Coke, Sir Edward-continued.

mation for a Parliament, shown
to him and approved of, 123.
His sentence in Star Chamber
upon Yelverton, 137.
Signs the letter of the learned
Counsel to the King upon the
precedents of kings' eldest sons
called to Parliament, 142. 144.
Also concerning the monopolies

likely to be complained of, 145.
148. 183. 208.

Reports from the Committee of
Supply "a free gift of two sub-
sidies," 180.

Put on a commission for surveying

and consolidating the statutes.
Reports from the Committee of
Grievances on the Patents for
Inns and Alehouses, 184, 185.
Reads a petition from Sir Francis
Michell and proposes his sen-
tence, 185.

Opposes his desire to be heard,
186.

Maintains that to justify anything

which has been voted a griev-
ance is an offence punishable
with imprisonment, 186, 187.
Learns that the House has no
power (alone) to punish any but
members or dependents, 189.
Expounds its judicial powers, 191.
His part in the conference with the
other House, 191. 193.

Bacon's apprehension of him, 192.
His ruling passion, and the change

in his condition consequent on
his position in the House of
Commons, 193, 194.

His advice as to evidence, 196.
His part in a second conference,
197.

His value for evidence which in-

criminates the witness, 263.
Draws up a record of the judg
ment of the House of Commons
in the case of Edward Lloyde,
273.

Though not present when the
judgment was agreed upon, ap-
proves it; implying that the
House has power (alone) to
punish persons who are neither
members nor dependents, see p.
189, ibid.

His motion on the question of sup-
ply to support a war for re-
covery of the Palatinate, 467,
468. 505, 506. 508.
His idea of the performance of an
engagement, 508.

478.

Colles, Mr., letter in behalf of, from
Bacon to the E. of Dorset, 529.
Commission proposed by the King for
examining the charges against
Bacon, 223.

Commons, House of, avoids engaging
itself to supply means for re-
covering the Palatinate by force,
180.
Presents the King with a free gift
of two subsidies, without refe-
rence to the Palatinate; effect
of the proceeding, 179–181.
Presents petition for better execu-
tion of laws against Recusants,
(Bacon being chosen as spokes-
man for both houses), 181,
182.

Sentences Sir Francis Michell, J.
P., not being a member of the
House, for offences not against
the House, to lose his commis-
sion, and go to the Tower, 185.
Orders a search for precedents
showing what power the House
has to punish offences not
against itself, 187.

or

Finds that it has no power to
punish any but members
dependents of its own, and that
for punishment of offenders
against the State, it must apply
to the Upper House, 189.
Sends message to Lords accord-
ingly, 190.

Prepares for conference, 191. 193. ·
Debate on the management of the
Conference, 193-196.

Second conference to supply
omissions in the first, 197.
Has found abuses in eminent
persons and desires another
conference, 215.

Demands judgment against Bacon,
270.

Passes judgment on Edward
Lloyde, 272-274.

Promises to support a war for the

recovery of the Palatinate with
the lives and estates of all its
constituents, 281, 282. 330, 331.
Votes a single subsidy, 331. 456.

COMMONS.

Commons, House of-continued.
Recommends a scheme of policy,
456, 457.

Insists upon privilege of discus-
sion, and is dissolved, 455, 456.
A new House called specially to
hear the case and give advice
upon it, 459, 460.

Notes for a speech in, 460–465.
Advises the King to put an end

to the treaty, and promises him
a triple subsidy in that event,
465.
Shrinks from pledge to provide
enough for the recovery of the
Palatinate, 466-468.

Votes for the present a third of

the sum required, 467. 505, 506.
Ceases to care about the recovery
of the Palatinate, 506-509.
Offers two subsidies, 507.
Commonwealth Commissions, recom-
mended by Bacon to be estab-
lished and declared in the Star
Chamber, 70-72, 73. 75. 77.
Compton, William, a suitor, 257.
Conferences between the two Houses,
191-196. 199, 200. 202, 203.
215. 221-223.

Confession and submission, Bacon's,
251-262.

Constable, Sir John, Bacon's wife's
sister's husband, appointed lite-
rary executor, 228. 539.

Bequest to, 542. 552.

One of the trustees of his land in

Hertfordshire, 543.
One of his executors, 544.
Lady, bequest to, 542.

Nall, Do.

Cotton, Sir Robert, 300.
Council, consultations in, concerning
the election of the Count Pala-
tine to the Bohemian throne,
43-45.

Report on the case of Sir Henry
Yelverton, 98.

Circular from, to the Nobility, in-
viting contributions for the de-
fence of the Palatinate, 131—
133.

Advise prompt and peremptory
dealing with Spain in the matter,
457, 458.

Courteen, a Dutch merchant, fined for
tampering with witnesses, 49.
Courts, jurisdiction of, 352.
Coventry and Lichfield, Bishop of, one
of the Committees of four for
examination of evidence against
Bacon, 245.

To be advised with as to the lec-
tures to be erected in the Uni-
versities, 544.

Coventry, Sir Thomas, succeeds Yelver-
ton as Attorney-General, 159.
A referee for the patent of Ale-
houses, 185.

A commissioner for the patent of
Gold and Silver Thread, 204.
How concerned with the patent of
Concealments, 195.

Warrant to be referred to, 521.
Correspondence with, 534, 535.
Cranfield, Sir Lionel, Master of the
Wards, on the disposal of the
pretermitted customs, 76. 80,

D'Avila, 462.

De Augmentis Scientiarum, composition
of, 353. 379.

Publication of, 435.

Presentation copies to the King,
the Prince, the Duke of Buck-
ingham, the two Universities,
and Trinity College, Cambridge,
436-440.

Why some passages were omitted,
436.

Place of, in the Great Instauration,
531.

De Sapientia Veterum, 531.

Debt of the Crown, gradual reduction
of, 84, 85.

Debts, Bacon's, referred to the Lord
Treasurer, 346, 347. 349. 352.
381.

The King's warrant touching, 393,
394.

and assets of estate, 552.
Decemvirs' laws, 360.

Democritus, 377.

Demosthenes, recalled after banishment,
297.

Behaviour of in exile.

On preventive war, 476.
Preserved both his orations and
his epistles, 546.

Denmark, Kings of, in 1588 and in
1624, 497.

Denmark, Christian IV., King of, his
correspondence with Bacon, 31.
82. 142. 166.

Negotiations with, 526.

Denny, Lord, one of the Commissioners
to take examinations in the case
of Edward Lloyde, 277.
Dennys, Gabriel, 11.
Digby, Lord, afterwards Earl of Bristol,
would have extenuated Sir
Thomas Lake's fault, 7.
Favourably mentioned by the
King to the Prince, when he
thought he was dying, 9.
His negotiation of the marriage
treaty with Spain, 16.
Manager of the negotiation with
the Hollanders, 38.

His sentence on the Earl and
Countess of Suffolk, 59.
Appointed to speak with the
Countess of Exeter, 66.
Contributes 500l. to the voluntary
subscription for defence of the
Palatinate, 118.

His mission to Brussels, and rela-
tions with Matthew and Bacon,
201, 202. 210, 211.

Endeavours to get leave for Toby
Matthew to return to England,
286.

Letters from Bacon to, 322. 345.
424.

Means to write to Bacon before
going on his embassy, 325.
Explains to the two Houses the
case of the Palatinate, 331.
456.

An intercessor on behalf of Bacon,
335.

His journey, 342.

DIGBY.

Digby, Lord-continued.

His views and hopes regarding
the Spanish match, 369, 370.
400.

Instructions to, recommended by
the Council, 457.

Further instructions, leading to
breach of the match, 458, 459.
Digby, Thomas, a petitioner referred
by the King to Bacon, 46.
Digges, Sir Dudley, a member of the
Committee of Grievances, offers
a bill to remove the grievance of
patents, without touching the
referees, 188.

Chosen to make the introduction
at the conference with the Lords,
191. 194.

Dissolution of Parliament without act
passed, its effect on judgments
of Upper House, 331-333.
Causes of, 455-457.

Divinity, flourishing state of, 176.
D'Ocampo, Alonzo, 494.
Dockwray, Sir H., offers 1000l. per

annum to the Lord Treasurer
Suffolk for favour in paying the
army, 57.

Domitian, 358.

Doncaster, Lord, 335.

Dorset, Edward Lord, one of the com-
mittee to take examinations in

Dorset, Edward Lord-continued.
the case of Edward Lloyde,

277.
Douglas, Sir Robert, concerned in the
business of wills, 111.

His patent to be delivered to him, 545.
Downing, Mr., his promise to Robert
Cecil of 401. for his friendship in
the Beccles cause, 561.
D'Oyley, Robert, plaintiff in a chancery
suit, 83.

Drake, Sir Francis, Expedition of
against the West Indies and the
coasts of Spain, 485, 486. 495.
Druse in Normandy, 495.
Dunch, Mr., a suitor, 258.
Durham, Richard Neile, Bishop of, on
one of the committees of four
for examination of evidence
against Bacon, 245.

Against requiring Bacon to answer
the charges in person, 249.
His vote on question of punish-
ment, 269.

Note of some message to, 299.
Dutch merchants, proceedings against
for exporting gold, 4. 30. 34. 47.
50. 60, 61. 63, 64.

Some prosecuted ore tenus in the
Star Chamber, for tampering
with the witnesses, 47, 48, 49.
Amount of the fines, 69.

Edney, Francis, Bacon's late servant,
legacy to, 543.

Education of Youth, proposed treatise
on, 351.

Egerton, Edward, a disappointed briber,
presents a petition against Bacon,
213, 214. 221, 222, 223. 252,
253.

Sir Rowland, the other party in
the same cause, 222. 252, 253.
Elections, result of, not promising for
the Government, 152. 155.
Eliot, Sir John, commentary of on the
debates in Charles's first Par-
ment, 509.

Elizabeth, Countess Palatine, 32.

Queen of Bohemia, correspondence
with, 364. 366. 533. 535.
Buckingham's duty towards, 450.

VOL. VII.

Elizabeth, Queen, her dealing with the
attack upon Monopolies, 183.
Her displeasure at the slaughter of
the Spanish garrison by Lord
Grey, 484.

Elegy in felicem memoriam to be
published, 540.

Unfortunate effect of her en.
couragement of Bacon in his
youth, 563,

Ellis, Leslie, on Bacon's Historia Vitæ
et Mortis, 399.

Elsing, notes of the Lords' debates by,
248. 262. 267-271.

England, strength of as compared with
Spain in 1588 and 1624, 496,
497.

Englefield, fine to be levied on, 110.

258.

English, the honour of the day at
Newport ascribed to, 492.

Englishman and Frenchman, the dif
ference between, 110.

Ente, Josias, sent for to answer in the
business of the Dutch merchants
in the Star Chamber, 40.

Epsley, Sir John, 412.
Essays, 374.

2 R

474.

Fees and allowances, to the officers of
Justice, amount of, 266.

-at discretion, then the ordinary
remuneration for all services not
judicial, 561, 562.

Forbidden in the New Atlantis, 561.
-of barristers and physicians, pre-
sent law regarding, ibid.
Feild, Dr., Bishop of Landaff, accused
by the Commons of Bribery,
222, 223.

Proofs found weak by the Lords
and an admonition sufficient,
246, 247, 248.

Felt-makers, decree for, revised by Act
of Parliament, 557.
Fenton, Lord, recommended to the

Prince by the King when he
thought he was dying, 9.
Ferdinand of Styria; heir elect to the
kingdom of Bohemia, 18. 29.
Succeeds to the Crown on the
death of Matthias, 42.

Deposed, ibid.

Elected Emperor of Germany,
ibid.

Ferdinando, King of Naples, in league
with Florence and Milan against
Venice, 477.

Fiat (D'Effiat), Marquis, French am-
bassador, 526.

Letters to, 527. 536.
Bequest to, 541.

Finances, improvement in, 32, 33.
Alarming condition of, 110. 116,

117.

610

F.

FREDERICK.

Finch, Heneage, Recorder of London,
sets forth the grievance of the
Patent of Gold and Silver Thread
at the Conference, 191. 193. 196.
203.

To be conferred with by the Lords'
Committee, 203.

Finch, Mr. John, Bacon's bequest to,
228, 229.

Finch, Serjeant, a referee for the patent
of Inns, 185.

Fines set on the Dutch merchants, how
to be applied, 69.

-of Bacon to the Crown, assign-
ment of, 301. 349.

Fisher, Sir Edward, a suitor, 254.
Fitz-Maurice, 484.

Fleetwood, Francis, Bacon's godson,
bequest to, 542.

Fletcher, Bacon's ancient servant,
legacy to, 543.

Forces of Spain and England com-
pared, 461-464.

Forster, Mr., life of Sir John Eliot by,
509.

Fort del Or, 484.

504.