliament, vii. 776.

in war and peace, ib.

in matters of money, vii. 777.
in matters of trade and traffic, ib.
in the persons of his subjects, ib.
Pretorian bands, the dangers arising from,
vi. 123.

Prices to be regulated by government, vi. 410.
of cloths limited by statute of Henry VII.
vi. 96.

Priests, sandal of, a cause of Atheism, vi.

414.500.

Prime, or cycle of weather, vi. 514.
Primer seizin, vii. 482.

Primitive ages, their wisdom either great or
lucky, vi. 698.

Primum mobile, vi. 408.

a new, brought in by superstition, vi.
416, 561.

Principum concilium, what, vi. 74.

Privation, that which it is good to be rid of is
evil, and vice versâ, vii. 84.
Privilege, writs of, vii. 771.

Privilegium non valet contra rempublicam,
vii. 345.

Probus, his saying "Si vixero, non opus erit
amplius militibus," vi. 412.

Proclamation, draft of one relating to the Welsh
Councils, vii. 576.

Procus Junonis, sive Dedecus, interpretatio
fabulæ, vi. 654.

Prodicus, his character in the Protagoras, vi.
436, 566.

Profession, every man a debtor to his, vii. 319.
Profit, meaning of the fable of Atalanta, vi. 743.
a prendre, vii. 342.

Prometheus, meaning of the myth, vi. 745-
753.

signifies Providence, vi. 746.
and Epimetheus, vi. 411, 590.
his sacrifice, vi. 749.

attempts the chastity of Minerva, vì. 752.
interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 668-676.
Providentiam significat, vi. 670.

Promise, a woman's, vii. 174.

Promus, of formularies and elegancies, vii.

Prophecy continued.

Seneca's of the discovery of America, ib.
of Tiberius to Galba, ib.

of Christ in the time of Vespasian, ib.
Henry VI. of Henry VII. vi. 464.
when hemp is spun, England's done, ib.
of the Spanish fleet, ib.

of Regiomontanus, ib.

three causes which have given them credit
with men, vi. 465.

Proselytism by the sword, vi. 383, 543.
Proserpina, nurse of Bacchus, vi. 665, 740.
or Spirit, meaning the of legend, vi. 758,
761.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 680-682.
Prosperity, the blessing of the Old Testament,
vi. 386.

its virtue Temperance, ib.
best discovers vice, ib.

Protestantism in France, leagued against by
Henry III. vi. 408.

Proteus, or Matter, interpretation of the fable,
vi. 725, 726.

interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 651, 652.
Prothonotary of Common Pleas, assize of his
office brought by, vii. 366. Compare vii.
721, 722.

Proverbs collected by Bacon, vii. 193, 200,
201, 202, 203.

Providence signified by Prometheus, vi. 746.
Providentiam Prometheus significat, vi. 670.
Provinces, the defence of, vii. 49.

must not be out of proportion to the set
of government, vii. 51, 52, 53.
of Great Britain, vii. 54.

Provost of Perin, killed at Taunton, vi. 177.
Proxy-marriage of Maximilian with Anne
Dutchess of Brittaine, vi. 101.

Psalms translated by Lord Bacon, vii. 277, 286.
Psalm I. vii. 277, 278.

XII. vii. 278, 279.
XC. vii. 279, 280.
CIV. vii. 281-284.
CXXVI. vii. 284.

CXXXVII. vii. 266, 284, 285.
CXLIX. vii. 286.

Publius Syrus, Mimi of, vii. 189.

Puebla, Doctor De, Spanish ambassador to
Henry VII. vi. 227.

Punctuality, vii. 173.

Pussle of business, vi. 550.

Puteanus, Petrus, depositary of Camden's

Annals of Queen Elizabeth, vi. 351.

Putrefaction, retardation of, vi. 761.
Pyonner in the myne of truth, vii. 205.

Pyrrha and Deucalion, meaning of the fable,
vi. 737.

Pyrrhus, Such another victory, and we are un-
dene, vii. 152.

Cine is to, ib.

Pythagoras his parable, Eat not the heart, vi.

440.

describing his own condition to Hiero, vi.

160.

Pytlonissa, her prophecy to Saul, vi. 463.

Rabelais, on his deathbed, vii. 131.

on the art of reconciliation, vii. 170.
Railing will be found by the country, if you
find posts, Goldingham to Leicester, vii. 168.
Rainsford, Sir John, his jest to Queen Eliza-
beth, vii. 125.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, of the Ladies of the
Bedchamber, vii. 129.

to a cowardly fellow who was a good
archer, vii. 163.

of a nobleman who grew fat soon after
his marriage, ib.

Madam, is the piggy served? vii. 165.
Ransome of prisoners, law of perpetuities an
hindrance to, vii. 634.

Kape of Proserpine, vi. 758.

Rat, Gondomar's story to Bacon, vii. 170.
Ratcliffe, Robert, tried and beheaded for
Perkin Warbeck's rebellion, vi. 148.
Rationalists, like spiders, vii. 177.
Kavenstein, Lord, heads the insurrection in

Flanders against Maximilian, vi.99, 123.
surrenders the town and castles of Sluice
to the Duke of Saxony and the Eng-
lish, vi. 125.

Raw material, vi. 410.

Rebellis, Typhon, sive, vi. 631.
Recamera, vi. 484.

Receditur a placitis juris, potius quàm inju-
riæ et delicta maneant impunitæ, vii. 358—
361.

Recognisances, vii. 771.

Reconciliation, the art of, according to Rabe-
lais, vii. 170.

Recoveries, vii. 493–495.

References in Chancery, vii. 765, 766.
Referendaries, vi. 496.

Reform, without bravery or scandal of for-
mer times, vi. 400, 551.

Reformation of the English Church, vii. 177.
Regeneration, vii. 224.

Regiomontanus, his prophecy, vi. 464.
Register of letters, Bacon's, vii. 95.
Registers in Chancery, orders and office of,
vii. 764, 765.

Religion of Bacon, vii. 215.

his creed, vii. 219-226.

a mean between superstition and atheism,
vii. 252.

essay on unity in, vi. 381-384, 543-

544.

origin of discords in, vi. 514.

Relligio tantum potuit suadere malorum, vi.

384.

Remitter, vii. 350-352.

Remuant, vi. 473, 574.

Remusat, M. Charles de, on Bacon's confes-
sion of faith, vii. 216.

Rent, cases upon, vii. 334-337, 339, 351, 353.

case of, in Statute of Uses, vii. 430--433.
Rent charge granted upon condition, vii. 353.
Repartees, vii. 199.

Repugnancy, plea void for, vii. 339.
Reputation, daughter of Fortune, vi. 473,575.
essay on reputation and honour, vi. 505,
506, 531, 532.

discreet servants a help to, vi. 505, 531.
Reservation, vi. 387.

words of, vii. 342, 343.

Retribution, or Nemesis, vi. 737.

Revelation, vii. 222.

Revenge, essay on, vi. 384, 385.

a kind of wild justice, vi. 384.

for wrongs which there is no law to re-
medy, vi. 385.

public for the most part fortunate, ib.
meaning of the fable of Nemesis, vi. 737.
Revenues of England, vii. 61.
Reverence, that wherewith princes are girt
by God, vi. 408, 589.
Reversion, grant of, vii. 354.

how revocable, vii. 373.

differs from a remainder, vii. 492.
Revocation, things in their nature revocable
cannot by words be made irrevocable,
vii. 369-372.

where the completion of an act depends
upon something to be done by a third
party, the first parties cannot revoke,
vii. 372-374.

of uses, Bacon's argument in Stanhope's
case, vii. 556-566.

Rheums, the four causes of, vii. 183.
Rhodes, knights of, make Henry VII. protec
tor of their order, vi. 211.

Ribes, vi. 487.

Richard III. slain at Bosworth, vi. 27.

his murder of the princes in the Tower,
vi. 141-143.

Richard, Duke of York, son of Edward IV.

murdered in the Tower, vi. 132.
personated by Perkin Warbeck, ib.
Riches should not be in few hands in a state,
vi. 410.

are for spending, and spending for honour
and good actions, vi. 443, 530, 563.
essay on, vi. 460-462, 566, 567.
the baggage of virtue, 460, 566.
there is small enjoyment of great wealth,

Riddles of the Sphinx, vi. 756, 757.
Rights are two, jus in re, and jus ad rem, vii.
398.

division of, according to the civilians, vii.
401.

Riots and retainers, statute of Henry VII.
against, vi. 224.

Risley, Sir John, sent ambassador to Maxi-
milian by Henry VII. vi. 127.
Ritchemount, Henry VII.'s death at, vi. 20,
237.

Rivers of America, vi. 513.

Roberts, Jack, when asked by his tailor for a
bill of his hand, vii. 129.

saying concerning marriage, vii. 141.
Roman Empire, prophesied by Homer, vi. 463.
its decay, vi. 515.

extent of territory a cause of weakness,
vii. 50, 53.

united by the bond of naturalization, vii.

52.

Romans, whence their magnanimity, vi. 415,
560.

their method of extending the bounds of

their empire, vi. 448.

policy of their wars, vi. 450.

Cæsar to his mutinous soldiers, vii. 143.
Rome, reasons for visiting, vii. 164.

acceptance of a spiritual benefice from, is
a case of præmunire, vii. 741.
to procure a bull touching the king's pre-
rogative, the same, vii. 742.
Roses, the White and Red; their rival claims
to the throne, at Henry VII.'s accession, vi.
39, 40.
Roughness, a vice of men in authority, vi
400, 551.

Roxalana, murderess of Mustapha, vi. 421.
Ruricolarum Deus Pan, cur, vi. 638.
Russian monks, their penances, vi. 471.
Russignon and Perpignian oppignorated to
the king of France, vi. 120.

restored by Charles VIII. to Ferdinando
and Isabella, vi. 129.

Sacramenta irrevocabilia, vi. 633, 634.
Naturæ, affinitatis vinela, vi. 634.

Sacraments, of Nature, relationships, vi. 706.
reverenced more by the Spaniards than
the French, vii. 150.

Sacrifice of Prometheus, vi. 750.
Sacrificium Promethei, vi. 669, 673.

Saint Alban's, victory of Charles VIII. at,
vi. 83.

Saint Aubin, victory of, vi. 77.

Saint Ermin, vii. 145.

Saint Paul, repairs of the steeple, vii. 180.
Saints of God, vii. 224.

Sagitta Cupidinis, quid, vi. 656.
Sale of chattels, vii. 499, 500.
Salique law, disputed between a Frenchman
and an Englishman, vii. 151.
the friar's argument, ib.

Salisbury, Earl of, De Sapientiâ Veterum
dedicated to him, vi. 619, 620, 689, 690.
Salomon on cunning, vi. 431.

on riches, vi. 460, 567.

on novelty, vi. 512.

concerning pleasures, vi. 764.
de voluptate, vi. 685.

Salt, colonists should be provided with store
of, vi. 459.

Salus populi supremna lex, vi. 509, 585.
Sapientia, opera ejus Fortudinis opera digni-
tate superant, vi. 647.

Sanctuary, doubts of Henry VII. as to vio-
lation of, vi. 196.

privileges of, curtailed by him, vi. 61,

62.

not abolished by him until late in his
reign, vi. 21.

Sandwich, Perkin Warbeck lands at, vi.
156.

Sandys, Lord, case of, vii. 399.

Sarisburiensis Comes, "De Sapientiâ Vete-
rum" ei dedicatus, vi. 619, 620.
Sarza, to open the liver, vi. 437.
Eaturday, Henry VII.'s lucky day, v 181.
Saturn, his castration, vi. 723,

downfall of his kingdom, vi. 724.

Saturnus, castratio ejus, vi. 649.

a regno detrusus, vi. 650.

Satyri, quid referunt, vi. 639.

Satyrs, emblems of old age, vi. 712.
Saul, prophecy of the Pythonissa to, vi. 463.
Savage, Sir John, killed before the walls of
Bulloigne, vi. 129.

Savages, how colonists should deal with, vi.
459.

Savill, Mr., thought poets the best writers
next to those who write prose, vii.
134.

letter to, touching helps for the intellectual
powers, vii. 97-103.

to Coranus, vii. 150.

Sbirrerie, vi. 503.

Scandalum magnatum, vii. 319.
Scene-shifting in masques, vi. 468.
Schisms, origin of, vi. 514.

Scholars should be proportioned in number to
preferments, vi. 410.

Science typified by the Sphinx, vi. 755-

757.

Celentia, Sphinx, sive Scientia, vi. 677.

Potestas est, vii. 211.

Scintilla juris, vii. 446, 449, 615, 622.
Scipio Africanus, of whom Livy says, Ultima
primis cedebant, vi. 478.
Scholastica, case of, vii. 636.

Schoolmen, like the astronomers, vii. 164.
Scotch laws praised, vii. 732.

Scotland, a refuge for English malcontents,
vi. 62.

death of James III. vi. 90.

declaration of war against, by Henry VII.
vi. 121, 122.

Henry VII. his preparations for war
averted by the Cornish rebellion, vi.
178.

reception of Perkin Warbeck by James
IV. vi. 161-166.

probability of a union with England con-
templated by Henry VII. vi. 216.
union with England, vii. 39, 55.
case of the postnati, vii. 641-679.
Scots invade Northumberland, vi. 166, 171.
slain at Norham, vi. 199.

confluence of, to England, vii. 659.
Scottus, his answer to Charles the Bald, vii.

141.

Scribonianus, his conspiracy against Claudius,

vii. 137.

Scripturæ ab ecclesiâ custoditæ, vii. 242.
Scriptures, canon of the, vii. 224.

in the custody of the Church, vii, 254.
authority of the Popish Church, to make
them a shipman's hose or nose of wax,
vii. 623.

Scylla and Charibdis, or the via media, vi.
676, 754.

Sea, the empire of, is an abridgment of a
monarchy, vi. 451.

naval power of Great Britain, ib.
how to drink up, vii. 154.

land left by, belongs to the Crown, vii.
477.

Seamen, anecdotes of, vii. 185.

Sebastian, King of Portugal, his expedition
on Africk, vii. 19.

Second, place, that best to which all assign the
second place, vii. 78.

nobles, their value in a state, vi. 422.
Secrecy, the virtue of a confessor, vi. 387, 388.
in matter of counsel in a state, vi. 424,
555.

a great means of obtaining suits, vi. 496,
529, 578.

Sects, religious, the vicissitudes of, vi. 514.
new, planted in three manners, ib.
how to put an end to, ib.

Seditions and troubles, essay on, vi. 406-
412, 589-591.

the materials of, vi. 408, 409, 590,
poverty and discontent, ib.

causes and motives of, vi. 409, 590.
remedies of, ib.

to remove want and poverty, vi. 410.
against tyranny, origin of, vi. 703.
Seeming wise, essay on, vi. 435-437, 565—
567.