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INDEX

TO

THE ENGLISH PART,

COMPRISED IN

THE SIX FIRST VOLUMES.

The Marks i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. denote the Volumes, and the
Figures the Pages.

ABATOR, who is so called, iv. 99, how and when he may become

lawful owner of another's lands

ibid.

Abbot, George, archbishop of Canterbury

vi. 92, 113, 117

Abecedarium naturæ

ii. 15

Abettor, several ways of becoming so

Abilities, natural, like plants, want pruning

ii. 374

Abjuration, in what cases a man shall be obliged to abjure the

realm, iv. 300, several cases thereof, with the proceedings relat-

ing to them

ibid. 301

Absolution, whether that in our liturgy is not improper, ii. 539, is

of two sorts only

ibid.

Absque impetitione vasti, the sense and meaning of this clause
cleared up, and stated by the words themselves, by reason, by
authorities, by removing contrary authorities, by practice, iv.
226 to 232, it gives no grant of property, iv. 227, how this clause
came first to be used

iv. 228

ii. 233

Academics, acknowledged by all sects to be the best
Acceleration of time in works of nature, i. 355, in clarification of
liquor, ibid. in several maturations, i. 358, as of fruits, ibid. of
drinks, ibid. of metals, i. 362. Acceleration of putrefaction, i.
364. Acceleration of birth, 372, of growth or stature, ibid. three
means of it, 372, 373. Acceleration of germination, i. 391, by
three means, namely, mending the nourishment, i. 393, comfort-
ing the spirits of the plant, ibid. making way for the easy coming
to the nourishment, ibid. Several pregnant instances thereof,
i. 394, et seq. Acceleration of clarification in wine
Accessary, how one man nay become so to the act of another done

Act, not to be confounded with the execution of the act, nor the

intire act with the last part of it, instances

iv. 18

Acquests, new ones, more burden than strength

Act of parliament, a rule to be observed where that is donor, iv. 195,
five acts relating to the distinction of the body natural and po-
litic of the king explained, iv. 351, et seq. of 1 Jac. I. relating

to the punishment of witchcraft

iv. 386

Acting in song graceful

ii. 346

Active men, wherein preferred to virtuous

Actium, battle of, decided the empire of the world
Administration, how a property in goods, &c. may be gained by

ii. 329

letters thereof, iv. 128, 129, what bishop shall have the power of
granting them in disputable cases, ibid. two cases in the deaths
of executors and administrators where the ordinary shall admi-

nister

iv. 130

Administrators, their office and authority in some particulars, iv.
130, in what cases the ordinary is to commit administration, ibid.
they must execute their authority jointly, ibid. may retain ibid.

Admiralty, how to be ordered after the union

iii. 284

Adrian VI.

ii. 427

Adrian the emperor, ii. 441, mortally envied in others the qualities
he excelled in, ii. 270, instances of his misplaced bounty and ex-

pense

iv. 376

Adversity, ii. 262, resembles miracles in its command over nature,

Advocates, ii. 384, surprising that their confidence should prevail

with judges, ibid. what is due to and from them

•

ibid.

Advowsons, cases relating thereto explained

Ιν. 16, 45, 50

Ægypt hath little rain, i. 511. Ægyptian conserving bodies, i. 513,

their mummies

ibid.

Æneas Sylvius, his remark on the conduct of the popes and lawyers,
ii. 432, says, that had not Christianity been supported by mi-

Æquinoctial more tolerable for heat than the torrid zone, i. 388,

three causes thereof

i. 389

Æsop, his fable of the frogs in a great drought, ii. 236, of the cat

and the fox, ii. 238, of the fainting man and death

Etna compensateth the adjacent countries for the damages it doth,

i. 446

Ætna and Vesuvius, why they shoot forth no water

i. 519

Affectation of tyranny over men's understandings and beliefs ii. 78
Affections of beasts impressed upon inanimate things, ii. 69, three
affections which tie subjects to sovereigns, v. 190, no heat of af-

fection without idleness

iii. 499

Affidavits in chancery, in what cases not to be allowed iv. 521
Africa, why so fruitful of monsters, i. 410, the people there never
stir out after the first showers

ii. 2

Αγάπη, is always rightly translated charity in the Rhemish version,

ii. 539

Agaric works most on phlegm, i. 433, a spongy excrescence on the
roots of trees, ibid. 450, 459, a putrefaction

Age. See Youth.

Age of discretion, at what time allowed to be by our law v. 414
Age, its excellency in four things, ii. 428, its inconveniencies and

difficulties with regard to action

Agesilaus

Agrippa raised by Augustus.

from obstruction of the humours

Agues cured by applications to the wrist, i. 289, proceed mostly

i. 366

iv. 104

Aid, a certain sum of money so called, its uses
Air turned into water, i. 254, by four several ways, i. 255, 256, in-
stances tending thereto, i. 280, converted into a dense body, a
rarity in nature, i. 255, 256, increases in weight, and yields nou-
rishment, i. 257, hath an antipathy with tangible bodies, i. 281,
converted into water by repercussion from hard bodies, ibid.
Air turned into water by the same means that ice, i. 282, meddles
little with the moisture of oil, i. 286, elision of air a term of igno-
rance, i. 303. Air condensed into weight, i. 257, 503. Air pent
the cause of sounds, i. 300, 301, 302, eruptions thereof cause
sounds, i. 300. Air not always necessary to sounds, i. 304, 307,
thickness of the air in night, contributes to the increasing and
our better hearing of sounds, than in the day, as well as the ge-
neral silence, i. 309. Air excluded in some bodies, prohibiteth
putrefaction, i. 368, in some causeth it, ibid. the causes of each,
ibid. Air compressed and blown, prohibiteth putrefaction, i. 370,
congealing of air, i. 376. Airs wholesome, how found out, i.
516, 517, the putrefaction of air to be discerned aforehand, ii.
2, 3. Airs good to recover consumptions, ii. 54. Air healthful
within doors, how procured

ii. 55

Air and fire foreshew winds

ii. 6

Air, the causes of heat and cold in it, ii. 30, hath some degree of

light in it

ibid.

Air poisoned by art, ii. 50, why the middle region of it coldest, ii. 241
Albert Durer

ii. 357

Alchemy, some remarks upon it

ν. 312

Alchemists censured

i. 362

Alcibiades, his advice to Pericles about giving in his accounts, ii.

449, beautiful

ii. 357

Alexander, why his body sweet

i. 247

Alexander's body preserved till Cæsar Augustus's time, i. 514, his
character of Antipater, ii. 439, of Hephæstion and Craterus, ibid.
censured by Augustus, ii. 441, by Parmenio, ii. 442, contemned
by Diogenes, ii. 446, would run with kings when advised by
Philip to the olympic games, ii. 452, his saying to Callisthenes
upon his two orations on the Macedonians, iv. 364, a smart reply
of his to Parmenio

Alexander VI. sends the bishop of Concordia to mediate between
the kings of England and France, v. 76, thanks Henry VII. for
entering into a league in defence of Italy
Alga marina applied to roots of plants furthers their growth i. 403
Alien, enemy, how considered by our laws, iv. 326, 327. Alien
friend, how considered, ibid. Littleton's definition of an alien,
iv. 346, how the several degrees of aliens are considered by our
laws
iii. 272, 273