and find a truth, says the Spaniard, ii. 265, in transacting em-
bassies
. . ii. 380
Lye, our law condemned as not having provided a sufficient pu-
nishment for those who use this word, iv. 407. Francis I. of
France, made this word so disgraceful as it now is, ibid. Solon's
answer to one who asked him why he made no punishment for
this word, ibid. the civilians dispute whether an action of injury
will lie for it..
ibid.

Lying, in what kind of posture healthful

i. 499

M.

MACEDON, its glory founded in poverty, iii. 307, compared with

Magic, natural

ii. 280, 348, 389

ii. 344

ii. 400

i. 256

i. 251

i. 353

ii. 43, et seq.

i. 109

ii. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54
Magic of the Persians, our author's opinion concerning it, iii. 257
Magistrates subordinate, directions for their conduct, iv. 84, can-
not be invested with the personal prerogative and power of the
king.
ibid, &c.
Magnalia naturæ

i. 237

ii. 279

Mahomet
Mahometans, who propagate religion by the sword, yet use therein
no secret murders

Maiz

Male birds, why the best singers

iv. 444

i. 267

i. 336

Male and female, the difference of them in several living creatures,
ii. 22, the causes thereof, ii. 23. Male and female in plants, i.
451. Male piony good for the falling sickness and incubus,

Maleficiating, practised in Gascony

Malt, i. 463, its swelling and increase, ibid. its sweetness,
Man, knowledge of, how divided.

ii. 67

ii. 37

ibid.

i. 118

Man was created in the image of God, ii. 483, judged falsely of the
rules of good and evil, ii. 484, his fall, and the ill effects thereof,
ibid. is compared to an Indian fig-tree, ii. 475, is improveable in
the mind, as well as body, v. 330, how his body is improveable
in many instances
v. 330, 331
i. 451

Man, a plant turned upwards.
Man's flesh eaten, i. 254, breedeth the French disease, ibid. causeth
high imaginations, i. 254, ii. 27, not in itself edible, ibid. the
cause, ibid. how eaten by cannibals, ibid. wherefore eaten by
witches

ibid.

Mandeville, lord, a letter to him and lord chancellor Bacon from the

marquis of Buckingham

Mandrakes, the ill use made of them

Manna, i. 416, of Calabria best and most plentiful

vi. 264

i. 454

i. 518

Manners, how far a union of them in kingdoms is to be desired,

iii. 265
Manors, how at first created, iv. 106, whence they had their name,
ibid.
Mansell, Sir Robert, committed to the Marshalsea, and brought
before the council-table, vi. 65, 68, and note (b), his account
brought in slowly in the king's opinion
.. vi. 208, 297
Manslaughter, what it is, and its punishment, iv. 83, our law makes
a difference very justly between it and murder in malice pre-
pense
. iv. 404, 405
Manuel Andrada practised the death of Antonio king of Portugal,
comes into England, and is thereupon apprehended. iii. 111
Manufactures, workers thereof how punishable, unless they have
served seven years' apprenticeship
. . iv. 394
Manufactures, foreign, should be prohibited where the materials are
superfluities, v. 171, our own should be encouraged, iii. 455.
Manufactures of old generally wrought by slaves. ii. 327
March, towards the end, the best discoverer of summer sickness, ii. 3
Marchers, lordships, abolished by statute of 27 Henry VIII, iv. 258,
court of Marches maintained its jurisdiction, ibid. what meant by
the word Marches, ibid. is as old as Edward IVth's time, iv. 259,
the extent of it, ibid, &c. the intention of the king in the election
of it, ibid, the sense of the word Marches settled by several ar-
guments, and its authority justified, iv. 260, 261, 262, argu-
ments to prove that it signifies lordships Marchers, iv. 261, 276, a
confutation of those arguments, iv. 262, 276, different significa-
tions of Marches, with the arguments in defence of them, iv. 262,
&c. the whole debate upon this matter summed up, iv. 271 to
284, statute of 34 of Henry VIII. relating to the Marches ex-
plained, iv. 271. Marches distinguished from lordships Marchers,
iv. 276, several arguments collected together on this head, which
were unanswered

iv. 277

iv. 257

Marchio, a marquis, whence derived.
Margaret, lady, v. 18, second sister of Edward IV. and dowager of
Charles the Hardy, duke of Burgundy, v. 28, had the spirit of a
man, and the malice of a woman, ibid. raises the ghost of the se-
cond son of Edward IV. v. 91, reflected on by Dr. Warham,
v. 103, not mentioned in the account of Perkins's examination,
v. 148
Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII. married to James IV, of
Scotland, v. 165, her line succeeds to the crown
Maritime countries need not fear a surcharge of people
Markham, Gervase, esq. his quarrel with lord Darcy
Marl, why esteemed the best compost

Marlborough, lord, made treasurer

v. 196

iii. 295

vi. 132

i. 445

v. 582

Marriage recommended, ii. 106, the laws and conditions of mar-

riage.

ii. 107

v. 138

Marriage and single life, ii. 107. Marriage despised by the Turks,
ibid.
Marriage by the book, and not by the sword, v. 75, between the
crowns of England and Scotland, how caused
Marriage of wards, a political reservation of William the Conqueror,
iv. 103
Marrow more nourishing than fat, i. 266, of two kinds i. 505
Marshal's office, what it is
iv. 316
Marshalsea first erected, iv. 85, its design, jurisdiction, and extent

thereof.

ibid.

Mart, letters thereof, how vain and dangerous a remedy of the Spa-
nish grievances
iii. 338
Martin, Richard, esq. his letter to Sir Francis Bacon, vi. 120, ac-
count of him
ibid. note (a)
Martin, lady, widow of Sir Richard Martin, her cause recommended
to the lord chancellor by the marquis of Buckingham vi. 270
Martyrdom miraculous, because it exceeds the power of human
ii. 391
Mary, second daughter of Henry VII. v. 176, married to Charles
prince of Castile, afterwards Charles V.

nature

.

v. 184

Mary, queen, a conspiracy against her to kill her by a burning-glass,

Masks.

Massacre in Paris

Mathematics

Matrimony, what tempers best disposed for it
Matthew, Mr. some account of him

i. 302

ii. 345

ii. 260, 407

i. 108

ii. 268

V. 282

Matthew, Dr. Tobie, archbishop of York
Matthew, Tobie, acts the part of the squire in the earl of Essex's
device, vi. 22, note (b), letter to Sir Francis Bacon, vi. 91, ac-
count of him, ibid. note (a), letters to Sir Francis Bacon, vi. 112,
115, 117, 200, 217, 241, 246, he advertises his lordship of a
design of the Roman Catholics, vi. 327, a good friend of lord
viscount St. Alban, vi. 348, letters to him from that lord, vi. 348,
352, 354, 355, arrives at Madrid, vi. 348, a petition of lord vis-
count St. Alban put into his hands, vi. 372, letters to him from
lord viscount St. Alban, vi. 394, 395, 396, his letter to that lord,
vi. 395, his letter to him when attorney-general, vi. 91, he was
son to the archbishop of York
ibid.
Maturation, i. 358, of drinks, ii. 14, of fruits, i. 358, 359, 360, 361,
ii. 25. Maturation or digestion, how best promoted by heat,
i. 359, 360, 361
Maule, Patrick
vi. 188, 262
Maximilian, king of the Romans, v. 37, 40, unstable and necessitous,
v. 46, encouraged by Henry VII. to proceed to a match with
Ann, heir of Britainy, v. 65, and married to her by proxy, v. 67,
but when defeated, his behaviour, v. 77, 78, disappoints king
Henry VII. v. 88, his league with Henry VII.
Maxims in law, several advantages of a collection of them, iv. 16,
the method followed by our author in this collection, which is set
down and explained by instances; doubtful cases in them cleared

up, where they take place, and in what cases they fail,
iv. 16 to 81

Maxwell, James, wishes lord viscount St. Albans well .
Maxwell, Robert

vi. 371

vi. 192

May, Sir Humphry, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, vi. 255,
letters to him from the lord Bacon .
. vi. 278, 374
Maynwaring, Sir Arthur.
vi. 218
Mayor and companies of London receive Henry VII, at Shoreditch,
v. 10, meet pope Alexander's nuncio at London-bridge, v. 141
Meats inducing satiety
Meautys, Thomas, brought to kiss the king's hand, vi. 288, letters
to the lord St. Alban, vi. 300, 302, 304, 314, 315, 319, 327,
333

i. 354

Mecænas, his advice to Augustus, touching Agrippa : ii. 316
Mechanics.

i. 110

Mediator, the necessity thereof, ii. 482, the mystery of this dispen-

Medicines which affect the bladder, i. 288. Medicines condensing

Melancholy, preservative against it

Melancholy persons dispose the company to the like

Melioration of fruits, trees, and plants

i. 397, et seq.

Melo-cotones, i. 400, grow best without grafting, i. 404, the cause
thereof

Melting of metals, observations thereon.

Memory, the art of, i. 132, ii. 63, persons better places than
ibid. Memory, how strengthened

Men, are all by nature naturalized towards one another,
Mendoza

ibid.
ii. 200

words,
ii. 69
iv. 345

ii. 449

ii. 203

. . iii. 373

Menstruums
Merchandises, an argument proving the king's right of impositions
on them.
Merchandising, how to be ordered after the union of England and
Scotland.

.iii. 284
Merchants, their importance, ii. 299, how they convey blessings to
any country, ii. 352, promoted by Henry VII. v. 51, 127, &c.
negociations about them directed by queen Elizabeth, iii. 448
Merchants, several errors in their complaints about trade, iii. 332,
&c. the hardships of those who trade to Spain and the Levant,
ibid. they ought not to urge to a direct war upon account of
their particular sufferings by the enemy, iii. 334, their injuries
farther shewn to be not so great as represented, iii. 335, a report
of the earl of Salisbury and earl of Northampton's speeches con-
cerning their petition upon the Spanish grievances, iii. 330, to
347, are divided into two sorts, iii. 331, several considerations
relating to them. .
. iii. 331, &c.
Mercurial and sulphureous bodies
i. 373

Mercy and justice the two supports of the crown, iii. 437, 443,

iii. 452

Merick, Sir Gilly, the effect of what passed at his arraignment,

iii. 179

j. 389

Meroë, the metropolis of Ethiopia
Messages of the king, whether to be received from the body of the
council, or from the king's person only, iii. 369, how far the
authority of the king is concerned in this question, iii. 370, how
far the house of commons is concerned in it also, ibid. from the
king to the commons are to be received by their speaker, iii. 372
Metals, the colours they give in dissolution, i. 350, the causes
. ibid.
thereof
Metals and plants, wherein they differ, i. 450, growing of metals,
i. 524, drowning of metals, i. 525, refining of metals not sufficiently
attended to, ii. 21. Metalline vapours hurtful to the brain, ii. 51
Metals, an inquisition touching the compounding of them, ii. 187,
for magnificence and delicacy, ii. 189, drowning of metals, ii. 190,
separation of them, ii. 199, 200, 201, variation of them, ii. 201,
202, 203, all metals may be dissolved, ii. 205, often fired and
quenched grow churlish, and will sooner break than bow, v. 145.
Bell-metal, how compounded, ii. 198, sprouting of metals, ii. 202,
205, tinging of metal, ii. 201, volatility of metals, its degrees,
ii. 203, fixation of metals

Metaphysics

Metellus opposes Cæsar

Methusalem water

ibid.
i. 104

ii. 445

ii. 219

ii. 197, 200

Meverel, his answer touching minerals
Military men, when dangerous to a state, ii. 289, 300, love danger
better than labour, ii. 327, had greater encouragement from the
ancients than the moderns, ii. 330, how improved here, v. 62, 63
Military men, how to be punished if they go abroad without proper
. iv. 389

leave.

Military puissance consists of men, money, and confederates, iii. 531
Milk, warm from the cow, a great nourisher, i. 268, a remedy in
consumptions, ibid. how to be used, ibid. cow's milk better than
ass's or woman's milk, ibid. Milk in beasts how to be increased,
i. 517. Milk used for clarification of liquors, i. 357, good to
steep divers seeds in, i. 406, preserving of milk, i. 385. Milk in
i. 460
plants

Mildew on corn from closeness of air, i. 416, 469, but seldom
comes on hills and champaign grounds

i. 469
ibid.

i. 161, 177, 192

Minced meat a great nourisher, i. 269, how to be used.
Mind, cultivation of
Minerals, i. 486, ii. 194, should be industriously followed, iii. 455
Minerals, questions and solutions about incorporating them, ii. 194
Mines, a law case relating to them between lessor and lessee, iv. 222
iv. 214
are part of an inheritance

Ministry, equality therein in the church is condemned, ii. 512, an
able one to be chosen, ii. 541, a very good method in training
ii. 542, 548
them up
Minorities, states often best governed under minorities, whence, i. 13