Plantations, i. 288, how to be regulated with regard to speedy profit, and the people with whom you plant, 289, with regard to soil, minerals, and produce, ib. how the government, customs, and buildings are to be directed, ib. when to be planted with women, ib. Plantations at home with regard to orchards, gardens, hop-yards, woods, &c. 517, a further regulation of foreign ones, ib. fixing of them should proceed rather from the king's leave than command, 518. See Ireland. Plantianus, i. 282.
Plane-tree, irrigation of with wine, i. 152. Plants, why of greater age than living creatures, i. 91, dignity of plants, 131, acceleration of their germination, ib. et seq. the melioration of them divers ways, 133, et seq. cause why some die in winter, 135, sympathy and antipathy of plants, 137, et seq. utterly mistaken, ib. Plants drawing the same juices out of the earth thrive not together, 138, drawers of much nourishment hurt their neighbour plants, ib. drawing several juices thrive well together, ib. several instances of each, ib. desig- nations for further trials hereof, ib. trial in herbs poisonous and purgative, ib. Plants that die placed together, ib. trial whether plants will attract water at some distance, 139, how rendered medicinable, ib. curiosities touching plants, 140, et seq. Plants will degenerate, 142, 143, the several causes thereof, ib. transmutation of plants, 142, six designations thereof, 143, their several excres- cences, 143, et seq. prickles of trees, 145. Plants grow- ing without seed, 146, growing out of stone, ib. Plants foreign, ib. removed out of hot countries, will keep their seasons, ib. set in the summer season will prosper in colder countries, ib. seasons of several plants, 146, 147. Plants bearing blossoms, and young fruits, and ripe fruits together, 147. Plants with joints and knuckles in the stalks, 148, the causes thereof, ib. differences of plants, ib. some putting forth blossoms before leaves, ib. others, leaves before blossoms, ib. the cause of each, ib. Plants green all winter, ib. the cause, ib. Plants not sup- porting themselves, 149, the cause of their slenderness, ib. Plants and inanimate bodies differ in four things, 150. Plants and metals in three, ib. Plants and mouldiness, or putrefactions, wherein they differ, ib. Plants and living creatures, their differences, ib. male and female in plants, 151. Plants whereof garments are made, ib. Plants sleeping. ib. Plants with bearded roots, ib. Plants esculent, 152, parts in plants that are nourishing, ib. seeds in plants more strong than either leaf or root, the cause, 152, 153, in some not, 153. Plants with milk in them, ib. Plants with red juice, 154, few plants have a salt taste, ib. Plants with curled leaves, ib. Plants may be translated into other regions, 155, yet they like some soils more than others, ib. seve- ral instances thereof, ib. Plants without leaves, 171, singularities in several plants, 157.
Plates of metal assuage swelling, i. 185.
Plato, i. 321, taxes Diogenes's pride, 323, his comparing Socrates to the apothecaries' drugs, 324, his ridicule of Prodicus, 281.
Plato, his notion that all knowledge was but remembrance, i. 306.
Plea, what is properly the matter of one, i. 720. Pleadings, seasons for their being published, i. 615.
Plutarch did not write the discourse" De Primo Frigido,” i. 93, his account of Augustus's visiting Alexander's sepulchre, i. 171, several observations of his, 329, of fame and superstition, 274, what he saith of Timoleon's fortune, 259, 294.
Pneumaticals in bodies, i. 126, 181. Poesy, i. 27, how divided, 32.
Poets, the best writers next to the prose, i. 322. Poisoning of air, i. 192.
Poisoning, the particular heinousness of this sin set forth, i. 705, no example of this sin is to be found in Scripture, 696, is made high treason, ib. the great difficulty of getting clear proofs in cases thereof, as is shown by examples, 705, &c. the monstrous impiety of this sin, 398, a design to poison queen Elizabeth is discovered, 401.
Poisonings, by smells, i. 192, caution touching poisoning, ib. Poisonous creatures love to lie under odorate herbs, i. 157. Poisons, why attended with swellings, i. 122, of asps, 154. Poisons externally used draw venom, i. 198. Poland, its state considered, i. 381. Pole, William De la, brother to the earl of Suffolk, seized by Henry VII. i. 787.
Politicians of the weaker sort great dissemblers, i. 264, composition of a complete one, 265. Polycrates's daughter, her dream, i. 290. Polygamy disallowed, i. 211.
Polyphemus's courtesy to be last eaten up, i. 535. Pomanders, or knots of powders, their uses, i. 193. Pompey, i. 321, says "Duty is more necessary than life," 323. Vide Cæsar, and 302. How ruined by Cæsar, 309. Pons, Jasper, a Spaniard, the pope's commissioner in the jubilee year, i. 783.
Pont Charenton, the echo there, i. 114. Poor, concerning the ways of relieving them, i. 495. Pope, that he has power of deposing and murdering kings, is a dangerous doctrine, i. 687, the ill effects of this doctrine shown in many instances, ib. the little respect some princes have shown to the pope, ib. Suarez's doctrine concerning his power over kings, 687, 688. Popes, what expected from them when they affect the title of "Padre commune," i. 302.
Popham, speaker of the house of commons, and afterwards chief justice, i. 325.
Popularity, how far to be avoided by judges, i. 713. Poreblind men, why they see best near hand, i. 185, 186. Porter, Endymion, i. 304.
Portugal, its afflicted condition, i. 381. Postea, what it is, i. 575. Post-nati, of Scotland, their case argued, i. 652, &c. the state of the question concerning them explained, 652, their case and that of the ante-nati different, 655, must be either alien or natural born, ib. confutation of the objections against them, as drawn from statutes, 655, 656, or from book cases, 657, more arguments in defence of their being by law natural subjects of England, 660, a query whether they are natural-born subjects, 464, though they are naturalized ipso jure, yet it is proper they should be so likewise by act of parliament, 465. Posture of the body, i. 166, to be altered every half hour 252.
Pleasure of the eye and ears, the effect of equality and Potatoe roots, i. 90, potted, grow larger, 135. good proportion, i. 99.
Pleasure and displeasure of the senses, i. 161. Plenty in England remarkable in queen Elizabeth's time, i. 380.
Plessis, Monsieur du, his book against the papal authority commended, ii. 38 note .
Pliny's mixtures of metals almost forgotten, i. 241, his ac- count of the Roman mirror, commonly looking-glass, 243. Plot: the powder-plot taken notice of, i. 687. Plough followed, healthful, i. 193. Plowden, Edmund, ii. 180 note *. Plumage, i. 158.
Plumosity in birds, its cause, i. 158.
Plums, of what colour the best, i. 141, the drier the better sort, ib.
Pluralities, in what cases allowable, and in what not so, i. 358, some remedies proposed to this abuse, 359.
Poverty of the learned, i. 6. Poulet, John, Esq. ii. 166.
Poultis for the gout, and for other things, i. 91, 253. Powder and ammunition of all sorts we have at home, i. 516.
Powder, white, without noise, seems impossible, i. 101. Powders and liquors, their incorporation, i. 118. Powder-treason surpasses all the barbarities of the hea- thens, ii. 263.
Power sought by the loss of liberty, i. 268. Power abso- lute and cannot conclude itself, 769.
Poynings, Sir Edward, sent with a navy in aid of Flanders, i. 758, takes Sluice and Bruges, ib. sent to the arch- duke Philip to dismiss Perkin, 764, sent to Ireland with a martial commission above the deputy, the earl of Kil- dare, 767, his famous law, 767, 463.
Præmunire, cases thereof, i. 645, the proceedings, trial, | Prolonging life, i. 89. what state of life conduceth most to punishment, &c. therein, ib.
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.
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.
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.
Rain in Egypt scarce, i. 170, the cause thereof, ib. several Repletion hindereth generation, i. 133, and stature, 143. prognostics of rain, 178.
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 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.
Schism more scandalous than corruption of manners, i. 332, how to be punished, 674.
Schoolmen compared to the fictions of astronomy, i. 274, 320, useful, 301.
Schools of learning to be cherished, i. 511.
Scipio Africanus, his declension, i. 296.
Scire facias, a writ, in what cases not to be awarded, i. 721.
Rules of law, an account of our author's method and Scissile and not scissile, i. 182. manner in digesting them, i. 546.
Russian monks, their prodigious patience, i. 293.
Rust of metals, i. 122, 245.
Rutland, his examination in relation to Essex's treason, i. 429.
Rutland, Frances, countess of, ii. 187 note §.
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.
: 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.
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.
Silver more easily made than gold, i. 121, 241, the Chi- nese intent upon making it, 121. Silver halfpence,
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
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.
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