COM

cusses the abdication of James II.,
646
Committee of Both Kingdoms, formation
of, 542

Communion table, Laud's wish to fix
at the east end, 517; decision of the
Privy Council on the position of, 519;
removed by the soldiers, 529
Comprehension favoured by some of the
clergy, 598; attempt of Charles II. to
establish, 599

Compton, Bishop of London, refuses to
suspend Dr. Sharp, 639

Con, Papal agent at the court of Henri-
etta Maria, 521

Confederate Catholics of Ireland, the,
cessation of hostilities with, 541
Congé d'élire, provision for the issue of,

391

Connaught, proposed plantation of, 528
Constantinople taken by the Turks, 366
Conventicle Act, the, 588

Convention Parliament, the first, 577;
the second, 646

Convocation of the province of Canter-
bury offers money for a pardon, 385;
agrees to the submission of the clergy,
386

Cornwall, insurrection in, 415

Corporations, remodelling of the, 625
Council of State, the, appointment of,
561

Covenant, the Scottish National, 525, sec
Solemn League and Covenant
Covenanters, the rise of, 619; insurrec-
tion of, 620

Coverdale translates the New Testa-
ment, 396

Cranfield, see Middlesex, Earl of
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury,

pronounces Catharine's marriage to
be null, 389; is forced to dismiss his
wife, 400; composes the English
litany, 409; character and position of,
413; wishes to preserve the revenue
of the chantries for the poor clergy,
415; tries to find common ground with
the Zwinglian reformers, 416; leaves
his mark on the Prayer Book, 418;
supports Lady Jane Grey, 420; burnt,
426

Crêpy, peace of, 406

Cromwell, Oliver, practical sagacity

of, 539; introduces discipline in the
Eastern Association, 540; defeats the
royalists at Winceby, 542; fights at
Marston Moor, 543; advocates tolera-
tion, ib.; accuses Manchester, 544;
becomes Lieutenant-General of the
New Model Army, 545: cuts off the
king's supplies, 547; wins the victory
at Naseby, 548; reduces Winchester
and Basing House, 549; proposes to
leave England, 554; gives instructions
to Cornet Joyce, 555: attempts to
come to an understanding with Charles,
ib.; puts down a mutiny in the army,
556; suppresses a rising in Wales and

DIS

653

defeats the Scots at Preston, 557; sup-
presses the Levellers, 562; his cam-
paign in Ireland, ib.; his victory at
Dunbar, 563; his victory at Worces-
ter, 564; dissolves the Long Parlia
ment, 566: opens the Barebone's Par-
liament, 567; becomes Protector, 568;
plots against, 569; ecclesiastical ar-
rangements of, ib.; convenes and dis-
solves his first Parliament, 570; esta-
blishes major-generals, ib.; foreign
policy of, 571; calls a second Parlia
ment, 572; joins France against Spain,
ib.; dissolves his second Parliament,
573; makes war against Spain, ib.;
death of, 574

Cromwell, Richard, succeeds to the
Protectorate, 574; abdicates, 575
Cromwell, Thomas, advises Henry VIII.
to rely on the House of Commons, 385;
becomes the king's secretary, and vicar-
general, 393; attacks the monks of the
Charterhouse, ib. ; inquires into the
state of the monasteries, 394; attacks
the greater monasteries, 397; execu-
tion of, 401

Cropredy Bridge, battle of, 544

DANBY, Thomas Osborne, Earl of, as
Sir T. Osborne, becomes Lord
Treasurer, 607; policy of, 610; fails
to pass a Non-resistance Bill, 611;
promotes the marriage of William of
Orange, 613 impeachment of, 616;
imprisonment of, 617; liberated, 626;
rises in support of William, 645; re-
commends that the crown be given to
Mary, 646

Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord, marries
Mary, 438; murder of, 439

Darvel Gathern, burning of the wooden
figure of, 398

Davison sends the warrant for Mary's
execution, 457; dismissal of, 458
Declaration of Breda, see Breda, Decla
ration of

Declaration of Indulgence issued by
Charles II., 604; withdrawn by
Charles II., 606; issued by James II.,
640; reissued, 642

Declaration of Rights, the, 647
Declaration of Sports, the, ordered to be
read in churches, 517

Defender of the Faith, title of, 379
Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, Earl of,
insurrection and death of, 453
Devolution, the war of, 593
Devonshire, insurrection in, 415
Devonshire, William Cavendish, Earl
of, rises in support of William of
Orange, 645

Digby, John, Lord, his mission to Ger.
many, 497

Dispensing power, the, claimed by
Charles II., 604; acknowledged by
the judges, 639

Dissenters, the, origin of their name,

DIS

585 Charles II. issues a declaration
for the toleration of, 587; Conventicle
Act against, 588; Five-mile Act
against, 590; favour of Charles II. to,
599; reception of the Declaration of
Indulgence by, 640

Dissenting Brethren, the five, 543
Divine Right of Kings, doctrine of the,
619

Douai, College at, 453
Dover, treaty of, 600

Drake, Francis, lands at Nombre de
Dios, 448; vows to sail on the Pacific,
449; his voyage round the world, 450,
(Sir Francis) singes the king of Spain's
beard, 458; has a command against
the Armada, 460; pursues the Armada,
462; sacks Corunna, and fails before
Lisbon, 464; death of, ib.

Dramatic writers of the Restoration,
598

Dreux, battle of, 436

Drogheda, slaughter at, 562
Drumclog, skirmish at, 620
Dublin, attempt to seize, 533
Dudley, see Empson and Dudley
Dudley, Lord Guilford, marries Lady
Jane Grey, 420; èxecuted, 423
Dunbar, battle of, 563
Dunes, the, battle of, 573

Dunkirk, Cromwell wishes Spain to place
in his hands, 571; taken from Spain
by Cromwell's troops, 573; abandoned
by Charles II., 587

Dunkirk House, 587

Dunse Law, Scottish army on, 526
Dunstable, marriage of Catharine of
Arragon annulled at, 389

Durham, temporary suppression of the
see of, 418; celebration of the mass in
the cathedral of, 441

Dutch Republic, the, foundation of, 449;
abolition of the Stadholderate in, 565;
war between the English Common-
wealth and, ib. ; peace with, 569; first
war between Charles II. and, 589;
military weakness of, 591; treaty of
Breda with, 593; takes part in the
Triple Alliance, 599; combination of
England and France against, 600;
towns to be taken from, ib.; the second
war between Charles II. and, 605;
resists Louis XIV., ib.; animosity of
Shaftesbury against, 606; peace made
by England with, 608; makes peace
with France at Nymwegen, 614

ENG

Edinburgh, burnt by Hertford, 409; riot
in St. Giles's in, 525 Montrose ex-
ecuted at, 563; surrenders to Crom-
well, ib.

Edinburgh, treaty of, 433

Edward VI., birth of, 397. accession of,
412; precocity of, 419 death of, 420
Ejectors, Commission of, 569
Eleven Members, the, excluded from the
House of Commons, 555

to

Eliot, Sir John, attacks Buckingham,
504; compares Buckingham
Sejanus, 505; his policy compared
with that of Wentworth, 508; vindi-
cates the privileges of the House, 512;
imprisonment and death of, 514
Elizabeth, daughter of James I., inten-
tion of the Gunpowder plotters to
crown, 483; married to the Elector
Palatine, 488

Elizabeth, Queen, birth of, 392; her
succession acknowledged, 411; sent to
the Tower and afterwards removed to
Woodstock and Hatfield, 423; acces-
sion of, 428; character and policy of,
ib.; modification of the title of, 429;
plays off France and Spain against one
another, 431; hesitates to assist the
Scotch Protestants, 432; assists the
Lords of the Congregation, 433; her
ill-treatment of Catherine Grey, 435
contrasted with Mary, Queen of Scots,
ib.; hopes to recover Calais by assist-
ing the Huguenots, 436; appoints com-
missioners to examine the case against
Mary, 440; detains Mary a prisoner,
and suppresses a rising in the North,
441; excommunicated by Pius V.
ib. negotiates a marriage with the
Duke of Anjou, 443; her attitude to
wards the Puritans and towards Parlia-
ment, 444; the Ridolfi plot against,
445 proposes to marry the Duke of
Alençon, 446; intervenes in Scotland
on behalf of James VI., 450; refuses
to restore Drake's plunder, 451; her
treatment of Ireland, 452; kisses the
Duke of Alençon, 454; plot of Allen
and Parsons to murder, ib.; Throg-
morton's plot to murder, 456: Ba-
bington's plot to murder, 457, hesitates
to allow the execution of the Queen of
Scots ib., dismisses Davison, 458;
her riumph at the defeat of the
Armada, 462; allies herself with
Henry IV, 464; shows favour to
Essex, ib.; erects the Court of High
Commission, 4/0; sends Essex to
Ireland, 475; turns against Essex,
476; withdraws monopolies, 478;
nature of the work of, 479: death of,
480

Elizabethan architecture, 465
Empson and Dudley, execution of, 363
Engagement, the, between Charles I.
and the Scottish Commissioners, 556
England, the Church of, relations of
Henry VIII. with, 377; dealings of

ESS

Henry VIII. with, 386; the clergy
acknowledge the king supreme head
of, 386; becomes more national, 391;
Parliament acknowledges the king to
be supreme head of, 393; Cranmer's
position in, 413; ecclesiastical changes
in, 414; issue of the first Prayer Book
of Edward VI. for, 415; Zwinglian
teaching in, 416 issue of the second
Prayer Book of Edward VI. for, 418;
reconciled to the see of Rome, 424;
Elizabeth's settlement of, 429: position
of, during Parker's archbishopric, 430;
Presbyterian movement in, 446; Pres-
byterianism adopted by the Assembly
of Divines for 543; restoration of
episcopacy in, 583; proposal to esta
blish a modified episcopacy in, ib.;
promise of James II. to protect, 634
Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, suicide of,
625

Essex, Frances, Countess of, divorce and
remarriage of, 486

Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl
of, joins in the capture of Cadiz, 464;
sent to Ireland, 475: placed in confine-
ment on his return, 476: insurrection
of, 477: trial and execution of, 478
Essex, Robert Devereux, third Earl of,
divorce of, 486; appointed general of
the Parliamentary army, 537; com-
mands at Edgehill, ib. ; takes Reading,
538 relieves Gloucester and commands
at the first battle of Newbury, 539;
escapes from Lostwithiel, 544: resigns,

545

:

Exclusion Bill, the, brought in, 617;
rejected by the House of Lords, 621;
lost by dissolution, ib.
Exeter, besieged by Fairfax, 549
Exeter, Henry Courtenay, Marquis of,
executed, 399

Expenditure of the Crown, parliamentary
inquiry into, 593

FAIRFAX, Ferdinando, second Lord,
defeated at Adwalton Moor, 538
Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax,
as Sir Thomas Fairfax, is defeated at
Adwalton Moor, 538; wins a victory
at Nantwich, 542; appointed General
of the New Model army, 545; re-
lieves Taunton, 547; commands at
Naseby, 548; follows up his successes,
548, 549; reduces the king's army in
Cornwall, 550; proposed as
mander of the forces retained after
the disbandment of the army, 553;
as Lord Fairfax, puts down the rising
in Kent and takes Colchester, 557;
absents himself from the High Court
of Justice, 559 refuses to command
in the war against Charles II., 563
joins Monk, 576

com.

Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, one

of the leaders of the anti-Presbyterian

FRE

655

party in the Long Parliament, 533;
death of, 539

Fawkes, Guy, takes part in the Gun-
powder Plot, 483

Felton, John, affixes the Pope's ex-
communication to the door of the
Bishop of London's house, 442
Felton, John, murders the Duke of
Buckingham, 510

Ferdinand I., Emperor, inherits the

German territories of Charles V., 426
Ferdinand II., Emperor, loses and re
gains the crown of Bohemia, 490
Ferdinand V. of Aragon, Italian wars
of, 363; conquers Navarre, 364; death
of, 366

Feudal dues, bargain offered by James
I. for, 484 abolition of, 582
Field of the Cloth of Gold, the, 369
Fifth-Monarchy men, 567; oppose
Cromwell, 569

Fire of London, the, 592

Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, opposes the
divorce of Henry VIII., 382; sent to
the Tower, 392; execution of, 394
Fitzmaurice, Sir James, lands in Ireland,

Flodden, battle of, 364
Forest, Friar, burnt, 398

Forests, the, fines for encroaching on,
523; the king's claims on, limited, 531
Fotheringhay, execution of Mary Stuart
at, 458

Fox, Richard, Bishop of Winchester,
minister of Henry VII. and Henry
VIII., 363

France, reign of Louis XII. in, 36;
attack of Henry VIII. on, 364; in
alliance with England, 366; invaded
by Henry VIII., 371; peace with,
374; Mary at war with, 426; recovery
of Calais by, 427; civil wars in, 436-
443; Philip II. supports the League
in, 464; allied with James I., 501;
Charles I. breaks with, 506; Charles
I. makes peace with, 514; allied with
Cromwell against Spain, 572; Danby's
policy directed against, 610
Francis I., king of France, his rivalry
with Charles V., 366-369; meets
Henry VIII. on the Field of the Cloth
of Gold, 369; goes to war with Charles
V. about Milan, 371; captured at
Pavia, 372; liberated, 374

Francis II., king of France, married as
Dauphin to Mary Queen of Scots,
413; accession and death of, 433
Frederick V., Elector Palatine, marries
Elizabeth, daughter of James I., 488;
elected King of Bohemia, 490; driven

Goring, George Goring, Lord, defeated
at Langport, 548

Graham of Claverhouse, John, attempts
to suppress the Covenanters, 620
Grammar-schools, foundation of, 419
Grand Remonstrance, the, 534
Great Contract, the, 484

Great Council. the, meets at York, 529
Greenwood hanged, 472

Grey, Arthur Lord, slaughters foreign
soldiers at Smerwick, 453

Grey, Lady Catherine, marriage and
imprisonment of, 435

Grey, Lady Jane, is proclaimed Queen,
420; executed, 423

Grey, Lord Leonard, becomes Lord
Deputy of Ireland, 402; conquers a
great part of Ireland, 404

Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury,
suspension of, 450

Grocyn encourages the study of Greek
at Oxford, 367

Guiana, Raleigh's voyage to, 489
Guinegatte, battle of the Spurs at, 364
Guise, Henry, Duke of, heads the
French Catholics, 443; conspires to
murder Elizabeth 454; heads the
League, 456; murdered, 464

HEN

Guise, Francis, Duke of, takes Calais,
427; murder of, 436
Guisnes, taken by the French, 427
Gunpowder Plct, the, 483

Habeas Corpus Act, 617

Habeas corpus, writ of. dispute whether
it ought to show the cause of imprison-
ment, 507

Hales, destruction of the phial at, 398
Hales, Sir Edward, holds an appoint-

ment by the dispensing power, 639
Halifax, George Savile, Earl, afterwards
Marquis of, supports the Duke of
York's succession, 618; persuades the
House of Lords to reject the Exclusion
Bill, 621; advises Charles II. to
summon Parliament, 626; dismissed
by James II., 638

Halley, astronomer, 632

Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of,
as Marquis of Hamilton dissolves the
Assembly of Glasgow, 526; is defeated
at Preston, 557

Hamilton family support Mary, 440
Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh assassinates
the regent Murray, 441
Hampden resists ship-money,

524

calms the House of Commons after
the passing of the Grand Remon-
strance, 534; one of the five members,
535; death of, 538

Hampton Court Conference, the, 482
Harlech Castle, surrender of, 550

Havre occupied and abandoned by
Elizabeth, 436

Hazlerigg, Sir Arthur, one of the five
members, 535

Heads of the Proposals, the, 555
Henrietta Maria, Queen, negotiations
for the marriage of, 500; marries
Charles I., 502; a papal agent at the
Court of, 521; carries abroad the
crown jewels, 536; urges Charles not
to abandon the militia, 552
Henry VIII., character of, 361; marries
Catharine of Aragon, 363; foreign
policy of, ib.; promotes Wolsey, ib.;
favours More, 368; meets Francis I.
on the Field of the Cloth of Gold,
369; has Buckingham executed, ib.;
invades France, 371; his views on his
relations with the Church, 377; is
named Defender of the Faith, 379;
thinks of obtaining a divorce, ib.:
urges Clement VII. to divorce him,
382; demands a sentence of nullity,
383; makes a victim of Wolsey, ib.;
gains the support of the House of
Commons, 385; consults the uni-
versities, and charges the clergy with
being under a præmunire, ib. ; obtains
from Convocation the title of Supreme
Head, 386; has no tenderness towards
heresy, 388; obtains the Act of An-
nates, ib.; marries Anne Boleyn, and
is divorced, 389; attempts to suppress

HEN

heresy, and obtains fresh powers from
Parliament, 390: sends More and
Fisher to the Tower, 392; Act of
Supremacy in favour of, 393; dissolves
the smaller monasteries, 394; marries
Jane Seymour, 395; issues the ten
articles, and authorises the translation
of the Bible, 396; deals hardly with the
Pilgrimage of Grace, 397; begins the
confiscation of the greater monasteries,
ib.; attacks relics and images, 398;
presides at Lambert's trial, 399;

obtains from Parliament the SIX
articles, 399; marries and divorces
Anne of Cleves, 400-401; marries and
beheads Catherine Howard, 401;
marries Catherine Parr, ib.; his
government of Ireland, 401-404; takes
Boulogne, 405; makes war with
Scotland, 406; debases the coinage,
409; death of, 411

Henry II., king of France, allied with
Scotland, 413; his attitude towards
Elizabeth, 432; death of, 433
Henry III., King of France, proposes,
as Duke of Anjou, to marry Elizabeth,
443; accession of, 450; murder of, 464
Henry IV., King of France, his succes-
sion to the French crown disputed,
456; overpowers the League, 464
Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James
I., intention of the Gunpowder plotters
to blow up, 483; death of, 488
Hereford, besieged by the Scots, 549
Heresy held to be punishable by the
Common Law, 419

Hertford, Earl of, see Somerset, Edward
Seymour, Duke of

High Commission, the, Court of, erection

of, 470; its activity in the reign of
Charles I., 520; abolition of, 531
High Court of Justice, the, proposal to
constitute rejected by the Lords, 557;
constituted by the Commons, 558
Highland Host, the, 619

Holland, province of, its influence in the
Dutch Republic, 589

Holmby House, Charles I. at, 553;
Charles I., removed from, 555
Holmes, Admiral, attacks the Dutch
fleet, 605

Hopton, Sir Ralph, commands the
Royalists in Cornwall, 537, 538;
fights on Lansdown, 538; takes and
loses Arundel Castle, 542; is defeated
at Cheriton, ib.

Holles takes part in holding down the
Speaker, 514; one of the five members,
535

Holy League, the, 363

Hooker, his Ecclesiastical Polity, 472
Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, refuses

to wear vestments, 417; receives the
bishopric of Worcester, 418; speaks
of his dioceses as the king's, 420;
burnt, 424

Hotham, Sir John, shuts the gates of
Hull against Charles I., 537

IRE

657

Hough, chosen President of Magdalen
College, 641

Houghton, prior of the Charterhouse,
execution of, 394

Hounslow, James II. reviews regiments
at, 643

Howard of Effingham, Charles Howard,
Lord, commands the fleet against the
Armada, 465; takes art in the capture
I
of Cadiz, 464

Howard of Escrick, Edward Howard,
Lord, informs against the Whigs, 625
Hudibras, 597

Huguenots, the, supported by Elizabeth,
436; Buckingham lends ships to fight
against, 504

Hull, its gates shut against Charles I.,
537; besieged by Newcastle, 542
Huntley, George Gordon, fourth Earl
of, overpowered by Mary, 437
Humble Petition and Advice, the, 573
Hurst Castle, Charles I. imprisoned in,

557

Hyde, Anne, marries the Duke of York,
608

IMAGES, destruction of, 398
Impeachment of Bacon, 496: of Buck-
ingham, Montague and Manwaring,
511; of Strafford, 530; of twelve
bishops, 535; of the five members,
536; of Laud, 546; of Danby, 616;
pardon not to be pleaded in bar of, 617
Impositions, the New, first levy of, 484

question of the legality of, 505; act
preventing the king from levying, 531
Inclosures, More's attack on, 368; Ket's
rebellion directed against, 416; cessa.
tion of complaints against, 464
Independents, the, originally known as
Separatists, 543; driven from the
House, and reinstated by the army,
555; are unpopular after the Re-
storation, 584

Infanta, the, see Maria, the Infanta
Instrument of Government, the, 568
Inverlochy, battle of, 547

Ipswich, Wolsey's college at, founded,
377; sold by Henry VIII., 383
Ireland, under Henry VIII., 401; legis.
lation of Henry VIII. in, 402; destruc-
tion of relics and images in, ib.; con-
quest of a great part of, 404; Henry
VIII. named king of, ib.; under
Edward VI. and Mary, 451; intro-
duction of English colonists into, 452;
landing of Sir James Fitzmaurice in,
ib.; the slaughter at Smerwick, and
the Desmond rising in, 453; O'Neill's
rising in, 475; Essex's invasion of, ib.;
Mountjoy's conquest of, 478; planta-
tion of Ulster in, 484; Wentworth s
government of, 527, 528; army col-
lected by Strafford in, 529; insurrec-
tion in, 533; massacre in, 534; the
confederate Catholics in, 541; Gla-
morgan's mission to, 549; Rinuccini