229.

Chievances, unlawful, which is bas-
tard usury,
i. 134.
Children and Parents, essay on, ii.
99-101.

benefit of having children, ii.
99.

unequal distribution of parental
affection, ii. 100.

treatment and education of, ii.
99-101.

China, ordnance used in for 2,000
years, ii. 279.

Chivalry, orders of, ii. 187.
Chressenor, Thomas, tried for Per-
kin Warbeck's rebellion, and par-
doned, i. 223.

Christ, incarnation of, iii. 155.
Church, unity in the, ii. 87.

controversies in, ii. 89, 90.
Catholic, iii. 157, 158.
visible, iii. 158.

the keeper of the Scriptures, iii.
180.
Churmne of reproaches and taunts,
i. 292.

Cicero on the piety of the Romans,
ii. 134, 135.

of the self-love of Pompey, ii.

con's Essays for Cosmo de Medici,
ii. 73, 74.

Civil conversation, notes for, iii.
139, 140.

Claudius Appius, only two men great
in history carried away by love,
he one, ií. 110.

Clarence, Duke of, i. 72.
Clerks convict, to be burned in the
hand, i. 133.

and ministers of law courts, ii.
268, 269.

Clement VIII., iii. 24, 192.
Clement, James, murderer of the
Duke of Guise, correction by Ba-
con in Camden, ii. 51.
Cleon, his dream, ii. 205.
Clergy curtailed by statute of Henry
VII., i. 133.

an overgrown, brings a state to
necessity, ii. 128.

Clifford, Sir Robert, i. 375.

joins Perkin Warbeck in Flan-
ders, i. 212.

declares him to be the Duke of
York, i. 213.

won over by king Henry's spies,
i. 217, 218.

gives information to Henry VII.
of the partisans of Perkin
Warbeck, i. 225.

pardoned by the king, Ib.
impeaches Sir William Stanley,
Ib.

Clipping coins, statute of Henry VII.
relating to, i. 334.
Closeness, ii. 95, 96.

Cloth of estate, the king sat under,
i. 177.

Cobham, Lord, firm to Henry VII.
against the Cornish rebels, i. 266,
267.

Coinage, regulated by statute of
Henry VII., i. 334.

his profitable recoinages, i. 335.
statutes of Henry VII. respect-
ing, i. 146.

counterfeiting foreign coin cur-
rent, Ib.

Coke, Sir Edward, mentions the
Great Council, but not its
functions, i. 369.

what he knew about the death
of Prince Henry, ii. 11-13.
Collyweston, Henry VII. brings his
daughter Margaret so far on her
way to Scotland, i. 323.

Colonization, essay on, ii. 194-198.
who fit for colonists, ii. 195.
choice of site, lb.
government of, ii. 197.
support of, by the parent coun-
try, lb.

Colour, beauty of, inferior to beauty
of favour, and of motion, ii. 226.
Colours that show best by candle-
light, ii. 210.

of good and evil, iii. 100-120,
270-290.

Preface, iii. 89-94.
Columbus sends his brother Barthol-
omæus to Henry VII., i. 296.
Comets, their influences, ii. 275.
Comineus, on Duke Charles the
Hardy, ii. 169.

Commission of Union between Eng-
land and Scotland, ii. 151.
standing commissions commend-
ed, 16.
Common Place, Court of, its juris-
diction, i. 130.

appre-

Commons, little danger to be
hended from, in a state, except,
etc., ii. 145.

Comnenus, Manuel, his heresy, iii.

Contibald, James, Maximilian's am-
bassador to England and Spain, i.
174-176, 192.
Contraries, iii. 110.

Controversies in the Church, how to
avoid, ii. 89.

Conversation, the art of, ii. 191-194.
notes for civil, iii. 139, 140.
Cor ne edito, ii. 169.

Cord breaketh at the last by the
weakest pull, ii. 127.

Cordes, Lord, aids the rebels in
Flanders against Maximilian,
i. 151.

besieges Newport in vain, i. 152.
his hatred of the English, Ib.
brings overtures of peace from
Charles VIII. to Henry VII.,
i. 194, 195.

Cork, Perkin Warbeck lands at, i.

206.

mayor of, executed with Perkin
Warbeck, i. 304.

Cornish men, a hardy race, i. 264.
rebel against a subsidy levied

by Henry VII., i. 264–275.
march up to London, i. 265-269.
defeated at Blackheath, i. 273.
strength of their bows, i. 273.
invite Perkin Warbeck over
from Ireland, i. 284.
Coronation of Henry VII. on Bos-
worth field, i. 49, 50.
in London, i. 54, 56.

of Lambert Symnell at Dublin,
i. 85.

of Elizabeth, Queen of Henry
VII., i. 94.

Corporations, by-laws of, restrained
by statute of Henry VII., i.
333.
Corruptio unius, generatio alterius,
iii. 118.

Corruption and bribery of men in
authority, ii. 114, 327.

Cosmo de Medici, Italian transla-
tion of Bacon's Essays dedi-
cated to, ii. 73.

his saying against perfidious
friends, ii. 93.

Cotton, Sir Robert, supplies materi-
als to Bacon in compiling his
History of King Henry VII.,

.i. 14.

less liberal in that of Henry
VIII., i. 393.

228.

Deformity, essay on, ii. 227, 228.
not a sign of character, but a
cause, ii. 227.

in a great wit is an advantage
in rising, ii. 228.
Deipara, iii. 154.

Delapole, William, committed to
custody by Henry VII., i. 330.
Delays of men in authority, ii. 114.
essay on, ii. 152, 153.
Deluges, ii. 274.

Demeanour, the art of, ii. 164, 165.
Democritus, charged with Atheism,
ii. 132.

Demosthenes, his conduct in banish-

ment, iii. 15, 185.

his grounds of hope for Athens,
iii. 113, 114.

his reproof to the Athenians, iii.
118.
Deportment, the art of, ii. 164,
165.

Deptford Bridge, action at, between
Lord Dawbeney and the Cornish
rebels, i. 272.

Derby, Ferdinand, Earl of, lawsuit

for the Isle of Man at his death,
note in Camden by Bacon, ii. 56.
Description, of such things as have
no certain denomination, iii.
102.

where the notes are of equal
dignity, Ib.
Desemboltura, ii. 216.

Devil, envy his proper attribute, ii.I

109.

Devonshire, Cornish rebels against
Henry VII. march through,
i. 266.

Earl of, relieves Exeter, besieged
by Perkin Warbeck, i. 287.
Diaries of travels, how to be kept,
ii. 138.

Diet, how to regulate, ii. 188.
Digby, Sir John, Lieutenant of the
Tower, in charge of Perkin
Warbeck, i. 302.
Ambassador to Spain, iii. 5.
Digestion, ii. 7, 161.

Dighton, John, one of the murderers
of the two princes in the Tower,
i. 214-217.
Discontentment, ii. 108.

public, how to remove, ii. 127-

Dog, his courage in presence of his
master, ii: 134, 339.

Dorset, Marquis of, left as a pledge
at Paris by Henry VII., i. 64.
committed to the tower by the
king, i. 86.

set at liberty, i. 94.
Dove, the spirit of Jesus was the
spirit of the Dove, iii. 166.
innocency of, and wisdom of

the serpent, iii. 167, 168.
Dowry, patrimonial, carries no part
of sovereignty, i. 221.
Drake, Sir Francis, clause inserted
by Bacon in Camden's Annals of
Queen Elizabeth relating to him,
ii. 50.
Dream of Lady Margaret, mother of
Henry VII., i. 365.

their oppressions, i. 326, 351, 352.
made speaker of the House of
Commons, i. 332.

Dutch, free fishing on the coasts of
England not confirmed to them, i.
347.

Earthquakes, ii. 274.

East and West, wars anciently moved
from east to west, ii. 277.

have no certain points of heaven,
Ib.

Edgecombe, Sir Richard, ambassador
to France, i. 96.
at Rennes, i. 149.
Edmondsbury, Henry VII. at, i.
86.

Edmund, son of Henry VII., dies in
infancy, i. 300.

Education, essay on, ii. 213–215.
the power of, ii. 215.

most perfect when begun in
youth, 16.

is but an early custom, Ib.
Edward the Confessor, title to the
crown founded on his will, i. 50.
Edward Plantagenet, prisoner in the
Tower, i. 78.

paraded through the streets of
London, i. 80.

Edward IV., his popular reign, i.

48.

invented benevolences, i. 183.
godfather of Perkin Warbeck, i.
201.

godfather not of Perkin, but of
Edward, the converted Jew,
Ib.
Egremond, Sir John, heads the ris-
ing in Yorkshire and Durham
against Henry VII., i. 135.
flies to Lady Margaret of Bur-
gundy, i. 136.
Egypt, excellence of its geographical
position, iii. 83.

Elias, or Hialas, ambassador from
Ferdinando and Isabella to Henry
VII., i. 277.

Elizabeth, Queen, question of her
legitimacy, i. 320.

Bacon's notes to Camden's An-
nals of her reign, ii. 49-65.
her agent at Constantinople,
note by Bacon in Camden re-
specting, ii. 54.

conspiracy of Roderigo Lopez to
poison her, note by Bacon in
Camden respecting, ii. 55.
how dealt with when bills were
to be signed, ii. 154.
applications of two for the office
of secretary, ii. 156.

not independent of subsidies, iii.
53, 54.

playing on the virginals, iii.

158.

Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII., her
title to the crown, i. 48.
ordered to reside with the Queen
Dowager, i. 52.

again betrothed to the king, i.
53.

marriage, and married life, i.
65, 66.
coronation, i. 94.

dies in childbed in the Tower, i.
324.

Elizabeth, widow of Edward IV., i.

96..

Emmanuel, king of Portugal, iii. 26.
Empire, essay on, ii. 140-146.

true temper of, ii. 140.

great empires enervate their
subject nations, ii. 278.
Empson and Dudley, their relation
to Henry VII., i. 39, 357.
horse-leeches and shearers for
the king, i. 324.

their oppressions, i. 234, 326,
351, 352.

Enclosures, statute of Henry VII.
respecting, i. 142.

England and Flanders, man and
wife, i. 219.

why an overmatch for France,
ii. 180.

Entreprenant, ii. 217.
Envy, essay on, ii. 103-109.

its relation to love, ii. 103.
called in Scripture an evil eye,
lb.

a gadding passion, ii. 104.
what persons apt to envy others,
ii. 104, 105.

what persons most subject to be
envied, ii. 105-107.