treaty with Maximilian, i. 174.
summons parliament in his sev-
enth year, i. 176, 186.
revives benovolences, i. 183.
receives letters from Ferdinando
and Isabella of Spain, i. 189.
sails from Sandwich to Calais,
i. 194.

overtures of peace from Charles
VIII. sent by Lord Cordes, i.
194, 195.

peace of Estaples, i. 196-199.
imposture of Perkin Warbeck,
i. 199-304.

his covetousness, i. 234, 263, 324,
336, 357, 358.

his purpose of marriage with
Juanna, Queen of Castile, i.
351.

claim to the government of Cas-
tile, i. 350.

his vast treasures, i. 353.
marriage treaty between his

daughter Mary and Charles,
Prince of Castile, Ib.

the Salomon of England, i. 354.
dies at Richmond, 1b.

his character, i. 355-365, 379-
389.

his birth at Pembroke, i. 365.
tomb at Westminster, Ib.

his treatment of his nobles, ii.
144.

Henry VIII. continued.

his secrecy in matters of state,
ii. 149.

his law respecting houses of hus-
bandry, ii. 180.

Henry VIII., his birth, i. 172.
beginning of a history of his
reign, i. 33-40, 395–397.
his divorce from Katherine of
Arragon, i. 320.
undertaken by Bacon at the re-
quest of Prince Charles, i.

393.

his purchases of Tournay and
Bulloigne, iii. 71.
Henry, Duke of York, son of Henry
VII., contracted to the Princess
Katherine of Spain, i. 322.
Henry, Prince of Wales, memorial
of him, ii. 19-22.

possibly intended to be sent to De
Thou, ii. 11.

died on the 6th Nov. 1612, ii.
19.

rumour of poison at his death
unfounded, ii. 22.

Henry III. of France, effect of his
league against the Protestants, ii.

124.

Heraclitus, his saying, that dry light
is the best soul, ii. 171.
Herbert, George, Bacon's translation
of the Psalms dedicated to, iii.
205.

Hercules, sailing in an earthen pot,
ii. 94.

his labours, iii. 46.

Heresies and schisms the greatest
scandals, ii. 87.

how to be avoided, ii. 89.
the origin of. ii. 276.
twofold origin of, iii. 178.
three degrees of heresies deny-
ing the power of God, Ib.
Heretics in England, dealt with by
Henry VII., i. 315.

one converted by him, Ib.
Herne, a mercer, one of Perkin War-
beck's counsellors, i. 283.
Hermogenes, the rhetorician, ii. 225.
Hialas, Peter, ambassador to Henry

VII. from Ferdinando and
Isabella, i. 277.

employed by him to treat with
James IV. of Scotland, i. 278.
Historian, his office compared with
that of a judge summing up, i. 39.

History of the reign of Henry VIII.,
i. 33-40, 395-397.

of the reign of Henry VII., i.
45-365.

Holinshed, character of his history,
i. 14, 25.

Holy Ghost, the power of, iii. 154.
in form of a vulture, ii. 91.
Holy War, advertisement touching
an, iii. 21-48.

Homer, his prophecy of the Roman
empire, ii. 203.

Homicide, the king's suit by indict-
ment, no longer to await the year
and day allowed by way of appeal,

i. 132.

liberatores, 16.

propugnatores imperii, Ib.
patres patriæ, ii. 265.

degrees of honour in subjects,
ii. 265.

participes curarum, ii. 265.
duces belli, ii. 265.
gratiosi, lb.

negotiis pares, Ib.

Hope, earthly, meditation on, iii.
162, 170, 171.

all to be employed upon the life
to come, iii. 172.
Hortensius, idem manebat, neque
idem decebat, ii. 225.

Hosea on the government of the
Jews, iii. 41.

Hostages to Fortune, wife and chil-
dren, are, ii. 101.

Houses of husbandry, statute of
Henry VII. to maintain, i. 143;
ii. 180.

Hucks and foldings, worn in Ire-
land, i. 297.

Huntley, Earl of, proposed marriage
of his daughter to Perkin War-
beck, i. 250.

Husbandry, a profitable profession
for rich men, ii. 200.
Husbands and Wives, ii. 101-103.

women never complain of hus-

Imports, prohibition of foreign man-
ufactures, i. 333.

Impostors and hypocrites, character-
istics of, iii. 174, 175.
Imposture, three kinds of, iii. 175.
Inbowed widows, ii. 233.

Incaes of Peru, their government,
iii. 28.

Incarnation, the, iii. 152, 153.
Indies, West, burnings by lightnings
there, ii. 274.

former inhabitants perished,
how, Ib.

tortures the Indians will under-
go, ii. 214.

Indian emblem, the hand on the
centre of a bladder, i. 268.
Industry, its gains sweet, why, iii.
116.

Infanta, proposed marriage of Prince
Charles to the, iii. 5.
Infantry, strength of an army con-
sisteth in, i. 144.

the nerve of an army, ii. 179.
Informations penal, how evaded, i.

146.

Ingrossing, ii. 128.

Innocent VIII., Pope, embassy to,
from Henry VII., i. 94.
sends a cap of maintenance to
Henry VII., i. 281, 282.

Intellectual powers, helps to the,
iii. 125-134.

Intercursus magnus, treaty between
Henry VII. and the Achduke
Philip, i. 260.

Intercursus malus, treaty between
Henry VII. and Philip King of
Castile, i. 260, 346.

Intestate, why men die, ii. 398.
Intrusions, informations of, falsely
charged by Empson and Dudley,
i. 326.

Invidia, translated discontentment,
ii. 108.

Ira hominis non implet justiciam
Dei, ii. 91.

Ireland, Simnell's rebellion in, i.

Kendal, prior of St. John's, in Hen-
ry VIIth's reign, i. 259.
Kent, Perkin Warbeck lands near
Sandwich, i. 236.

never conquered, i. 266.
Earl of, firm to Henry VII.
against the Cornish rebels, i.
266, 267.

Kentish men loyal to Henry VII.
against Perkin Warbeck, i.
236.

Cornish rebels desire to join
with them against Henry
VII., i. 266.
Kildare, Earl of, Deputy of Ireland,
i. 233.

sent prisoner to England by Sir
Edward Poynings, Ib.

his attainder reversed, i. 297.
Kings not envied but by kings, ii.

Labrador, Sebastian Gabato sails to,
i. 295.

Lambert Simnell the Pretender, i.
71-91.

crowned at Dublin, i. 85.

ends as a scullion in the royal
kitchen, i. 91.

Lancaster, House of, its title to the
throne, i. 48-51.
Landloper, i. 201.

Languages should be learnt before
travelling, ii. 137.

Languedoc, wines and woads of, to
be imported only in English bot-
toms, i. 145.

Lanthony, Prior of, made Chancel-
lor of Ireland, i. 232.

Laodiceans and lukewarm persons,
ii. 88.

Latham, Henry VII. goes in progress
to, to make merry with Sir Thom-
as Stanley, i. 234, 235.
Laws, to be treated of at large by
the historian, why, i. 147.
administration of penal laws, ii.

267.

Laws of England, digest of, pur-
posed by Bacon, iii. 17.
Learning flourishes in the middle
age of a state, ii. 280.
Lepanto, battle of, ii. 186, 194.
Lethe, runneth as well above ground
as below, ii. 273.

Letters, from Henry VII. to the
Mayor and Aldermen of Lon-
don, i. 198, 353.

others from Calais, i. 310.
Leucippus, his school charged with
atheism, ii. 132.

Lewis XI. closeness his tormentor,
il. 169.

Lewis XII. to his Swiss mercenaries,

iii. 76.

Libels against the state, ii. 123.

against Henry VII., i. 231.
Liberatores imperiorum, ii. 264.
Lie, why men love lies, ii. 81.

the shame of, ii. 84.
Light, dry, the best soul, ii. 171.
Lightnings in the West Indies, ii. 274.
Likenesses of children to relations
rather than parents, ii. 100.
Limitation, a statute of, passed by
Henry VII., i. 142.

Lincoln, Earl of, joins the Irish re-
bellion against Henry VII., i.
81.

joins battle at Newark, i. 88, 89.