INDEX. 



395 



iii. 15, 16 ; life in Biographia Britan 

 nia, iii. 7 ; notice of his Essays by 

 Rowley, iii. 16. 



Bacon, Sir Nicholas, answer to Queen 

 Elizabeth respecting the monopoly 

 licenses, i. 350 ; the littleness of his 

 house, i. 380 ; abused in a libel in 

 1592, v. 461 ; his character, v. 461. 



Bacon, Friar, his head, vi. 263 ; tra 

 dition about, iv. 402. 



Bagg s case, Sir E. Coke s answer to 

 the objections in, vii. 376. 



Bagge s case, vii. 458. 



Balaam s Ass, author discovered, vii. 

 389. 



Balance of Europe kept by Henry VIII. 

 Francis I. and Charles V. v. 249. 



Ballard, his confession showed that all 

 priests were acquainted with the in 

 tended invasion of England, v. 432. 



Baltimore, in Ireland, yielded by the 

 Spaniards by the treaty of Kinsale, 

 v. 275. 



Banishment, vii. 113. 



Bankrupt, commission of, when grant 

 ed, vii. 294. 



Baptism, vii. 82. 



Barbary, practice of getting fresh water 

 in, iv. 1. 



Bark, as to the removal of from trees, 

 iv. 301. 



Baikley, Sir Richard, Earl of Essex s 

 keeper, vi. 320. 



Barley, experiments touching, iv. 298. 



Baronius, Cardinal, annals of, vii. 399. 



Barrels, sounds produced on full or 

 empty, iv. 104. 



Barrow, a Brownist, his conduct, v. 411. 



Barton, Eliz., named the maid of Kent, 

 her treason against Henry VI 11. 

 vi. 461. 



Base counsellors, represented by Tel- 

 lus, iii. 6. 



Basilisk killeth by aspect, iv. 499. 



Bass and treble strings, sounds of, iv. 

 98, 100, 102, 



Bates, his plea on imports and exports, 

 vi. 46. 



Bath, or fomentation, vii. 237 ; mineral, 

 ii. 167. 



Bathing, experiment touching, iv. 391 ; 

 benefits and effects of, iv. 386 ; 

 among the Romans, iv. 391. 



Beads, differenj; sorts of, iv. 518. 



Bears grow fat by sleep, iv. 35. 



Beauty, ii. 168 ; helps towards, iv. 16 ; 

 of Elizabeth, vii. 165 ; Essay on, 

 i. 144. 



Beaver, admonition to imitate the, vii. 

 303. 



Beerehaven yielded by the Spaniards 

 at the treaty of Kinsale, v. 275. 



Bees, instinct of, iv. 367 ; humming 

 of, what, iv. 99 ; longevity of, iv. 366. 



Behaviour, i. 171. 



Belief, of Bacon, vii. 21 ; what work- 

 eth, iv. 508 ; and worship, wants of, 

 vii. 30. 



Believing Christian , character of , vii . 2 1 . 



Bell metal, vii. 191, 202. 



Bells, motion of pressure upon, iv. 6 ; 

 chiming of, iv. 96. 



Beneficence of Elizabeth, vii. 153. 



Benefices, value of, how regulated, 

 vii. 405. 



Bettenham, Mr. opinion of riches, i.404. 



Bertram, a murderer and suicide, vii. 

 356. 



Bias, his advice to dissolute mariners 

 praying in a tempest, i. 357 ; a pre 

 cept of his, i. 388, 399 ; his precept, 

 ii. 289. 



Bill of review, vii. 273, 274. 



Bills, if too long, counsel to be fined 

 for passing, vii. 285 ; for what coun 

 sel punishable, vii. 285. 



Biography, iii. 44. 



Bion, saying of his, i. 357, 401. 



Birch s translation of Bacon s praise of 

 Prince Henry, iii. 491. 



Bird-witted children ought to be taught 

 mathematics, ii. 217. 



Birds, time of growth of, iv, 401 ; 

 quickness of motion in, iv. 354 ; imi 

 tate sounds, iv. 124 ; the nature of, 

 iv. 399 ; of paradise, feetless, vi. 15. 



Birth, acceleration of, iv. 173. 



Bishop by deputy, vii. 74. 



Bishop of Winchester, letter to, iii. 21. 



Bishop Andrews, vii. 112. 



Bishops, government of, vii. 70 ; err 



in resisting reform, vii. 49 ; virtues 



of, vii. 38 ; translation of, vii. 320 ; 



government, sole error of, vii. 71. 



Blackwater, defeat of the English by 



the Irish rebels at, v. 274. 

 Bladder and water, weight of, vii. 218. 

 Blood, stanching of, iv. 43 ; insects 

 without, iv. 365 ; saltness of, iv. 297 ; 

 commixture of, vii. 224. 

 Blows and bruises, experiments on, 



iv. 467. 



Blunt, Sir C. instigator of treasons, 

 vi. 315 ; wounded in an encounter 

 between Sir J. Luson and the Earl of 

 Essex, vi. 340 ; confession of, vi . 360 ; 

 first confession of, vi. 378 ; confes 

 sion of, vi. 391 ; speech of, at his 

 death, vi. 393 ; asks forgiveness of 

 Raleigh, vi. 394. 



