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Proctor, Stephen, certificate touching his projects re-
lating to the penal laws, ii. 236.
Profit, contempt of, ii. 446.

Professions, universities dedicated to, i. 185; supplied
from philosophy and universality, i. 185.
Prometheus, or the state of man, i. 305.
Promotion of officers, ii. 383.

Proofs, human, of advantage of learning, i. 302.
Properties, secret, ii. 136.

Prophecies, punishable by imprisonment, ii. 292; es-
say on, i. 43.

Propinquity, sympathy in, ii. 134.

Proserpina, or the ethereal spirit of the earth, i. 311;
or spirit, i. 310; fable of, quoted, ii. 23.
Prosperity, minds puffed up by, soonest dejected by
adversity, ii. 488.

Proteus, or matter, i. 297.

Proud men, all full of delays, ii. 195.
Provision for clergy, ii. 429.

Providences, judgments, &c., history of, i. 192.
Psalms, translation of, ii. 431.

Public good, i. 220.

Pulp of fish more nourishing than their flesh, ii. 14.
Purgative astringents, ii. 468.

Purge for opening the liver, ii. 466.
Purging, preparations before, ii. 18.

Purging medicines, how they lose their virtue, ii. 9;
experiment on, ii. 13.

Purveyors, speech touching, ii. 266; abuses of, ii. 267.
Purveyance due to the king, ii. 388.
Purification, of church, ii. 420.
Pursuit, objects of, i. 227.
Puteoli, court of Vulcan, ii. 106.

Putrefaction, most contagious before maturity, i. 175;
generation by, ii. 123; of water, ii. 109; touching
the causes of, ii. 113; of bodies, prohibition of, ii.
104; creatures bred of, ii. 92; preventing of, ii. 51;
inducing and accelerating of, ii. 50.

Pygmalion's frenzy an emblem of vain learning, i. 170.
Pythagoras, i. 198; a looker on, i. 222; philosophy
of, ii. 124; his parable, i. 34; his speech to Cicero,
i. 121.

Pyrrhus's teeth, undivided, ii. 101.

Lord C. Bacon, to Marquis of Buckingham, ii. 525;
demeanour and carriage of, ii. 525; letter to the
king touching proceedings against, ii. 524; when
beheaded, ii. 524; his saying that the Spanish Ar
mada was driven away with squibs, ii. 200, 209.
Rain, scarcity of, in Egypt, ii. 103.

Rains and dews, how produced, ii. 10, 20.
Rainbow, sweetness of odour from the, ii. 112.
Rainsford, Sir John, his prayer to Queen Elizabeth to
set free the four evangelists, with the queen's an-
swer, i. 107.

Ramus, his rules, i. 215.

Ratcliffe, Richard, his attainder, i. 318.

Raveline, valour of the English at the, ii. 212.
Rawley's life of Bacon, notice of his great fame abroad,
i. 275.

Rawley's dedication of New Atlantis, i. 255.
Reading makes a full man, i. 55.

Reading on the statute of uses, iii. 295.

Reason, philosophy relates to the, i. 187; its limits, i.
239; the key of arts, i. 207; governs the imagina-
tion, i. 206; preserved against melancholy by wine,
ii. 466.

Rebellion, her majesty's directions thereupon judicial
and sound, ii. 562; of Lord Lovel and the two Staf-
fords, i. 319.

Rebellions during Queen Elizabeth in England and
Ireland, ii. 285.

Receipts and finances, one of the internal points of
separation with Scotland, ii. 146; considerations
touching them, ii. 148.

Receipts, for cooking capons, ii. 15; medical, of Lord
Bacon, ii. 469.

Recipes for preserving health, ii. 468.
Recognisance, as to filing, ii. 484.
Recreation, games of, i. 205.
Recusants, harbouring, punishable, ii. 290.
Redargution, i. 210.

Reduction of metals, modes of, ii. 462.
Reference to masters, ii. 482.
Refining ore from dross, ii. 460.

Reform, ii. 415, 417; necessity for, ii. 421; of church,
ii. 421; bishops err in resisting, ii. 417.

Pyrrhus's answer to the congratulations for his victory Reformer, true spirit of, ii. 421.
over the Romans, i. 118.

QUARRIES, query as to, ii. 463; experiment touching,
ii. 116.

Queen Elizabeth, incensed at the book of History of
Henry IV. dedicated to Essex, ii. 337; report of
treasons meditated by Doctor Lopez against, ii. 216;
first copy of a discourse touching the safety of her
person, ii. 214; first fragments of a discourse touch-
ing intelligence and the safety of the queen's person,
ii. 214; her service in Ireland, considerations touch-
ing, ii. 188; her message to the Earl of Essex,
ii. 357.

Queen of Bohemia, letter to, i. 276.

Questions, legal, for the judges in Somerset's case, ii.

516; touching minerals, ii. 458; of Meverel, ii. 458;
on religious war, 444.

Quicksilver, nature and force of, ii. 12; its property of
mixing with metals, ii. 459; metals swim upon,
ii. 104.

Quiescence, seeming, i. 411.

Quinces, how to keep them long, ii. 83.

RABELAIS's saying after receiving extreme unction,
i. 110.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, anecdotes of, apophthegm respect-
ing, i. 107, 109, 122, 123; letter concerning, from

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Reformation of fees, ii. 278; of abuses, ii. 267.
Rege inconsulto, case of, ii. 513; writs of, ii. 514.
Regimen of health, essay on, i. 39; of the body, i. 202.
Registry of doubts, i. 200; uses of, i. 200.
Register to keep copies of all orders, ii. 481.
Registers, directions to, in drawing up decrees, ii. 482;
to be sworn, ii. 481.

Rejection of natures from the form of heat, iii. 384.
Religion, unity in, essay of, i. 12; pure religion, is to
visit orphans and widows, i. 69; why religion should
protect knowledge, i. 83; many stops in its state to
the course of invention, i. 99; the most sovereign
medicine to alter the will, i. 105; impediment of the
heathen and superstition to knowledge, i. 95; of
the Turkish, i. 95; alteration of, by Elizabeth, ii.
245; advice upon, by whom, ii. 377; anabaptist, ii.
314; propagation of the Mohammedan, ii. 314; de-
fensive wars for, are just, ii. 202; propositions for a
college for controversies in, ii. 241; its three dech-
nations, i. 244; revealed, i. 239; advantage of phi-
losophy to, i. 176; necessary for the recovery of the
hearts of the Irish people, ii. 189; toleration recom-
mended, ii. 189; opinion that time will facilitate re-
formation of, in Ireland, ii. 191; of Turks, ii. 438;
encouragement of, ii. 476.

Religion and philosophy prejudiced by being commixed
together, i. 195.

Religious censure, moralists', ii. 418.
Religious controversy, errors in, ii. 414; style of,
ii. 413.

Religious war, questions in, ii. 444.

Religious sects, effects of extirpating by violence set
forth in the fable of Diomedes, i. 300.
Remembrances of the king's declaration touching Lord
Coke, ii. 500; for the king, before his going into
Scotland, ii. 537.

Remedies against the sirens, i. 313.
Remains, physiological, ii. 455.

Report of the Spanish grievances, ii. 193; of Lopez's
treason, ii. 194; order for confirmed, ii. 482.
Reports, Coke's faults in, not his own, ii. 499; letter
to the king touching a retractation by Lord Coke of
some parts of his, ii. 498.

Reporters, advice to appoint sound lawyers to be, ii.
232.

Reputation, essay on honour and, i. 57.

Requests, against the court of, ii. 514.
Residence of clergy, examination of, ii. 428.
Residents, non, evils of, ii. 428.

Restless nature of things in themselves, ii. 108.
Respects, essay on, and ceremonies, i. 56.
Restitution, i. 301; letter touching, ii. 462.
Restorative drink, on, ii. 467.

Retreats, honourable, no ways inferior to brave charges,
ii. 208.

Retrenchment of delays in equity, ii. 471.
Revealed religion, i. 239.

Revenge, memorable defence of the, under Sir Richard
Greenvil, when attacked by the Spanish fleet, ii.
210; essay of, i. 14.

Revenue, grants of, ii. 473.

Revenues of the crown must be preserved, ii. 388.
Revolt, the laws as to, ii. 364.

Revocation of uses, case of, iii. 280.

Reward, amplitude of, encourages labour, i. 184.

Rome, practice of the church of, i. 58; flourished most
under learned governors, i. 165; the perfection of
government of, and learning contemporaneous, i. 166.
Roman emperors' titles, ii. 266.
Roman law of homicide, ii. 297.
Roman unguent, receipt for, ii. 469.
Roman prætors, their conduct, ii. 471.
Romans, the most open of any state to receive strangers
into their body, i. 37; granted the jus civitatis to
families, cities, and sometimes nations, i. 37; always
foremost to assist their confederates, i. 38; the only
states that were good commixtures, ii. 140; liberal
of their naturalizations, ii. 140; which Machiavel
judged to be the cause of the growth of their em-
pire, ii. 140; their four degrees of freedom and na-
turalization, ii. 141, 170; their union with the La-
tins, ii. 155; after the social war their naturalization
of the Latins, ii. 155; naturalization of the Latins
and the Gauls, and the reason for it, ii. 224; their
empire received no diminution in territory until
Jovinianus, ii. 223; shortly afterwards it became a
carcass for the birds of prey of the world, ii. 223;
four of their kings lawgivers, ii. 234.

Roory, Owny Mac, Chief of the Omoores in Leinster,
ii. 351.

Roots, more nourishing than leaves, ii. 14; of trees, ii.
86; three cubits deep, ii. 88.

Roses, preparation of artificial for smell, ii. 466.
Rose-leaves, preserving of colour and smell of, ii. 55.
Rose-water, virtue of, ii. 127.

Rubies, rock, are the exudations of stone, ii. 7.
Rules for a chancellor, ii. 471.

Rules and maxims of the common laws, iii. 219.
Rust, turning metals to, ii. 460, 461.
Rustics, why Pan the god of, i. 291.

Rutland, examination of Roger, Earl of, ii. 371.

SABBATH, the, i. 175.

Rhetoric, i. 215; too early taught in universities, i. Sabines, their mixture with the Romans, ii. 140.
186; tropes of, i. 180; imaginative reason the sub-Sabinian, the successor of Gregory, persecuted his
ject of, i. 207; compared by Plato to cookery, i. memory for his injustice to heathen antiquity, i.
216; its sophisms, i. 217.

Rheum, breakfast a preservative against, ii. 466.
Rhubarb, its property, ii. 14; contrary operations of,
ii. 9.

Richard III., enormities committed by, i. 314.
Richardson's, Mr. Serjeant, excuse for the place of
speaker not accepted by the king, ii. 284; his rea-
sons for refusing the excuse, ii. 284.

Riches, essay on, i. 42; the poet's saying of, i. 73;
Mr. Bettenham's opinion of, i. 121; when treasure
adds greatness to a state, ii. 226; excess of, makes
men slothful and effeminate, ii. 227; greatness too
often ascribed to, ii. 222, 226; the great monarchies
had their foundations in poverty, as Persia, Sparta,
Macedonia, Rome, Turkey, ii. 157, 226.
Rice should be cultivated in new plantations, i. 41.
Right side, experiment touching the, ii. 121.
Rimenant, repulse of the Spaniards under Don John
of Austria, by the states-general, chiefly by the
English and Scotch troops under Colonels Norris
and Stuart, ii. 207.

Riot at Essex House, ii. 357.

Ripening of drink before time, ii. 89.

Rivers, navigable, great help to trade, ii. 387.

Robe of mercy, the white, ii. 319.

98.

Sacrifice. No sacrifice without salt, a positive precept
of the old law, ii. 239; its moral, ii. 239.
Saffron, the preparing of, ii. 466; a few grains will
tincture a tun of water, i. 89.

Saffron flowers, distilled, good for, ii. 128.
Saggi Morali, the Italian title of the essays, i. 5.
Salamander, touching the, ii. 118.
Salique law, saying respecting, i. 117.
Salisbury, Owen, notorious robber, ii. 336.
Sal, as to its separation from metal, ii. 460.
Salt, history of, iii. 466.

Salt of lead, or sulphur, mixing of, ii. 460.
Salt water, experiments on, ii. 7; dulcoration of, ii.

121.

Samuel sought David in the field, i. 208.
Sanctuary, the privileges of, i. 326.
Sand, of the nature of glass, ii. 105; better than ea th
for straining water, ii. 7; liquor leaveth its saltness
if strained through, ii. 7; differences between earth
and, ii. 7.

Sandys, Lord William, confession of, ii. 371; his opi-
nion of Sapientia Veterum, i. 272.

San, Josepho, invades Ireland with Spanish forces in
1580, ii. 260.

Roberts, Jack, his answer to his tailor, i. 109; his Sanquhar, Lord, charge against, on his arraignment, ii.
saying respecting a marriage, i. 114.

Rock rubies, the exudation of stone, ii. 7.

311.
Sap of trees, ii. 87.

Tenison, i. 272.

Rolls, decrees drawn at the, ii. 482; examination of Sapientia Veterum, opinions upon, by Sandys and
court, ii. 484.

Sarah's laughter an image of natural reason, i. 239.
Satiety, meats that induce, ii. 46.
Saturn, i. 296; ii. 579.

Savil's, Mr., opinion respecting poets, i. 111.

Savil, Sir Henry, letter to, i. 104; answer to Coranus,

i. 117.

Savoy, state of during the time of Queen Elizabeth,
ii. 248.

Savages, the proper conduct towards them in planta-
tions, i. 41.

Saviour's (our) first show of his power, i. 176.
Scale, nature of notes of, ii. 25.

Scaling ladder of the intellect, iii. 519.

Scaliger's sixth sense, ii. 91.

Scammony, strong medicine, ii. 9.

Scandal, charge against Sir J. Wentworth for, ii.
307.

Scarlet, touching the dye of, ii. 122.

Scent of dogs almost a sense by itself, ii. 92.
Schoolmen. Cymini sectores, 55; the origin of
their cobwebs, i. 70; incorporated Aristotle's philo-
sophy into the Christian religion, i. 97; saying
of them by the bishops at the council at Trent, i.

122.

Schools, too many grammar, ii. 241.

Science, authors in, ought to be consuls, and not
dictators, i. 172; error of over-early reducing into
methods and arts, i. 173; badges of false, i. 170;
the strength of, is in the union of its parts, i.

171.

Sciences, want of invention in professors of, i. 174;
errors in the formation of, i. 173; confederacy of,
with the imagination, i. 172; imaginary, i. 199;
growth of, checked by dedication of colleges to pro-
fessions, i. 185.

Sciences and arts, invention in, deficient, i. 207.
Scientific efforts, on the combination and succession
of, ii. 557.

Scipio Africanus, Livy's saying of him, i. 48,
Scire facias, when awarded, ii. 484.

Scotchmen, the statute for voiding them out of Eng-
land, i. 343; speech on the naturalization of, ii.

150.

Scotch skinck, how made, ii. 14.
Scotland, its state during Queen Elizabeth, ii. 248;
as to union with, ii. 383; truce with, i. 326; Perkin
Warbeck's reception in, i. 356; king of, ravages
Northumberland, i. 358; preparations for a war
with, i. 361; peace with, i. 364; suggestion of
courts for the borders of, ii. 143; the points wherein
the nations were united, ii. 143; external points
of separation with, ii. 144; internal points of sepa-
ration with, ii. 146; commissioner's certificate of
union with, ii. 149; argument respecting the post-
nati of, ii. 166; discourse of the happy union with,
ii. 138; considerations touching the union of Eng-
land and, ii. 143.

Scotland and England, union of, ii. 452, 454.
Scotus, his answer to Charles the Bald, i. 114.
Scribonianus, answer of his freedman to the freedman
of Claudius, i. 112.

Scripture, no deficiency in, i. 244; interpretation of,
methodical and solute, i. 241; interpretation of, i.

241.

Scriptures exhort us to study the omnipotency of
God, i. 176; meditations on, i. 71; do not restrain
science, i. 82, 98; honour the name of the invent-
ors of music and works in metal, i. 98.
Scylla, fable of, an image of contentious learning, i.
171; the fiction of an emblem of the present phi-
losophy, i. 87.

Scylla and Icarus, or the middle way, i. 309.
Sea, lord admiral's right of determining as to acts com-
mitted on the high, ii. 502; the commandment of
it one of the points of true greatness in a state, ii.
223; different clearness of the, ii. 90; importance
of the mastery of it, i. 38; great effects of battles
by, i. 38; ebb and flow of, iii. 523; motions of, are
only five, iii. 523; the great six-hours diurnal mo-
tion principally treated, iii. 523; motions of cur-
rents do not contradict the notion of a natural and
catholic motion of the sea, iii. 523; grand diurnal
motion not one of elevation or depression, iii. 524;
elevated all over the world at equinoxes, and at the
new and full moon, iii. 524; objections to the opi-
nion that the diurnal motion is a progressive one,
from the fact that in some places wells have simul-
taneous motions with the sea, and from the fact that
waters are raised and depressed simultaneously on
the shore of Europe and Florida, considered, iii.
524, 525; ebb and flow of, from what cause it
arises, iii. 525; whence arises the reciprocal action
of tides once in six hours, iii. 528; explanation of
the difference of tides connected with the moon's
motion, iii. 529.

Sea-fish put in fresh waters, ii. 94.
Sea-shore, wells on, ii. 7.
Sea-weed, ii. 76.

Sea or other water, colour of, ii. 120.
Seas, rolling and breaking of the, ii. 121.
Seals, one of the external points of separation with
Scotland, ii. 144.

Seasons, pestilential, ii. 57; prognostics of pestilential,
ii. 91.

Secrecy, a great means of obtaining suits, i. 54.
Secret properties, ii. 136.

Sects, the greatest vicissitude, i. 39; the two properties
of new sects to supplant authority, to give license
to pleasures, i. 61; the three plantations, i. 61; di-
versities of, i. 200; religious, effect of extirpating
by violence, i. 300.

Sedition and troubles, essay of, i. 22.

Seed, what age is best, ii. 88; producing perfect
plants without, ii. 76.

Seeds, most, leave their husks, ii. 86.

Self, essay of wisdom for a man's self, i. 31.
Self-love maketh men unprofitable like the narcissus,
i. 288.

Self-revelation, i. 234.

Selden, John, to Lord Viscount St. Alban, ii. 530.
Senators, advantages of learned, i. 177.
Seneca, i. 210, 219; ii. 435; Nero's opinion of his
style, i. 111; his saying of Cæsar, i. 115; his saying
of death, i. 12; on prosperity and adversity, i. 14;
his prophecy of America, i. 43; why his fame lasts,
i. 57; his saying on anger, i. 59; his description of
Cæsar, ii. 234; government of Rome by, i. 165.
Senna, how windiness taken from, ii. 10.
Sense, Scaliger's sixth, ii. 91; imagination imitating
the force of the, ii. 107.

Senses, reporters to the mind, i. 162; greatest of the
pleasures of the, ii. 91; spiritual species which af
fect the, ii. 128.

Sentences, collection of, out of the Mimi of Publius, 1.
127, 128; out of some of Lord Bacon's writings, L.
129-131.

Sentient bodies, harmony of, with insentient, i. 412.
Sequela chartarum, i. 100.

Sequestration, where granted, ii. 481; of specific
lands, ii. 481.

Separation of bodies by weight, ii. 8; of metals and
minerals, ii. 460.

Sepulchre, flies get durable in amber, ii. 24.
Serjeants, care in making, ii. 379.

Small, trivial things, the consideration of not below
the dignity of the human mind, ii. 559.

Sermones fideles, the title of the Latin edition of the Smell, preparations of artificial roses for, ii. 466.
Essays, i. 5.

Serpent, meditations on the wisdom of, i. 67.

Severus, his death, i. 12; his friendship for Plantianus,
i. 34; his character, i. 48; saying of him, i. 113;
Rome governed by, i. 165.

Seven wise men of Greece, anecdotes of them, i.
119.

Sewers, suit for the commission of, ii. 485.

Sexes, different in plants, ii. 81.

Sextus V., Pope, character of, ii. 212.

Sextus Quintus, a learned pope, who excelled in go-
vernment, i. 165.

Shadows, experiment touching, ii. 121.

Shame causeth blushing, ii. 96.

Shaw, specimen of his translation of the Latin edition
of the Essays, i. 6.

Shell, experiment touching the casting of, in some
creatures, ii. 98.

Shellfish, touching, ii. 120.

Sheen Palace, burning of, i. 368.

Sheep, Cato's saying of, ii. 270; nature of, ii. 102.
Sheriffs of counties, choice of, ii. 379; their attendance
upon the judges a civility, and of use, ii. 379.
Shipbuilding, art of, in England, ii. 383.
Shot, the effect of, on powder, ii. 8.
Showers, when they do good, ii. 87.
Sextus Quintus, feigned tale of, i. 112.

Sibylla, burning two, doubled the price of the other
book, i. 77.

Sickness, Dr. Johnson's opinion of the three things
material in, i. 122.

Sicknesses, winter and summer, ii. 57.

Sight, experiment touching the, ii. 119; `cause of dim-
ness in the, ii. 91.

Sigismond, Prince of Transylvania, the revolt, from
the Turks of Transylvania, Wallachia, and Molda-
via under, ii. 156.

Smells, touching sweet, ii. 112; corporeal substance
of, ii. 112; experiment touching, ii. 58.
Smith, Sir T., his accusation, ii. 341.
Snakes have venomous teeth, ii. 101.
Sneezing, experiment touching, ii. 90; Guinea pepper
causes, ii. 127.

Snow, dissolves fastest upon the sea-coast, i. 102; se-
cret warmth of, ii. 92.

Snows, effect of lying long, ii. 87.

Soccage, heir in, when he may reject the guardian ap-
pointed by law, ii. 489.

Society, aversion to, is like a savage beast, i. 33; na-
ture of, an impediment to knowledge, i. 95.
Socrates, i. 188, 208, 210; excellent, though deformed,
i. 49; full of ostentation, i. 57; his saying when
pronounced by the oracle the wisest man of Greece,
i. 120; his opinion of Heraclitus the obscure, i. 120;
Cicero's complaint against, for separating philosophy
and rhetoric, i. 201; Hippias's dispute with, on his
sordid instances, i. 188; the accusation against,
was under the basest of tyrants, i. 166; his ironical
doubting to be avoided, i. 174; Anytus's accusation
against, i. 164; Plato's comparison of, to gallipots,
i. 168.

Soils, different for different trees, ii. 87; some put
forth odorate herbs, ii. 128.

Soisson, Count, apophthegm of, i. 107.
Soldiers, the fitness of every subject to make a soldier,
a point of true greatness in a state, ii. 223.
Sole government of bishops, error of, ii. 423.
Solitude, saying respecting delight in, i. 33; magna

civitas, magna solitudo, i. 33; a miserable solitude
to want true friends, i. 33.

Solomon, said to have written a natural history, i. 82;
natural history by, ii. 74; his saying respecting
business, i. 56; his praising a just man losing his
cause, i. 58; his novelty, i. 60; his parables, iii. 222 :
his observations on the mind of man, i. 162; an
example of wisdom, i. 176; humility of, i. 176.
cop-Solomon's house, plan to erect one, as modelled in the
New Atlantis, ii. 463.

Silk, a likely commodity in new plantations, i. 41.
Silver, weight of in water, ii. 464; and tin, mixture
of, ii. 456; making, ii. 457; incorporates with
per, ii. 459; exportation of, ii. 283.

Simon, the priest, imprisoned for life, i. 325.
Simnell, personates Edward Plantagenet, i. 320; is
taken to Ireland, i. 321; his entry into Dublin as
Edward VI., i. 321; crowned in Dublin, i. 323;
taken prisoner in Newark, i. 325; made a scullion
in the king's kitchen, i. 325.

Solon, his answer as to the best laws, i. 167; answers
of his, i. 113, 118, 120, 125; his speech to Croesus,
i. 37; his laws spoken of in grammar-schools, ii.
231, 234; had a spirit of reviver, though often op-
pressed, often restored, ii. 234; his answer to Cra-
sus's showing his riches, ii. 157, 225.

Simonides's reply when asked what he thought of Solution of metals, qualities of metals should be as-
God, i. 120.

Simulation and dissimulation, essay of, i. 14.
Single life, marriage and, essay of, i. 16.
Sirens, or pleasures, i. 312.

Sister of giants, or fame, i. 294.

Situation, a fit situation necessary for the greatness of
a state, ii. 222, 228; excellent situation of Egypt,
ii. 228; of Babylon, although the sovereignties
alter, the seat of the monarch remains there, ii.
228; Alexander the Great chose Babylon for his
seat, ii. 228; of Persia, ii. 229; of Constantinople,
ii. 229.

Skin, experiments touching the casting of the, ii. 98.
Skins, Chinese paint their, ii. 99.
Skull, experiment to aching, ii. 101.

Sleep, experiment touching, ii. 100; cold preventeth,
ii. 100; great nourishment to bodies, ii. 100; some
noises help, ii. 100; nourishment of, ii. 16.
Sleep all winter, touching creatures that, ii. 123.
Sleeps, post-meridian, ii. 16.

VOL. III.-73

certained, ii. 460.

Somerset, heads of the charge against Robert, Earl of,

ii. 516; respecting Sir Francis Bacon's manage-
ment in the case of his arraignment, ii. 516; letter
to the king about, ii. 326; letter from Sir T. Over-
bury, ii. 509; charge against, ii. 321; his case,
questions for the judges in, ii. 516; questions for
the king's council in, ii. 516; his business and
charge, with his majesty's apostyles. ii. 517; his
examination, letter to the king about, ii. 331.
Somerset, Frances, Countess of, charge against, ii.
315; charge against, for poisoning Sir T. Overbu-
ry, ii. 318.

Soothsayer, Egyptian, worked upon Antonius's mind,

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its generation and the first percussion, iii. 535; |
whether its form is any local and perceptible motion
of the air, iii. 535; three experiments wherein
sound is generated contrarily to the perceptible mo-
tion of the air, iii. 536; is generated by percus-
sions, iii. 536; air required for its generation,
iii. 536; whether flame would suffice instead of air,
iii. 536; lasting of, and its perishing, iii. 537;
confusion and perturbations of sounds, iii. 537;
compared with light, why many visibles seen at
once do not confound one another, and many
sounds heard at once do, iii. 537; of the variety of
bodies yielding it, instruments producing it, iii. 540;
species of sounds, iii. 540; circumstances regulating
the pitch in various sonorous bodies, iii. 540;
multiplication, majoration, diminution, and fraction
of, iii. 540; time in which its generation, extinction,
and transmission, are effected, iii. 543; less quick-
ly transmitted than light, iii. 543; of its affinity
with the motion of the air in which it is carried,
iii. 543; aids and impediments of, stay of, iii. 538;
diversity of mediums of, iii. 538; and hearing,
history and first inquisition of, iii. 535; commu-
nion of the air percussed with the ambient air and
bodies, iii. 544; penetration of, iii. 538; whether
heard under water, iii. 538; whether it can be
generated except there be air between the percuss-
ing and percussed body, iii. 538; carriage, direc-
tion, and spreading of the area it fills, iii. 539; com-
pared with light, the former may be conveyed in
curved lines, iii. 539.

Sounds, water may be the medium of, ii. 107; passage
and interception of, ii. 37; mixture of, ii. 38; ma-
joration of, ii. 31; the motion of, ii. 36; how the
figure through which sounds pass vary the, ii. 38;
melioration of, ii. 39; spiritual and fine nature of,
ii. 44; do not make impressions on air, ii. 44; the
reflection of, ii. 40; generation and perishing of,
ii. 44; antipathy or sympathy of, ii. 43; imitation
of, ii. 39; causes of variation in, ii. 38; conserva-
tion and dilatation of, ii. 28; nullity and entity of, ii.
26; exility and damps of, ii. 29; dilatation of, ii.
29; created without air, ii. 29; carriage of, to
distance, ii. 32; quality and inequality of, ii. 32;
communication of, ii. 32; loudness or softness of,
ii. 32; go farthest in the forelines, ii. 36; the
medium of, ii. 37; lasting and perishing of, ii. 36;
in inanimate bodies, ii. 35; exterior and interior,
ii. 34; in waters, ii. 33; different sorts of, ii. 24;
strange secret in, ii. 35; and air, ii. 28; motion of,
ii. 28; cause of, ii. 8; cold weather best for, ii. 39.
Southampton, Earl of, his examination after his
arraignment, ii. 373; confession of, ii. 352.
Southern wind, healthfulness of the, ii. 106.
Sovereignty, of the king's, ii. 276.
Spalato, Archbishop, Bishop Andrews's opinion of
him, i. 121.

Spaniards, il success of their encounters with the
English, ii. 200, 207; their attacks upon England,
ii. 206; where they once get in they will seldom
be got out, an erroneous observation, ii. 200, 213;
seem wiser than they are, i. 33; do not naturalize
liberally, i. 37; proud, and therefore dilatory, ii.
195; their ill successes, ii. 200.

Spain, alliance with, no security against its ambition,
ii. 214; speech of a counsellor of state to the
king of, ii. 214; Queen Elizabeth's subjects refuge
in, and conspire against her person, ii. 215; report
on the grievances of the merchants of, ii. 193;
notes of a speech concerning a war with, ii. 199;
considerations touching a war with, ii. 201; com-

parison of the state of England and Spain in 1588,
ii. 212; king of, endeavours to alienate the King
of Scotland from Queen Elizabeth, ii. 216; solicits
an English nobleman to rise against her, ii. 216;
endeavours to take her life by violence of poison,
ii. 216.

Sparta, jealous of imparting naturalization to their
confederates, ii. 155; the evil effects of it, ii. 155;
the surprise of Thebes by Phoebidas drew a war to
the walls of, ii. 202.

Spartan boys, their fortitude, i. 105.
Spartans, of small despatch, i. 32; their dislike of
naturalization the cause of their fall, i. 37; their
state wholly framed for arms, i. 38; their forti-
tude, i. 46.

Species, visible, experiment touching, ii. 102.
Speculum regale, work touching the death of the
king, ii. 510.

Speech, length and ornament of, to be read for persua-
sion of multitudes, not for information of kings, ii.
142; must be either sweet or short, ii. 486; arts
of, university lectures on, advice to raise the pension
out of the Sutton Estate. ii. 241; in the Star
Chamber against Sir H. Yelverton, ii. 525; on
grievances of commons, ii. 272; to Sir William
Jones, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, ii. 476; on
taking place in chancery, ii. 471; to Justice Hut-
ton, ii. 478; to Sir J. Denham, on his being made
Baron of the Exchequer, ii. 477.

Speeches, hurt done to men by their, i. 24; long
speeches not fit for despatch, i. 32; differences be-
tween speech and thought, i. 34; of a man's self
ought to be but seldom, i. 40; better to deal by
speeches than letter, i. 53; the three forms of
speaking which are the style of imposture, i. 70;
notes of, on a war with Spain, ii. 199; on the natu-
ralization of the Scotch, ii. 150; on the union of
laws with Scotland, ii. 158; on the post-nati of Scot-
land, ii. 166; drawn up for the Earl of Essex, ii. 533.
Spencer, Hugh, his banishment, and the doctrine of
the homage due to the crown then expressed,
ii. 178.

Statement, legitimate mode of, jii. 534.
Sphynx, or science, i. 309.
Spiders, the poison of great, ii. 318; and flies get a
sepulchre in amber, iv. 66.

Spirit, of wine, with water, ii. 465; concerning the
mode of expansion of matter in, ii. 569; of the
earth, i. 311; of man and of nature, how differing,
i. 211.

Spirits, wine for the, ii. 466; bracelets to comfort, ii.

132; medicines that relieve the, ii. 99; transmission
of, ii. 124; emission of, in vapour, ii. 126; flight of,
upon odious objects, ii. 107; evacuation of, ii. 92;
next to God, i. 175.

Sponge and water, weight of, ii. 464.
Sponges, the growth of, ii. 94.

Spots of grease, how to take out, ii. 22.
Sprat's notice of Bacon, i. 278.
Springs, where generated, ii. 10; their powerful
qualities, ii. 462; on high hills the best, ii. 58.
Sprouting of metals, ii. 461, 462.

St. John, Mr. Oliver, charge against, for slander,
ii. 303.

St. Paul, speech of himself and his calling, i. 57; the
use of his learning, i. 176; his admonition against
vain philosophy, i. 163.

Stag, bone sometimes in the heart of a, ii. 101.
Stage, allusion to the writers for, in Queen Eliza-
beth's time, ii. 307; beholden to love, i. 18.
Stanching of blood, experiment on, ii. 18

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