Carews, the, march to the relief of Exeter, besieged by Perkin War- beck, i. 287.
Caroe, Sir John, receives Philip, King of Castile, at Weymouth, i. 343.
Castello, Adrian de, the Pope's am- bassador to Scotland, i. 139. honoured and employed by Hen- ry VII., Ib.
excited by a prophecy to aim at the papacy, i. 140.
his saying to the pilot, ii. 217; Castoreum taken for disease of the
respecting Sylla, ii. 130. imago civilis ejus, ii. 27–32. ambitio ejus, ii. 27-29.
viam ad regnum quomodo ster- nebat, ii. 29.
virtus in bellicis, ii. 31.
amici ejus, et voluptates, ii. 31,
Calais, Lord Cordes saying, "that he would be content to lie seven years in hell, so he might win Calais," i. 153. Henry VII. at, i. 198. retained by the English, why, iii. 67.
Calanus, the Indian, his advice to Alexander, iii. 84.
Calendars of tempests of State, ii. 123, 379.
Calpurnia, her dream, ii. 168. Camden, his Annals of Queen Eliza-
beth, history of the manuscript, ii. 47, 48.
Bacon's additions and correc- tions, ii. 49-65. Campbell, Lord, his statement that James I. made Bacon expunge a legal axiom, i. 61. his opinion of the value of the speeches inserted by Bacon in his history, i. 116. Cannibalism, iii. 46.
Canonization of saints, i. 348, 349. Cap of maintenance, and sword, sent by Pope Alexander to Henry VII., i. 281.
Capel, Sir William, fined 2,000l. for misgovernment in his mayor- alty, i. 234, 352.
sent to the Tower, lb.
Capra pedes, cur Pan habet, i. 445. Cares, human, moderation of, iii. 169, 170.
twofold excess of, Ib.
Cat in the pan, turning the, ii. 156. Catches, sung anthem wise, ii. 209. Cato Major, Livy's description of,
unequal distribution of parental affection, ii. 100.
treatment and education of, ii. 99-101.
China, ordnance used in for 2,000 years, ii. 279.
Chivalry, orders of, ii 187. Chressenor, Thomas, tried for Per- kin Warbeck's rebellion, and par- doned, i. 223.
Christ, incarnation of, iii. 155. Church, unity in the, ii. 87.
controversies in, ii. 89, 90. Catholic, iii. 157, 158. visible, iii. 158.
the keeper of the Scriptures, iii. 180.
Churmne of reproaches and taunts, i. 292.
Cicero on the piety of the Romans, ii. 134, 135.
of the self-love of Pompey, ii.
of Rabirius Posthumus, ii. 199. his books, De Oratore and Ora- tor, ii, 230.
his conduct in banishment, iii. 185.
his eulogy on the Academics, iii. 100.
quæ miremur, habemus; quæ laudemus, expectamus, iii.
Cioli, Andrea, his translation of Ba-
con's Essays for Cosmo de Medici, ii. 73, 74.
Civil conversation, notes for, iii. 139, 140.
Claudius Appius, only two men great in history carried away by love, he one, ii. 110.
Clarence, Duke of, i. 72. Clerks convict, to be burned in the hand, i. 133.
and ministers of law courts, ii. 268, 269.
Clement VIII., iii. 24, 192. Clement, James, murderer of the Duke of Guise, correction by Ba- con in Camden, ii. 51. Cleou, his dream, ii. 205. Clergy curtailed by statute of Henry VII., i. 133.
an overgrown, brings a state to necessity, ii. 128. Clifford, Sir Robert, i. 375.
joins Perkin Warbeck in Flan- ders, i. 212.
declares him to be the Duke of York, i. 213.
won over by king Henry's spies, i. 217, 218.
gives information to Henry VII. of the partisans of Perkin Warbeck, i. 225.
pardoned by the king, Ib. impeaches Sir William Stanley,
Clipping coins, statute of Henry VII. relating to, i. 334.
Closeness, ii. 95, 96.
Cloth of estate, the king sat under, i. 177.
Cobham, Lord, firm to Henry VII. against the Cornish rebels, i. 266, 267.
Coinage, regulated by statute of Henry VII., i. 334.
his profitable recoinages, i. 335. statutes of Henry VII. respect- ing, i. 146.
counterfeiting foreign coin cur- rent, lb.
Coke, Sir Edward, mentions the Great Council, but not its functions, i. 369.
what he knew about the death of Prince Henry, ii. 11-13. Collyweston, Henry VII. brings his daughter Margaret so far on her way to Scotland, i. 323.
Colonization, essay on, ii. 194–198. who fit for colonists, ii. 195. choice of site, lb. government of, ii. 197. support of, by the parent coun- try, lb.
Colour, beauty of, inferior to beauty of favour, and of motion, ii. 226. Colours that show best by candle- light, ii. 210.
of good and evil, iii. 100-120, 270-290.
Preface, iii. 89-94. Columbus sends his brother Barthol- omæus to Henry VII., i. 296. Comets, their influences, ii. 275. Comineus, on Duke Charles the Hardy, ii. 169.
Commission of Union between Eng- land and Scotland, ii. 151. standing commissions commend- ed, 16.
Common Place, Court of, its juris- diction, i. 130.
Commons, little danger to be appre- hended from, in a state, except, etc., ii. 145.
Comnenus, Manuel, his heresy, iii.
Concordia, Lionel, Bishop of, nuncio from Pope Alexander VI. to France and England, i. 171. Conditores imperiorum, ii. 264, 300. Confidence, daughter of Fortune, ii. 217.
Confusion maketh things muster more, iii. 106.
Congresall, Captain of Perkin War- beck's French guard, i. 208. Conquest, the right of civilized na- tions to encroach on savages, iii. 27.
Consalvo, of a soldier's honor, ii. 272.
Consilium magnum, i. 370. Consolation derived from examples of others in misfortune, iii. 13- 15.
Conspiracy, severe laws of Henry VII. against, i. 131. Constantinople, Henry VII. called on by the Pope to invade, i. 314. Elizabeth's agent at, correction by Bacon in Camden respect- ing, ii. 54. Christian boy like to have been stoned at, ii. 118.
Contempt putteth an edge on anger, ii. 272.
Contibald, James, Maximilian's am- bassador to England and Spain, i. 174-176, 192. Contraries, iii. 110.
Controversies in the Church, how to avoid, ii. 89.
Conversation, the art of, ii. 191-194. notes for civil, iii. 139, 140. Cor ne edito, ii. 169.
Cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull, ii. 127.
Cordes, Lord, aids the rebels in Flanders against Maximilian,
besieges Newport in vain, i. 152. his hatred of the English, 1b. brings overtures of peace from Charles VIII. to Henry VII., i. 194, 195. Cork, Perkin Warbeck lands at, i. 206.
mayor of, executed with Perkin Warbeck, i. 304.
Cornish men, a hardy race, i. 264. rebel against a subsidy levied
by Henry VII., i. 264-275. march up to London, i. 265–269. defeated at Blackheath, i. 273. strength of their bows, i. 273. invite Perkin Warbeck over from Ireland, i. 284. Coronation of Henry VII. on Bos- worth field, i. 49, 50.
in London, i. 54, 56.
of Lambert Symnell at Dublin, i. 85.
of Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII., i. 94.
Corporations, by-laws of, restrained by statute of Henry VII., i. 333. Corruptio unius, generatio alterius,
Corruption and bribery of men in authority, ii. 114, 327.
Cosmo de Medici, Italian transla- tion of Bacon's Essays dedi- cated to, ii. 73.
his saying against perfidious friends, ii. 93.
Cotton, Sir Robert, supplies materi- als to Bacon in compiling his History of King Henry VII,
i. 14. less liberal in that of Henry VIII., i. 393.
Cottonian library, manuscripts de- Crusade stroyed by fire, i. 102. Council, Great, what, i. 115.
summoned by Henry VII. in his seventh year before calling his Parliament, i. 177. called by Henry VII., i. 261. distinct from Parliament, i. 367-374.
its composition, i. 371. matters referred to it, i. 372. Council-chamber, arrangement of seats in, ii. 152. Counsel, essay on, ii. 146-152.
the greatest trust between men, ii. 146.
legend of Metis, ii. 147. inconveniences of, are three,
want of secrecy, ii. 148. weakening of authority, ii. 149.
unfaithful counsellors, ii. 149-151.
for these, cabinet counsels are a remedy worse than the dis- ease, ii. 148, 149.
defects of the present mode of meeting, ii. 151.
ask of the ancient, what is best, and of the latter, what is fit- test, ii. 113.
of two sorts, concerning man- ners, concerning business, ii. 171.
behaviour of judges towards, ii.
267, 268. Countebalt, ambassador from Maxi- milian to Henry VII., i. 174-176, 192.
Countenance, necessary command of,
Court-yards for palaces, ii. 232- 235.
Courtney, Edward, created Earl of Devon, 56.
William, Earl of Devonshire, committed to custody by Henry VII., i. 330. Courts of Justice, the attendance of, subject to four bad instruments, ii. 269, 372.
Creation of the world, iii. 151, 152. Crispus murdered by his father Con- stantine, ii. 143.
Cross set up by Ferdinando on the great tower of Grenada, i. 190. Crusade meditated by Charles VIII., i. 163.
Pope Alexander attempts to or- ganize one, i. 313.
invites Henry VII. to join, 1b. money for, raised in England,
against the Turks, iii. 7. Bacon's opinions respecting, iii.
8. Cruzada, iii. 32. Cunning, essay on,
a sinister or crooked wisdom, ii. 153.
stratagems of, ii. 153-158. Curson, Sir Robert, Governor at Hammes, joines the Earl of Suffolk as a spy, i. 330. excommunicated together with the Earl, i. 331.
returns to England, Ib.
Custom and education, essay on, ii.
examples of the force of, ii. 214.
the principal magistrate of man's life, Ib.
most perfect when begun in youth, lb.
Customs, law of Henry VII. for the security of, i. 134.
Dam, the seaport of Bruges, i. 187. taken by stratagem by the Duke of Saxony, i. 188. Dammasin trees, ii. 237. Dances to song, have extreme grace, ii. 209.
turned into figure, a childish curiosity, Ib.
Dangers are no more light, if they once seem light, ii. 152. Darcy, Lord, sent into Cornwall to impose tines, after the rebellion of Perkin Warbeck, i. 291. Daubigny, Bernard, sent by Charles VIII. to Henry VII., i. 110. Daubigny, Lord, deputy of Calais, raises the seige of Dixmue, 151, 152.
negotiates the treaty of Esta-
ples with Lord Cordes, i. 195. David's harp has as many hearse- like airs as carols, ii. 94. Dawbeney, Lord, defeats the Corn- ish rebels at Blackheath, i. 268, 272. Giles, Lord, made Lord Cham- berlain, i. 230.
Dawbeney, William, tried for Per- kin Warbeck's rebellion, and be- headed, i. 223.
De Thou, memorial of Q. Elizabeth, communicated to, i. 413; ii. 11. De Victoria, the maxim, non funda- tur imperium nisi in imagine Dei, iii. 40.
Death, Essay on, ii. 84-86. fear of, ii. 84. pains of, ii. 84.
approach of has little effect on
good spirits, ii. 85.
deaths of remarkable inen, lb. Deathbed sayings, ii. 85. Dedications, Seneca's, iii. 9. Deformed people envious, ii. 104. commonly even with nature, ii.
Devil, envy his proper attribute, ii.
Devonshire, Cornish rebels against Henry VII. march through, i. 266.
Earl of, relieves Exeter, besieged by Perkin Warbeck, i. 287. Diaries of travels, how to be kept, ii. 138.
Diet, how to regulate, ii. 188. Digby, Sir John, Lieutenant of the Tower, in charge of Perkin Warbeck, i. 302.
Ambassador to Spain, iii. 5. Digestion, ii. 7, 161.
Dighton, John, one of the murderers of the two princes in the Tower, i. 214-217. Discontentment, ii. 108.
public, how to remove, ii. 127-
Dog, his courage in presence of his master, ii. 134, 339.
Dorset, Marquis of, left as a pledge at Paris by Henry VII., i. 64. committed to the tower by the king, i. 86.
set at liberty, i. 94. Dove, the spirit of Jesus was the spirit of the Dove, iii. 166. innocency of, and wisdom of
the serpent, iii. 167, 168. Dowry, patrimonial, carries no part of sovereignty, i. 221. Drake, Sir Francis, clause inserted by Bacon in Camden's Annals of Queen Elizabeth relating to him, ii. 50. Dream of Lady Margaret, mother of Henry VII., i. 365.
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