Commons, House of, increasing depen-
dence of the Crown upon, 16.
Their conferences with the Lords
concerning contribution and re-
tribution, 153–157, 159–161.
Their proceedings against Dr.
Cowell, 161-162.
Their petition for liberty to treat
of a composition for Wards and
Tenures, 163–167.

Their offer for the same, 167-
169.

Their dissatisfaction

with the
counter-offer of the Govern-
ment, and refusal to proceed
with the bargain, 170-175.
Their search for records touching
Impositions, 175.

Their refusal to receive messages
from the King through the
Council, 176-180.

Their Petition of Right presented
and granted, 184.

The renewal of the negotiation
touching the Great Contract,
186.

Preparations for another confer-

ence, 186.

Their jealousy on a point of form,

187.

Debate on a motion for grant of

subsidies, and resolution to post-
pone the question, 188, 189.
Debate on the right of setting
impositions on merchandises
without consent of Parliament,
189-201.

Their Petition of Grievances pre-
sented to the King by Bacon,

202.

Their dissatisfaction with the
King's answer, in the article
of Impositions, 206.

Their grant of a single subsidy,
ibid.

Their new offer in the Great Con-
tract, ibid.

Their exchange of memorials with
the Lords, as to the terms agreed
upon, 208.

Prorogation of Parliament, ibid.
The nature of their bargain as
affecting their constituents, 209,
210.

Success of their remonstrance with
regard to Proclamations, 219-
221.

Invited by the Lords to a confer-

ence concerning the Great Con-
tract, 224.

Debate upon reply to the King's
demand whether they would
proceed with the Contract or
not, 225.

Commons-continued.

Their final refusal to proceed upon
the terms last proposed, 226,

227.

Invited to another conference to
hear a new proposition, 228.
Certain principal Members sent
for by the King for private con-
ference, 230, 231.

Debate upon Supply interrupted
by a message from the King
and an adjournment, 231, 232.
Order prohibiting private commu-
nications from members to the
King, 233.

Resolution to send message of
thanks and explanations, 236.
Adjournment and subsequent dis-
solution, 237, 238. See Parlia-

ment.

"Concealers" and concealments: what
they were, 46 note.

Concealments and Disinherisons of the
King's estate, 315.

Constable, Sir John, marriage and
knighthood of, 1-3.

Proposed settlement on his wife,

13.

Cook, Sir William, of Hynam, 40.
Cope, Sir Walter, 241 note.

One of the Commissioners to de-
vise projects for the relief of
the King's estate, 314.
Appointed Master of the Wards,

342.

Coppices and Underwoods as a source
of revenue to the King, 319-
321.

Coppin, Sir George, contractor for sale
of parsonages and tithes, 47.
Cornwallis, Sir Charles, 289.
Cotton, Sir Robert, and his collection
of records, reference in Bacon's
note-book to, 49, 54.

A helper in Camden's Annals of
Queen Elizabeth, 211.

Clauses offered for insertion therein
by Bacon, 212.

Cottwin, Edwin, Bacon's recommenda-
tion of the suit of, 261.

Courts, Perquisites of, as a source of
revenue to the King, 322.
Cowell's Law Dictionary, definitions of
technical terms from, 48 note,
49 note, 58 note.

Complained against in Parliament,
161.

Suppressed by Royal Proclama-
tion, with general applause, 162,

345.

Craig, Sir Thomas, 43, note 94.
Crew, "stands to be serjeant," 365,
370.

Croft, Sir Herbert, jurisdiction of the

Croft-continued.

Council of Wales opposed by, 75 note. See 231, 236 note. Croke, Sir John, 48 note. Crown, growing dependency of, upon the House of Commons, 16. Bacon's thoughts on the remedy for, 26, 27.

D'Aubigny Esme Stuart, Lord, 41. See ibid, note 55, 79,

Davers, Lord, prevented from fighting a duel, 369.

David and Goliah, 405.

Davies, or Davis, Sir John, sends Bacon a discourse concerning the flight of Tyrone, 3.

His Letter to the Chancellor on the same, 4.

Letter from Bacon to him, 5. Elected Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, 384.

Unsuccessful attempt of the minority to supplant him, 385. Death, apophthegms on, 57. Depopulation," nature and object of the service of, 46.

66

Further on the same subject, 51 note 90.

De Thou, President, wished by Bacon to see his memorial of Queen Elizabeth, 108, 109.

Camden's Annals of Queen Eliza

beth sent to him in MS. 211.

D'Ewes, Sir Simonds, MS. belonging to, 348.

Digges, Sir Dudley, 230, 370.

Diogenes, his saying about rich men and philosophers, 32.

Dionysius, why Aristippus fell at the feet of, 33.

Crown-continued.

Why its patrimony grew not with the growth of the nation, 149. Customs and Wines, Letter to the King on, drawn up by Bacon, 337-339.

Custos Rotulorum, duty of the officer so named, 49 note.

Discontent, popular, how to be prevented, 27.

Disinherison of the King by Concealments, etc., 315.

Doderidge, or Doddridge, Sir John, 110. Answers to questions relative to Ireland joined in by him, 111

113.

Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, Lord Treasurer, his sudden death, 35.

Condition in which he left the
Exchequer, 150. See 215.

Dorset, Lady, the widow, message of compliment to, 57.

Bacon's reasons for cultivating her, 35, 36, 77.

Drummond of Hawthornden, 12 note. Duels, prevalence of, and steps taken for their suppression, 396-398. Charge of Bacon in the case of Priest and Wright, and subsequent decree of the Star Chamber therein, 399–416.

Dunbar, Sir George Home Lord, his various offices and honours: the king's liking for him, 41. His patent, 51 note.

Sent by the King to speak with a
dying peer, 223.

His death, 241 note.
See 365, 370.

E.

Edmunds, Sir Thomas, 281.

Elector Palatine, husband of James's eldest daughter, 303.

Elizabeth, Queen, used to call Bacon

her watch-candle, 93 and note. Calumnies concerning her, 107. Her felicities expounded in Bacon's treatise In felicem memoriam Elizabeth 108, 109, 133, 135, 139. Increased cost of government in the latter years of her reign,

148. Gradual decrease in value of subsidies, 149.

Excess of her expenditure over her ordinary receipts, 150.

Elizabeth-continued.

Her economy, 150.

Cost of the war of Ireland to, 156.

Number and value of Subsidies re-
ceived by her, 158.

Cases in which she inhibited the
Commons from interfering with
her Prerogative, 183.
Camden's Annals of her reign,
211.

Passage therein relative to her
right of succession, 213.
Stipends for preachers in the
Duchy erected by her, 254.
Parliamentary constitution of Ire-
land during her reign, 383.

Elizabeth, Princess, daughter of James I., 302.

Proceedings for raising an "Aid" upon her marriage with the Count Palatine; amount raised, etc., 303-310.

Her marriage postponed by her brother's death, 343.

Public rejoicings at the marriage: the Masque of the Inns of Court, 343, 344.

Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton Lord, Lord Chancellor, 4.

Plurality of offices held by him, 48 note.

His position in James's council, 277.

Appointed with Northampton to
inquire into the Farms of Cus-
toms and Wines, 336.

Report to the King signed by
them, 337-339.
See 409.

Fenton, Lord, "Counsellor in Lord
Kinloss's room," 241 note.
Ferdinand, Duke of Florence, death of,
132, 133 note.

Fifteenths levied of towns excepted,
45 note, 91. See Subsidies.
Fivy, Alexander Lord, President of the
Council of Scotland, one of the
Commissioners for the Union,
43 note.
Fleetwood, 40.
Fleming, Sir Thomas, Chief Justice of
King's Bench, death of, 378.
Floyd, his offence and sentence, 345,

346.

Forster, John, Esq. Bacon's MS. NoteBook purchased by, 18.

Galileo, Bacon's appreciation of his invention of the telescope, 239. Gardiner, S. R., author of History

of England from the Accession of James I. to the disgrace of Chief Justice Coke.' Date of Bacon's discourse on Ireland fixed by, 115.

His financial tables, and opinions as to the financial condition of the Crown, 150.

References to and citations from

him, 156 note, 157, 190, 200, 224, 227, 228, 233, 363, 364 note, 373. Garve, Neil, final overthrow of, 110. Gibb, John, Groom of the Bedchamber to James I., 42.

Occasion upon which the King

F.

Ellis, Mrs., Letter of Bacon concerning a grant to, 106.

Elphinston, Alexander, fourth Lord, 41, 42, note.

Elphinston, Sir James, Lord Balmerinoch, offices held by him: occasion of his falling into disgrace, 41 note.

Encroachments as a source of revenue to the King, 317.

England, her kings never merchants, 149 Condition of the people relative to fiscal burdens, 167.

Growth of the National Wealth, 168.

See Crown.

Essex, Robert Earl of (son of Elizabeth's favourite) dissolution of the marriage of, 392.

His impending duel with Henry
Howard, 396.

Exchequer, Bacon's apprehensions concerning the poverty of the, 26.

Fortitude, true and false, 401.

Frederick, Count Palatine. See Elizabeth, Princess.

Freedom of speech, not tolerated in the beginning of the 17th century, 345.

Fuller, Nicholas, prosecuted by Archbishop Bancroft for an argument against the Ecclesiastical Commission; M.P. for the City of London in 1610, 51 note. Debates begun by him, 173, 190. See 95.

Fuller, Thomas, church historian, his error relative to Nicholas Fuller, 51 note.

Gibb, John-continued.

knelt to him for pardon, ibid.

note.

"Young Gib of the Bedchamber" (his son probably) sent to Calais to prevent a duel, 396. Gold coins, proclamation for equali zing the value of, 243; welcome to the King, 244; extracts from the Proclamation, ibid. note, 257 note.

Effect of the proclamation, 255. Goodman, Bishop, on the mental condition of Bacon's mother, 217. His story "of the true cause of Salisbury's fall," 222, 223. His description of John Murray, 247.

Impositions, Memoranda of Bacon re

lative to, 46. 58.

Discussions in the Commons of the King's right to lay them on, 168. 175, 176. 183, 184. 189. Bacon's argument in favour of the King's right, 191-200. Result of the debate, 201, 202. The war against them begun by James Whitelocke, 347. Informers, Sir Stephen Proctor's projects relative to, and Bacon's comments thereon, 96-104. Inner Temple and Gray's Inn Masque at the Princess Elizabeth's Marriage, 343, 344.

Ireland, Tyrone's flight from, 4, 110.

New rebellion in, suppressed, 110. Answers to questions as to the disposal of confiscated lands in, 111-113.

Commissioners appointed to propare a project for the settlement of, 114.

Bacon's Discourse on the plantation of the country, 114-126. Attempt to introduce Parliamentary Government into, 382.

I.

James I.-continued.

Bacon's letter to him on presenting his Discourse on the plantation of Ireland, ibid.

Appoints Bishop Andrews to answer Bellarmin, 140.

His entertainment of Isaac Casau-
bon, 146.

His financial difficulties, 148-150.
His revenues from tenures and pri-

vileges a fair subject for bargain with the Commons, 153, 154. Declaration of his wants by Salisbury, 155-157.

Demands made on his behalf, and
Concessions offered in exchange,
160, 161.

Suppresses Cowell's 'Interpreter'
by proclamation, 162.
Concedes to the Commons liberty
to treat of a composition for
Wards and Tenures, 167. 169.
Demands new conditions, 169—
172.

Obtains a loan from the City,

173.

His messages to the Commons, 176. 180.

His speech to them: its intention and its effect, 181, 182.