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youth of, ii. 223.

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

iii. 116.

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,

32.

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.

brain, ii. 167.

Cat in the pan, turning the, ii. 156.
Catches, sung anthem wise, ii. 209.
Cato Major, Livy's description of,

ii. 216.

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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.

159.

of Rabirius Posthumus, ii. 199.
his books, De Oratore and Ora-
tor, ii, 230.

to Piso, ii. 165.

his conduct in banishment, iii.
185.

his eulogy on the Academics,
iii. 100.

quæ miremur, habemus; quæ
laudemus, expectamus, iii.

116.

Cioli, Andrea, his translation of Ba-

Cioli — continued.

-

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,

Ib.

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.

29.

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,

i. 151.

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,

iii. 118.

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,

iii. 139.

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.

continued.

Pope Alexander attempts to or-
ganize one, i. 313.

invites Henry VII. to join, 1b.
money for, raised in England,

Ib.

against the Turks, iii. 7.
Bacon's opinions respecting, iii.

8.
Cruzada, iii. 32.
Cunning, essay on,

ii. 153-158.

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.

213-216.

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.

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Devil, envy his proper attribute, ii.

109.

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-

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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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