a

so produced, as it hath some communication with Of the Communication of the Air percussed and the body of the flute, or pipe. For there is one elided with the ambient Air, and Bodies, or sound produced in a trumpet of wood, another in their Spirits.

one of brass; another, I judge, if the trumpet In the striking of a bell, the sound given by were lined within, or perhaps even covered, on chiming upon the bell with a hammer on the out- the outside, with silk or cloth: one perchance if side, and by the tongue within, is of the same the trumpet were wet, another if dry. I contone. So that the sound yielded by the chiming ceive, likewise, in virginals, or the viol, if the upon the outside, cannot be generated by the col- board upon which the strings are strained were lision of the air between the hammer and the of brass, or of silver, it should yield a somewha: outside of the bell, since it is according to the different sound. But of all these things let there concave of the bell within. And if it were a flat be better inquiry. plate of brass, and not concave, the sound should, Further, in respect of the communication, it I think, be different.

would be inquired, what the diversity and ineIf there be a rift in the bell, it gives a hoarse quality of bodies may do; as if three bells should sound, not pleasant or grateful.

be made to hang, the one within the other, with It would be known how the thickness of the some space of air interposed, and the outer bell percussed body may affect the sound, and how were chimed upon with a hammer, what sound it far forth: as if, of the same concave, one bell should give, in respect of a single bell. should be thicker, another thinner. I have proved Let a bell be covered on the outside with cloth in a bell of gold, that it gave an excellent sound, or silk, and let it be noted, when the bell is nothing worse, yea, better, than a bell of silver or struck by the tongue within, what that covering of brass. But money of gold rings not so well as shall do to the sound. money of silver.

If there were in a viol a plate of brass, or of Empty casks yield a deep and resounding silver, pierced with holes, in place of that of sound, full ones a dull and dead sound. But in wood, it would be seen what this shall do to the the viol, and the lute, and other such, although sound. the first percussion be between the string and the There are used in Denmark, and are even exterior air, yet that air straight communicates brought hither, drums of brass, not of wood, less with the air in the belly, or concave of the viol than those of wood, and they give, I think, a or lute. Wherefore, in instruments of this kind is louder sound. ever some perforation made, that the outward air The agitation of the air by great winds shall may communicate with the confined air, without not, I think, yield much sound, if woods, waves, which, the sound would be dull and dead. buildings, or the like be away; yet is it received

Let there be a trial made of the nightingale- that, before tempests, there be some murmurings pipe, that it be filled with oil, and not with water; made in woods, albeit to the sense the blast be and let it be noted, how much softer or more not yet perceived, nor do the leaves stir. * obtuse the sound shall be. When sound is created between the breath and

* Three chapters are deficient, which there wanted lei. the percussed air, as in a pipe, or flute, it is yet sure to completing.

Abduction of women made a capital offence, i. 333. Advice upon importing foreign goods, ij. 386; to Abel and Cain, contemplation of action figured in, ministers, ii. 376; concerning Indian wealth, ii. 387 i. 175.

Adulteration of metals, ii. 459. Abimelech, ij. 270.

Advocates, i. 58. Abjuration and exiles, cases of and proceedings therein, Æneas Sylvius, his saying of the Christian religion, ii. 165.

i. 121. Abner, murder of by Jacob, not forgotten, ü. 322. Æsculapius and Circe, exposition of, credulity by fable Absolution, ii. 426.

of, i. 203. Abridgments of laws, opinion on the use of them, Æsop's fable of the two sons digging for gold, i. 172. ii. 233.

Affections, effect upon the minds and spirits of men, Abuse of excommunication, ii. 428.

ii. 129; their impediments to knowledge. i. 94 : Abuses in the penal laws, ii. 237.

inquiry touching, i. 225. Acceleration and clarification of liquors, ii. 47. Affectation. No affectation in passion, i. 45; to use Accessaries to duels before the fact, ii. 299.

studies too much for ornament is affectation, i. 55. Accident assistance to eloquence, ii. 337.

Affidavits before masters of chancery, ii. 483. Account, matters of, ii. 482.

Affluence. Greatness too often ascribed to affluence Achaians, comparison of the state of to a tortoise, by of commodities, ii. 222. Titus Quintius, ii. 224.

Agathocles, conduct to the captive Syracusans, i. 114. Achelous, or battle, i. 302.

Age and youth prejudiced, vii. 41. Actæon and Pentheus, or a curious man, i. 294. Age will not be defied, i. 39; essay on youth and, i. Action, the chief part of an orator, i, 23.

48; heat in age excellent for business, i. 48; AlonAction and contemplation, union between, i. 173, 174; zo of Arragon's commendation of age, i. 113.

figured in Abel and Cain, i. 175; and contempla- Agesilaus, excellent though deformed, i. 49; saying of tion, i. 220.

his, i. 115; called home from Persia upon a war Actions, all men drawn into by pleasure, horour, and against Sparta by Athens and Thebes, ii. 223; his profit, ii. 185.

saying thereon, ii. 223. Active, force of quantity in the, ii. 460.

Agricultural experiments, ii. 464. Actium, battle of, decided the empire of the world, Agrippina, preference of empire, i. 183. i. 38.

Agues, what wines best for, ii. 10; use of hartshorn Actor, Vibulenus, his artifice, i. 218.

in, ii. 91. Adam's employment in Paradise, i. 175.

Air, transmutation of into water, ii. 10, 19; diversity Adam, fall of, set forth by the fable of Pan, i. 290. of infusions in, ii. 9; in water, cause of quick asAdamites, heresy of, ii. 443.

cent of, ii. 10; condensation of by cold, ii. 11, Adjournment should be to a day certain, ii. 495. aptness to corrupt, ii. 109; commixture of with Admiralty, against the, ii. 495.

flame, ii. 11 ; effect of the inspissation of the, ii. Admiralties and merchandising several, one of the 127; touching the nature of, ii. 119; flying of

internal points of separation with Scotland, ii. 160. unequal bodies in the, ii. 107; experiment touching Admonished how to dispose of part of his riches, ii. the congealing of, ii. 54; the theory of Anaximenes,

487; to imitate the Spaniards, the beaver, &c., ii. i. 439. 487.

Air and water, experiments as to weight in, ii. 463. Adoration the highest honour amongst the heathens, Air and sound, ii. 28. i. 177.

Airs, experiment touching, ii. 249. Adrian, a learned prince, i. 178.

Albans, to the Lord St., from Buckingham, promising Adrian de Castello, the pope's legate, made Bishop of to move his majesty to take off the restraint upon

Hereford, i. 335; his conspiracy against Leo from a his not coming within the verge of the court, iii. prediction of an astrologer, i. 335.

185. Adrian VI., advice to him respecting Pasquil, i. 109. Albans, the Lord St., to a friend, believing his own Adrian, the bounty of his disposition, ii. 234.

danger less than he found it, ïïi. 190. Adrian, the philosopher's answer who contended with Albans, the Lord St., to the same humble servant, em with him, i. 116.

ploying him to do a good office with a great man, Advancement in life. i. 231; of learning, notice of, iii. 190.

i. 292 ; of learning, Bacon's observations on, i. Albans, from Lord St., praying that the king will let 435.

him die out of a cloud and suffer his honours to be Adversity, strength of, ii. 488; Essay of, i. 14.

transmitted, iii. 188. Advertisement touching holy war, ii. 436; touching Albans, from Lord St., to the king, thanking him for church controversies, ii. 411,

his liberty, iii. 184. VOL. III.-69

515

Albans, from Lord St., to the king, praying for a con- Alphonso the Wise compiled the digest of the laws
tinuance of the king's kindness, iii. 84.

of Spain, ii. 235.
Albans, Lord St., to a most dear friend, in whom he Alteration of religion by Elizabeth, ii. 445.

notes an entireness and impatient attention to do Alterations which may be called majors, ii. 114.
him service, iii. 19.

Altham, Baron, reverend judge, ii. 477.
Albans, Lord St., to the Lord Treasurer Marlborough, Alva, Duke of, general arrest made by him of Eng-

expostulating about his unkindness and injustice, lishmen, ii. 260; a chief instrument in the rebellion
iii. 191.

in the north of England, ii. 260.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Buckingham, promising Amalgamatizing metals, ii. 461, 462.
to supply his decayed cables, iii. 187.

Amazons, ii. 442.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Buckingham, touching Ambassadors, how to choose, ii. 382.
his book, ii. 187.

Amber, flies get a durable sepulchre in, ii. 24.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Buckingham, thanking Ambition, essay on, i. 44; of man, God's first judge
him for a parabien, iii. 188.

ment on the, i. 175.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Buckingham, touching Amiens, Spaniards beaten out of, ii. 200, 213.
his application to the king, iii. 188.

Anabaptists, ii. 442; revived the opinion of Henkus,
Albans, to the Lord St., from the Bishop of Lincoln, i. 220; religion of, ii. 314.

upon the orations of Cicero, Demosthenes, and the Anacharsis, saying of his, i. 120.
works of his lordship, ii. 188.

Analysis. See Notes by the Editor, i. 244—254.
Albans, to the Lord St.

, from the Marquis of Bucking- Anatomy, much deficient, i. 204.
ham, expressing the king's willingness to see his Anaxagoras, his precept concerning truth, i. 82 ; his
book, but refusing to let him remain in London, iii. remark upon the Athenians who had condemned
184.

him to death, i. 116.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Buckingham, iii. 185. Ancient history only fragments, i. 189.
Albans, to the Lord St., from Buckingham, concerning Ancient philosophers, their theories concerning primi-
York House, iii. 185.

tive matter, i. 437.
Albert Durer, his mode of painting, i. 49.

Ancients, inventors consecrated by the, i. 207; ho-
Alchymists follow wrong principles to make gold, ii. nours of the, to eminent men, i. 177; consecrated

49; their philosophy, or the Grecians', all now re- inventors of arts amongst the gods, i. 177; hoped
ceived, i. 79; means used by, more monstrous than to prolong life by medicine, i. 307; wisdom of the,
the end, i. 199; errors of in forming science, i. i. 287--313; took up experiments on credit, ii, 13.
173.

Andrada, Manuel, a Portuguese, revolted from Don
Alchymy, white and red, ii. 459; advantages of to Antonio to the King of Spain, ii. 217; advertises
science, i. 172.

Mendoza that he had won Dr. Lopez to the King of
Alcibiades, of high spirit, yet beautiful, i. 49; advice Spain's service, ii. 218; Lopez's secret conference

to Pericles, studying how to give in his accounts, with him, ii. 218; got out of prison by Lopez, ii.
i. 109.

218; brings Lopez a jewel from the King of Spain,
Alcohol, a powder made of, ii. 99.

ii. 218; moves Lopez to poison Queen Elizabeth,
Alexander, body of, found, ii. 104 ; Livy's saying of ii. 218; goes to Calais and writes to the Count de

him, i. 84; his conquest of Persia, ii. 223 ; Livy's Fuentes, ii. 218.
judgment of him, ii. 223; his opinion of the cause Andrews, Bishop, ii. 435.
of Calisthenes' eloquence in his speeches on the Angels, worship of, i. 195.
Macedonians, ii. 229, 235; melancholy in his lat- Anger, essay on, i. 59 ; causes of, i. 59; makes dull
ter years, i. 27; his conduct at Arbela, i. 36 ; not
.

men witty, but keeps them poor, i. 124 ; effects of,
just to deny credit to his acts, i. 99; his saying of ii. 96.
Craterus and Hephæstion, i. 113; saying of Anti- Animate bodies and plants, difference between, ii. 81.
pater, i. 113; his answer to Parmenio, i. 114, 117; Annals and journals, their use, i. 191.
cleanliness of, ii. 8; an instance of excellence in Annihilation, impossibility of, ii. 24.
arms and learning, i. 164; his admiration of Ho- Anointing, experiment touching, ii. 99.
mer, i. 179; education of, i. 179; preferred learning Answers, if insufficient, defendant to pay costs, ii. 483;
to empire, i. 179; his observation relating to Dió- to bills in chancery, ii. 483.
genes, i. 179; his wit in speeches, i. 179; Cassan- Ant, its character, i. 208.
der's subtle answer to, i. 179; his distinction be- Antalcidas, his answer to an Athenian, i. 116.
tween love of him and love of the king, i. 180; Antarctic hemisphere, dusky spots in, what are causes
answer to Parmenio's counsel, i. 180; an instance of, ii. 585.
of the conjunction between learning and military | Ante-nati and post-nati of Scotland, ii. 144, 154, 159,
power, i. 179.

160.
Alien enemy, law respecting, ii. 169.

Anticipations of the second philosophy, iii. 521.
Alien friend, may have movable goods and personal Antigonus, answer and saying of, i. 114, 117.

actions, but not freehold, or leasehold, or actions Anti-masques, their composition, i. 45.
real or mixed, ii. 169.

Antimony, as to dissolving, ii. 460.
Alienations, office of compositions for, iï. 319. Antinomiæ, contrary cases to be noted in reducing the
Aliment of man, i. 202.

common law, ii. 232.
Aliments, change of, ii. 18.

Antiochia, wholesome air of, ii. 128.
Allegiance, cannot be applied to the law or kingdom, Antiochus, his incitement to Prusias to war against

but to the person of the king, ii. 176; must be un- the Romai ii. 204.
conditionai, ii. 391.

Antipathy and sympathy of men's spirits, ii. 137; se-
Alliance with Holland, ii. 383.

tells tales, i. 84 ; admiration of an impediment to Armada, ill success of the Spanish, ii. 200; account
knowledge, i. 94; knowledge not to be sought in of it, ii. 208.

the obscurity of, but in the light of nature, ii. 547. Arms, the importance of to nations, i. 38; fourish
Antipater, of all Alexander's lieutenants, wore no pur- in the youth of a state, 62; and learning, com-
ple, i. 113; his sayings of Demades, i. 114;

parison of in advancing men, i. 183.
Antisthenes' opinion what was most necessary, i. 120. Arragon, united with Castile, but not naturalized, ii.
Antitheta, examples of, i. 217.

155; its rebellion suppressed, and subsequent incor-
Antoninus Pius, a learned prince, i. 178.

poration with Castile, ii. 155.
Antonio, King, mortal enemy to the King of Spain, Arthur, King, i. 199.

ii. 217; his retinue, therefore, free from all suspicion Art, duty of lo exalt nature, i. 208; of memory, visible
of conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth, ii. 217; yet images in the, ii. 131 ; the time extent of, a. 572.

suspected by some of her majesty's counsel, ii. 217. Articulation of sounds, ii. 35.
Antonio, Don, enterprise to settle him in the kingdom Arts, military, flourish most while virtue grows, i. 205;
of Portugal failed, ii. 210.

liberal, Aourish when virtue is in state, i. 205 ; volup-
Antonius, Marcus, transported by love, i. 18.

tuary, flourish when virtue declines, i. 205; history
Antonius' mind weakened by the Egyptian soothsayer, of, deficient, i. 188.
ji. 129.

Arts and methods, error of over-early reduction of
Ants, instinct of, ii. 93.

science into, i. 173.
Antwerp, English inerchants spoiled and put to their Arts, intellectual, are four, Invention, Judgment, Me-
ransom at the sack of, ii. 260.

mory, Tradition, i. 207.
Anyrus' accusation against Socrates, i. 164.

Arts and sciences, invention deficient, i. 207; their
Apelles, his mode of painting, i. 49.

flourishing condition under the reign of King James,
Ape's heart, what good for, ii. 194.

ii. 285.
Aphorisms, iii. 427; the way of delivering ancient Arts of judgment, i. 210.

wisdom, iii. 222 ; the pith of sciences, i. 214; know- Arundel and Surrey, Earl of, from Lord Bacon, men-
ledge when in, is in growth, i. 173.

tioning his being taken ill and staying at his house,
Apollonius's judgment of Nero, ii. 277; reason for iii. 91.
Nero's overthrow, delight in solitude, i. 34.

Ashton, Abdy, chaplain to the Earl of Essex, ii. 363.
Apollonius of Tyana, ii. 124.

Assertion and proof, i. 214.
Apophthegms, i. 107; account of, i. 9; loss of Cæsar's, Astringents, a catalogue of different sorts, hot and cold,
i. 192.

ii. 467; purgative, ii. 468.
Apothecaries, how they clarify syrups, ii. 8.

Astrologers, means used by, more monstrous than the
Apology for the Earl of Essex, ii. 333.

end, i. 199.
Apparel, vanity in should be avoided, ii. 386. Astrologers' judgment that the King of France should
Appendices to knowledge of the soul, i. 206; division be killed in a duel, i. 43.
of, divination, fascination, i. 206; of history, i. Astrology, Chaldean, i. 206.
192.

Astronomer, predictions of, i. 206.
Appetite, or will of man, i. 218.

Astronomical observations, admonition respecting, 1.
Appius Claudius transported by love, i. 18.

421; ii. 580.
Arbela, the number of the Persians at, i. 36.

Astronomy, theory of, i. 200; exemplified in the Book
Archidamus's answer to Philip of Macedon, i. 118. of Job, i. 175.
Arch-traitor 'Tyrone, the, ii. 349.

Atalanta and the golden ball, i. 174.
Archetype, the dignity of knowledge is to be sought in Atalanta, or gain, i. 304.
the, i, 174.

Audibles and visibles, consent and dissent between, Banishment, ii. 435.
ii. 41 ; iii, 537, 539, 541, 542, 543.

Bankrupt, commission of, when granted, ii. 485.
Augustin, St. his comparison of nettles, ii. 476; com. Baptism, ii. 426.
parison used by, ii. 267.

Barbary, practice of getting fresh water in, ï. 7.
Augustins, order of, ii. 406.

Bark, as to the removal of from trees, ii. 86.
Augustus Cæsar, his saying of his two daughters and Barkley, Sir Richard, Earl of Essex's keeper, ü. 354.

grandson, i. 121; his death, i. 12; policy attributed Barley, experiments touching, ii. 85.
to him by Livia, i. 14; his friendship to Agrippa, Baronius, Cardinal, annals of, ii. 512.
i. 35; of a reposed nature, i. 48 ; of high spirit, yet Barrels, sounds produced on full or empty, ii. 34.
beautiful, i. 49; sayings and letters of his, i. 113; Barrow, a Brownist, his conduct, ii. 249.
character of, i. 401; in his youth affecting power. Barton, Eliz., named the maid of Kent, her treason
i. 401; in his middle age affecting dignity, i. 401, against Henry VIII., ii. 391.
in age, ease and pleasure, i. 401; in his decline bent Base counsellors, represented by Tellus, i. 288.
to memory and posterity, i. 401; treads the steps Basilisk killeth by aspect, ii. 127.
of Cæsar, but with deeper print, ii. 357 ; his peace- Bass and treble strings, sounds of, ii. 33, 34.
able government as highly esteemed as the victories Bates, his plea on imports and exports, ii. 278.
of Julius Cæsar, ii. 246.

Bath, or fomentation, ii. 469; mineral, i. 205.
Auripigment and copper make red alchymy, ii. 459. Bathing, experiment touching, ii. 99; benefits and
Austria, Don John of, lost his reputation at Rimenant, effects of, ii. 98; among the Romans, ii. 99.
ii. 207.

Beads, different sorts of, ii. 132.
Authority of two kinds, ii. 130.

Bears grow fat by sleep, ii. 16.
Authors should be consuls and not dictators, i. 172. Beauty, i. 205; helps towards, ii. 11; of Elizabeth, ii.

.
A vellaneda, the Spanish admiral, sets upon the Enlish 449; Essay on, i. 48.

fleet, after the enterprise of Panama, ii. 212; comes Beaver, admonition to imitate the, ii. 487.
off with loss, ii. 212; his boasting, ii. 212.

Beerehaven yielded by the Spaniards at the treaty of
Aviaries, i. 53.

Kinsale, ii. 212.
Axe, in case of felony, whether to be carried before the Bees, instinct of, ii. 93; humming of, what, ii. 33;
prisoner, ii. 516.

longevity of, ii. 93.

Behaviour, i. 56.
BABYLON, the excellence of its situation, ii. 228; the Belief, of Bacon, ii. 407; what worketh, ii. 129; and

city of estate in Persia, ii. 228; Alexander the worship, wants of, ii. 412.
Great chose it for his seat, ii. 228; afterwards Se- Believing Christian, character of, ii. 410.
leucus and his descendants, ii. 228; its greatness in Bell metal, ii. 456, 459.
the times of the kings of Parthia, ii. 229; of the Bells, motion of pressure upon, ii. 8; chiming of,
successors of Mahomet, ii. 229; and at this day, ii. 32.
Bagdad's greatness, ii. 229.

Beneficence of Elizabeth, ii. 446.
Bacon, Anthony, epistle dedicatorie of the first edition Benefices, value of, how regulated, ii. 514.
of the Essays to him, i. 2.

Bettenham, Mr., opinion of riches, i. 121.
Bacon, his value for the corrections of unlearned men, Bertram, a murderer and suicide, ii. 501.

i. 277; love of familiar illustration, i. 279; died 9th Bias, his advice to dissolute mariners praying in a
April, 1626, i. cxii; speech in the House of Com- tempest, i. 109; a precept of his, i. 117; bis pre-
mons touching the general naturalization of the

cept, i. 237.
Scottish nation, ii. 150; the union of laws with Bill of review, ii. 479.
Scotland, ii. 158; his argument in Caloin's case, Bills, if too long, counsel to be fined for passing, ii.
the post-nati of Scotland, ii. 166; account of his 482 ; for what counsel punishable, ii. 482.
works, ii. 436; opinion of the Novum Organum, | Biography, i. 282
ii. 436; to the judges, ii. 515; observations on the Bion, saying of his, i. 109, 120.
advancement of learning, ii. 436 ; most inclined by Birch's translation of Bacon's praise of Prince Henry,
nature to the study of arts and sciences, ii. 474; i. 404.
his sayings, i. 111, 121, 124 ; thought it wisest to Bird-witted children ought to be taught mathematics,
keep way with antiquity, usque ad aras, i. 196 ; i, 218.
letter to the king noting his History of Henry VII., Birds, time of growth of, ii. 102; quickness of motion
i. 275; life in Biographia Britannia, i. 272; notice in, ii. 90 ; imitate sounds, ii. 39; the nature of,
of his Essays by Rawley, i. 275 ; his reasons for ii. 102; of paradise, feetless, ii. 269.

devoting himself to philosophy, ii. 549; iii. 534. Birth, acceleration of, ii. 53.
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, answer to Queen Elizabeth re- Bishop by deputy, ii. 424.

specting the monopoly licenses, i. 107; the littleness Bishop of Winchester, letter to, i. 276.
of his house, i. 115; abused in a libel in 1592, ii. Bishop Andrews, ii. 435.
263; his character, ii. 263.

Bishops, government of, ii. 423; err in resisting re-
Bacon, Friar, his head, ii. 338 ; tradition about, ii. 103. form, ii. 417; virtues of, ii. 415; translation of, ii.
Bagg's case, Sir E. Coke's answer to the objections in, 492 ; government, sole error of, ii. 423.
ii. 507.

Blackwater, defeat of the English by the Irish rebels
Bagges's case, ii. 528.

at, ii. 211.
Balaam's Ass, author discovered, ii. 510.

Bladder and water, weight of, ii. 464.
Balance of Europe kept by Henry VIII., Francis I., and Blood, stanching of, ii. 18; insects without, ii. 93;
Charles V., ii. 204.