i. 272

Order in curing diseases
Orders in chancery, are to be registered, iv. 515, a copy of them is
to be kept by the register, ibid. where they vary from general
rules, they are to be set down with great care
ibid.
Ordinances made for the court of chancery
Ordinary, in what cases he shall administer
Ordination, more care ought to be taken therein
Ordnance, its antiquity, ii. 392, called by the Macedonians, thun-

ii. 544

ibid

der, lightning, and magic

Orleans, duke of, v. 42, routed and taken
Ormond, earl of, v. 76. Thomas, earl of
Ormond, Walter, earl of

vi. 207, 208, 213, 214
Ormus taken from the Spaniard by the Persian

iii. 530

ii. 430

Orpheus

ii. 29

Orris, only sweet in the root
D'Ossat, cardinal, a writing of his upon king James's accession
v. 283
Ostrich, ran some space after her head was struck off, i. 390, lays
her eggs in the sand to be hatched by the sun's heat ii. 25
Otho, when he slew himself, many followed the example, whence,
ii. 256

iv. 509, &c.

iv. 130

Ottomans, when they first shaved the beard, ii. 432, when divided,
v. 73, without nobles, gentlemen, freemen, or inheritance, iii. 477
Overbury, Sir Thomas, several charges relating to his murder, iv.
447, some account of him, iv. 449, of the manner of his being
poisoned, iv. 450, the proceedings of the king in the discovery
and punishment of his murder, commended, iv. 450, 458, some
account of his death, iv. 459, how it came to be discovered, ibid.
a narrative of the proceedings in poisoning him, iv. 478, great
friendship between him and the earl of Somerset, and the occa-
sion of the breach that was made between them, iv. 447, he was a
man of no religion, iv. 478, he deters Somerset from marrying the
countess of Essex, ibid. the proofs urged of Somerset's guilt in
poisoning him, iv. 479, 480, 481, he had all the king's business
put into his hands by Somerset, iv. 483, he is murdered rather for
fear of revealing secrets, than from shewing his dislike to Somer-
set's marrying lady Essex, ibid. the plot to murder him, iv. 483,
484, 485, letter to him from the earl of Somerset, vi. 69, passages
of his letter to the earl, vi. 98, insolent to the queen and prince,
ibid. his cypher with the earl, vi. 99, poisoned
vi. 106
Outlawry, of an attainder thereby, and its consequences, iv. 108, how
far the lord's title by escheat in this case shall relate back, iv. 110
Owen, condemned for traitorous speeches
vi. 80, note (a)
Owen, the charge against him for maintaining the doctrine of kill-
ing excommunicated kings, iv. 440, some farther particulars con-
cerning his cause

v. 351

i. 432

Ox-horn, whether it will ripen seeds
Oxford, John earl of, designed general, v. 30, created such under
the king for the French expedition, v. 88, commands in chief at
Blackheath, v. 133, made high steward for the trial of the earl of
Warwick, v. 155, a monstrous account of the king's usage of him,

v. 168

v. 52

v. 88

vi. 142
Oxford, Mr. Bacon's letter to that university
Oxford, Henry Vere, earl of, letter to him from the lord viscount
vi. 368
St. Alban
Oxidraces, a people of India, ii. 392, had ordnance in the time of
the Macedonians

•

ibid

P.

PACKER, John, vi. 101, and note, (c) an ancient friend of lord
Bacon

vi. 297

ii. 404

Paget, lady

i. 491
i. 501

Pain and grief, the impressions thereof
Painting of the body, barbarous people much given to it
ii. 360, 361, 362, 363
Palace, one described
Palatine, Frederic count, letter to him from the lord chancellor,
vi. 221

v. 538

i. 490

i. 273

i. 451, 452

Palm-tree, a strange relation of its growth
Pamphlets, advice to suppress several scandalous ones about reli-

ii. 504

i. 401

i. 337

i. 502

Pantomimi, their exact imitation
Paper chambletted
Papists, concerning the proceedings against them under queen Eli-
zabeth, iii, 72, laws made against them, with the reasons thereof,
iii. 73, have been guilty of frequent treasons, conspiracies, &c.
iii. 97

gion
Panicum

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Palatinate, king James seems resolved to recover it
Paleness proceeds from the blood running to the heart.

Palliation in diseases

Papists

vi. 358, 362, 363, 365
i. 91
i. 373, 478, ii. 44

tian

Parabolical poetry
Paracelsus, his pygmies, i. 292, principles
Paradoxes relating to the belief and practice of every good Chris-
ii. 494, &c.
Parents finding an alteration upon the approach of their children,
ii. 56
though unknown to them
Parents and children, ii. 266, their faults in their education, ii. 267,
those that have children have the greatest regard to future
times
vi. 92
Parham, Sir Edward
Paris, our author there at his father's death, ii. 72. Paris, our au-
thor there when he was about sixteen, ii. 75, the massacre there,
ii. 407, 260
Parisatis, poisoned a lady by poisoning one side of a knife, and
keeping the other clean

ii. 266

iv. 475
86

•

V.

Parker, Sir James, slain by Hugh Vaughan, at tilts
Parliament court superlative, iii. 443, by the king's authority alone
assembled, ibid. their bills are but embryos till the king gives
ibid.
them life
Parliament, consultations in it in the first year of king Charles I.
vi. 375-379
Parliaments, how to be managed after the uuion of England and

Scotland, iii. 278, the difference between those of England and
Scotland in the manner of making propositions, iii. 278, 279, are
the great intercourse of grace between king and people, et vice
versa, iv. 430, several things relating to their institution and use,
iii. 407, four points considered relating to the business of them,
v. 532, liberty of them necessary
. iii. 369
Parma, prince of, attacks Sir John Norris, iii. 516, one of the best
commanders of his time, iii. 518, blamed by the Spaniards, iii.
519, was to have been feudatory king of England iii. 520
Parmenides's tenet, that the earth is primum frigidum
Parmenio, his rough interrogatory to Alexander
Parrots, their power of imitation

i. 278

ii. 441, 442
i. 336
hardly repar-

Parts in living creatures easily reparable, and parts
able, i. 272. Parts of living creatures severed, their virtues in
natural magic, ii. 74, four parts of a judge
ii. 384
Passions of the mind, their several impressions upon the body, i.
490, et seq. all passions resort to the part that labours most, i.
494, all passions conquer the fear of death, ii. 255, in excess de-
structive of health

ii. 331

iii. 464

ii. 244

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Pastimes and disports, how far allowable in courts
Patents, the freest
Patents, some proceedings in the passing them
v. 503, 504
Patrick, an Augustin friar, makes a counterfeit earl of Warwick, v.
154, condemned to perpetual imprisonment
ibid.
Patrimony of the church, not to be sacrilegiously diverted iii. 437
Patrimonies of the crown, how to be managed after the union of
England and Scotland

iii. 283

.

iii. 263

one

Paul, St. a Roman by descent
Pawlet, Sir Amyas, his censure of too much haste . ii. 427, 428
Peace containeth infinite blessings, ii. 258, two instances of a false
. ii. 259
Peace, what care is taken by our laws to preserve it among the sub-
jects, iv. 83, 84, the breach of it how to be punished, iv. 312,
king James's care to maintain it, iv. 437, of England, was remark-
able in queen Elizabeth's times, iii. 51, mock articles relating to
one, imagined to be proposed by England to Spain, in a libel, iii.
91, articles relating to one that would be just between England
and Spain, ibid. has very often ill effects flowing from it iii. 319
Peacham, Edmund, interrogatories of his examination about his
reflections on king James, v. 336, his denial in and after torture,
v. 337, his case similar to Algernon Sydney's, v. 338, his exami-
nation at the Tower, v. 356, whether his case be treason or not,
v. 357, vi. 78, 79

i. 404, 422

vi. 241

Peaches prove worse with grafting, why
Peacock, Mr. examined, vi. 239, personates Atkins
Pearl, said to recover colour by burial in earth
Peers of England are to be trusted without oath or challenge,

i. 383

iii. 168

Pelopidas

ii. 417

Peloponnesus, war of

iii. 504

v. 362

Pembroke, lord, some account of him
Pembroke, William earl of, sworn of the council in Scotland, vi. 155,
his character

vi. 362

Penal laws, not to be turned into rigour
ii. 384
Penal laws, a multitude of them very inconvenient, iv. 367. Penal
statutes, how to be construed
iv, 51, 52
People, to put the sword in their hand subverts government, ii. 260
People, the interest of the king in them, iv. 389, 390, offences capi-
tal against them, how punishable, iv. 390, 391, not capital, iv.
392, their griefs to be represented to the king by the judges of the
circuits, iv. 498, the increase thereof in queen Elizabeth's time,
iii. 53, concerning the consumption of them in our wars, iii. 68
Pepper, why it helps urine
i. 265
Pepper, Guinea, causeth sneezing.
Perception in all bodies, ii. 1, more subtle than the sense, ibid. it
worketh also at distance, ibid. the best means of prognosticating,
ii. 1, 2, 3
Percolation makes a separation according to the bodies it passes
through
i. 245, 246, 247
ibid. et. i. 512

ii. 51

Percolation inward and outward
Percussions of metals, air and water, create sounds, i. 294, 295,
difference of tones in music caused by the different percussions,
i. 318. Percussion and impulsion of bodies. i. 510, 511
Perfumes, their virtue, ii. 52, said to procure pleasant and prophe-
tical dreams
ii. 54
Pericles, his preservative against the plague, ii. 68, studies how to
give in his accounts

ii. 449

i. 260

iv. 386

Peripatetics, their element of fire above, exploded
Perjury, how to be punished

Perkin, v. 92. See Warbeck.
Perpetual, how wisely our laws distinguish between that and tran-

sitory

iv. 214
Perpetuities, a sort of entails, iv. 115, their inconveniences, ibid. a
query concerning them
iv. 116
Persia, monarchy thereof was founded in poverty, iii. 307,

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educa-

iii, 257

tion of its kings
Persians demand of the Greeks land and water, iii. 512, take Or-
mus from the Spaniard
iii. 530, 533
Perspective
i. 299
Persons near in blood, or other relations, have many secret pas-
sages of sympathy, íi. 71, 72, doing business in person, when

best

ii. 369

ii. 262

iii. 477

Pertinax, the revenge of his death
Peruvians, their commendations
Pestilent diseases, if not expelled by sweat, end in looseness, i. 274,
a probable cause of pestilences, i. 366. Pestilences, though
more frequent in summer, more fatal in winter, i. 384. Pestilent
fevers and agues how to be repressed
ii. 68
Pestilential years, i. 384, their prognostics, i. 477, 499, 500, ii. 2,

3, 4
Petitions, several cases relating thereto, iv. 522, &c. of the mer-
chants concerning the Spanish grievances, considered, iii. 330,
mistakes in their preferring them, iii. 334, account of the contents
of their petition, ibid, &c. the inconveniences of receiving into the
house of commons any concerning private injuries, iii. 340, about

war or peace to the king, having received but small encourage-
ment, iii. 341, concerning the Spanish grievances rejected by the
house of lords, with the reasons of doing so
iii. 344, 345
vi. 113
i. 284, ii. 207

Petre, Sir George

Petrifying springs
Petty-constable, how far subordinate to the head constable, iv. 314,
315. See Constable.

Petty-treason, a query relating to the guilt of it, iv. 56, when it is a
man becomes guilty of it, iv. 293, the punishment and other pro-
ceedings
iv. 294

ii. 388

Phaeton's car went but a day

Philip of Macedon beat by the Romans, ii. 436, his saying of one
who spoke ill of him, ii. 439. Vide ii. 441, 443, 448, his dream,
ii. 341

v. 102

Philip, archduke
Philip, duke of Austria, is cast upon the coast of Weymouth, v.
348, 349. king Henry VII. forces him to promise to restore the
earl of Suffolk

v. 349

Philips, Sir Edward

vi. 279
ii. 440

Philo Judæus, his account of sense
Philosophers resembled to pismires, spiders, and bees ii. 463
Philosophy, how divided, i, 93, primary or first philosophy, what,
i. 94, divine philosophy, i. 96, natural philosophy, i. 98, specu-
lative philosophy
ibid.
Philosophy received
ii. 170
Phocion's reply to Alexander's tender
ii. 443, 444
Physicians, both too studious and negligent of the patient's humour,
ii. 332
Physic, if avoided in health, will be strange when you need it, ii.
331, some remarks upon it
Physics

v. 312

i. 99

ii. 1

Physiognomy
Pickles

ii. 225

v. 280

Piercy, earl of Northumberland, some account of him
Pilosity, caused by heat, i. 473, in men and beasts, the cause thereof,

ibid.

Piony, its virtue

i. 478

iv. 132, 133

Pipe-office, whence denominated
Pirates, a war always lawful against them, because they are common
iii. 487, 488

enemies of mankind

iii. 303

i. 268

Pit, upon the sea-shore, filleth with water potable, i. 245, practised
in Alexandria, ibid. and by Cæsar, who mistook the cause, ibid.
in time will become salt again
ii. 35
Pity, what, i. 493, the impressions thereof, ibid. Pity healeth envy,
ii. 271
Pius Quintus, his revelation touching the victory at Lepanto,
ii. 72; 73

Pisa, its union and incorporation with Florence
Pistachoes, an excellent nourisher

.

Plague, prognostics that preceded it
i. 477
Plague, when taken, often giveth no scent at all, ii. 46, said to have a
scent of the smell of a mellow apple, ii. 49, who most liable to it,