Pembroke, Jasper, Earl of, created

Duke of Bedford, i. 56. Penal Laws, administration of by Judges, ii. 267, 371.

Penances of Russian monks, ii. 214. Pensions from Charles VIII. of France to the ministers of Henry VII., i. 197.

Perfection, that which is best in perfection is best altogether, iii. 101. Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures, ii. i11.

Perin, provost of, killed by the Cor-
nish rebels, i. 266.
Perkin Warbeck, i. 38.

defensive preparations against
him perhaps, and not against
French invasion, i. 167.
raised up by Lady Margaret of
Burgundy, to personate Rich-
ard, Duke of York, i. 200, 246.
his qualifications for the part,
i. 201.

Edward IV., whether his god-
father, i. 202.
parentage, Ib.

lives with John Stenbeck, at
Antwerp, i. 203.
trained for the imposture by
Lady Margaret, i. 204.
sent to Portugal, i. 205.
arrives at Cork in Ireland, i.
206.

received by Charles VIII. at his
court, as Duke of York, i.

208.

flies again to Flanders, to Lady Margaret, i. 209. excitement in England at the news, i. 211.

measures taken by the king to expose the imposture, i. 214219.

Archduke Philip of Flanders declines to deliver him up to Henry VII., i. 221. trials and executions of his adherents, i. 223–230. lands in Kent, i. 236.

his troops cut to pieces, and the prisoners hung, i. 237. from Flanders sails to Ireland, i. 243.

in Scotland welcomed by the King of Scots, i. 244.

his speech to the King of Scots, i. 245-849.

with the King of Scots, invades

dragged into London in a triumphal procession, i. 292. escapes to the sanctuary at Shyne, i. 301.

again imprisoned in the Tower, Ib.

executed at Tyburn, i. 304. Persia, her weakness, by reason of her extent of empire, iii. 6466, 69.

its geographical position, iii. 84. Persona conjuncta æquiparatur interesse proprio, iii. 80. Persuasion, the art of, iii. 99. Peru, conquest of, whether justifiable, iii. 27, 28.

Petitions to the king's council, set days should be appointed for, ii. 151.

Petrucci, Cardinal, his conspiracy against Leo X., i. 139.

Phaeton, his car went but a day, ii. 274.

Phantasm appearing to M. Brutus, ii. 204.

Philip of Macedon, his dream respecting his wife, ii. 203. Philip, Archduke, Henry VII. sends an embassy to, into Flanders, demanding the dismissal of Perkin Warbeck, i. 218. declines to deliver him up, i. 221. interview with Henry VII. at Calais, i. 308.

proposed cross-marriages between their children, i. 309. becomes king of Castile, in right of Joan his wife, i. 331, 338, 339.

on ill terms with Ferdinando, i.

340.

sails from Flanders with a grea fleet for Spain, i. 342.

Philip - continued.

driven by a storm into Wey-
mouth, i. 343.
interview with Henry VII. at
Windsor, i. 344.

concludes a treaty, the Itercur-
sus malus, with him, i. 346.
dies soon after his arrival in
Spain, i. 347.

Plutarch on base conceptions of the
Deity, ii. 135.

of Timoleon, iii. 117.
Pluto, helmet of, is secrecy in coun-
sel, and celerity in execution,
ii. 163.

better to Ferdinando than Pal-
las, i. 341.

Plutus timidus, iii. 78.

Pius Quintus, worthy to be canon-
ized, iii. 24.

Place, great, essay on, ii. 111-115.
Plague in the 15th of Henry VII. in

London and elsewhere, i. 307.
Planets, princes should resemble in
their motions, ii. 125.
Plantagenet, Edward, son to the
Duke of Clarence, created
Earl of Warwick by Edward
IV., i. 72.

confined by Richard III., 1b.
reported to have escaped from
the Tower, i. 75.

counterfeited by Lambert Sym-
nell, 1b.

paraded through the streets of
London, i. 80.

arraigned of treason and be-
headed, i. 305. — See War-
wick.

Plantations, essay on, ii. 194-198.
Plato, his character of Prodicus, ii.
165.

his great year, ii. 275.

all knowledge is but remem-
brance, ii. 273.
Plautianus, favourite of Septimius
Severus, ii. 169.

Pliny on the arts of self-commenda-
tion, ii. 263.

Poesy, vinum Dæmonum, ii. 82.
Poets, those much conversant with,
become conceited, i. 34.

Poland, cause of its martial great-
ness, ii. 180.

Politique, Eupolis a, iii. 21.

malignant men make great pol-
itiques, ii. 120.

Polycrates, his daughter's dream, ii.
203.

Polydore Vergil, character of his
History, i. 15, 25.

his mistake of a Great Council
for a meeting of Parliament,
i. 114, 176.

Pompey, Julius Cæsar's mode of
dealing with him, ii. 38.

his treatment of Sylla, ii. 167,
168.

his war on the Cilician pirates,

iii. 42.

Poynings- continued.

VII. to the Archduke Philip
in Flanders, i. 218.
sent by Henry VII. to subdue
the Wild Irish, i. 233.
sends the Earl of Kildare pris-
oner to England, lb.
introduces the law of England
into Ireland, Ib.

Ireland quieted by his commis-
sion, i. 243.

Pragmatical Sanction, ii. 182.
Praise, essay on, ii. 258-260.

the reflection of virtue, ii. 258.
arising from flattery, ii. 259.
from good wishes, 7b.
from malice, lb.

Prayer, a great office in the church,
iii. 173

Prayers composed by Bacon, iii.

185-190.

Pre-digestion, ii. 161.

Prodicus, his character in Plato's
Protagoras, ii. 165.

Prophecy, respecting the successor
of Pope Leo, whose name
should be Adrian, i. 140.
essay on, ii. 203-206.
of the Pythonissa to Saul, ii.
203.

Homer's of the Roman empire,
16.
Seneca's of the discovery of
America, Ib.

of Tiberius to Galba, ii. 204.
of Christ in the time of Vespa-
sian, Ib.

Henry VI. of Henry VII., Ib.
when hemp is spun, England's
done, Ib.

of the Spanish fleet, ii. 205.
of Regiomontanus, Пb.

three causes which have given
them credit with men, ii. 206.

ii. 144.

Premier seizins, i. 326.

Preoccupation of mind ever requireth
Preface of speech, ii. 163.
Prerogative, royal, in the reign of
Henry VII, í. 356.
Pretorian bands, the dangers arising
from, ii. 146.

Prices to be regulated by govern-
ment, ii. 127.

of cloths, limited by statute of
Henry VII., i. 147.
Priests, scandal of, a cause of Athe-
ism, ii. 134.

Prime, or cycle of weather, ii. 276.
Primum mobile, ii. 125.

a new, brought in by supersti-
tion, ii. 136.
Princes, their motions should resem-
ble those of the planets, ii. 125.
girt with reverence by God, ii.
195.

their witty speeches have caused

seditions, ii. 130.

need men of military valour, ii.
131.

Principles, opposite, of good and
evil, iii. 179.

Principum concilium, what, i. 114.
Privation, that which it is good to
be rid of evil, and vice versa,
iii. 109.
Probus, his saying, "Si vixero, non
opus erit amplius militibus," ii.

131.

VOL. II.

Prosperity, the blessing of the Old
Testament, ii. 94.

its virtue Temperance, Ib.
best discovers vice, ii. 95.
Protestantism in France, leagued
against by Henry III., ii. 124.
Provinces, the defence of, iii. 64.

must not be out of proportion to
the seat of government, iii.
67-70.

of Great Britain, iii. 71, 72.
Provost of Perin, killed at Taunton,
i. 266.
Proxy-marriage of Maximilian with
Anne Duchess of Brittaine, i. 153,
154.

Psalms translated by Lord Bacon,
iii. 207-219.

Psalm I., iii. 207, 208.

XII., iii. 208, 209.
XC., iii. 209, 211.
CIV., iii. 212–215.
CXXVI., iii. 216.
CXXXVII., iii. 195, 217,
218.

CXLIX., iii. 218, 219.
Puebla, Doctor De, Spanish ambas
sador to Henry VII., i. 339.
Puteanus, Petrus, depositary of Cam-
den's Annals of Queen Elizabeth,
ii. 47.

Pythagoras his parable, Eat not the
heart, ii. 169.

Pythonissa, her prophecy to Saul, ii.

203.

Quadlins, ii. 237.

Quarrels, the causes of, ii. 139.
Queen, Dowager, cloistered at Ber-
mondsey by Henry VII.,
i. 73, 77.

her dower whether restored,
i. 77.

her varied fortunes, i. 79.
foundress of Queen's Col-
lege, Cambridge, i. 80.
Queen's College, Cambridge, found-
ed, i. 80.

Ratcliffe, Robert, tried and beheaded
for Perkin Warbeck's rebellion, i.
223.

Ravenstein, Lord, heads the insur-

rection in Flanders against
Maximilian, ii. 150, 186.
surrenders the town and castles
of Sluice to the Duke of Sax-
ony and the English, i. 189.
Raw material, ii. 128.

Rawley, Dr., his edition of the Latin
translation of the Essays, ii. 72.
Rawlinson, Dr., his copy of Cam-
den's Elizabetha, ii. 47.
Reading, modes of, ii. 252, 253.

maketh a full man, conference
a ready man, and writing an
exact man, ii. 253, 292.
Reasons, always give, when you
change your mind, ii. 114.
Rebellion of Lambert Symnell, i.
71-92.

Rebellions of the belly, ii. 126.
Recamera, ii. 234.

Referendaries, ii. 250.

Reform without bravery or scandal
of former times, ii. 113.
Regeneration, xiv. 54.
Regiomontanus, his prophecy, ii. 205.
Register of letters, Bacon's, iii. 124.
Religion of Bacon, iii. 141.

his creed, iii. 147-157.

Reputation

continued.
discreet servants a help to, ii.
264.

Reservation, ii. 95, 96.
Respect of persons, ii. 115.
Rest, the accomplishment of man's,
what, ii. 113.

Retainer unlawful, by the king's
farmers, i. 133.

Retainers and riots, statute of Henry
VII. against, i. 335.
Revelation, iii., 152.
Revenge, essay on, ii. 92, 93.

a kind of wild justice, ii. 92.
for wrongs which there is no
law to remedy, lb.

public for the most part fortu-
nate, ii. 93.
Revenues of England, iii. 81.
Reverence, that wherewith princes
are girt by God, ii. 125.
Rhodes, knights of, make Henry
VII. protector of their order, i.

315.

his murder of the princes in the
Tower, i. 214-216.
Richard, Duke of York, son of Ed-
ward IV., murdered in the
Tower, i. 200.

personated by Perkin Warbeck,
Ib.

Riches should not be in few hands
in a state, ii. 128.

are for spending, and spending
for honour and good actions,
ii. 174, 297.

essay on, ii. 198-202.

the baggage of virtue, ii. 198.
there is small enjoyment of great
wealth, lb.
have wings, Ib.

in a state, too much ascribed to,
iii. 72-81.

without military virtue, a prey,
iii. 76.

competency better than surfeit,
iii. 78.

profitable according to the hands
in which distributed, iii. 79-
81.

of the realm of England, iii. 81.
Richmond, or Shine, tournament at
the king's palace, i. 192.
Henry VII. dies there, i. 37,
354.

Sabbath, its nature, ii. 113.

at the end of the world, iii. 150.
Sabinian revived heathen learning,
ii. 275.

Saint Alban's, victory of Charles
VIII. at, i. 127.

Saint Aubin, victory of, i. 117.
Saints of God, iii. 149.

Salomon on cunning, ii. 158.

on riches, ii. 198, 348.

on novelty, ii. 273.

Salt, colonists should be provided
with store of, ii. 197.

Salus populi suprema lex, ii. 269.
Sanctuary, doubts of Henry VII. as
to violation of, i. 290.

privileges of, curtailed by him,
i. 95, 96.

Schisms, origin of, ii. 276, 277.
Scholars should be proportioned in
number to preferments, ii. 128.
Scipio Africanus, of whom Livy
says, Ultima primis cedebant, ii.
225.

Scotland, a refuge for English mal-
contents, i. 96.

death of James III., i. 137.
declaration of war against by
Henry VII., i. 184, 185.
Henry VII., his preparations for

war with, averted by the Cor-
nish rebellion, i. 267, 268.
reception of Perkin Warbeck by
James IV. of, i. 244-250.
probability of a union with Eng-
land contemplated by Henry
VII., i. 323.

union with England, iii. 51, 52.
Scots invade Northumberland, i.
250, 258.

slain at Norham, i. 297.
Sea, the empire of, is an abridgment
of a monarchy, ii. 186.
naval power of Great Britain,

Ib.
Sebastian, King of Portugal, his ex-
pedition on Africk, iii. 24.

Second, place, that best to which all
assign the second place, iii.
100.

nobles, their value in a state, ii.
144, 145.

Secrecy, the virtue of a confessor,
ii. 96.

in matter of counsel in a state,
ii. 148.