INDEX. 



397 



Englefyld s case, vii. 440 ; to Lord 

 C. Bacon touchingMr. F. Foliambe s 

 case, vii. 443 ; letter to the Lord C. 

 Bacon from, touching Mr. Hansbye s 

 case, vii. 437 ; letter from, to Lord 

 C. Bacon, touching Dr. Steward, vii. 

 445 ; letter from Sir F. Bacon to the 

 king touching his majesty s defence 

 of, vii. 423 ; letter to the Earl of, 

 touching the commendams, vii. 430 ; 

 letters from, to the Lord Keeper, vii. 

 431. 



Buckingham, Duke of, dedication of 

 essays to, xli. 



Building, in the new plantations in Ire 

 land, not to be sparsim but in towns, 

 v.183 ; observations on, v.195 ; essay 

 on, i. 147 ; men build stately sooner 

 than garden finely, i. 153. 



Bullen, Queen Anne, message to the 

 king when led to execution, i. 351. 



Burchew wounds a gentleman instead 

 of Sir Christopher Hatton, v. 462. 



Burghley declares the Earl of Essex 

 traitor, which causes a diminution 

 of his troop, vi. 338. 



Burials in earth, experiment on, iv. 

 187. 



Burleigh, Lord, attacked in a libel pub 

 lished in 1592, v. 389 ; observations 

 thereon,v. 390 ; never sued any man, 

 raised any rent, or put out any te 

 nant, v. 458. 



Burning glasses, iv. 79. 



Burrage, leaf of, its virtue, iv. 9. 



Business, affected dispatch most dan 

 gerous to it, i.83 ; time is its measure, 

 i. 83 ; its three parts, i. 85 ; an ab 

 surd man better for than an overfor- 

 mal man, i. 86 ; set straight by good 

 counsel, i. 95 ; character and errors 

 of young men in, i. 143 ; of old men 

 in, i. 143 ; choice of men in, i. 161; 

 to be too full of respects is a loss in 

 business, i. 172 ; in courts it is an 

 easier matter to give satisfaction, 

 than to do the business, i. 279 ; first 

 prepared, ripened by degrees, vii. 

 310 ; like ways and why, i. 402. 



CABINET of knowledge, ii. 219. 



Cadiz taken by the Earls of Essex and 

 Nottingham v. 271. 



Cairo, plagues in, iv. 393. 



Cain, his envy towards Abel, i. 27. 



Cain and Abel, contemplation and ac 

 tion figured in, ii. 55. 



Calais, Spaniards beaten out of, v. 233, 

 280 ; kept by us 100 years after we 

 lost the rest of France, why so long 



kept and why taken, v. 318 ; overtures 

 of peace broke off upon the article of 

 the restitution of Calais, v. 444 ; in 

 the possession of Spaniards, vi. 79. 

 Calanus, the Indian, his advice to 



Alexander, v. 335. 

 Calcination of metals, vii. 206, 210. 

 Callisthenes ? praise and dispraise of the 

 Macedonian nation, v. 339, 360 ; 

 mode of becoming famous, i. 378. 

 Galore et Frigore, De, the rudiment of 

 the affirmative table in the Novum 

 Organum, i. xxxi. 



Calves of the legs how to form, iv. 16. 

 Calvin s case, Sir F. Bacon s argu 

 ment in it, v. 106. 



Callendar of things not invented, ii. 

 148 ; supposed impossibilities, ii. 

 148 ; discoveries leading to inven 

 tions, ii. 148 ; popular errors, ii. 150 ; 

 of inventions, now extant, ii. 148. 

 Canals, making profitable, vi. 435. 

 Candles, how to make them last, iv. 



185. 



Cane, the properties of, iv. 301. 

 Cannibalism, vii. 142. 

 Cannibals in the West Indies, iv. 14. 

 Capital offence to conspire the death of 

 a counsellor of state, law contrived 

 by the chancellor, iii. 225, 

 Capital offenders, how the Athenians 



punished by poison, iv. 296. 

 Captains, promotion of, vi. 430. 

 Cardamon, or water cresses, iv. 174. 

 Cardan, saying of, vii. 306. 

 Cardinal, meaning of, vii. 73. 

 Cards and dice, when to be used, vi. 



450. 

 Cares, meditation on the moderation 



of, i. 207. 

 Carew, Sir George, iii. 46 ; President 



of Munster, v. 274. 

 Carlisle, state of, vii. 374. 

 Carneades, Cato s conceit of the elo 

 quence of, ii. 14. 

 Carvajall, Francis, sayings of his, i. 



383. 



Cartels of the pope of Rome, vi. 452. 

 Carthagena, taking of, by Drake, v. 



261. 



Case, Low s, of tenures, xiii. 269 ; of 

 revocation of uses, xiii. 280 ; of im 

 peachment of waste, xiii. 252. 

 Cassander s subtle answer to Alexan 

 der, ii. 73. 

 Cassandra, iii. 1. 

 Cassius, a witty answer of his to an 



astrologer, i. 377. 



Cassytas, an herb growing in Syria, iv. 

 304. 



