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.
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.
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, 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,
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, 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.
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.
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.
Faldo, Bacon's ancient servant, legacy to, 543.
Falkland, Henry Cary, Lord, 320.
His child to be christened by Buckingham, 325.
Fetches Lord and Lady Somerset out of the Tower, 326. Message by, 342, 343. Letter to, 344.
Farmers of the Customs, their yearly gratuity to the Lord Treasurer Suffolk, 57.
Fear, just, a sufficient ground for war,
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.
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,
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.
Fortescue Papers, letters from, 2. 14. 67.75. 77. 111. 114. 159. 309. 409. 437. 442. 522.
France, a strait league to be treated with, 443. 446.
Offer of Bacon's service upon a commission into, 443, 444. State of, in 1588 as compared with 1624, 496.
Opposition of, to Spain in Italy, 502.
Policy of, to cultivate the good- will of the Popes and Cardinals,
Negotiations with, 526.
Francis I. of France, provident foreign policy of, 477.
Francis, Mr. Matthew, sergeant-at- arms, his quarrel with Mr. Col- lis, 529.
Fraser's Magazine, historical paper in, 303.
Frederick, Count Palatine of the Rhine, tries to engage England in the
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