435; to disseminate Christianity, ii. 440; on pirates,
ii. 442; against Turks, ii. 438; on an invasive, ii.
288; keeping fit men ready for, ii. 384; as to pro-
viding against, ii. 384; to propagate Christianity,
ii. 439; on behalf of a party not justifiable, i. 38;
a just, the true exercise to a kingdom, i. 38; en-
couragement of warriors greater among the ancients
than the moderns, i. 39.

War and peace, the crown invested with an absolute
power of making, ii. 197; petitions in Parliament
intermeddling with, receive small success, ii. 197;
several precedents thereof, ii. 197, 198.
Wars, not entered upon unless upon some at least
specious ground, i. 38; vicissitudes in, i. 61; moved
from east to west, i. 61; arise from the breaking
of a great state, i. 61; foreign, neither just nor
fit, ii. 383; different sorts, ii. 383; no massacres,
but the highest trials of right between princes, ii.
242; nothing in them ought to be done against the
law of nations, ii. 242.

War with Spain, notes of a speech on, ii. 199; con-
siderations touching, ii. 201.

Ward, when a woman shall be out of, ii. 489.
Wards and tenures, speech on, ii. 273.
Wards, care of, by the king, ii. 276; directions for the
masters of the, ii. 275.

Warren's, Sir W., conference with Tyrone, ii. 351.
Warts, how removed, ii. 135.

Warbeck, see Perkin Warbeck.

Warwick, Earl of, see Plantagenet.

Welsh judges, ii. 379.
Wells on the sea-shore, ii. 7.
Wens and corns, how removed, ii. 136.
Wentworth, Sir John, charge against, for scandal,
ii. 307.

West Indies, cannibals in the, ii. 10.
Weston, confession of, ii. 317.
Whelps, time they are in the womb, ii. 102.
Whey, mixture of, with oil of vitriol, ii. 465.
Whispering, interior sound, ii. 34.
Whispering wall at Gloucester, ii. 30.
Whitehead's answer to Queen Elizabeth, i. 122.
Whitelock, Mr., pardoned, ii. 509; charge against,
ii. 508.
Whiteness, directions to produce it, i. 89; in snow or
froth, how formed, i. 197.
Wildfire, materials of, ii. 106.
Wilford, Ralph, personates the Earl of Warwick, i. 370.
Willy mott, Dr., specimen of his translation of the
Latin edition of the Essays, i. 6.

Will of man, i. 218; produces actions, i. 206; obedient,
and admits medicines to alter it, i. 105.
Winch, Sir Humphrey, ii. 477.

Winchester, Bishop of, Lord Bacon's letter to, concern-
ing his essays, i. 4.

Wind, the healthfulness of the southern, ii. 106;
gathering of, for freshness, ii. 105; effect of, on
plants, ii. 87; a perennial east wind within the tro-
pics, iii. 526; in Europe, east wind, why sharp and
dry, and south-west humid, iii. 526.

Warham, Dr., his speech to the Archduke Philip, i. Wind furnace, its use in separating metals, ii. 460.

350.

Washing, soft water best for, ii. 58.

Waste, injunctions against, ii. 481; case of impeach-
ment of, iii. 268.

Water, salt, experiments on, ii. 7; oysters fattened by
fresh, ii. 94; sea-fish put into fresh, ii. 94; into
crystal, congealing, ii. 54; turns to crystal, ii. 463;
in a glass, weight of, ii. 464; of Nilus sweet,
ii. 103; aptness to corrupt or putrefy, ii. 109;
practice of getting fresh, in Barbary, ii. 7; stilli-
cides of, ii. 10; sand better than earth for strain-
ing, ii. 7; clarifying, ii. 8; dulcoration of salt,
ii. 121; rising, loses its saltness sooner than by
falling in straining, ii. 7; turning into ice, ii. 10
boiling of, to different heats, ii. 90; working of,
upon air, contiguous, ii. 119; version of, into
air, ii. 21; version of air into, ii. 10; that it may
be the medium of sounds, ii. 107; Methusalem,
use of, ii. 467; a great nourisher, ii. 86; Pinda-
rus's true parable, the best thing is water, ii.
234; goodness and choice of, ii. 58; Cæsar's
knowledge of digging for, ii. 7; theory of Thales,
that it is the prime element, discussed, i. 438.
Water-cresses, friendly to life, ii. 53.

Waters, colour of different, ii. 120; metalline, ii. 21;
sounds in, ii. 33.

Watery vapours, drawn by wool and cloves, ii. 20.
Wax, mixture of dissolved, ii. 465.

Weapons, vicissitudes in, i. 61.

Weather-glass, contracting of air in the, ii. 10.
Weather, prognostics and signs of, ii. 89.
Wedlock hinders men from great designs, i. 16.
Weeks, Jack, saying of his, i. 125.

Weight, experiment touching, ii. 106; separation of
liquids by, ii. 8; air and water, experiments made
about, ii. 464; separation of bodies by, ii. 8; increase
of, in earth, ii. 100

Weights of bodies in water, uses to which the know-
ledge of, applied, ii. 463; in water, experiments on,
ii. 463.

Winds, effect of, on men's bodies, ii. 57; inquisition
concerning the winds, iii. 438; names of, iii. 440;
free, iii. 441; general, iii. 441; stayed or certain,
iii. 442; customary or attending, iii. 443; the quali-
ties and powers of, iii. 444; local beginnings of, iii.
447; accidental generations of, iii. 449; extraordi-
nary winds and sudden blasts, iii. 449; helps to
original, iii. 450; the bounds of, iii. 452; succes-
sions of, iii. 452; the motion of the, iii. 453; mo-
tion of, in the sails of ships, iii. 455; motion of, in
other engines of man's invention, iii. 457; prognos-
tics of, iii. 458; imitations of, iii. 461; movable
rules concerning, iii. 462; a human map, or opta-
tives, with such things as are next to them concern-
ing, iii. 463.

Windsor, the alms knights of, opinion of their institu-
tion, ii. 240.

Wine, experiments touching the correcting of, ii.
250; separates from water, if strained through ivy.
wood, ii. 7; spirits of, mixed with water, ii. 465;
help or hurt of, moderately used, ii. 98; for the
spirits, ii. 466; against adverse melancholy, ii. 466.
Wings of Icarus, ii. 335.

Winter, touching creatures who sleep all, ii. 123;
effect on attractive properties of different bodies,
ii. 466.

Winters, prognostics of hard, ii. 99.

Wisdom and power, difference between, apparent in
the creation, i. 174.

Wisdom, an example of, i. 176; divine, i. 174; true
knowledge is, i. 174.

Wisdom of the Ancients, i. 271, 285, 174; translation
of, by Sir A. Georges, i. 273; notice of, in Biogra-
phia Britannica, i. 272.

Wise, essay of seeming, i. 33; persons that do little
things very solemnly, i. 33; wise men ascribe their
virtues to fortune, i. 46; use studies, i. 55; make
more opportunities than they find, i. 56.
Wit, impediments in, may be wrought out by fit stu-
dies, i. 55; its better use, to make doubts clear, ii.

278; one of its uses to make clear things doubtful, | Writ, of "ne exeat regnum," ii. 484.
ii. 278.

THE END.