ABBOTT, The Rev. E. A., his Life and
Works of Bacon, 214; his edition of
the Essays, 214.
Achilles, 179.
Eneas, 179.
Eschylus, Persae, 293.
America, 119, 255.
Antwerp, 27, 28.
Arber, Edward, his edition of Bacon's
Essays, 214.
Arcadia, by Sanazzaros, 98.
by Sidney. See sub Sidney, Sir
Philip, Works.
Arden, Mary, 257.
'Areopagus,' the club, 86, 166.
Ariosto, 179, 196, 305, 318.
Aristides, More compared with, 58.
Aristotle, 92, 199, 246.
Artaxerxes, 146.
Artegal, Sir, 174, 199.
Arthur, Prince, 201.
Arundel, Thomas Howard, 14th Earl
of, 237 and n.
Ascham, Roger, 159.
Assyria, 146.
Aubrey, John, early biographer of
Shakespeare, 229, 237 n., 244, 296.
Audley, Sir Thomas, More's suc-
cessor in the Chancellorship, 44 n.
gustine, St., his 'City of God,' 22.
Austria, dramatic performances in,
Bacon, Francis, 214-255; Bibliog-
raphy, 214; second in greatness
to Shakespeare, 215; Bacon and
Shakespeare distinct, 215; his life
and work, 216; his parentage, 216;
his mother, 216; his advantage of
birth, 217; birth, 217; at Trinity
College, Cambridge, 217; returns to
London to study law, 217; his pre-
cocity, 217; his view of his profes-
sion, 218; his ideals, 218; his materi-
alism, 219; enters Parliament, 219;
his attitude to politics, 220; his
scheme of life, 220; influence of
Macchiavelli, 221; his precepts, 221;
relations with the Earl of Essex, 222;
fails to obtain post of Attorney-
General, 222; compensated by
Essex, 222; disappointments, 223;
his advice to Essex on Ireland, 223;
his prosecution of Essex, 224; his
perfidy, 224-5; seeks favour of
James I., 225; advises James I.,
226; recommends union of England
and Scotland, 226; literary occupa-
tions, 227; Essays 1597, 228; Ad-
vancement of Learning 1603, 228;
marriage, 229; at Gorhambury,
229; Solicitor-General 1607, 230;
Attorney-General 1613, 230; his
political fickleness, 230; seeks the
favour of the Duke of Bucking-
ham, 231; Lord Keeper, 231; raised
to peerage as Baron Verulam, 231;
Lord High Chancellor, 232; Vis-
count St. Alban, 232; his judicial
work, 232; the Novum Organum,
233; unpopularity with Parliament,
233; charged with corruption, 234;
his collapse, 234; confession, 235;
dismissal from post of Lord Chan-
cellor, 235; his punishment and re-
tirement to St. Albans, 235; literary
and scientific occupations, 235;
writes history of Henry VII., 235;
his Natural History, 236; his De
Augmentis Scientiarum, 236; his
hope of restitution, 236; his death at
Highgate, 236; his experiments in
refrigeration, 237 and n.; his burial
and monument, 237; his character,
238; his neglect of morals, 239; his
want of savoir faire, 239; his true
greatness, 240; his literary versa-
tility, 240; his reverence for Latin,
240; his contempt for English, 241;
the style of his Essays, 241; his
views in the Essays, 241; his pithy
terseness, 242; his majestic style,
242; Shelley's criticism, 243; his
verse, 243; philosophic works, Ad-
vancement of Learning and Novum
Organum, 245; his attitude to
science, 245; opposition to Aristotle,
246; on induction, 246; his doctrine
of idols, 247; the dry light of reason,
248; limitless possibilities of man's
knowledge, 249; his work frag-
mentary, 249; ignorance of contem-
porary science, 249; his own dis-
coveries, 250; his place in the history
of science, 250; his New Atlantis,
251; his final message, 255; cf. also
1, 3, 6, 15, 61 (views on colonisa-
tion), 157, 287.
Bacon, Francis, Works: Advance-
ment of Learning, 221, 228, 236,
243, 245 (De Augmentis Scienti-
arum, 236, 245); Certaine Psalmes,
244; Essays, 227, 241, 242; Henry
VII., Reign of, 235; Historia Na-
turalis et Experimentalis ad Con-
dendam Philosophiam, 236; Medi-
tationes Sacrae, 1; New Atlantis,
251; its objects, 251; the story, 252;
the imaginary college of science and
its work, 253; the Fellows, 254; its
aspirations, 255; prospect of realis-
ing the ideal, 255; Novum Organ-
um, 228, 233, 245; Partis Secundæ
Delineatio, 247 n.; Valerius Ter-
minus, 247 n.
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, father of Francis
Bacon, 216.
Baif, Jean Antoine de, 308.
Bandello, 305.
Barton, Elizabeth (the Maid of Kent),
denounces Henry VIII.'s divorce,
48; relations with More, 49.
Basse, William, elegy to Shakespeare,
279.
Beaumont, Francis, 194, 279.
Sir John, 245 n.
Beling or Bellings, Richard, 102.
Bellay, Joachim du, 79, 161, 184, 196,
309; his Olive, 309 n.
Belleforest, his Histoires Tragiques,
Bembo, Cardinal Pietro, 278 n.
Ben Salem, 252.
Bible, The, its literary influence, 13;
translations, 13, 14.
Bion, 167.
Blackfriars, 275.
Blackwater, Battle of, 191.
Boccaccio, 304.
Boleyn, Anne, 40, 48; her triumph, 50.
Boyle, James, 183.
Elizabeth, 184.
Richard (Earl of Cork), 183.
Britomart, 199.
Bruges, 27.
Bruno Giordano; visit to England, 88.
Brussels, 27.
Brutus, 315.
Bryskett, Lodowick, 174, 184 n.
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke
of, 231.
Bucklersbury, More's house in, 26.
Budleigh Salterton, 124.
Bullen, A. H., his edition of Campion's
Poems, 244 n.
Bulmar, Master, 139 n.
Bunyan, John, 202, 213.
Burbage, Richard, actor, 266; his
presentation of Richard III., 266.
Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Period
of the Renaissance in Italy, 1.
Burghley, William Cecil, Lord, 69, 84,
204, 217, 219.
Burns, Robert, 213, 289.
Byron, Lord, 213.
Calidore, Sir, 199.
Cambell, 199.
Cambridge Modern History, 1.
Camden, William, Annales quoted,
Campbell, Thomas, 213.
Campion, Thomas, his Poems, 244 n.
Canterbury Hall, Oxford, 20.
Carolina, North, 128.
Casimir, Prince John, 104.
Catherine, Queen of Aragon, wife of
Henry VIII., 40; question of divorce,
40-42, 48; divorced, 51.
Cato, More compared with, 58.
Caxton, William, introduced printing
into England, 18, 19.
Cecil, Sir Robert, 142.
Cervantes, 288, 318.
Chapman, George, 308.
Colte, Jane, 26.
Columbus, 10, 118.
Comines, Philippe de, 97.
Condel, Henry, 281.
Cook, Prof. A. S., his edition of Sid-
ney's Apologie for Poetrie, 63; of
Shelley's Defence of Poetry, 243 n.
Copernicus, 10; his system, 250.
Cork, 126.
Cotter's Saturday Night, 213.
Cowley, Abraham, 212.
Cowper, William, 114.
Cranmer, Thomas, tests More's loy-
alty, 51.
Crashaw, Richard, 160.
Crates, 245 n.
Cromwell, Oliver, Carlyle's Letters
and Speeches of, 153.
- Thomas, Henry VIII.'s minister,
prosecutes More, 49, 50, 54.
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