355.

is best perceived in privateness,
xii. 212, 356.

happy they whose natures suit
with their vocations, ib.
runs either to herbs or weeds,
ib.

deformed people generally have
their revenge on, xii. 227, 353.
Pan a symbol of, xiii. 94–97.
summary law of, xiii. 123.
described under the person of
Minerva, xiii. 132.
outstripped by art, xiii. 143.
fable of Proserpine relates to,
xiii. 164.

is nothing but the laws of the
creation, xiv. 49.
the law of, xv. 225.
Navigation laws, xi. 145.
Nebuchadnezzar, his tree of mon-
archy, xii. 181.
Necessitas inducit privilegium quoad
jura privata, xiv. 213–217.
publica, major est quam privata,
xiv. 215.
culpabilis, xiv. 216.
Necessity, why represented by the
river Styx, xiii. 91.
when a good defence, xiv. 213-

217.

xiii. 135.

why winged, ib.
why crowned, ib.

armed with a spear, ib.
mounted on a stag, xiii. 136.
interpretatio fabulæ, xiii. 33–35.
Nero, of Seneca's style, xiii. 342.

called a youth wife, xiii. 344.
cause of his fall, xiii. 399.
Nerva, at supper, xiii. 364, 365.
Neville, Sir George, joins Perkin
Warbeck at Paris, xi. 209.
New trial granted upon a verdict, in
cases above the value of 40l., by
Statute of Henry VII. xi. 242.
Newark, battle of, xi. 89-92.
Newbery, Henry, his case, xv. 282,
283.

Newport, in Flanders, besieged in
vain by the French under Lord
Cordes, xi. 152.

Nicolas, Sir Harris, his proceedings
and ordinances of the Privy Coun-
cil, xi. 369, 370.

Night, the parent of Cupid, xiii. 122.
Nimrod, the first conqueror, xv. 200.
Nisi Prius, commission of, xiv. 389,
390.
xii. 121–123, 323,

Nobility, essay on,
324.
new, the act of power; ancient,
the act of time, xii. 122, 323.

Scottish gentlemen murdered at,
xi. 298.

North, northern nations more mar-
tial than southern, xii. 278.
Northumberland, Earl of, employed
by Henry VII. to quiet the
malcontents of Durham and
Yorkshire, xi. 135.
murdered by them, ib.
invaded by the King of Scots,
with Perkin Warbeck, xi.
250-258.

Norway, prophecy respecting the
fleet of, xii. 205.
Norwich, Henry VII. at, xi. 86.
Notebook of Henry VII. torn up by
his monkey, xi. 362.

Nox excludit ovum undè Cupido
oritur, xiii. 22.

Nul tiel record, no error on, xiv.
247.

Nullum tempus, prerogative of, not
grantable, xv. 14.

Nunc dimittis, the sweetest canticle,
xii. 86.

Nuptiæ, Orpheus nuptiis cur inimi-
cus, xiii. 14.

Nymphæ Pana oblectant, animæ
scilicet, xii. 447.

210.

of ointments, more durable than
those of flowers, xii. 259, 369.
Oes or spangs, xii. 210.

Office, how to bear oneself in, xii.
111-115, 324–327.

Offices, false, against his rich sub-
jects by Henry VII. xi. 326.
Old age, second childhood not to be
desired, xii. 401.

Olive branch, rather than a laurel
branch, in his hand, xi. 161.
Opera Dei, xiv. 67.

Opinion, that which relates to truth
is higher than that which relates
to opinion, xiii. 272, 273.
Opportunities, a wise man will make
more than he finds, xii. 258, 362.
Opposita juxta se posita magis elu-
cescunt, xv. 121, 139.

Opposition, many a man's strength
is in, xii. 255.

Opus et usus, xiv. 305.
Orange, Prince of, taken prisoner at
the battle of St. Alban's, by
Charles VIII. xi. 127.
Orange-tawny, gentleman at the
tilt in, xiii. 367.

Orators, likened by Solon to winds
upon the sea, xiii. 377.
Order, the life of dispatch, xii. 163,
335.

Ordinances in Chancery, xiv. 160.

made by Bacon when Chancel-
lor, xv. 351-372.
Ordnance, invention of in India, xii.
279.

in China, ib.

excellences of, ib.

Orleans, Duke of, takes refuge with
the Duke of Brittaine, xi. 100.
directs him in all things, xi.

107.

taken prisoner by Charles VIII.
at the battle of St. Alban's,
xi. 127.

Ormond, Thomas, Earl of, ambassa-
dor to Charles VIII. xi. 170.
Ornamenta Rationalia, xiv. 9, 10.
Orpheus, or Philosophy, interpreta-
tion of the fable, xiii. 110-113.
his singing of two kinds, xiii.

111.

why averse to marriage, xiii.
112.

at the islands of the Sirens, xiii.
170, 172.

his death, xiii. 139, 142.
musician who like him drew
stones, xiii. 363.
interpretatio fabulæ, xiii. 11-14.
duplex ejus cantio, xiii. 13.
nuptiis cur inimicus, xiii. 14.
apud insulas Sirenum, xiii. 64,
66.

a mulieribus discerptus, xiii. 37,
40.

Orthography of Bacon's time, xii.
70, 288.

Osbeck, the true name of Perkin
Warbeck, xi. 203.

Ostentation, the use of, xii. 262, 375.
Other, in Statute of Uses, xiv. 326.
Ottoman Empire, designs of Charles

VIII. against, xi. 163, 164, 169.
family, its origin, xiii. 244.
Outlawries, one means of extortion
used by Empson and Dudley,
xi. 326, 327.

proceedings to, xiv. 405.

Overbury, disclosures promised by
Franklin the apothecary, respect-
ing his murder, xii. 11.
Ovum Noctis, xiii. 22.
Oxford, John, Earl of, one of Henry
VIIth's generals, xi. 86, 194.
his brother killed at the siege of
Sluice, xi. 188.

entertains Henry VII. at Hen-
ningham, fined 15,000 marks,
xi. 327, 328.

Oxidrakes, in India, ordnance used
by them against the Macedonians,

xii. 279.

Oyer and terminer, commission of,
xiv. 386.

P.

Pace, Queen Elizabeth's fool, xiii.
330.

Packington, Sir John, Sheriff of
Worcestershire, xv. 109.

Painter, who became a physician,
xiii. 380, 381.

may make a better face than
ever was, xii. 226, 353.
Palace, description of a perfect one,
xii. 230-235.

Pallas, birth of, xii. 410.

meaning of the legend, xii. 147,
331; xiii. 167, 168.
ex Jove nata, xii. 434.
interpretatio fabulæ, xiii. 62.
Pan, or Nature, interpretation of the
fable, xiii. 92-101.

his origin, xiii. 92, 94.

represents Nature, xiii. 94-96.
the Fates his sisters, xiii. 95.
why horned, ib.
why hairy, ib.

why biform, xiii. 96.

his emblems explained, xiii. 97.
his offices, xiii. 97, 98.

the god of countrymen, xiii.
98.

president of mountains, ib.
his attendants, xiii. 98, 99.
Panic terrors, xiii. 99.
challenge to Cupid, ib.

capture of Typhon, xiii. 99,

100.

discovery of Ceres, xiii. 100.
matched in music with Apollo,
ib.

marriage with Echo, xiii. 101.
sive Natura, interpretatio fab-
ulæ, xii. 441-449.

origo ejus, xii. 441, 442.
universitatem rerum, sive Na-
turam repræsentat, xii. 443-
446.

sorores ejus, Fata, xii. 444.
cornua ejus, ib.
cur hirsutus, ib.

cur biformis, xii. 445.
pedes capreæ habet, ib.
insignia ejus, ib.
officium, xii. 446.

deus venatorum et ruricolarum,
ib.

montium præses, ib.

comites ejus, Satyri et Sileni,
xii. 447.

terrores Panici, quid, ib.
cum Cupidine pugnat, ib.

Pardi maculæ, quid referunt, xii.
446.

Pardon, general, proclaimed by the
council of Henry VII. at
Shine, xi. 78.

general, granted by Henry VII.
in the last year of his reign,
xi. 354.

Parental authority, by the law of
England, xv. 184.

by the law of Nature, xv. 197.
Parents and children, essay on, xii.
99-101.

unequal distribution of parental
affection, xii. 100.
treatment of children, ib.
Parker, Sir James, killed at the
tournament at Shine, by Hugh
Vaughan, xi. 192.

Parliament, first of Henry VII. xi.

Parliament-continued.

a parliament of war, xi. 184.
in the 11th of Henry VII. xi.
239.

in the 12th of Henry VII. xi.
260.
summoned in the 19th of Henry
VII. xi. 332.

distinguished from the Great
Council, xi. 367-374.

have power to extinguish their
own authority, xiv. 253, 254.
cannot bind a future Parliament

by any act, xi. 241; xiv. 253.
Parmenio, Alexander to, xiii. 354.
Parricide, xiv. 233; xv. 325.
Parsimony, xii. 200.

Parties in a state, xii. 254-256, 301,
302, 367, 368.

Parts, plurality of, makes a show of
magnitude, xiii. 275.

Pasquil, saying of the Duke of Sesa
respecting, xiii. 337.

Passion or Desire, described in the

person of Bacchus, xiii. 139.
Paston correspondence, xi. 370, 373.
Pasturages, great, xii. 128.
Patent Offices, created by Elizabeth,
and by James I. xv. 251.
list of, xv. 274-276.

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See Let-

ters Patent.
Paternoster, wager about repeating,
xiii. 397, 398.

Patres patriæ, xii. 265, 300.
Patriarchal government, xv. 199.
Patrick, an Austin friar, sets up a
counterfeit Earl of Warwick, xi.
303.

Paulet, Sir Amice, his saying, "Stay

awhile, that we may end the
sooner," xiii. 346.

Paul's Cross, Pope's bull published
at, xi. 331.

Paul's, Church of, great ceremony
on receipt of the news of the
conquest of Granada, xi. 191.
black eagle blown from the
spire, an omen, xi. 347.
Payne, his engraving of Henry VII.
xi. 17.

Peace, surety to keep, xiv. 373, 382.
commission of the, xiv. 391.
conservators of, their office, xiv.
380, 381. See Justices.
Pedigree, dispute as to, xiii. 364.
Pedum Panis cur recurvum, xii. 445.
Peers of the kingdom, mode of trial
of, xv. 324, 331.

Penances of Russian monks, xii.
214.

greatness of suffering endured,
xiii. 298.

Penelope, whether the mother of
Pan, xiii. 92.

utrum Pan filius ejus, xii. 441.
Pensions from Charles VIII. of
France to the ministers of Henry
VII. xi. 197.

Pentheus, or Curiosity, the fable in-

terpreted, xiii. 108, 109.

his death, xiii. 139, 142.

interpretatio fabulæ, xiii. 10, 11.
a mulieribus discerptus, xiii. 37,
40.

Perfection, that which is best in
perfection is best altogether, xiii.
271.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in
pleasures, xii. 111.

Perin, provost of, killed by the Cor-
nish rebels, xi. 266.
Peripatetici, de stimulo materiæ per
privationem, xiii. 24.

philosophia eorum nimis vene-
rata, xiii. 47.

Peripatetics refer the original im-
pulse of matter to privation,
xiii. 123.

held in too great honour, xiii.
150.

Perkin Warbeck, xi. 38.

defensive preparations against
him perhaps, and not against
French invasion, xi. 167.
raised up by Lady Margaret of
Burgundy, to personate Rich-
ard Duke of York, xi. 200,
246.

his qualifications for the part,
xi. 201.

Edward IV. whether his god-
father, xi. 202.
parentage, ib.

Perkin Warbeck - continued.
lives with John Stenbeck, at
Antwerp, xi. 203.
trained for the imposture by
Lady Margaret, xi. 204.
sent to Portugal, xi. 205.
arrives at Cork in Ireland, xi.
206.

received by Charles VIII. at his
court, as Duke of York, xi.
208.

flies again to Flanders, to Lady
Margaret, xi. 209.

excitement in England at the
news, xi. 211.

measures taken by the king to
expose the imposture, xi. 214-

219.

Archduke Philip of Flanders
declines to deliver him up to
Henry VII. xi. 221.

trials and executions of his ad-
herents, xi. 223–230.
lands in Kent, xi. 236.

his troops cut to pieces, and the
prisoners hung, xi. 237.
from Flanders sails to Ireland,
xi. 243.

in Scotland welcomed by the
King of Scots, xi. 244.

his speech to the King of Scots,
xi. 245-249.

with the King of Scots, invades
Northumberland, xi. 250, 257,

258.

his proclamation, xi. 251-257,
374-379.

James IV. refuses to deliver him

up to Henry, xi. 279.

but dismisses him, xi. 280.
sails for Ireland, xi. 281.
invited by the Cornish men, xi.

283.

goes to Bodmin, xi. 284.
besieges Exeter, xi. 285.
takes sanctuary at Bewley, xi.
288.

dragged into London in a tri-

umphal procession, xi. 292.
escapes to the sanctuary at
Shyne, xi. 301.

again imprisoned in the Tower,
ib.

executed at Tyburn, xi. 304.
Perpetuities, xiv. 413; xv. 60.
Persecutions, religious, xiii. 127.
Perseus, or War, interpretation of
the fable, xiii. 102-105.