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THE SECOND VOLUME

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,

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Ripon, treaty of, 529

arrives

Ireland, 550; leaves Ireland, 562

in

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

SCO

663

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,

608

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,

572

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;

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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,

405

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

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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

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THE SECOND VOLUME

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

Terouenne, 364

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

II.

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Triers, Commission of, 569
Trimmer, origin of the name of, 618
Triple Alliance, the, 599
Tulchan bishops, the, 524
Tunis, Blake sent against, 571

665

Turnham Green, the militia of the city
resist Charles I. at, 537

Tuscany, Duke of, Blake sent against,

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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

ZWI

Winchester taken by Cromwell, 549
Winnington Bridge, Booth defeated at,

575

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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