their favourites, ii. 167.
Kingdoms, essay on the true great-
ness of, ii. 176-188.

causes of their true greatness,
iii. 61-64.

King's Bench, institution and juris-
dietion of, i. 130.
Knee-timber for ships, some men re-
semble, ii. 120.

Knesworth, Mayor of London, fined
1400/. by Henry VII., i. 352.
Knights-bannerets, twelve made by
Henry VII., i. 56.
Knowledge is but remembrance, ii.
273.

itself is power, iii. 179.

Labrador, Sebastian Gabato sails to,
i. 295.

Lambert Simnell the Pretender, i.
71-91.

crowned at Dublin, i. 85.

ends as a scullion in the royal
kitchen, i. 91.

Lancaster, House of, its title to the
throne, i. 48-51.
Landloper, i. 201.

Languages should be learnt before
travelling, ii. 137.

Languedoc, wines and woads of, to
be imported only in English bot-
toms, i. 145.

Lanthony, Prior of, made Chancel-
lor of Ireland, i. 232.

Laodiceans and lukewarm persons,
ii. 88.

Latham, Henry VII. goes in progress
to, to make merry with Sir Thom-
as Stanley, i. 234, 235.
Laws, to be treated of at large by
the historian, why, i. 147.
administration of penal laws, ii.
267.

Laws of England, digest of, pur-
posed by Bacon, iii. 17.
Learning flourishes in the middle
age of a state, ii. 280.
Lepanto, battle of, ii. 186, 194.
Lethe, runneth as well above ground
as below, ii. 273.

Letters, from Henry VII. to the
Mayor and Aldermen of Lon-
don, i. 198, 353.

others from Calais, i. 310.
Leucippus, his school charged with
atheism, ii. 132.

Lewis XI. closeness his tormentor,
il. 169.

Lewis XII. to his Swiss mercenaries,
iii. 76.

Libels against the state, ii. 123.

against Henry VII., i. 231.
Liberatores imperiorum, ii. 264.
Lie, why men love lies, ii. 81.

the shame of, ii. 84.
Light, dry, the best soul, ii. 171.
Lightnings in the West Indies, ii. 274.
Likenesses of children to relations
rather than parents, ii. 100.
Limitation, a statute of, passed by
Henry VII., i. 142.

Lincoln, Earl of, joins the Irish re-
bellion against Henry VII., i.

81.

joins battle at Newark, i. 88, 89.

Lingard, Dr., on the restoration of
the Queen Dowager's dower, by
Henry VII., i. 73.

Lions under Salomon's throne, ii.
270.

Liver, sarza taken for disease of, ii.
166.

Loan from the City of London to
Henry VII. of 4,000l., i. 148.
loans borrowed from his subjects
by Henry VII., i. 261.
London, the city contributes 9,000l.
to a benevolence, in the 7th
year of Henry VII., i. 184.
army of Henry VII. assembled
at, for the invasion of France,
i. 193.

letters sent by Henry VII. to
the Mayor and Aldermen, an-
nouncing the peace of Ésta
ples, i. 198.

others from Calais. i. 310.
bound for the performance of
the treaty between Henry VII.
and the Archduke Philip, i.

260.
threatened by the Cornish rebels
encamped at Blackheath, i.
267, 270.

pays a benevolence of 5,000
marks to Henry VII., i. 335.
Long robe, persons of the, i. 332.
Long, Roger, plots Perkin War-
beck's escape from the Tower, i.
302, 304.

Lopez, Roderigo, tried for a conspir-
acy to poison Queen Elizabeth, ii.
54.

Louis XI. afraid of an able man, i.
361.

Ferdinando, and Henry VII.,
tres magi of kings, i. 364.
Love compared with Envy, ii. 103.
essay on, ii. 109-111.

the stage more beholden to, than
the life of man, ii. 109.
in extravagance, the excesses
of it, ii. 110.

the ruin of business, ii. 111,
336.

nuptial, friendly, wanton, ii.
111.

a crowd is not company, and
faces are but a gallery of pic-
tures, and talk but a tinkling
cymbal, where there is no
love, ii. 166.

- See Cupid.

Lovell, Lord, his rebellion against
Henry VII., i. 67, 68.
sails to Flanders, i. 82.
corresponds with Sir Thomas
Broughton, lb.

lands at Fouldrey in Lancashire,
i. 87.

mystery respecting his death, i.
91.

Low Countries, excellence of their
government, ii. 121.

cycle of weather observed in, ii.
276.

their wealth, iii. 80, 81.

have the best mines above
ground in the world, ii. 128.
Lucullus, his winter residence, ii.
230.

his faction of Optimates, ii. 255.
Ludlow Castle, scene of the death of
Prince Arthur, son of Henry VII.,
i. 320.

Lullius Typocosmia, iii. 132.
Lungs, flower of sulphur taken for
the, ii. 167.

Luxembourg, Francis Lord of, am-
bassador to England from Charles
VIII., i. 157.

Machiavel, object of "the Prince,"
i. 21.

saying of, that Christianity had
given good men up in prey to
tyrants, ii. 119.

on partizanship in princes, ii.

124.

on force of custom, ii. 213.
traduceth Gregory the Great, ii.

275.

⚫ on the sinews of war, iii. 52, 73.
Mackintosh, Sir James, his remarks
on Bacon's History of Henry
VII., i. 21, 22.

his charges answered, i. 23–30.
his bad habit of altering Bacon's
phraseology, i. 325.

on the share of Ferdinand of
Spain in the execution of the
Earl of Warwick by Henry
VII., i. 306, 307, 317.
Madden, Sir Frederic, on Perkin
Warbeck, i. 201.

Mæcenas on the marriage of Julia,

ii. 168.

Magnanimity destroyed by atheism,

ii. 134.
Mahomet, his sword not to be taken
up, ii. 90.

Maniable, iii. 130.

Mannerhood of the kingdom, i. 144.
Manufactures, where foreign mate-

rials are but superfluities, for-
eign manufactures should be
prohibited, i. 333.

one nation selleth to another one

of three things, ii. 128.

effect of on the military spirit of

a nation, ii. 182.
Manuring, arable land cannot be
manured without people and fami-
lies, i. 142.

Marcus Antonius, one of the only
two great men of history carried
away by love, ii. 110.
Margaret, Lady. eldest daughter of
Henry VII., sought in mar-
riage by James IV., i. 299.
her marriage, i. 323.
her jointure, Ib.
Margaret, Lady, mother of Henry
VII., her dream, i. 365.
Margaret, Duchess Dowager of
Savoy, sought in marriage by
Henry VII., i. 349.
marriage postponed by reason
of the king's illness, i. 351.
Margaret of Burgundy, favours the
Irish rebels against Henry
VII., i. 82, 83.
receives all traitors against
Henry VII., i. 136.

raises up Perkin Warbeck, i.
200.

trains him herself for the part,
i. 203, 205.

sends him into Portugal, i. 205.
thence to Ireland, i. 206.

sends Stephen Frion to him, i.
208.

Perkin returns to her in Flan-
ders, i. 209.

Lord Suffolk flies to her, i. 316.

Mathew, Tobie, letter from Bacon
referring to his history of
Henry VIII., i. 393.

to Cosmo de' Medici, letter ded-
icatory of a translation of Ba-
con's Essays, ii. 74.
Mattacina of human fortune, i. 91.
Matter in perpetual flux, ii. 274.
Matthæus's collection of proper
words for metaphors, iii. 132.
Maximilian, King of Romans, rival
of Charles VIII., i. 98, 106.
rebellion of his subjects in Flan-
ders, i. 150.

imprisoned at Bruges by the
rebels, Ib.

married by proxy to Anne,
Duchess of Brittaine, i. 153,
154.

his daughter contracted to
Charles VIII., i. 156.
receives the news of the mar-

riage of Charles VIII. to Anne
of Brittaine, i. 173.

sends ambassadors to England
and Spain to raise a league
against Charles VIII., i. 174.
unprovided for war, i. 193.
aspires to the government of
Castile, on the death of Philip,
i. 350.

May, blossoms, better than March,
iii. 101, 102.

Misanthropi, ii. 120.

Moderator more troublesome than
the actor, ii. 162.
Monarchy, without nobility a tyran-
ny, ii. 121.

Money not the sinews of war, ii. 178;
iii. 52, 73, 74.

adds greatness to a state, when,
iii. 76-80.

Monkey tore up the private note-
book of Henry VII., i. 362.
Monoculos, iii. 117.
Monopolies, ii. 201.

Montaigne on the meanness of false-
hood, ii. 83.

membrance, ii. 273.
narrative, iii. 134.

artificial, holpen by exercise, iii.
131.

Mercenary forces, ii. 179.
Merchandizing is the vena porta of
wealth, ii. 219.
Merchants, their value in a state, ii.
145.

Merchant-strangers, laws of Henry
VII. relating to, i. 134, 145.
Merchant-adventurers of England

induce parliament to abolish
the monopolies of merchant-
adventurers of London, i. 263.
recalled from Flanders by Henry
VII., i. 222.

continue the Flanders trade, i.
259, 260.

Mercy, hypocrites detected by their
neglect of the works of, iii. 173.
Merit and good works, the end of
man's motion, ii. 113.
Metis, or Counsel, ii. 147.
Mexico, conquest of, whether justi-
fiable, iii. 28.

Middle region of the air, iii. 111.
Militar election, i. 45.
Military services, statute of Henry
VII. annulling leases and
grants to such as neglect to
serve the king, i. 332.
spirit, the source of greatness in
states, ii. 183.

spirit of different nations, ii. 183.
Mines, the Low Countries have the
best mines above ground in
the world, ii. 128,

Miracles, why never wrought to con-
vince an atheist, ii. 132.
new creations, iii. 152.
of our Saviour, iii. 166.

of Valentia, in Spain, iii. 24.
Moore, Sir Thomas, his account of
Sir James Tyrrell's confession of
the murder of the Princes in the
Tower, i. 214.

Morley, Lord, killed before Dixmue,

i. 152.

Morris-dance of heretics, ii. 87.
Morton, John, Bishop of Ely, made
a privy counsellor, i. 64.
speech respecting Brittaine, i.
117-124.

procures a law against conspir-
acy, i. 131.

hated by the court, Ib.
dilemma for raising benevo-
lences, i. 184.

speech at St. Paul's announcing

the conquest of Granada, i. 191.
life sought by the Cornish reb-
els, i. 265.

death and character, i. 310.
Mort-pays, statute of Henry VII. for
punishment of, i. 185.

Morysine, Sir Richard, his Apomaris
calumniarum, i. 322.

Mothers, partiality of their affec-
tion, ii. 100.

Mountebanks for the body politic,
ii. 116.

Mountford, Sir Symond, favours
Perkin Warbeck, i. 212.
tried and beheaded, i. 223.
Mountjoy, Lord, Bacon's letters to,
iii. 91-94.

Murder, malicious intent necessary
to constitute, iii. 74.
Mustapha, his death fatal to Soly-
man's line, ii. 143.
his wife Roxalana, 1b.
Mutianus, his maxim, that money is
the sinews of war, iii. 52, 73, 74.

siege of, misdated by Bacon, i.
109, 176-178.
Naples, designs of Charles VIII. on,
i. 162, 169.

conquered and lost by Charles
VIII., i. 238.
revolts to Ferdinando the young-
er, i. 238.

Henry VII. contemplates mar-
riage with the Queen, widow
of Ferdinando the younger, i.
338, 339.

Narcissus relating to Claudius the
marriage of Silius and Messalina,
ii. 155.

Narses, the eunuch, ii. 105.
Nativity of the French king truly
cast, ii. 204.

Nature, essay on nature in men,
211-213.

ii.

custom only can alter and sub-
due, ii. 211.

rules for disciplining, ii. 212.
is best perceived in privateness,
ii. 212.

happy they whose natures suit
with their vocations, Ib.
runs either to herbs or weeds, Ib.
deformed people generally have
their revenge on, ii. 227.
Navigation laws, i. 145.
Nebuchadnezzar, his tree of mon-
archy, ii. 181.
Necessity, of three kinds,

New trial granted upon a verdict, in
cases above the value of 401., by
Statute of Henry VII., i. 242.
Newark, battle of, i. 89-92.
Newport, in Flanders, besieged in
vain by the French under Lord
Cordes, i. 152.

Nicolas, Sir Harris, his proceedings
and ordinances of the Privy Coun-
cil, i. 369, 370.
Nobility, essay on, ii. 121-123.

new, the act of power; ancient,

the act of time, ii. 122.
of birth, abateth industry, ii.

122.

numerous, impoverish a state, Ib.
not to be multiplied, ii. 128, 179.
Nobles, how to be dealt with by
kings, ii. 144.

Non-claim, Statute of, passed by
Edward III., i. 142.

fit for times of war, Ib.
Norham Castle, besieged in vain by
James IV. of Scotland, i. 276.
Scottish gentlemen murdered at,
i. 298.

North, northern nations more mar-
tial than southern, ii. 278.
Northumberland, Earl of, employed
by Henry VII. to quiet the
malcontents of Durham and
Yorkshire, i. 135.
murdered by them, Ib.

invaded by the King of Scots,
with Perkin Warbeck, i. 250-
258.

Norway, prophecy respecting the
fleet of, ii. 205.

Norwich, Henry VII. at, i. 86.

his monkey, i. 362.

Nune dimittis, the sweetest canticle,
ii. 86.