Abduction made a capital offence by
statute of Henry VII., i. 132.
Abergavenny, Lord, fined by Henry
VII. for keeping retainers,
i. 328.

imprisoned for a short time, i.
330.

firm to Henry VII. against the

Cornish rebels, i. 266.
Abingdon, Abbot of, sent as
commissioner by Henry VII.
to Charles VIII., i. 110.
Achaians compared by Titus Quin-
tius to a tortoise, iii. 68.
Adrian VI., Pope, i. 140.
Adrian de Castello, the Pope's am-
bassador to Scotland, i. 139.
honoured and employed by Hen-
ry VII., Ib.

Advancement of Fortune, i. 22.
Advancement of Learning, the, a
key to the opening the Instaura-
tion, iii. 16, 17.

Advertisement touching an Holy
War, iii. 21-48.
Esculapius, a Cyclopibus interemp-
tus, ii. 437.
Esop, fable of the damsel turned
into a cat, ii. 212.

of the fly on the chariot wheel,
ji. 260.

of the two frogs, iii. 104.

of the fox and the cat, iii. 108,
109.

of the man who called for Death,
iii. 110, 280.

Amazons, an unnatural government,
iii. 44.

Ambages of God, iii. 151.
Ambassadors sent by Henry VII. to
Charles VIII., i. 126.
Ambition, essay on, ii. 206-209.

like choler, makes or mars, ii.
206.

how ambitious men should be
made serviceable, ii. 207.
America, discovered by Columbus, i.
293.

foretold by Seneca, ii. 203-206.
by Plato, ii. 206.

results of its discovery, iii. 26.
Amor. Vide Love.

Amortised, a part of the lands, i.
144.

Anabaptists and other furies, ii. 91.

of Munster, iii. 44.
Andes, far higher than our moun-
tains, ii. 274.

Andrews, Bishop, epistle dedicatory
addressed to, iii. 13-19.
Angels not to be introduced in anti-
masques, ii. 210.
Angeovines, faction in Naples, i. 238.
Anger, essay on, ii. 271-274.

to calm the natural inclination,
ii. 271, 272.

to repress the emotions of, ii.
272, 273.

to raise and appease in others,
ii. 273.

a kind of baseness, ii. 271.

its causes chiefly three, ii. 272.
Anne of Brittaine, i. 54. See Brit-
taine.

Ant, a wise creature for itself, ii.
158.

Anti-masques should be short, ii.
210.

angels not to be introduced, Ib.
Antiperistasis, iii. 111.
Antonius, Marcus, only two great
men of history carried away by
love, he one, ii. 110.
Antwerp, English merchants return
to, after the treaty made by Henry
VII., i. 260.

Ape, his deformity increased by his
likeness to man, ii. 137.
Apelles would take the best parts of
divers faces, ii. 226.
Apollonius, his answer to Vespasian
concerning Nero's fall, ii. 141.
Apomaxis calumniarum, by Sir R.
Morysine, i. 322.

Apostolical succession, iii. 156.
Appius Claudius, only two men great
in history carried away by love, he
one, ii. 110.
Apposed, ii. 155.
Arbela, battle of, ii. 178.
Archers, English, their execution
upon the French troops, i. 127.
Cornish, their arrows reputed to
be of the length of a tailor's
yard, i. 273.

Aristander, his explanation of Phil-
ip's dream, ii. 203.

Aristotle, his theory of usurpation, i.

21.

no ill interpreter of the Law of
nature respecting conquest,
iii. 34.

Armada, Spanish, defeat of, i. 430,
449.

invincible and invisible, ii. 60.
Arms flourish in the youth of a state,
ii. 280.

Arrows of the Cornishmen, i. 273.
Arthur, Prince, son of Henry VII.,
ii. 277.

Arundel, Earl of, sent by Henry VII.

to welcome Philip King of

Castile, at Weymouth, i. 343.
correction by Bacon in the ac-
count of his trial in Camden's
Annals of Queen Elizabeth,
ii. 50.

Ashes more generative than dust, ii.
163.

Assassins of the Levant, iii. 43.
Astley, a scrivener, one of Perkin
Warbeck's councillors, i. 283.
Astrologer, ii. 273.

Astwood, Thomas, tried for Perkin
Warbeck's rebellion, and par-
doned, i. 223.

plots Perkin Warbeck's escape
from the Tower, i. 302, 304.
Atheism, essay on, ii. 131–135.
causes of, ii. 133.

better than superstition, ii. 135.
Atheist, miracles never wrought to
convince, why, ii. 132.

the fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God, iii. 176.
Atlantis, whether destroyed by
earthquake or deluge, ii. 274.
Atom, the sidelong motion of, iii.

179.

Aton Castle, taken by the Earl of
Surrey from James ÏV., i. 276.

Bannerets created by Henry VII.
upon the field, at Blackheath, i.
273.

Bannocksbourn by Strivelin, battle
of, i. 138.

Barbarous nations, their inundations
on other nations, ii. 279.
Bargains, gains by, are of a doubt-
ful nature, ii. 200.

Barkhamsted, Cecile, Duchess of
York dies at, i. 239.
Barley, William, joins Perkin War-
beck in Flanders, i. 212.
makes his peace with the king,
i. 231.

pardoned by Henry VII., i.
231.

Barriers and Tourneys, ii. 210.
Barton, Elizabeth, the words on
which she was condemned of trea-
son, i. 228.
Bashfulness, a great hindrance to a
man, iii. 140.

Bastards, envious, ii. 104.
Beauty, essay on, ii. 225-227.

its relation to virtue, ii. 225.

Blewet plots Perkin Warbeck's es-
cape from the Tower, i. 302, 304.
Bodmin, Perkin Warbeck arrives at,
i. 284.

Body, pliancy of the human, iii. 128.
Boldness, Essay on, ii. 116-118.

in civil business, is first, second,

and third, ii. 116.

the child of ignorance and base-
ness, Ib.

ever blind, ii. 117.

a better quality in a follower
than in a leader, Ib.

Books, some to be tasted, some swal-
lowed, some chewed and digested,
ii. 252, 253.

Borgia, Cæsar, his bark not St.
Peter's, i. 171.

Bosworth Field, battle of, i. 45.
Bothwell's attempt to seize the King
of Scotland, insertion by Bacon iu
Camden's Annals of Queen Eliza-
beth, ii. 49.

Bouchier, Sir John, left as a pledge
at Paris, by Henry VII., i. 64.

Bouchier, Archbishop of Canterbury,
Henry VII. dines with, i. 56.
Boutefeu, i. 136.

Bows of the Cornishmen, i. 273.
Brackenbury, Lieutenant of the
Tower, refuses to murder the two
young princes, i. 215.
Brain, castoreum taken for disease
of, ii. 167.

Brampton, Lady, Perkin Warbeck
travels in her train to Portugal, i.
205.

Brandled the fortunes of the day, i.

273.

Brandon, Thomas, commander of
Henry VIIth's fleet against the
Irish rebels, i. 85.

Bray, Sir Reignold, his downfall
sought by the Cornish rebels,
i. 265.

his death, i. 324.
Braybrooke, James, sent by Henry
VII. to report on the young Queen
of Naples, i. 338, 339.
Briareus, emblem interpreted, ii. 129.
Bribery, ii. 114.

Britain, the true greatness of, iii.
61-85.

Preface, iii. 51-58.
Brittaine, object of the ambition of
Charles VIII, i. 97, 98.
invaded by him, i. 109, 176.
Lord Woodville joins the Duke
with English auxiliaries, i.
105, 110, 111.

speech of Chancellor Morton,
respecting the invasion, i.
117-124.

death of Francis the Duke, i.
128.

conquered by Charles VIII., i.

129.

Henry VIIth's policy, i. 149-
151, 356.

Anne, duchess of Brittaine, by
proxy married to Maximilian,
i. 153, 154.

what became of the English
forces, i. 154, 155.
French embassy respecting, i.
157-173.

Charles VIII. himself married

to the Dutchess Anne, i. 172,
173.

arrangement of the dates of the

above transactions, i. 165-168.
Henry VIIth's preparations for
war with France, i. 176-178.

Brocage of an usurper, i. 47.
Brooke, Robert Lord, leads 8,000
men into Brittaine, against
Charles VIII., i. 127, 129.
sent by Henry VII. to raise the
siege of Exeter, i. 287.
Brothers, younger, commonly for-
tunate, but not where the elder
are disinherited, ii. 101.
Broughton, Sir Thomas, shelters
Lord Lovell, i. 69.

joins the standard of Symnell,
i. 87.

dies on the field, i. 91.
Bruges rebels against Maximilian,
i. 150.

submits, i. 187-190.
Brutus, Decimus, his treatment of
Julius Cæsar, ii. 168.
Brutus, Marcus, phantasm appeared
to, ii. 204.
Buckingham, Duke of, raises troops
to relieve Exeter, besieged by
Perkin Warbeck, i. 287.
Bacon's essays dedicated to, ii.

77.

Building, essay on, ii. 228-235.
use to be preferred to uniform-
ity, ii. 228.
salubrity of site, Ib.

a perfect palace described, ii.
230-235.
Bulloigne, siege of, by Henry VII.,

i. 195.

Burning in the hand, i. 133.
Busbechius, anger of the Turks at
cruelty to a fowl, ii. 118.
Business, three parts of, preparation,
examination, and perfection, ii.

163.

Cabinet counsels, a remedy worse
than the disease, ii. 148.
the doctrine of Italy, and prac-
tice of France, Ib.
meaning of the term, ii. 148.
Cabot, Sebastian, his discoveries, i.

295.

Cæsar Augustus, his character by
Bacon, ii. 43, 44.
imago civilis ejus, ii. 33.
his deathbed speech, ii. 85.
his times inclined to atheism, ii.
136.

marriage of his daughter Julia
to Agrippa, ii. 168.
Cæsar, Julius, his character, ii. 35-
41.