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431 



428 ; King Henry VII. said, when 

 Christ came, peace was king, when 

 he died, it was bequeathed, iii. 406. 



Peacham, Edmund, matters relating to 

 his trial, viu 395; his case, vii. 404. 



Peacock s examinations, letter to the 

 king concerning, from F. Verulam, 

 Cane, vii. 369. 



Peccant humours of learning, ii. 46. 



Pedantical knowledge, ii. 217. 



Peel s, Mr., speech on moving for a bill 

 for the amendment of criminal law, 

 preface to vol. v. p.iii. and note A. 



Peers, names of who found the Earl of 

 Essex guilty, vi. 354 ; house of, 

 power of Judicature of the, vi. 420. 



Pegasus, iii. 26. 



Pella?, answer of a Lacedaemonian taken 

 at, to an Athenian, i. 354. 



Pellet, expulsion of the, iv. 18. 



Peloponnesian war, its cause the fear 

 of the Lacedaemonians, and the great 

 ness of the Athenians, v. 244. 



Penal laws, the number of them, v. 

 342 ; certificate touching the projects 

 of Stephen Proctor relating to, v. 



362 ; the people so insnared in a 

 multitude of penal laws, that the exe 

 cution of them cannot be borne, v. 



363 ; during the reign of James T., 

 vi. 149. 



Penance of certain monks in Russia, i. 

 134. 



Penelope s web, vii. 254. 



Pentheus, his misery from presumption, 

 iii. 30. 



People not competent judges, vii. 59. 



People, offences which concern the, 

 and are capital, vi. 97 ; offences 

 which concern, not capital, vi. 99 ; 

 the voice of the, vii. 297. 



Pepper, its medicinal property, iv. 28. 



Percussion, experiments touching, iv. 

 402 ; effect of, upon liquids, iv. 5 ; 

 quickness of, the cause of sound, iv. 

 96. 



Percussions creating tones, iv. 67. 



Percolation, experiments in, iv. 1. 



Perkin Warbeck, personates the Duke 

 of York, iii. 376; his birth and 

 education, iii. 377 ; conspiracy in 

 his favour, iii. 385 ; his address to 

 the king of Scotland, iii. 318 ; his 

 insurrection in Cornwall, iii. 347 ; 

 accepts Henry s mercy, iii. 353 ; 

 his confession, iii. 354 ; conspiracy 

 in the Tower in favour of, iii. 362 ; 

 his execution at Tyburn, iii. 364. 



Perfect history, ii. 107. 



Persian magic, ii. 127. 



Persians take Ormus, v. 235, 285; 

 their empire a proof that multitudes 

 of provinces are matters of burthen 

 rather than of strength, illustrated by 

 the conquest of Alexander the Great, 

 v. 315. 



Persia, its three great revolutions, v. 

 336. 



Perseus, or war, iii. 22. 



Perseus, king of Macedon, Livy s cen 

 sure against his mode of carrying on 

 war, v. 291. 



Persecution, end of, vii. 40. 



Perfection, the last part of business, i. 

 85 ; bred by the practice being 

 harder than the use, i. 132. 



Perfumes, use of, iv. 499. 



Peripatetics doctrine of fire, iv. 22. 



Perjury, wilful and corrupt, punishable, 

 vi. 91. 



Pestilential years, experiments touch 

 ing, iv. 388. 



Petit treason, cases of, v. 92 ; punish 

 ment of, v. 92. 



Petitions, desire of the Lords at a con 

 ference that the commons should 

 consider of the inconveniences of en 

 tertaining petitions concerning pri 

 vate injuries, v. 218 ; reasons and 

 precedents against their receiving 

 them, v. 218 ; what not granted by, 

 vii. 290 ; what granted by, vii. 294 ; 

 what may be stayed by, vii. 290, 

 291. 



Pewter, what made of, vii. 201. 



Phantastical learning, ii. 41. 



Philip King of Castile driven on the 

 English coast, iii. 395 ; his inter 

 view with King Henry, iii. 397. 



Philip of Macedon, saying of his, i. 

 373; his dream, i. 124; replies 

 made to him, i. 384 ; comparison of 

 him to Philip of Spain, v. 433. 



Philip the fair, his conduct to Boniface 

 the VHIth, vii. 457. 



Philip of Spain, the points whereon he 

 grounded his plots, v. 437 ; his con 

 duct on Queen Elizabeth s accession, 

 444. 



Philocrates, a wine drinker, ii. 255. 



Philosophers, how they have considered 

 nature, ii. 125 ; quantity, ii.125 ; si 

 militude, ii. 125 ; diversity, ii. 125 ; 

 force of union, ii. 125; why some 

 things in mass, ii. 125 ; why some 

 so rare, ii. 125 ; some pioneers and 

 some smiths, ii. 131 ; flattery of 

 great men by, ii. 32 ; Greek, ii. 45. 



Philosophia prima, ii. 124 ; men have 

 abandoned, ii. 48. 



