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,
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
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,
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
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
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
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,
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
Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, one
of the leaders of the anti-Presbyterian
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
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,
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
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
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,
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
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