Prætors of Rome, great affinity between their office and
our chancellor's, i. 709.

Praise, the reflection of virtue, i. 303. Praise in excess
raises envy, contradiction, &c. ib.

Prayer of the clergy, benefit thereof in cases of felony, i.
580, the book of Common Prayer how to be respected,
674, is compared with preaching, 355, a set thereof com-
mended, ib. of what it ought to consist, ib. of lord Bacon's,
339, for a student, 341, for an author, ib. one made by
Bacon when chancellor, 340.

Preachers, unfit ones not to be allowed, i. 357, if wanting,
what remedies must be sought for, 357, not sufficient for
every parish, 359, stipends allotted for some in Lanca-
shire, ib.

Precedents, instances of the great reverence paid to them,
i. 640.

Precious stones comfort the spirits, i. 197.
Precipitation of metals, what, i. 246.

Prelates, when dangerous, i. 276.

Preparation of saffron, i. 250, of garlic, ib. of damask roses
for smell, ib.

Prerogative of the king in parliaments, i. 646, in matters of
war and peace, ib. in matters of money, ib. in trade and
traffic, ib. in his subjects' persons, ib. of the king and
law, not to be considered separately, 715, of the king,
incommunicable, 647, &c. what persons they ought to
be who have this power committed to them, 647, such
authority delegated is derogatory to the king, ib. and
also very dangerous, 648. See Magistrate.
Πρεσβύτερος, is always distinguished from ἱερεὺς, i. 356.
Presence, the advantage of a good one, i. 319.
Preservation of bodies from corruption, i. 98.

Preserva-

tion of fruits in syrups, 152, also in powders, ib. when to
gather fruits for preservation, ib. also in bottles in a well,
ib. Preserving grapes long, ib. another way thereof, 155.
Preservation is the chief law of nature, i. 441.
Pressure, what motion it causes in bodies, i. 83.
Pretext never wanting to power, i. 746.

Pretorian courts, i. 533.

Prickles of trees, shrubs, and animals, i. 199.
Priest, christian, i. 205.

Priest, the word to be changed to minister in our liturgy,
i. 356.

Princes leaning to party, like a boat overset by uneven
weight on one side, i. 271, advice to them, 273, resemble
the heavenly bodies, 277.

Princes cannot perpetuate their memory better than by
making good laws, as is shown by comparison with their
other works, and by examples, i. 670, 671, should take
care to preserve each other's life and reputation, even in
times of hostility, 376.

Principiation of metals, i. 244, whether any such thing or
no, ib. none such as sal, sulphur, and mercury, ib.
Privileged officers, an interruption to justice as much as
privileged places, i. 787. Privileges of members of par-
liament, when burthensome, 513.

Privy counsellor's duty, i. 514. Privy council how to be
chosen, ib.

Privy counsellor, conspiring against his life how to be
punished, i. 675.

Probus, did himself hurt by a speech, i. 273.
Procession, a pleasant observation upon one, i. 330.
Proclamation of king James before the book of Common
Prayer, i. 511.

Proclamation drawn for his first coming in, i. 443, touch-
ing his style, 445.

Proclamation for a parliament, a draught of one, ii. 118.
Procreations by copulation and by putrefaction, i. 189,
the cause of each, ib.

Profanations, how to be punished, i. 674.
Prognostics for plenty or scarcity, i. 157, of pestilential
years, 159, 166, 176, 177, and cold and long winters, 177,
by birds, 178, of a hot and dry summer, 177, by the birds
also, ib. of winds, 178, of great tempests, 177, of rain,
178, from living creatures, ib. from water-fowls and
land-fowls, from fishes, ib. from beasts, ib. from herbs, ib.
from aches in men's bodies, ib. from worms and vermin,
ib. from the sweating of solid bodies, ib.

its prolongation, 117, precepts for the prolongation of
life, 252.

Prometheus, an emblem of human nature, i. 264, 273.
Promises of God, concerning the redemption of man,
manifested many ways, i. 338.

Property in lands, how gained, i. 576, by entry how gained,
ib. by descent how gained, ib. by escheat how gained,
577, by conveyance how gained, 583, several ways of
gaining it in goods and chattels, 586, three arguments of
property, 618.

Prophecies, exclusive of revelation and heathen oracles,
i. 290, whence they derive their credit, 291.
Prophecies, spreaders thereof how to be punished, i. 675.
Prophesying, what it was, i. 357, much commended, ib.
Proprieties, secret, i. 96, 97, 201.

Proserpina, her fable, i. 97.

Prosperity, temperance its proper virtue, i. 264.
Protagoras, i. 194.

Prothonotary, his office, i. 650.

Proud persons, how they bear misfortunes, i. 259.
Prudence, doctrine of, i. 290.

Psalm 1st, translated, i. 603, the 12th, ib. the 90th, 361,
the 104th, ib. the 126th, 362, the 137th, ib. the 149th, 363.
Public good always most regarded by nature, i. 449, 450.
Puckering, Sir John, lord keeper of the great seal, letter to
him from Mr. Francis Bacon, ii. 141.

Puebla, Dr. ambassador lieger from Spain, i. 788.
Pugna per provocationem, what it was, i. 681, instances
thereof, ib.

Pupils, the prætorian power over them, i. 485.
Purchasers, very much favoured by our laws, i. 606.
Purging medicines having their virtue in a fine spirit, en-
dure not boiling, i. 84, their unpleasant taste how reme-
died, ib. several ways of the operations of purging medi-
cines, 88, proceed from the quantity or quality of the
medicines, ib. they work upon the humours, ib. medicines
that purge by stool, and that purge by urine, 89, their
several causes, ib. work in these ways as they are given
in quantity, ib. what weather best for purging, 92, pre-
parations before purging, ib. want of preparative, what
hurt it doth, both in purging and after purging, ib.
Puritans, ii. 258.

Pursevants, their business how to be managed, ii. 111.
Purveyance justly due to the crown, i. 520, and yet fre-
quently abused, ib.

Purveyors, a speech concerning their abuses, i. 447, com-
plaints about them, ib. their abuses enumerated, 448,
instances of their frequent breaches of the law, ib.
Putrefaction, its inception hath in it a maturation, i. 120.
Putrefaction, the acceleration of it, 122, the cause of
putrefaction, ib. Putrefaction, whence, ib. ten means of
inducing putrefaction, ib. 123, prohibiting putrefaction,
123, 171, ten means of prohibiting it, 123, 124, incep-
tions of putrefaction, 125, 153, putrefactions for the most
part smell ill, whence, 179. Putrefaction hath affinity
with plants, 150. Putrefaction, from what causes it
cometh, 179, 180. Putrefaction, the subtilest of all
motions, 159. Putrefaction induced by the moonbeams,
88, doth not rise to its height at once, 176. Putrefac-
tions of living creatures have caused plagues, 192.
Putrified bodies most odious to a creature of the same
kind, i. 199.

Pye, Sir Robert, letter to him from lord viscount St.
Alban, ii. 262.

Pyrrhus had his teeth undivided, i. 168, his ambition, 315.
Pythagoras, his philosophy full of superstition, i. 190,
visited Hiero, 325, his parable, 282.

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QUARRIES that grow hard, i. 182.

Quarter sessions to be held by justices, i. 573.
Questions touching minerals, i. 242, unexpected surprise,
279, the use and advantage of asking questions, 288.
Questions about the lawfulness of a war for the propa
gating of religion, 529.

Quicksilver heated and pent in, hath the same force with
gunpowder, i. 87, the coldest of metals, because the
fullest of spirits, 93, will not bear the fire, 122.

Remainder and reversion, the difference between them, i.
582, the former cannot be limited upon an estate in fee-
simple, ib. its significancy in the statute of uses, 609, 610.
Remains, medical, i. 250.

Remembrancer of the lord treasurer in the exchequer, i.
595.

Remembrancer in chancery, a proper officer recommended,
ii. 115.

Remitter, what the law means thereby, i. 557, several cases
of it explained, ib.

Rents, case thereof considered, i. 610, concerning the exe-
cution of them, ib.

Re-ordination of priests maintained by some, i. 347.

Rainbow, the sweetness of its odour, i. 178.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, a design to murder him by Sir
Christopher Blunt, i. 416, compared the ladies of the
queen's bed-chamber to witches, which have power to
do hurt, but no good, 313, retort upon, 316, resentment
against him by the Spanish ambassador, ii. 206, letter
from the lord chancellor to the king, concerning the
manner of proceeding against him, 207, declaration of
his demeanour and carriage, 208.

Rams' skins good to be applied to wounds, i. 158.
Ramsay, David, ii. 221.

Rates, they should be easy to the undertakers for planting
Ireland, i. 472.

Ravenstein, lord, rebels against Maximilian, i. 752, 758,
carries on a piratical war, ib.

Ravishment of women, how to be punished, i. 676.
Reading, how to be regulated, i. 301.

Realm, the state of it how many ways endangered, and
what punishments are due thereupon, i. 675.
Rebel and enemy distinguished, i. 465.
Rebellion, how punishable, i. 675, several raised in Ireland
by the king of Spain, 392, in the north, to what it was
owing, ib. how a subject may be guilty of it by taking up
arms, 421, what consequences the law draws from it,
421, 422.

Receipts how to be managed after the union of England
and Scotland, i. 458.

Receptacle for converts to the reformed religion, recom-
mended, i. 496.

Recoveries, what they are, i. 583, they bar entails, &c. ib.
other effects thereof, ib. methods of proceeding therein,
ib. why first introduced, ib.

Recusants, how to be punished, i. 674, magistrates, who
are so, how to be dealt with in Ireland, ii. 84.
Red within, some few fruits, i. 141.

Red juice in plants, i. 154.

Reed or cane, a watery plant, i. 155.

Referees, the meaning of that word, ii. 229, note .
References in chancery, when they may be made, i. 719.
Referendaries, i. 301.

Refining of metals insufficient, i. 182, how to multiply the
heat, or open the body in refining, i. 244.

Reflexion of sounds, i. 113, not to be guided like the re-
flexion of species visible, ib.

Reformation of religion under queen Elizabeth, i. 381, the
benefits thereof, ib.

Refraction causeth the species visible to appear bigger, i. |
170, other observations about refractions, ib.

Registers in chancery, their office, and orders relating to
it, i. 718.

Relief, a sum of 51. so called, to be paid by every tenant by
knight's service to his lord, i. 579, of tenant in socage,
what, ib.

Religion, unity in it, i. 262, the chief band of society, ib.
Lucretius's exclamation against it, 263, the best reason
of state, 308, of our church commended, 510.
Religion, how careful king James was of it, i. 713, the care
of it recommended to the judges of the circuits, ib. our
author disapproves of the exercise of divers religions,
382, every man's conscience should be let alone in the
quiet belief of his own, ib. concerning the disputes about
it in England, ib. two rules of proceeding with men in
religious matters, where conscience is pleaded. 387, con-
cerning the propagation thereof, 496, not to be scoffed
at, 344. Religious sects, 307.

Reproofs from authority should not be taunting, i. 269.
Resemblances between the species of plants, i. 157, and
likewise among animals, ib.

Respiration of the world, what, according to Apollonius, i.
190.

Rest causeth putrefaction, i. 123.

Restitutions of metals and minerals, ii. 246.
Retardation of germination, i. 132.

Revelation of God's will by the Scriptures, i. 338, how
made before them, 339.

Revenge, wild justice, and ought to be weeded, i. 264, 332.
Revenge, i. 264, puts the law out of office, ib. can only
take place where there is no law to remedy, ib. public
revenges most fortunate, ib. mischiefs of allowing private
revenge, 679.

Revenue of the king, how to be managed and advanced, i.
715, ii. 113.

Revenues, sundry sorts of royal revenues, i. 588, of the
crown ought to be preserved, 520.

Reverence of one's self, a bridle of vice, i. 211.

Reversions cannot be granted by word, i. 582. See At-
turnment, Reverter.

Reverter, its meaning stated in the statute of uses, i. 608.
Review, bill of, in what cases to be admitted, or not, i. 716.
Revocation of uses, Sir John Stanhope's case relating
thereto discussed, i, 627.

Rheums, how caused, i. 88, preservative against, 250.
Rhubarb contains parts of contrary operations, i. 84, 97.
Rhubarb infused for a short time best, 84, repeated, may
be as strong as scammony, ib. a benedict medicine, ib.
caution in the taking thereof, 88, its virtue, ib.
Rice, a nourishing meat, i. 90, the general food in
Turkey, ib.

Richard II. his deposition, i. 312.

Richard III. tyrant in title and regiment, i. 732, slain in
Bosworth-field, ib. slew with his own hands Henry VI.
ib. and his two nephews, ib. thought to poison his wife,
ib. attainted after his death, 785.

Richardson excuses himself from being speaker, i. 499.
Riches, wherein they resemble muck, i. 321.

Riches, the baggage of virtue, i. 289, have sold more men
than they have bought out, ib. unjust means of acquiring
them, 290, little riches more hard to be got than great,
ib.

Riding, good for the head, i. 301.

Right side and left, senses alike strong on both sides, limbs
strongest on the right, i. 186, the cause of each, ib.
Rights are of two sorts, i. 598, according to the civilians,
of three sorts, 599, when two meet in one person there
is no confusion of them, but they remain in law distinet,
658, how this last rule is limited, ib.

Riots and violent assaults how to be punished, i. 676.
Rivers, the advantage of making them navigable, i. 517.
Robberies disguised, instances thereof, and how they are
to be punished, i. 676.

Rocks, springs chiefly generated there, i. 86.
Roman laws were collected by the decemvirs from the
Grecian ones, i. 668.

Romans, how they esteemed a goose's liver, i. 89, their
style in war and peace, 321, beat Philip of Macedon, ib.
open to receive strangers into their bosom, 285, made
wars for the liberty of Greece, 286, 528.
Rome, heathen, grew great by its reverence of the gods,
i. 274.

Rome, Virgil's prediction concerning the mixture of Trojans
and Italians therein, i. 451, its union with the Sabines,

ib. free in its naturalizations, ib. causes of its growth, ib. |
esteemed a valiant nation, 681, duels not used amongst
them, ib. the emperors thereof used in their titles the
additions of nations they had conquered, 447.
Romulus, his legacy to the Romans, i. 286.
Rooms built for health, i. 194.

Roos, William lord, ii. 170, 177.

Roos, lady, personates Luke Hutton, ii. 218.

Roots, advantages of digging and loosening the earth about
them, i. 132, 133.

Roots of fruit trees multiplied, i. 133.
by putting panicum about it, 134.
greater, 137. Roots preserved all
bulbous, fibrous, and hirsute, 151.
descend deep, 155, others that spread
of each, ib.

Rosa solis, the herb, i. 139.

Root made larger
Roots potted, grow
winter, ib. Roots,
Roots of trees that
more, ib. the cause

Roses damask, how conserved, i. 126, 132, how to make
them late and sweet, 132, 133, and come twice a year,
147.

Rotten apples putrify sound ones, i. 122.

Roxolana, the destruction of Sultan Mustapha, i. 276.
Rubbing. See Friction.

Rue improved, i. 138.

Rue helpeth the fig-tree, ib.

Sap assisted by leaving top-boughs in polling, i. 135. Sap
of trees, 155, the differing nature thereof in several
trees, ib.

"Sapientia Veterum" quoted, i. 97.

Satiety, or cloying in meats, i. 118.

Savage, Sir John, slain riding about the walls of Boloign,
i. 760.

Savages, how treated, i. 289.

Saville, Sir Henry, some account of him, ii. 45 note ‡,
his judgment of poets, i. 322.

Savoy, the state thereof considered, i. 382.
Saxony, duke of, how he surprises Dam in favour of
Maximilian, i. 758, takes Sluice, ib.

Scales growing to the teeth as hard as the teeth, i. 96, of
fishes that resemble rotten wood in their shining, 124.
Scaliger, i. 160.

Scarlet-dye, i. 188.

Rutland, his examination in relation to Essex's treason,
i. 429.

Rutland, Frances, countess of, ii. 187 note §.

S

SABELLIAN heresy, the occasion of its rise, i. 346.
Sackville, Sir Edward, named to be chairman of the com-
mittee of the house of commons, for inquiring into
the abuses of the courts of justice, ii. 331 note †,
zealous for lord viscount St. Alban, 238, 242, 244, his
letter to lord St. Alban, 245.

Sacred, why attributed to kings, and never to senates, &c.
i. 653.

Sailors, their device to get fresh water, from exposing
fleeces of wool, i. 94.

St. John, Mr. charge against him, i. 689, he slanders and
abuses the king, lords, parliament, &c. of England, in
some papers, 691.

St. John, Sir Oliver, lord deputy of Ireland, ii. 186 note
¶, note 204 §.

Salamander, the causes why it endureth the fire, if true,
i. 184.

Salamander's wool, i. 172.

Sale, a property gained thereby when dishonest, i. 586,
how it may bar the right of the owner, ib. what markets
it must be made in, ib.

Salgazus, a sea-plant, i. 154.

Salique law, several remarks on it, i. 312.
Salisbury, Robert earl of, his character, ii. 158.

Salt, a good compost, i. 131, 135, 149. Saltpetre, how to
hasten the breeding of it, 149. Salt in plants, 154.
Salt hath a sympathy with blood, 199, it is a healer, ib.
it riseth not in distillations, 187.

Salt-water, how freshened, or the salt imbibed, i. 187.
Salt water passed through earth becomes fresh, 82, four
differences between the passing it in vessels and in pits,
ib. Salt-water good to water some herbs, 157. Salt-
water boiled becometh more potable, 187. Salt-water
sooner dissolving salt than fresh water, the cause, ib.
Salt-water shineth in the dashing, 124. Salt in its
several disguises a composition of mercury and sulphur,
125.

Sanctuaries qualified by the pope at the interposition of
Henry VII. i. 742.

Sand for making glass near Mount Carmel, i. 172.
Sand turning minerals into a glassy substance, i. 172.
Sandys, lord, his confession relating to Essex's treason,
i. 430.

Sanguis Draconis, the tree that bears it, i. 154.
Sanquhar, a speech at his arraignment for having procured
one to murder Turner out of revenge, i. 677.

Scoffing at holy matters, one cause of atheism, i. 274.
Scotland, account of the parliament held there in 1616,
ii. 189.

Scribonianus, his conspiracy against Claudius, i. 326.
Scriptures are from God and contain his will, i. 339, are
not to be altered, ib.

Scots, a commendation of their virtues, &c. i. 464, ought
to be esteemed denizens of England, 455. are infested
by the Guises, and relieved by queen Elizabeth, 390.
Sea clearer, the north wind blowing than the south, i. 158.
Sea by the bubbles foreshows wind, 177. Sea-water
looketh black moved, white resting, 186, the cause, ib.
Seas shallow and narrow break more than deep and
large, 187.

Sea-fish put into fresh waters, i. 162.

Sea-fights, of what consequence, i. 286.

Sea-hare, coming near the body, hurteth the lungs, i. 199.
Sea-plants, i. 146, why sea-sand produces no plants, ib.
Sea-sand a good compost, i. 149. Sea-sands produce no
plants, 146.

Seal:

: great seal of England and Scotland to be one after
the union, i. 456.

Search, in what cases the constable has power to do so,
i. 649, 650.

Seasons of plants, i. 146, 147.

Seasons of the year, observations on them by Hippocrates,
i. 128.

Seats, of houses, i. 177, 296, of justice, set to sale, op-
pression, 308.

Sebastian, king of Portugal, his expedition into Africa,
i. 523.

Secrecy, the virtue of a confessor, i. 265, what necessary
to it, ib. the great importance of it to princes, 277.
Secret properties, i. 201.

Sectaries, their tenets inconsistent with monarchy, i. 510,
not to have countenance or connivance, ib.
Secundine or caul, i. 166.

Seditions, i. 271. Seditions and tumults are brother and
sister, ib. the prognostics, materials, causes, and reme-
dies of them, 272, et seq.

See of Rome attempts to alienate the hearts of people
from the king, i. 675.

Seeds steeped in several liquors hasten their growth, i. 131.
Seeds in plants more strong than either leaf or root, 152,
153, the cause, ib. in some not, ib. Seeds how to be
chosen, 142, 157, plants growing without seed, 146.
Seeds if very old, make the plant degenerate, 142.
Seipsum defendendo an act done, why not always justi
fiable, i. 555, the punishment for killing a man in that
act, 571.

Seizure, lessee is shown to have no property in timber-trees
from thence, i. 619.

Sejanus, his intimacy with Tiberius, i. 282, the device to
pull him down, 292.

Selden, John, his letter to lord St. Alban, ii. 240.

Seminaries, when they blossomed in their missions into
England, i. 536.

Sena loseth its windiness by decoction, i. 85, purges melan-
choly, 88.

Seneca's style, mortar without lime, i. 326, his sentiment
of despising death, 262, says the good things of adversity
are to be admired, 264, greedy of executorships, 290,
condemned, 522.

Seneca, the tragedian, i. 290.

Senses, their pleasures and displeasures, i. 161, their in-
struments have a similitude with that which giveth the
reflection of the object, 116.

Separation of several natures by straining, i. 82, 83, of
several liquors by weight, 84, and of the same kind of
liquors thickened, ib. of metals, 175.

Separation of the cruder parts prohibiteth putrefaction, i.

123.

Separation of bodies by weight, i. 84, in liquors, 119.
Separation of metals and minerals, i. 244, consists of re-
fining, extraction, and principiation, ib.
Separation, the external points thereof, between England
and Scotland, i. 455, the internal points, 456.
Septimius Severus died in despatch of business, i. 262, his
excessive fondness to his chief favourite, 282, his charac-
ter, 295.

Sequestrations, in what cases to be granted, i. 718.

Serjeantry, tenures by, what they are, and how instituted,
i. 578.

Sexviri, their office among the Athenians, i. 668, 672.

Sfortia, Ludovico, duke of Milan, i. 769, 770.

Shade helpeth some plants, i. 134.

Shadows, why they seem ever to tremble, i. 187.

kespeare Shallows break more than deeps, i. 187.

Shame, i. 164, the impressions thereof infectious, 194.
Shaw, Dr. his tale at Paul's cross, i. 733, concerning the
bastardy of the children of Edward IV. ib.

Shell-fish have no bones within, i. 168, have male and fe-
male generally, 186.

Shene palace almost burnt down, i. 780.

Sheriff's tourne, its origin and jurisdiction, i. 571, is called
also "Curia franci plegii," 572, made judges of the court
for the county and hundreds, ib. called "vicecomites,"
ib. their office, ib. 651, are bound to attend the judges in
their county, by person or by deputy, 576, 577, from
whence they are so called, 651.

Sheriffs' accounts how to be managed, i. 593, their attend-
ance in the circuits of the judges, 512, ancienter than
the conquest, and of great consequence, ib.

Shifting for the better helpeth plants and living creatures,
i. 134.

Shining wood, many experiments about it, i. 124.
Shipping, or navy, the walls of England, i. 515, all the ne-
cessary materials of it our own produce, save sails and
cordage, 516.

Shooting, good for the lungs and stomach, i. 301.
Showers good for the fruit, i. 156, for some not, ib. Night-
showers better than day-showers, ib.

Showers after a long drought cause sicknesses, if they be
gentle; if great, not, i. 176.

Shrewsbury, Gilbert earl of, ii. 175.

Shrewsbury, lady, some account of her, and her trial, ii. 52

Sight, 185, 186, objects thereof cause great delights in
the spirits, but no great offence, why, ib.

Sigismund, prince of Transylvania. i. 523, heads three pro-
vinces which revolt in Turkey, 466.

Silk worms, i. 161.

Silver more easily made than gold, i. 121, 241, the Chi-
nese intent upon making it, 121. Silver halfpence,

260.

Silver, certificate touching the scarcity of it at the mint, i.
492.

Simcock, his deposition, ii. 172.

Simnel, Lambert, i. 736, his history in personating the 2nd
son of Edward IV. ib. changes his scene, and personates
Edward Plantagenet, 737, afterwards proclaimed at
Dublin, 738, taken in the battle near Newark, 741, con-
signed to an office in the king's kitchen, ib. preferred to
be his falconer, 741, 764.

Simonds, William, 736 note, taken at the battle of
Stokefield, 741, no more heard of, ib.
Simonides, í. 325.

Simples, special for medicine, i. 159, such as have subtle
parts without acrimony, ib. many creatures bred of pu-
trefaction, are such, ib. also putrefactions of plants, ib.
Simulation and dissimulation, i. 264, a weak kind of policy,
ib. and differs from judgment, ib. three degrees of it, 265,
its advantages, ib. the case of dissembling knowledge,
288.

Sinews, why much affected with cold, i. 159.

Single life, the causes of it, i. 266, recommended to church-
men, ib. most charitable, and yet most cruel, ib.
Singularities in several plants, i. 157.

Sinking of bodies, its cause, i. 172.

Sitting healthful, why, i. 166.

Six clerks, concerning the grant of their office, ii. 104.
Sixtus V. how the son of an illustrious house, i. 317, a tale
of his reception in the other world, 318.

Skipwith, Henry, his cause in chancery recommended by
the earl of Buckingham, i. 186.

Skull, of one entire bone, i. 168.

Slander, how to be punished, i. 570, 571.

Sleep, a great nourisher, i. 91. Sleep promotes sweat, and
stays other evacuations of the body, 163. Sleep, why
hindered by cold in the feet, 168, furthered by some
kind of noises, ib. nourisheth in many beasts and birds,
ib. creatures that sleep all winter, i. 189.
Sleeping plants, i. 151.

Smells and odours, i. 129, best at some distance as well as
sound, why, ib. best where the body is crushed, ib. not
so in flowers crushed, ib. best in flowers whose leaves
smell not, ib. Smells sweet, 178, have all a corporeal
substance, 179. Smells fetid, ib. Smells of the jail very
pernicious, 102. Smells that are most dangerous, ib.
Smith, Sir Thomas, his case in Essex's treason, i. 440.
Smith, Sir Thomas, sent ambassador to Russia, ii. 186

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Smoke preserveth flesh, i. 124.

Snake's-skin worn for health, i. 198.

Sneezing ceaseth hiccup, i. 159, why induced by looking
against the sun, ib. caused by tickling the nose, 170.
Snow, why colder than water, i. 93.

Snow-water unwholesome, i. 129. Snow causes fruitfulness,
whence, 156, 157, puts forth plants and breeds worms,
146, 160, 161.

Snow, good to be applied to a mortified part, whence, i.
173.

Socage, tenures so called, what, and how instituted, i. 578,
&c. reserved by the lord, 579.

Socotra, that island famous for the sanguis draconis, i. 154.
Socrates, what he said of the oracle of Delphos, i. 315, his
sentiments of the writings of Heraclitus, ib. compared
to the apothecaries' pots containing precious drugs, i.
324.

Soft bodies, i. 181, their cause, ib. are of two sorts, ib.
Soldiers, want of provision for them, when disbanded, com-
plained of, i. 386.

Soles of the feet have a sympathy with the head, i. 97.
Solicitor and attorney-general, &c. their consequence, i. 512
Solid bodies sweating, foreshow rain, i. 178.
Solitude, what the delight in it implies, i. 281.
Solomon, his saying of riches, i. 289.