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Plantations, i. 288, how to be regulated with regard to speedy profit, and the people with whom you plant, 289, with regard to soil, minerals, and produce, ib. how the government, customs, and buildings are to be directed, ib. when to be planted with women, ib. Plantations at home with regard to orchards, gardens, hop-yards, woods, &c. 517, a further regulation of foreign ones, ib. fixing of them should proceed rather from the king's leave than command, 518. See Ireland. Plantianus, i. 282.

Plane-tree, irrigation of with wine, i. 152.

Plants, why of greater age than living creatures, i. 91, dignity of plants, 131, acceleration of their germination, ib. et seq. the melioration of them divers ways, 133, et seq. cause why some die in winter, 135, sympathy and antipathy of plants, 137, et seq. utterly mistaken, ib. Plants drawing the same juices out of the earth thrive not together, 138, drawers of much nourishment hurt their neighbour plants. ib. drawing several juices thrive well together, ib. several instances of each, ib. designations for further trials hereof, ib. trial in herbs poisonous and purgative, ib. Plants that die placed together, ib. trial whether plants will attract water at some distance, 139, how rendered medicinable, ib. curiosities touching plants, 140, et seq. Plants will degenerate, 142, 143, the several causes thereof, ib. transmutation of plants, 142, six designations thereof, 143, their several excrescences, 143, et seq. prickles of trees, 145. Plants growing without seed, 146, growing out of stone, ib. Plants foreign, ib. removed out of hot countries, will keep their seasons, ib. set in the summer season will prosper in colder countries, ib. seasons of several plants, 146, 147. Plants bearing blossoms, and young fruits, and ripe fruits together, 147. Plants with joints and knuckles in the stalks, 148, the causes thereof, ib. differences of plants, ib. some putting forth blossoms before leaves, ib. others, leaves before blossoms, ib. the cause of each, ib. Plants green all winter, ib. the cause, ib. Plants not supporting themselves, 149, the cause of their slenderness, ib. Plants and inanimate bodies differ in four things, 150. Plants and metals in three, ib. Plants and mouldiness, or putrefactions, wherein they differ, ib. Plants and living creatures, their differences, ib. male and female in plants, 151. Plants whereof garments are made, ib. Plants sleeping. ib. Plants with bearded Plants esculert, 152, parts in plants that are nourishing, ib. seeds in plants more strong than either leaf or root, the cause, 152, 153, in some not, 153. Plants with milk in them, ib. Plants with red juice, 154, few plants have a salt taste, ib. Plants with curled leaves, ib. Plants may be translated into other regions, 155, yet they like some soils more than others, ib. several instances thereof, ib. Plants without leaves, 171, singularities in several plants, 157.

roots, ib.

Plates of metal assuage swelling, i. 185.
Plato, i. 321, taxes Diogenes's pride, 323, his comparing
Socrates to the apothecaries' drugs, 324, his ridicule of
Prodicus, 281.

Plato, his notion that all knowledge was but remembrance, i. 306.

Plea, what is properly the matter of one, i. 720.
Pleadings, seasons for their being published, i. 615.
Pleasure of the eye and ears, the effect of equality and
good proportion, i. 99.

Pleasure and displeasure of the senses, i. 161.

Plenty in England remarkable in queen Elizabeth's time, i. 380.

Plessis, Monsieur du, his book against the papal authority commended, ii. 38 note 1.

Pliny's mixtures of metals almost forgotten, i. 241, his ac-
count of the Roman mirror, commonly looking-glass, 243.
Plot: the powder-plot taken notice of, i. 687.
Plough followed, healthful, i. 193.
Plowden, Edmund, ii. 180 note ⚫.
Plumage, i. 158.

Plumosity in birds, its cause, i. 158.

Plums, of what colour the best, i. 141, the drier the better sort, ib.

Pluralities, in what cases allowable, and in what not so, i. 358, some remedies proposed to this abuse, 359.

Plutarch did not write the discourse" De Primo Friz i. 93, his account of Augustus's visiting Alexander sepulchre, i. 171, several observations of his, 39 fame and superstition, 274, what he saith of Tinder fortune, 259, 294.

Pluto, i. 290.

Pneumaticals in bodies, i. 126, 181.

Poesy, i. 27, how divided, 32.

Poets, the best writers next to the prose, i. 322.
Poisoning of air, i. 192.

Poisoning, the particular heinousness of this sin set for i. 705, no example of this sin is to be found in Script 696, is made high treason, ib. the great diffienity getting clear proofs in cases thereof, as is show examples, 705, &c. the monstrous impiety of this s 398, a design to poison queen Elizabeth is discovere 401.

Poisonings, by smells, i. 192, caution touching poisoning.
Poisonous creatures love to lie under odorate herbs, L
Poisons, why attended with swellings, i. 122, of asps, 15
Poisons externally used draw venom, i. 198.
Poland, its state considered, i. 381.
Pole, William De la, brother to the earl of Suffolk, se
by Henry VII. i. 787.

Politicians of the weaker sort great dissemblers, i
composition of a complete one, 265.
Polycrates's daughter, her dream, i. 290.
Polygamy disallowed, i. 211.

Polyphemus's courtesy to be last eaten up, i. 535. Pomanders, or knots of powders, their uses, i. 193. Pompey, i. 321, says "Duty is more necessary than 323. Vide Cæsar, and 302. How ruined by Cæsar, 3 Pons, Jasper, a Spaniard, the pope's commissioner in jubilee year, i. 783.

Pont Charenton, the echo there, i. 114. Poor, concerning the ways of relieving them, i. 495. Pope, that he has power of deposing and murder kings, is a dangerous doctrine, i. 687, the ill effects this doctrine shown in many instances, ib. the respect some princes have shown to the pope, ib. Suare: doctrine concerning his power over kings, 687, 688, Popes, what expected from them when they affect the: of "Padre commune," i. 302.

Popham, speaker of the house of commons, and afterwar chief justice, i. 325.

Popularity, how far to be avoided by judges, i. 713. Poreblind men, why they see best near hand, i. 185, 19 Porter, Endymion, i. 304.

Portugal, its afflicted condition, i. 381.
Postea, what it is, i. 575.
Post-nati, of Scotland, their case argued, i. 652, &c.
state of the question concerning them explaine
their case and that of the ante-nati different, 655. #
be either alien or natural born, ib. confutation of
objections against them, as drawn from statutes, £
656, or from book cases, 657, more arguments in ce
of their being by law natural subjects of England, is
a query whether they are natural-born subjects, #
though they are naturalized ipso jure, yet it is pr
they should be so likewise by act of parliament, 463
Posture of the body, i. 166, to be altered every ha! la
252.

Potatoe roots, i. 90, potted, grow larger, 135.
Poverty of the learned, i. 6.

Poulet, John, Esq. ii. 166.

Poultis for the gout, and for other things, i. 91, 253. Powder and ammunition of all sorts we have at i. 516.

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æmunire, cases thereof, i. 645, the proceedings, trial, punishment, &c. therein, ib.

ætors of Rome, great affinity between their office and our chancellor's, i. 709.

aise, the reflection of virtue, i. 303. Praise in excess raises envy, contradiction, &c. ib.

ayer of the clergy, benefit thereof in cases of felony, i. | 580, the book of Common Prayer how to be respected, 674, is compared with preaching, 355, a set thereof commended, ib. of what it ought to consist, ib. of lord Bacon's, 339, for a student, 341, for an author, ib. one made by Bacon when chancellor, 340.

eachers, unfit ones not to be allowed. i. 357, if wanting, what remedies must be sought for, 357, not sufficient for every parish, 359, stipends allotted for some in Lancashire, ib.

recedents, instances of the great reverence paid to them, i. 640.

recious stones comfort the spirits, i. 197. recipitation of metals, what, i. 246.

relates, when dangerous, i. 276.

eparation of saffron, i. 250, of garlic, ib. of damask roses for smell, ib.

erogative of the king in parliaments, i. 646, in matters of war and peace, ib. in matters of money, ib. in trade and traffic, ib. in his subjects' persons, ib. of the king and law, not to be considered separately, 715, of the king, incommunicable, 647, &c. what persons they ought to be who have this power committed to them, 647, such authority delegated is derogatory to the king, ib. and also very dangerous, 648. See Magistrate. ρεσβύτερος, is always distinguished from ἱερεὺς, i. 356. resence, the advantage of a good one, i. 319. reservation of bodies from corruption, i. 98.

Preserva

tion of fruits in syrups, 152, also in powders, ib. when to gather fruits for preservation, ib. also in bottles in a well, ib. Preserving grapes long, ib. another way thereof, 155. reservation is the chief law of nature, i. 441. ressure, what motion it causes in bodies, i. 83. retext never wanting to power, i. 746. retorian courts, i. 533.

rickles of trees, shrubs, and animals, i. 199. riest, christian, i. 205.

riest, the word to be changed to minister in our liturgy, i. 356.

rinces leaning to party, like a boat overset by uneven weight on one side, i. 271, advice to them, 273, resemble the heavenly bodies, 277.

'rinces cannot perpetuate their memory better than by making good laws, as is shown by comparison with their other works, and by examples, i. 670, 671, should take care to preserve each other's life and reputation, even in times of hostility, 376.

'rincipiation of metals, i. 244, whether any such thing or no, ib. none such as sal, sulphur, and mercury, ib. Privileged officers, an interruption to justice as much as privileged places, i. 787. Privileges of members of parliament, when burthensome, 513.

Privy counsellor's duty, i. 514. Privy council how to be chosen, ib.

Privy counsellor, conspiring against his life how to be punished, i. 675.

Probus, did himself hurt by a speech, i. 273.
Procession,
a pleasant observation upon one, i. 330.
Proclamation of king James before the book of Common
Prayer, i. 511.

Proclamation drawn for his first coming in, i. 443, touching his style, 445.

Proclamation for a parliament, a draught of one, ii. 118. Procreations by copulation and by putrefaction, i. 189, the cause of each, ib.

Profanations, how to be punished, i. 674. Prognostics for plenty or scarcity, i. 157, of pestilential years, 159, 166, 176, 177, and cold and long winters, 177, by birds, 178, of a hot and dry summer, 177, by the birds also, ib. of winds, 178, of great tempests, 177, of rain, 178, from living creatures, ib. from water-fowls and land-fowls, from fishes, ib. from beasts, ib. from herbs, ib. from aches in men's bodies, ib. from worms and vermin, ib. from the sweating of solid bodies, ib.

VOL. II.

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Prolonging life, i. 89, what state of life conduceth most to its prolongation, 117, precepts for the prolongation of life, 252. Prometheus, an emblem of human nature, i. 264, 273. Promises of God, concerning the redemption of man, manifested many ways, i. 338.

Property in lands, how gained, i. 576, by entry how gained, ib. by descent how gained, ib. by escheat how gained, 577, by conveyance how gained, 583, several ways of gaining it in goods and chattels, 586, three arguments of property, 618.

Prophecies, exclusive of revelation and heathen oracles,
i. 290, whence they derive their credit, 291.
Prophecies, spreaders thereof how to be punished, i. 675.
Prophesying, what it was, i. 357, much commended, ib.
Proprieties, secret, i. 96, 97, 201.

Proserpina, her fable, i. 97.

Prosperity, temperance its proper virtue, i. 264.
Protagoras, i. 194.

Prothonotary, his office, i. 650.

Proud persons, how they bear misfortunes, i. 259.
Prudence, doctrine of, i. 290.

Psalm 1st, translated, i. 603, the 12th, ib. the 90th, 361, the 104th, ib. the 126th, 362, the 137th, ib. the 149th, 363. Public good always most regarded by nature, i. 449, 450. Puckering, Sir John, lord keeper of the great seal, letter to him from Mr. Francis Bacon, ii. 141.

Puebla, Dr. ambassador lieger from Spain, i. 788. Pugna per provocationem, what it was, i. 681, instances thereof, ib.

Pupils, the prætorian power over them, i. 485. Purchasers, very much favoured by our laws, i. 606. Purging medicines having their virtue in a fine spirit, endure not boiling, i. 84, their unpleasant taste how remedied, ib. several ways of the operations of purging medicines, 88, proceed from the quantity or quality of the medicines, ib. they work upon the humours, ib. medicines that purge by stool, and that purge by urine, 89, their several causes, ib. work in these ways as they are given in quantity, ib. what weather best for purging, 92, preparations before purging, ib. want of preparative, what hurt it doth, both in purging and after purging, ib. Puritans, ii. 258.

Pursevants, their business how to be managed, ii. 111. Purveyance justly due to the crown, i. 520, and yet frequently abused, ib.

Purveyors, a speech concerning their abuses, i. 447, complaints about them, ib. their abuses enumerated, 448, instances of their frequent breaches of the law, ib. Putrefaction, its inception hath in it a maturation, i. 120. Putrefaction, the acceleration of it, 122, the cause of putrefaction, ib. Putrefaction, whence, ib. ten means of inducing putrefaction, ib. 123, prohibiting putrefaction, 123, 171, ten means of prohibiting it, 123, 124, inceptions of putrefaction, 125, 153, putrefactions for the most part smell ill, whence, 179. Putrefaction hath affinity with plants, 150. Putrefaction, from what causes it cometh, 179, 180. Putrefaction, the subtilest of all motions, 159. Putrefaction induced by the moonbeams, 88, doth not rise to its height at once, 176. Putrefactions of living creatures have caused plagues, 192. Putrified bodies most odious to a creature of the same kind, i. 199.

Pye, Sir Robert, letter to him from lord viscount St. Alban, ii. 262.

Pyrrhus had his teeth undivided, i. 168, his ambition, 315. Pythagoras, his philosophy full of superstition, i. 190, visited Hiero, 325, his parable, 282.

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QUARRIES that grow hard, i. 182.
Quarter sessions to be held by justices, i. 573.

Questions touching minerals, i. 242, unexpected surprise, 279, the use and advantage of asking questions, 288. Questions about the lawfulness of a war for the propagating of religion, 529.

Quicksilver heated and pent in, hath the same force with gunpowder, i. 87, the coldest of metals, because the fullest of spirits, 93, will not bear the fire, 122.

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Remainder and reversion, the difference between them 582, the former cannot be limited upon an estate simple, ib. its significancy in the statute of uses,608, he Remains, medical, i. 250.

Remembrancer of the lord treasurer in the excheque 595.

Remembrancer in chancery, a proper officer recommend ii. 115.

Remitter, what the law means thereby, i. 557, several co of it explained, ib.

Rents, case thereof considered, i. 610, concerning the e cution of them, ib.

Re-ordination of priests maintained by some, i. 347.

Rain in Egypt scarce, i. 170, the cause thereof, ib. several Repletion hindereth generation, i. 133, and stature. [43 prognostics of rain, 178.

Rainbow, the sweetness of its odour, i. 178.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, a design to murder him by Sir
Christopher Blunt, i. 416, compared the ladies of the
queen's bed-chamber to witches, which have power to
do hurt, but no good, 313, retort upon, 316, resentment
against him by the Spanish ambassador, ii. 206, letter
from the lord chancellor to the king, concerning the
manner of proceeding against him, 207, declaration of
his demeanour and carriage, 208.

Rams' skins good to be applied to wounds, i. 158.
Ramsay, David, ii. 221.

Rates, they should be easy to the undertakers for planting
Ireland, i. 472.

Ravenstein, lord, rebels against Maximilian, i. 752, 758,
carries on a piratical war, ib.

Ravishment of women, how to be punished, i. 676.
Reading, how to be regulated, i. 301.

Realm, the state of it how many ways endangered, and
what punishments are due thereupon, i. 675.
Rebel and enemy distinguished, i. 465.
Rebellion, how punishable, i. 675, several raised in Ireland
by the king of Spain, 392, in the north, to what it was
owing, ib. how a subject may be guilty of it by taking up
arms, 421, what consequences the law draws from it,
421, 422.

Receipts how to be managed after the union of England
and Scotland, i. 458.

Receptacle for converts to the reformed religion, recommended, i. 496.

Recoveries, what they are, i. 583, they bar entails, &c. ib.
other effects thereof, ib. methods of proceeding therein,
ib. why first introduced, ib.

Recusants, how to be punished, i. 674, magistrates, who
are so, how to be dealt with in Ireland, ii. 84.
Red within, some few fruits, i. 141.

Red juice in plants, i. 154.

Reed or cane, a watery plant, i. 155.

Referees, the meaning of that word, ii. 229, note .
References in chancery, when they may be made, i. 719.
Referendaries, i. 301.

Refining of metals insufficient, i. 182, how to multiply the
heat, or open the body in refining, i. 244.
Reflexion of sounds, i. 113, not to be guided like the re-
flexion of species visible, ib.

Reformation of religion under queen Elizabeth, i. 381, the

benefits thereof, ib.

Refraction causeth the species visible to appear bigger, i.
170, other observations about refractions, ib.
Registers in chancery, their office, and orders relating to
it, i. 718.

Relief, a sum of 51. so called, to be paid by every tenant by
knight's service to his lord, i. 579, of tenant in socage,
what, ib.

Religion, unity in it, i. 262, the chief band of society, ib.
Lucretius's exclamation against it, 263, the best reason
of state, 308, of our church commended, 510.
Religion, how careful king James was of it, i. 713, the care
of it recommended to the judges of the circuits, ib. our
author disapproves of the exercise of divers religions,
382, every man's conscience should be let alone in the
quiet belief of his own, ib. concerning the disputes about
it in England, ib. two rules of proceeding with men in
religious matters, where conscience is pleaded, 387, con-
cerning the propagation thereof, 496, not to be scoffed
at, 344. Religious sects, 307.

Reproofs from authority should not be taunting, i. 201 Resemblances between the species of plants, i 157, r. likewise among animals, ib.

Respiration of the world, what, according to Apollorias
190.

Rest causeth putrefaction, i. 123.
Restitutions of metals and minerals, ii. 246.
Retardation of germination, i. 132.

Revelation of God's will by the Scriptures, i. 338, be
made before them, 339.

Revenge, wild justice, and ought to be weeded, i. 264, 3 Revenge, i. 264, puts the law out of office, ib. can ca take place where there is no law to remedy, ib. păs revenges most fortunate, ib. mischiefs of allowing priss revenge, 679.

Revenue of the king, how to be managed and advanced
715, ii. 113.

Revenues, sundry sorts of royal revenues, i. 588, ef ***
crown ought to be preserved, 520.
Reverence of one's self, a bridle of vice, i. 211.
Reversions cannot be granted by word, i. 582. See A
turnment, Reverter.

Reverter, its meaning stated in the statute of uses, i. 60%
Review, bill of, in what cases to be admitted, or not, i. 76
Revocation of uses, Sir John Stanhope's case relatin
thereto discussed, i, 627.

Rheums, how caused, i. 88, preservative against, 250.
Rhubarb contains parts of contrary operations, i. 84, 5
Rhubarb infused for a short time best, 84, repeated,
be as strong as scammony, ib. a benedict medicine.
caution in the taking thereof, 88, its virtue, ib.
Rice, a nourishing meat, i. 90, the general food
Turkey, ib.

Richard II. his deposition, i. 312.

Richard III. tyrant in title and regiment, i. 732, slan
Bosworth-field, ib. slew with his own bands Henry VI
ib. and his two nephews, ib. thought to poison his w
ib. attainted after his death, 735.
Richardson excuses himself from being speaker, i. 499.
Riches, wherein they resemble muck, i. 321.
Riches, the baggage of virtue, i. 289, have sold more men

than they have bought out, ib. unjust means of acquiring
them, 290, little riches more hard to be got than gre
ib.

Riding, good for the head, i. 301.
Right side and left, senses alike strong on both sides, lim
strongest on the right, i. 186, the cause of each, is
Rights are of two sorts, i. 598, according to the civil
of three sorts, 599, when two meet in one person there
is no confusion of them, but they remain in law distinct,
658, how this last rule is limited, ib.

Riots and violent assaults how to be punished, i. 676.
Rivers, the advantage of making them navigable, i, 517.
Robberies disguised, instances thereof, and how they are
to be punished, i. 676.

Rocks, springs chiefly generated there, i. 86.
Roman laws were collected by the decemvirs from the
Grecian ones, i. 668.

Romans, how they esteemed a goose's liver, i. 89, the
style in war and peace, 321, beat Philip of Macedor,
open to receive strangers into their bosom, 285, ma
wars for the liberty of Greece, 286, 528.
Rome, heathen, grew great by its reverence of the gods

i. 274.

Rome, Virgil's prediction concerning the mixture of Troy and Italians therein, i. 451, its union with the Sa

. free in its naturalizations, ib. causes of its growth, ib. | steemed a valiant nation, 681, duels not used amongst hem, ib. the emperors thereof used in their titles the dditions of nations they had conquered, 447. nulus, his legacy to the Romans, i. 286. oms built for health, i. 194.

Os, William lord, ii. 170, 177.

os, lady, personates Luke Hutton, ii. 218.

ts, advantages of digging and loosening the earth about nem, i. 132, 133.

ots of fruit trees multiplied, i. 133. Root made larger y putting panicum about it, 134. Roots potted, grow reater, 137. Roots preserved all winter, ib. Roots, ulbous, fibrous, and hirsute, 151. Roots of trees that escend deep, 155, others that spread more, ib. the cause f each, ib.

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le, a property gained thereby when dishonest, i. 586, how it may bar the right of the owner, ib. what markets it must be made in, ib.

Igazus, a sea-plant, i. 154.

lique law, several remarks on it, i. 312. lisbury, Robert earl of, his character, ii. 158.

It, a good compost, i. 131, 135, 149. Saltpetre, how to hasten the breeding of it, 149. Salt in plants, 154. Salt hath a sympathy with blood, 199, it is a healer, ib. it riseth not in distillations, 187.

It-water, how freshened, or the salt imbibed, i. 187. Salt water passed through earth becomes fresh, 82, four differences between the passing it in vessels and in pits, ib. Salt-water good to water some herbs, 157. Saltwater boiled becometh more potable, 187. Salt-water sooner dissolving salt than fresh water, the cause, ib. Salt-water shineth in the dashing, 124. Salt in its several disguises a composition of mercury and sulphur, 125.

anctuaries qualified by the pope at the interposition of Henry VII. i. 742.

and for making glass near Mount Carmel, i. 172.

and turning minerals into a glassy substance, i. 172. andys, lord, his confession relating to Essex's treason,

i. 430.

Anguis Draconis, the tree that bears it, i. 154. anquhar, a speech at his arraignment for having procured one to murder Turner out of revenge, i. 677.

Sap assisted by leaving top-boughs in polling, i. 135. Sap of trees, 155, the differing nature thereof in several trees, ib.

"Sapientia Veterum" quoted, i. 97.

Satiety, or cloying in meats, i. 118.

Savage, Sir John, slain riding about the walls of Boloign, i. 760.

Savages, how treated, i. 289.

Saville, Sir Henry, some account of him, ii. 45 note ‡, his judgment of poets, i. 322.

Savoy, the state thereof considered, i. 382.
Saxony, duke of, how he surprises Dam in favour of
Maximilian, i. 758, takes Sluice, ib.

Scales growing to the teeth as hard as the teeth, i. 96, of fishes that resemble rotten wood in their shining, 124. Scaliger, i. 160.

Scarlet-dye, i. 188.

Snism more scandalous than corruption of manners, i. 332, how to be punished, 674.

Schoolmen compared to the fictions of astronomy, i. 274, 320, useful, 301.

Schools of learning to be cherished, i. 511.

Scipio Africanus, his declension, i. 296.

Scire facias, a writ, in what cases not to be awarded, i. 721. Scissile and not scissile, i. 182.

Scoffing at holy matters, one cause of atheism, i. 274. Scotland, account of the parliament held there in 1616, ii. 189.

Scribonianus, his conspiracy against Claudius, i. 326. Scriptures are from God and contain his will, i. 339, are not to be altered, ib.

Scots, a commendation of their virtues, &c. i. 464, ought to be esteemed denizens of England, 455, are infested by the Guises, and relieved by queen Elizabeth, 390. Sea clearer, the north wind blowing than the south, i. 158. Sea by the bubbles foreshows wind, 177. Sea-water looketh black moved, white resting, 186, the cause, ib. Seas shallow and narrow break more than deep and large, 187.

Sea-fish put into fresh waters, i. 162.

Sea-fights, of what consequence, i. 286.

Sea-hare, coming near the body, hurteth the lungs, i. 199. Sea-plants, i. 146, why sea-sand produces no plants, ib. Sea-sand a good compost, i. 149. Sea-sands produce no plants, 146.

Seal great seal of England and Scotland to be one after the union, i. 456.

Search, in what cases the constable has power to do so, i. 649, 650.

Seasons of plants, i. 146, 147.

Seasons of the year, observations on them by Hippocrates,

i. 128.

Seats, of houses, i. 177, 296, of justice, set to sale, oppression, 308.

Sebastian, king of Portugal, his expedition into Africa, i. 523.

Secrecy, the virtue of a confessor, i. 265, what necessary to it, ib. the great importance of it to princes, 277. Secret properties, i. 201.

Sectaries, their tenets inconsistent with monarchy, i. 510, not to have countenance or connivance, ib. Secundine or caul, i. 166.

Seditions, i. 271. Seditions and tumults are brother and sister, ih. the prognostics, materials, causes, and remedies of them, 272, et seq.

See of Rome attempts to alienate the hearts of people from the king, i. 675.

Seeds steeped in several liquors hasten their growth, i. 131. Seeds in plants more strong than either leaf or root, 152, 153, the cause, ib. in some not, ib. Seeds how to be chosen, 142, 157, plants growing without seed, 146. Seeds if very old, make the plant degenerate, 142. Seipsum defendendo an act done, why not always justifiable, i. 555, the punishment for killing a man in that act, 571.

Seizure, lessee is shown to have no property in timber-trees from thence, i. 619.

Sejanus, his intimacy with Tiberius, i. 282, the device to pull him down, 292.

Selden, John, his letter to lord St. Alban, ii. 240.

Seminaries, when they blossomed in their missions into England, i. 536.

Sena loseth its windiness by decoction, i. 85, purges melancholy, 88.

Seneca's style, mortar without lime, i. 326, his sentiment of despising death, 262, says the good things of adversity are to be admired, 264, greedy of executorships, 290, condemned, 522.

Seneca, the tragedian, i. 290.

Senses, their pleasures and displeasures, i. 161, their instruments have a similitude with that which giveth the reflection of the object, 116.

Separation of several natures by straining, i. 82, 83, of several liquors by weight, 84, and of the same kind of liquors thickened, ib. of metals, 175.

Separation of the cruder parts prohibiteth putrefaction, i.

123.

Separation of bodies by weight, i. 84, in liquors, 119. Separation of metals and minerals, i. 244, consists of refining, extraction, and principiation, ib.

Separation, the external points thereof, between England and Scotland, i. 455. the internal points, 456. Septimius Severus died in despatch of business, i. 262, his excessive fondness to his chief favourite, 282, his character, 295.

Sequestrations, in what cases to be granted, i. 718.

Serjeantry, tenures by, what they are, and how instituted, i. 578.

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Sexviri, their office among the Athenians, i. 668, 672.
Sfortia, Ludovico, duke of Milan, i. 769, 770.

Shade helpeth some plants, i. 134.

Shadows, why they seem ever to tremble, i. 187.

Shallows break more than deeps, i. 187.

Shame, i. 164, the impressions thereof infectious, 194.

Shaw, Dr. his tale at Paul's cross, i. 733, concerning the bastardy of the children of Edward IV. ib.

Shell-fish have no bones within, i. 168, have male and female generally, 186.

Shene palace almost burnt down, i. 780.

Sheriff's tourne, its origin and jurisdiction, i. 571, is called also "Curia franci plegii," 572, made judges of the court for the county and hundreds, ib. called "vicecomites," ib. their office, ib. 651, are bound to attend the judges in their county, by person or by deputy, 576, 577, from whence they are so called, 651.

Sheriffs' accounts how to be managed, i. 593, their attendance in the circuits of the judges, 512, ancienter than the conquest, and of great consequence, ib.

Shifting for the better helpeth plants and living creatures, i. 134.

Shining wood, many experiments about it, i. 124.

Shipping, or navy, the walls of England, i. 515, all the necessary materials of it our own produce, save sails and cordage, 516.

Shooting, good for the lungs and stomach, i. 301. Showers good for the fruit, i. 156, for some not, ib. Nightshowers better than day-showers, ib.

Showers after a long drought cause sicknesses, if they be gentle; if great, not, i. 176.

Shrewsbury, Gilbert earl of, ii. 175.

Shrewsbury, lady, some account of her, and her trial, ii. 52 note *.

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Sight, 185, 186, objects thereof cause great deligh the spirits, but no great offence, why, ib. Sigismund, prince of Transylvania. i. 523, heads three p vinces which revolt in Turkey, 466. Silk worms, i. 161.

Silver more easily made than gold, i. 121, 241, the nese intent upon making it, 121. Silver bal 260.

Silver, certificate touching the scarcity of it at the 492.

Simcock, his deposition, ii. 172.

Simnel, Lambert, i. 736, his history in personating the 'son of Edward IV. ib. changes his scene, and perse Edward Plantagenet, 737, afterwards proclaim Dublin, 738, taken in the battle near Newark. 741,0 signed to an office in the king's kitchen, ib. preferred be his falconer, 741, 764.

Simonds, William, 736 note, taken at the batte Stokefield, 741, no more heard of, ib. Simonides, i. 325.

Simples, special for medicine, i. 159, such as have

parts without acrimony, ib. many creatures bred of. trefaction, are such, ib. also putrefactions of plants, Simulation and dissimulation, i. 264, a weak kind of p ib. and differs from judgment, ib. three degrees of it its advantages, ib. the case of dissembling know 288.

Sinews, why much affected with cold, i. 159.
Single life, the causes of it, i. 266, recommended to chan
men, ib. most charitable, and yet most cruel, ib.
Singularities in several plants, i. 157.
Sinking of bodies, its cause, i. 172.
Sitting healthful, why, i. 166.

Six clerks, concerning the grant of their office, ii. 104
Sixtus V. how the son of an illustrious house, L. 317,
of his reception in the other world, 318.
Skipwith, Henry, his cause in chancery recommende
the earl of Buckingham, i. 186.
Skull, of one entire bone, i. 168.

Slander, how to be punished, i. 570, 571.

Sleep, a great nourisher, i. 91. Sleep promotes sweat, stays other evacuations of the body, 163. Sleep F hindered by cold in the feet, 168, furthered by kind of noises, ib. nourisheth in many beasts and ib. creatures that sleep all winter, i. 189. Sleeping plants, i. 151.

smell not, ib.

Smells and odours, i. 129, best at some distance as me sound, why, ib. best where the body is crushed, so in flowers crushed, ib. best in flowers whose lea Smells sweet, 178, have all a corpo substance, 179. Smells fetid, ib. Smells of the ja Smells that are most dangerous Smith, Sir Thomas, his case in Essex's treason, i 44 Smith, Sir Thomas, sent ambassador to Russia,

pernicious, 102.

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Socage, tenures so called, what, and how instituted

&c. reserved by the lord, 579.

324.

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Socotra, that island famous for the sanguis draconis, i Socrates, what he said of the oracle of Delphos, i S sentiments of the writings of Heraclitus, ib. compa to the apothecaries' pots containing precious dres Soft bodies, i. 181, their cause, ib. are of two sorts, i Soldiers, want of provision for them, when disbanded co Soles of the feet have a sympathy with the head, i Solicitor and attorney-general, &c. their consequence,i Solid bodies sweating, foreshow rain, i. 178. Solitude, what the delight in it implies, i. 281.

plained of, i. 386.

Solomon, his saying of riches, i. 289.

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