Mountebanks in state as well as private life,
Mountfort, Sir Simon, v. 98, apprehended, convicted, and beheaded,
Mountjoy, lord deputy of Ireland,
Mucianus, his advice to Vespasian,
Mouth out of taste, i. 477, what taste it will not receive,
Mucianus, how he destroyed Vitellius by a false fame,
Mulberry more fair and fruitful by perforating the trunk, &c. i. 405,
the black mulberry preferable to the white,
Mullins's case taken notice of, concerning the inheritance of timber-
trees,
Mummy, said to be three thousand years old, i. 513.
stancheth blood,
Munster, a design of planting it, with the reason why it did not
go on,
iii. 318, 327
Murder, cases relating thereto explained, iv. 36, &c. how to be pro-
secuted, and what to suffer for it upon conviction, iv. 82. Self-
murder, how to be punished, iv. 109, what degrees of murder are
highest, &c. iv. 390, a difference between an insidious one and a
braving, is ridiculous,
Murdering of princes, the great sin of maintaining the lawfulness:
of this doctrine, iv. 443, the doctrine upon which it is founded, ac-
cused, ibid. the calumny it brings to our religion, iv. 444, the de-
fence of it is impious, iv. 445, is the destruction of government,
Murdered body bleeding at the approach of the murderer, ii. 65,
applied to love,
ii. 430
Murray, John, letters to him from Sir Francis Bacon, vi. 76, et seq.
created a viscount and earl,
Murray, Thomas, provost of Eton, dies,
vi. 76, note (a)
vi. 341, note (a)
Muscovy hath a late spring and early harvest, whence,
Mushrooms, i. 431, their properties, ibid. several productions of
them, ibid. where they grow most,
Music,
Music in church, how far commendable, and how far not so, ii. 540,
541
Music in the theory ill treated, i. 294. Musical and immusical
sounds, ibid. bodies producing musical sounds, ibid. diapa-
son the sweetest of sounds, i. 295, fall of half notes neces-
sary in music, i. 296, consorts in music, the instruments
that increase the sweetness not sufficiently observed, i. 346,
the music in masks, ii. 345, 346, consent of notes to be ascribed
to the ante-notes, not entire ones, i. 296, concords, perfect and
semi-perfect, which they are, ibid. the most odious discord of all
other, ibid. discord of the bass most disturbeth the music, ibid. no
quarter-notes in music, i. 297, pleasing of single tones answereth
to the pleasing of colours, and of harmony to the pleasing of order,
ibid. figures or tropes in music have an agreement with the figures
in rhetoric, i. 297, 298. Music hath great operation upon the
manners and spirits of men, i. 298, 299, why it sounds best in
frosty weather, i. 334, concords and discords in music are sym-
pathies and antipathies of sounds, i. 346, instruments that agree
best in consort, ibid. instruments with a double lay of strings,
wire, and lute-strings,
Musk, its virtue,
Musk-melons, how improved,
Muster-masters of the lieutenancy,
Mute, any one that is so in trial forfeiteth no lands, except for trea-
son, iv. 109, how such a one is to be punished,
Nakedness uncomely in mind as well as body, ii. 264. Vide iii. 489.
Name, union in name, of great advantage in kingdoms, iii. 264,
what it is to be of England and Scotland after their union, iii. 275,
alterations herein considered as a point of honour, and as inducing
new laws,
iii. 276
Nantz, the strongest city in Brittany, now closely besieged, v. 46,
Napellus, the strongest of all vegetable poisons, i. 417, and yet a
maid lived of it, ibid. and poisoned those who had carnal know-
ledge of her,
Narcissus, his art with Claudius,
Narratives, or relations,
Nasturtium, or cardamon, its virtue,
Nations by name, not so in right,
Nativity of queen Elizabeth falsely said to be kept holy, instead of
that of the blessed virgin,
Nature, advice of the true inquisition thereof,
Nature, better perceived in small than in great,
Nature, a great consent between the rules of nature and of true po-
licy, iii. 257, &c. its grounds touching the union of bodies, and
their farther affinity with the grounds of policy, iii. 262, the laws
thereof have had three changes, and are to undergo one more, ii.
482, 483, spirits are not included in these laws, ibid. what it is
we mean thereby,
ibid.
Nature in men concealed, overcome, extinguished, ii. 347, 348, hap-
py where mens natures sort with their vocations, ii. 348, runs to
herbs or weeds,
Natural divination,
Naturalization, the privilege and benefit of it, iv. 326, the nice care
of our laws in imparting it, ibid. its several degrees, as belonging
to several sorts of people, iv. 326, 327, 328, the wisdom of our
law in its distinctions of this privilege, ibid. several degrees of it
among the Romans, iv. 328, arguments against naturalization of
the Scots, iv. 329, 331, is conferred by our laws on persons born
in foreign parts, of English parents, iv. 331, 332, the inconve-
niences of a general naturalization of the Scots, urged, iv. 337,
338, 339, whether conquest naturalizes the conquered, iv. 339,
340, did never follow conquest among the Romans till Adrian's
time, but was conferred by charter, &c. iv. 342, how it is fa-
voured by our laws, iv. 342, case of the subjects of Gascoigne,
Guienne, &c. in relation thereto, when those places were lost, iv.
356, 357, a speech in favour of the naturalization of the Scots, iii.
290, an answer to the inconveniences of naturalizing the Scots, iii.
291, is divided into two sorts, iii. 291, 292, the inconveniences
of not naturalizing the Scots, iii. 302, the advantages of it, iii.
304, instances of the ill effects in several nations of non-naturaliza-
tion, iii. 304, 305, may be had without an union of laws, iii. 311,
the Romans were very free in them, iii. 262, 263. See Conquest.
Natural-born subjects, their privileges by our law, iv. 328, 329
Naunton, Sir Robert, surveyor of the court of wards, attends the
king to Scotland, vi. 150, made secretary of state, vi. 184, note (b)
recommended to the duke of Buckingham for his grace to apply
vi. 255, 362
Navigation of the ancients,
ii. 94, 95, 96, 97
Navy, how to be ordered after the union of England and Scotland,
iii. 284, its prosperous condition under queen Elizabeth,
Necessity is of three sorts-Conservation of life-Necessity of obe-
dience and necessity of the act of God, or of a stranger, iv. 34,
it dispenses with the direct letter of a statute law, ibid. how far
persons are excused by cases of necessity, iv. 35, it privilegeth
only quoad jura privata, but does not excuse against the common-
wealth, not even in case of death, ibid. an exception to the last-
mentioned rule,
Negotiating by speech preferable to letters, ii. 369,
Negotiations between England and Spain, wherein is
treachery of Spain,
shewn the
iii. 86, 87
i. 389
Negroes, an inquiry into their colouration,
Nero much esteemed hydraulics, i. 294, his male wife, ii. 434, his
character, ii. 438, dislike of Seneca's stile, ii. 449, his harp, ii. 296
Nerva, his dislike of informers to support tyranny, ii. 442, what was
said of him by Tacitus,
iii. 357, 358
Netherlands, revolt from Spain, iii. 85, 86, proceedings between
England and Spain relating to them, ibid. are received into pro-
tection by England, iii. 87, they might easily have been annexed
to the British dominions,
Nevill's case relating to local inheritances,
Nevill, Sir Henry, is drawn into Essex's plot by Cuffe, iii. 153, his
declaration,
Neville, lord, the house of commons desire he may be put out of
office,
New Atlantis, ii. 81. Dr. Rawley's account of the design of it,
Night-showers better for fruit than day-showers,
Nights, star-light or moon-shine, colder than cloudy,
Nilus, a strange account of its earth,
Nilus, the virtues thereof, i. 512, how to clarify the
i. 502, 503
water of it,
ibid.
Nisi prius, is a commission directed to two judges, iv. 95, the me-
thod that is holden in taking Nisi prius, ibid. the jurisdiction of the
justices of Nisi prius, iv. 96, the advantages of trials this way,
ibid.
Nitre, or salt-petre, i. 255, 258, whence cold, i. 279. Nitre, good
for men grown, ill for children, i. 373. Nitrous water, i. 376,
scoureth of itself, ibid. Nitre mingled with water maketh vines
sprout,
Nitre, upon the sea-sands,
Nobility, the depression of them makes a king more absolute, and
less safe, ii. 299, 470. Nobility, ii. 282, attempers sovereignty,
ibid. should not be too great for sovereignty or justice, ibid. too
numerous causeth poverty and inconvenience to a state, ii. 283,
reason why they should not multiply too fast, ii. 325, 326, their
retinues and hospitality conduce to martial greatness, ii. 325.
Nobility, how to be ordered after the union of England and Scot-
land, iii. 280, the state of them in queen Elizabeth's time, iii. 67,
their possessions how diminished, ibid. how to be raised and ma-
naged in Ireland after its plantation,
Noises, some promote sleep,
Non-residence, is condemned, ii. 546, the usual pleas for it, ibid.
&c. the pretence of attending study thereby more in the uni-
versities, removed, ii. 547, several other pleas removed, ibid.
Norfolk, duke of, plots with the duke of Alva and Don Guerres, to
land an army at Harwich,
Norris, Sir John, makes an honourable retreat at Gaunt,
Northampton, earl of, some account of him,
v. 286
Northumberland, earl of, slain for demanding the subsidy granted
to Henry VII.
Northumberland, earl of, conveys the lady Margaret into Scotland,
Northumberland destroyed with fire and sword by James IV. in fa-
vour of Perkin,
Notices, doctrine of,
Notions, all our common ones are not to be removed, as some ad-
vise,
v. 313
Nourishing meats and drinks, i. 266, et seq. Nourishing parts in
plants,
i. 457
Nourishment, five several means to help it, i. 391, 392, 393, 394.
Nourishment mended, a great help,
i. 416, 417, 418
Novum Organum, Wotton's commendation of that book, v. 542,
presented to the king, with a letter, v. 535, the king's and Mr.
Cuffe's remarks upon it,
Numa's two coffins, i. 514, a lover of retirement,
Nurseries for plants should not be rich land,
Nuisance, matters of, how to be punished by the constable, iv. 312,
several instances thereof, and how they are to be punished, iv. 393
OAK-LEAVES have honey-dews, probably from the closeness of
the surface, i. 416, an old tradition, that oak-boughs put into the
earth bring forth wild vines, i. 425. Oak-apples, an excrescence
with putrefaction,
i. 435
Oak bears the most fruits amongst trees, i. 458, the cause, ibid. our
oaken-timber for shipping not to be equalled,
iii. 450
Oath ex officio, is condemned, ii. 536, 537, a new oath of allegiance,
Obedience, two means of retaining conquered countries in it, iv. 342
Objects of the sight cause great delight in the spirits, but no great
offence, ii. 32, the cause,
Ocampo, the Spanish general in Ireland, iii. 526, taken prisoner,
Occhus, a tree in Hyrcania,
Occupancy, when it grows a property in lands,
Odious objects cause the spirits to fly,
Odours, infusions in air, i. 252. Odours in some degree nourishing,
Officers in court, ministerial, how to be treated, iii. 463.
Officers.
Officers of the crown, how to be ordered after the union of England
and Scotland,
iii. 279, 280
i. 373, 374
Oil, whether it can be formed out of water,
Oily substances and watery, i. 369, commixture of oily substances
prohibiteth putrefaction, i. 369, 370, turning of watery substances.
into oily, i. 374, a great work in nature, ibid. some instances
thereof, ibid. Oil of sweet almonds a great nourisher, i. 268, how
to be used,
ibid.
Ointment, fragrant, ii. 226. Ointments shut in the vapours, and
send them powerfully to the head, ii. 46, said to be used by
witches, ii. 69, preserving ointments,
Old trees bearing better than the same young,
Old men conversing with young company live long,
Onions made to wax greater, i. 408, in growing carry the seed to the
top,
Openers, a catalogue of them,
Opinion, a master-wheel in some cases,
Opium, how to abate its poisonous quality, i. 252, inquired into,
i. 279, hath divers parts, i, 290, causes mortification, i. 366.
Vide i. 461.
Oquenda, Michael de, the Spanish admiral, lost,
Orange-flowers infused, i. 251. Orange-seeds sown in April will
bring forth an excellent sallad-herb,
Orange, prince of, is murdered by the papists,
Orators, were as counsellors of state among the Athenians,
Orbilius,
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