afterwards a commentary, ib.; caused a
literary war, 306.

ANTEDILUVIAN researches, i. 301-303.

ANTI, a favourite prefix to books of controversy, i. 318.

ANTIQUARIES, Society of, inquiry into its origin and progress, ii.
413-415.

ANTONY, Marc, anecdote of, ii. 10.

APPAREL, excess in, proclamation against, by Elizabeth, iii. 375.

APPLES grafted on mulberry stocks, ii. 157, note.

ARCHESTRATUS, a celebrated culinary philosopher, ii. 246.

ARGUMENTS, invented by a machine, ii. 419.

ARIOSTO, his merits disputed in Italy, i. 386; public preference
given to, by the Accademia della Crusca, 387; his verses sung by the
gondoliers, 388.

ARISTOCRAT, a nick-name, iii. 83.

ARISTOTLE, account of criticisms on, i. 25; fate of his library, 53;
Arabic commentaries on, 61; rage for, ib.; his opinions on sneezing,
127; letter of Philip of Macedon to, 142; description of the person
and manners of, ib.; will of, 143; studied under Plato, ib.;
parallel between him and Plato, by Rapin, ib.; anecdote concerning
him and Plato, 144; raises a school, ib.; attacked by Xenocrates,
ib.; his mode of pointing out a successor, 145; writers against and
for, 314; bon-mot on his precepts, 407.

ARMSTRONG, Archibald, jester to Charles I., ii. 236, note.

ARNAULD, one of the most illustrious members of the Port Royal
Society, i. 94; anecdotes of, 96; was still the great Arnauld at the
age of eighty-two, 97.

ASHMOLE, Elias, his Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, i. 286; his
Diary, ii. 209; his superstition, ib., note.

ASTRAEA, D'Urfe's romance of the, i. 451; sketch of, 452-454.

ASTROLOGERS, faith in, by celebrated characters, i. 278; Lilly
consulted by Charles I., ib.; Nostrodamus, by Catherine de Medici,
279; several have suffered death to verify their skill, ib.; shifts
and impostures of, 279-280.

ASTROLOGY, greatly flourished in the time of the Civil Wars, i. 280;
attacks on and defences of, 281-282.

ATELLANAE Fabulae, Atellan farces, ii. 131, and note, 132.

ATTICUS, employed to collect for Cicero, ii. 397; traded in books
and gladiators, 398.

AUBREY, John, extract from his correspondence, iii. 294; his search
after gold, ib.; his idea of universal education, 296.

AUDLEY, a lawyer and usurer, ii. 158; his commencement of life, and
means of rising in, 159; anecdote of him and a draper, 161; his