Mountebanks in state as well as private life
Mountfort, Sir Simon, v. 98, apprehended, convicted, and be-
headed, for adhering to Perkin
Mountjoy, lord deputy of Ireland.
Mouth out of taste, i. 477, what taste it will not receive Mucianus, his advice to Vespasian.
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 Mulberry leaf
Mullins's case taken notice of, concerning the inheritance of tim- ber-trees
Mummy, said to be three thousand years old, i. 513. Mummy stancheth blood Munster, a design of planting it, with the reason why it did not iii. 318, 327 go on Murder, cases relating thereto explained, iv. 36, &c. how to be prosecuted, and what to suffer for it upon conviction, iv. 82. Self-murder, how to be punished, iv. 109, what degrees of mur- der are highest, &c. iv. 390, a difference between an insidious iv. 405 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, accused, ibid. the calumny it brings to our religion, iv. 444, the defence of it is impious, iv. 445, is the destruction of govern-
Murdered body bleeding at the approach of the murderer, ii. 65, ii. 430 applied to love Murray, John, letters to him from Sir Francis Bacon, v. 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 mucical sounds, ibid. diapason the sweetest of sounds, i. 295, fall of half-notes necessary 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, ibid. which they are, ibid. the most odious discord of all other, 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 Myrobolanes
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
Nasturtium, or cardamum, 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, happy where men's 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 favour- ed 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 incon- veniences of not naturalizing the Scots, iii. 302, the advantages of it, iii. 304, instances of the ill effects in several nations of non- naturalization, iii. 304, 305, may be had without a 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 to 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, iii. 54 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 com- monwealth, not even in case of death, ibid. an exception to the last-mentioned rule iv. 36 Negotiating by speech preferable to letters, ii. 369, when best,
Negotiations between England and Spain, wherein is treachery of Spain
ibid. 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 style, 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 office.
New Atlantis, ii. 81. Dr. Rawley's account of the design
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
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, 253, 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 i. 515 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-claim statute
Non-residence, is condemned, ii. 546, the usual pleas for it, ibid. &c. the pretence of attending study thereby more in the univer- sities, 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 iii. 88 Norris, Sir John, makes an honourable retreat at Gaunt, iii. 516 Northampton, earl of, some account of him 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 favour of Pekin 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. plants
Nourishment, five several means to help it, Nourishment mended, a great help
Nourishing parts in i. 457
Novum Organam, 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, v. 308.
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. See Great Officers.
Officers of the crown, how to be ordered after the union of Eng- land and Scotland
Oil, whether it can be formed out of water
iii. 279, 280
i. 373, 374
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
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 iii. 76 Orbilius
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