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Solomon's house modelled in New Atlantis, i. 202, 205,
247, instituted for the study of the works and creatures
of God, 208, the true state of it, 212, the several employ-
ments and offices in it, 215.

Solon compares the people to the sea, i. 315, wept for his
son's death, 322, his saying to Croesus, 324, what re-
markable in his laws, 671.

Somerset, Robert Car, earl of, letter from him to Sir
Thomas Overbury, ii. 163, questions of Sir Francis
Bacon relating to his case, 171, heads of the charge
against him, 172, charged with treasons and plots with
Spain, 173, delivered out of the Tower, 238, pardoned,
and to be allowed to sit in parliament, 264.
Somerset, countess of, charge against her for poisoning of
Overbury, i. 699, a charge against the earl for the same
fact, 704, he is criminally in love with the countess of
Essex, 706, his behaviour at and after the time of Over-
bury's being poisoned, 707, some farther account of his
treason, ii. 66, some things relating to his examination,
ib. several cases put to the king about his trial, con-
fession, &c. 69, concerning his arraignment and examina-
tion, 70. See Overbury.

Somerset, countess of, questions to the judges relating to
her case, ii. 171. Dr. Whiting ordered to preach before
her, 173, charge prepared by Francis Bacon against her,
in case she pleaded guilty, 174, delivered out of the
Tower, 238.

Soot, a good compost, i. 131, 149.

Soporiferous medicines, i. 198.

Sorrel, i. 157, the root thereof sometimes three cubits
deep, ib.

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Soul of the world, i. 190.

Sounds musical and immusical, i. 98.

Sounds, why more apt to procure sleep than tones, i. 99,
nature of sounds not sufficiently inquired, 100, motions.
great, in nature without sounds, ib. nullity and entity of
sounds, ib. swiftness of motion may make sounds inaudi-
ble, ib. Sound not an elision of the air, 101, the reasons
thereof, 102. Sounds not produced without some local
motion of the medium, ib. yet distinction to be made be
twixt the motion of the air and the sounds themselves,
ib. great sounds without great motions in the air, from
other bodies, ib. have rarified the air much, ib. have
caused deafness, ib. enclosure of sounds preserveth them,
ib. Sounds partly enclosed, and partly in open air, ib.
better heard from without than within, ib. a semiconcave
will convey sound better than open air, ib. any long pole
will do the like, ib. trial to be made in a crooked concave,
103. Sounds may be created without air, ib. difference
of sounds in different vessels filled with water, ib. Sound
within a flame, ib. Sound upon a barrel emptier or
fuller, ib. Sound not created betwixt the bow and the
string, but betwixt the string and the air, ib. the majora-
tion of sounds, 104, soft bodies damp sounds, 105, mix-
ture of sounds, 104, 105, magnitude of sounds, 103, in
a trunk, ib. in a hunter's horn bigger at the lower end,
ib. in a vault under the earth, ib. in hawk's bells, rather
than upon a piece of brass in the open air, ib. in a drum,
ib. farther heard by night than by day, why, ib. increased
by the concurrent reflection, ib. increased by the sound-
board in instruments, ib. 104, in an Irish harp, 104, in a
virginal the lid shut, ib. in a concave within a wall, ib.
in a bow-string, the horn of the bow laid to the ear, ib.
the like in a rod of iron or brass, ib. the like conveyed by
a pillar of wood from an upper chamber to a lower, ib.
the like from the bottom of a well, ib. five ways of ma-
joration of sounds, ib. exility of sounds through any
porous bodies, ib. through water, ib. strings stopped
short, ib. damping of sounds with a soft body, 105, iron
hot not so sounding as cold, ib. water warm not so
sounding in the fall, as cold, ib. loudness and softness of
sound differ from magnitude and exility, ib. loudness of
sounds, whence, ib. communication of sounds, ib. in-
equality of sounds, ib. 106, unequal sounds ingrate, 106,
grateful sounds, ib. musical, and immusical, at pleasure,

only in men and birds, ib. humming of bees, an unequal
sound, ib. metals quenched give a hissing sound, ib. base
and treble sounds, ib. two causes of treble in strings, ib.
proportion of the air percussed in treble and base, 107,
trial hereof to be made in the winding up of a string, ib.
difference of sounds from the distances of frets, ib. in the
bores of wind instruments, ib. interior and exterior
sounds, ib. their difference, ib. several kinds of each, ib.
interior sounds rather a concussion than a section of the
air, ib. sounds by suction, 108, articulation of sounds, ib.
articulate sounds in every part of the air, ib. winds hinder
not the articulation, ib. distance hindereth, ib. speaking
under water hindereth it not, ib. articulation requireth a
mediocrity of sound, ib. confounded in a room over an
arched vault, ib. motions of the instruments of speech
towards the forming of letters, ib. instruments of voice,
which they are, ib. inarticulate voices and inanimate
sounds, have a similitude with divers letters, ib. motions
of sounds, 109, they move in round, ib. may move in an
arched line, ib. supposed that sounds move better down-
wards than upwards, ib. trial of it, ib. lasting of sounds,
ib. sounds continue not, but renew, ib. great sounds
heard at far distance, ib. not in the instant of the sound,
but long after, ib. object of sight quicker than sound,
110, sounds vanish by degrees, which the objects of sight
do not, whence, ib. passage of sounds through other
bodies, ib. the body intercepting must not be very thick,
ib. the spirits of the body intercepting, whether they co-
operate in the sound, ib. sound not heard in a long
downright arch, ib. passeth easily through foraminous
bodies, ib. whether diminished in the passage through
small crannies, ib. medium of sounds, ib. air the best
medium, ib. thin air not so good as thick air, ib.
whether flame a fit medium, ib. whether other liquors
beside water, ib. figures of pipes on concaves that con-
duce to the difference of sounds, ib. several trials of them,
111, mixture of sounds, ib. audibles mingle in the me-
dium, which visibles do not, i6. the cause thereof, ib.
mixture without distinction makes the best harmony, ib.
qualities in the air have no operation upon sounds, ib.
sounds in the air alter one another, ib. two sounds of
like loudness will not be heard as far again as one, why,
ib. melioration of sounds, ib. polished bodies creating
sounds meliorate them, ib. wet on the inside of a pipe
doth the like, 112, frosty weather causeth the same, ib.
mingling of open air with pent air, doth the same, ib.
from a body equal sounds better, ib. intension of the
sense of hearing meliorateth them, ib. imitation of sounds,
ib. the wonder thereof in children and birds, ib. reflexion
of sounds, 113, its several kinds, ib. no refraction in
sounds observed, 114, sympathy and antipathy of sounds,
115, 116, concords and discords in music are sympathies
and antipathies of sounds, 116, strings that best agree
in consort, ib. strings tuned to an unison or diapason
show a sympathy, ib. sympathy conceived to cause no
report, ib. experiment of sympathy to be transferred to
wind-instruments, ib. essence of sounds spiritual, ib.
sounds not impressions of the air, ib. causes of the sud-
den generation and perishing of sounds, 117, conclusion
touching sounds, ib.

Sour things, why they provoke appetite, i. 178.
Souring of liquors in the sun, i. 189.

Sourness in fruits and liquors, its cause, i. 185.
Southampton, his confession of Essex's design, i. 412, is
made general of the horse in Ireland by Essex, contrary
to the queen's command, 413, his trial, with lord Essex's,
419, his defence, 420, an answer to his defence, 421, he
is found guilty of treason, 422, his examinations and
confessions at and after arraignment, 431, some further
account of him, ii. 29.

South winds dispose men's bodies to heaviness, i. 128,
south winds hurtful to fruit blossoming, 156, south winds
without rain breed pestilence, with rain not, whence,
179, on the sea-coast not so, ib.
South-east sun better than the south-west for ripening
fruit, i. 131.

Spain, its subjection formerly to several kingdoms, i. 465,
union of its kingdoms, 450, sets fire to its Indian fleet,
442, success of our English arms against them, ib. a re-
port of their injuries to us, as represented by the mer-

chants, 474, some extenuations of their injuries to us,
476, concerning the trade thither, ib. we are not to
transport any commodities of the Low Countries thither,
ib. its state considered, 382, its enterprise upon England,
with the Invincible Armada, and the ignoble return,
384, is not to be feared by us, ib. king thereof compared
with Philip of Macedon, 388, aims at universal monarchy,
ib. his ambition, how crossed, 389, the designs thereof
upon several nations, ib. is hindered in his intended con-
quests, by the wars in the Low Countries, ib. their pro-
ceedings with several other states, 390, their ill treat-
ment of our merchants, 392, they lay aside thoughts of
meddling with England, and attack France, 398, the in-
tentions of the king against queen Elizabeth, ib. he de-
signs to poison her, ib. a match proposed with Spain,
but king James is advised against it, unless all his coun-
cil agree in it, ii. 93, 94.

Spain has but two enemies, all the world and its own
ministers, i. 543.

Spain, notes of a speech concerning a war with Spain, i.
530, considerations of a war with it, 532.
Spalato, archbishop of, bishop Andrews' opinion of, i. 320.
Spaniards and Spartans of small despatch, i. 281. Span-
iards seem wiser than they are, ib. the wonder how they
hold such large dominions with so few natural Spaniards,
285, have had a veteran army for sixscore years, 286,
no such giants as some think, 532, accessions to their
monarchy recounted, 535, twice invaded England and
Ireland, 536, no overmatch for England, 537, Armada
intended for an utter conquest, 538.

Spanish Montera, i. 211.

the fatal conse-

Sparkling woods by sudden breaking, i. 155.
Sparta was jealous of naturalizing persons,
quences of it to them, i. 285, 465.

Spartans, the cause of their ruin, i. 285, the patience of
the Spartan boys, 293.

Species visible and spiritual, i. 170, 191.

Speech always with expulsion of breath, i. 102, wonderful
imitation of it in children and birds, 112, discretion of
speech better than eloquence, 288, how influenced, 293.
Speech about recovering drowned mineral works, i. 247.
Speech, a report of the earls of Salisbury's and Northamp-
ton's, upon the merchants' petition relating to the
Spanish grievances, i. 474, to the king, upon presenting
to him from the parliament an account of some griev
ances, 483, to obtain liberty of the king to treat upon
compounding for tenures, 484, concerning the parlia-
ment's manner of receiving messages from the king, 487,
one in behalf of a supply to be given to the king, 492,
about a set of men in parliament called undertakers, 497,
upon receiving the great seal, 709, before the summer
circuits, 712, upon making Sir William Jones lord chief
justice of Ireland, 714, upon Denham's being made baron
of the exchequer, 715, upon making Hutton one of the
judges of the common pleas, 716, upon Richardson's ex-
cusing himself to be speaker of the house of commons,

499.

Speeches, an appendix of history, i. 32.
Spencer, Hugh, his banishment, i. 662, 663, his dangerous
assertion concerning the homage of the subject, ib.
Spencer, alderman, left his vast fortune to his daughter,
who married lord Compton, ii. 141.
Spirit, the Holy, how it is ordinarily dispensed, i. 339.
Spirit of wine cold to the touch, i. 93.
Spirits in bodies scarce known, i. 97, several opinions of
them, ib. they are natural bodies rarified, ib. causes of
most of the effects in nature, ib. they have six differing
operations, 121. Spirit of wine, several experiments
about it, 127. Spirits in bodies, 150, how they differ in
animate and inanimate, ib. how in plants and living
creatures, ib. motion of the spirits excited by the moon,
189, the strengthening of them prohibiteth putrefaction,
123.
Spirits of men fly upon odious objects, i. 174, the transmis-
sion of spirits, 190, et seq. transmission of them from the
minds of men, 194, et seq. such things as comfort the
spirits by sympathy, 197, the strife of the spirits best
helped by arresting them for a time, 197, 198.

Spoils in war, like water spilt on the ground, not to be
gotten up, i. 777.

Springs of water made by art, i. 299.
Spring-water on the top of hills best, i. 130.
Sprouting of plants with water only, i. 154.

Spunge draws up water higher than the surface, i. 94, 187.
Spunges, the place and manner of their growth, i. 162.
Spur of birds is but a nail, i. 168.

Squill, good to set kernels or plum-stones in, i. 135.
Squinting, whence it proceeds, i. 185.

Squire, Edward, executed for treason, ii. 154 note †.
Stafford, Humphry and Thomas, take arms against Henry
VII. i. 736, fly for sanctuary to Colnham, ib. Humphry
executed, and the younger pardoned, ib.

Stafford, Edward, eldest son of the Duke of Buckingham,
i. 735, restored by Henry VII. to his dignities and for-
tunes, ib.

Stag's horn, ivy said to grow out of one, i. 144.
Stag's heart, with a bone in it, i. 168.
Stanchers of blood, i. 92, 199.
Stanford, Sir William, ii. 185.
Stanhope, lord, ii. 198.

Stanhope, Mr. John, ii. 153.

Stanley, William, puts a crown on Henry VII. in the field,
i. 732. Sir William favours Perkin, 763, is lord cham-
berlain, 765, impeached by Clifford, ib. one of the richest
subjects, 766, condemned and beheaded, ib.

Stanley, Thomas lord, made earl of Derby at the corona-
tion of Henry VII. i. 734, being the king's father-in-law,
ib. brother to Sir William, 765.

Stanley, imprisoned in the Tower, ii. 154 note +.
Star-chamber confirmed by parliament in certain cases, i.
748, one of the sagest institutions in the kingdom, ib.
Stars, lesser, obscured, a sign of tempest, i. 177.
Statim, its meaning explained by several cases, i. 630.
Statute laws, the great number of them censured, i. 668,
they want most correcting of any, ib. more doubts arise
upon them than upon the common law, 668, the method
of reforming them, 670, of 27th of Henry VIII. concern-
ing a use, its advantage and extent, 584, this statute
takes away all uses, and reduces the law to the ancient
form of conveyance of land by feoffment, fine, and re-
covery, 585, of 39 of Elizabeth, concerning the explana-
tion of the word marches, 638, of 2 Edward VI. for the
same, ib. of 32 Henry VIII. for the same, ib. of 37 of
Henry VIII. for the same, ib. of 4 of Edward IV. for the
same, ib. of 27 of Edward IV. for the same, ib. three
things to be considered for the right understanding of
any statute, 598, several relating to the case of uses ex-
plained, 578, of 5 of Edward III for the relief of credit-
ors, 603, several collected relating to uses, 604, what
method to be observed in expounding them, 607, where
an action is given by one, interest is supposed, 620, ob-
servations of statute 26 Henry VIII. and 16 Richard II.
637, 25 of Edward III. concerning where allegiance is
due, 656, of Prærogativa regis, its excellent and wise
foundation, 664, whether those touching England and
Scotland are to be repealed upon the union, 454, some
which consider the Scots as an enemy, ib. breach of any
statute how to be punished, 677. See Case. 22 Henry
VIII. upon the design of poisoning any one, 696, of Ed-
ward III. concerning purveyors, 449, of Henry V. con-
cerning the redress by letters of mart, 477.
Stealths of all sorts are to be presented, i. 676.
Steel, the melting of it promoted by brimstone, i. 240.
Steel and parchment, very doubtful whether they are good
against natural title, i. 788.
Stercoration, i. 149.

Sterility of the year changeth corn into another kind, i.

142.

Steward, Dr. ii. 209, 210.

Stewards of leets and law-days, their jurisdiction, i. 572.
Stilpo says, he was the man whom Diogenes sought with
his lantern, i. 316.

Stoic's felicity resembles that of a player, i. 255.
Stolen goods, in what cases they may be seized by the
owner, and in what not, i. 586.

Stomach, the appetite thereof, i. 178, the qualities that
provoke appetite, ib. a receipt for it, 253.
Stone wanting in fruits, i. 142.

Stone said to be cured by an application to the wrist, i. 97,
stone will melt and vitrify, 242, where the seat of it in

human bodies, 246, 247, stone engendered in a toad's
head, 247.

Strawberries early, i. 131.

Straying, how property in live cattle is gained thereby, i.
586.

Stretching, a motion of imitation, i. 118.

Strife of the spirits how to be assuaged, i. 198.
Strings, musical, should be all of a size, i. 106.
Studies for delight, ornament, and ability, i. 301, studies,
how influenced, 293, perfect nature, and are perfected by
experience, 301, condemned by the crafty, admired by
the simple, used by the wise, ib.

Stutting, two causes thereof, i. 129, generally in choleric
persons, why, ib.

Suarez, an account of his doctrine about the pope's power
to depose kings, i. 688.

Subjection to a king generally, and to a king as king of a
certain kingdom, this difference how authorized, with
answer, i. 657, that it is rather due to the crown than
the person of the king, is a dangerous doctrine, 663, how
resented by the nobility in Spencer's case, ib.
Subjects of England, how far they think it not legal to be
forced to foreign wars, i. 506.

Subjects of our thoughts, words, and actions, under what
direction, i. 293.

Sublimation of metals, i. 245.

Submission to monarchical government, proceeds from four
causes, i. 653.

Subscriptions of the clergy, our author's opinion of them,
i. 357.

Subsidy and benevolence without war, i. 788.

Subsidy, a speech on the motion of one in the 39th of
Elizabeth, i. 441.

Subterrany fires, i. 126.

Succession, particular cases relating to the succession to
lands by the offspring of any person once attainted, i.
580, to kingdoms, instances in many princes who would
not fix it, i. 385.

Successor declared may abate respect, but increases safety,
i. 797, 798.

Sucking long, ill for children, i. 125.

Suckling, Sir John, ii. 263.

Suffolk, earl of, son of John de la Pole, duke of Suffolk,
and Elizabeth, eldest sister of Edward IV. i. 784,
flies to his aunt the duchess of Burgundy, ib. involves
himself at prince Arthur's marriage, 787, and flies again
into Flanders, ib. styled a hair-brained fellow by the
king, 790, is recalled, being assured of life with hopes of
liberty, ib.

Suffolk, lord, and his lady, prosecuted in the star-chamber,
ii. 211, he is admitted again to sit in parliament, 264.
Sugar shineth in scraping, i. 124. Sugar little known to
the ancients, 151. Sugar, how dissolved, 182, its uses,
ib. draweth liquor higher than the liquor cometh, 94.
Suing in forma pauperis, its original, i. 769. Suing to be
made a judge, to be suspected, &c. 512.

Suitors, i. 301, what they are in fact, and what they ought
to be, ib. despatch to be given them, 509, how to be
ranked into several kinds, 510.

Suits in chancery, what kind of them are to be dismissed
the court, i. 717, what to be admitted in chancery, after
judgment in other courts, 718, in which the plaintiff had
not probabilem causam litigandi, he shall pay utmost
costs, 719, are to be carried on with less delay and ex-
pense to the subject, 712.

Sulphureous and mercurial tribes, i. 125.

Summer and winter sicknesses, i. 128, the prognostics of a
dry summer, 177.

Sun tanneth, which fire doth not, whence, i. 130.
Sun, the reason of its greater heat under Leo than Cancer,
i. 450.

Sun, good by aspect, evil by conjunction, i. 257, never sets
in the Spanish dominions, 524, worshipped in Peru, ib.
Superfotation, its cause, i. 145.

Super-plants, others beside mistletoe, i. 156.
Superstition, worse than infidelity, i. 274, in matters of
blood surpasses custom, 293.

Supplicavit for good behaviour, when to be granted, i.
721.

Supporting plants of themselves, and others not, i. 149.

Supremacy of the pope, placed with offences of state, i. 675,
the asserters thereof how to be punished, ib. how dan-
gerous to princes this doctrine is, 694, ecclesiastical, a
prerogative of the crown of England, 478, oaths of it, are
altered by queen Elizabeth, 387, a contest between king
James and the pope about it, ii. 39.

Surety, how one may be bound to find it for good behaviour,
i. 570, the method of proceeding with a person so bound
before he is discharged, 573, the benefits of it with re-
gard to the union of England and Scotland, 466.
Surfeits often cause purging, i. 88.

Surplice, whether the use of it should be laid aside or no,
i. 356.

Surprise in business, i. 279.

Surrey, Thomas earl of, released out of the Tower, and
pardoned by Henry VII. i. 749, sent against the York-
shire rebels, ib. and defeats them, ib. lieutenant of the
north, ib. despatched again into the north, 774, pursues
the king of Scots, and takes the castle of Aton, 776.
Suspicions, i. 287, like bats among birds flying by twilight,
ib. cloud the mind, check business, ib. seated in the brain,
not the heart, ib. causes whence they proceed, ib.
Sutton, his design about the charter-house condemned, i.
494, what his intent was therein, 495, advice to the king
about the managing his estate, ib.

Sutton's hospital, i. 247.

Swallows, their early arrival, what it portends, i. 177.
Swallows, how made white, i. 199.

Swart, Martin, sent by the lady Margaret at the head of
2000 Almains, i. 739, slain in battle by Henry VII. 741.
Sweat, moderate, preserveth the body, i. 126. Sweat,
what, 163, parts under the water, though hot, sweat not,
ib. salt in taste, ib. cometh more from the upper parts
than from the lower, ib. more in sleep than waking, ib.
cold sweat commonly mortal, ib. Sweat, in what dis-
eases good, in what bad, ib. some men smelling sweet in
their sweats, 83.

Sweating sickness, i. 733, its description and cure, ib. 734.
Sweden, state of its affairs, i. 381.

Sweet moss, i. 144, 154. Sweetness of odour from the
rainbow, 178. Sweetness of odour, whether or not in
some water, ib. found in earth, ib. Sweet smells, ib.
several properties of them, ib. they have a corporeal sub-
stance, are not like light, colours, and sound, ib.
Sweetness in fruits and liquors, whence, i. 185. Sweet
things commixed prohibit putrefaction, 124.

Swelling, how caused in the body, i. 122, how it may be
kept down, 185, why it followeth upon blows and
bruises, ib.

Swelling of grains upon boiling, i. 184, the cause of the
different swelling of them, ib.

Swimming of bodies, whence, i. 172, 174.
Swines' dung dulcorateth fruit, whence, i. 136.
Swinging of bottles, the use of it, i. 119.

Switzers, why they last well notwithstanding the diversity
of religion, i. 27 İ.

Switzers, their success over Burgundy and France, i. 467.
Swoonings, i. 193.

Swords, two among christians, i. 263, the sword of Ma-
homet a third to propagate religion by sanguinary per-
secutions, 263. Sword in the people's hand tends to the
subversion of government, ib.

Sylla raised Pompey, i. 282, three things remarkable in
him, 671.

"Sylva sylvarum," the intention of it, i. 96, its contents,
ib. 142.

Sympathies are of two sorts only, i. 439.

Sympathy and antipathy, i. 96, 97. Sympathy and antipa-
thy of plants, 137, et seq. Sympathy, wherein it consists,
191. Sympathy secret, between persons near in blood,
199, between great friends in absence, ib. Sympathy
betwixt multitudes, ib. Sympathy in individuals, 200.
Synods blamed, i. 347.

T

TACITUS, his arts of state and life, i. 264. Vide 40, 41. His
character of Seneca, 290, his saying of Mucianus, 303.
Talbot, Sir William, a charge against him for appealing to
the doctrine of the church of Rome about deposing and

excommunicating kings, i. 686, the occasion of his of
fence, 687, the particulars of the charge against him,
687, 688. his declaration subscribed by himself concern-
ing the doctrine of Suarez, 688.
Tanfield, Laurence, made chief baron of the exchequer, ii.
143.

Tangible bodies of themselves cold, i. 93, even spirit of
wine and chemical oils cold to the touch, ib. differences
of tangible parts in bodies, received some light from the
chemists, 97.

Tar, an antidote against the plague, i. 192.
Taste, alteration of it in bodily disorders, i. 159.
Taxes, people overlaid with them never martial, i. 285,
laid by consent best, ib. the several sorts of taxes in
England, 386.

Taxes, how to be managed after the union of England and
Scotland, i. 459, concerning the number of them in queen
Elizabeth's time, 386.

Tears of trees, i. 151, 152.

Teeth, scales growing on them, i. 96, great intercourse be-
tween them and the instrument of hearing, 104. Teeth,
159, 168, their tenderness, 104. Teeth set on edge by
harsh sounds, the cause, 162, sinews in them, the cause
of their pain, not the marrow, 168, their several kinds,
ib. their difference in several creatures, ib. horned beasts
have no upper teeth, ib. Tooth, the mark of horses' age,
ib. at what age they come forth in men, ib. what things
hurt them, 169, chiefest considerations about the teeth,
ib. restitution of teeth in age, ib. whether it may be done
or no, ib.

Telesius, the reviver of Parmenides, and the best of the
novelists, i. 93.

Temperance the proper virtue of prosperity, i. 264.
Tempests, their productions, i. 177.

Temple, Mr. William, some account of him, ii. 30.
Tenants particular, their power in estates, i. 618, of seigni-
ories, shall not have aid, and why, 618, in dower, much
favoured by our laws, 606, upon the borders of Scotland,
how to be dealt with after the union, 454.

Themistocles reprimands an ambassador, 321.

325.

Vide 323,
Themistocles compares speech to cloth of Arras spread
abroad, i. 283, his arrogant commendations of himself,
284, drove Xerxes out of Greece by a report, 309.
Theodosius promised nothing if it was unjust, i. 321.
Thistle-down, flying in the air, foreshoweth wind, i. 178.
Thomas Aquinas, his definition of a just cause of war,
i. 535.

Thomas, Valentine, accuses the king of Scots, ii. 154
note +.

Thorns, plants that have them, i. 145.

Thorpe, observations on his case, ii. 232.

Thoughts and conjectures on the different objects that
merit man's attention, i. 232.

Thucydides, what he says of the war of Peloponnesus,
i. 534.

Thunder, i. 176. Thunders, whether greatest in the full
of the moon, 189.

Thwaites, Sir Thomas, conspires in favour of Perkin, i. 763.
Thynne, Sir Thomas, i. 198.

Tiberius died in an act of dissimulation, i. 262 which was
the practice of his life, 264, uses the ambition of Macro
to pull down Sejanus, 291.

Ticinum in Italy, a remarkable church there, i. 174.
Timber, i. 155, the several natures thereof. ib. that more
tough which grows in moist ground, ib. the several uses
according to the nature of the trees, ib.

Timber of a house fallen by tempest, to whom belonging,
i. 619.

Timber tree, when standing, is part of the inheritance, as
well as the soil itself, this point argued, i. 617, the same
more fully discussed, ib. so it is also when severed, ib.
several authorities produced to show that the property
of them belongs to the lessee. 619, these authorities de-
bated and confuted, ib. &c. the felling thereof supposed
to be ad exhæredationem, 617, cases wherein the lessee
may fell, 619, the statute of Gloucester relating to them
explained, 620.

Tensile bodies, i. 181, difference between fibrous and Time and heat in many instances work the like effects, i.
viscous, ib.

Tensure, i. 83.

Tenure of land, what is meant thereby, i. 577, in capite,
what it is, 578, of the king, may take more hurt by a
resolution in law, than by many suppressions and con-
cealments, 623, 624, the great favour of our law towards
those in capite, 624, are divided into two kinds, ib. by
knight's service more eminent than by socage, with the
reasons of it, ib. in capite is the most worthy of all, ib.
by knight's service in capite, cannot be aliened without
icence from the king, ib. the penalty of alienation, ib.
wheresoever the law createth the tenure of the king, it
always raiseth a tenure in capite, 625, 626, where there
is any uncertainty of tenure by common law, it shall be
tenure in capite, 625, where the tenure reserved is re-
pugnant to law, or impossible, it is the same, ib, so also
where a tenure once created is afterwards extinct, ib.
several instances of what are tenures in capite, ib. of a
rent or seigniory when judged in esse, 626, in what cases
they are revived, 627, a speech to desire liberty of the
king to compound for them, 484, they have regard to
considerations of honour, conscience, and profit, ib. be-
long to the prerogative by ancient common law, ib. the
nature of them much altered, 485, cases of wardship,
where there was nothing of them, ib. See Case, Lowe's
Case.

Tenures of several kinds, i. 579.
Terebration of trees, i. 136.
Terentius, a Roman knight, his behaviour and saying when
he was accused of intimacy with Sejanus, ii. 61 note *.
Terminor, the nature of his estate. i. 617, inferences re-
lating to the inheritance of timber trees drawn from
thence, ib.

Terra Lemnia, i. 162.

Terra sigillata communis, i. 162.

Thales, his monopoly of olives, i. 157, his stricture upon
marriage, 315.

Theft, a property gained that way, how it may sometimes
bar the right of the owner, i. 586, and robberies, how to
be punished, 676.

117, 185, accelerating of it in works of nature of great
importance, 119.

Time, the measure of business, as money is of wares, i. 20,
prefaces, excuses, &c. great wasters of time, 281, how
time passes in sickness or pain, 256.
Timoleon's fortune, i. 294.

Timotheus, his folly and vanity, i. 294.
Tin, incorporation of with other metals, i. 243.
Tincture of metals, i. 245.
Tipping, Sir George, ii. 202.

Tirrel, Sir James, his account how he murdered the king
and duke, i. 763, soon after beheaded in the Tower-yard
for other matters of treason, 787.
Titillation, i. 170, the cause of it, ib. induceth laughing, ib.
of the nostrils, causeth sneezing, ib.
Titus, eldest son of Vespasian, i. 321, dissuades the tribute
upon urine, 323.

Toadstool, its dimension and place of growth, i. 144.
Tobacco relieves weariness. i. 166, 167. English tobacco,
how it may be mended, 184, comforteth the spirits and
discharges weariness, 193.

Tones, why less apt to procure sleep than sounds, i. 99.
Tongue, showeth inward diseases, i. 159.
Torpedo marina, i. 200.

Tortosa, cardinal, preceptor to Charles V. made pope, i.
750, son of a dutch brewer, ib.

Tough bodies, i. 179. Toughness, its cause, 181.
Tournaments not lawful at any time without the king's
licence, i. 685.

Tourne, sheriff's court so called, and why, i. 651, jurisdic-
tion of it, ib.

Towerson, Mr. merchant of London, brother to captain
Gabriel Towerson, one of the English put to death at
Amboyna, ii. 179 note +.

Trade at home layeth a foundation of foreign trade, i.
517, encouraging tillage may spare for transportation, ib.
Traffic was very flourishing under queen Elizabeth, i.
386.

Trajan, what was said of him by Tacitus, i. 483.
Tramontanes not relished in Italy, i. 755.

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what cases lawful or not so, ib.
Truth, how it becomes corrupted, i. 346.

Transmission of water through earth, it is material whether | Trust, what it is defined to be, i. 599, special trust, in
it riseth or falleth, i. 83.
Transmission of immateriate virtues, whether any, i. 190.
Transmission of spirits, i. 190, et seq. eight kinds of trans-
missions of spirits; as of the airy parts of bodies, 191, of
spiritual species, ib. of spirits causing attraction, ib. of
spirits working by the primitive nature of matter, ib. of
the spirits of the mind of man, ib. of the influences of the
heavenly bodies, ib. in operations of sympathy, ib. by
sympathy of individuals, 192.

Transmutation of air into water, i. 85. Transmutation of
metals, 180. Transmutation of plants, 142, six rules for
the effecting it, 143, farther inquisitions into it, 246.
Traske, John, prosecuted in the star-chamber, ii. 216
note +.

Treason, several cases wherein a man becomes guilty of it,
i. 662, the punishment, the method of trial, and other
proceedings relating thereto, 643. See Petty treason
and Misprision.

Trebisond, honey made there from the box tree, that makes
men mad, i. 182.

Trees planted warm, i. 131, housing of them, 132, heap of
flint laid at the bottom helpeth their growth, 133, shak-
ing hurteth a tree at first setting, afterwards not, ib.
cutting away suckers helpeth them, ib. how to plant a
tree that may grow fair in one year, ib. helped by boring
a hole through the heart of the stock, ib. and 135, by
slitting the roots, 133, by spreading them upon the wall,
ib. by plucking off some leaves, 134, by digging yearly
about the roots, ib. by applying new mould, ib. by re-
moving to better earth, ib. by slicing their bark, ib. in
some kinds by shade, ib. by setting the kernels or stones
in a squill growing, 135, helped by pulling off some
blossoms, ib. by several applications to the roots, 135,
136, by letting them blood, 136, grow best fenced from
sun and wind, 137, causes of their barrenness, ib. Tree
blown up by the roots and replaced proved fruitful, 134,
trial of watering a tree with warm water, 135. Trees
that grow best without grafting, ib. fruit-tree grafted
upon a moister stock will grow larger, ib. Trees re-
moved, to be coasted as before, 136, lower boughs bring
the bigger fruit, 134, 153. Trees apparelled with flow-
ers, 140, forming of trees into several shapes, 141, trans-
mutation of trees and plants, 142, six designations
thereof, 143. Trees in coppice-woods grow more tall
and straight, whence, ib. Trees full of heat grow tall,
why, ib. how to dwarf trees, ib. Trees that are winders,
ib. Trees moister yield less moss, why, 144. Trees in
clay ground apt to gather moss, whence, ib. Trees
hide-bound bring forth moss, ib. Trees that ripen
latest blossom earliest, 147. Trees that last longest,
namely, the largest of body, such as bring mast or nuts,
such as bring forth leaves late, and shed them late, such
as are often cut, 147. Trees with scattered boughs,
148, with upright boughs, whence, ib. Tree, Indian,
with leaves of great largeness, and fruit without stalks,
151. Tree in Persia nourished with salt water, ib.
Trees commonly fruitful but each other year, why. 153.
Trees bearing best on the lower boughs, others on the
higher boughs, whence, ib. some bear best when they
are old, others when they are young, whence, ib. soils
and places peculiar to them, 155.

Trees, when young belong to the lessee, when full grown
to the lessor, and when set to the lessee again, with the
reasons of it, i. 618, it is a fault to say the lessee has a
property in the trees, ib. when severed by grant they❘
subsist as a chattel divided, 617, that are wind-falls, to
whom they belong, 619.

Trefoil swelleth against rain, i. 178..
Trembling, whence, i. 163.

Trembling in shadows whence, i. 187.
Trent, council of, i. 274.

Trepidation of water hath an affinity with the letter L, i.
106. Trepidation on the sight of offensive objects, 174.
Tresham, Sir Lewis, his suit in chancery recommended by
the earl of Buckingham, ii. 188.
Trials for wholesome airs, i. 172.

Trials, the care of our laws observable in them, i. 606.
Triumvirate of kings, i. 276.

Trochisks of vipers much magnified, i. 159, 198.

Truths, theological, philosophical, and political, i. 261,
262. Truth and falsehood will not incorporate, but re-
semble Nebuchadnezzar's image, 263, the concealment
of it from princes, sometimes as bad as treachery, 509.
Tuft of moss in a brier-bush, i. 145.
Turkey, rice much fed upon in, i. 90. Turkish turban,
i. 203.

Turks great sitters, i. 167, to them bathing good, ib. em-
poison the water, 192, make an expedition into Persia,
325, despise marriage, 266. Turks cruel to men and
compassionate to beasts, 270, warlike, 286, why always
a just cause of war against them, 534, their rise from
poverty, 467, king of Spain pretends war against them,
389.

Twelve tables of Rome, i. 305.

Twice a year fruits, i. 147.

Tyndall, Sir John, killed by John Bertram, ii. 184 note *.
Tyranny over men's understandings and beliefs, much af-
fected, i. 201.

Tyrant, Suarez's distinction of tyrant in title, and in regi-
ment, i. 688.

Tyrant in title, i. 731, princes think it most politic to have
a tyrant reign in their neighbourhood, 743.
Tyrone, his reports to several persons after his conference
with Essex, about his design upon England, i. 411, was
to be made viceroy of Ireland, ib.

Tythes, how they came to be tried for in ecclesiastical
courts, i. 355, a great cause of them concerning the
benefices in London, ii. 201.

V and U.

VAGABONDS and gamesters coupled together in the statutes,
i. 788.

Vain-glory, essential to soldiers and commanders, i. 303.
Valour of several kinds, i. 542.

Value, what the law intends by it, i. 631.
Vanlore, Peter, fined in the star-chamber, ii. 216.
Vapour of charcoal, or of sea-coal, or of a room new
plastered, mortal, i. 192.

Vapours metalline very noxious, i. 192.
Vapours which taken outwardly would condense the spirits,
i. 193.

Vatican, i. 297.

Vaughan, lord, ii. 250.

Vegetables rotting upon the ground a good compost, i. 149,
several instances thereof, ib.
Venomous quality of man's flesh, i. 85.
Venous bodies, i. 180.

Venus, i. 159, in excess dimmeth the sight, ib. the acts of
it, 160, men more inclined in winter, women in summer, ib.
Verdict false, remediable, i. 769.

Vere, Sir Francis, ascribeth the victory at the battle of
Newport to the English, i. 540.
Vere, Sir Horace, i. 540.

Verge, a charge at the sessions thereof, i. 673, what is
meant thereby, ib. some points chiefly recommended to
be inquired into by the jury thereof, ib. jurisdiction of
this court, 674.

Verjuice. i. 94, 189.

Vermin frighted with the head of a wolf, i. 198.
Vernon, lady, ii. 205.

Verunsel, president of Flanders, i. 773.
Vespasian reprimands his son Domitian, i. 321.
Vespasian defeats a corrupt suitor, i. 322, his question to
Apollonius, ib. sets a tribute upon urine, 323, died with
a jest, 262, changed for the better by power, 269.
Vestimentum, the canonists' interpretation thereof, i. 555.
Vesuvius, the countries about it'enriched by the eruptions,
i. 149, 173.

Vices, if profitable, the virtuous man the sinner, i. 133.
Vicissitude of wet and dry, hot and cold, hasten putrefac-
tion, i. 122.

Vicissitude of things, i. 306, in earth and in the heavens, ib.
in religion, 307, in wars, ib. in weapons of war, ib.
Villenage, what sort of tenure it is, i. 579.

Villiers, Sir George, afterwards duke of Buckingham, i.

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