Pym differs from Eliot on the method of dealing with the question of Tonnage and Poundage, 512; addresses the Short Parliament on grievances, 529; proposes in the Long Parliament the impeachment of Strafford, ib. ; his view of Strafford's case, .530; discloses the army plot, 531; is one of the leaders of the party of the Grand Remon- strance, 534; accused as one of the five members, 535; urges the House of Commons to resist Charles I., 540; death of, 542
Quo warranto, writs of, 624, 625
RALEIGH, Sir Walter, takes part in the capture of Cadiz, 464; sentenced to death and imprisonment, 481; loses Sherborne, 486; voyage to Guiana and execution of, 499; his colony in Vir- ginia, ib.
Ré, Buckingham's expedition to, 506 Reading taken by Essex, 538
Reading, the abbot of, executed, 400 Recusancy laws, the, penalties inflicted by, 454
Regicides, the, execution of, 582 Reims, College at, 453 Relics, destruction of, 398
Renascence, the, character of, 366; its influence on England, 367; immorality of, 374, 375
Requesens, governor of the Netherlands,
Ireland, 550; leaves Ireland, 562
Rising in the North, the, 441 Rizzio, David, murder of, 439 Roads, improvement in, 633 Rochelle, Buckingham lends ships to fight against the Huguenots of, 504; siege of, 506 expedition to the relief
of, 510 Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of, advises against the summoning of Parliament, 626; dismissal of, 640 Rogers, John, burnt, 424
Rome taken by the Duke of Bourbon, 374
Root and Branch Bill, the, 533 Roundway Down, battle of, 538 Rowton Heath, battle of, 549 Royal Society, the, foundation of, 598 Rump, the name given to the remnant of the Long Parliament, 565; dis- solved by Cromwell, 566; brought back, expelled and brought back again, 575; final dissolution of, 576
Rupert, Prince, commands the cavalry at Edgehill, 537; storms Bristol, 538; is defeated at Marston Moor, 543; takes part in the battle of Naseby, 548; surrenders Bristol, 549; holds a command in the battle off the North Foreland, 592; defeated off the Texel,
Russell, William Russell, Lord, sup- ports the Exclusion Bill, 617; refuses to take part in acts of violence, 624; trial of, 625; execution of, 626 Rye House Plot, the, 625
SA, DOM PANTALEON, execution of, 569 St. Andrews captured by the French and recaptured, 413
St. Bartholomew, massacre of, 449 St. Bartholomew's day, ejection of the Presbyterian clergy on, 585
St. Paul's, Old, burnt, 592 Salisbury, Penruddock captures the judges at, 571
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, as Sir Robert Cecil, secretary to Elizabeth and James I., 480, 481; becomes Earl of Salisbury and Lord Treasurer, 484; orders the levy of new impositions, iv.; death of, 486
Salisbury, Countess of, executed, 401 San Domingo, Penn and Venables attack, 572
Santa Cruz, Blake destroys Spanish ships at, 573
Savoy Conference, the, 585
Savoy, Duke of, persecutes the Vaudois,
Scotland, power of the nobles in, 404; Hertford's invasion of, 409; Protestant missionaries in, 412 Somerset's inva sion of, 413; the Reformation in, 432; the intervention of Elizabeth in, 433; Presbyterianism in, 434; Mary lands in, 435; Mary's government of, 437: 440; civil war in, 443: projected union with, 482; Episcopacy and Presbyterianism in, 524; introduc- tion of a new prayer book in, 525; national covenant signed in, ib.; first Bishops' war with, 526; episcopacy abolished by the Assembly and Parlia ment of, 527 the second Bishops war with, 529; visit of Charles I. to, 532; solemn league and covenant with, 540; sends an army into Eng- land, 542; its army recalled, 553; pro- posal of a new invasion of England by, 554; engagement signed with Charles I. by Commissioners of, 556; Charles II. and Cromwell in, 563; Restoration settlement of, 595; Lauderdale's in- fluence in, 602; Lauderdale s manage- ment of, 619; Covenanters in, ib.; rising of the Covenanters in, 620; under James II., 639
Scottish army, the, encamps on Dunse Law, 526; routs the English at New- burn, 529; invades England, 542;
besieges York, ib.; takes part in the battle of Marston Moor, 543; receives Charles I. at Southwell, and conveys him to Newcastle, 551; negotiation for the abandonment of Charles I. by, 553; returns to Scotland, 553; is de- feated at Dunbar, 563; and at Wor- cester, 564
Second Civil War, the, 556, 557 Sedgemoor, battle of, 637
Selby taken by the Fairfaxes, 542 Selden, John, takes part in drawing up the Petition of Right, 508 Self-denying Ordinance, the, 545 Seminary priests, the, 453; Act of Parlia- ment against, 456
Separatists, the, principles of, 470; settlement of, in Leyden and New England, 489; receive the name of Independents, 543; see Independents Settlement, Irish Act of, 595
Seven Bishops, the, petition presented by, 642; trial of, 643
Seymour, Jane, see Jane Seymour Seymour of Sudley, Lord, execution of, 415
Seymour, William, heir of the Suffolk line, 480
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper,
Earl of, early life of, 602; policy of, 603; supports the Declaration of Indulgence, 605; becomes Earl of Shaftesbury and Chancellor, ib.; his invective against the Dutch, 606; dis- missal of, 608; leads the opposition, ib.; supports toleration for Dissenters only. 610; declares the present Par- liament to be dissolved, 612; en- courages belief in the Popish Plot, 616; his position similar to that of Pym, 618; supports the Exclusion Bill, ib. indicts the Duke of York as a recusant, 621; supported by the third Short Parliament, ib.; the Grand Jury throw out a Bill against, 622; Dryden's satire on, 623; proposes to attack the king's guards, 624; exile and death of, ib.
Shakspere, William, teaching of, 474 Sharp, Archbishop, murder of, 620 Sherborne taken by Fairfax, 548
Sherfield, Henry, fined by the Star Chamber, 515
Ship-money, levy of, 523; resisted by Hampden, 524
Ships, comparison between English and Spanish, 459
Shrines, destruction of, 398 Sidney, Algernon, execution of, 626 Sidney, Sir Philip, death of, 457 Sinclair, Oliver, killed at Solway Moss,
Skeffington, Lord Deputy, takes May- nooth, 402
Slave trade, the, carried on by Eliza- bethan sailors, 447 Smerwick, slaughter at, 453
Solemn league and covenant, the ,540
Solway Moss, defeat of the Scots at, 405; Charles I. urged by the Scots to take, 551
Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of, invades Scotland as Earl of Hertford, 406 becomes Duke of Somerset and Protector, 412; defeats the Scots at Pinkie Cleugh, 413; possession of Church property by, 415; expelled from the Protectorate, 416; execution of, 418
Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, favourite of James I., 486; disgrace of, 488 Somerset House, building of, 425 Southwell, Charles I. surrenders to the Scots at, 551
Southwold Bay, battle in, 605. Spain, resources of, 426; maritime power of, 447; authority of, in the West Indies challenged by English sailors, ib.; navy of, 459; English attacks on, 464; sends an expedition to Kinsale, 478; its alliance sought by James I., 486; attack of Raleigh on the colonies of, 489; sends troops to occupy the Palatinate, 490; protest of the Com- mons against an alliance with, 496; visit of Prince Charles to, 497; eagerness in England for war with, 500; money voted for war with, 501; expedition against Cadiz in, 503; Charles I. makes peace with, 514; Cromwell makes war on, 571; question of the succession to, 592
Spenser, Edmund, his Faerie Queen, 473 Spinola, Ambrogio, invades the Palati- nate, 490
Spurs, battle of the, 364
Stadholder, office of, 449; abolition of the office of, 565
Stainer, Admiral, captures a Spanish fleet, 572
Star Chamber, Court of, its sentences in the reign of Charles I., 514, 519, 521 abolition of, 531
Stillingfleet aims at comprehension, 598 Stop of the Exchequer, the, 604 Stow-on-the-Wold, surrender of the last Royalist army at, 550
Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, ex- ecution of, 621
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, as Sir Thomas Wentworth, his policy contrasted with that of Eliot, 508; brings in a bill to secure the liberty of the subject, ib. ; becomes Lord Went- worth and President of the Council of the North, 514; becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland, 527; created Earl of Straf- ford, and advises the summoning of the Short Parliament, 528; does not advise the prolongation of the second Bishops' war, 529; collects an Irish army, ib.; is impeached, 530; Bill of Attainder against, ib.; execution of, 531 Stratton, battle of, 538
Strickland moves for an amendment of the Prayer Book, 445
Strode, William, one of the five members, 535
Submission of the clergy, the, 386 Succession, Act of, 392
Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, marries Mary, sister of Henry VIII., 364
Suffolk, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 486 Suffolk line, its title to the succession, 410; Elizabeth's feeling towards, 435 ; William Seymour, the heir of, 480 Supremacy, Act of, 393; Elizabethan Act of, 429
Supreme head of the Church of Eng. land, title of, conferred by Convocation on Henry VIII., 386; abandoned by Elizabeth, 429
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, execu- tion of, 411
Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of, minister of Henry VIII., 363
Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of, the commander at Flodden, see Norfolk, Duke of
Sussex, Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 452
Sweden takes part in the Triple Alliance, 599
TANGIER acquired by Charles II., 587 Taunton, siege of, 548
Taylor, Rowland, burnt, 424 Temple, Sir William, negotiates the Triple Alliance, 599; advises the reform of the Privy Council. 617; failure of his scheme, 620
Test Act, the, passed, 607; a second, 616; violated by James II., 638 Texel, the, Rupert defeated off, 608
Thirty Years' War, the, beginning of, 490; end of, 564
Thomas of Canterbury, St., destruction of the shrine of, 398 Throgmorton's conspiracy, 456 Tippermuir, battle of, 547
Tithes, proposal of the Barebone's Par- liament to abolish, 567
Toleration, Cromwell's advocacy of, 543; Charles II. proposes to adopt, 583; Charles II. issues a declaration in favour of, 587; tendency of science to promote, 598 Tonnage and Poundage, nature of, 509; claimed by Charles I. in spite of the Petition of Right, 510; Act prevent- ing the king from levying, 531 Torbay, arrival of William III. in, 644 Tory party, the, origin of the name of, 620; reaction in favour of, 622; elects officers in the city, 623; gains a ma jority in the Common Council, 624 Tournai, 364
Treasons, Act creating new, 392 Trent, the Council of, 436
Triennial Act of Charles I., the, 530; repealed, 588
Triers, Commission of, 569 Trimmer, origin of the name of, 618 Triple Alliance, the, 599 Tulchan bishops, the, 524 Tunis, Blake sent against, 571
Turnham Green, the militia of the city resist Charles I. at, 537
Tuscany, Duke of, Blake sent against,
Wentworth, Thomas Wentworth, Lord, governor of Calais, 427 Wesley, Samuel, sermon by, 642 West Indies, the, conflicts between English and Spanish sailors in, 447 Weston, Lord, see Portland, Earl of Westphalia, Peace of, 564
Westmorland, Charles Neville, Earl of, takes part in the rising of the North, 441
Westward Ho ! 447
Wexford, slaughter at, 563
Whig party, the, origin of the name of, 620; has a hold on the city of London, 622
'Whip with six strings, the,' 400 Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canter- bury, opinions of, 468; the High Commission Court under, 470; com- pared with Hooker, 472
Wilkins, Bishop, aims at comprehension, 598
William I., Prince of Orange, Stad- holder of the Dutch republic, 449; Jaureguy's attempt to murder, 454; murdered by Gerard, 456
William II., Prince of Orange, death of, 565
William III., Prince of Orange, defends
the Dutch republic, 605; is offered the hand of Mary, daughter of the Duke of York, 608; at the head of a conti- nental alliance, 609; marriage of, 613; invited to England, 644; lands at Brixham and marches on London, 645; arrives at Whitehall, 646; the crown offered to, 647
Williams, John, Archbishop of York, impeachment of, 535 Winceby, fight at, 542
Winchester taken by Cromwell, 549 Winnington Bridge, Booth defeated at,
Wishart, George, burnt, 413
Witt, John de, Pensionary of Holland, 589; negotiates the Triple Alliance, 599; murder of, 605
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, rise of, 363; magnificence of, 364; supports a policy of peace, 365, 366; comes into the House of Commons, 371; becomes unpopular on account of the Amicable Loan, 372; secures his position by an alliance with France, 374 aspires to the papacy, 375; is named legate a latere, ib.; his views on Church re- form, 376; founds two colleges, 377; fails to persuade Henry VIII. to abandon Anne Boleyn, 380; is ap- pointed legate to try Henry's divorce, 382 fall of, 383; death of, 384 Worcester, battle of, 564 Wren, Sir Christopher, buildings by, 632
Wriothesley, Lord Chancellor, excluded from the Council, 412
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, rebellion and exe- cution of, 423
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