Index of Gardiner's History of England

• Abbeville
  • Buckingham at,
• Abbot, George (Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1609; of London, 1610 ; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1611)
  • appointed Archbishop,
  • supports the High Commission against Coke,
  • opposes Laud at Oxford,
  • writes to Ellesmere on Legate's case,
  • betroths the Princess Elizabeth to the Elector Palatine,
  • is dissatisfied with the case of Lady Essex,
  • writes to the King against the Essex divorce,
  • popularity of, in consequence of his resistance,
  • refuses to appear at Somerset's marriage,
  • obtains an order for the arrest of Luisa de Carvajal,
  • urges the Queen to take the part of Villiers,
  • appointed a commissioner to examine Raleigh,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • opposes the reading of the Declaration of Sports,
  • is present at Queen Anne's deathbed,
  • writes to Naunton in defence of intervention in Bohemia,
  • urges James to defend the Palatinate,
  • asks the clergy to contribute to the defence of the Palatinate,
  • wishes Yelverton to be heard before he is condemned,
  • kills a keeper accidentally,
  • is pardoned,
  • receives De Dominis in his house,
  • asks questions in the Council about the Spanish marriage treaty,
  • letter against the Spanish treaty forged in the name of,
  • disavows the letter,
  • presents an address to the King from the two Houses,
  • is asked by the Commons to consider the complaint made against Montague's New Gag for an Old Goose,
  • remonstrates with Montague,
  • is dissatisfied with Buckingham,
  • asks the Commons to agree to the military and naval proposals of the Government,
  • is required to circulate Charles's letter asking for prayers for the King of Denmark,
  • refuses to license Sibthorpe's sermon,
  • is ordered into confinement and deprived of his jurisdiction,
  • is restored to his seat in Parliament at the instance of the Lords,
  • opposes the King's claim to imprison without showing cause,
  • persuades the Lords not to reject the Commons' resolutions,
  • says that he has heard that an Act of Parliament cannot destroy the Prerogative,
  • suggests a conference with the Commons on the Petition of Right,
  • advises the Lords to accept the Petition of Right, but to declare in favour of the King's just prerogative,
  • is restored to favour,
  • consecrates a chapel at Dulwich,
  • takes part in the consecration of St. James's, Aldgate,
  • orders Page to abstain from writing against Prynne,
  • is a constant attendant in the Court of High Commission,
  • inveighs against a party of Separatists brought before the High Commission,
  • death of,
  • last report of,
• Abbott, Francis,
  • makes a disturbance in a church,
• Abell, Alderman,
  • makes a bargain with the King on behalf of the Vintners' Company,
• Aberdeen,
  • a Dunkirk privateer takes refuge in,
  • Montrose sent against,
  • attempt to enforce the signature of the Covenant in,
  • signature of the King's Covenant in,
  • Hamilton directed to join Huntly at,
  • arrival of Montrose and Leslie at,
  • interview between Huntly and Montrose at,
  • capture of Huntly at,
  • the Gordons driven out from, by the Earl Marischal,
  • occupied and spared by Montrose,
  • is again spared by Montrose,
  • signature of the Covenant enforced by the Earl Marischal in,
  • brought to submission by Monro,
• Aberdeen doctors, the,
  • opinions of,
  • fly from Montrose,
• Abington, Thomas,
  • attempt to induce him to join the Gunpowder Plotters,
  • pardon of,
• Aboyne, Viscount, 1636 (James Gordon)
  • escapes from Montrose,
  • is sent by Charles to join Hamilton,
  • arrives at Aberdeen,
  • his proceedings at Aberdeen,
  • is defeated at the Bridge of Dee,
  • is chased through the streets of Edinburgh,
• Act of Revocation,
  • the Scottish,
• Adamites,
  • sect of,
• Additional Instruction, the,
  • moved by Pym,
  • amended,
  • revolutionary character of,
  • justification of,
  • the Lords postpone the debate on,
• Adkins, Alderman,
  • imprisonment of,
  • liberation of,
• Admiralty Court, the,
  • proceedings against the East India Company in,
  • French prizes sent to London to be adjudicated on by,
  • gives order for the release of the 'St. Peter',
• Aerssens, Francis (Lord of Sommelsdijk),
  • presses Richelieu to undertake the siege of Dunkirk,
  • is sent to England to explain the attack of Tromp on Oquendo's fleet,
• Ainsworth, Henry,
  • is a Separatist minister in Amsterdam,
• Airlie, Earl of, 1639 (James Ogilvy),
  • burning of the house of,
• Alablaster, Dr.,
  • preaches a Spital sermon,
• Albert, the Archduke,
  • receives with the Infanta Isabella the sovereignty of the Netherlands,
  • refuses to give up Owen and Baldwin to James,
  • agrees to a cessation of arms in the Netherlands,
  • attempt of Spain to procure the election as Emperor of,
  • sends Spinola to invade Cleves and Juliers,
  • does not satisfy the Dutch by his mode of carrying out the treaty of Xanten,
  • receives Doncaster coolly at Brussels,
  • urges the King of Spain to invade the Palatinate,
  • replies to James's question about the movements of Spinola's army,
  • criticises the English proposal for the partition of the Netherlands,
  • informs James that the destination of Spinola is not decided on,
  • promises to give his good word for the restoration of Frederick,
  • orders Spinola to support Maximilian,
  • death of
• Aldobrandino, Cardinal,
  • introduces Lindsay to the Pope,
• Alehouses, the patent for,
  • issued,
  • inquiry into,
  • condemnation of,
• Alexander, Sir William,
  • claims lands in Canada,
• Alford, Edward,
  • applauds Coke's attack on the monopolies,
  • approves of James's proposed tribunal for trying Bacon's case,
  • asks for freedom of speech,
  • moves for a committee on the course of business,
  • declares that the King's servants are not free from Parliamentary inquiry,
  • declares that the Commons in 1624 had not engaged to attempt the recovery of the Palatinate,
  • is made sheriff to prevent his appearance in Parliament,
  • is dismissed from the justiceship of the peace,
  • asks what the subject will benefit by the confirmation of the statutes without explanation,
  • gives an explanation of sovereign power,
• Algiers,
  • piracy at,
  • proposed expedition against,
  • coolness of the Spaniards towards the proposed expedition to,
  • money levied to fit out a fleet against,
  • abandonment of the idea of sending an expedition to,
  • the Spanish Government agrees to join James in an attack on,
  • a fleet got ready for an attack on,
  • sailing of Mansell's fleet against,
  • is attacked by Mansell's fleet,
• Aliaga, Luis de,
  • carries on with Digby the negotiations for the Infanta's marriage,
  • joins Uzeda in overthrowing Lerma,
  • opposes the invasion of the Palatinate,
• Alington, Sir Giles,
  • is punished by the High Commission for marrying his niece,
• Allegiance, the oath of,
  • drawn up by Parliament,
  • difference of opinion amongst the Catholics on the lawfulness of taking,
  • Charles hopes to induce the Pope to allow Catholics to take,
  • suggestion that Catholic peers need not take,
• Alleyne, Captain,
  • looks out for French ships building in Holland,
• Alleyne, Edward,
  • founds Dulwich College,
• Almond, Lord, 1633 (James Livingstone),
  • signs the Bond of Cumbernauld, and is appointed second in command over the Scottish army,
  • is named by the King as Treasurer of Scotland,
  • is asked to withdraw his claim,
  • his part in the Incident,
• Alsace,
  • arrival of Frederick and Mansfeld in,
  • ravages of Mansfeld in,
  • the French occupy posts in,
  • the Duke of Feria occupies the south of,
  • importance of the possession of,
• Altar,
  • opinion of Andrewes on the use of the term,
• Alzei,
  • capitulates to Spinola,
• Amboyna, the massacre of,
  • sufferings of the English merchants by,
  • orders given to take reprisals for,
  • the Dutch express their willingness to bring to trial the perpetrators of,
  • Dutch East Indiamen seized in reprisal for,
  • promise of the Dutch to investigate the truth about,
• Ambrose, Dr.,
  • attempts to read the English service at Hamburg,
• Ames
  • writes the Fresh suit against human ceremonies,
• Amsterdam,
  • Separatist congregation at,
  • the Queen sells or pawns jewels at,
• Anabaptists,
  • inability of the Church courts of Canterbury to suppress,
  • burial of one of their number,
• Ancre, Marshal of (Concino Concini),
  • murder of,
• Anderson, Chief Justice,
  • is quoted by Heath in the five knights' case,
  • Shilton's quotation from the reports of,
  • production of a report written by his own hand,
• Anderson, Sir Henry,
  • violent conduct of,
• Andover, Lord (Thomas Howard),
  • is sent to England with the news that the marriage treaty between Charles and the Infanta is agreed on,
• Andrewes, Launcelot (Bishop of Chichester 1605, of Ely 1609, of Winchester 1619),
  • character of,
  • votes for the Essex divorce,
  • resemblance between his style and that of The Peacemaker,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • contrasted with Laud,
  • urges Weston to confess,
  • preaches at the opening of James's third Parliament,
  • gives an opinion of the religion of De Dominis,
  • reports in favour of Montague's book,
  • his opinion on the sacrifice in the Eucharist,
  • consecrates a chapel near Southampton,
• Andrews, George, Dean of Limerick,
  • penal promotion of, to the Bishopric of Leighlin and Ferns,
• Anglesea, Countess of,
  • informs the Duchess of Buckingham of her husband's murder,
• Angoulême, Duke of,
  • establishes himself near Rochelle,
  • demands the surrender of Rochelle,
• Anne of Austria, Queen of France,
  • receives Buckingham's addresses,
  • attempts to ruin Richelieu,
  • writes to Henrietta Maria on behalf of Lady Purbeck,
  • See Anne, the Infanta
• Anne of Denmark (Queen Consort of England),
  • refuses to receive the communion at her coronation,
  • is secretly a Catholic, and receives presents from the Pope,
  • wishes for a Spanish marriage for her son,
  • sympathises with Raleigh,
  • dislikes her daughter's marriage with the Elector Palatine,
  • is accustomed to hear mass,
  • urges the King to appoint Villiers Gentleman of the Bedchamber,
  • begs James not to insist on pardoning Somerset,
  • illness and death of,
  • verses written by her husband on,
• Anne, the Infanta,
  • proposed marriage of, with Prince Henry,
  • proposed marriage of, with Prince Henry,
  • proposed marriage of, with Prince Henry,
  • proposed marriage of, with Prince Henry,
  • is engaged to Louis XIII.,
  • See Anne of Austria
• Annesley, Lieutenant,
  • insults Wentworth,
• Annesley, Mr.,
  • drops a stool on Wentworth's foot,
• Annesley, Sir Francis,
  • takes part against Falkland,
  • is appointed a member of the committee of investigation into the case of the Byrnes,
  • See Mountnorris, Lord
• Annual Parliaments Bill,
  • brought in by Strode,
  • turned into a Triennial Bill,
• Anspach, Margrave of
  • commands the troops of the Union,
• Anstruther, Sir Robert,
  • sent to Denmark to borrow money for Frederick,
  • is sent back to Denmark for another loan,
  • obtains a loan from Denmark,
  • is sent to the Princes of North Germany and the King of Denmark,
  • is again sent to Germany,
  • negotiates with Christian IV.,
  • wins over some of the North German princes,
  • reports the terms proposed by Christian IV.,
  • raises a little money for the garrison of Stade,
  • is told to inform the King of Denmark that Charles's aid is postponed,
  • language used by Christian IV. to,
  • is sent to Ratisbon to negotiate with the Emperor,
  • is sent to Vienna,
  • attempts in vain to obtain the invocation of the Edict of Restitution,
  • obtains from Quiroga a knowledge of the Spanish demands,
  • is recalled to England,
  • is sent to offer aid to Oxenstjerna,
  • receives communications from the princes at Heilbronn,
  • is sent to urge the League of Heilbronn to make peace,
• Anti-Calvinist reaction, the,
  • character of,
• Antinomianism,
  • action of the High Commission against,
• Antrim,
  • resistance to the maintenance of soldiers in,
• Antrim, Earl of, 1636 (Randal MacDonell),
  • proposal that he may bring an Irish force against the Scottish Covenanters,
  • his capacity as a leader criticised by Wentworth,
  • Wentworth reports adversely of the military qualities of,
  • is instructed to join Ormond in seizing Dublin Castle,
• Antwerp, the Truce of,
  • signature of,
  • expiration of,
• Apologeticus,
  • written by Bastwick,
• Appello Cæsarem,
  • written by Montague,
  • is called in by proclamation,
• Apprentices, the London,
  • attack on Lambeth Palace by,
  • appear at Westminster to protest against the King's journey to Scotland,
  • attack Praise-God Barebone,
  • insult the bishops in Palace Yard, and are driven by Lunsford out of Westminster Hall,
  • are left in the City when the five members return to Westminster,
• Apsley, Sir Allen,
  • shares in victualling the fleet for the expedition to Cadiz,
  • remonstrates with Buckingham on the release of the 'St. Peter',
  • is probably the suggester of the forced loan,
  • does not produce the imprisoned members in the King's Bench,
• Archer, John,
  • torture and execution of,
• Aremberg, Count of,
  • intercourse of, with Cobham,
  • asks James to mediate between Spain and the Dutch,
  • takes part in the conferences for a peace between England and Spain,
• Argall, Samuel,
  • his abduction of Pocohontas,
  • tyranny of, as Governor of Virginia,
  • See Argall, Sir Samuel
• Argall, Sir Samuel,
  • captures French and Dutch vessels,
  • advises Cecil to land at St. Mary Port,
  • reports that an attack on the ships in Cadiz harbour is impracticable,
• Argyle, 7th Earl of, 1584-1638 (Archibald Campbell),
  • takes service in the army of the King of Spain,
  • position of, in Scotland,
• Argyle, 8th Earl of, 1638 (Archibald Campbell)
  • character and position of,
  • keeps his seat in the Assembly of Glasgow when it is dissolved by Hamilton,
  • defends the proceedings of the Scots in a letter to Laud,
  • excuses himself from visiting Charles at Berwick,
  • political revolution effected in Scotland by,
  • is entrusted with the defence of the Western Highlands,
  • advocates the holding of a session of Parliament in defiance of the King's order for a prorogation,
  • makes a raid against the Earls of Athol and Airlie,
  • imprisons Athol and burns Airlie House,
  • ravages the Highlands,
  • proposed appointment of, as a dictator,
  • charge brought by Montrose against,
  • attempt made by Hamilton to win over to the King,
  • the execution of Stewart of Ladywell establishes his authority in Scotland,
  • demands that no offices shall be filled without Parliamentary consent,
  • attacks the King's choice of Morton as Treasurer,
  • causes of the influence of,
  • project formed for arresting,
  • takes flight from Edinburgh,
  • consolidation of the power of,
  • becomes Marquis of Argyle,
  • See Lome, Lord; Argyle, Marquis of
• Argyle, Marquis of, 1642 (Archibald Campbell),
  • prevents the Scottish Council from declaring in favour of Charles,
• Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso',
  • mention,
• Armada, the Spanish,
  • defeat of,
• Armagh,
  • Chichester's settlement of,
  • is taken by Phelim O'Neill,
• Arminianism,
  • rise of, in the Netherlands,
  • is proscribed by the Synod of Dort,
  • spread of, in England,
  • complaint of the Commons that favour is shown to,
  • Prynne wishes to silence the preachers of,
  • Montague disclaims any wish to uphold,
  • Rouse's description of,
  • resolution of the Commons against,
  • resolution voted by the Commons against,
  • favour shown by Frederick Henry to,
• Armstrong, Archie,
  • is discharged from the King's service for railing at Laud,
• Army Plot, the first,
  • formation of,
  • is betrayed to the Parliamentary leaders,
  • is urged on by the Queen,
  • Pym reveals his knowledge of,
  • a committee formed to investigate,
  • evidence taken on,
  • report of the committee on,
• Army Plot, the second,
  • Charles engages in,
  • failure of,
  • Chudleigh's examination on,
  • examinations concerning, read in the Commons,
  • further evidence about,
  • the Commons express their belief in its existence,
• Army, the English, in the first Bishops' War,
  • proposed numbers of,
  • condition of,
  • reinforcements ordered for,
  • encamps near Berwick,
  • actual numbers of,
• Army, the English, in the second Bishops' War,
  • resolution taken to levy men for,
  • that law exercised in,
  • condition of,
  • distrust of Catholic officers in,
  • disorderly conduct of,
  • desertions from,
  • Astley's report of the condition of,
  • attack on Catholic officers in,
  • communion-rails pulled down by soldiers of,
  • weakness of,
  • trained bands and tenants by knights' service ordered to reinforce,
  • is divided into two parts,
  • rout of part of, at Newburn,
  • Strafford's complaint of the bad condition of,
  • reunion of,
  • Vane reports an improvement in the state of,
  • is reviewed by the King,
  • reinforcements preparing to join,
  • dismissal of Catholic officers from,
  • money irregularly sent to,
  • is irritated with the Commons on account of the transference to the Scots of money voted for its use,
  • plan for placing Newcastle and Goring in command of, in order that it may be brought up to support the King,
  • letter from the officers of, protesting their willingness to fight the Scots,
  • Charles inclines to the plan for obtaining a petition from,
  • Goring urges that the Tower must be seized by,
  • Charles rejects the plan for bringing up,
  • expresses its readiness to obey Goring,
  • fear in the Commons of the intervention of,
  • Charles sends money to, and is believed to purpose leading it against those who resist his authority,
  • proposal to bring to London,
  • alleged intention to send munitions of war to,
  • Conyers and Astley sounded on the possibility of bringing to London,
  • a plan formed to obtain a petition from,
  • petition drawn up in the name of,
  • Holland succeeds Northumberland in command of,
  • disbandment of,
• Army, the Irish,
  • resolution taken to levy,
  • Strafford suggests the employment of, in England,
  • feelings of Englishmen at the prospect of an invasion by,
  • is ordered to rendezvous at Carrickfergus,
  • Strafford appointed commander of,
  • complaint in the House of Commons of the preponderance of Catholics in, and of the seizure of Londonderry by,
  • fresh report of Erle on,
  • Vane declares that it should be kept on foot till the Scottish army is disbanded,
  • Erle reports that Strafford is still in command of,
  • alleged intention of landing it at Milford Haven,
  • charge brought against Strafford of intending to bring over,
  • Charles again refuses to disband,
  • reiterated demand of the Lords for the disbandment of,
  • fresh charges against Strafford in connection with,
  • proposal to bring to Portsmouth,
  • Charles once more refuses to disband,
  • Charles promises to disband,
  • is to be brought together again to seize Dublin Castle,
  • is broken up,
• Army, the Parliamentary,
  • the Houses vote for the raising of,
  • its levy ordered, and Essex appointed general of,
• Army, the Scottish,
  • is collected at Dunglas,
  • occupies Kelso,
  • encamps on Dunse Law,
  • prepares for the invasion of England,
  • is posted at Choicelee Wood,
  • is believed in Northumberland not to be ready to invade England,
  • the way open for an invasion of England by,
  • invades England, and conducts itself well in Northumberland,
  • routs Conway at Newburn,
  • occupies Newcastle,
  • occupies Durham and the line of the Tees,
  • supplication that their grievances may be redressed with the advice of an English Parliament sent to Charles by,
  • demands a contribution from Northumberland and Durham,
  • defeat of a party of horse belonging to,
  • demand of 40,000l. a month made for the support of,
  • agreement that the Northern counties shall support, until peace is concluded,
  • Charles unable to dissolve the Long Parliament unless he can make payment to,
  • hardships endured by the Northern counties from,
  • receives money assigned to the English army,
  • day fixed on which it is to recross the Tweed,
  • is reviewed by the King,
  • recrosses the Tweed, and disbands,
  • dismissal of the last remnants of,
• Armyn, Sir William,
  • is appointed a Parliamentary Commissioner to attend the King in Scotland,
• Articles of Perth, the five,
  • are proposed by James,
  • postponement of the consideration of,
  • James's speech in recommendation of,
  • postponement of the consideration of four of,
  • opposition to,
  • adoption of,
  • enforcement of,
  • fresh attempt to enforce,
  • receive Parliamentary confirmation,
  • partial suspension of,
  • continued opposition to,
  • Charles abandons,
  • the Assembly of Glasgow abolishes,
• Articles, the Thirty-nine,
  • partial subscription to, authorised by Parliament,
  • declaration prefixed by Charles to,
  • acknowledged by the Commons in the form accepted by Parliament in Elizabeth's reign,
  • dispute about the authority ascribed to the Church in,
  • are adopted by the Irish Convocation,
• Artificers' petition, the,
  • mention,
• Arundel, Countess of
  • accompanies Charles and Henrietta Maria from Dover to Canterbury,
  • hurries on a marriage between her son and Elizabeth Stuart,
  • speaks to Con of the improved position of the Catholics,
• Arundel, Earl of, 1604 (Thomas Howard),
  • restitution of his title,
  • visits Raleigh on board the 'Destiny',
  • moves that the examinations in Bacon's case may be brought in,
  • asks that Bacon may not be summoned to the bar,
  • protests against a proposal to deprive Bacon of his peerage,
  • quarrels with Lord Spencer,
  • wishes Yelverton to be condemned without being heard,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • becomes Earl Marshal,
  • goes to Ghent to attend the deathbed of his son,
  • votes against war with Spain,
  • opposes Buckingham,
  • is sent to the Tower for conniving at his son's marriage,
  • his case taken up by the Peers,
  • is removed to his own house,
  • Charles is angry at the message of the Peers about,
  • liberation of,
  • is sent back into confinement,
  • is restored to his seat in Parliament at the instance of the Lords,
  • proposes modifications in the Commons' resolutions on imprisonment,
  • wishes to find a formula which will leave the King a discretionary power of imprisonment in cases of necessity,
  • draws up an amendment to the Petition of Right,
  • proposes a declaration to the King,
  • is restored to favour,
  • is restored to his place in the Council,
  • is selected for an embassy to Vienna,
  • is sent by Charles to invite Elizabeth to England,
  • argues in favour of the eastern position of the communion-table,
  • is selected to be ambassador to Vienna,
  • shows his pictures and statues to Panzani,
  • receives instructions for his embassy to the Emperor,
  • arrives at Vienna,
  • on the rejection of his terms, asks to be recalled,
  • is recalled,
  • returns to England, and argues in favour of a French alliance,
  • speaks harshly to the Vintners' Company,
  • is entrusted with the fortification of the Border fortresses,
  • votes for war with Scotland,
  • appointed General of the army in the first Bishops' War,
  • disapproves of the letter written by the Covenanters to Essex,
  • reads the King's proclamation at Dunse,
  • conferences for peace in the tent of,
  • is appointed to command the forces south of the Trent,
  • thinks it strange that the Scots should be asked to join in reformation of religion,
  • appointed Lord Steward of the Household and Speaker of the House of Lords, to preside over Strafford's trial during Lyttelton's illness,
  • protects Vane from improper questions,
  • is called upon by a mob to do justice on Strafford,
• Ashburnham, John,
  • is sent to Paris to make overtures of peace,
• Ashburnham, William,
  • wishes the army to present a petition in support of the King,
• Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Henry Hastings at, x. 208
• Ashley, Serjeant,
  • argues that the question of imprisonment is too high to be settled by a legal decision,
• Assembly of divines,
  • nominated by the House of Commons,
• Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the General,
  • approves the second Book of Discipline,
  • negotiations of James with,
  • assents to the King's plan for a clerical representation in Parliament,
  • resists James's wish to appoint bishops,
  • James wishes to forbid the meetings of,
  • meets at Aberdeen,
  • is prohibited from meeting,
  • meets at Linlithgow, and gives no support to Melville and Forbes,
  • accepts episcopacy,
  • authorises the preparation of a new Prayer Book,
  • meets at St. Andrew's, and agrees to one of the King's five articles,
  • meets at Perth, and adopts the others,
  • its meeting authorised by Charles,
  • dispute as to the constitution of,
  • Hamilton's instructions about the elections to,
  • is summoned to meet at Glasgow,
  • election of,
  • representative character of,
  • meets at Glasgow,
  • elects a Moderator and clerk,
  • declares itself constituted,
  • is dissolved by Hamilton, but remains in session,
  • re-establishes Presbyterianism,
  • elections ordered for,
  • Charles directs the bishops to protest against the legality of,
  • meets at Edinburgh, and abolishes episcopacy,
  • protest of Traquair of the sense in which the King consents to the abolition of episcopacy by,
• Asti, Treaty of,
  • mention,
• Astley, Sir Jacob,
  • sent to the North to muster the trained bands,
  • reports unfavourably of his soldiers,
  • gathers troops at Selby,
  • joins Conway at Newcastle,
  • attempts to rally his men on the hill opposite Newburn,
  • evacuates Newcastle,
  • dislikes being superseded by Goring,
  • is sounded on the feasibility of bringing the army to London,
  • refuses to have to do with the second Army Plot,
• Aston, Lord (Walter Aston),
  • is sent as ambassador to Madrid,
  • See Aston, Sir Walter
• Aston, Sir Walter,
  • sent as ambassador to Spain,
  • inquires whether Philip IV. means to go on with the marriage treaty,
  • repeats the words which had been used by Philip in assurance of his intention to proceed with the treaty,
  • objects to the proposal to educate the Electoral Prince at Vienna,
  • expresses astonishment at a letter of Philip III. read by Olivares,
  • See Aston, Lord
• At a solemn music, Milton's lines,
  • mention,
• Athol, Earl of, 1629-1642 (John Murray),
  • is attacked and imprisoned by Argyle,
• Attainder of Strafford, the Bill of,
  • proposal of,
  • first reading of, in the Commons,
  • second reading of,
  • is discussed in committee,
  • third reading of,
  • is read a second time in the House of Lords,
  • St. John's argument on the legality of,
  • gains ground in the House of Lords,
  • is read a third time in the Lords,
  • deputations from the Lords urge Charles to assent to,
  • the Royal assent given to,
• Aubrey, Christopher,
  • charges Bacon with bribery,
• Augsburg,
  • Peace of,
  • entry of Gustavus into,
• Austria,
  • spread of Protestantism in,
  • Maximilian's invasion of,
  • rising of the peasants in,
• Austria, the House of,
  • fortunate marriages of,
  • renewed alliance between the two branches of,
• Aylesbury,
  • burning of houses by mutineers at,
• Ayr,
  • alleged to be the spot where the Irish army was to have landed,
• Aytona, Marquis of,
  • overpowers the revolutionists in the Spanish Netherlands,
• Babworth,
  • Clifton's preaching at,
• Bacon, Sir Francis,
  • his tract on the memory of Elizabeth,
  • distrusts Presbyterianism,
  • his scheme for the pacification of the Church,
  • political abilities of,
  • comments on the proposed title of King of Great Britain,
  • is capable of reconciling James and the Commons,
  • becomes a King's Counsel,
  • completes The Advancement of Learning,
  • advocates the grant of supply,
  • hopes to become Solicitor-General,
  • is passed over,
  • speaks in favour of a union with Scotland,
  • becomes Solicitor General,
  • gives advice on the plantation of Ulster,
  • speaks at a conference on the commutation of feudal tenures,
  • takes part in the debate on impositions, 76,
  • his opinion on Legate's case,
  • offers to become Secretary after Salisbury's death,
  • argues against Whitelocke,
  • his theory of government, and moral character,
  • advises the King to call another Parliament,
  • gives his opinion on the mode in which Parliament is to be met,
  • applies in vain for the Mastership of the Wards,
  • advises the appointment of Coke to the Chief Justiceship of the King's Bench,
  • becomes Attorney-General,
  • gives a masque at Somerset's marriage,
  • his opinion on the right way of dealing with Sutton's Hospital,
  • is permitted to sit as Attorney-General in the House of Commons,
  • attempts to persuade the Commons to give up the inquiry into the Undertakers,
  • failure of his attempt to reconcile the King and the Commons,
  • his charge against St. John,
  • is present at Peacham's torture,
  • advises the King on Peacham's case,
  • applies to Coke for his opinion,
  • tries to conceal Coke's opinion,
  • his view of Owen's case,
  • takes part in the examination of Cotton,
  • his opinion on the evidence against Somerset,
  • prepares himself to prosecute,
  • conducts the prosecution of Somerset,
  • writes to the King on the policy to be adopted in order to meet Parliament successfully,
  • advises a proclamation to forbid the wearing of silk,
  • view taken of the constitutional position of the judges by,
  • produces a writ de rege inconsulto,
  • his argument in support of it,
  • writes to the King on Coke's attack on Chancery,
  • directs Coke not to proceed with the case of commendams,
  • gives an opinion on the judges' oath,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • his advice to Sir G. Villiers,
  • assists Villiers,
  • obtains from Montague an engagement to admit Heath and Shute to Roper's office,
  • converses with Raleigh on his scheme for securing the Mexico fleet,
  • his views on the Spanish alliance,
  • proposes additional instructions to Digby,
  • becomes Lord Keeper,
  • takes his seat in Chancery,
  • corresponds with Buckingham,
  • hears of the marriage proposed for Sir John Villiers,
  • quarrels with Winwood,
  • remonstrates with Buckingham,
  • writes to the King and Buckingham about the affair of Frances Coke,
  • is forced to apologise,
  • cause of Buckingham's dissatisfaction with,
  • is restored to favour,
  • becomes Lord Chancellor, and Lord Verulam,
  • appointed a Commissioner to examine Raleigh,
  • draws up the King's Declaration on Raleigh's proceedings,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • draws James's attention to the state of the finances,
  • his opinion on Suffolk's interception of money intended for Ireland,
  • supports Shute's candidature for the Recordership,
  • calls attention to the falling off of the recusancy fines,
  • prepares a draft proclamation for summoning Parliament,
  • speaks of the prerogative as the perfection of the common law,
  • his opinion of Cadenet,
  • becomes Viscount St. Alban,
  • Ben Jonson's lines on the birthday of,
  • writes the Novum Organum,
  • philosophical and political position of,
  • foreign policy of,
  • is connected with the grant of monopolies,
  • is consulted on the patent for inns,
  • part taken by, in the monopoly of gold and silver thread,
  • suggests that bonds shall be taken not to sell unlicensed gold and silver thread,
  • confirms Yelverton's committal of the silk-mercers,
  • protectionist policy advocated by,
  • advises the withdrawal of some of the patents,
  • tells Mandeville that wood is dear at Newmarket,
  • replies to the charges against the referees, and is called to order,
  • asks the King to protect him,
  • is blamed for his practice in issuing bills of conformity,
  • is charged with taking a bribe from Aubrey,
  • and from Edward Egerton,
  • believes the charges to be trumped up,
  • appeals to Buckingham for support,
  • illness of,
  • James recommends the appointment of a new tribunal to try the case of,
  • asks the Lords for time to answer his accusers,
  • history of his connection with Lady Wharton's case,
  • discussion of his alleged corruption,
  • further charges brought against,
  • regains his cheerfulness,
  • Buckingham abandons the defence of,
  • his memoranda on his conduct,
  • has an interview with the King,
  • evidence reported to the Lords against,
  • writes to the King,
  • relinquishes his defence,
  • submits to the Lords,
  • asks leave to explain special points,
  • comments on the charges against him,
  • acknowledges that he has been guilty of corruption,
  • surrenders the Great Seal,
  • is sentenced,
  • estimate of the career of,
  • causes of his failure,
  • monarchical theories of,
  • imprisonment and release of,
  • writes the History of Henry VII.,
  • jests at Mandeville's loss of office,
  • refuses to sell York House,
  • is pardoned, and has his fine remitted, but is not allowed to live in London,
  • gives up his house, and is permitted to come to London,
  • his name removed by Charles from the list of Privy Councillors,
  • death of,
  • extract from his essay on innovations,
• Baden-Durlach. George Frederick, Margrave of,
  • raises an army,
  • joins Mansfeld against Tilly,
  • is defeated at Wimpfen,
  • offers to join Mansfeld with an army,
  • is defeated at Heiligenhafen,
• Bagg, Sir James,
  • shares in victualling the fleet for the expedition to Cadiz,
  • becomes a partner in the Vice-Admiralty of Devon,
  • writes that he has no money to buy provisions for the expedition at Rhé,
  • cannot account for money owing to the soldiers,
  • case of, in the Star Chamber,
  • escapes punishment,
• Bailey, Captain,
  • deserts Raleigh,
• Baillie, Robert,
  • his position in the Scottish Church,
  • regrets the violence of the rioters,
  • describes the condition of the army on Dunse Law,
  • publishes Ladensium autokatakrisis,
  • compares the Protestation to the Covenant,
• Balcanqual, Walter (Dean of Rochester, 1625, of Durham, 1639),
  • writes the Large Declaration and becomes Dean of Durham,
  • flies from Durham,
• Balfour, Sir James,
  • is ordered to read the King's proclamation at Edinburgh,
• Balfour, Sir William,
  • is to be sent to Germany to raise horse,
  • is sent on a complimentary mission to Mary de Medicis,
  • is ordered to admit Billingsley into the Tower,
  • refuses him admission,
  • refuses a bribe from Strafford,
  • tells Strafford that he cannot see Laud without leave from Parliament,
  • resigns the Lieutenancy of the Tower,
• Ballad on the Laudian clergy,
  • mention,
• Ballard, a Jesuit,
  • is struck by Sir E. Verney at Madrid,
• Ballot,
  • proposal made in the Scottish Parliament to vote by,
• Balmerino, 1st Lord, 1604-1612 (James Elphinstone),
  • disputes of, with the clergy,
  • is sent to England,
  • acknowledges that he had obtained surreptitiously a letter from James to the Pope,
  • is condemned to death,
• Balmerino, 2nd Lord, 1612 (John Elphinstone),
  • asks Rothes to show to Charles Haig's supplication,
  • shows the paper to his notary,
  • is tried and found guilty of concealing a libel,
  • is pardoned,
  • takes part in the revision of the Covenant,
  • advocates the holding of a session of Parliament in defiance of the King's order to prorogue it,
• Baltimore, 1st Lord, 1624-1632 (George Calvert),
  • is excluded from Charles's Privy Council,
  • is asked for an opinion on a peace with Spain,
  • accompanies Buckingham to Newmarket,
  • founds a colony in Newfoundland, visits Virginia, and receives a grant of Maryland,
  • death of,
  • See Calvert, George; Calvert, Sir George
• Baltimore, 2nd Lord, 1632 (Cecil Calvert),
  • takes up his father's project of settling a colony in Maryland,
  • his position as proprietor of Maryland,
  • appoints his brother as Governor,
• Banbury,
  • refuses to billet soldiers,
  • Puritanism of,
• Banbury, Earl of, 1626-1632 (William Knollys),
  • refuses to ask for ship-money in 1628,
  • See Wallingford, Viscount
• Banbury, the hundred of,
  • refusal to pay ship-money in,
• Bancroft, John (Bishop of Oxford, 1632),
  • becomes Bishop of Oxford,
• Bancroft, Richard (Bishop of London) Archbishop of Canterbury, 1604-1610),
  • his behaviour at the Hampton Court Conference,
  • presides in Convocation, and draws up canons,
  • becomes Archbishop of Canterbury,
  • directs that all curates and lecturers shall accept the canons of 1604,
  • takes the lead in drawing up the canons of 1606,
  • draws up Articuli Cleri,
  • asserts that the King may take causes out of the hands of the judges,
  • takes up the case of the ecclesiastical lawyers,
  • death of,
• Banda Islands,
  • the Dutch in,
• Bandino, Cardinal,
  • announces to Gage the terms on which the Infanta's marriage will be allowed,
• Baner, General,
  • gains a victory at Wittstock,
  • marches through Thuringia,
• Bankes, Sir John (Attorney-General, 1634; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1641),
  • becomes Attorney-General,
  • argues for the Crown in Hampden's case,
  • gives a legal opinion on the extent of the King's military authority,
  • becomes Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
  • signs the protestation of the peers at York,
• Bantam,
  • Dale's arrest at,
• Barbary Pirates, the,
  • mention,
  • See Algiers
• Barberini, Cardinal,
  • is sent by Urban VIII. to mediate between France and Spain,
  • writes to Henrietta Maria on behalf of Lady Purbeck,
  • the Queen demands money from,
• Barcelona,
  • Treaty of,
• Barebone, Praise-God,
  • dispersion of a congregation of Separatists at the house of,
• Barnard, Robert,
  • Cromwell speaks roughly to,
• Barneveld, John Van Olden (Pensionary of Holland),
  • sent as ambassador to England,
  • leads the peace party in the Netherlands,
  • opposes the Calvinists,
  • is driven from power,
  • execution of,
• Barnwall, Sir Patrick,
  • imprisoned and sent to England for petitioning against the proceedings in the Castle chamber against the Dublin aldermen,
  • is released,
  • is sent to England,
• Baronet,
  • money obtained by the sale of the title of,
• Baronius's Church History,
  • proposed presentation of to James,
• Barrington, Sir Francis,
  • is imprisoned for refusing to sit on the commission in Essex for the forced loan,
• Barwalde,
  • treaty of,
• Basilicon Doron, the,
  • mention,
• Bassompierre, Marshal,
  • is to be sent to England,
  • arrives in London and negotiates about the Queen's household,
  • and about commercial disputes,
  • entertainment given by Buckingham to,
  • hints to Buckingham that his presence will not be acceptable in France,
  • returns to France,
  • is disavowed by Louis,
• Bastwick, John,
  • writes Flagellum Pontificis, Apologeticus, and The Litany of John Bastwick,
  • is tried and sentenced in the Star Chamber,
  • stands in the pillory,
  • is imprisoned in the Scilly Isles,
  • the Commons order the liberation of,
  • enters London in triumph,
  • the Commons vote reparation to,
  • is carried off as a prisoner from Leicester by the King,
• Bate, John,
  • resists payment of the imposition on currants,
  • decision of the Court of Exchequer against,
• Bates, Thomas.
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Bavaria, Duke of, Elector of.
  • See Maximilian
• Baxter, Richard,
  • early life of,
  • describes the ignorance of the mass of the population,
  • describes the Puritans known to him,
  • visits the Court,
  • his first thought of Nonconformity,
• Bayley, Dr. Lewis,
  • preaches a sermon in which he attacks the Catholic Privy Councillors,
• Beale, Dr. William,
  • is sent for by the House of Commons,
• Beale, Thomas,
  • asserts that he heard persons talking of a plot to murder members of the two Houses,
• Beard, Dr. Thomas,
  • is Cromwell's school-master,
  • is reprimanded by Neile,
• Beaulieu,
  • Charles's visit to,
• Beaumont and Fletcher,
  • immorality of the plays of,
• Beauty of Holiness, the,
  • Laud's idea of,
• Beccles,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
• Becher, Sir William,
  • is sent to Rochelle to offer Buckingham's assistance,
  • supposes that the Rochellese magistrates have been bribed by Louis,
  • arrives in England to beg for reinforcements for the expedition to Rhé,
  • sails with recruits and a little money,
• Beckington,
  • excommunication of the church-wardens of,
• Bedell, William (Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, 1629-1633, of Kilmore, 1633-1641),
  • converses with De Dominis,
  • protests against the tyranny of the ecclesiastical courts,
  • and against the ignorance of the Irish language in the. clergy,
  • resigns the see of Ardagh,
  • receives fugitives from Belturbet,
• Bedford, Countess of,
  • introduces the manufacture of gold and silver thread,
• Bedford, 3rd Earl of, 1585-1627 (Edward Russell),
  • hopes that Parliament may have a successful meeting,
• Bedford, 4th Earl of 1627-1641 (Francis Russell),
  • lends to Somerset a copy of Dudleys paper of advice,
  • is prosecuted in the Star Chamber,
  • undertakes to drain the Great Level of the Fens,
  • fails to complete the work,
  • arrangement made by Charles with,
  • votes against interference with the Commons,
  • signs a letter to Johnston of Warriston,
  • takes part in a meeting of the opponents of the Court, and is recommended by the Council to return to his own county,
  • signs the petition of the twelve peers,
  • asks the Council to support the petition,
  • Pym trusted by,
  • rumour that he is to be Treasurer,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • is informed of the Army Plot,
  • is again by rumour named as Treasurer,
  • death of,
• Bedford, 5th Earl of, 1641 (William Russell),
  • is appointed a Parliamentary Commissioner to attend the King in Scotland,
  • protests against the refusal of the Lords to communicate their resolution on Divine Service to the Commons,
  • declines to accompany the Parliamentary Commissioners to Edinburgh,
• Bedford Level, the,
  • mention,
• Bedfordshire,
  • levy of soldiers resisted in,
• Belhaven, Lord, 1633-1639 (Robert Douglas),
  • improbable story told of,
• Bellarmine, Cardinal,
  • remonstrates with Blackwell,
  • enters into controversy with James,
• Bellasys, Henry,
  • insults Wentworth,
  • is forced to make submission,
  • urges the abolition of the military charges,
  • refuses to answer questions about his conduct in Parliament,
  • is imprisoned,
  • liberation of,
• Belle, Captain,
  • accompanies Faige to France,
  • gives information on Raleigh's plans,
• Bellievre, M. de,
  • wins the Queen to oppose the effort of Cardenas to obtain protection for Oquendo's fleet,
  • wishes France to assist the Covenanting leaders,
  • recall of,
• Beltin, Christopher,
  • is sent by the Elector of Brandenburg to invite Gustavus to place himself at the head of the North German Princes,
  • accompanies Spens to England,
  • negotiates with Richelieu,
• Belturbet,
  • treatment of fugitives from,
• Bemerton,
  • life of George Herbert at,
• Ben, Sir Anthony,
  • death of,
• Benevolence, a,
  • offered by the bishops and others,
  • Coke's opinion on the legality of,
  • the country asked for,
  • small result of,
  • small result of,
  • pressure put on the country to give,
  • resistance to the payment of,
  • proposed levy of, in Ireland,
  • proposed by the Council for the defence of the Palatinate,
  • small results obtained from,
  • is again demanded in 1622,
  • moderate results of,
  • proposal of Buckingham to levy another,
  • is suggested by Sir E. Coke,
  • proposed by Nethersole,
• Bennett, Sir John,
  • is said to have offered money for the Chancellorship,
  • charge of corruption against,
  • is bailed,
  • is fined in the Star Chamber,
• Benyon, George,
  • opposes the militia ordinance,
  • is sentenced to fine and imprisonment,
• Bergen-op-Zoom,
  • is besieged by Spinola,
  • is relieved,
• Bergh, De, Count Henry,
  • passes from the Spanish to the Dutch service,
• Bergstrasse, the,
  • given up to the Elector of Mentz,
• Berkeley, Sir John,
  • is placed in custody by the Commons,
  • examination of,
• Berkeley, Sir Maurice,
  • asks the Commons to defer the consideration of the Great Contract till there is a larger attendance,
  • conversation of Peacham with,
• Berkeley, Sir Robert, 1632 (Justice of the King's Bench)
  • refuses to allow Chambers to try the legality of ship-money in his court,
  • delivers judgment in the case of ship-money,
  • is arrested on the Bench and impeached,
• Berkshire,
  • payment of the forced loan in,
  • mutiny of soldiers from,
• Berkshire, Earl of, 1620-1623 (Francis Norris),
  • quarrels with Lord Scrope,
  • marriage of his daughter to Edward Wray,
  • commits suicide,
• Berkshire, Earl of, 1626 (Thomas Howards)
  • is a candidate for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge,
  • is sent prisoner to London by Hampden,
• Bernard, Nathaniel,
  • attacks the new ceremonies,
  • is fined and imprisoned,
• Bernhard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar),
  • takes Ratisbon,
  • is jealous of Horn,
  • is taken into the pay of the King of France,
  • defeats the Imperialists at Rheinfelden and takes Breisach,
  • Charles hopes for the assistance of,
  • death of,
• Berrco,
  • gives information to Raleigh about El Dorado,
• Berry, Captain,
  • is sent by Raleigh to Guiana,
• Berulle, Father,
  • is sent by Richelieu to urge the Pope to grant a dispensation for Henrietta Maria's marriage with Charles,
  • protests against the proposed persecution of the Catholics,
• Berwick,
  • bridge built over the Tweed at,
  • fortifications to be erected at,
  • Lindsey sent to command at,
  • Charles proposes to advance to,
  • arrival of Charles at,
  • visit of the Covenanters to Charles at,
  • Conyers placed in command of the garrison of,
• Berwick,
  • the Treaty of, signature of,
  • difficulties in the way of the execution of,
  • complaints of the non-execution of,
• Best, Captain,
  • sent to protect the ports of Scotland,
  • convoys a Dunkirk Privateer from Aberdeen,
  • drives the Dutch from the Downs,
  • brings the privateer to the Thames,
• Bethlen Gabor (Prince of Transylvania),
  • attacks Vienna,
  • is elected King of Hungary,
  • makes head against Bucquoi,
  • engages to attack the Emperor's territory,
  • Wallenstein opposed to,
  • peace made by the Emperor with,
• Beverley,
  • the King posts himself at,
  • Charles receives a petition from the Houses at,
• Bible, the,
  • new translation of,
• Billeting soldiers,
  • outrages consequent on,
  • resolution of the Commons on,
  • clause in the Petition of Right condemnatory of,
  • complaint in Yorkshire of,
  • the King's explanation of his right to enforce,
• Billingsley, Captain,
  • is sent to occupy the Tower,
  • is refused admission,
• Bills of Conformity,
  • complaint of Bacon's issue of,
• Bilson, Thomas (Bishop of Winchester, 1597-1616),
  • reports on Laud's election at St. John's,
  • unpopularity of, for supporting the Essex divorce,
  • James refuses the appointment of Lord Privy Seal to,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • gives an opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
• Bingley, Sir John,
  • charged with participating in Lady Suffolk's corruption,
  • Star Chamber proceedings against,
  • sentence on,
• Bingley, Sir Richard,
  • convoys a Dunkirk privateer to Mardike,
• Binning, Lord 1613-1619 (Thomas Hamilton),
  • is appointed one of the King's commissioners at the Assembly of Perth,
  • See Melrose, Earl of
• Birks, the,
  • Charles encamps at,
  • condition of the troops at,
  • conferences for a treaty opened at,
• Bishop, William (Bishop of Chalcedon),
  • is opposed to the Jesuits,
• Bishops' Exclusion Bill, the first,
  • passes the Commons,
  • is amended by the Lords,
  • is discussed in conference,
  • is rejected by the Lords,
• Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
  • the second, is brought into the House of Commons,
  • is sent up to the Lords,
  • petition of the City in favour of,
  • is accepted by the Lords,
  • receives the Royal assent,
• Bishops, the English,
  • resolution of the Commons to exclude from the House of Lords,
  • their special dependence on the King asserted by Saye and Jeremy Taylor,
  • are insulted outside the House of Lords,
  • the protest of,
  • See Episcopacy
• Bishops, the Scottish,
  • offer of Charles to make them responsible to the Assembly,
  • are accused before the Edinburgh Presbytery,
  • the Assembly of Glasgow declares itself competent to judge,
  • are deprived of their authority by the Assembly,
  • are summoned by Charles to the Assembly of Edinburgh,
  • are directed by Charles to protest secretly against the legality of the Assembly,
• Bishops' War,
  • the first,
  • the second, ix
• Black, David,
  • preaches a political sermon,
  • is summoned before the Council,
  • declines the jurisdiction of the Council,
  • renews his declinature,
  • is banished beyond the Tay,
• Black Saturday,
  • mention,
• Black friars,
  • accident at an assembly of Catholics at the house of the French Ambassador at,
• Blackwater,
  • the defeat of the English at,
• Blackwell, George, the Archpriest,
  • receives information of Watson's plot,
  • informs Cecil of the plot,
  • rejoices in the divisions of the Church of England,
  • vacillation of, on the subject of taking the oath of allegiance,
  • takes the oath,
  • is deposed,
• Blainville, Sieur de,
  • is appointed French ambassador in England, and ordered to object to Buckingham's proposed visit to France,
  • asks Charles to fulfil his promise in favour of the English Cathoics,
  • holds a conversation with Buckingham,
  • remonstrates with Charles,
  • protests against the sale of French prize goods,
  • is accused of setting the Queen against her husband,
  • is forbidden to appear at Court,
  • interference with the Catholics going to mass at the chapel of,
  • indignation of, at the violation of his privileges as an ambassador,
  • has his last audience,
• Blavet,
  • seizure of ships in the harbour of,
• Bloxham, the hundred of,
  • resistance to ship-money in,
• Blythe
  • Dunkirkers attacked by the Dutch at,
• Bocking,
  • the communion-rails burnt by soldiers at,
• Bodleian Library, the,
  • Laud gives some MSS. to,
  • Charles visits,
• Bohemia,
  • Protestantism in,
  • aristocratic institutions of,
  • the Royal Charter of,
  • conflict of opinion in,
  • acceptance of Ferdinand as King of,
  • revolution in,
  • the Elector of Saxony offers to mediate in,
  • successes of the revolutionists in,
  • James is asked to mediate in,
  • Doncaster sent to mediate in,
  • Ferdinand's claim to the throne rejected by the directors of,
  • Ferdinand's successes in,
  • James's offer of mediation received with coolness in,
  • Frederick elected King of,
  • anarchy in,
  • progress of the war in,
  • defeat of Frederick in,
  • Ferdinand master of,
  • expulsion of the Lutheran clergy from,
• Bohemia, King of.
  • See Frederick V., Elector Palatine
• Bohemia, Queen of.
  • See Elizabeth, Electress Palatine
• Boischot, Ferdinand de,
  • sent to England by the Infanta Isabella,
  • meets Charles and Buckingham on his way to London,
• Bolingbroke, Earl of, 1624 (Oliver St. John),
  • refuses to pay the forced loan,
  • signs the petition of the twelve peers,
• Bordeaux,
  • seizure of the English wine-fleet at,
• Border trials,
  • Act providing for the regulation of,
• Borlase, Sir John,
  • is appointed Lord Justice,
  • See Lords Justices, the
• Borough, Sir John,
  • is prevented by the inhabitants of Frankenthal from abandoning the place,
  • evacuates Frankenthal,
  • is sent as second in command of the expedition to Rhé,
  • behaves well at the landing,
  • death of,
  • Borough, Sir John, writes the Sovereignty of the Sea,
• Boroughbridge,
  • meeting of officers at,
• Boston,
  • self-mutilation of a soldier of,
• Boswell, Sir William,
  • is instructed to be present at the conferences between the deputies of the two States-General,
  • is directed to enforce the use of the Prayer-book in the English congregation at Delft,
  • insists on the adoption of the Prayer-book by the English regiments in the Netherlands,
  • negotiates with the Dutch fishermen,
  • remonstrates with Mary de Medicis,
• Boteler, Lord, 1628-1637 (John Boteler),
  • changes bis religion,
• Bowes, Sir Jerome,
  • receives a patent for making glass,
• Bowing in church,
  • enforced by Laud,
  • controversy on,
  • Laud defends his practice respecting,
• Bowyer, Ludowick,
  • is punished for an attack on Laud,
• Brackley, Viscount, 1616-1617 (Thomas Egerton),
  • illness of,
  • resignation of,
  • death of,
  • See Ellesmere. Lord
• Bradford, William,
  • attends Clifton's preaching,
  • hears that his wife has been drowned,
  • is chosen governor of the colony in New England,
  • welcomes the Massachusetts settlers,
• Braintree,
  • difficulty of enforcing conformity at,
• Bramhall, John (Bishop of Derry, 1634),
  • takes part in the amendment of the Irish canons,
  • attempts to enforce conformity in Ulster,
• Bramston, John,
  • defends the five knights,
  • See Bramston, Sir John
• Bramston, Sir John,
  • delivers judgment in the case of ship-money,
• Brancepeth,
  • arrangements of Cosin's Church at,
• Brandenburg, Elector of.
  • See George William
• Brandling, Robert,
  • locks up an ecclesiastical court in a church,
• Breda,
  • Spinola lays siege to,
  • connection of the Prince of Orange with,
  • wish of the French to employ Mansfeld in the relief of,
  • surrender of,
  • exhaustion of the Spanish finances in consequence of the siege of,
• Breisach,
  • is taken by Bernhard,
• Breitenfeld,
  • battle of,
  • enthusiasm raised in England by the success of Gustavus at,
• Brent, Sir Nathaniel,
  • is Laud's Vicar-General to carry out the metropolitical visitation,
  • Brereton, Sir William, his remarks on the physical and moral condition of the Scots,
• Brett, Anne,
  • marries Cranfield,
• Brett, Arthur,
  • is suspected of attempting to supplant Buckingham, and is sent out of England,
  • sent out of England,
  • returns to England,
  • is to go to Rome as Henrietta Maria's agent,
  • receives instructions from Charles,
  • death of,
• Brett, Sir Alexander,
  • behaves well at the landing at Rhé,
  • disaster to the regiment of,
• Brewers, the,
  • charged with brewing too strong beer,
• Brewster, Captain,
  • condemned to death by Argall,
• Brewster, William,
  • settles as postmaster at Scrooby,
  • becomes elder of the Separatist congregation at,
  • is imprisoned for attempting to emigrate,
  • crosses the Atlantic in the 'Mayflower',
  • nurses the sick,
  • presides over the congregation at Plymouth,
• Bribes,
  • distinguished from fees and gratuities,
• Brickmakers,
  • monopoly granted to the corporation of,
• Bridge of Dee, the,
  • is stormed by Montrose,
• Bridge of Dessau, the,
  • Mansfeld defeated at,
• Bridgeman, John (Bishop of Chester, 1619),
  • examines the Lancashire witches,
• Bridgewater, Earl of, 1617 (John Egerton),
  • said to have paid for his earldom,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • thinks that the Lords ought to decide something about the Petition of Right,
  • performance of the Comus at the festivities to celebrate his entry upon the office of President of Wales, vii .
• Bristol,
  • proposals to send citizens of, to Waterford,
• Bristol, Earl of, 1622 (John Digby),
  • is ordered to leave Madrid if Philip will not engage to help in obtaining the restitution of the Palatinate,
  • expresses confidence that he will obtain satisfaction if time is allowed,
  • but tries to put the assurances of Olivares to the test by asking that Spanish troops may join in the defence of Mannheim and Frankenthal,
  • is allowed to read Philip's letter to the Infanta Isabella,
  • fails to obtain a promise from the Spanish Government that Heidelberg will be restored within seventy days,
  • his position in Spain threatens to become untenable,
  • allows the marriage articles, as amended in Spain, to be sent to Rome,
  • recommends their acceptance by James,
  • receives Charles and Buckingham at Madrid,
  • imagines that Charles intends to change his religion,
  • Protestant service celebrated in his house,
  • resents Olivares' statement that Philip III never intended to conclude the marriage treaty,
  • remonstrates with Olivares,
  • pleads for a relaxation of the demands of the Theologians,
  • postpones action on his instructions to treat for a partition of the Netherlands,
  • is ready to consent to the education of the Electoral Prince at Vienna,
  • policy of,
  • offers to wager a ring that Charles will spend Christmas at Madrid,
  • writes to James on Buckingham's misconduct in Spain,
  • is ordered not to deliver Charles's proxy till he has security that the Infanta will not go into a nunnery,
  • assures Charles that the Infanta may be relied on,
  • explains to Charles his objections to a delay in delivering the proxy left with him,
  • hopes that if the marriage is effected Philip will assist in the restitution of the Palatinate,
  • complains of the instructions sent him to postpone the marriage,
  • is ordered to leave Spain if he does not receive a satisfactory answer about the Palatinate,
  • asks how he can honourably detain the proxy when the dispensation arrives,
  • tries to postpone the marriage,
  • informs Olivares that the marriage must be postponed, and demands the restitution of the Palatinate,
  • political ideas of,
  • offers to be reconciled to Buckingham,
  • rejects the offers of Olivares, and leaves Spain,
  • returns in a state of irritation against Buckingham,
  • is confined to his house and asks for a trial in Parliament,
  • is subjected to interrogatories, and compelled to retire to Sherborne,
  • refuses to acknowledge error,
  • his name removed by Charles from the list of Councillors,
  • receives a visit from Pembroke,
  • is ordered to remain at Sherborne,
  • is forbidden to come to Parliament, and declares his readiness to stand a trial,
  • comes to Westminster to take his seat in the House of Lords, and accuses Buckingham,
  • is accused by Charles of high treason,
  • charges against him, and his counter-charges against Buckingham,
  • makes his defence,
  • counsel allowed him by the Lords,
  • answers the charges against him,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • is restored to his seat in Parliament at the instance of the Lords,
  • Star Chamber prosecution of,
  • asserts that the King has a regal power besides his legal power,
  • wishes to find a formula which will allow the King a discretionary power of imprisonment in cases of necessity,
  • declares that the clause drawn up by Weston is not essential,
  • supports Arundel's proposal for a declaration to the King,
  • speaks of the mischievous effects of a dissolution,
  • proposes to ask the King not to dissolve Parliament,
  • declares that distractions have sprung up from the King's first answer to the Petition,
  • is restored to favour,
  • dissuades Charles from advancing to Berwick,
  • tells Charles that most of the Lords wish to petition for a Parliament,
  • reports Strafford's conversation on the political situation,
  • is accepted as a reader by the Great Council,
  • thinks that the City will lend money,
  • tells Charles that he will have to do what he does not wish,
  • recommends the acceptance of the Scottish demands for compensation,
  • is restored to the Privy Council,
  • policy of,
  • urges Charles to declare that he will not restore Strafford to authority,
  • is insulted by a mob,
  • is excused from voting on the Attainder Bill,
  • becomes a Gentleman of the Bedchamber,
  • draws up an amendment to the declaration against toleration,
  • is named as an evil counsellor,
  • is charged by Cromwell with having wished to bring up the Northern army,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • liberation of,
  • See Digby, Sir John; Digby, Lord
• Broadgate,
  • the Leicestershire magazine of arms carried off to,
  • failure of Hastings's attempt on,
• Brome,
  • is joint author of The Lancashire Witches,
• Brooke, Dr. Samuel,
  • is forbidden to publish a controversial book,
• Brooke, George,
  • takes part in Watson's plot,
  • gives evidence against his brother,
  • is convicted,
  • is executed,
• Brooke, 1st Lord, 1621-1628 (Fulk Greville),
  • surrenders the Chancellorship of the Exchequer,
  • is absent through illness from the Privy Council when the oath is taken to the Spanish marriage treaty,
  • is a member of the Council of War,
  • is appointed a member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs,
  • Brooke, 2nd Lord, 1628 (Robert Greville), proposes to emigrate to New England,
  • follows the King reluctantly to the war against the Scots,
  • refuses to take the military oath,
  • votes against interference with the Commons,
  • his study searched,
  • signs a letter to Johnston of Warriston,
  • takes part in a meeting of the opponents of the Court,
  • signs the petition of the twelve peers,
  • visits a congregation of Separatists,
  • rumoured appointment to the Privy Council of,
  • his Discourse on Episcopacy',
  • intention of Charles to call as a witness against the five members,
  • seizure of guns intended to be used at Warwick Castle by,
  • establishes himself in Warwick Castle,
• Brooke, Sir Basil,
  • fined at Holland's justice-seat at Gloucester,
• Brooksby, Bartholomew,
  • is convicted of treason,
  • is banished,
• Brotherly Assistance, the,
  • offered to the Scots by the Commons,
  • bill for securing payment of,
  • an instalment of, promised immediately,
• Brouncker, Sir Henry,
  • becomes President of Munster,
  • attempts to repress recusancy,
  • death of,
• Brown, Robert,
  • founds the Separatist body,
• Brownists. See Separatists
• Brownlow v. Michell,
  • case of,
• Brussels,
  • Conway and Weston arrive at,
  • Digby negotiates for peace at,
  • Digby visits, on his return from Vienna,
  • opening of conference for the pacification of the Palatinate at,
  • renewed discussion at the conference at,
  • proposal made for the sequestration of towns in the Palatinate at,
  • progress of the negotiations at,
  • end of the conference at,
  • meeting of the States-General at,
  • French declaration of war at,
  • Mary de Medicis at,
• Buckden,
  • position of the communion-table at,
• Buckeridge, John (Bishop of Rochester, 1610, Bishop of Ely, 1628),
  • declares that the Church does not condemn Montague's opinions,
  • suggests that the opinion of the judges be taken on the Petition of Right,
  • becomes Bishop of Ely,
• Buckingham, Countess of,
  • is ordered to leave the Court,
  • finds husbands for her poor relations,
  • fails in obtaining a wife for her son Christopher,
  • advises Buckingham to marry Lady Catherine Manners,
  • finds husbands for her kinswomen,
  • listens to Fisher, the Jesuit,
  • after hearing a conference between Laud and Fisher, declares herself a Roman Catholic,
  • applies a plaister to James,
  • accompanies Charles and Henrietta Maria,
  • wish of Charles that she shall be a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen,
  • resolution of Charles that the Queen shall witness a procession in the company of,
  • enters the Queen's household,
  • writes a letter to her son at Rhé,
  • brings about a reconciliation between her son and Williams,
• Buckingham, Duchess of,
  • proposed as Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen,
  • enters the Queen's Household,
  • writes to her husband during his absence,
  • writes to Dr. Moore on her husband's absence,
  • intercedes for a mutineer,
  • hears of her husband's murder,
  • erects a monument to her husband,
  • is brought to Court to plead for Portland,
  • marries Lord Dunluce, and pleads for Lady Purbeck,
• Buckingham, Duke of, 1623-1628, (George Villiers),
  • takes no part in the Prince's fresh efforts to induce the Spaniards to allow the Infanta to leave Spain,
  • blame of Charles's failure laid by the Spaniards on,
  • his conduct at Madrid,
  • threatens Khevenhueller,
  • is sent to Olivares to urge him to allow the Infanta to accompany Charles,
  • has an interview with the Infanta,
  • engages in an altercation with Olivares,
  • account given by Bristol of the misconduct of,
  • upbraids Olivares,
  • urges James to make the restitution of the Palatinate an indispensable condition of the Prince's marriage,
  • gives an account of his proceedings in Spain to a Committee of the Council,
  • urges James to summon Parliament,
  • his hold upon Charles,
  • is eager for war,
  • is angry at the refusal of the Committee on Spanish affairs to vote for war,
  • gives the Houses a narrative of his proceedings in Spain,
  • is supported by Parliament against the Spanish ambassadors,
  • sneers at James's refusal to receive a petition from the Commons,
  • assures Charles that he will become popular if he engages in war,
  • suggests the imposition of new taxes, and the introduction of foreign troops,
  • asks James to break the treaties with Spain,
  • begs James not to waver between his subjects and the Spaniards, and urges him to agree to a French alliance,
  • moves for an inquiry into the insults offered to the Spanish Embassy,
  • is probably cognisant of the attack on Lafuente,
  • challenges Lafuente to declare the substance of his lost despatches,
  • is always present when the Spanish ambassadors have an audience,
  • Carondelet's complaint against,
  • is informed of Carondelet's proceedings,
  • nature of his influence over James,
  • charges brought by Lafuente against,
  • is accused by Inojosa of conspiring to dethrone James,
  • is cleared by the Privy Council,
  • supports the impeachment of Middlesex,
  • falls ill,
  • wishes to have Bristol sent to the Tower,
  • objects to an interview between Tames and Bristol,
  • demands 10,000l. from the East India Company,
  • stays the East India fleet, and charges the Company with piracy,
  • obtains the money for which he had asked,
  • is persuaded by Effiat to be satisfied with the French proposal about the marriage treaty,
  • urges James to sign an article in favour of the Catholics,
  • assures Louis that James has done all that can be expected,
  • gains Charles over to Effiat's views,
  • risks of the warlike policy of,
  • tells Effiat that Parliament will be angry with him,
  • does not mention to James the wish of the French ambassadors, that Mansfeld shall land in Holland,
  • is dissatisfied with Mansfeld's resolution to take his army to Flushing,
  • is anxious to get Mansfeld off on any terms,
  • hopes that Mansfeld will reach the Palatinate,
  • advices Bellin to visit Paris,
  • is eager for a vigorous war,
  • urges James to lend ships for an attack on Genoa, and proposes to send a fleet to the coast of Spain,
  • urges James to lend ships to be used against Rochelle,
  • prepares to go to France with Charles's proxy for the marriage with Henrietta Maria,
  • strength of his position at Court,
  • buys from Lord Zouch the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports,
  • declines the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland,
  • resents the advice of Williams that he shall abandon the Admiralty,
  • gives James a posset-drink,
  • shares Charles's privacy during the first days of his reign,
  • assures Cottington that he wishes to ruin him,
  • is a member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs,
  • lends money to enable the fleet to be got ready for sea,
  • is to command the fleet, and proposes to use it to attack the ports of Flanders,
  • is too busy to act as proxy for Charles at Paris,
  • resolves to visit France to urge Louis to ally himself with England,
  • wishes Louis to come to terms with the Huguenots,
  • makes a splendid appearance at the Court festivities at Paris,
  • fails as a negotiator,
  • makes love to the Queen of France,
  • urges his followers to support a motion for further supply,
  • Eliot's remonstrance with,
  • tells Eliot that supply is asked for, with expectation of denial,
  • intention of,
  • chooses Sir J. Coke as his mouthpiece in the House of Commons,
  • is unwilling to employ Pennington's fleet against the French Protestants,
  • orders Pennington to give up bis fleet to the French, and negotiates with the French ambassadors at Rochester,
  • gives secret instructions to Nicholas,
  • orders Pennington to get up a mutiny in his ships,
  • is pleased with the news that Louis has made peace with the Huguenots,
  • orders Pennington actually to surrender the fleet,
  • makes up his mind to throw over the Catholics, and to disgrace Williams,
  • effort made to reconcile the House of Commons to,
  • Rich demands that he shall not be the single adviser of the Crown,
  • is recommended to come to terms with the Commons,
  • is ready to explain away the promises given to France to protect the Catholics,
  • appears in Christchurch Hall to make a communication to the Commons,
  • offers to abandon the Catholics, explains his foreign policy, and declares that he has never acted without counsel,
  • assures the Commons that they may name their enemy,
  • his defence unsatisfactory, but sincere,
  • makes light of Charles's breach of faith with respect to the Catholics,
  • speaks rudely to Father Berulle,
  • is named in the House of Commons,
  • pleads against a dissolution,
  • expects to bring the nation round to his support,
  • his calculations baffled by the continuance of the Civil War in France,
  • is sent by Charles to threaten or flatter the Queen,
  • is to go to the Hague to be present at the Congress, and to pawn the Crown jewels,
  • is warned by Cromwell of the danger of his isolation,
  • remains at Plymouth after the King's return,
  • sends Glanville to sea as Secretary of the fleet,
  • is partly answerable for the failure of the expedition to Cadiz,
  • proposes to visit France,
  • is refused permission to enter France,
  • is instructed to require an engagement from Louis, in favour of the Huguenots,
  • is summoned to Salisbury to meet Blainville,
  • holds a conversation with Blainville,
  • is reconciled to Pembroke,
  • disposes of the King's patronage,
  • is delayed in crossing the sea by the Dunkirk privateers,
  • reaches the Hague, and proposes combined operations against Dunkirk,
  • engages, in the Treaty of the Hague, that Charles will fulfil his obligations to the King of Denmark,
  • is refused permission to pass through France, and returns to England by sea,
  • Louis offers conditionally to receive,
  • fresh overtures addressed by Richelieu to,
  • is at Plymouth when French prizes are brought in,
  • attempt to borrow money for the King of Denmark,
  • proposal to place him in command of a fleet for the relief of Rochelle,
  • informs Blainville that his master must succour Rochelle,
  • orders the 'St. Peter' of Havre de Grace to be re-arrested,
  • scolds the Queen for disobedience to her husband,
  • conference on Montague's book, held at the house of,
  • is petitioned for the release of the 'St. Peter',
  • after a consultation with Marten, orders the release of the 'St. Peter',
  • is declared by Dr. Turner to be the cause of all grievances,
  • queries asked about the conduct of,
  • explains away Charles's threat of dissolution,
  • vindicates his past conduct,
  • charges voted against, upon common fame,
  • is accused by Bristol,
  • nature of the charges against,
  • impeachment of,
  • listens to the charges brought against him on the first day's impeachment,
  • is absent on the second day,
  • Eliot sums up the charges against,
  • is compared to Sejanus,
  • interprets the language used by Digges as directed against the King,
  • is put forward by Charles as a candidate for the Chancellorship of Cambridge,
  • is elected,
  • makes his defence to the impeachment,
  • Charles orders that his case shall be tried in the Star Chamber,
  • sentence given in favour of,
  • seeks to gain favour with the nobility,
  • is surrounded by a mob of soldiers and sailors clamouring for pay,
  • expects to get over the difficulties with France,
  • talks of renewing the French alliance, and entertains Bassompierre at York House,
  • proposes to go to France to negotiate a new alliance, 146 in spite of hints that his presence will not be acceptable, persists in offering to go,
  • is followed by a mob at Canterbury,
  • determines to resist Richelieu's attempt to make France a naval power,
  • orders Pennington to attack French ships at Havre,
  • informs Richelieu that the French terms are inadmissible,
  • makes overtures to Spain,
  • sends Gerbier to Brussels to propose a suspension of arms,
  • informs Joachimi of his negotiation with Spain,
  • proposes to Charles to negotiate with Spain,
  • Walter Montague in favour with,
  • hopes to be supported by the Duke of Rohan,
  • boasts that he will restore the reputation of the navy,
  • sails from Stokes Bay,
  • arrives off the Isle of Rhé,
  • effects a landing,
  • finds that the Rochellese are unwilling to support him,
  • lays siege to St. Martin's,
  • pays compliments to Toiras,
  • is in need of reinforcements,
  • a French deserter attempts to assassinate,
  • arrival of reinforcements for,
  • sends Ashburnham to Paris to make overtures for peace,
  • cries out for fresh reinforcements,
  • fails to prevent the revictualling of St. Martin's,
  • obtains from the council of war a resolution to go on with the siege,
  • has hopes in Rohan's insurrection and Holland's reinforcements,
  • letters written from England to,
  • writes to his mother from Rhé,
  • receives warnings of his danger,
  • thinks of assaulting St. Martin's,
  • assaults St. Martin's,
  • is driven back, and retreats with the loss of a great part of his army,
  • reembarks the remains of his army,
  • causes of the failure of,
  • lands at Plymouth and proposes an attack on Calais,
  • talks of continuing the war for many years,
  • is unable to satisfy the soldiers and sailors,
  • refuses to hear of peace, and advises the summoning of Parliament,
  • proposes the raising of a standing army,
  • resolution of the leaders of the Commons not to repeat the attack on,
  • is displeased with the forgery of a letter in the name of one of the Jesuits arrested at Clerkenwell,
  • moves that the debate on committal be closed,
  • fails to persuade the Lords to reject the Commons' resolutions,
  • approves of the Lords' amendment to the Petition of Right,
  • urges the Lords to insist on the saving of the King's sovereign power, but afterwards expresses his readiness to be satisfied with a saving of the prerogative,
  • asks the Lords to put to the vote the question whether there is to be a saving of the King's power,
  • loses his hold on the House of Lords,
  • protests in vain against the resolution of the Lords to give up the additional clause to the Petition of Right,
  • is attacked by Eliot, though his name is not mentioned,
  • is named by Coke as the cause of all miseries,
  • proposal of Selden to new the impeachment of,
  • a clause added to the Commons' Remonstrance in condemnation of,
  • does not oppose the wish of the Lords to have a better answer to the Petition of Right,
  • heads a deputation to ask Charles for an answer,
  • abandonment of Selden's proposal to renew the impeachment of,
  • the Commons ask for the dismissal of,
  • outrageous charges brought against,
  • Charles orders the removal from the file of all the documents relating to the Star Chamber prosecution of,
  • is refused permission to answer the complaints against him in the Remonstrance of the Commons,
  • satires directed against,
  • wishes to limit the extent of the war,
  • proposes to go to Spain to negotiate a peace,
  • is reconciled to Williams, and listens to his advice,
  • gives his confidence to Carleton,
  • resigns the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports,
  • wishes for peace with France if it can be obtained without dishonour,
  • is despondent at the delay in fitting out the fleet,
  • approves of Contarini's wish to negotiate a peace between France and England,
  • has interviews with Charles and Contarini about the peace,
  • is in danger from mutineers,
  • assassination of,
  • funeral of,
  • monument of,
  • estimate of the career of,
  • See Villiers, Sir George
  • See Villiers, Lord
  • See Buckingham, Earl of
  • See Buckingham, Marquis of
• Buckingham, Earl of, 1617-1618 (George Villiers),
  • patronage placed in his hands,
  • opposes Yelverton's promotion,
  • is angry with Bacon for interfering with his brother's marriage,
  • his feeling towards Bacon reported by Yelverton,
  • takes Bacon into favour,
  • flatters Lady Hatton,
  • is created a Marquis,
  • See Villiers, Sir George
  • See Villiers, Lord
  • See Buckingham, Marquis of
  • See Buckingham, Duke of
• Buckingham, Marquis of, 1618-1624 (George Villiers),
  • defends Gondomar in the Council,
  • opposes the Howards,
  • his lease of the Irish Customs,
  • makes up a quarrel with the Prince of Wales,
  • is displeased with Lake,
  • becomes Lord High Admiral,
  • administrative reforms patronised by,
  • asks that Suffolk may be leniently treated,
  • interferes in the election for the Recordership,
  • writes to Cottington on the Bohemian mediation,
  • urges James to defend the Palatinate,
  • is irritated by the news of Dutch outrages in the East, and deserts the war party,
  • courts Lady Catherine Manners,
  • marriage of,
  • wishes Sir E. Cecil to command the volunteers for the Palatinate,
  • brings forward a plan for the partition of the Dutch Republic,
  • favours the Spanish attack on the Palatinate,
  • supports the monopoly of gold and silver thread,
  • objects to the withdrawal of the patents,
  • alleged participation in the profits of the gold and silver thread monopoly,
  • is alarmed at the proceedings against Mompesson, and attacks the referees,
  • consults Williams,
  • resolves to throw over the monopolists,
  • quarrels with Southampton,
  • visits Bacon,
  • advocates a dissolution of Parliament,
  • abandons Bacon's defence,
  • raises points in Bacon's favour,
  • asks that Bacon may not be summoned to the bar,
  • charge brought by Yelverton against,
  • wishes the King to punish Yelverton,
  • moves that Yelverton shall be censured by the Lords,
  • boasts that he is 'Parliament proof',
  • sets the political prisoners at liberty,
  • application of the Dutch Commissioners to,
  • is hostile to the Dutch,
  • becomes security for the repayment of money advanced by Mandevilte,
  • betrays Frederick's correspondence to Gondomar,
  • urges the dissolution of the Parliament of 1621,
  • congratulates Gondomar on the dissolution,
  • wishes to buy York House from Bacon,
  • purchases Wallingford House, and gets possession of York House,
  • is on friendly terms with the Howards, and is almost persuaded to become a Roman Catholic,
  • is confirmed together with many of his relations,
  • is present at conferences between White and Laud on one side, and Fisher on the other,
  • offers to treat Laud as a confessor,
  • complains to Gondomar of the state of the negotiations for the marriage treaty,
  • buys New Hall,
  • is in a warlike mood after the fall of Heidelberg,
  • nature of the influence exercised over Charles by,
  • employs Porter to carry on a correspondence with Gondomar,
  • opposes James in the Council,
  • proposes the levy of another Benevolence,
  • is to fetch home the Infanta,
  • exercises influence over Charles,
  • acquaints James with his intention of taking the Prince to Spain,
  • persuades James to consent to the journey to Spain,
  • threatens Cottington for opposing the journey,
  • wishes to be reconciled with those whom he had offended,
  • sets off for Spain,
  • arrives in Paris,
  • outcry in England against,
  • reaches Madrid,
  • is presented to Philip IV.,
  • assures Olivares that the Prince has not come to be converted,
  • writes to James about the Infanta's beauty,
  • informs Olivares that he has no power to grant liberty of worship in England,
  • refuses to surrender a fortress to the English Catholics, but is satisfied with the promises of Olivares,
  • is offended at the transference of the Electorate,
  • offers to listen to a conference on religion,
  • takes part in a theological disputation,
  • expects to be able to return soon,
  • quarrels with Don Francisco Giron,
  • behaves with rudeness at a religious conference,
  • takes Charles to the English service at Bristol's house,
  • quarrels with Olivares,
  • threatens the Nuncio,
  • informs Olivares that the Prince intends to leave Madrid,
  • offers to engage that the laws against the Catholics shall be repealed,
  • is angry at the announcement that the Infanta is to remain in Spain after the marriage,
  • is irritated by the decision of the Junta of Theologians,
  • is created a Duke,
  • See Villiers, Sir George
  • See Villiers, Lord
  • See Buckingham, Earl of
  • See Buckingham, Duke of
• Buckinghamshire,
  • muster of trained bands in churchyards in,
  • difficulty in obtaining payment of coat-and-conduct money in,
  • levy of soldiers resisted in,
  • petitioners from,
  • gentry and freeholders of, ride up to support Parliament,
• Bucquoi, Count,
  • commands the Imperialists in Bohemia,
  • defeats Mansfeld,
  • is defeated and slain,
• Budweis,
  • remains in the hands of the Imperialists,
• Bufalo, Cardinal del,
  • sends a message to James,
• Buildings, fines on,
  • commission for imposing,
  • remission of,
• Bullion in the Tower,
  • seized by the King,
• Bungay,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitan visitation of,
• Burgess, Dr. Cornelius,
  • presents the petition of the clergy to the King,
  • preaches before the House of Commons,
  • urges that the revenues of deans and chapters may be applied to Church purposes,
• Burghley, Lord, 1571-1598 (William Cecil),
  • reproves Essex,
• Burntisland,
  • Charles is nearly drowned in crossing from,
• Burton, Henry,
  • is dismissed from Court and becomes Rector of St. Matthew's in Friday Street,
  • criticises Cosin's Devotions,
  • publishes For God and the King,
  • is tried and sentenced in the Star Chamber,
  • stands in the pillory,
  • is imprisoned in Guernsey,
  • the Commons order the liberation of,
  • enters London in triumph,
  • the Commons vote reparation to,
  • his Protestation Protested,
• Bustamente, Francisco de,
  • surrenders Fort Puntal,
• Buttevant, Lord, 1581-1617 (David Fitz-James),
  • writes to Salisbury on the treatment of the Catholics in Munster,
• Button, Sir Thomas,
  • is a member of the Council of War,
• Buwinckhausen de Walmerode, Benjamin,
  • sent by the Union as ambassador to James,
  • his reception,
  • asks James to defend the Palatinate,
  • leaves England,
• Byrnes, of Wicklow, the,
  • treatment of, by Falkland,
• Byron, Sir John,
  • appointed Lieutenant of the Tower,
  • secures the Tower for the King,
  • is summoned before the Lords,
  • refuses to leave the Tower,
  • is unable to maintain the Tower against Skippon,
  • is superseded by Convers,
• Cabinet Council,
  • introduction of the term,
• Cadenet, Marquis of,
  • is sent to England to propose a French alliance,
• Cadiz,
  • expedition prepared in England against,
  • the English fleet sails up the bay of,
  • smallness of the Spanish garrison of,
  • entrance of reinforcements into,
  • abandonment by the English of their attempt on,
• Caerlaverock Castle,
  • is held for the King,
  • is taken by the Covenanters,
• Cæsar, Sir Charles,
  • buys the Mastership of the Rolls,
  • use of the money paid by,
• Cæsar, Sir Julius,
  • is a member of the first Parliament of James I.,
  • is Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • reports on the state of the exchequer,
  • asks for a grant of supply,
  • becomes Master of the Rolls,
  • gives his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
  • is appointed a Commissioner to examine Raleigh,
• Calais,
  • goods passed over the frontier of the Spanish Netherlands from,
  • Buckingham proposes an attack on,
  • the post-boat rifled by a privateer from,
• Calamy, Edmund,
  • is one of the authors of the pamphlet known under the name of Smectymnuus
  • preaches before the House of Commons at St. Margaret's,
• Calderwood, David,
  • banishment of,
• Calthorpe, Henry,
  • defends the five knights,
  • defends Valentine in the King's Bench,
• Calvert, George,
  • employed as a Commissioner to Ireland,
  • See Calvert, Sir George
  • See Baltimore, 1st Lord
• Calvert, Leonard,
  • is deputed by Lord Baltimore to act as Governor in Maryland
• Calvert, Sir George,
  • becomes Secretary of State,
  • asks for supply,
  • explains that the King allows liberty of speech,
  • makes a demand for money for an army,
  • announces James's wish to refer Bacon's case to a new tribunal,
  • gives explanations on the imprisonment of Sandys,
  • asks for an immediate grant of supply,
  • accepts Coke's explanation of the King's attack on the privileges of the Commons,
  • advocates a more decided policy in Germany,
  • reads the public articles of the marriage treaty at Whitehall,
  • negotiates with the Spanish ambassadors on the relaxation of the penal laws.
  • listens to a proposal from the Spanish ambassadors for the pacification of Germany,
  • votes against war with Spain,
  • resigns the Secretaryship and declares himself a Catholic,
  • is created Lord Baltimore,
  • See Calvert, George
  • See Baltimore, 1st Lord
• Calvinism,
  • character of,
  • opposition in England to its system of Church government,
  • its relation to Presbyterianism,
  • its relation to liberty,
  • Richard Montague's opposition to,
  • influence of, in England,
  • reaction against,
  • complaint of the Commons that Charles has discountenanced,
• Cambridge, the University of,
  • opposes the millennary petition,
  • James's visit to,
  • vacancy in the Chancellorship of,
  • election of Buckingham to the Chancellorship of,
  • influence of Sibbes at,
  • resists Laud's claim to visit,
  • gives 6,000l. to the King,
  • Cromwell seizes the college plate on its way to the King from,
• Camerarius, Ludwig,
  • predicts that Mansfeld will fail,
• Camerino, Cardinal,
  • proposes to send Baronius's history to James,
• Camiola,
  • Massinger's character of,
• Canaries, the,
  • Raleigh's visit to,
• Canons,
  • drawn up in 1604,
  • drawn up in 1606,
  • the Scottish,
  • Charles abandons the Scottish,
  • the Assembly of Glasgow abolishes the Scotish
  • drawn up by Convocation in 1640,
  • the Commons condemn the new,
• Cant, Andrew,
  • accompanies Montrose to Aberdeen,
• Canterbury,
  • Charles at,
  • Buckingham meets Bassompierre at,
• Capel, Sir Arthur,
  • presents a petition from Hertfordshire,
  • declares that the Lords ought to compel Strafford to answer,
  • supports Pym's proposal to compel the Londoners to lend,
• Capuchins, of Henrietta Maria's household, the,
  • Chateauneuf proposes to place a bishop in charge of,
• Carapana,
  • a chief on the Orinoco,
• Cardenas, Alonso de,
  • publishes a statement about Charles's negotiation with the Emperor,
  • is suspended from intercourse with the Court,
  • bargains for the purchase of gunpowder for Oquendo's fleet,
  • tells Windebank that he does not hope to obtain money from Spain,
  • bargains with Newport for the transport of soldiers to Dunkirk,
  • hears of the attack on the fleet in the Downs,
• Cardinal Infant, the (Ferdinand),
  • succeeds the Infanta Isabella as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands,
  • in conjunction with the King of Hungary takes Ratisbon and defeats the Swedes at Nordlingen,
  • is unable to send money to Charles,
  • invades France,
  • attempt of Charles to obtain the acknowledgment of his fishing licences from,
  • sanctions a negotiation of Gerbier with the Princess of Pfalzburg,
  • refuses to lend Spanish troops to Charles,
• Carew, Lord, 1605 (George Carew),
  • sent to report on the plantation of Ulster,
  • pleads for Raleigh,
  • is a member of the Council of War,
  • is created Earl of Totness,
  • See Carew, Sir George
  • See Totness, Earl of
• Carew, Sir George,
  • is President of Munster,
  • See Carew, Lord
• Carew, Sir George,
  • becomes Master of the Wards,
  • death of,
• Carew, Thomas,
  • his lines on the death of Gustavus,
• Carey, Lady,
  • has charge of Prince Charles,
• Carey, Sir George (Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1603-1604),
  • protests against the scheme for the alteration of the coinage,
  • is recalled,
  • Carey, Sir Robert, carries the news of Elizabeth's death to James,
• Carleton, Lord, 1626 (Dudley Carleton),
  • is sent on a mission to France,
  • informs Louis of the expulsion of the Queen's French attendants,
  • is recalled,
  • acquaints Joachimi with Buckingham's negotiation with Spain,
  • is sent on a mission to the Hague,
  • remonstrates against the building of French ships in Dutch harbours,
  • becomes Buckingham's confidant and is created Viscount Dorchester,
  • See Carleton, Sir Dudley
  • See Dorchester, Viscount
• Carleton, Sir Dudley,
  • is sent as ambassador to the Hague,
  • fails in obtaining the execution of the Treaty of Xanten,
  • is a candidate for the Secretaryship after Winwood's death,
  • complains that he has not been rewarded by the East India Company,
  • complains of Frederick,
  • urges the Prince of Orange to allow Dunkirk privateers to escape from Leithand Aberdeen
  • demands the arrest of the Dutch captains who had attacked a privateer at Leith,
  • raises a loan for Mansfeld's army,
  • is made Vice-Chamberlain and a Privy Councillor, and sent, together with Holland, on a mission to France, to mediate peace between, Louis and the Huguenots,
  • negotiates, together with Holland, a peace in France,
  • announces that the English ships which had been used against Rochelle will soon be restored,
  • defends the imprisonment of Eliot and Digges,
  • narrates his experience of the misery of France, as a warning against obliging the King to discontinue Parliaments,
  • asks the Commons to clear Eliot of all that he has done as a member,
  • informs the House that Eliot has been liberated,
  • is made Lord Carleton,
  • See Carleton, Lord
  • See Dorchester, Viscount.
• Carlisle,
  • to be put in a state of defence,
  • Cumberland sent to command at,
• Carlisle, 1st Earl of, 1622-1636 (James Hay),
  • is sent to Paris to prevent obstacles being thrown in the way of the Prince's journey,
  • takes part in the banquet after James had sworn to the public articles of the marriage treaty with Spain,
  • votes in the Committee on Spanish affairs for war with Spain,
  • conducts Mansfeld to Rochester,
  • is sent as special ambassador to France to conduct the negotiations for the marriage treaty,
  • his reception in Paris
  • acquaints James with La Vieuville's demands for the Catholics,
  • appeals to the Queen Mother,
  • is indignant at the terms required by Richelieu,
  • advises Charles to threaten the French ambassador,
  • informs Charles that the French will not make a league with him,
  • Eliot's opinion of,
  • tries to irritate the Peers against Bristol,
  • is sent on a mission to the Continent,
  • is sent to Lorraine and Italy,
  • opposes Richelieu,
  • recommends a Spanish alliance,
  • returns from his mission,
  • splendid hospitality of,
  • receives a grant in lieu of the repayment of the debt owed to him,
  • assures Panzani that he is ready to accept all the doctrines taught at Rome except that of the Pope's deposing power,
  • See Hay, Lord
  • See Doncaster, Viscount
• Carlisle, 2nd Earl of, 1636 (James Hay),
  • acknowledges that he has voted against his conscience,
• Carlisle, Countess of,
  • is the reigning beauty at Whitehall,
  • supports Leicester's candidature for the Secretaryship,
  • her friendship for Strafford,
  • her political alliance with Pym,
  • informs Essex that Charles is coming to the House,
  • wishes Charles to delay his departure from Whitehall,
• Carnarvon, Earl of, 1628 (Robert Dormer),
  • criticises The Floating Island,
• Caron, Noel de, Dutch ambassador in England,
  • is allowed to levy a regiment in Scotland,
  • asks James to surrender the cautionary towns,
  • proposes a negotiation about the disputes in the East,
  • regrets the alienation between England and the Dutch,
  • death of,
• Carondelet, Archdeacon of Cambrai,
  • James complains of Charles and Buckingham to,
  • has a private audience of James,
  • his secret intercourse with the King discovered by Williams,
• Carr, Sir Robert,
  • early life of,
  • acquires the manor of Sherborne,
  • urges James to dissolve Parliament,
  • is created Viscount Rochester,
  • See Rochester, Viscount
  • See Somerset, Earl of
• Carrickfergus,
  • Wandesford expects the Irish army to rendezvous at,
  • the infantry of the army at,
• Cartignana Count of,
  • Savoyard ambassador in England,
  • returns to Turin,
• Cartwright, Thomas
  • wishes magistrates to assist the clergy in maintaining discipline,
  • defends Presbyterianism against Whitgift,
  • attacks the Separatists,
• Cartwright, William,
  • his Royal Slave performed at Oxford,
• Carvajal, Donna Luisa de,
  • lives in England,
  • is imprisoned,
  • release of,
• Carver, John,
  • first governor of New England,
  • death of,
• Cary, Lorenzo,
  • is promoted by Charles in spite of Wentworth's wish,
• Cary, Lucius,
  • is dismissed from the Irish army, and challenges Sir Francis Willoughby,
  • succeeds his father as Viscount Falkland,
  • See Falkland, Viscount
• Cary, Sir Henry,
  • is created Viscount Falkland,
  • See Falkland, Viscount
• Casale, Richelieu
  • raises the siege of,
• Castara,
  • Habington's,
• Castelnaudary,
  • defeat of Montmorency at,
• Castle Chamber, the Irish Court of,
  • punishes the jurymen who acquitted Mead,
  • attempt to suppress recusancy by means of,
  • petition against the assumed jurisdiction of,
  • resistance to the fines imposed by,
  • violent proceedings of,
  • abandonment of the attempt to impose fines on recusants in,
  • the Galway jury summoned before,
• Castleton Samuel,
  • sent to the Spice Islands,
• Catalonia,
  • rebellion of,
• Catesby, George,
  • declares himself to be master of his own purse,
• Catesby, Robert,
  • consults Garnet,
  • hopes that the King of Spain will send an army to England, 140,
  • See Gun-powder Plot.
• Catholics, the English,
  • persecuted by Henry VIII.
  • and by Elizabeth,
  • grievances of,
  • expect better treatment from James,
  • intention formed by James respecting,
  • the recusancy fines again collected from,
  • support James's title,
  • plot formed amongst,
  • receive a promise that the fines will be remitted,
  • are urged by the Pope to abstain from insurrection,
  • James promises not to exact the fines from,
  • increase of,
  • banishment of their priests,
  • James's views on their treatment,
  • vacillation in James's intentions towards,
  • alarm taken by James at the increase in the numbers of,
  • Act of 1604 directed against,
  • the law put in force by the judges against,
  • attempt to deal with, by banishing the priests and sparing the laity,
  • are harshly treated in Lancashire,
  • the recusancy fines demanded from the wealthiest,
  • the penal laws to be put in force against,
  • amount of the fines levied from,
  • Protestant view of the treatment of,
  • difficulties in the way of granting toleration to,
  • discontent among,
  • new laws against, after the Gunpowder Plot,
  • an oath of allegiance imposed on,
  • banishment of their priests,
  • proposal to purchase toleration for,
  • persecution of, after the Gunpowder Plot,
  • contemplated toleration of,
  • continued ill-treatment of,
  • improved prospects of,
  • milder treatment of,
  • James professes to engage himself by letter on behalf of,
  • are accused of rejoicing at Frederick's defeat in Bohemia,
  • James refuses to persecute.
  • prospects of toleration for,
  • release from imprisonment of,
  • oath taken by the Privy Councillors not to exact penalties from,
  • discussion on the mode in which James is to give effect to the articles in the Spanish marriage treaty in relief of,
  • agreement made at Salisbury for the relief of,
  • James signs a pardon and dispensation for,
  • delay in the issue of the Acts in favour of,
  • continuance of the delay in relieving,
  • accident at Blackfriars to an assembly of,
  • James explains his treatment of,
  • Bill for increasing the penalties of,
  • Eliot proposes to fit out a fleet with the fines of,
  • bitterness of feeling in England against,
  • petition for the execution of the penal laws against
  • Charles swears that they shall have no benefit by the French marriage treaty,
  • James confirms his son's declaration against,
  • refusal of the French Government to go on with the marriage treaty without including,
  • suspension of the proceedings against,
  • signature by Charles of an engagement in favour of,
  • suspension of the penal laws against,
  • order given by Charles to stay all proceedings against,
  • are informed that they must not expect relief till after the session of Parliament is over,
  • Seymour moves that the laws be executed against,
  • Charles declares his intention of executing the laws against,
  • disappointment of Henrietta Maria at Charles's failure to observe his promises to,
  • protests of the French ambassadors in favour of,
  • Williams advises Charles on the best mode of dealing with,
  • attack by the Commons on the issue of pardons to,
  • declaration of Buckingham that the laws will be executed against,
  • protests of the Bishop of Mende and Father Berulle on behalf of,
  • banishment of the priests of,
  • remonstrances of Blainville on behalf of,
  • enforcement of the penal laws against,
  • are hindered from going to mass at Blainville's chapel,
  • attempt of Charles to buy off the opposition of Parliament by persecuting,
  • gracious reception by Charles of the petition of the Houses against,
  • the Commons complain of the favour shown to,
  • the Commons repeat their complaint of the lenient treatment of,
  • converts to the doctrines of,
  • improved condition of,
  • divisions amongst the clergy of,
  • numbers and moral position of,
  • Panzani's mission on behalf of,
  • Panzani reports the prevalence at Court of the doctrines of,
  • position of in Maryland,
  • Laud wishes that the laws may be executed against,
  • efforts of Con on behalf of,
  • numerous converts added to,
  • struggle between Laud and the Queen on the proposed execution of the laws against,
  • Charles modifies his proclamation against,
  • contribute to the war against Scotland,
  • the Queen fears that the Short Parliament will persecute,
  • attempts made to get money from,
  • are placed in military command,
  • ill-feeling of the soldiers against,
  • supposed plot formed by,
  • are asked to fast in support of the Queen's intention,
  • are dismissed from the army in the North,
  • liberty of worship offered by Charles to,
  • the Commons demand an account of the contributions of,
  • both Houses ask the King to execute the laws against,
  • are thrown over by Charles,
  • demand of the Lords for the disarmament of,
  • are questioned on their behaviour,
  • charges brought against,
  • renewal of the persecution of,
  • renewed fear of a plot formed by,
  • hard condition of,
• Catholics, the Irish.
  • See Ireland
• Cautionary towns,
  • surrendered to the Dutch,
• Cavaliers,
  • origin of the name of,
  • follow Lunsford to Kingston,
  • are dispersed by the Surrey trained bands
• Cavan,
  • Chichester's visit to,
  • treatment of the English settlers in,
• Cavendish, Lord,
  • buys the earldom of Devonshire,
• Cayenne, the,
  • Raleigh arrives at the mouth of,
• Cecil of Essendon, Lord, 1603-1604 (Robert Cecil),
  • his views on the peace with Spain,
  • is informed of Watson's plot,
  • his conduct towards Raleigh,
  • supports Raleigh at his trial,
  • moves for a conference on purveyance,
  • advises James not to hasten the union with Scotland,
  • is unable to give good advice on ecclesiastical questions,
  • his opinion on the treatment of nonconformists, 199,
  • takes part in the negotiation with Spain,
  • explains that the Dutch will not suffer from the treaty with Spain,
  • becomes Viscount Cranborne,
  • See Cecil, Sir Robert
  • See Cranborne, Viscount
  • See Salisbury, Earl of
• Cecil, Sir Edward,
  • commands the English troops at the siege of Juliers,
  • is a candidate for the command of the volunteers for the Palatinate, and quarrels with Dohna,
  • is a member of the Council of War,
  • speech in the House of Commons falsely attributed to,
  • seconds Perrot's motion for the defence of the Palatinate,
  • is again member of the Council of War,
  • is appointed commander of the expedition against Cadiz,
  • is dissatisfied with the force committed to him,
  • is promised the title of Viscount Wimbledon,
  • maintains order with difficulty in the fleet at Plymouth,
  • by the advice of a council of war he resolves to land at St. Mary Port, but on seeing Essex sail up Cadiz harbour orders the fleet to follow,
  • orders an attack on Fort Puntal,
  • marches towards the north end of the island,
  • lets his men get drunk, and returns to Puntal,
  • abandons the attempt on Cadiz, and sails to look for the Mexico fleet,
  • returns to England,
  • See Wimbledon, Viscount
• Cecil, Sir Robert,
  • Secretary of State to Elizabeth,
  • enters into a secret correspondence with James,
  • his character and position,
  • is raised to the peerage,
  • See Cecil of Essendon, Lord
  • See Cranborne, Viscount
  • See Salisbury, Earl of
• Celibacy,
  • Massinger's opinion on,
  • Panzani's report on English opinion on clerical,
• Cervantes
  • writes Don Quixote,
• Chaderton, Lawrence,
  • takes part in the Hampton Court Conference,
• Chalcedon, Bishop of.
  • See Bishop, William,
  • See Smith, William
• Cham,
  • surrender of, to the Bavarians,
• Chambers, Richard,
  • is committed by the Council for contemptuous words,
  • applies for a habeas corpus, and is bailed,
  • is prosecuted in the Star Chamber,
  • addresses a petition to the Commons,
  • is sentenced in the Star Chamber, and refuses to acknowledge his offence,
  • brings an action against the Custom House officers,
  • questions the jurisdiction of the Star Chamber in the Court of Exchequer,
  • postponement of the case of,
  • attempts to obtain a decision on the legality of ship-money from the King's Bench,
  • pays ship-money and brings an action against the Lord Mayor,
  • postponement of the argument in the case of,
• Chancery, the Court of,
  • attack by Coke on the jurisdiction of,
  • Bill for the reform of,
• Chancey Sir William,
  • case of, in the High Commission Court,
• Chaplains,
  • position of,
• Charenton,
  • visit of Holland and Carleton to the Huguenot church at,
• Charity Mistaken,
  • written by Knott,
• Charlemont,
  • massacre of Irish women at,
• Charles III. Duke of Lorraine,
  • mission of Walter Montague to,
  • does nothing to support Buckingham,
  • Gaston takes refuge with,
  • attack of Richelieu on,
  • surrenders three of his fortresses to France,
  • is driven into exile,
• Charles I (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1625),
  • opinion of Ville-aux-Clercs on the character of,
  • defects of, as a ruler,
  • establishes himself at Whitehall,
  • wishes James's Parliament to meet after the King's death,
  • keeps order in his Court,
  • is eager to fit out the fleet to be used against Spain, and engages to supply money to the King of France,
  • gathers a land force,
  • is married by proxy,
  • orders all proceedings against, the Catholics to be stayed,
  • his first interview with his wife,
  • his first matrimonial dispute,
  • enters London with the Queen,
  • financial engagements of,
  • opens his first Parliament,
  • tells the Commons that they have brought him into the war,
  • makes a good impression on the Commons,
  • makes no definite demand,
  • is not opposed to persecution,
  • answers the grievances of the Commons, and proposes to end the session,
  • listens to Laud,
  • financial difficulties of,
  • resolves to ask for a further grant,
  • objects to the committal of Montague, as being his chaplain,
  • adjourns the Houses to Oxford, and announces his intention of executing the recusancy laws,
  • domestic troubles of
  • remonstrates with the Queen on the arrangements of her household,
  • orders the liberation of priests to accompany Effiat to France,
  • is in difficulty about Pennington's fleet,
  • double-dealing of,
  • is urged by the French to allow the fleet to be used against Rochelle,
  • sends further instructions to Pennington,
  • orders Pennington to return to Dieppe, and deliver his ships to the French,
  • is in a dilemma how to deal with the Catholics,
  • summons the Houses before him in Christchurch Hall,
  • asks for supply, and empowers Conway to explain his wants,
  • directs Sir J. Coke to give further explanations,
  • resolves to send the fleet to the Spanish coast,
  • sends a message to the Commons, begging for immediate supply,
  • insists upon dissolving Parliament,
  • dissolves his first Parliament,
  • continues his confidence in Buckingham,
  • with the consent of the Privy Council, banishes the priests and issues Privy Seals,
  • is on bad terms with the Queen,
  • wishes the Queen to admit English Ladies of the Bedchamber to her service,
  • agrees to the treaty of Southampton with the Dutch, and breaks openly with Spain,
  • resolves to send Buckingham to the Hague to pawn the Crown jewels, and to attend the Congress,
  • reviews the fleet and troops at Plymouth,
  • makes excuses for his treatment of the English Catholics,
  • hesitates to restore a ship seized by Soubise, and refuses to discuss with Blainville the question of the Queen's household,
  • makes the Opposition leaders sheriffs,
  • declares that Wentworth is an honest gentleman,
  • orders the issue of writs for a new Parliament,
  • informs the Bishop of Mendeo of his resolution to introduce English ladies into the Queen's household,
  • orders French prize goods to be sold,
  • hesitates whether he shall proceed with the sale,
  • wishes to come to a compromise,
  • resolves to relieve Rochelle,
  • insists upon the fulfilment by Louis of the terms of the Treaty of Montpellier,
  • is displeased at the Queen's refusal to be crowned,
  • coronation of,
  • is displeased with the terms granted by Louis to the Huguenots,
  • orders Holland and Carleton to insist on the recognition of their master's mediation,
  • treats the offer of French co-operation with coolness,
  • insists that the Queen shall witness a procession in the company of the Countess of Buckingham,
  • forbids Blainville to appear at Court, and demands his recall,
  • opens his second Parliament
  • receives Richelieu's fresh overtures with coolness,
  • wishes Lord Lome to marry Elizabeth Stuart,
  • sends Arundel to the Tower,
  • assures Totness that the Commons shall not send him to the Tower,
  • demands justice on Clement Coke and Dr. Turner,
  • complains of the conduct of the Commons in attacking Buckingham,
  • urges the Commons to grant supply,
  • directs Coventry to inform the Commons that they have liberty of counsel, not of control,
  • tells the Commons that Parliaments are to continue or not according to their fruits,
  • allows the Commons to proceed with their inquiry into the conduct of the Government,
  • does his best to alienate France,
  • receives Blainville at his last audience,
  • allows Arundel to go to his own house, and orders Bristol to remain at Sherborne,
  • accuses Bristol of having tried to pervert him,
  • accuses Bristol of high treason,
  • informs the Lords that he is able to bear witness to the falsehood of Bristol's charges against Buckingham,
  • contests the right of the Lords to allow Bristol the use of counsel,
  • his authority at stake in Buckingham's impeachment,
  • is angry at Eliot's comparison of Buckingham to Sejanus,
  • testifies Buckingham's innocence to the Lords, and objects to their message about Arundel,
  • sends Eliot and Digges to the Tower,
  • waives his pretensions to give evidence against Bristol, and releases Digges,
  • orders Weston to state that Eliot is imprisoned on account of actions done out of the House,
  • liberates Eliot, having failed to discover proof that he is in league with Blainville,
  • asks the University of Cambridge to elect Buckingham Chancellor,
  • orders the Commons to desist from further inquiry into Buckingham's election,
  • threatens the Commons with a dissolution if they do not speedily grant a supply,
  • believes that to abandon Buckingham will be destructive of the constitution,
  • dissolves Parliament,
  • issues a proclamation for the peace of the Church,
  • calls in the Remonstrance of the Commons, and directs that Buckingham's case shall be tried in the Star Chamber,
  • attempts in vain to induce the City to lend him money, but obtains a small loan from the aldermen,
  • gets together a fleet to act against Spain,
  • proposes a free gift to the country, orders tonnage and poundage to be levied, and dismisses several justices of the peace,
  • orders musters to be held,
  • makes a forced requisition of ships for Willoughby's fleet,
  • financial distress of,
  • quarrels with his wife,
  • expels the Queen's French attendants,
  • rejects a proposal to debase the coinage,
  • hears of the Battle of Lutter, and resolves to send four regiments to Denmark,
  • arranges a new household for the Queen, and treats Bassompierre rudely,
  • determines to levy a forced loan, and issues a circular to the clergy,
  • is on better terms with the Queen,
  • dismisses Chief Justice Crew,
  • rejects the French ultimatum,
  • believes Richelieu to have been bribed by the Pope, and himself to have been always in the right,
  • sends Pennington to attack the French shipping,
  • refuses to treat separately with Spain,
  • hopes to retrieve the defeat of Christian IV.,
  • sends Morgan with four regiments to help Christian IV.,
  • fails to obtain money on the security of a jewel sent by him to Denmark,
  • sends Walter Montague to stir up discontent in France,
  • goes to Portsmouth to review the fleet for the relief of Rochelle, and issues instructions to Buckingham,
  • is eager to support Buckingham,
  • urges the Lord Treasurer and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to find money for the expedition,
  • repeats his orders,
  • sends reinforcements to Rhé,
  • is informed that he has no allies,
  • seizes three Dutch East Indiamen,
  • is anxious lest Buckingham shall not be relieved in time,
  • assures Buckingham of the continuance of his favour,
  • receives Buckingham cordially,
  • orders Montaigne to license Manwaring's sermon,
  • financial straits of,
  • resists all entreaties to make peace,
  • releases the prisoners confined for refusing to pay the forced loan,
  • orders writs to be issued for a new Parliament, and demands ship-money,
  • revokes his order for the payment of ship-money,
  • speaks at the opening of the Parliament of 1628,
  • thinks that he can buy off the opposition of the Commons by persecuting the Catholics,
  • lays the heads of his expenditure before the Commons,
  • is almost without support in the Commons,
  • receives graciously the petition of the two Houses against recusants,
  • asks for an immediate supply, and assures the Commons that he has no desire to entrench on their liberties,
  • is pleased by a vote in committee for five subsidies,
  • becomes less hopeful,
  • directs the Commons to remain sitting on Good Friday,
  • grows impatient, and demands an immediate supply,
  • tells the Commons that he is as careful of their liberties as they are,
  • orders Denbigh to sail at all risks,
  • orders Coventry to declare that his word must be trusted for the execution of the law,
  • wishes to know whether the Commons will rest on his royal word,
  • refuses to do more than to confirm Magna Carta and the six statutes,
  • loses patience at hearing that a Petition of Right has been prepared in the Commons, and thinks of dissolving Parliament,
  • argues in favour of his right to imprison without showing cause, and offers to disclose the cause as soon as is convenient,
  • considers it to be a point of honour to succour Rochelle,
  • is angry at Denbigh's failure.
  • orders Denbigh to refit his fleet,
  • questions the judges how far the Petition of Right will bind him,
  • asks the opinion of the Council on the answer to be given to the Petition of Right,
  • gives an evasive answer to Parliament,
  • threatens a dissolution,
  • forbids the Commons to lay scandal on his ministers,
  • hesitates to resist both Houses,
  • withdraws his prohibition to the Commons to inquire into the state of affairs,
  • assents to the Petition of Right,
  • makes minor concessions, but refuses to dismiss Buckingham,
  • imposes a fine on the City for its failure to discover the murderers of Dr. Lambe,
  • answers the remonstrance of the Commons,
  • refuses to allow the Commons to make a temporary grant of tonnage and poundage,
  • declares his intention to prorogue Parliament,
  • states his case respecting tonnage and poundage,
  • prorogues Parliament,
  • his case against the Commons,
  • makes unpopular ecclesiastical appointments,
  • pardons Manwaring, and gives him the living of Stanford Rivers,
  • hopes to obtain from Spain a support for his foreign policy,
  • sends Carlisle to Lorraine and Italy,
  • informs the Prince of Orange that he wishes to make peace with Spain,
  • visits Southwick,
  • is unwilling to negotiate at once with France for peace,
  • hears of Buckingham's murder,
  • intends to erect a monument to Buckingham,
  • abandons the idea,
  • has no favourite after Buckingham,
  • takes the direction of the government,
  • foreign policy of,
  • sends Lindsey to the relief of Rochelle,
  • sends Morgan to relieve Glueckstadt, and converses with Contarini on the terms of peace with France,
  • is on good terms with his wife after Buckingham's death,
  • rejects the French overtures,
  • orders Lindsey to persevere,
  • impression made by the fall of Rochelle on,
  • is reconciled to Arundel and Cottington,
  • delays sending aid to the King of Denmark,
  • hopes for a Spanish alliance, and carries on a negotiation with France,
  • important bearing of the dispute about tonnage and poundage on the constitutional claims of,
  • wishes to come to an understanding with Parliament on tonnage and poundage,
  • offence given by the ecclesiastical appointments of,
  • has no taste for dogmatic controversy,
  • issues a declaration to be prefixed to the Articles,
  • receives Abbot into favour, and grants pardons to Montague and others,
  • difficulties in the way of,
  • declares he has no intention of levying tonnage and poundage by prerogative,
  • denies that religion is in danger,
  • attack of the Commons on the ecclesiastical supremacy of,
  • orders the reprieve of a condemned priest,
  • declares that the Custom House officers have acted by his authority, and are not responsible to the Commons,
  • hopes that the Commons will reconsider their position,
  • orders an adjournment,
  • sends for the mace,
  • intends to force open the doors of the House of Commons,
  • dissolves Parliament and orders the imprisonment of nine members,
  • publishes a declaration announcing his policy,
  • issues a proclamation against rumours of his intention to call a Parliament,
  • determines to punish Eliot,
  • is dissatisfied with the answers of the judges to Heath's questions on the case of the imprisoned members of the Commons,
  • orders that all the judges shall be consulted,
  • consults the judges on the jurisdiction of the Star Chamber over the imprisoned members of Parliament,
  • wishes to delay the decision of the King's Bench in favour of bailing the prisoners,
  • orders that the prisoners shall not be produced in court,
  • his conduct to the judges,
  • treats with several powers for the recovery of the Palatinate,
  • negotiates with Sweden and Denmark,
  • professes to be ready to help the King of Denmark if he had the means,
  • abandons the Huguenots in the treaty of Susa between England and France,
  • suspects Richelieu of wishing to tyrannise over the French Protestants,
  • is dissatisfied with Rubens' statement that it will be difficult to restore the Palatinate, and allows Gustavus to levy soldiers in England and Scotland,
  • sends Roe on a mission to the Baltic, and wishes success to the Dutch,
  • opens negotiations with Spain,
  • venality at the Court of,
  • objects to the coming of a bishop to preside over the Queen's priests,
  • urges Rubens to obtain the surrender of the fortresses in the Palatinate, and sends Cottington to Madrid with instructions to come away if it is not promised,
  • proposes to arbitrate between Spain and the States-General,
  • resolves to bring the imprisoned members of Parliament before the King's Bench instead of the Star Chamber,
  • proposes to the judges the terms on which bail is to be offered to the imprisoned members,
  • wishes Sir John Walter to retire from the Bench,
  • suspends Walter,
  • gives his confidence to Laud,
  • orders Bishop Howson to proceed no further against Cosin,
  • sends instructions to the Bishops,
  • enforces his Declaration on Religion impartially,
  • protests against the doctrines of Dudley's paper of advice,
  • revives the knighthood fines,
  • has no European policy beyond a wish to recover the Palatinate,
  • receives Coloma at Whitehall,
  • is dissatisfied at the refusal of Olivares to engage to restore the Palatinate, and knights Rubens,
  • draws back from his demand that Spain shall give up the fortresses in the Palatinate,
  • proposes to Spain a league against the Dutch,
  • sends Anstruther to Ratisbon, and Vane back to the Hague,
  • distrusts Richelieu,
  • tries to stand well with all Continental parties,
  • hears that a treaty has been signed at Madrid between himself and Spain,
  • speaks coldly of the peace with Spain,
  • sends Anstruther to Vienna and talks of assisting Gustavus,
  • disbelieves a rumour that Hamilton is meditating treason,
  • insists on Hamilton's sleeping in his bedchamber, and allows him to raise men in England,
  • does not countenance the schemes of his mother-in-law,
  • refuses to abandon Weston,
  • refuses permission to Mary de Medicis to visit England,
  • opens negotiations with Gustavus,
  • offers to join Spain and the Emperor,
  • cannot make up his mind whether to help Gustavus or not,
  • cruel treatment of Eliot by,
  • refuses to summon Parliament to ask for money for Gustavus,
  • opens fresh negotiations with Gustavus,
  • rejects the terms offered by Gustavus, and makes counter-propositions.
  • orders Wake to propose to Louis a joint action in Germany,
  • receives St. Chaumont coldly,
  • allusions of Massinger to,
  • on the rejection of his terms by Gustavus recalls Vane and Anstruther,
  • hopes that Frederick will take the place of Gustavus,
  • the nobles of the Spanish Netherlands ask for the support of,
  • expects to have a part of Flanders ceded to him by Spain,
  • instructs Boswell to be present at the conferences between the States-General of the Spanish and those of the independent Netherlands,
  • learns that Spain will not cede to him territory in Flanders,
  • assures Louis that he will concur in the liberation of the obedient Netherlands,
  • offers assistance to Oxenstjerna,
  • offers to join France in the war in Germany,
  • professes to abide by the constitution,
  • refuses to allow Eliot to leave the Tower,
  • orders that Eliot shall be buried in the Tower,
  • visits St. Paul's and appoints commissioners to collect money for its repair,
  • enforces his Declaration on religion at Oxford,
  • orders that the window broken by Sherfield shall be replaced with white glass,
  • issues an Act of Revocation in Scotland,
  • offers compensation to the tithe-owners, and partially suspends the Articles of Perth,
  • arranges a commutation of tithes in Scotland,
  • alienates the Scottish nobility,
  • is crowned King of Scotland,
  • orders the Prayer-book of the Scottish bishops to be submitted to Laud,
  • approves of Laud's advice to introduce the English Prayer-book into Scotland,
  • takes down the names of voters in the Scottish Parliament,
  • directs the Scottish bishops to draw up a new Prayer-book, and returns to England after being nearly drowned at Burntisland,
  • directs the Scottish clergy to appear in white,
  • is shown the supplication of the Lords of the Opposition,
  • orders proceedings to be taken against Balmerino,
  • pardons Balmerino.
  • takes Hamilton for his adviser on Scottish affairs,
  • promotes Scottish bishops to places of authority,
  • appoints Laud Archbishop of Canterbury,
  • directs Laud to place restrictions on ordination,
  • and to bring lecturers and chaplains to order,
  • supports Laud's objection to power being given to laymen to appoint or dismiss ministers,
  • interferes to enforce order in Paul's Walk,
  • removes the suit about the position of the communion-table at St. Gregory's to the Privy Council,
  • announces his decision,
  • forbids Richardson to put any obstacle in the way of the Somerset wakes,
  • orders the republication of the Declaration of Sports,
  • orders it to be read in churches,
  • spares the lives of the Lancashire witches,
  • suggests the plot of Shirley's Gamester,
  • sends Jermyn to prison and pardons him at the Queen's request,
  • neglects the League of Heilbronn, and consents to Nethersole's proposal to raise a benevolence,
  • withdraws his consent,
  • gives instructions to Gerbier with regard to the proposed revolution in the Netherlands,
  • is betrayed by Gerbier,
  • is courted by France and Spain,
  • proposes to send Charles Lewis with an army to the Palatinate, but subsequently treats with Necolalde, and proposes to send Charles Lewis to join Feria,
  • makes offers to Spain,
  • unreality of the schemes of,
  • urges the League of Heilbronn to make peace,
  • maintains Portland against Laud and Coventry,
  • resolves to levy ship-money,
  • orders the seizure of Coke's papers,
  • is pleased with Holland's extension of the Forest of Dean,
  • legal character of the absolutism of,
  • is angry with the Dutch on hearing that they wish the French to join in an attack on Dunkirk,
  • rejects overtures made to him by France, and orders the preparation of a treaty with Spain,
  • proposes to arm a fleet to carry out the treaty for partitioning the Netherlands,
  • issues the first writ of ship-money,
  • continues to hope to recover the Palatinate,
  • urges Elizabeth to rely on his diplomacy,
  • is his own foreign minister,
  • orders Hopton to conclude a treaty at Madrid,
  • names commissioners to treat with Seneterre and Pougny, but orders them to spin out time,
  • obtains a copy of the treaty between France and the States-General for the partition of the Spanish Netherlands, and orders attention to be paid to the musters,
  • is anxious that his agreement with Spain should not be committed to writing,
  • issues instructions to Lindsey,
  • receives no money from the Spaniards,
  • rejects Richelieu's compromise about saluting his flag,
  • is left without allies,
  • sends to Ireland the first draft of the Graces,
  • orders a committee to be appointed to investigate the case of the Byrnes,
  • relations of Wentworth with,
  • promotes Lorenzo Cary against Wentworth's wish,
  • orders the dissolution of the Irish Parliament,
  • wishes to give to the Queen a part of the fine imposed by the Star Chamber on the City of London,
  • rejects the French overtures about the Palatinate,
  • remits Southampton's fine, and issues a commission to take compositions for encroachments on the forests,
  • orders a wall to be built round Richmond Park,
  • disapproves of Land's resistance to his plan,
  • Laud's complaint of the selfishness prevailing in the Court of,
  • refuses to punish Bagg,
  • consults the judges on the legality of ship-money,
  • legal and political view of his claim to levy ship-money,
  • offers to ally himself with the Emperor, and proposes an exchange of Lorraine for the Palatinate,
  • insists that the French ambassadors shall give the title of Electoral Highness to his nephew,
  • is gratified by Necolalde's use of the title, and rejects the French proposals,
  • resolves to send Arundel to Vienna,
  • enforces the payment of ship-money,
  • refuses to excuse the children born in England of foreign parents from using the English Prayer-book,
  • appoints Windebank to receive Panzani,
  • authorises Windebank to treat on the reunion of the churches, and selects an agent to reside at Rome in the Queen's name,
  • behaves reverently in the Queen's chapel,
  • draws back from Panzani,
  • makes Juxon Treasurer,
  • orders Laud to take proceedings against Lady Purbeck,
  • refuses to allow Lady Purbeck to return to England,
  • proposes to visit Oxford,
  • visits Oxford,
  • want of enthusiasm in the streets during the visit of,
  • orders copies of Selden's Mare Clansum to be officially preserved,
  • sends out the second ship-money fleet,
  • draws up Arundel's instructions,
  • refuses Arundel's request to be recalled,
  • orders Leicester to make overtures to Louis,
  • sends Windebank for a short time to prison, and carries on negotiations with France in a hesitating way,
  • recalls Arundel,
  • continues vacillating,
  • theory on which his government rests,
  • does not fulfil Wentworth's expectations,
  • approves Wentworth's defence of his government of Ireland,
  • is displeased at Danby's protest against ship-money,
  • shrinks from summoning Parliament, and from going to war,
  • declares that he will take up his nephew's cause against the House of Austria,
  • proposes to lend ships to his nephew,
  • terms offered by Richelieu to,
  • consults the judges on the legality of ship-money,
  • accepts Richelieu's terms and prepares to send his nephew to sea,
  • applies to Wentworth for advice on the proposed alliance with France,
  • is disappointed of the French alliance, and turns to Spain,
  • attempts to persuade the Dutch fishermen to take licences,
  • directs Gerbier to obtain the support of the Cardinal Infant,
  • orders an attempt to be made to distribute licences to the Dutch fishermen,
  • nature of the government of,
  • does not share in Laud's wish for the execution of the laws against the Catholics,
  • his friendly intercourse with Con,
  • declares his intention of providing a remedy against the Catholic conversions,
  • struggle between Laud and the Queen for influence over,
  • modifies his proclamation against the Catholics,
  • thinks of pardoning Williams,
  • leaves Williams to the Star Chamber,
  • wishes Con to procure the banishment of Knott,
  • hastens on the publication of The Religion of Protestants,
  • is ready to have the legality of ship-money argued in open court,
  • on the decision of the judges in his favour, acts as if there could no longer be any doubt as to his right to ship-money,
  • levies compositions for forest fines,
  • establishes new corporations,
  • is interested in material improvements,
  • offers to take the drainage of the Great Level into his own hands,
  • undertakes the work,
  • isolation of,
  • underestimates his difficulties,
  • his ignorance of the Scots,
  • directs the Scottish bishops to prepare a Prayer-book and Canons,
  • issues canons for the Scottish Church,
  • orders the adoption of the new Prayer-book,
  • orders the Scottish Privy Council to suppress disturbances,
  • finds himself unsupported by the Council,
  • orders the Council to postpone the enforcement of the use of the Prayer-book, but to take repressive measures, and to remove itself and the Court of Session from Edinburgh,
  • issues a proclamation declaring that he does not intend to break the laws of Scotland, and sends for Traquair,
  • issues a proclamation in defence of the Prayer-book,
  • postpones a decision on the affairs of Scotland,
  • appoints Northumberland Lord Admiral,
  • sends Hamilton to negotiate with the Scots,
  • gives Hamilton two alternative declarations,
  • instructs Hamilton to spin out his negotiations,
  • prepares for war,
  • refuses to accept the Covenant,
  • consults the English Council on the affairs of Scotland,
  • orders the formation of a committee for Scottish affairs, and finds that he has no money for carrying on a war,
  • authorises an Assembly and Parliament in Scotland,
  • offers a Covenant of his own,
  • abandons the Scottish Prayer-book, Canons, and High Commission, and issues his Covenant in a revised form,
  • summons an Assembly and Parliament to meet,
  • objects to the claim of the Assembly to a Divine right,
  • informs Hamilton that he is preparing for war,
  • is driven into war with Scotland,
  • foreign relations of,
  • sends money to his nephew,
  • orders Gerbier to carry on a secret negotiation with the Princess of Pfalzburg,
  • protests against a statement of Cardenas,
  • remonstrates with Mary de Medicis on her proposed visit to England,
  • receives Mary de Medicis,
  • is displeased at Bernhard's success,
  • is inclined to negotiate with the Scots,
  • prepares for war,
  • orders an army to be raised,
  • numbers of the army of,
  • asks for a loan of Spanish soldiers,
  • repeats his request to the Cardinal Infant,
  • orders the publication of Laud's Conference with Fisher, and issues a proclamation accusing the Scots of wishing to plunder England,
  • his plan of campaign,
  • loses the fortresses in Scotland,
  • arrives at York and recalls some of the monopolies,
  • demands a general contribution,
  • treachery suspected in the ministers of,
  • advice given by Wentworth to,
  • draws up a proclamation offering land at low rents to the loyal tenants of rebels,
  • advances to Durham,
  • sends Aboyne to the Forth,
  • issues a fresh proclamation offering not to invade Scotland,
  • orders Hamilton to negotiate and sends for reinforcements,
  • poor quality of the army of,
  • resolves to advance to Berwick, and writes to Hamilton to be ready to join him at a moment's notice,
  • receives an answer to his proclamation,
  • arrives at Berwick and encamps at the Birks,
  • sends Arundel to read his proclamation at Dunse,
  • intends to take the aggressive, but is in difficulty for money,
  • demands a loan from the City,
  • despondency in the camp of,
  • summons Hamilton to Berwick, and acknowledges that Englishmen will not take his part against the Scots,
  • witnesses the arrival of Leslie's army at Dunse Law,
  • begs Wentworth to send a large force to Scotland,
  • cannot keep his army together,
  • receives overtures from the Scots,
  • takes part in the negotiation for peace,
  • dialectical skill of,
  • presses the City to lend money,
  • accepts the Treaty of Berwick,
  • disagrees with the Covenanters on the mode of providing pay for a force to be sent to aid his nephew,
  • difficulties in the way of the re-establishment of his authority in Scotland,
  • summons bishops to the Assembly of Edinburgh,
  • believes his conversation to be misrepresented in Scotland,
  • abandons the intention of visiting Edinburgh, and has an altercation with the leaders of the Covenanters,
  • gives instructions to Traquair and returns to Whitehall,
  • orders the Scottish report of his conversations at Berwick to be burnt, and directs the bishops to protest against the legality of the Assembly,
  • his plan for the reconstitution of the Lords of the Articles,
  • refuses to rescind the Acts in favour of episcopacy,
  • objects to the constitutional and legislative changes voted in the Scottish Parliament,
  • distributes honours amongst his supporters in Scotland,
  • hopes that Bernhard of Weimar will aid in the recovery of the Palatinate for his nephew,
  • again seeks help from Spain,
  • orders Pennington to prevent Tromp from searching English vessels,
  • offers to protect Oquendo's fleet,
  • offers terms to the Spaniards,
  • sends contradictory directions to Pennington,
  • makes offers to Richelieu,
  • expects that Charles Lewis will obtain the command of Bernhard's army,
  • orders Pennington to protect Oquendo,
  • advises Oquendo to prepare for the worst,
  • is angry at the Dutch victory in the Downs,
  • is displeased at his nephew's imprisonment,
  • allows the prosecution of Lord Loftus of Ely,
  • takes Wentworth as his chief counsellor,
  • sends Loudoun and Dunfermline back to Scotland, and orders the prorogation of the Scottish Parliament,
  • announces his intention of summoning a Parliament in England,
  • suspicions felt of his intentions to overawe the Short Parliament,
  • refuses to appoint Leicester Secretary,
  • appoints Vane Secretary,
  • refuses to give his eldest daughter to the son of the Prince of Orange, but offers his second daughter,
  • instructs Hopton on the language to be held by him on the fight in the Downs,
  • believes Richelieu to be the cause of his Scottish troubles,
  • obtains the letter written by the Covenanters to the King of France,
  • discusses his powers with the Scottish Commissioners,
  • gives them reason to think that he does not intend to allow the abolition of episcopacy,
  • sends to Louis a copy of the letter of the Scots, which he considers to be treasonable, and imprisons the Scottish Commissioners,
  • orders the letter of the Scots to be read to the Short Parliament,
  • summons the Houses before him and orders Finch to explain that he is ready to give up ship-money if a fleet be supported in another way,
  • appeals to the Lords against the Commons,
  • gives his full support to Strafford,
  • agrees that the ship-money judgment may be reversed in the House of Lords, and declares that he will be content with eight subsidies,
  • dissolves the Short Parliament,
  • consults the Committee of Eight on the best mode of carrying on war against the Scots,
  • is estranged from the nation,
  • issues a declaration explaining the dissolution of the Short Parliament, and imprisons members of Parliament,
  • threatens the Lord Mayor and imprisons four aldermen,
  • is disappointed by the silence of the Spanish ambassadors on the subject of a proposal of marriage,
  • hesitates to persist in measures of repression,
  • calls out the trained bands of the counties round London, and tries to regain popularity,
  • abandons Strafford's policy of enforcing obedience,
  • visits Strafford when he is ill,
  • persists in the war with Scotland,
  • finds an insulting inscription on a window at Whitehall,
  • orders the continuance of the sittings of Convocation,
  • his deposition canvassed in Scotland,
  • orders the Lord Mayor to distrain for ship-money,
  • thinks first of using force against the City, and then of negotiating with the Scots,
  • attempts to obtain a loan from France and Genoa,
  • want of enthusiasm in the army raised by,
  • places Catholics in military command,
  • issues commissions of array for the army against Scotland,
  • sets Loudoun at liberty,
  • orders the prosecution of the Lord Mayor and sheriffs for neglect in the collection of coat-and-conduct money,
  • orders the seizure of the bullion in the Tower,
  • resolves to debase the coinage,
  • continued irresolution of,
  • is angry with the renewed refusal of the City to lend, and insists on proceeding with the debasement of the coinage,
  • again proposes to negotiate with the Scots,
  • vacillates between a peaceful and a warlike policy,
  • announces his intention of going to York,
  • orders reinforcements to be sent to the army, and ship-money to be collected,
  • raises money on a consignment of pepper, and induces the trained bands of Durham and Yorkshire to support him,
  • asks the Council what is to be done if the Scots march on London,
  • refuses to despair,
  • summons the Great Council,
  • complains of the timidity of the Privy Council,
  • holds a review of the army,
  • receives affably the offer of the Yorkshiremen to pay their trained bands, and makes Strafford a Knight of the Garter,
  • hesitates to call a Parliament, and accepts Hamilton's proposal to betray the counsels of the Scots,
  • receives petitions from London and from the clergy, and opens the Great Council,
  • announces that he intends to summon Parliament, and asks the Great Council to provide means for keeping the army on foot,
  • insists upon retaining power over the castles in Scotland,
  • wishes the negotiation with the Scots to be removed to York,
  • allows the negotiation to be continued at Ripon,
  • gives his consent to the agreement with the Scots,
  • his opinion on his prospects in meeting Parliament,
  • struggle for sovereignty between the Long Parliament and,
  • is prevented by the presence of the Scottish army from dissolving Parliament,
  • accepts Lenthall as Speaker.
  • sends for Strafford,
  • difficulty in trusting,
  • resolution of the Commons not to hold responsible,
  • orders Vane's paper to be burnt,
  • is advised by Strafford to accuse the Parliamentary leaders,
  • reviews the soldiers at the Tower,
  • wishes to be present at the meetings of the English and Scottish Commissioners,
  • refuses to give up the incendiaries to the Scotish Parliament,
  • consents to a marriage between his eldest daughter and Prince William of Orange, and expects the Prince of Orange to assist him in his quarrel with Parliament,
  • declares that he will not allow Parliament to punish his servants,
  • offer of the Commons to provide for the subsistence of,
  • is reported to have offered liberty of worship to the Catholics if he is successful by the Pope's aid,
  • tells Bristol that he means to resist Parliament,
  • promises the Scots not to employ anyone condemned by their Parliament,
  • wishes to keep the Irish army together for future service,
  • has no feeling against asking for foreign aid,
  • declares that on three points he will not give way,
  • poverty of the Court of,
  • informs the Dutch ambassadors of his wish for a political alliance,
  • announces that the judges are to hold office on good behaviour, and appoints Lyttelton Lord Keeper,
  • appoints St. John Solicitor-General,
  • sends for the Houses on the occasion of the demand of the Commons for Goodman's execution,
  • declares that he will put away all innovations, but will not turn the bishops out of the House of Lords or assent to the Triennial Bill,
  • fails to impart confidence in his sincerity,
  • is asked to put Goodman to death,
  • throws over the Catholics,
  • gains a respite by the compromise in the Commons on the subject of episcopacy,
  • informs the Houses of the completion of the Dutch marriage treaty,
  • is said to intend to dissolve Parliament and liberate Strafford,
  • unites the Commons against him by menacing them with an Irish army,
  • gives the Royal assent to the Triennial Bill,
  • admits seven of the Opposition Lords to the Privy Council,
  • does not throw himself on the Peers' sense of justice,
  • fails to take the right course to save Strafford,
  • takes his seat in the House of Lords to hear the charges against Strafford read,
  • is indignant at the declaration of the Scottish Commissioners against episcopacy in England,
  • is present at Strafford's trial,
  • is anxious to save Strafford,
  • listens to proposals for obtaining a petition from the army,
  • hears of the plot for bringing the army up,
  • wishes Percy and Suckling to confer together,
  • refuses to concur in the project of bringing up the army,
  • injures Strafford by taking no notice of the reiterated request of Parliament for the disbandment of the Irish army,
  • is pleased at the disagreement between the Houses on Strafford's trial,
  • listens to Pyms reply to Strafford's defence, and again refuses to disband the Irish army,
  • assures Strafford that he shall not suffer in life, honour, or fortune,
  • sends money to the Northern army, and is believed to intend to put himself at its head.
  • alleged intention of, to take refuge in Portsmouth, then to summon the English and Irish armies to his aid, and to dissolve Parliament,
  • again refuses to disband the Irish army,
  • appears in the House of Lords to beg that some way of saving Strafford's life may be found,
  • authorises the Portuguese ambassadors to levy troops, and sends Billingsley to occupy the Tower,
  • talks of taking refuge with the Northern army,
  • gives Jermyn a licence to pass the sea,
  • offers to receive a deputation from the Houses about his assent to the Bill of Attainder,
  • learns that Goring has betrayed him,
  • takes the opinion of the judges and of some of the bishops,
  • mental conflict of,
  • consents to sign a commission giving the Royal assent to the Bill of Attainder,
  • writes to the Peers,
  • effect of the Bill against the Dissolution of Parliament on,
  • is obliged to make appointments according to the wish of Parliament,
  • proposes to visit Scotland,
  • wishes to win over the leading Scots,
  • hesitates between the advice of Bristol and that of the Queen,
  • negotiation of the Irish Catholics with,
  • makes Digby a peer,
  • does not take interest in any scheme of Church reform,
  • asks Hyde to keep back the Root-and-Branch Bill,
  • tries to throw off the blame of complicity in Montrose's schemes,
  • engages in a second Army Plot,
  • appends his initials to the petition entrusted to Legg,
  • responsible ministers proposed to,
  • consents to the disbandment of the Northern army, and the dismissal of Rossetti,
  • his last interview with Rossetti,
  • gives his assent to the abolition of the Star Chamber and of the High Commission,
  • issues a manifesto about the Palatinate, declares that he knows of no evil counsellors, and resolves to go to Scotland,
  • appoints Essex Lord Chamberlain, and listens to the advice of Williams,
  • his reasons for wishing to go to Scotland,
  • announces his intention of going to Scotland,
  • recommends the Lords not to oppose the Commons till he returns from Scotland,
  • is requested to remain in England,
  • passes a Bill declaring ship-money illegal, and another limiting his forest claims,
  • consents to delay his journey for one day, and promotes Bristol and his partisans,
  • passes a Bill for confirming the treaty with the Scots, and another declaring knighthood-fines illegal,
  • sets out for Scotland,
  • vacillates between two policies,
  • leaves England without a Government,
  • passes through the two armies, and enters Edinburgh,
  • ratifies the Acts of the Scottish Parliament, and tries to win over the Scots,
  • negotiates with the Irish Catholics,
  • advice of Nicholas to,
  • symptoms of a reaction in favour of,
  • is unable, in his absence, to take advantage of the change of feeling,
  • is feasted in the Parliament House at Edinburgh,
  • is asked to appoint to offices in Scotland with consent of Parliament,
  • is mortified at finding that his proposals are objected to,
  • two letters of Montrose to,
  • is displeased with Hamilton,
  • receives a third letter from Montrose, which he resolves to lay before some of the Lords,
  • vindicates himself from complicity with the Incident,
  • asks that the inquiry may be openly conducted,
  • is defeated,
  • attempts to gain a party in England, and to obtain evidence of the part taken by the Parliamentary leaders in bringing the Scots into England,
  • writes to Nicholas to give assurance of his constancy to the discipline and doctrine of the Church,
  • appoints new bishops,
  • offers religious liberty to the Irish Catholics,
  • asks the Scottish Parliament to assist in reducing the Irish Rebellion,
  • evidence of his part in the second Army Plot brought before the Commons,
  • prepares to return to England,
  • intentions formed by,
  • popularity needed by,
  • the wealthy citizens of London on the side of,
  • enters the City, and announces that he will defend the Protestant religion as established in the times of Elizabeth and his father,
  • is feasted at Guildhall,
  • dismisses the Parliamentary guard,
  • receives the Grand Remonstrance,
  • takes up a position of resistance,
  • his commission alleged to be given to Phelim O'Neill,
  • appoints Nicholas Secretary, and Lennox High Steward, and dismisses Vane,
  • directs the Lord Mayor to keep order in the City,
  • issues a proclamation commanding obedience to the laws in favour of the true religion,
  • names a commission to bring his expenditure within the limits of his income, and summons absent members of the Commons to return to their duties,
  • declares his readiness to assent to the Impressment Bill if a clause saving the rights of himself and his subjects is inserted,
  • refuses to execute priests,
  • hesitates to proceed against the Parliamentary leaders,
  • appoints Lunsford to the Lieutenancy of the Tower,
  • answers the Grand Remonstrance,
  • dismisses Newport from the Constableship of the Tower,
  • dismisses Lunsford, and appoints Byron to the Lieutenancy,
  • alleged overtures to the rebels in Ireland from,
  • scheme proposed by the Irish Catholics to,
  • proposes to send volunteers to Ireland, and invites to dinner the officers who had chased the apprentices out of Westminster Hall,
  • orders a guard to be posted at Whitehall Gate,
  • takes the protest of the bishops from Williams, and orders it to be laid before the Lords,
  • offers Pym the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, but changes his mind, and gives it to Culpepper, making Falkland Secretary of State,
  • hears that the Parliamentary leaders mean to impeach the Queen,
  • resolves to secure the five members,
  • orders the Attorney-General to impeach them and Mandeville,
  • refuses a guard to the Commons except under his own authority,
  • orders the studies of Pym, Holles, and Hampden to be sealed up,
  • alienates the House of Lords by demanding the arrest of the accused members,
  • takes counsel at night,
  • makes preparations to arrest the members in person,
  • his intention betrayed,
  • delays to act,
  • sets out from Whitehall,
  • orders his followers to remain outside the House of Commons,
  • enters the House, and asks for the five members,
  • declares that 'the birds are flown,'
  • withdraws from the House,
  • seeks the members in the City,
  • issues a proclamation for the arrest of the members,
  • orders Mandeville and the five members to be proclaimed traitors, and replies angrily to a petition from the City in their favour,
  • alienation of the City from,
  • is anxious for the Queen's safety,
  • leaves Whitehall,
  • hopes to secure Portsmouth and Hull,
  • wishes Danish soldiers to land at Hull,
  • goes to Windsor, and announces that he will have the five members tried in another way,
  • takes measures to secure Portsmouth,
  • converses with Heenvliet,
  • expects the Prince of Orange to help him,
  • on his failure to secure Hull, sends a conciliatory message to the Houses,
  • returns an evasive answer to the demand of the Commons for the fortresses and militia,
  • learns that the Lords have joined the Commons, and that the Prince of Orange refuses to help him,
  • returns a more satisfactory answer about the militia,
  • places Conyers in charge of the Tower, and gives his assent to the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
  • assents to the Bill for pressing,
  • takes leave of the Queen, and sends for the Prince of Wales,
  • accepts Hyde as his counsellor,
  • intends to go to the North,
  • refuses to remain near Westminster,
  • absolutely refuses to give up the militia,
  • assures the Houses that he alone can settle the affairs of Ireland,
  • gives his consent to the scheme for confiscating lands in Ireland,
  • rumoured intention to use military force,
  • his reception at York,
  • sends for Essex and Holland,
  • fails to secure support,
  • a party of gentlemen leave London to join,
  • forbids the appointment of Warwick as commander of the fleet, and assures the Yorkshire petitioners that he only wants Parliament to be reasonable,
  • proposes to go with troops to Ireland,
  • calls upon Parliament to obey the law, and quotes Pym,
  • is requested by Parliament not to go to Ireland,
  • resolves to demand entry into Hull,
  • is refused admission into Hull,
  • proclaims Sir J. Hotham a traitor,
  • prohibits the levy of the trained bands in Yorkshire without orders from himself,
  • sends to Scotland for aid,
  • appeals to the gentry of Yorkshire,
  • orders the removal of the Law Courts, and surrounds himself with a guard,
  • summons a meeting on Heyworth Moor,
  • issues commissions of array,
  • appeals to the Scottish Council, and abandons his plan of a visit to Ireland,
  • declares that he takes arms in defence only, and sends Hastings into Leicestershire,
  • obtains possession of Newcastle,
  • offers made to levy horse for,
  • receives money from Worcester and his son,
  • dismisses Northumberland, and places Pennington in command of the fleet,
  • the Houses consider themselves at war with,
  • the Commons declare that war has been begun by,
  • goes to Beverley in the hope that Hotham will betray Hull,
  • goes to Lincoln,
  • answers sternly a petition for accommodation,
  • is driven back from Hull, and arrives at Leicester,
  • movements in favour of,
  • summons Coventry,
  • sets up the Royal Standard at Nottingham,
• Charles Emmanuel I., Duke of Savoy,
  • proposes a marriage between his son and the Princess Elizabeth,
  • renews the proposal with one for a marriage between his daughter and the Prince of Wales,
  • is helped by James in his war with Spain,
  • sends Scarnaffissi to ask James for further assistance against Spain,
  • makes peace with Spain,
  • offers Mansfeld's regiment to the Princes of the Union,
  • professes his desire to attack the House of Austria,
  • draws back,
  • Wake's mission to,
  • joins the League for the recovery of the Valtelline, and engages to attack Genoa,
  • asks James for ships and money to employ against Genoa,
  • mission of Walter Montague to,
  • wants an English army to support him,
  • refuses to help Charles till St. Martin's is taken,
  • wishes to obtain part of the Duchy of Montferrat,
  • is compelled to separate himself from Spain,
• Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine 1632,
  • support given by Charles to,
  • proposal of Charles to send him at the head of an army first to the Palatinate, and then to join the Duke of Feria
  • is forbidden to go to the Palatinate,
  • position assigned by the Peace of Prague to,
  • is directed by Charles to make a formal submission to the Emperor,
  • visits England,
  • refusal of the French ambassador to give the title of Electoral Highness to,
  • Necolalde gives the title to,
  • proposal for the marriage of, with the Emperor's daughter,
  • receives a degree at Cambridge, and confers degrees at Oxford.
  • is allowed a pension by the King,
  • proposed loan of ships to,
  • preparations made for sending to sea,
  • returns to Holland,
  • buys the garrison of Meppen, but loses the place to the Imperialists,
  • proposal to send a Scottish army to the aid of,
  • negotiates with Bernhard of Weimar,
  • sets out for Alsace, hoping to obtain the command of Bernhard's troops,
  • passes Paris in disguise,
  • is captured and imprisoned,
  • absents himself from the marriage of the Princess Mary,
  • manifesto in favour of,
  • accompanies the King to Scotland,
  • accompanies the King in the attempt on the five members,
• Charles, Prince (Duke of York, 1605),
  • proposal to marry the Princess Christina to,
  • proposal to marry the Princess Christiana to,
  • proposal to marry the Princess Christiana to,
  • proposal to marry the Princess Christiana to,
  • is created Prince of Wales,
  • See Charles, Prince of Wales
  • See Charles I.
• Charles (Prince of Wales, 1616),
  • quarrels with Buckingham, and is reconciled to him,
  • visits his mother before her death,
  • wishes his sister to be supported in Bohemia,
  • Gondomar's opinion of the character of,
  • is informed of the scheme of Gondomar and Buckingham for the partition of the Netherlands,
  • pays 5,000l. to the Benevolence.
  • is distressed by the news of the Battle of Prague,
  • brings Bacon's petition before the Lords,
  • speaks in Bacon's favour,
  • wishes the King to punish Yelverton,
  • character of,
  • influence of Buckingham over,
  • is not anxious to marry the Infanta,
  • admits a Roman Catholic amongst the commissioners of his revenue, and promises to visit Madrid,
  • talks of taking the command of an army to recover the Palatinate,
  • opposes his father's wish to be content with Spanish promises,
  • signs the marriage articles as amended in Spain,
  • forms a plan for a journey to Spain,
  • obtains his father's consent to the journey,
  • sets out from Newhall,
  • arrives in Paris and sees Henrietta Maria,
  • arrives in Spain,
  • reaches Madrid,
  • is supposed to intend to change his religion,
  • his first interview with Philip IV.,
  • attempts made to convert,
  • is angry with Bristol for supposing that he intends to change his religion,
  • is lodged in the palace, and applauded by the people of Madrid,
  • admires the Infanta,
  • receives Pastrana,
  • is allowed to pay his respects to the Infanta,
  • is informed by Olivares that a dispensation will be granted for his marriage,
  • dines in state on St. George's Day, and takes part in a religious conference,
  • is not allowed the exercise of his religion in the Royal Palace,
  • additional articles demanded by the Pope from,
  • objects to the additional articles,
  • makes fresh offers,
  • is obliged to dismiss his attendants,
  • is told that Purgatory is in Spain :
  • proposes to leave Spain, but abandons the idea,
  • is angry at the announcement that the Infanta is to remain in Spain after her marriage, but offers further concessions,
  • replies to the Pope's letter,
  • is informed of the decision of the Junta of Theologians, and prepares to leave Madrid,
  • leaps over a wall to speak to the Infanta,
  • continues to hope that the Infanta will be allowed to accompany him, and decides to remain in Spain,
  • asks his father to send him full powers,
  • makes another attempt to induce the Spaniards to change their decision,
  • is said to watch the Infanta as a cat watches a mouse,
  • informs Olivares that his father had ordered him to return to England,
  • finding that he will not be allowed to bring the Infanta with him, declares his intention of leaving Spain,
  • assures Philip of his readiness to accept the marriage articles,
  • hopes that the demand for a Parliamentary confirmation of the articles will be withdrawn,
  • has fresh articles presented to him by Olivares,
  • accepts them,
  • signs the marriage contract,
  • is surprised at his father's conscientious scruples,
  • hopes to bring the Infanta with him,
  • day fixed for the departure of,
  • is informed by the Countess of Olivares that he may take the Infanta with him,
  • offers to remain in Spain after his marriage, but again urges the Spanish Government to allow the Infanta to accompany him,
  • cannot make up his mind to go or stay,
  • resolves to go,
  • converses with Olivares on the marriage of the Electoral Prince with the Emperor's daughter,
  • is angry at the announcement that Spain will not agree to a restitution of the Electorate to Frederick,
  • writes down from memory a letter shown to him by Olivares,
  • agrees to leave a proxy in Bristol's hands,
  • takes an oath to observe the marriage contract, and leaves Madrid,
  • spends two days at the Escurial,
  • sets out for the coast,
  • in spite of his change of feelings towards the Infanta, assures Philip of his constancy,
  • orders Bristol not to deliver his proxy till he has security that the Infanta will not go into a nunnery,
  • embarks at Santander,
  • lands at Portsmouth and is received with enthusiasm in London,
  • tells his father that he wishes to conquer Spain,
  • writes to Bristol that he does not intend to break off the marriage because he wishes to have assurance about the Palatinate before it takes place,
  • writes to Aston that he will not marry the Infanta unless the Palatinate is restored,
  • urges James to make the restitution of the Palatinate an indispensable condition of his marriage with the Infanta,
  • calls together the Committee of the Council on Spanish affairs,
  • orders Bristol not to deliver his proxy till he hears further,
  • assures Bristol that unless Philip promises to take arms if necessary there can be no marriage,
  • urges his father to summon Parliament,
  • position in the nation of,
  • confidence felt in Buckingham by,
  • is asked whether, in swearing to the marriage treaty, he had agreed that the restitution of the Palatinate was to precede the marriage,
  • assures the Commissioners on Spanish affairs that he cannot marry the Infanta,
  • is eager for war,
  • continues to talk of conquering Spain,
  • loses patience with his father's hesitation,
  • states that James does not want money for himself till after the kingdom has been provided for,
  • is displeased with James's refusal to declare war immediately against Spain,
  • assures the Houses that his father is convinced of the justice of a war with Spain,
  • mentions that a French marriage has been proposed, and declares that if his father's sword is drawn it will hardly be put up again,
  • rejects a present from the Countess of Olivares,
  • hears from Williams of Carondelet's secret intercourse with the King,
  • wishes a league with France to precede a marriage treaty,
  • swears that the English Catholics shall have no benefit by the French marriage treaty,
  • shows hospitality to Mansfeld,
  • takes offence at Middlesex,
  • is warned by his father of the consequences of the impeachment of Middlesex,
  • refuses to insert an article in favour of the Catholics in the French marriage treaty,
  • persists in his refusal,
  • is gained over by Buckingham,
  • expresses satisfaction at the acceptance of the French terms,
  • urges his father to give way,
  • signs an engagement in favour of the Catholics,
  • is angry with Mansfeld for resolving to go to Flushing,
  • assents to the scheme of a General Protestant League,
  • is forbidden to appear personally at his marriage in France,
  • accession to the throne of,
  • See Charles, Duke of York
  • See Charles I
• Charles, Prince (son of Charles I.).
  • birth of,
  • dissatisfaction of the Puritans at the birth of,
  • is entrusted to the care of Lady Dorset,
  • is taken to mass by his mother,
  • is no longer allowed to be taken to mass,
  • See Charles, Prince of Wales
• Charles, Prince of Wales, 1637 (son of Charles I.)
  • Newcastle appointed governor of,
  • Hertford, who has been appointed governor of, is directed to keep a strict watch over,
  • the Houses order Hertford to retain the custody of,
  • joins his father at Greenwich,
  • his mother proposes to marry him to a daughter of the Prince of Orange,
  • is sent to visit Hull,
  • See Charles, Prince
• Charles, the Infant,
  • a new kingdom proposed for,
  • opposes his sister's marriage to the Prince of Wales,
• Charnace, Baron,
  • offers French help to the Dutch,
  • refuses to give to Charles Lewis the title of Electoral Highness,
• Charter House, the,
  • endowed by Sutton,
• Chateauneuf, Marquis of,
  • is directed to invite Charles to co-operate with France against Spain, and advises Charles to call a Parliament,
  • attempts to persuade the Queen to use her influence against Weston,
  • joins Richelieu's opponents, and intrigues with De Jars against Weston,
  • is imprisoned,
• Chauncey, Charles,
  • resigns the vicarage of Ware,
• Chaworth, Lord (George Chaworth),
  • carries a message from Mary de Medecis to the Queen,
  • is imprisoned,
• Cheshire,
  • the forced loan readily paid in,
• Cheshire Remonstrance, the,
  • attack on Presbyterianism in,
• Chetham, Humphrey,
  • assesses ship-money in Lancashire,
• Chevreuse, Duchess of,
  • is exiled from France,
  • is expected by Buckingham to stir up enemies against France,
  • entices Chateauneuf to oppose Richelieu,
  • Henrietta Maria wishes to intercede for,
  • arrives in England,
  • advises the Queen to visit the King at Berwick,
  • proposes Spanish marriages for the children of Charles I.,
• Chevreuse, Duke of,
  • holds Charles's proxy at his marriage,
  • remonstrates with Charles on his treatment of the Catholics,
  • makes up his quarrel with Richelieu,
• Chibborne, Serjeant,
  • his argument in the case of commendams,
• Chichester of Belfast, Lord, 1612-1625 (Arthur Chichester),
  • opens the Irish Parliament,
  • is instructed to carry out the laws against recusants,
  • his relations with the Irish Parliament,
  • recall of,
  • is sent to the Palatinate,
  • arrives in the Palatinate,
  • attempts to negotiate an armistice,
  • gives his opinion of the state of Frederick's army,
  • begs Frederick to leave Mansfeld's army,
  • asks Tilly to abandon the siege of Heidelberg,
  • remains at Frankfort,
  • is obliged to leave Frankenthal,
  • sends Nethersole to England,
  • is recalled,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • Buckingham's anger at his vote against war with Spain,
  • thinks that the Electoral Prince may be educated in England,
  • is a member of the Council of War,
  • death of,
  • papers said to have been left by,
  • his plan for the settlement of Wexford,
  • See Chichester, Sir Arthur
• Chichester, Sir Arthur (Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1604-1615),
  • character of,
  • is anxious to civilise Ireland,
  • a proclamation for the cessation of martial law, and for a general disarmament, and another for an amnesty and for the protection of tenants,
  • his visitation of Ulster,
  • attempts to compel Catholics to attend the Protestant service,
  • removes Sir J. Everard from the Bench,
  • summons the aldermen of Dublin before the Castle Chamber,
  • imprisons petitioners against his proceedings,
  • attempts to fine recusants,
  • gives an opinion on persecution,
  • abandons his effort to repress recusancy,
  • attempts to reform the Church of Ireland,
  • visits Ulster a second time,
  • results of the first two years of his government,
  • hears the case between Tyrone and O'Cahan,
  • is insulted by Tyrone,
  • is informed of a conspiracy,
  • prepares to set out for Ulster,
  • sees Tyrone for the last time,
  • sends garrisons into Ulster on hearing of the flight of the earls,
  • lays down a plan for the settlement of Ulster,
  • distrusts Sir G. Paulet,
  • listens to O'Dogherty's account of his quarrel with Paulet,
  • suppresses O'Dogherty's rebellion,
  • declares he will only pardon such rebels as have put to death some of their comrades,
  • draws up notes on the condition of Ulster,
  • expresses his opinion on the plantation of Ulster,
  • carries out the plan of the Commissioners in London,
  • is raised to the peerage,
  • See Chichester of Belfast, Lord
• Chillingworth, William,
  • reports Gill's ribaldry to Laud,
  • early life of,
  • compared with Laud,
  • his intercourse with Falkland,
  • publishes 'The Religion of Protestants',
  • character of the doctrine of,
  • is charged with saying that the King's opponents in the Commons are guilty of treason,
• Chisholm, William (Bishop of Vaison),
  • his appointment as Cardinal supported by James,
• Choicelee Wood,
  • Leslie's camp at,
• Christian IV. (King-of Denmark),
  • visits James,
  • mission of Anstruther to,
  • lends money to James for the defence of the Palatinate,
  • takes part in the Assembly of Segeberg,
  • speaks angrily to Frederick,
  • lends money again to James,
  • pleads for Frederick,
  • mission of Anstruther to,
  • refuses to take arms unless he can secure help in North Germany,
  • his connection with the ecclesiastical territories,
  • proposal of James to place Gustavus in command over,
  • his plan of military operations receives the approval of James,
  • engagement of Charles to furnish 30,000l. a month to,
  • offers of Louis XIII to,
  • is guaranteed payment of 30,000l. a year by the Treaty of the Hague,
  • Richelieu offers to support,
  • apparently strong position of,
  • is defeated at Lutter,
  • proposal of Charles to include in a suspension of arms,
  • his position after the defeat of Lutter,
  • is joined by Morgan's regiments, but complains of Charles's hard dealings,
  • is overpowered, and abandons the mainland,
  • defends Krempe and Glueckstadt,
  • proposal to send English aid to,
  • sends Rosencrantz to beg Charles to send him men and money,
  • is informed that Charles's aid is postponed, but not refused,
  • Roe proposes that aid be sent to,
  • makes peace with the Emperor at Luebeck,
  • Henrietta Maria writes to, for aid,
• Christian (Prince of Anhalt),
  • directs the policy of the Union,
  • commands the forces employed in the territory of Cleves,
  • hopes to dismember the Austrian dominions,
  • expects to overthrow the House of Austria,
  • his mission to Turin,
• Christian of Brunswick (Administrator of Halberstadt)
  • proposes to join Mansfeld,
  • character of,
  • ravages the Ecclesiastical States,
  • approaches the Main,
  • is defeated at Hoechst, and joins Mansfeld,
  • accompanies Mansfeld in his retreat to Alsace,
  • does not send a representative to the conference at Brussels,
  • accompanies Mansfeld to Lorraine,
  • fails in an attempt to march to the Lower Rhine,
  • is wounded at Fleurus,
  • plans an attack on Silesia,
  • is defeated at Stadtloo,
  • commands the French cavalry intended to serve under Mansfeld,
  • his force thinned by death and desertion,
  • resigns his Administratorship,
• Christina, the Princess (Sister of Louis XIII.)
  • proposal to marry her to Prince Henry,
  • proposal to marry her to Prince Charles,
  • proposal to marry her to Prince Charles,
  • proposal to marry her to Prince Charles,
  • proposal to marry her to Prince Charles,
• Chudleigh, Captain James,
  • brings up a letter from the officers of the Northern army, complaining of their grievances,
  • confers with Termyn and Suckling,
  • holds a meeting of officers at Boroughbridge, and carries their letter to Goring,
  • is examined on the Army Plot,
• Church of England.
  • See England, Church of
• Churchill, John,
  • forges orders in Chancery,
  • his connection with Lady Wharton's case,
  • draws up a list of charges against Bacon,
• Chute, Sir Walter,
  • is imprisoned,
• Clanricarde (1601-1635) and St. Albans, Earl of (1628-1635), (Richard de Burgh),
  • is President of Connaught,
  • his position in Galway,
  • pleads against Wentworth,
  • death of,
• Clanricarde and St. Albans, Earl of, 1635 (Ulick de Burgh),
  • keeps order in Connaught,
• Clare, 1st Earl of, 1624-1637 (John Holles),
  • refuses to pay the forced Joan,
  • proposes a joint committee of both Houses on the Petition of Right,
  • borrows Dudley's paper of advice,
  • is prosecuted in the Star Chamber,
  • See Holles, Sir John
  • See Houghton, Lord
• Clare, 2nd Earl of (John Holles),
  • protests against the refusal of the Lords to communicate to the Commons their resolution on Divine service,
• Clarendon, Earl of (Edward Hyde),
  • his opinion of Charles's letter to Pope Gregory XV.,
• Clarke, Edward,
  • conveys a letter from Charles to Bristol,
  • gives Bristol the letter,
  • is imprisoned by the Commons for speaking of the speeches against the Duke as bitter invectives,
  • spreads the news that all difficulties in the way of a French alliance are at an end,
  • is sent to make overtures to Spain,
  • is sent on a mission to the King of Denmark,
• Clarke, Robert (Baron of the Exchequer, 1587-1607),
  • delivers judgment in the case of impositions,
• Clarke, William,
  • takes part in Watson's plot,
  • is convicted,
  • is executed,
• Clayton, Mr.,
  • imprisoned for preaching against Spain,
• Clement VIII. Pope, 1592-1605,
  • receives a letter from James,
  • employs Sir James Lindsay to carry a message to James,
  • sends breves to Garnet,
  • opens a negotiation with James,
  • sends presents to the Queen,
  • refuses to excommunicate turbulent Catholics,
  • expects the conversion of James from his message sent by Lindsay,
  • death of,
• Clergy, the,
  • social position of,
  • relations of the country gentlemen to,
• Clerkenwell,
  • arrest of Jesuits at,
  • complaints of the favourable treatment of the Jesuits seized at,
• Cleves and Juliers, Duchy of,
  • disputed succession in
  • resolution of James to intervene in,
  • capture of Juliers in,
  • renewal of the dispute in,
  • attempt to settle the dispute in,
• Clifton, Richard,
  • sermons preached at Babworth by,
  • is deprived of his rectory,
  • becomes pastor of the Scrooby congregation,
  • refuses to leave Amsterdam,
• Clontarf,
  • Coote sent to punish wreckers at,
  • is burnt by Coote,
• Cloth, manufacture of,
  • attempt to prevent Dutch rivalry with,
• Clotworthy, Sir John,
  • recounts the grievances of Ireland,
  • repeats a story which he had heard from Sir Robert King,
  • tells the House that Suckling was to raise three regiments of foot and a troop of horse,
  • is a member of the committee for investigating the Army Plot
• Coal-shippers,
  • monopoly granted to the corporation of,
• Coat-and-conduct money,
  • attack on in the Short Parliament,
  • enforcement of the payment of,
  • unpopularity of,
  • refusal of the City to pay,
  • prosecution of the Lord Mayor and sheriffs for neglect in the collection of,
• Cobham, Lord, 1597-1604, d. 1619 (Henry Brooke),
  • suspicions of his connection with Watson's plot,
  • his intrigues with Aremberg,
  • writes to the commissioners for the examination of Raleigh,
  • writes a letter to Raleigh,
  • is convicted of treason,
  • is reprieved and sent to the Tower,
  • death of,
• Cockaine, Alderman William,
  • attempts to exclude the Dutch from the cloth manufacture,
• Coinage,
  • debasement of the Irish,
  • proposal to debase the English, rejected by Charles,
  • project to debase, in order to provide means for war with Scotland,
  • plans for carrying out the debasement of,
• Coke, Clement,
  • assists his father in an attack on Oatlands,
  • declares it to be better to die by an enemy than to suffer at home,
  • explains his words,
  • declares Weston to be an enemy of the commonwealth,
• Coke, Frances,
  • Sir John Villiers offers marriage to,
  • signs a contract of marriage with the Earl of Oxford, and is sent to Oatlands,
  • is carried off by her father,
  • marriage of,
  • See Purbeck, Lady
• Coke, Sir Edward (Attorney-General 1594, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1606, Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1613-1616, d. 1633)
  • his conduct at Raleigh's trial,
  • opposes the Bill for free trade,
  • appears against the Gunpowder Plotters,
  • finds a treatise on Equivocation in Tresham's chambers,
  • his speech at Garnet's trial,
  • prosecutes Northumberland,
  • becomes Justice of the Common Pleas,
  • is in favour of the naturalisation of the Post-nati,
  • his conduct on the Bench,
  • leads the attack on Bancroft's Articuli Cleri,
  • has an altercation with the King,
  • his opinion on Fuller's case,
  • provokes James,
  • is said to have instigated the attack on Cowell's Interpreter,
  • declares that the King cannot create an offence by proclamation,
  • disputes with Abbot on the question of prohibitions,
  • objects to the procedure in the case of Legate and Wightman,
  • Bacon advises the appointment as Chief Justice of the King's Bench of,
  • becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench and a Privy Councillor,
  • persuades the judges not to give an opinion to the Lords on the question of impositions,
  • objects to the demand for a Benevolence being issued under the Great Seal,
  • argues in favour of the legality of the Benevolence,
  • resists the separate consultation of the judges,
  • gives his opinion in Peacham's case,
  • argues against the deputation from the Irish Catholics,
  • his opinion on Owen's case,
  • is directed to inquire into the murder of Overbury,
  • asks that persons of higher rank may be associated with him,
  • presides at Weston's trial,
  • states his belief that Prince Henry had been poisoned,
  • is eager to discover the negotiation between Somerset and Sarmiento,
  • his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
  • view taken of the constitutional position of the judges by,
  • brings the Bench into collision with the Crown,
  • is forbidden by James to give judgment on the writ de rege inconsulto till he has spoken to him,
  • complains of the interference of Chancery,
  • instigates the preferment of indictments of praemunire,
  • is angry with the grand jury which returns an ignoramus,
  • is ordered not to proceed with the case of commendams till he has spoken with the King,
  • writes a letter in the names of the judges refusing to obey the command,
  • protests against the command,
  • asserts his independence,
  • is suspended,
  • is called on to revise his reports, and dismissed,
  • his behaviour after his disgrace,
  • quarrels with his wife,
  • consents to the marriage of his daughter to Sir John Villiers,
  • informs the King of his consent,
  • carries off his daughter from Oatlands,
  • is summoned before the Council,
  • is favourably received by the King,
  • is restored to the Council table,
  • is disappointed at not receiving higher promotion,
  • is appointed a commissioner to examine Raleigh,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • wishes to impose a larger fine on Suffolk,
  • acknowledges the legality of the patent for inns,
  • political principles of,
  • effect on the Commons of his attack upon the monopolies,
  • asks the Commons to punish Michell,
  • brings in a report against Mompesson,
  • acknowledges that the House has no jurisdiction,
  • brings in a Bill against monopolies,
  • objects to the King's proposed tribunal for the trial of Bacon,
  • complains of Bacon as a corrupt judge,
  • declares that the House of Commons is a court of record,
  • supports the jurisdiction of the Commons over Floyd,
  • repeats the prayer for the Royal family,
  • is irritated by the affair of Lepton and Goldsmith,
  • makes a violent attack on Spain,
  • proposes that the Commons shall set down their privileges in writing,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • is liberated,
  • proposal to send him to Ireland,
  • declares that Buckingham has deserved well of his country,
  • declares that England was never so prosperous as when she was at war with Spain,
  • explains to the Commons the value of the subsidies proposed,
  • carries up the impeachment of Middlesex,
  • is content that there shall be no committee of grievances in the first Parliament of Charles,
  • argues that Montague's writings can be properly considered by the Commons,
  • asks for an account of the subsidies of the last Parliament.
  • wishes that nothing may be printed without the approval of Convocation,
  • declares that the Commons ought not to discuss doctrine,
  • comments on the embarrassments of the Treasury,
  • suggests a Benevolence,
  • is made sheriff to prevent his appearance in Parliament,
  • is of opinion that the rights of the subject must be vindicated,
  • brings in a Bill against prolonged detention in prison,
  • wishes subsidies to be granted with a declaration of the illegality of the forced loan,
  • states that when the King is spoken of as imprisoning anyone, it is meant that his command is signified by the judges,
  • quotes the language of Festus to Agrippa,
  • is temporarily disconcerted by Shllton's quotation from Anderson's reports,
  • declares the quotation from Anderson to be apocryphal,
  • adduces the evidence of a copy in Anderson's own hand,
  • proposes a petition against military outrages,
  • asks that the dates for the payment of the subsidies may be fixed,
  • criticises the Lords' propositions on imprisonment,
  • supports the Bill of Liberties
  • wishes the King to ratify the Bill to be presented to him in the form of a promise,
  • replies to Sir J. Coke's proposal that the King shall be petitioned,
  • proposes a Petition of Right,
  • asserts that the phrase 'sovereign power' is not known to the law,
  • cannot speak for weeping,
  • names Buckingham as the cause of all their miseries,
  • death of,
  • seizure of the papers of,
• Coke, Sir John,
  • is a leading member of the Navy Commission,
  • orders Pennington to abstain from meddling in the French civil wars,
  • is selected by Buckingham to be his mouthpiece in the House of Commons,
  • lays an estimate before the House, and asks for an additional grant,
  • fails to persuade the House,
  • writes to Pennington that he will not have to fight against the French Protestants,
  • orders Pennington not to give up his ships to the French,
  • approves of the protest of Pennington's captains,
  • recommends that Pennington shall spin out time,
  • gives a full explanation of the King's military and naval expenditure,
  • protests against Eliot's attack on the Commissioners of the Navy,
  • becomes Secretary of State,
  • urges on the sale of French prize goods,
  • suggests an early grant of supply,
  • again urges the Commons to take supply into consideration,
  • Buckingham is angry with,
  • acknowledges that the law had been broken,
  • alleges the discovery of a party of Jesuits at Clerkenweil as a reason why the Commons should vote supply,
  • Persuades the House to allow supply to be discussed in a Grand Committee,
  • argues in favour of attacking the enemy,
  • announces to Charles that five subsidies have been voted in committee, and reports Buckingham's sayings to the Commons,
  • supports Sir E. Coke's proposal for fixing the dates of the payment of the subsidies,
  • informs the Commons that it has been noticed that they are pressing on power itself,
  • informs the House that, whatever law is made, it will be his duty as a Privy Councillor to commit without showing cause,
  • denies that the laws had been violated,
  • asks that the King's answer to the Remonstrance may be debated in the House,
  • objects to Pym's language,
  • asks the Commons to petition against a repetition of the forced loan,
  • goes to Portsmouth to hurry on reinforcements for Denbigh,
  • informs Buckingham of the slowness with which the fleet for the relief of Rochelle is being fitted out,
  • proposes to bring in a Bill for granting tonnage and poundage,
  • protests against the Commons considering the report of the committee on religion,
  • declares the King's resolution to protect the Custom House officers,
  • writes to forbid Charles Lewis to go to the Palatinate,
  • reads to the Council an exposition of the dangers of the kingdom, and calls on Charles to recover the sovereignty of the seas,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • urges on Lindsey the necessity of supporting the King's claim to the sovereignty of the seas,
  • his speech at the introduction into Oxford of the Caroline statutes,
  • votes against war with Scotland,
  • is threatened with dismissal,
  • ceases to be Secretary,
  • exposes the Queen's misrepresentation about the marriage treaty,
• Colchester,
  • Official's court of the arch-deaconry of,
• Coldstream,
  • the Scottish army crosses the Tweed at,
• College of Physicians, the,
  • reports on the causes of the plague,
• Coloma, Don Carlos,
  • succeeds Gondomar as Spanish ambassador in England,
  • asks that Spanish ships may be sheltered in English ports,
  • is present when James swears to the public articles of the marriage treaty,
  • assents to the agreement of Salisbury,
  • accepts James's declaration that he can grant no further concessions to the Catholics,
  • presents a plan for the pacification of Germany,
  • slips a paper into James's hand,
  • protests against the levy of soldiers in aid of the Dutch,
  • begs that three Dunkirk privateers in the Downs may receive the benefit of neutrality,
  • obtains permission for Rubens to visit England,
  • is named ambassador to England,
  • is received at Whitehall,
  • swears to the treaty of Madrid,
  • takes leave of Charles,
  • Massinger's allusions to,
• Colvill, William,
  • is entrusted with letters from the Covenanters to foreign princes,
  • is sent to France with a second letter,
• Commendams,
  • case of,
• Commerce,
  • movement in favour of breaking up. the companies engaged in,
  • Act for throwing open, with France, Spain, and Portugal,
  • interference with the course of, between England and Holland,
  • stoppage of, after the dissolution of 1629,
• Commissions of array,
  • issued for the army against Scotland,
  • issued for an army against the Parliamentary Militia,
  • order given to put in execution,
• Commissioners of the Navy.
  • See Navy Commission
• Commissioners, the Parliamentary.
  • See Parliamentary Committee, the
• Committee of defence, the,
  • is ordered to direct the attention of the Lords to the state of the fortresses, and to consider the command of the trained bands,
  • recommends the appointment of an authority to put the kingdom in a state of defence,
• Committee of Eight.
  • See Committee of the Privy Council for Scottish affairs
• Committee of Estates, the,
  • appointed by the Scottish Parliament,
  • decides that half its members shall accompany Leslie's army,
  • examines Montrose,
  • imprisons Montrose and his confederates,
• Committee of Safety, the,
  • is composed of Lords and Commoners,
• Committee of the Privy Council for foreign affairs,
  • appointment of,
  • proposed admission of Scots to,
• Committee of the Privy Council for Scottish affairs,
  • divided state of opinion in,
  • recommends Charles to select a force of 30,000 from the trained bands,
  • is consulted on the war with Scotland after the dissolution of the Short Parliament,
• Committee of the Privy Council for Spanish affairs
  • is consulted on the marriage treaty,
  • listens to Buckingham's account of his proceedings in Spain,
  • questions about the treaties proposed to,
  • refuses to vote for war,
  • gives a temporising answer,
  • recommends the imprisonment of Loudoun and Dunfermline,
  • after hearing Traquair's report, discusses the mode of coercing Scotland,
  • debate on the mode of carrying on war with Scotland in,
• Common Council, the.
  • See London, City of
• Common Prayer, the Book of,
  • supporters and assailants of,
  • proposal to make alterations in, and counter-proposal of Culpepper to punish those who vilify,
• Commons, the House of,
  • its increased powers under Henry VIII.,
  • asks for further changes in the Church,
  • opposes Elizabeth on the subject of Church reform,
  • composition of,
  • official members elected to,
  • debates on Sherley's case of privilege in,
  • on Goodwin's case,
  • on purveyance and wardship,
  • on the Court of Wards,
  • on the union with Scotland,
  • objects to the title of King of Great Britain,
  • is dissatisfied with the Hampton Court settlement,
  • its ecclesiastical policy,
  • apology of,
  • omits to grant subsidies,
  • opposes the monopoly of the trading companies,
  • passes a Bill for opening trade,
  • is scolded by the King at the prorogation,
  • causes of the misunderstanding between the King and,
  • rejects a proposal for inflicting extraordinary punishment on the Gunpowder Plotters,
  • questions the right of Convocation to legislate,
  • grants a supply,
  • grants a supply,
  • draws up a petition of grievances,
  • discusses the proposed commercial union with Scotland,
  • considers the question of naturalisation,
  • agrees to pass Bills for the abolition of hostile laws and extradition of criminals,
  • insists on freedom for all persons to trade with France, Spain, and Portugal,
  • case of the 'Trial' brought before,
  • forwards to the Lords the complaints of the merchants trading with Spain,
  • Salisbury seeks to influence elections to,
  • takes into consideration the support of the Crown,
  • listens to Salisbury's demands,
  • condemns Cowell's 'Interpreter',
  • demands the commutation of feudal tenures,
  • proposes to enter into the Great Contract,
  • is forbidden by the King to question his right to impositions,
  • receives permission to discuss the impositions,
  • petition against recusants from,
  • debate on impositions in,
  • is almost unanimous against the King's claim to impositions,
  • draws up a petition of grievances, and grants a subsidy,
  • agrees to the Great Contract,
  • is dissatisfied with the King's answer to its grievances,
  • breaks off the Great Contract,
  • refuses to grant supply till the rumours about Undertakers have been inquired into,
  • receives the communion at St. Margaret's, and takes up the Bill on Impositions,
  • inquires into monopolies,
  • gives up the inquiry about the Undertakers, and discusses the impositions,
  • asks for a conference on impositions,
  • is indignant at Bishop Neile's attack,
  • is not contented with Neile's excuse,
  • review of the conduct of, in the Addled Parliament,
  • imprisonment of members of,
  • does not revive the quarrel about impositions in 1621,
  • Protestant feeling of,
  • objects to receive the communion in Westminster Abbey,
  • receives the report of the Council of War,
  • grants two subsidies,
  • complains of Gondomar's permission to export ordnance,
  • expels Shepherd,
  • is displeased with James's refusal to persecute the Catholics,
  • foreign policy of,
  • inquiry into the monopolies,
  • violent proceedings against Michell in,
  • attack on Mompesson in,
  • its jurisdiction questioned,
  • demands inquiry into the conduct of the referees,
  • brings charges against the referees,
  • sends charges against Mompesson to the Lords,
  • orders Phelips to lay before the Peers the evidence against Bacon,
  • resists James's proposal for a new tribunal to inquire into Bacon's case,
  • sends up the Wharton case to the Lords,
  • is summoned to the Lords' bar to hear the sentence on Bacon,
  • hears the Lords' sentence on Michell,
  • charges Sir J. Bennett with corruption,
  • refuses to grant a further supply, and condemns the patent for alehouses,
  • abandons the charges against the referees,
  • violent language directed against Floyd in,
  • sentences Floyd,
  • its jurisdiction over Floyd questioned by the King,
  • refers Floyd's case to the King,
  • votes certain patents to be grievances, and passes a Monopoly Bill,
  • is ordered to adjourn,
  • dissatisfaction in,
  • Perrot's motion for a declaration about the Palatinate in.
  • makes a declaration for the defence of the Palatinate,
  • adjournment of,
  • reassembles,
  • its attention called to the imprisonment of Sandys,
  • considers a demand for money for the defence of the Palatinate,
  • resolves to vote supply,
  • draws up a petition on religion,
  • is ordered by the King not to meddle with his son's marriage,
  • prepares an explanatory petition,
  • sends a deputation to the King,
  • James's attack on the privileges of,
  • debate on the King's answer in,
  • precedents on liberty of speech in,
  • is unanimous in defence of its privileges,
  • protestation on behalf of the privileges of,
  • last sitting of, in the session of 1621,
  • character of the elections to, in 1624,
  • refers Eliot's motion on liberty of speech to a committee,
  • exculpates Buckingham,
  • debate on the Spanish treaties in,
  • popularity of a war with Spain, and unpopularity of a war in Germany in,
  • draws up a petition for war with Spain,
  • discusses the King's speech on a war in Germany,
  • votes an address calling for war with Spain,
  • is dissatisfied with James's answer,
  • disapproves of a French marriage and of a Continental war,
  • votes three subsidies and three fifteenths,
  • conditional nature of the grant made by,
  • refuses to inquire into the insults offered to the Spanish Embassy,
  • sends to the Lords a petition against recusants,
  • is satisfied with James's answer to the petition against recusants,
  • impeaches Middlesex,
  • agrees to a modification of the Monopoly Bill,
  • presents its grievances to James,
  • is dissatisfied at the close of the session of 1624,
  • growth of the influence of,
  • full attendance in, at the opening of the session of 1625,
  • is asked for supplies by Charles, on the ground that it has brought him into war,
  • rejects Mallory's motion for an adjournment,
  • goes into committee on religion,
  • prepares a petition on religion, requesting the enforcement of the law against the Catholics, and a conciliatory treatment of the silenced ministers,
  • the grant of one subsidy and one fifteenth proposed in,
  • two subsidies voted by,
  • its want of confidence in Charles,
  • considers Wentworth's disputed election,
  • refers Montague's New Gag for an old Goose to Abbot,
  • inquires what steps Abbot has taken,
  • refers the New Gag and Appello Cæsarem to a committee,
  • report of its committee on Montague's books,
  • commits Montague to custody,
  • debate on tonnage and poundage in,
  • passes a Bill granting tonnage and poundage for one year,
  • estimate of expenditure laid by Coke before,
  • declines to grant an additional supply,
  • is adjourned to Oxford,
  • re-assembles at Oxford,
  • prepares a petition against the grant of pardons to Catholic priests,
  • discusses Montague's case,
  • question of ministerial responsibility raised in,
  • is summoned before the King in Christchurch Hall,
  • is puzzled by the confused way in which the King's demands are made,
  • the King's ministers inefficiently represented in,
  • Whistler's suggestion to consult the Lords on the proposed supply allowed to drop in,
  • debate on foreign policy in,
  • is summoned to Christchurch Hall to hear a communication from Buckingham,
  • discusses the King's demand of an immediate supply,
  • hears of the delivery of Pennington's ships to the French,
  • complaints of neglect to stop piracy,
  • adopts a protestation of loyalty,
  • last proceedings of, in the first Parliament of Charles,
  • its want of confidence in Buckingham justified,
  • conservatism of,
  • pronounces against Montague,
  • wishes to learn the advice given by the Council of War,
  • persists in requiring an answer,
  • difficulties of its position,
  • directs the King's Counsel to bring in a tonnage and poundage Bill,
  • loyal declaration of,
  • adopts Eliot's proposal to pass a resolution for the grant of subsidies, but not to convert it into a Bill,
  • informed by Coventry that they have liberty of counsel, not of control,
  • is told by Charles that Parliaments are to continue or not, according to their fruits,
  • resolves to draw up a remonstrance,
  • determines to go on with the Remonstrance in spite of Buckingham's vindication of his conduct,
  • presents the Remonstrance to Charles,
  • orders a committee to consider the causes of evil,
  • votes the charges against Buckingham upon common fame,
  • impeaches Buckingham,
  • demands the imprisonment of Buckingham,
  • refuses to proceed with business till Eliot and Digges are liberated,
  • prepares a petition in vindication of its privileges,
  • is informed that Digges is released, and that Eliot is imprisoned on account of actions done out of the House,
  • suspends its sittings,
  • is informed that Eliot is liberated,
  • clears Eliot,
  • declares tonnage and poundage illegal without consent of Parliament,
  • demands an account of Buckingham's election as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, but is ordered by the King to desist from further inquiry,
  • draws up a Remonstrance,
  • question of responsibility raised by its demand to the King to remove Buckingham from his presence,
  • end of the sittings of,
  • resolution of the leaders of, not to proceed against Buckingham in 1628,
  • Coke's Bill against prolonged detention in prison brought into,
  • debate on a proposal to grant supply in,
  • refuses to vote supply in consequence of the discovery of a party of Jesuits at Clerkenwell,
  • goes into a Grand Committee on Supply,
  • want of support for the King in,
  • passes a resolution against taxation without a Parliamentary grant,
  • enters on a debate on the King's claim to imprison without showing cause,
  • discussion on the genuineness of a copy of Anderson's reports in,
  • resolutions on imprisonment adopted by,
  • debate on the grant of supply in,
  • passes resolutions on confinement and billeting,
  • postpones the consideration of military grievances for that of civil ones,
  • passes in committee a resolution for five subsidies,
  • Bill for securing the liberties of the subject proposed by Wentworth in,
  • debate on military outrages in,
  • sits, by the King's orders, on Good Friday,
  • debate on martial law in,
  • asks the Peers to hear them before deciding on the resolutions on the liberties of the subject,
  • again refuses to discuss supply,
  • is informed by the Lord Keeper that Charles expects it to be content with his promise to observe the law,
  • resolves that a Bill founded on its resolutions shall be brought in,
  • debate in, on the Bill of Liberties,
  • is informed by Sir J. Coke that, whatever law might be made, it would be the duty of a Privy Councillor to commit without showing cause,
  • directs the preparation of a Remonstrance,
  • orders the presentation of the Remonstrance,
  • end of Wentworth's leadership of,
  • discusses the King's offer to confirm Magna Carta and six other statutes,
  • orders a Petition of Right to be prepared, and the resolutions for five subsidies to be reported,
  • sends up the Petition to the Lords,
  • refuses to accept the King's offer to declare the cause as soon as convenient,
  • rejects the Lords' clause in amendment of the Petition of Right,
  • rejects the clause a second time,
  • supports Eliot against Wentworth,
  • rejects a proposal of the Lords for a joint committee on the Petition of Right,
  • listens to the King's first answer to the Petition,
  • agrees, at Eliot's motion, to discuss a Remonstrance,
  • is forbidden by the King to lay scandal on his ministers,
  • bursts into tears,
  • inserts into its Remonstrance a clause condemnatory of Buckingham,
  • goes on with the Remonstrance and joins the Lords in asking for a better answer to the Petition of Right,
  • impeaches Manwaring,
  • passes the Subsidy Bill,
  • completes the Remonstrance, and complains that Calvinism is discountenanced and Arminianism favoured,
  • declares Buckingham's power to be the chief cause of evil,
  • a tonnage and poundage Bill in committee in,
  • proposes to pass a Bill for a temporary grant of tonnage and poundage,
  • draws up a Remonstrance on tonnage and poundage,
  • end of the session of,
  • its case against the King,
  • complains in 1629 of the enrolment of the first answer to the Petition of Right,
  • considers its privileges to be violated by the seizure of Rolle's goods,
  • is pleased with the King's speech, but postpones the consideration of tonnage and poundage,
  • takes into consideration the question of religion,
  • refers the question of religion to a committee,
  • goes into committee on the report from the committee on religion,
  • adopts a resolution against Arminianism, the sense of which it is unable to make clear,
  • resolves to inquire into recent pardons,
  • orders further inquiry into the pardons,
  • challenges the authority of Convocation,
  • admits that Montague is legally a bishop,
  • charges brought against Neile in,
  • Cromwell's first speech in,
  • fresh charges brought against Neile and Cosin in,
  • takes up again the question of tonnage and poundage,
  • sends one of the sheriffs of London to the Tower,
  • breach of the privileges of,
  • sends a message to the Court of Exchequer, and summons the Custom House officers to the bar,
  • attempts to evade May's argument,
  • resolves that Rolle is to have privilege for his goods,
  • adjourns to consider its position,
  • resolutions on religion of the sub-committee of,
  • attempts made to avert a rupture between the King and,
  • the Speaker held down in his chair by members of,
  • riotous proceedings in,
  • Hobart locks the door of,
  • Eliot's resolutions read by Holles in,
  • end of the session of,
  • at the opening of the Short Parliament Windebank reads the letter from the Scots to the King of France in,
  • debate on grievances in,
  • petitions from the counties to,
  • Pym's speech on grievances in,
  • appeal of Charles to the Lords against,
  • resolves to confer with the Lords on grievances,
  • votes the interference of the Lords to be a breach of privilege,
  • sends for Dr. Beale,
  • resolves to clear up the question of the King's right to voluntary taxation,
  • discusses the King's demand of twelve subsidies,
  • demand for the abolition of military charges made in,
  • proposed petition against the war to be made by,
  • the Short Parliament dissolved on Vane's assurance that not one penny will be voted by,
  • temper of, at the opening of the Long Parliament,
  • support given by the Scottish army to,
  • chooses Lenthall as its Speaker,
  • listens to Irish grievances,
  • Pym's leadership of,
  • general complaint of grievances in,
  • resolves to spare the King and to call his ministers to account,
  • is afraid of a Catholic plot,
  • meeting of the Irish committee of,
  • resolves to examine into the case against Strafford,
  • alarm felt in,
  • names a select committee to prepare a charge against Strafford,
  • impeaches Strafford,
  • sends for Radcliffe, and orders the liberation of Prynne, Bastwick, Burton, Leighton, and Lilburne,
  • financial difficulties of,
  • appoints a fast,
  • attacks the monopolies,
  • loan offered by the members of,
  • takes alarm at the attempt to assassinate Heywood,
  • draws up a preliminary charge against Strafford,
  • two subsidies voted by,
  • sends for Windebank,
  • the Queen proposes to bribe members of,
  • Finch defends himself before,
  • Finch impeached by,
  • first serious division of opinion in,
  • postpones the consideration of the London petition against episcopacy, and votes that no one is bound by the new canons,
  • proposes to provide for the King's revenue, and grants two more subsidies,
  • a Bill for Annual Parliaments brought into,
  • refuses to pay interest unless it is named damages,
  • negotiation of the Queen with the leaders of,
  • considers the demands of the Scots,
  • turns the Annual Parliaments Bill into a Triennial Bill,
  • demands Goodman's execution,
  • distrusts Charles's sincerity,
  • resolves to investigate the contributions of the Catholics, and presses for Goodman's execution,
  • fear of the Irish army felt in,
  • articles against Strafford voted in,
  • votes a Brotherly Assistance to the Scots, and leaves Goodman in prison,
  • receives coldly the Queen's overtures,
  • the ecclesiastical petitions debated in,
  • parties begin to form in,
  • a compromise accepted at the end of the debate on the Londoners' petition in,
  • is unanimous against the Catholics,
  • impeaches Berkeley,
  • asks the Lords to join in a petition against the Irish army,
  • objects to the delay in Strafford's trial,
  • is irritated because the Lords allow Strafford time to prepare for his defence,
  • rise of a feeling against the Scots in,
  • two more subsidies voted by,
  • dissatisfaction in, with the Scottish declaration against English episcopacy,
  • votes that reparation shall be made to Prynne, Burton, Bastwick, Leighton, and Lilburne,
  • resolves that bishops shall not sit in Parliament or exercise temporal functions,
  • has difficulty in finding money for the Scots,
  • Pym opens the case against Strafford on behalf of,
  • growth of a desire for Strafford's blood in,
  • irritates the Northern army by transferring to the Scots money intended for its use,
  • the Army Plot revealed to the leading members of,
  • charge of intending to bring in the Irish army brought against Strafford on behalf of,
  • is alarmed at the danger of the intervention of the Northern army, and passes a resolution that officers are not to command an attack without orders from the King on the advice of Parliament,
  • want of unanimity in,
  • withdraws from the trial in consequence of the decision of the Lords to allow Strafford to adduce fresh evidence,
  • statement on Vane's notes made in,
  • a Bill of Attainder proposed in,
  • reads the Bill of Attainder a first time, but is persuaded by Pym to go on with the impeachment,
  • Bill of Attainder read a second time in,
  • Bill of Attainder in committee in,
  • declares Strafford a traitor,
  • passes the Attainder Bill,
  • is disappointed at Charles's repeated refusals to disband the Irish army,
  • renewed dissatisfaction of,
  • a dissolution expected by,
  • passes the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
  • silence in, at the news of Suckling's levy,
  • excited discussion in,
  • appoints a committee to draw up a Protestation,
  • accepts the Protestation,
  • invites the Londoners to sign the Protestation,
  • Pym reveals his knowledge of the Army Plot to,
  • resolves that to counsel bringing in a foreign force is to be a public enemy, and forms a committee to examine the Army Plot,
  • panic in,
  • a Bill against the dissolution of Parliament brought into,
  • gives a courteous answer to the demand of the Scots for an ecclesiastical union,
  • growth of the Root-and-Branch party in,
  • the confiscation of Church property mooted in,
  • votes that the customers shall be fined,
  • effect of the vote of the Lords in favour of retaining the Bishops in their House upon,
  • the Root-and-Branch Bill brought into,
  • argues with the Lords in favour of the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
  • Bills for limiting the prerogative brought into,
  • report of the Committee on the Army Plot read in,
  • a riot in,
  • quality of the Presbyterianism of,
  • the Root-and-Branch Bill in committee of,
  • proposed new form of Church government accepted by,
  • lay preachers reproved by,
  • sends up a Bill making the signature of the Protestation obligatory,
  • orders the impeachment of thirteen bishops, and votes that all who refuse the Protestation are unfit to bear office,
  • is irritated by the opposition of the Lords,
  • holds a sitting on Sunday to remonstrate against the King's proposed journey to Scotland,
  • persuades the Lords to join in a request that Pembroke may be Lord Steward and Salisbury Lord Treasurer,
  • Root-and-Branch Bill dropped in,
  • does not accept the King's offer of a general pardon,
  • declares Suckling, Percy, and Jermyn traitors, appoints a committee of defence, and considers the command of the trained bands,
  • adopts the first ordinance,
  • objects to the leave given to the Spanish ambassador to levy troops in Ireland, and fixes a day for the adjournment of,
  • end of unanimity,
  • cause of the division in,
  • resolutions on ecclesiastical innovations in,
  • orders on lecturers passed in,
  • resents the refusal of the Lords to impart to it their resolution on Divine service, but appeals to the patience of the nation,
  • adjournment of,
  • effect of the news of the Incident on at its re-assembling,
  • is guarded by the Westminster trained bands,
  • the second Bishops' Exclusion Bill in,
  • asks the Lords to suspend all the bishops from voting in their own case,
  • expresses a desire that the King will regard the wishes of Parliament when he makes appointments,
  • is irritated by the appointment of new bishops, and fixes a day for considering the Remonstrance,
  • examinations about the second Army Plot read in, and fresh plots suspected in,
  • hears of the Irish rebellion,
  • votes money and men to suppress the rebellion,
  • offers to pay 1,000 Scots in Ireland.
  • Pym proposes an additional instruction to the Committee in Scotland to be given by,
  • demands that unless a responsible ministry be granted it will provide for Ireland without the King,
  • revolutionary character of the proposal made by,
  • proposes to entrust Essex with authority over the trained bands,
  • the Grand Remonstrance read in,
  • worse news from Ireland received in,
  • votes that an English and a Scottish army shall be sent to Ireland,
  • votes that the Scots shall number no more than 1,000,
  • votes that 5,000 Scots shall be asked to go,
  • the Grand Remonstrance amended in,
  • orders two priests to be proceeded against,
  • wishes to place the trained bands in a posture of defence under Essex and Holland,
  • fresh evidence on the second Army Plot read in,
  • passes a resolution that there had been a second Army Plot,
  • final debate on the Grand Remonstrance in,
  • proposal to print the Grand Remonstrance, followed by a claim to protest in,
  • tumult quieted by Hampden in,
  • sends Palmer to the Tower,
  • takes umbrage at the dismissal of its guard,
  • a mob alleged to have been invited to Westminster to guard,
  • suspicions of an intention to charge members with treason entertained in,
  • directs the justices of Westminster to protect it,
  • presents the Grand Remonstrance to the King,
  • Charles's resistance to,
  • constitutional position of,
  • appoints a committee to throw the blame on the Lords if they do not pass the Bills sent up to them,
  • a Militia Bill brought into,
  • reads the Militia Bill once in spite of the strong opposition to it,
  • issues a declaration against toleration,
  • petition from the City against the presence of bishops and Catholic lords in, presented to,
  • proclamation commanding the attendance of absent members of,
  • asks for the execution of seven priests, and prints the Grand Remonstrance,
  • receives a petition from ministers, who ask that their consciences may not be forced,
  • refuses to its members the right of protest,
  • reads the Militia Bill the first time, and asks the Lords to agree to send 10,000 Scots to Ireland,
  • inquires into the hindrance thrown by the City authorities in the way of a petition to itself,
  • asks the Lords to join in a petition for the dismissal of Lunsford,
  • draws up a declaration for the safety of the kingdom,
  • requests Newport to take personal charge of the Tower,
  • receives bad news from Ireland,
  • takes alarm at Dillon's evidence on the overtures of the Irish Catholics to Charles,
  • refuses to blame the rioters who had insulted the bishops,
  • offers to join the Lords in asking for a guard, if Essex might command it,
  • refuses to send for the City trained bands, but impeaches the bishops who had signed the protest,
  • asks the King to appoint the Earl of Essex to command the guard,
  • sends for halberts, and orders a committee of the whole House to meet at Guildhall,
  • intention of the King to impeach five members of,
  • the Attorney-General impeaches five members of,
  • rejection of its demand for a guard under Essex,
  • asks the City for the protection of its trained bands,
  • takes steps to protect its members,
  • the King offers a guard commanded by Lindsey to,
  • hears of the gathering of armed men at White-hall,
  • warnings conveyed to,
  • withdrawal of the five accused members of,
  • the King takes the Speaker's chair in, and demands the five members of,
  • the King's departure from,
  • danger of, from the King's followers,
  • proceedings of its Committee at Guildhall,
  • its quarrel with the King is beyond a compromise,
  • sits in committee at Grocers' Hall,
  • is guarded by the City trained bands,
  • return of the five members to,
  • comes back to Westminster,
  • agrees with the Lords to send Hotham to secure Hull,
  • is alarmed by the proceedings of Digby and Lunsford at Kingston,
  • invites the counties to defend themselves,
  • declares that no fortresses are to be delivered up without the authority of the King signified by both Houses,
  • recommends that the Lords-Lieutenants shall be appointed by Parliament,
  • demands that the fortresses and the militia may be entrusted to persons in whom Parliament may confide,
  • informs the Peers that it would be sorry to save the kingdom without them,
  • draws up a militia ordinance,
  • impeaches the Attorney-General and Digby.
  • votes that the kingdom is to be put in a posture of defence,
  • claims supreme power for Parliament,
  • disquieting rumours reach,
  • treats harshly the Kentish petitioners,
  • orders the garrison of Hull to be reinforced, and the munitions at Hull to be brought to London,
  • appoints a committee to prepare a declaration of its ecclesiastical policy,
  • amends the King's Militia Bill,
  • contributions asked from the members of,
  • requests the Lords to appoint a committee of safety, and votes the raising of an army for active service,
  • impeaches Gurney,
  • votes that Essex shall take the command,
  • attempts to defend itself against the accusation1 of setting up an arbitrary government,
  • calls on its members to swear to live and die with Essex,
• Communion, kneeling posture at the reception of,
  • directed to be observed in one of James's five articles,
  • enjoined to be observed in the chapel at Holy-rood,
  • objection felt in Scotland to,
  • adopted by the Assembly of Perth,
  • indictment of a minister for refusing to administer to his congregation in their seats,
• Communion-table, the,
  • Elizabeth's compromise on the position of,
  • dispute at Grantham about,
  • arrangement made at Buckden for,
  • is placed by the side of the pulpit in Whitelocke's house,
  • is moved to the east end of Winchester Cathedral,
  • removal of, by Laud at Lambeth,
  • Williams gives his opinion on the position assigned to, at Leicester,
  • dispute about the position of, at St. Gregory's,
  • decision of the King on the dispute about the position of,
  • Wentworth removes, at Dublin,
  • general order for the removal of,
  • cases of its removal,
  • directions given in the Canons of 1640 on the position of,
  • the soldiers pull down the rails round,
  • the Lords propose to surround with rails in the centre of the church,
• Companies, the Trading,
  • their monopoly attacked in the Commons,
  • See Levant Company
  • See East India Company
  • See the Merchant Adventurers
  • See Spanish Company
• Compositions for knighthood.
  • See knighthood fines
• Compton, Lady,
  • wishes to marry Sir John Villiers to Frances Coke,
  • asks the Council to help Coke to get possession of his daughter,
  • is created Countess of Buckingham,
  • See Buckingham, Countess of
• Compton, Lord,1589-1618 (William Compton),
  • created Earl of Northampton,
  • See Northampton, Earl of
• Compton, Sir Thomas,
  • marries Buckingham's mother,
• Comus,
  • the performance of,
• Con, George,
  • is named as a fit person to be the Pope's agent at the Court of Henrietta Maria,
  • his friendly reception by Charles,
  • rouses the Queen to take interest in Catholic conversions,
  • calls Denbigh a Puritan ass,
  • urges the Queen to stand up for the Catholics,
  • obtains the Queen's assistance in combating a proposed proclamation against the Cathoics,
  • his opinion of Newcastle's character,
  • returns to Rome and dies,
• Conde, Prince of,
  • has the peace with the Huguenots broken,
• Confession,
  • Greenway reveals the Gun-powder Plot to Garnet in,
  • reluctance of the Government to charge Garnet with knowledge obtained in,
  • Panzani's report of English opinion on,
• Connaught, condition of,
  • after James's accession,
  • title of the landowners of, acknowledged in the Graces,
  • proposed plantation of,
  • Wentworth's visit to,
  • juries summoned to find the King's title to,
  • success of Wentworth in,
  • the English House of Commons drops the charge against Strafford for his conduct in,
  • abandonment of the plantation of,
  • Ranelagh fears for the maintenance of order in,
  • order kept by Clanrickard in,
• Connecticut,
  • foundation of the colony of,
• Conry, Florence,
  • said to be implicated in a plot for a revolt in Ireland,
• Consecration
  • of churches,
• Constable of Castile, the (Duke of Frias),
  • arrives at Brussels to negotiate a peace with England,
  • leaves directions with Villa Mediana, about the Infanta's marriage,
• Constant moderators,
  • appointment of,
• Contanni, Alvise,
  • proposes to Dorchester a peace with France,
  • converses with Buckingham on the proposed peace,
  • his last interview with Buckingham,
  • continues his negotiation after Buckingham's death,
  • finds a supporter in the Queen,
  • acts as mediator between England and France,
  • hopes for an alliance between England and France against Spain,
• Continuance of Parliament Bill.
  • See Dissolution of the Long Parliament without its own consent, the Bill against the
• Contraband of war,
  • dispute on the nature of,
• Contract, the Great,
  • discussed and broken off,
  • resumed consideration of,
  • is broken off,
• Contribution for the war with Scotland, the,
  • is demanded,
  • small amount of,
• Contributions of money, plate, or horses,
  • demanded by Parliament,
• Convention of Estates,
  • held in Edinburgh in 1640,
• Convocation of the province of Canterbury,
  • presses the canons of 1604 against the nonconformists,
  • draws up the canons of 1606,
  • its legislative power questioned by the Commons,
  • is declared by Bishops Buckeridge, Howson, and Laud to be the proper judge of controversies in the Church,
  • acknowledgment, in the King's Declaration, of the authority of,
  • the Commons challenge the authority of,
  • grants six subsidies,
  • continues to sit after the dissolution of Parliament,
  • confirms its grant of subsidies and issues new canons,
  • its right to sit after the dissolution of Parliament questioned,
  • dissolution of,
  • its composition contrasted with that of the proposed national synod,
• Convocation, the Irish,
  • Wentworth's dealings with,
• Conway, Lord, 1624-1627 (Edward Conway),
  • is appointed a member of the Committee on foreign affairs,
  • makes a confused statement in applying to the Commons for supply,
  • is attacked for giving a protection to a Catholic lady,
  • tells the Council of War that it must vote without debating,
  • remonstrates through the ambassadors in France on the Queen's refusal to be crowned,
  • assures the Commons that Buckingham has done nothing without counsel,
  • does not believe that the French wish to quarrel with England,
  • sends away the Queen's French attendants,
  • speaks of Buckingham as Judas for wishing to make peace with Spain,
  • See Conway, Sir Edward
  • See Conway, 1st Viscount
• Conway, Sir Edward,
  • is sent to mediate in Germany,
  • is ordered to go to Brussels,
  • gives advice to the Princes of the Union,
  • witnesses the battle of Prague,
  • recall of,
  • becomes Secretary of State,
  • writes to the Prince that his father wishes him to come home at once,
  • writes to Buckingham on James's objections to some of the marriage articles,
  • wishes that Rutland may have a fair wind,
  • negotiates with the Spanish ambassadors on the relaxation of the penal laws,
  • misrepresents to the Dutch the negotiation with Spain for a partition treaty,
  • supports Buckingham against Spain,
  • teaches Buckingham to envy the financial resources of the Dutch,
  • is a member of the Council of War,
  • countersigns Charles's engagement in favour of the Catholics,
  • suggests that Christian IV. shall share the expense of the league proposed by Gustavus,
  • is made Lord Conway,
  • See Conway, Lord
  • See Conway, 1st Viscount
• Conway, Sir Edward, the younger,
  • describes the condition of the army at Rhé,
  • See Conway, 2nd Viscount
• Conway, 1st Viscount, 1627-1631 (Edward Conway),
  • orders Wilmot to ship his men at Plymouth,
  • ill-health of,
  • resigns the Secretaryship, and becomes President of the Council,
  • death of,
  • See Conway, Sir Edward
  • See Conway, Lord
• Conway, 2nd Viscount, 1631 (Edward Conway),
  • appointed to command the Horse in the second Bishops' War,
  • condition of his soldiers,
  • executes a soldier by martial law,
  • complains to Strafford that Northumberland has questioned the legality of his proceedings,
  • begs to be allowed to lay an imposition on the townsmen of Newcastle for building fortifications,
  • is empowered to exercise martial law,
  • reports that the Scots are not ready to invade England,
  • is convinced that an invasion is impending,
  • complains that Newcastle is indefensible, and asks for reinforcements,
  • is ordered to fortify Newcastle,
  • reports that the Scots are behaving well in Northumberland,
  • is unprepared to meet an enemy in the field,
  • attempts to defend the ford at Newburn,
  • is routed by the Scots,
  • evacuates Newcastle, and brings his troops to Darlington,
  • See Conway, Sir Edward, the younger
• Conyers. Sir John,
  • commands the garrison of Berwick,
  • reports that the Scots are not ready to invade England,
  • intention of the Army Plotters to displace,
  • complains of Chudleigh's proceedings,
  • is sounded on the feasibility of bringing the army to London,
  • refuses to have anything to do with the second Army Plot,
  • the Commons ask for his appointment as Lieutenant of the Tower,
  • the Lords object to ask Charles to make him Lieutenant of the Tower,
  • is named Lieutenant of the Tower,
• Cook, Alan,
  • his misconduct as Chancellor of the Diocese of Kilmore,
• Coote, Sir Charles,
  • cruelty of the soldiers of,
  • burns Clontarf, and provokes the Catholic lords,
• Cope, Sir Walter,
  • his apology for Salisbury,
  • becomes Master of the Wards,
• Copley, Anthony,
  • takes part in Watson's plot,
  • gives information to Blackwell,
  • is convicted,
  • is banished,
• Corbet, Richard (Bishop of Oxford, 1628; of Norwich, 1632),
  • his remarks on pews,
  • becomes Bishop of Norwich,
• Corbet, Sir John,
  • applies for a habeas corpus,
• Corbie,
  • is taken by the Cardinal Infant,
  • is retaken by the French,
• Corbridge,
  • drownings at,
• Cordova, Gonzalo Fernandez de,
  • informs Frederick's officers that he will not fight without special orders,
  • seizes Stein,
  • refuses to help Tilly,
  • joins Tilly, and helps him to defeat the Margrave of Baden at Wimpfen,
  • combines with Tilly in defeating Christian of Brunswick, at Hoechst.
  • ravages the Palatinate,
  • fights with Mansfeld at Fleurus,
• Cork,
  • refuses to admit an English garrison,
  • procession of priests and friars at,
  • submits to Mountjoy,
• Cork, Earl of, 1620 (Richard Boyle),
  • is one of the Lords Justices,
  • character and conduct of,
  • is fined for appropriating Church property, and is ordered to remove Lady Cork's tomb,
  • efforts made in his favour at the English Court,
• Cornwallis, Sir Charles,
  • appointed ambassador in Spain,
  • supports the demands of the English merchants,
  • returns to England,
  • is imprisoned,
  • sent as commissioner to Ireland.
• Coronation
  • of James I
  • of Charles I.
• Corporation,
  • the new,
• Correr, Angelo
  • his remarks on the collection of ship-money,
• Corunna,
  • gathering of a Spanish fleet at,
• Coryton, William,
  • is ready to vote supply on condition of a sweeping inquiry,
  • supports the Petition of Right,
  • strikes a member of the House,
  • asks that Eliot's protestation may be read,
  • having been imprisoned, makes his submission, and is released,
• Cosin, John,
  • assists Montague in the publication of Appello Cæsarem,
  • his Book of Devotions,
  • Puritan opposition to,
  • receives a special pardon,
  • is charged with ceremonial innovations at Durham,
  • gives his opinion on the Royal Supremacy,
  • charge brought against,
  • Eliot accuses Heath of stifling a charge against,
  • is charged with reading The Preparation for the Mass,
  • Bishop Howson prohibited from proceeding against,
  • preaches on the Peace of Jerusalem,
  • arrangement of his church,
• Cottington, Francis,
  • lays the case of the English merchants before the Spanish Government,
  • is appointed English Consul at Seville,
  • is employed to beg Sarmiento to warn James against the French alliance,
  • is Agent at Madrid,
  • returns from Spain, and becomes Secretary to Prince Charles,
  • objects to the Prince's journey to Spain,
  • is threatened by Buckingham,
  • See Cottington, Sir Francis
  • See Cottington, Lord
• Cottington, Lord, 1631 (Francis Cottington),
  • expresses satisfaction at Vane's failure to come to terms with Gustavus,
  • talks of the decline of the Spanish monarchy,
  • is appointed to carry on a negotiation with Necolalde,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • is spoken of as likely to be Lord Treasurer,
  • conduct of, on the Treasury Commission,
  • appointed Master of the Wards,
  • quarrels with Laud about the soap monopoly,
  • is in favour with the Queen,
  • supports the King's proposal to enclose Richmond Park,
  • is thought to be sure of the Lord Treasurership,
  • takes Bagg's part in the Star Chamber,
  • takes off his hat when the Pope's name is mentioned,
  • assures Panzani that Parliament is not about to be summoned,
  • declares himself a Catholic when ill, and loses his chance of becoming Lord Treasurer,
  • intrigues with France and Spain,
  • mystifies Seneterre,
  • gives an opinion of Laud's temper,
  • is thought to have been bribed by Spain,
  • is offered a bribe by Loftus,
  • urges the King to favour Williams,
  • votes for war with Scotland,
  • declares it to be impossible to find money for the war
  • speaks roughly to the Lord Mayor and aldermen,
  • is a member of the Committee of Eight,
  • says that the Lower House is weary of King and Church,
  • employs an agent to borrow money from France,
  • is sent to the City to induce the citizens to lend,
  • begs for a loan from France,
  • obtains money by the sale of pepper,
  • is appointed Constable of the Tower,
  • proposal to impeach,
  • wishes to surrender his offices,
  • gives evidence that he does not remember hearing Strafford propose to bring over the Irish army,
  • See Cottington, Francis
  • See Cottington, Sir Francis
• Cottington, Sir Francis,
  • makes his peace with Buckingham, and is sent to Dover to hire a ship for the Prince,
  • is commissioned to ask the Spanish Government to allow the Prince to return to England,
  • carries a message from Charles to England,
  • brings to James the news that the Infanta is not to accompany the Prince,
  • returns to Spain with the signatures of the King and Council to the articles of marriage,
  • temporary conversion of,
  • is excluded from Charles's Court,
  • is out of Buckingham's favour,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • proposal to send to negotiate a peace with Spain,
  • is appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and ambassador to Spain,
  • is ordered to set out,
  • urges Charles to ally himself with Spain against the Dutch,
  • fails to persuade Olivares to make a positive engagement to effect the restitution, of the Palatinate,
  • proposes to Spain a league against the Dutch,
  • signs a treaty of peace with Spain,
  • signs a treaty for the partition of the Netherlands,
  • brings home 80,000l. to be sent in bills of exchange to the Spanish Netherlands,
  • is created a baron,
  • See Cottington, Francis
  • See Cottington, Lord
• Cotton, John,
  • is influenced by Sibbes,
  • emigrates to New England,
• Cotton, Sir Robert,
  • draws up a report on the navy,
  • carries on a secret negotiation with Sarmiento,
  • declares himself to be a Catholic,
  • informs Sarmiento that Somerset is to conduct the marriage treaty,
  • prepares a pardon for Somerset,
  • affixes false dates to letters written to Somerset,
  • arrest of,
  • is examined on his negotiation with Sarmiento.
  • is sent to search Coke's papers,
  • speech ascribed to,
  • is heard before the Council on the proposed debasement of the coinage,
  • meeting of the leaders of the Commons at the house of,
  • proposes to refute Dudley's paper of advice,
  • is prosecuted in the Star Chamber on account of the discovery of Dudley's paper in his library,
  • death of,
• Council of the North, the,
  • Wentworth's speech in,
  • Bellasys makes his submission to Wentworth in,
  • is without Parliamentary authority,
  • its jurisdiction attacked by the courts at Westminster,
  • receives new instructions,
  • abolition of,
• Council of Wales,
  • abolition of,
• Council of War, a,
  • formed to advise James on the war in the Palatinate,
  • report of,
  • formation of another announced by James,
  • appointment of,
  • refuses to supply Mansfeld,
  • agrees to order the advancement of money to Mansfeld,
  • Mansell's account of a discussion in,
  • the Commons wish to inquire into the advice given by,
  • refuses to answer the questions put by the Commons,
  • sends in an estimate for the military and naval expenditure of 1628,
  • estimates the number of men needed for a war with Scotland,
• Council, the Great,
  • proposal to summon,
  • is summoned to meet at York,
  • is opened by Charles,
  • appoints commissioners to treat with the Scots,
  • breaks up after accepting the agreement made with the Scots,
• Council, the Privy,
  • proceedings of, after Elizabeth's death,
  • asks the Irish Government to justify its proceedings against the recusants,
  • recommends that Parliament shall be summoned in 1615,
  • James's relations with,
  • discussion on the course to be taken with Raleigh in,
  • meets to hear James announce his intentions about Bohemia,
  • advises that Philip shall be summoned to obtain the restitution of Heidelberg,
  • supports Buckingham and Charles in their opposition to James's wish to rely on Spanish promises,
  • asks James to summon Parliament,
  • agrees to the Spanish marriage treaty,
  • swears to observe the public articles, and not to exact penalties from the Catholics,
  • declares Buckingham to be innocent of the charges brought by Inojosa,
  • submission of the French marriage treaty to,
  • sanctions the suspension of proceedings against the recusants,
  • formation of, at Charles's accession,
  • adopts Buckingham's proposal to execute the penal laws against the Catholics,
  • meets to consider whether Parliament is to be dissolved,
  • reprimands Mansell,
  • Charles resolves to consult on all occasions,
  • takes measures for the defence of Harwich,
  • recommends the sending of a fleet to bring away the English ships from Rochelle,
  • directs a settlement of the dispute about French prize goods,
  • receives petitions for the release of the 'St. Peter' of Havre de Grace,
  • does not recommend extreme measures against the Lords who refuse to pay the forced loan,
  • commission of members of, to collect the forced loan,
  • calls before it the refusers of the loan, and commands them to obey the King,
  • is in favour of peace with France,
  • does not venture to express its opinion,
  • considers various devices for raising money,
  • assents to Buckingham's proposal to raise a standing army,
  • policy of withdrawing from Continental engagements supported in,
  • its right to commit prisoners without showing cause asserted by Coventry,
  • the answer to be given to the Petition of Right discussed in,
  • considers the question whether aid shall be given to the King of Denmark,
  • orders assistance to be given to the officers of the Custom House,
  • commits Chambers to the Marshalsea,
  • approves the declaration prefixed to the Articles,
  • assents to the King's declaration that the Custom House officers are not responsible to the Commons,
  • urges the merchants to pay tonnage and poundage,
  • attempts to relieve distress in Essex,
  • attempts to remove social abuses,
  • Cromwell summoned before,
  • advises Charles to summon Parliament if he wishes to aid Gustavus,
  • recommends Charles to reject the terms offered by Gustavus,
  • orders the demolition of houses round St. Paul's,
  • the suit about the communion-table at St. Gregory's brought before,
  • attempts to check emigration to New England,
  • the levy of ship-money proposed to,
  • approves of Charles's claim to the sovereignty of the seas,
  • appoints a committee to consider ship-money,
  • directs the sheriffs to assess ship-money,
  • insists upon having assessments for ship-money made by the sheriffs,
  • places restrictions on emigration,
  • is consulted on the affairs of Scotland,
  • fails to obtain money for the war with Scotland,
  • attempts to extort a loan from the City,
  • orders the prosecution of Lord Loftus,
  • Traquair's report to,
  • accepts Wentworth's advice to summon Parliament,
  • offers a loan to Charles
  • thinks of burning a heretic,
  • fails to induce the City to lend to the King,
  • votes for the dissolution of the Short Parliament,
  • orders watch to be kept after the Lambeth riots,
  • takes measures to enforce the payment of ship-money, and of coat-and-conduct money,
  • proposed debasement of the coinage discussed in,
  • is distracted by the news of the Scottish invasion,
  • provides for the defence of London and the South of England,
  • asks Bedford to return to his own county,
  • suggests the calling of a Great Council,
  • a copy of the Petition of the Twelve Peers brought before,
  • refuses to support the petition,
  • tries to stop the signing of a petition in the City,
• Councillors loan, the,
  • offer of,
  • final amount of,
• Court of Wards,
  • erected in Ireland,
• Courthope, Nathaniel,
  • arrives at Pularoon,
  • defends Pularoon,
  • is drowned,
• Courtney, Sir William,
  • his regiment refuses to land on the Isle of Rhé,
• Covenant, the King's,
  • in its first form, sent to Scotland,
  • sent to Scotland in its second form,
  • is rejected,
• Covenant, the National,
  • drawn up by Johnston and Henderson,
  • signed at Edinburgh,
  • is circulated for signature through the country,
  • Charles demands the abandonment of,
  • Hamilton suggests an explanation of,
  • Charles rejects the proposed explanation of,
  • Wentworth's opinion of,
  • attempt to enforce its signature in Aberdeen,
  • Huntly's refusal to sign,
  • orders given by the Assembly of Edinburgh to enforce the signature of,
• Covenanters, the,
  • negotiate with Hamilton,
  • engage to do nothing for three weeks,
  • appeal to Assembly and Parliament against the King's declaration,
  • are encouraged by Hamilton,
  • send Montrose against Aberdeen,
  • charge the bishops before the Presbytery of Edinburgh,
  • issue a manifesto,
  • assume the offensive,
  • seize the strong places in Scotland,
  • blue badges given by Montrose to,
  • a price set on the heads of the leaders of,
  • write a letter to Essex,
  • Hamilton holds conferences with,
  • answer Charles's proclamation,
  • condition of the army of,
  • Treaty of Brunswick signed by,
  • propose to send troops to aid the Elector Palatine,
  • warm discussions between Charles and some of the leaders of,
  • believe that Charles wishes to restore episcopacy,
  • dislike Traquair's appointment as Commissioner,
  • write a letter to the King of France,
  • seizure of the letter written by,
  • Charles sends to Louis a copy of the letter written by,
  • canvass the deposition of Charles,
  • ask that their grievances may be redressed by the advice of an English Parliament,
• Coventry,
  • refuses to admit the King,
• Coventry, 1st Lord, 1628-1640 (Thomas Coventry),
  • asserts the right of the Council to commit without showing cause,
  • announces to the Commons that the King expects them to be content with his promise to observe the laws,
  • asserts that no one ought to be imprisoned without cause shown, unless in a case of necessity,
  • is directed by the Lords to inform the King that their feeling is against a dissolution,
  • complains that the judges have bailed Chambers without giving notice to the Council,
  • asks Charles not to dissolve Parliament after the session of 1629,
  • takes part in a conference on the terms on which bail is to be offered to the imprisoned members,
  • suggests to Sir John Walter to ask to retire from the Bench,
  • directs the judges to enforce the proclamation ordering country gentlemen to return to their homes,
  • is on the side of leniency in Sherfield's case,
  • brings charges against Portland,
  • approves of Noy's proposal to levy ship-money,
  • announces the King's intention to extend ship-money to the inland counties,
  • explains the King's claim to the sovereignty of the seas, and announces that ship-money must be paid by all counties,
  • is silent on the nature of the King's right to levy ship-money,
  • does not favour the attempt of the Council to force the City to lend money,
  • takes part in the Councillors' loan,
  • death of,
  • See Coventry, Sir Thomas
• Coventry, 2nd Lord, 1640 (Thomas Coventry),
  • prepares to execute the commission of array in Worcestershire,
• Coventry, Sir Thomas,
  • becomes Solicitor-General,
  • becomes Attorney-General,
  • becomes Lord Keeper,
  • speaks at the opening of Parliament,
  • informs the Commons that they have liberty of counsel, not of control,
  • states that men refusing to be pressed cannot be hanged,
  • is created a Baron,
  • See Coventry, Lord
• Cowell, Dr.,
  • opinion of, condemned by the Commons,
  • disavowed by the King,
• Cowes,
  • seizure of a ship by the Dutch in the roads of,
• Cowper, William (Bishop of Galloway, 1613-1619),
  • takes part in the composition of a Prayer-book for Scotland,
• Cradock, Matthew,
  • proposes the transference of the Massachusetts Company to America,
  • describes the military arrangements at the Tower,
  • says that the City cannot lend money unless the King's garrison is removed from the Tower,
  • states that the Northern army is to be supplied with munitions of war,
• Craig, Dr.,
  • is ordered to leave the Court for remonstrating against Lady Buckingham's treatment of James,
• Cranborne, Viscount, 1604 (Robert Cecil),
  • accepts a Spanish pension,
  • wishes a balance between France and Spain,
  • refuses to insist upon the abandonment of the Dutch blockade of the Flemish ports,
  • is said to be favourable to a marriage between Prince Henry and the Infanta Anne.
  • opposes the toleration of the Catholics,
  • created Earl of Salisbury,
  • See Cecil, Sir Robert
  • See Cecil, Lord
  • See Salisbury, Earl of
• Crane, Sir Robert,
  • brings a charge against Cosin,
• Cranfield, Lord, 1621 (Lionel Cranfield),
  • becomes Lord Treasurer,
  • asks the Commons for a supply,
  • is created an Earl,
  • See Cranfield, Lionel
  • See Cranfield, Sir Lionel
  • See Middlesex, Earl of
• Cranfield, Lionel,
  • early life of,
  • is introduced to the King,
  • See Cranfield, Sir Lionel
  • See Cranfield, Lord
  • See Middlesex, Earl of
• Cranfield, Sir Lionel,
  • is appointed Surveyor-General of the Customs,
  • reform of the Household effected by,
  • becomes Master of the Wardrobe,
  • becomes Master of the Wards,
  • marriage of,
  • attacks the referees,
  • is jealous of Bacon's interference with the Court of Wards,
  • blames Bacon for issuing bills of conformity,
  • promises to pay attention to the burdens on trade,
  • expected to succeed Bacon as Chancellor,
  • is raised to the peerage,
  • See Cranfield, Lionel
  • See Cranfield, Lord
  • See Middlesex, Earl of
• Cranmer, Thomas (Archbishop of Canterbury),
  • renounces transubstantiation,
  • his opinion on the introduction of innovations,
• Crashaw, Richard,
  • writes verses prefixed to Shelford's Five Discourses,
• Craven, Lord, 1626 (William Craven),
  • his name used as security for the advance of money for the Palatinate,
  • offers to lend 30,000l. to the Elector Palatine,
  • is taken prisoner by the Imperialists,
• Crawford, Earl of, 1639 (Ludovick Lindsay),
  • his part in the Incident,
  • is set at liberty,
• Crawley, Francis (Justice of the Common Pleas, 1632),
  • his judgment in the ship-money case,
• Crew, John,
  • is sent to the Tower,
• Crew, Ranulph, Serjeant,
  • takes part in the prosecution of Somerset,
  • See Crew, Sir Ranulph
• Crew, Sir Ranulph (Chief Justice of the King's Bench),
  • is dismissed from the Chief Justiceship,
• Crew, Sir Thomas,
  • is Speaker of the first Parliament of Charles I.,
  • See Crew, Thomas
• Crew, Thomas,
  • is charged with a message on the conduct of the referees,
  • asks who is the enemy,
  • See Crew, Sir Thomas
• Croft, Sir William,
  • is the bearer of James's promise to accept the articles of marriage,
• Crofty, the hill of,
  • junction of the Lords of the Pale and the Ulster insurgents at,
• Croke, Sir George (Justice of the Common Pleas, 1624; of the King's Bench, 1628),
  • gives a guarded opinion on the legality of ship-money,
  • signs the judges' declaration on ship-money,
  • delivers judgment in the case of ship-money
• Cromwell, Lord, 1607 (Thomas Cromwell),
  • gives an account of the state of Mansfeld's army,
  • complains of Mansfeld's conduct,
  • warns Buckingham against his isolation,
• Cromwell, Oliver,
  • family history of,
  • early life of,
  • first parliamentary speech of,
  • objects to the new charter of Huntingdon, and is summoned before the Council,
  • removes to St. Ives,
  • his part in the disturbances caused by the drainage of the fens,
  • nickname of 'Lord of the Fens' improperly applied to,
  • moves the second reading of the Annual Parliament Bill,
  • denies that a parity in the Church will lead to a parity in the commonwealth,
  • his limited practical insight,
  • passes on the Root-and-Branch Bill to Hazlerigg,
  • urges that there are passages in the Prayer-book to which learned divines cannot submit,
  • attacks Charles's appointment of new bishops,
  • moves to entrust Essex with authority over the trained bands,
  • thinks that there will not be a long debate on the Grand Remonstrance,
  • declares that if the Grand Remonstrance had been rejected he would have emigrated to America,
  • moves that the King be asked to remove Bristol from his counsels,
  • seizes the Cambridge college plate on its way to the King,
• Crosby, Sir Piers,
  • is removed from the Irish Privy Council by Wentworth for opposing him in Parliament,
  • Wentworth prosecutes, in the Star Chamber,
  • is fined,
• Crucifix, the,
  • Ferrar's reason for not using,
  • employment of, at Lambeth,
• Cubia, Don Pedro de,
  • is sent to carry Spanish soldiers to the Netherlands,
  • is defeated by the Dutch,
• Culmore,
  • surprised by O'Dogherty,
• Culpepper, Sir John,
  • attacks the monopolies,
  • wishes the Londoners' petition against episcopacy not to be referred to a committee,
  • suggests a compromise,
  • carries up the impeachment of Berkeley,
  • opposed Pym's proposal to compel the Londoner, to lend,
  • wishes to meet the Army Plot by a remonstrance,
  • is a member of the committee for investigating the Army Plot,
  • is placed in the chair of the committee on the Scottish demand for unity of religion, and objects to the Scottish proposal of giving the two Parliaments a veto on the declaration of war,
  • proposes a change in the persons of the bishops,
  • opposes the interference of the Lords with a vote of the Commons,
  • is a member of the Committee of Defence,
  • asks the House to provide a remedy against those who vilify the Prayer-book,
  • wishes to extend the censure of the House to all who find fault with the Prayer-book,
  • objects to the employment of Scottish troops in Ireland,
  • declares that Ireland must be defended at all costs,
  • opposes the Grand Remonstrance,
  • offers to protest against the printing of the Grand Remonstrance,
  • criticises the Militia Bill,
  • objects to the issue of a declaration against toleration,
  • becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer,
  • signs the protestation of the Peers at York,
• Cumberland, Earl of, 1605-1641 (Francis Clifford),
  • commands the garrison of Carlisle,
• Cumbernauld, the Bond of,
  • signature of,
• Curie, Walter (Bishop of Rochester, 1623; of Bath and Wells, 1629; of Winchester, 1632),
  • becomes Bishop of Winchester,
• Currants,
  • imposition on,
  • Bate's case in the Court of Exchequer, for refusing to pay the imposition on,
  • sale of Vassall's, ordered by the Court of Exchequer,
  • Customs, the farmers of the, fine imposed on,
  • See Tonnage and Poundage
  • See Impositions
• Dale, Sir Thomas,
  • appointed Marshal of Virginia,
  • becomes Governor of Virginia,
  • is reappointed Governor,
  • is sent out to the East,
  • declares war on the Dutch,
  • defeats the Dutch and dies,
• Dalkeith,
  • Traquair stows the King's gunpowder at,
  • is taken by the Covenanters,
• Dalzell, Lord, 1628-1639 (Robert Dalzell),
  • created Lord Carnwath,
• Danby, Earl of, 1626 (Henry Danvers),
  • is named as Falkland's successor as Lord Deputy of Ireland, but declines to serve,
  • protests against ship-money,
• Danish troops,
  • proposal to levy for employment against the Scots,
  • proposal to land at Hull,
• Dansker, Captain,
  • joins the Barbary pirates,
• Dante,
  • desire for order of,
• Darcy, Sir Francis,
  • wishes Floyd to be twice pilloried and whipped,
• Darley, Henry,
  • Strafford's imprisonment of,
• Darlington,
  • retreat of Conway to,
• Darmstadt,
  • proceedings of Mansfeld and Frederick at,
• Darnel, Sir Thomas,
  • applies for a habeas corpus,
• Davenant, John (Bishop of Salisbury, 1621-1641),
  • is chidden for preaching on predestination,
  • forbids the vestry of St. Edmund's to remove a painted window,
  • receives Sherfield's submission,
• Davenant, William,
  • attempts to fly, and is captured,
• Davenport, Christopher, alias Franciscus a Santa Clara,
  • writes Deus, Natura, Gratia,
• Davenport, John,
  • is driven from Amsterdam to New England,
• Davenport, Sir Humphrey (Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1631),
  • delivers judgment in the case of ship-money,
• Daventry,
  • mutiny of soldiers at,
• Davey, Sir Francis,
  • complains of the lenient treatment of the priests seized at Clerkenwell,
• Davies, Lady Eleanor,
  • insanity of,
  • is punished by the High Commission,
• Davies, Sir John (Solicitor-General of Ireland, 1603; Attorney-General, 1606-1619),
  • character of,
  • becomes Attorney-General, and prosecutes Lalor,
  • describes the results which he expects from Chichester's government,
  • accompanies Ley in the first circuit in Wicklow,
  • appears in Ulster to carry out the plantation,
  • disputes about his election as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons,
  • is allowed to sit as Speaker,
• Day of Dupes, the,
  • mention,
• Deadman's Place,
  • capture of Separatists' meeting at,
• Dean, Forest of,
  • investigation into the malpractices of Portland's clients in,
  • commission tor granting pardons for encroachments in,
• Deans and chapters,
  • their suppression demanded,
• Debtors,
  • commission for the relief of,
• Declaration of Sports, The,
  • Issued by James,
  • opposition of the clergy to,
  • republished by Charles,
  • is ordered to be read in churches,
• Declaration of Religion, The,
  • issued by Charles,
  • Eliot's criticism on,
  • the Calvinists mainly affected by,
  • policy of,
  • is enforced against Bishop Davenant and Dr. Brooke,
  • enforced by Laud at Oxford,
  • is enforced by Charles at Oxford,
• De la Warr, Lord, 1602-1618 (Thomas West),
  • made Governor of Virginia,
  • arrives in the colony,
  • returns to England,
  • is re-appointed Governor,
  • death of,
• Delft,
  • the Prayer Book introduced into the Merchant Adventurers' Church at,
• Delft Haven,
  • sailing of the Pilgrim Fathers from,
• Delvin, Lord, 1602 (Richard Nugent),
  • his part in a conspiracy in Ireland,
• Denbigh, Countess of,
  • accompanies Charles and Henrietta Maria from Dover to Canterbury,
  • wish of Charles that she shall be a lady of the bedchamber to the Queen,
  • takes part against the Queen at Titchfield,
  • enters the Queen's household,
  • is agitated at the thought of Buckingham's danger,
  • is believed to have asked Cosin to write his Book of Devotions,
• Denbigh, Earl of, 1622 (William Fielding),
  • is appointed Rear-Admiral of the expedition against Cadiz,
  • signs a protest that Digges had said nothing contrary to the King's honour,
  • captures three French ships,
  • is placed in command of a fleet for the relief of Rochelle,
  • complains to Charles of the state of his fleet,
  • bad condition of the fleet under the charge of,
  • arrives off Rochelle,
  • fails to relieve Rochelle,
  • returns to England, and is ordered to refit his ships,
  • is called a Puritan ass by Con,
  • See Fielding, Sir William
  • See Fielding, Viscount
• Denham, Sir John,
  • becomes a judge,
  • delivers judgment in the case of ship-money,
• Denmark House.
  • See Somerset House
• Denmark, King of.
  • See Christian IV.
• Dennison, Dr.,
  • abuses his parishioners in his sermon,
• De Plessen, Volrad,
  • sent on a mission to England,
• Depopulations,
  • commission on,
  • fines exacted for,
• Deposing power,
  • claimed by the Popes,
• Derbyshire,
  • is ready to send its trained bands to the Northern army,
• Dering, Sir Edward,
  • moves the first reading of the Root-and-Branch Bill,
  • speaks in favour of primitive episcopacy,
  • proposes that a national synod shall be assembled,
  • opposes a clause on the Grand Remonstrance,
  • defends the bishops from the charge of idolatry,
  • is summoned before the Commons to give account of his part in the Kentish petition,
• Derry,
  • captured and burnt by O'Dogherty,
• Desmarets, M.,
  • visits Raleigh,
• Deus, Natura, Gratia,
  • written by Christopher Davenport,
  • is proscribed at Rome,
• Deux Ponts, Duke of.
  • See Zweibruecken
• Devonshire,
  • resistance to ship-money in,
  • murder of Lieutenant Eure by soldiers from,
• Devonshire, Earl of, 1603-1606 (Charles Blount), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
  • takes part in the negotiations with Spain,
  • accepts a Spanish pension,
  • marriage and death of,
• Devonshire, Earl of, 1625-1628 (William Cavendish),
  • protests against Buckingham's interpretation of Digges's words,
• D'Ewes, Sir Symonds,
  • rejoices at the victory of Gustavus at Breitenfeld,
  • character of,
  • his remarks on passing events,
  • comments on Prynne's sentence,
  • deplores the defeat of the Swedes at Nordlingen,
  • comments on Berkeley's doctrine that ship-money can be levied by a rule of government,
  • questions the lawfulness of paying interest,
  • fears that Charles means to maintain the bishops,
  • opposes Pym's proposal to compel the Londoners to lend,
  • reminds the House that the bishops will have votes on the Attainder Bill, but not on the impeachment,
  • thinks the liberties and estates of Englishmen are in as great danger as their religion,
  • suggests the issue of ordinances,
  • objects to the order of the Lords, enforcing the use of the Prayer Book,
  • asks the House to consider the Papal plot,
  • criticises the Additional Instruction,
  • predicts confusion and calamity,
  • complains that forged speeches are circulated,
  • makes his will after the attempt on the five members,
  • quotes precedents to show that the King's mode of proceeding against the five members is a breach of the privileges of Parliament,
  • objects to the call on members to furnish money,
  • is kept at Westminster by his Puritanism,
  • pleads for an accommodation with the King,
• Dicconson, Frances,
  • defends herself against the charge of witchcraft,
• Dickson, David,
  • is ready to persuade those who hesitate to sign the Covenant,
  • accompanies Montrose to Aberdeen,
  • is Moderator of the Assembly of Edinburgh,
• Dieppe,
  • Pennington's fleet at,
  • Pennington returns to England from,
  • Pennington takes his fleet back to, and meets Nicholas and Effiat at,
  • Pennington sails again from,
  • surrender of Pennington's fleet at,
• Digby, Lord (George Digby),
  • moves a vote of thanks to the Queen,
  • character of,
  • speaks for the reformation, and against the abolition, of episcopacy,
  • speaks against the Attainder Bill,
  • political conversion of,
  • declares that Goring was not bound by his oath, and has to leave the House,
  • is created a peer,
  • the Commons censure his speech on the Attainder Bill, and ask that he may not be sent as ambassador to France,
  • is appointed ambassador to France
  • asks the Lords to declare that Parliament is no longer free,
  • rejection of the motion of,
  • is the probable contriver of the protest of the bishops,
  • suggests the impeachment of the five members,
  • is said to have offered to prove that Mandeville had directed the mob against Whitehall,
  • having undertaken to move for Mandeville's arrest, leaves the House without fulfilling his engagement,
  • urges the King to seize the five members,
  • wishes to carry them off from the City,
  • is intended to start for Holland and Denmark, to secure assistance for Charles,
  • meets Lunsford at Kingston,
  • his letter to the Queen from Middelburg is intercepted,
  • is impeached,
  • abandonment of his proposed mission to Copenhagen,
  • is carried into Hull, and urges Hotham to surrender the place to the King,
  • is allowed to escape,
• Digby, Lord, 1618-1622 (John Digby),
  • advises James to convince Spain that he means to defend the Palatinate,
  • remonstrates with Gondomar,
  • accompanies Buckingham in his interview with Gondomar on the subject of the partition of the Netherlands,
  • foreign policy of,
  • insists that Spain must allow an English fleet to attack Algiers,
  • receives a present of plate from the East India Company,
  • negotiates at Brussels for peace,
  • receives instructions for his mission to Vienna,
  • negotiates at Vienna,
  • recommends James to send a fleet to the coast of Spain,
  • is dissatisfied with Frederick,
  • complains of the conduct of Frederick's officers,
  • combines with the Emperor in drawing up a scheme of pacification, and leaves Vienna,
  • meets Mansfeld,
  • borrows money for the defence of Heidelberg,
  • speaks in favour of peace at Brussels,
  • returns to England,
  • makes a report to James,
  • temporary popularity of,
  • appeals to Parliament for money to defend the Palatinate,
  • is disappointed at James's resolution to dissolve Parliament,
  • attempts to mediate,
  • policy of, contrasted with that of Gondomar,
  • receives instructions to propose the partition of the Netherlands,
  • finds his policy frustrated by the dissolution of Parliament,
  • returns to Spain,
  • fails to discover the secret policy of Zuniga,
  • asks the Spanish Government to give assurances of its intention to proceed with the marriage treaty,
  • has an interview with the Infanta,
  • urges the Spanish Government to procure a cessation of hostilities in Germany,
  • obtains from the Council of State a resolution that satisfaction shall be given to the King of England,
  • is created an Earl,
  • See Digby, Sir John
  • See Bristol, Earl of
• Digby, Sir Everard.
  • See Gunpowder Plot.
• Digby, Sir John,
  • appointed ambassador in Spain,
  • finds that the Spanish Government is not eager for an English marriage,
  • begs James to give up the idea of marrying his son to an Infanta,
  • endeavours to obtain justice for the English merchants in Spain,
  • coolness of the Spanish Government towards,
  • discovers the secret of the Spanish pensions,
  • returns to England,
  • prepares to go back to Madrid,
  • advises James to marry his son to a Protestant,
  • foreign policy of,
  • opens informal negotiations at Madrid on the marriage treaty,
  • returns to England to give explanations on Somerset's connection with Sarmiento,
  • advises the King to abandon the Spanish treaty, and is made Vice-Chamberlain,
  • receives a grant of the manor of Sherborne,
  • receives instructions formally to open the negotiations for the marriage,
  • is ordered to support the plan for an expedition against Algiers,
  • returns to Spain and negotiates with Aliaga,
  • returns to England,
  • is created Lord Digby of Sherborne,
  • See Digby, Lord
  • See Bristol, Earl of
• Digby, Sir Kenelm,
  • is ordered by the Commons to give an account of the Catholic contribution,
• Digges, Sir Dudley,
  • takes part in a debate on impositions,
  • asks for inquiry into the issue of bills of conformity,
  • speaks in the debate on Floyd's case,
  • draws attention to the imprisonment of Sandys,
  • wishes for a war of diversion,
  • supports a petition on religion,
  • supports a motion for adjournment,
  • expresses satisfaction with the King's answer to the Commons' petition for liberty of discussion,
  • is sent to Ireland,
  • opens Buckingham's impeachment,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • the Lords report of the words spoken by, called in question,
  • is liberated,
  • is dismissed from the justiceship of the peace,
  • finds fault with the commanders of the soldiers,
  • wishes to modify the Bill of Liberties,
  • approves of the Petition of Right,
  • advises the House to go home if it has not freedom of speech,
  • approves of Pym's proposal to discuss the legality of tonnage and poundage before raising a question of privilege,
  • does not support Eliot in his resolution to appeal to the country,
• Dillon, of Costello, Viscount, 1630 (Thomas Dillon),
  • is sent with overtures to the Irish Catholics from the King,
  • arrives in Ireland,
  • returns to England and informs Charles of the conditions offered by the Catholic lords,
  • is arrested and explains the demands of the Irish Catholics,
• Dillon, Sir James, proposes to seize Dublin Castle, x. 50
• Discipline,
  • the Scottish Second Book of,
  • is approved by the General Assembly,
• Discovery of Witchcraft
  • by Reginald Scot,
• Dissolution of the Long Parliament without its own consent, the Bill against the,
  • is brought in,
  • passes both Houses,
  • Charles gives the Royal assent to,
  • constitutional importance of,
• Dives, Sir Lewis,
  • sent by the King to Hull,
• Divine Right of Kings,
  • the language of the Canons of 1640 on,
• Divine Tragedy lately acted, A,
  • written by Prynne,
• Doderidge, John (Solicitor-General, 1604 King's Serjeant, 1607),
  • becomes Solicitor-General,
  • is made King's Serjeant,
  • See Doderidge, Sir John
• Doderidge, Sir John (Justice of the King's Bench, 1612-1628),
  • is startled by the strength of the argument in defence of the five knights,
  • See Doderidge, John
• Dohna, Baron Achatius,
  • is sent to Dresden,
  • is sent to urge James to defend the Palatinate,
  • attempts to raise a loan in the City,
  • is allowed to levy volunteers,
  • selects Sir H. Vere for the command in the Palatinate, and is insulted by Sir E. Cecil,
  • leaves England,
• Dohna, Baron Christopher,
  • sent on a mission to England,
  • is sent back to England to ask James to consent to Frederick's election in Bohemia,
  • leaves England,
• Dominis, Marco Antonio de, Archbishop of Spalatro,
  • early life of,
  • prepares a work for publication,
  • arrives in England, where he becomes Master of the Savoy, and Dean of Windsor,
  • expects to be made Archbishop of York,
  • resolves to leave England,
  • return to Rome and imprisonment of,
  • death and character of,
• Donauwoerth,
  • occupied by the Duke of Bavaria,
  • entered by Gustavus,
• Doncaster, Viscount, 1618-1622 (James Hay),
  • appointed ambassador to mediate in Bohemia,
  • receives his instructions,
  • visits Brussels,
  • supports Frederick's demand for English aid,
  • visits Maximilian at Munich,
  • tries to persuade Ferdinand to accept James's mediation,
  • is told that he is too late,
  • is treated with coolness by the Bohemians, and retires to Spa,
  • is sent to congratulate the Emperor,
  • is ordered to visit the Hague,
  • returns to England,
  • is sent to France to mediate between Louis XIII and the Protestants,
  • is sent again to France,
  • is created Earl of Carlisle,
  • See Hay, Lord
  • See Carlisle, Earl of
• Dorchester, Viscount, 1628-1632 (Dudley Carleton),
  • is in favour of peace with France and an active intervention in Germany,
  • receives from Contarini a proposal for a peace with France,
  • delivers a message to Buckingham just before his assassination,
  • supports Contarini's negotiation,
  • becomes Secretary of State,
  • takes part in a conference on the terms on which bail is to be offered to the imprisoned members,
  • his view of the judgment of the King's Bench in the case of Eliot, Holles, and Valentine,
  • death of,
  • See Carleton, Sir Dudley
• Dorset, Countess of,
  • is entrusted with the care of Prince Charles,
• Dorset, 1st Earl of, 1603-1608 (Thomas Sackville), Lord Treasurer,
  • takes part in the negotiations with Spain,
  • accepts a Spanish pension,
  • has an interview with the judges before the hearing of the case of impositions,
  • death of,
• Dorset, 3rd Earl of, 1609-21 (Richard Sackville),
  • contributes to the defence of the Palatinate,
  • wishes Yelverton to be heard before he is condemned,
• Dorset, 4th Earl of, 1624 (Edward Sackville),
  • is admitted to the Privy Council,
  • recommends the King to raise money by prerogative,
  • urges the imprisonment of the Lords who refuse to pay the forced loan,
  • asks whether the Lords' additional clause will alter the Petition of Right,
  • believes the Petition of Right to be injurious to the King's government,
  • threatens Felton with the rack,
  • takes Bagg's part in the Star Chamber,
  • reference by Bastwick to the duel fought by,
  • tells the vintners that they must expect to be robbed,
  • charges Hamilton with treason,
  • excuses a party of lawyers who had drunk confusion to Laud,
  • explains to Charles the effect of the Bill against the Dissolution of Parliament,
  • is placed by the King in command of a guard at Westminster, and orders his men to fire on a crowd,
• Dorsetshire,
  • resistance to sending men to Rochelle in,
  • billeted soldiers turned out of doors in,
  • outrages of soldiers in,
  • murder of Lieutenant Mohun by the soldiers of,
• Dort,
  • Synod of,
• Douglas, Sir Robert,
  • is chosen as the Queen's agent at Rome, but dies suddenly,
• Dover,
  • defeat of a Spanish fleet off,
  • wretched condition of Mansfeld's troops at,
  • landing of Henrietta Maria at,
  • applauds Charles's proclamation for the maintenance of the established religion,
• Downham, George (Bishop of Derry, 1616-1634),
  • preaches against toleration,
• Downs, the,
  • Oquendo's fleet takes refuge in,
  • defeat of Oquendo's fleet in,
• Drake, Sir John,
  • becomes a partner in the Vice-Admiralty of Devon,
• Drama,
  • the attack of Prynne on,
• Drogheda,
  • Tichborne besieged in,
  • raising of the siege of,
• Drummond, Edward,
  • his mission to Italy,
• Drummond, Jane,
  • accepts a Spanish pension,
  • exercises influence over the Queen,
  • See Roxburgh, Lady
• Drummond, William, of Hawthornden,
  • character of,
  • appeals to Charles in favour of Balmerino,
  • welcomes the King's Covenant,
• Du Buisson,
  • proposes a marriage between Charles and Henrietta Maria,
• Dublin, James I.
  • proclaimed in,
  • proceedings in the Castle Chamber against the aldermen of,
  • plot for the seizure of the Castle,
  • is secured by Sir Francis Willoughby,
• Duck, Dr.,
  • is attacked by a mob,
• Dudley, Sir Robert,
  • paper of advice by,
• Duelling,
  • proclamation against,
• Du Fargis, M.,
  • draws up a treaty between France and Spain,
• Dulbier, John,
  • is Buckingham's chief military adviser,
  • complains of the ignorance and the dissension in the army at Rhé
  • is sent to Germany to raise horse,
  • his commission inquired into by the Commons,
  • is not to bring the horse to England,
  • proposed use of, in North Germany,
  • is ordered to keep his men on foot,
• Dulwich,
  • Abbot consecrates a chapel in the college at,
• Dumbarton Castle
  • is secured for the King,
  • an officer sent to command,
  • is surprised by the Covenanters,
  • is again captured by the Covenanters,
• Dunbar, Earl of, 1605-1611 (George Hume),
  • is sent to Scotland to insure the conviction of the Presbyterian ministers,
  • appears at the Assembly at Linlithgow,
  • urges Balmerino to plead guilty,
  • death of,
  • See Hume, Sir George
• Dunfermline, 1st Earl of, 1606-1622 (Alexander Seton),
  • enters into a dispute with the clergy,
  • takes the part of the Catholics,
  • persuades the Scottish Council to refuse to banish ministers who resist the Articles of Perth,
  • See Seton, Alexander
• Dunfermline, 2nd Earl of, 1622 (Charles Seton),
  • visits Charles at Berwick,
  • is sent to England to plead the cause of the Scottish Parliament,
  • arrives in London,
  • is sent back to Scotland,
  • returns to London, and negotiates with Charles,
  • is placed in custody,
• Dunglas,
  • Leslie takes up his post at,
  • Leslie's army leaves,
• Dunkirk,
  • ships from, blockaded in the Downs,
  • Buckingham proposes an attack on,
  • cool reception by Frederick Henry of Buckingham's proposal for a joint attack on,
  • Charles asks Spain to cede,
  • danger to England from a French occupation of,
  • increased importance of the possession of,
  • proposal for an attack by the French and Dutch on,
  • Portland stigmatises an attack on, as a breach of international law,
  • Charles expects the French and Dutch will besiege,
  • vessels convoyed by Lindsey to,
  • Charles declares that he will vindicate, his subjects' right to trade with,
  • money conveyed by an English ship from Spain to,
  • expected French attack on,
  • money conveyed to, by Windebank's orders,
  • reinforcements sent to Oquendo from,
  • escape of part of Oquendo's fleet to,
• Dunkirk privateers,
  • take refuge in Aberdeen and Leith,
  • treatment of, at Leith,
  • are attacked by the Dutch,
  • activity of,
  • are watched by Pennington,
  • escape from port and destroy Dutch fishing-boats,
  • capture three of Denbigh's corn-ships,
  • a Dutch ship chased into Dover roads by,
  • destroy Dutch herring-boats, and are pursued into English waters,
• Dunne, John,
  • strikes Nathaniel Dunne,
• Dunse,
  • Arundel reads the King's proclamation at,
• Dunse Law,
  • Leslie's camp on,
  • condition of the soldiers on,
• Durham,
  • payment of the forced loan at,
  • alleged ceremonial innovations at,
  • action brought by Smart against the prebendaries of,
  • arrival of Charles at,
  • seizure by the Scots of the lands of the Dean and Chapter of,
  • flight of Conway's troops to,
  • is occupied by the Scots,
  • the Scottish army leaves,
• Durham, county of,
  • trained bands offered to Charles by,
  • a contribution demanded by the Scots from,
• Durham House,
  • tumult caused by the interference of the constables with Catholics going to mass at,
• Durie, John,
  • tries to interest Laud in a scheme for the union of the Protestant churches,
• Dutch Republic, the,
  • See Netherlands,
  • See the United Provinces of the
• East Friesland,
  • Mansfeld's invasion of,
  • ill-treatment of the Count of,
• East India Company, the,
  • establishes factories at Acheen, Bantam, and Sural,
  • sends Sir Thomas Roe to Agra,
  • is dissatisfied at its exclusion from the spice trade,
  • negotiations carried on at the Hague for its amalgamation with the Dutch Company,
  • its trade in the Spice Islands hindered by the Dutch,
  • resolves to make good its position,
  • sends out a fleet under Dale,
  • opens negotiations with the Dutch Company,
  • carries on the negotiations,
  • arrangement made with the Dutch for the division of the trade,
  • appeals to the King to settle a dispute about fortifications,
  • carries on the negotiations,
  • agrees to a treaty with the Dutch,
  • accord granting an indemnity to, signed by the Dutch,
  • attempts to open a trade with Persia, and joins the Shah in the capture of Ormuz,
  • 10,000l. demanded by Buckingham from,
  • is charged with piracy,
  • is obliged to pay 20,000l.,
  • makes over a consignment of pepper to Charles,
• East Indies, the,
  • rivalry between the English and Dutch in,
  • formation of the East India Company for trading in,
  • continuance of the struggle in,
  • treaty signed with the Dutch for regulating the trade in,
  • fresh hostilities in,
  • news of the treaty reaches,
  • fresh outrages committed by the Dutch in,
  • negotiation with the Dutch for the restitution of goods taken in,
  • relations between the English and the Dutch in, after the accord of 1623,
  • failure of the attempt to share the trade of, between the English and the Dutch,
  • massacre of Amboyna in,
  • See East India Company
• Ecclesiastical reservation, the,
  • mention,
• Edict of Restitution, the,
  • issue of,
  • exasperation of the Protestants at,
  • is supported by the Elector of Bavaria,
  • feeling of the Elector of Saxony about,
  • Ferdinand refuses to modify,
  • is swept away by the victory of Gustavus at Breitenfeld,
  • is abandoned by the Emperor at the Peace of Prague,
• Edinburgh,
  • tumult in,
  • dislike of the carvings in the King's chapel felt in,
  • visit of Tames to,
  • resistance to the five articles in,
  • Black Saturday at,
  • refusal to kneel at the communion in,
  • ceremonies at the King's coronation in,
  • the surplice used at St. Giles's Church int
  • erection of a bishopric of,
  • riot caused by the reading of the new Prayer Book in,
  • second riot in,
  • Charles orders the removal of the Council and the Court of Session from,
  • third riot in,
  • signature of the Covenant at the Grey Friars' Church in,
  • Hamilton hopes to gain the castle of,
  • arrival of Hamilton at,
  • treaty between Hamilton and Mar for the surrender to the King of the castle of,
  • reading of the King's Declaration at,
  • Hamilton purchases the castle of,
  • the bishops charged before the Presbytery of,
  • the Covenanters capture the castle of,
  • Assembly and Parliament appointed to meet in,
  • Ruthven appointed governor of the castle of,
  • riot at,
  • meeting of the Assembly at,
  • reinforcement of the garrison of the castle of,
  • fall of part of the wall of the castle of,
  • siege laid by the citizens to,
  • some of the inhabitants killed by the fire from the castle of,
  • surrender of the castle of,
  • arrival of Charles at,
  • Charles feasted in,
  • armed followers of Argyle and Hamilton in,
  • flight of Argyle, Hamilton, and Lanark from,
• Edmondes, Sir Thomas,
  • sent as ambassador to Paris after the murder of Henry IV.,
  • is sounded on the chance of a marriage between the Princess Elizabeth and the Elector Palatine,
  • ordered to propose a marriage between Prince Henry and the Princess Christina,
  • returns to England and becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • is consulted by Scarnafissi on the proposed attack on Genoa,
  • Raleigh's charges against,
  • thinks that more than three subsidies cannot be granted,
  • asks for two subsidies and two fifteenths,
  • asks the Commons to forget and forgive,
  • attempts to release the Speaker,
• Edward I.,
  • reign of,
• Edward VI,
  • reign of,
• Effiat, Marquis of (Antoine de Ruze),
  • is sent as ambassador to England,
  • gains over Buckingham,
  • obtains Buckingham's support in urging James to sign an article in the French marriage treaty in favour of the Catholics,
  • is shown the despatches of Carlisle and Kensington,
  • lays before James a plan for pacifying Germany,
  • receives from James permission to hire English ships to be used against Rochelle,
  • is allowed to take a number of priests on his return to France,
  • negotiates with Nicholas at Dieppe,
  • is unable to procure the surrender of Pennington's fleet,
  • receives the surrender of Pennington's fleet,
• Egerton, Edward,
  • Chancery suit of,
  • bribe offered to Bacon by,
• Egerton, Lady Alice,
  • takes the part of the lady in Comus,
• Egerton, Sir Rowland,
  • gives a gratuity to Bacon,
• Egerton, Sir Thomas (Lord Keeper, 1596),
  • his behaviour in the Council after Elizabeth's death,
  • becomes Lord Chancellor, and is raised to the peerage,
  • See Ellesmere, Lord
• Eglesham, Dr.,
  • accuses Buckingham of poisoning James,
• Eglinton, Lord, 1612 (Alexander Montgomery),
  • is ordered to defend the Southwest of Scotland,
• Ehrenbreitstein,
  • is occupied by the French,
• Eikon Basilike,
  • quotation from,
• Elbe, the,
  • arrival of Morgan's troops in,
  • commerce of, stopped by an English squadron,
• El Dorado,
  • fable of,
• Elector Palatine.
  • See Frederick IV. and Frederick V.
• Electress Palatine.
  • See Elizabeth
• Eliot, James,
  • tells Charles that Purgatory is in Spain,
• Eliot, John,
  • elected to the Parliament of 1614,
  • See Eliot, Sir John
• Eliot, Sir John,
  • is elected to the Parliament of 1624,
  • character of,
  • speaks in defence of liberty of speech,
  • proposes to fit out a fleet by means of the penalties of the Catholics,
  • calls for a war with Spain,
  • proposes that thanks shall be given to James and Charles,
  • writes to Buckingham that he is wholly devoted to him,
  • speaks on religion,
  • denounces Wentworth as Catiline,
  • contrast between Wentworth and,
  • remonstrates with Buckingham on the demand for further supply,
  • is shocked at Buckingham's answer,
  • moves that the Lord Keeper be asked who authorised him to pass a pardon for a Jesuit,
  • complains of the extent of the proposed war, and of the little result apparent,
  • acquits Buckingham of blame for the delay of the fleet,
  • speech falsely attributed to,
  • watches events,
  • feels compassion for the soldiers at Plymouth,
  • but does not break with the Government,
  • demands inquiry into the Cadiz voyage and earlier disasters,
  • objects to a grant of supply till the inquiry is complete,
  • presides over the committee appointed to investigate the case of the St. Peter' of Havre de Grace,
  • attempts to discover the truth about the quarrel with France,
  • only finds out part of the truth,
  • encourages the House to persist in its inquiry into Buckingham's conduct,
  • recites the foreign miscarriages and domestic oppressions of the Government,
  • quotes precedents from the reign of Henry III. and Richard II.,
  • proposes that a resolution for the grant of subsidies shall be passed, but not converted into a Bill,
  • advises the Commons to draw up a remonstrance,
  • sums up the charges against Buckingham,
  • compares Buckingham to Sejanus,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • is charged with things extrajudicial to the House,
  • is liberated, no proof that he is in league with Blainville being forthcoming,
  • is cleared by the House,
  • refuses to appear against Buckingham in the Star Chamber,
  • is dismissed from the justiceship of the peace,
  • is deprived of the Vice-Admiralty of Devon.
  • is imprisoned for refusing to pay the forced loan,
  • argues against the loan in a petition to the King,
  • declaims against arbitrary taxation,
  • and against a power assumed to alter religion,
  • comparison between him and Wentworth,
  • produces a copy of Anderson's reports in the handwriting of the Chief Justice,
  • objects to the grant of a supply to enable Charles to send out another expedition,
  • gives an account of the violence of the soldiers at Plymouth,
  • resists Wentworth's motion for a grant of five subsidies,
  • objects to Coke's mention of Buckingham as a mediator with the King,
  • protests against the subjection of civilians to martial law,
  • argues against Sir E. Coke's proposal to fix the dates of the payment of the subsidies,
  • wishes the Commons to reject the Lords' propositions,
  • supports the Bill of liberties,
  • asks that the King's answer to the Remonstrance may be discussed in committee,
  • moral worth of,
  • attacks Wentworth for wishing to come to an understanding with the Lords,
  • moves the postponement of the consideration of the King's first answer to the Petition of Right,
  • resolves to attack Buckingham,
  • attacks the foreign policy and the military administration of the Crown without mentioning Buckingham's name,
  • asks that a Remonstrance may be framed,
  • is interrupted by the Speaker in an allusion to Buckingham,
  • refuses to continue his speech,
  • expresses satisfaction at the King's withdrawal of his prohibition to discuss the state of affairs,
  • is recommended by Williams to the King,
  • argues on Chambers's petition that the judges are responsible,
  • speaks on religion,
  • criticises the King's declaration on religion,
  • wishes the House to define its doctrine,
  • advises the House to attack the Arminians,
  • accuses Heath of stifling a charge against Cosin,
  • attacks Neile,
  • advises that the farmers of the customs be called to account,
  • urges the House to discuss whether the Custom House officers are delinquents or not,
  • opposes Pym's motion that the question of the legality of tonnage and poundage shall take precedence of the question of privilege,
  • opposes May's view that obedience to the King's commands is not delinquency,
  • insists upon calling the Custom House officers to account,
  • resolves to appeal to the country,
  • attempts to speak to the question of adjournment,
  • proposes resolutions,
  • offers to read his own motion,
  • proposes to impeach Weston,
  • explains his proposed resolutions,
  • declares that he shall be ready to produce evidence against Weston at the next meeting of the House,
  • burns his resolutions,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • refuses to answer questions on his Parliamentary conduct,
  • visits paid to him in the Tower,
  • does not join the other imprisoned members in applying for a habeas corpus,
  • applies for bail at the end of the term,
  • information in the King's Bench against,
  • is transferred to the Marshalsea,
  • argument of Heath against,
  • declines the jurisdiction of the Court,
  • fine imposed on,
  • is sent back to the Tower,
  • fights the battle of his countrymen,
  • rejoices at the successes of Gustavus,
  • disbelieves a rumour of a new Parliament, and writes the Negotium Posterorum,
  • draws up notes for a speech,
  • stricter imprisonment of,
  • writes the Monarchy of Man,
  • writes to Hampden on the state of his health,
  • asks leave to go out of the Tower,
  • death of,
  • is buried in the Tower,
• Elizabeth, daughter of Henry IV.,
  • proposal to marry her to Prince Henry,
• Elizabeth (Electress Palatine and titular Queen of Bohemia),
  • leaves England with her husband,
  • urges Frederick to accept the Crown of Bohemia,
  • accompanies him to Prague,
  • hopes for success after the battle of Prague,
  • gives birth to Prince Maurice at Custrin,
  • is forbidden to visit England,
  • begs her husband not to join the Dutch army,
  • her health drunk at the Middle Temple,
  • corresponds with Roe,
  • refuses Charles's invitation to live in England,
  • distrusts Richelieu,
  • appeals to Charles after the Treaty of Prague,
  • sends her son to England, and quarrels with Charnace1, for refusing to give the title of Electoral Highness to him,
  • is pleased at the conclusion of the Treaty of Berwick, and hopes for the assistance of a Scottish army,
• Elizabeth, Princess, (Daughter of Charles I.),
  • suggested marriage of,
• Elizabeth, Princess (Daughter of James I.),
  • proposed marriage between the Dauphin and,
  • proposed marriage between the Prince of Piedmont and,
  • Proposed marriage between the Elector Palatine and,
  • signature of her marriage contract with the Elector Palatine,
  • rumoured intention of Philip III to propose for,
  • is betrothed to the Elector Palatine,
  • marriage of,
  • See Elizabeth, Electress Palatine
• Elizabeth, Queen,
  • suppresses the Roman Catholic worship,
  • her rivalry with Mary Stuart,
  • ill-treats the Catholics,
  • opposes the Nonconformists,
  • her weakness at the beginning of her reign,
  • suppresses Nonconformist worship,
  • supports Episcopacy,
  • dislikes preaching,
  • suppresses the prophesyings,
  • rejects the proposals of the Commons for Church Reform, and appoints Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury,
  • difficulties bequeathed to her successor by,
  • death of,
  • impositions laid upon commerce by,
  • her reception of Raleigh after his return from Guiana,
  • her treatment of the claim of the House of Commons to liberty of speech,
• Ellesmere, Lord, 1603-1606 (Thomas Egerton), (Lord Chancellor)
  • gives an opinion that the King is half a priest,
  • puts questions to the judges on the legality of a petition in favour of the Puritans,
  • directs the judges to enforce the penal laws against the Catholics,
  • favours Bacon's promotion,
  • finds fault with the merchants who petition against the Union,
  • inveighs against Whitelocke,
  • refuses to pass Somerset's pardon,
  • acts as Lord High Steward at the trials of the Earl and Countess of Somerset,
  • gives his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
  • asks tor the opinion of the law officers in his dispute with Coke,
  • agrees with Bacon's reply to Coke,
  • illness of,
  • is created Viscount Brackley,
  • See Brackley, Viscount
• Elphinstone, Sir James,
  • becomes Secretary in Scotland,
  • obtains surreptitiously James's signature to a letter to the Pope,
  • becomes Lord Balmerino,
  • See Balmerino, Lord
• Elphinstone, Sir William,
  • is injured in a riot at Edinburgh,
• Endicott, John,
  • tears the cross out of the English flag,
• England,
  • national consolidation of,
  • Parliamentary system established in,
  • establishment of a strong monarchy in,
  • its attitude towards the Papacy,
  • progress of the Reformation in,
  • is threatened by Spain and the Pope,
  • favour shown to the Calvinist doctrines in,
  • dislike of the Calvinist system of government in,
  • character assumed by episcopacy in,
  • rise of the Separatists in,
  • growth of a feeling against Spain in,
  • recrudescence of hostility to Rome in,
  • moral position of Protestantism in,
  • influence of Calvinism in,
  • strong feeling against Buckingham in,
  • diminution of warlike feeling in,
  • relaxation of the feeling of hostility to Spain in,
  • treaty of peace signed by Louis XIII with,
  • contrast between the political feeling of the South and North of,
  • feeling against ship-money in,
  • excitement caused by the conversions to Catholicism in,
  • local organisation of,
  • unorganised condition of,
  • elections to the Short Parliament in,
  • strong feeling against the Irish in,
  • the Scots not disliked in,
  • last case of judicial torture in,
  • symptoms of a reaction in favour of Charles in,
• England, Church of,
  • the course of the Reformation in,
  • action of Calvinism upon,
  • enforcement of conformity in,
  • position of the bishops in,
  • Whitgift defends the constitution of,
  • low condition of the clergy of,
  • reaction in favour of,
  • Bacon's scheme for the pacification of,
  • enforcement of conformity in,
  • its relation to Puritanism,
  • prospects of toleration in,
  • difference of opinion between James and the Commons on,
  • converts to Rome in.
  • condition of Protestantism in,
  • Puritan conformists in,
  • school of Andrewes and Laud in,
  • discussion on the observance of the Sabbath in,
  • spread of Arminianism in,
  • reaction in favour of Puritanism in,
  • view of Buckeridge, Howson, and Laud, that school opinions are not condemned by,
  • and that opinions like those of Montague's opponents ought to be silenced in, and that Convocation, or a national synod, is the proper judge of controversies in,
  • issue by Charles of a proclamation for the peace of,
  • parties in,
  • dispute on doctrine in,
  • dispute on ceremonies in,
  • Charles's declaration prefixed to the Articles of,
  • Sibbes dissuades Goodwin from separation from,
  • conflicting tendencies of thought in,
  • results of Laud's appointment as Archbishop in,
  • restrictions placed on ordinations in,
  • attempt to diminish the influence of the laity in,
  • opinion of Laud on the Royal authority in,
  • metropolitical visitation in,
  • various aspects of nonconformity in,
  • result of the establishment of Laud's system in(
  • becomes narrower under Laud's guidance,
  • widespread fear of Laud's system in,
  • Windebank discusses with Panzani the terms of its reunion with Rome,
  • discipline in,
  • records of an Archdeacon's court in,
  • new canons of,
  • Rudyerd's account of the state of,
  • voices raised for the overthrow of episcopacy and the prayer-book in,
  • prospect of an alteration of the ceremonies of,
  • petitions against episcopacy in,
  • order of the Lords on the public worship of,
  • division of opinion on the reforms to be introduced into,
  • Hopton moves that the Protestation shall declare those who take it to be ready to support religion as established in,
  • scheme proposed by Vane for the government of,
  • clause in the Root-and-Branch Bill providing for the government of,
  • declaration of both Houses on the reform of,
• Epernon, Duke of,
  • seizes the English wine fleet at Bordeaux,
• Episcopacy,
  • supported by Elizabeth,
  • character assumed by it in England,
  • low position of, in Scotland,
  • abolition of, in Scotland,
  • restoration and second abolition of, in Scotland,
  • restored in Scotland nominally by James,
  • acknowledged by the General Assembly,
  • established by the Scottish Parliament,
  • Leighton's attack on,
  • Neile argues in support of the Divine right of,
  • Laud's defence of?
  • limitations proposed by Charles in Scotland on,
  • abolished in Scotland by the Assembly of Glasgow,
  • abolition of, confirmed by the Assembly of Edinburgh,
  • protest of Traquair as to the sense in which Charles assents to the abolition of,
  • Montrose's position towards,
  • Charles refuses to rescind the Acts in favour of,
  • the Scottish Parliament abolishes,
  • Charles gives the Scottish Commissioners reason to think that he does not intend to consent to the abolition of,
  • Hall's argument in favour of the Divine right of,
  • voices raised in England for the overthrow of,
  • the London petition for the abolition of,
  • petitions against,
  • public opinion on,
  • speeches of Digby and Falkland against the abolition of,
  • speech of Fiennes in favour of the abolition of,
  • Parliamentary parties begin to form on the question of,
  • declaration of the Scottish Commissioners against
  • understanding between Hampden and Falkland on the reformation of,
  • first reading of a Bill for the extinction of,
  • schemes of Williams and Usher for the modification of,
  • Rudyerd and Dering wish to reduce to the primitive standard,
  • want of enthusiasm for,
  • Brooke's discourse on,
  • London petition for the abolition of,
  • See Root-and-Branch Bill,
  • See the Bishops' Exclusion Bill, the
• Episcopacy by Divine Right,
  • published by Bishop Hall,
• Episcopalian party in the Long Parliament, the,
  • strength and weakness of,
  • expect to have a majority in condemnation of the declaration of the Scottish Commissioners against episcopacy,
  • wishes to pay off the Scots,
  • is in a minority,
  • takes up a position in defence of the Prayer-book,
  • is changing into a Royalist party,
  • finally becomes a Royalist party,
  • supports Vane's motion for a present supply for Ireland,
  • carries a limitation on the numbers of the Scots to be sent to Ireland,
  • carries some amendments of the Remonstrance,
  • has the temporary advantage of standing on the defensive,
• Equivocation, a treatise on,
  • discovered in Tresham's chamber,
• Erle, Sir Walter,
  • moves that tonnage and poundage be granted for a year,
  • applies for a habeas corpus.
  • complains of the outrages of the soldiers in Dorsetshire,
  • complains of the violation of the liberties of the subjects,
  • his study searched,
  • complains of the Irish army,
  • makes a fresh report on the Irish army,
  • reports that Strafford is still in command of the Irish army,
  • supports Marten's proposal to pay no money to the Scots till Strafford is executed,
  • brings fresh charges against Strafford in connection with the Irish army,
• Erneley, Sir Michael,
  • reports from Berwick that the Scots are not prepared to invade England,
• Erskine, Sir Thomas,
  • appointed Captain of the Guard,
  • becomes Lord Fenton,
  • See Fenton, Lord
• Esmond, Robert,
  • alleged manslaughter of, by Wentworth,
• Espesses, M. de,
  • urges the States-General to allow Mansfeld to land in the Netherlands,
• Essex,
  • the trained bands of, are summoned to defend Harwich, but refuse to serve at their own expense,
  • resistance to the forced loan in,
  • refusal of, to pay Commissioners for the loan in,
  • attempt to press the refusers in, for service under the King of Denmark,
  • misbehaviour of Irish soldiers quartered in,
  • weavers thrown out of work in,
  • enforcement of the extension of Waltham Forest in,
  • resistance to ship-money in,
  • arrears of ship-money in,
  • a woman murdered by the soldiers from,
  • levy of soldiers resisted in,
  • communion rails pulled down by the soldiers in,
  • petition against episcopacy signed in,
• Essex, Countess of,
  • married life of,
  • thinks of procuring a divorce,
  • is divorced,
  • her part in the murder of Overbury,
  • employs Weston to poison him,
  • See Somerset, Countess of
• Essex, 2nd Earl of, 1576-1601 (Walter Devereux),
  • altercation of, with Burghley,
  • failure of, in Ireland,
• Essex, 3rd Earl of, 1603 (Robert Devereux),
  • marriage of,
  • proceedings taken for the divorce of,
  • divorce of,
  • serves under Vere in the Palatinate,
  • returns from Germany, and becomes a member of the Council of War,
  • is appointed Vice-Admiral of the expedition against Cadiz,
  • takes refuge in Falmouth,
  • pursues the Spanish ships up Cadiz harbour,
  • takes Fort Puntal,
  • refuses to pay the forced loan,
  • asks the Lords to put the Petition of Right to a vote,
  • attends on the King at Oxford,
  • appointed second in command in the first Bishops' War,
  • gives to the King the letter written to him by the Covenanters,
  • votes against interference with the Commons,
  • signs a letter to Johnston of Warriston,
  • takes part in a meeting of the opponents of the Court,
  • signs the Petition of the Twelve Peers,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • reproves the Scottish Commissioners for interfering with the Church of England,
  • is suggested for the command of the Northern army,
  • declares for Strafford's death,
  • tells Hyde that 'stone dead hath no fellow,'
  • is appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Yorkshire,
  • is appointed Lord Chamberlain,
  • is to command forces south of the Trent,
  • thinks the Incident may be imitated at Westminster,
  • proposal to give authority over the trained bands to,
  • restriction placed by the Lords on his authority over the trained bands,
  • rumoured dismissal of, from the Council and office,
  • the Commons wish to have a guard under the command of,
  • the Commons ask the King to give them a guard under the command of,
  • intention of Charles to call, as a witness against the five members,
  • accompanies Charles to the City after the attempt on the five members,
  • wishes Charles to postpone his departure from Whitehall,
  • is stopped by the House of Lords from obeying Charles's summons to attend him at York,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
  • is appointed to command the Parliamentary army,
  • is declared a traitor by the King,
  • the Commons swear to live and die with,
• Estates of the realm, the three,
  • new explanation of,
• Etcetera oath, the,
  • imposed by the canons of 1640,
  • suspension of,
• Eure, Lieutenant,
  • murder of,
• Eure, Lord (William Eure),
  • refuses to obey an order of the Court of Chancery,
  • stands a siege at Malton,
• Everard, Dr.,
  • imprisoned for preaching against the Spaniards,
  • is again imprisoned,
• Everard, Sir John,
  • removed from the Irish Bench,
  • is elected Speaker of the Irish House of Commons by the Catholics,
• Exchequer, the.
  • See Finances
• Exchequer, the Court of,
  • Bate's case in,
  • decides in Rolle's case that goods cannot be taken from the King by a replevin,
  • replies to a message of the Commons on tonnage and poundage,
  • Chambers brings an action against the Custom House officers in,
  • question about the jurisdiction of the Star Chamber raised in,
  • postpones consideration of the right to tonnage and poundage,
  • declares in favour of the King's right to levy compositions for knighthood and impositions,
  • case of the feoffees for impropriations in,
• Excise, an,
  • proposal made for raising money by,
  • abandonment of the proposal for,
  • commissioners appointed for the consideration of,
  • Charles cancels the commission for the consideration of,
  • proposal made in the Committee of Eight to levy,
• Exeter, Countess of,
  • charges brought by Lady Roos against,
• Exeter, Earl of, 1605-1622 (Thomas Cecil),
  • interferes in his grandson's dealings with the Lakes,
  • compliments Buckingham on his success at Rhé,
• Exeter, Earl of, 1640 (David Cecil),
  • signs the Petition of the Twelve Peers,
• Ex officio oath, the,
  • introduction of,
  • Exportation of gold, fines imposed for the,
• Extemporary prayers,
  • opposition roused by the use of,
• Farroni,
  • protests that Mary de Medicis is not preparing to visit England,
• Faige, Captain,
  • sent by Raleigh to Montmorency,
  • is sent to fit out French ships to join Raleigh,
  • is imprisoned as a debtor,
• Fairfax, Viscount, 1640 (Ferdinando Fairfax),
  • is one of the Parliamentary commissioners to attend the King at York,
• Fairfax, Sir Thomas,
  • offers a petition to Charles on Heyworth Moor,
• Fajardo, Don Luis,
  • is ordered to transport men to the Netherlands,
• Fakenham,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
• Falkland, 1st Viscount, 1620-1633 (Henry Cary),
  • is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland,
  • banishes the priests,
  • receives from England the first draft of the Graces,
  • lays the Graces before an assembly of the Irish nobility,
  • is in despair at the state of Ireland,
  • opens an Assembly of the Lords and representatives,
  • fails to obtain a contribution from the Assembly,
  • summons a Parliament, and afterwards countermands the summons,
  • engages in dispute with a minority of the Council,
  • wishes to establish a plantation in Wicklow,
  • his treatment of the Byrnes of Wicklow.
  • is surprised by the appointment of a committee to investigate the case of the Byrnes,
  • his position shaken,
  • is recalled,
  • death of,
• Falkland, 2nd Viscount, 1613 (Lucius Cary),
  • early life of,
  • his life at Great Tew,
  • appreciates Ben Jonson,
  • writes verses in praise of the King's sovereignty of the seas,
  • engages in religious controversy,
  • compared with Chillingworth,
  • replies to Walter Montague,
  • objects to impeaching Strafford till the whole truth has been discovered,
  • speaks against ship-money,
  • attacks Finch,
  • fears that Presbyterianism will be tyrannical,
  • speaks for the reformation, and against the abolition, of episcopacy,
  • suggests a compromise,
  • declares that the Lords had acted justly in giving Strafford time to prepare his defence,
  • supports the Attainder Bill,
  • comes to an understanding with Hampden, that episcopacy is to be reformed,
  • opposes the Root-and-Branch Bill,
  • is a member of the Committee of Defence,
  • thinks that the English Parliament should take no notice of the Incident,
  • his share of responsibility in the Parliamentary conflict,
  • objects to the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
  • objects to the employment of Scottish troops in Ireland,
  • tells Cromwell that the final debate on the Grand Remonstrance will take time,
  • complains of the hard measure dealt out to bishops and Arminians,
  • his conversation with Cromwell,
  • becomes Secretary of State,
  • signs the Protestation of the Peers at York,
• Falmouth,
  • arrival of part of the Cadiz expedition at,
  • Soubise brings a French prize into,
• Family of Love, the,
  • mention,
• Faringdon,
  • murder of Lieutenant Mohun at,
• Farmers of the Customs,
  • proposal of Eliot to call to account,
  • fine imposed on,
• Fawkes, Guido.
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Fawley,
  • position of the communion-table at,
• Fears and jealousies,
  • the Parliament's declaration of,
• Fees,
  • custom of taking,
• Felton, John,
  • murders Buckingham,
  • surrenders himself,
  • motives and conduct of,
  • popularity of,
  • Townley's verses on,
  • is threatened with the rack, condemned and executed
• Female actors
  • attacked by Prynne,
• Female characters on the stage
  • represented by boys,
• Female Glory, The, of Anthony Stafford,
  • mention,
• Fens, Great Level of the,
  • drainage of,
  • riots in,
• Fenton, Viscount, 1606-1619; Earl of Kellie, 1619-1639 (Thomas Erskine),
  • assures Sarmiento that James wishes to go on with the marriage treaty,
  • See Erskine, Sir Thomas
• Feoffees for impropriations, the,
  • Heylyn preaches against, and Noy exhibits an information in the Exchequer against
  • are deprived of their patronage by the sentence of the Court,
  • are ridiculed in Strode's Floating Island,
• Ferdinand, Archduke (Duke of Styria, 1590; King of Bohemia, 1617; King of Hungary, 1618),
  • proposed as the future King of Bohemia,
  • is accepted as King,
  • character of,
  • early life of,
  • asserts his right to the throne of Bohemia,
  • defends Vienna,
  • success of the armies of,
  • receives Doncaster civilly,
  • rejects James's offer of mediation,
  • is elected Emperor, and deposed from the throne of Bohemia,
  • See Ferdinand II., Emperor
• Ferdinand II. (Emperor, 1618)
  • visits Maximilian,
  • promises to transfer Frederick's Electorate to him,
  • defends Vienna against Bethlen Gabor,
  • advocates the invasion of the Palatinate,
  • view taken of Frederick's conduct by,
  • puts Frederick to the ban,
  • proposes to convoke an Assembly at Ratisbon,
  • opposition evoked by his proposal to deprive Frederick of the Electorate,
  • suspects Frederick's sincerity,
  • hesitates to reject Digby's terms,
  • offers to treat,
  • orders Maximilian to attack Mansfeld,
  • consents to a suspension of arms,
  • agrees to Digby's plan for a pacification,
  • recommends the plan to Maximilian,
  • secretly confers Frederick's Electorate on Maximilian,
  • discovery of his transference of the Electorate,
  • sends Schwarzenberg to England,
  • informs James of his intention to hold an Assembly at Ratisbon,
  • throws the blame of the continuance of the war on Frederick and Mansfeld,
  • orders Tilly to besiege Heidelberg,
  • refuses to abandon his resolution to transfer the Electorate,
  • expels the Lutheran clergy from Bohemia,
  • proposes the transference of the Electorate at Ratisbon,
  • confers the Electorate on Maximilian,
  • disputes the succession of the Duke of Nevers to the Duchy of Mantua,
  • issues the Edict of Restitution,
  • makes peace with Christian IV. at Luebeck,
  • dismisses Wallenstein,
  • refuses to take the advice of Olivares,
  • maintains the Edict of Restitution,
  • neglects the advice of Spain,
  • failure of the system of,
  • effects of his renewed alliance with Spain,
  • signs the Peace of Prague,
  • gives hopes to Taylor of the restitution of the Palatinate,
  • rejects Arundel's demands,
  • See Ferdinand, Archduke (Duke of Styria, &c.)
• Ferdinand, the Archduke (Son of Ferdinand II.),
  • marriage proposed between the Infanta Maria and,
  • See Ferdinand III
• Ferdinand III (King of Hungary),
  • is appointed to the command of the Emperor's armies,
  • in conjunction with the Cardinal Infant takes Ratisbon and defeats the Swedes at Nordlingen,
  • is chosen King of the Romans,
• Ferdinand.
  • See Cardinal Infant, the
• Feria, Duke of,
  • occupies Southern Alsace,
• Fermanagh,
  • feud amongst the Maguires of,
  • Chichester's visit to,
  • refusal of the settlers to maintain soldiers in,
  • Lord Maguire's influence in,
  • atrocities of the Maguires in,
• Fern, Sir John,
  • seconds Raleigh's proposal to attack the Mexico fleet,
• Ferrar, Nicholas,
  • early life of,
  • establishes a community at Little Gidding,
  • character of the spiritual life of,
  • his language about the use of crucifixes,
• Ferrett,
  • misbehaviour of, as an agent of the Commissioners for Inns,
• Ferte Imbault, la, Marquis of,
  • arrives in England,
  • advises the Queen not to leave England,
  • predicts a conflict between Charles and the Commons,
  • probably sends warning to the Commons of Charles's approach,
• Feudal tenures, negotiation for the commutation of,
  • See Contract, the Great
• Field, Theophilus (Bishop of Llandaff, 1619-1627; of St. David's, 1627-1635; of Hereford, 1635-1636)
  • bribe offered by Edward Egerton to,
  • is handed over by the Lords to the censure of the Archbishop,
• Fielding, Captain,
  • offers licences to the Dutch fishing-boats,
• Fielding, Sir William,
  • created Baron, and subsequently Viscount Fielding,
  • See Fielding, Viscount
  • See Denbigh, Earl of
• Fielding, Viscount (Basil Fielding),
  • offers to change clothes with Buckingham,
  • is sent to direct his father to return to Rochelle,
  • challenges George Goring,
• Fielding, Viscount, 1620 (William Fielding),
  • becomes Master of the Wardrobe,
  • is created an Earl,
  • See Fielding, Sir William
  • See Denbigh, Earl of
• Fiennes, Nathaniel,
  • speaks in favour of the abolition of episcopacy,
  • is a member of the Committee on Church Affairs,
  • is a member of the Committee for investigating the Army Plot,
  • brings up a report from the Committee,
  • tells Hyde that many will give their lives rather than submit to the bishops again,
  • is appointed a Parliamentary Commissioner to attend the King in Scotland,
  • reports that the officers at Whitehall had been commanded to obey Sir W. Fleming,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
• Finances, the, state of,
  • in 1604,
  • in 1606,
  • burden laid upon, by the Irish troubles,
  • Salisbury's efforts to remedy the disorder of,
  • Salisbury gives account to Parliament of the condition of,
  • Cæsar's report on,
  • state of, at the meeting of the Parliament of 1614,
  • state of, after the dissolution,
  • state of, in 1615,
  • state of, in 1617,
  • improvement effected by Cranfield in,
  • state of, at the opening of Charles's first Parliament,
  • condition of, after Buckingham's return from Rhé,
  • improved state of, in 1635,
  • state of, in 1636,
  • state of, in 1638,
  • state of, in 1639,
  • commission appointed to improve the condition of,
• Finch, John,
  • speaks in Bacon's favour,
  • reminds the Commons that, they have no sworn evidence against Floyd,
  • See Finch, Sir John
  • See Finch, of Fordwich, Lord
• Finch, of Fordwich, Lord, 1640,
  • speaks at the opening of the Short Parliament,
  • the Lords adjourn on account of the ill-health of,
  • explains to the Houses that Charles is ready to commute ship-money for some other mode of payment,
  • assures the King of the legality of the continuance of Convocation after the dissolution of Parliament,
  • is attacked by Falkland and defends himself,
  • the Commons vote the impeachment of,
  • flight of,
  • formal impeachment of,
  • See Finch, John
  • See Finch, Sir John
• Finch, Henry, Serjeant,
  • is a referee for the patent for inns,
• Finch, Sir Heneage,
  • becomes Recorder of London,
  • carries up to the Lords the charges against the referees,
• Finch, Sir John, (Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1634-1640; Lord Keeper, 1640),
  • as Speaker of the Parliament of 1628, interrupts Eliott
  • obtains leave to go to the King,
  • declares the King's pleasure that the House be adjourned,
  • is held down in the Speaker's chair,
  • refuses to put Eliot's motion to the House,
  • pleads to be allowed to go to the King,
  • double allegiance of,
  • becomes Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
  • maintains the King's claims in the Forest of Dean,
  • threatens the jury in the question of the extension of Waltham Forest,
  • sits as Holland's assessor in enforcing the extension of Waltham Forest,
  • is appointed to ask the opinion of the Judges on the legality of ship-money,
  • behaves rudely to Prynne in the Star Chamber,
  • gives judgment in the case of ship-money,
  • alarm caused by the doctrine laid down by,
  • becomes Lord Keeper,
  • is created Lord Finch of Fordwich,
  • See Finch, John
  • See Finch of Fordwich, Lord
• Finsbury Fields,
  • review of the London trained bands in,
• Fisher (pseudonym for Percy),
  • attempts to convert the Countess of Buckingham,
  • holds a conference with Laud,
• Fisher, Sir Edward,
  • claims lands in Wexford,
• Fishery.
  • See Herring fishery and Whale fishery
• Fitzwilliam, Sir William,
  • conduct of, as Lord Deputy of Ireland,
• Five Articles, the.
  • See Articles of Perth, the five
• Five Discourses,
  • Shelford's,
• Five knights' case, the,
  • mention,
• Five members, the,
  • Charles resolves to impeach,
  • impeachment of,
  • Charles demands the arrest of,
  • Charles resolves personally to arrest,
  • warnings sent to,
  • escape to the City,
  • are proclaimed traitors,
  • are received by the Committee at Grocers' Hall,
  • return in triumph to Westminster,
• Flag, the English,
  • a salute claimed by Charles for,
  • the Dutch agree to salute,
  • Charles rejects a compromise proposed by Richelieu on the salute to be given to,
• Flagellum Pontificis,
  • written by Bastwick,
• Flanders, ports of,
  • blockade of,
  • wish of James to break the blockade of,
  • ships hired by Gondomar to break the blockade of,
  • failure of the undertaking against,
  • Buckingham proposes a combined attack on,
  • refusal of Louis to take part in an attack on,
  • Morton sent to urge the Dutch to join in an attack on,
  • engagement of the Dutch to blockade,
  • See Dunkirk
• Flax, cultivation of,
  • introduced into Ireland by Wentworth,
• Fleetwood, Sir Miles,
  • wishes inquiries about the proposed supply to be addressed to the Lords,
• Fleming, Sir Thomas, (Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1604-1607; Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, 1607-1613),
  • is a member of the first Parliament of James I.,
  • delivers judgment in the case of impositions,
  • joins Coke in resisting the King's claim to create offences by proclamation,
  • death of,
• Fleming, Sir William,
  • invites the Inns of Court to support the King,
  • the officers at Whitehall commanded to obey,
• Flemish ports.
  • See Flanders, ports cf
• Fleurus,
  • battle of,
• Floating Island, The,
  • written by William Strode,
• Flood, —(?),
  • sells copies of Dudley's paper of advice,
• Floyd, Edward,
  • speaks disparagingly of the Elector and Electress Palatine,
  • violent attack of the Commons on,
  • is sentenced by the Commons,
  • is sentenced by the Lords,
  • liberation of,
• Flushing,
  • miserable condition of Mansfeld's troops at,
• Foliot, Sir Henry,
  • orders a massacre on Tory Island,
• Foljambe, Sir Francis,
  • seizes tithe-corn forcibly,
• Fontainebleau.
  • arrival of the Huguenot deputies at,
  • a treaty agreed to at,
• Fontenay-Mareuil, Marquis of,
  • is French ambassador in England, and employs a housebreaker to steal the papers of De Jars,
  • refusal of Henrietta Maria to be reconciled to,
• Forbes, John,
  • is chosen Moderator of the Assembly,
  • is imprisoned,
  • is tried,
  • defence of,
  • conviction of,
  • banishment of,
  • is preacher at Delft,
  • resigns his post,
• Forbes, Patrick (Bishop of Aberdeen, 161S),
  • character and life of,
  • hesitates to accept a bishopric,
  • becomes Bishop of Aberdeen,
  • supports the Articles of Perth,
  • the Aberdeen doctors are the disciples of,
• Forbes, William (Bishop of Edinburgh. 1634),
  • is appointed the first Bishop of Edinburgh,
  • death of,
• Forced loan, the,
  • demanded by Charles, probably at the suggestion of Apsley,
  • collection of, in Middlesex,
  • beginning of resistance to,
  • refusal of the judges to declare the legality of,
  • mission of Privy Councillors to collect,
  • growing resistance to,
  • failure of an attempt to press the refusers in Essex for the service of the King of Denmark.
  • gentlemen placed in confinement for refusing,
  • Eliot's argument against,
  • amount produced by,
  • release of the prisoners confined for refusal to pay,
  • clause of the Petition of Right in condemnation of,
• Foreign congregations in England, the,
  • mention,
• Forest claims of the Crown,
  • in the Forest of Dean,
  • in the Forest of Waltham,
  • in the New Forest,
  • compositions taken for encroachments on,
  • in Rockingham Forest,
  • commissioners appointed for levying compositions for,
  • Selden brings in a Bill for limiting,
  • Royal assent given to the Bill limiting,
• Forgery of speeches in Parliament,
  • mention,
• For God and the King,
  • published by Burton,
• Forman, Dr.,
  • is consulted by Lady Essex,
• Fort Louis,
  • Louis XIII engages to pull down,
  • the Rochellese deputies refuse to make peace without the demolition of,
  • but ultimately accept a vague promise for the future demolition of,
  • serves to check the commerce of Rochelle,
• Fortescue. Sir John,
  • deprived of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer,
  • is elected for Buckinghamshire,
  • his seat vacated,
• Forth, the Firth of,
  • Pennington sent to,
  • Hamilton sent to,
• Forthar,
  • burning of the Earl of Airlie's house at,
• Foulis, Sir David,
  • gives Dudley's paper of advice to Somerset,
  • deposes to the manner in which it came into his hands,
  • attacks Wentworth,
  • declares that the Council of the North has no Parliamentary authority,
  • offers to serve the King,
  • is punished by the Star Chamber,
• France,
  • treaty signed at Hampton Court with, for the defence of the Netherlands, and proposal for a double marriage to cement an alliance with,
  • commercial treaty with,
  • difficulty of interpreting the treaty of Hampton Court with,
  • treaty between the Dutch and,
  • attempt of Spain to form an alliance with,
  • treaty for mutual defence with,
  • proposed marriage alliance with, 154,
  • objection taken to a company with the right of exclusive trading with,
  • plan for a marriage alliance with, coolly received in,
  • meeting of the States-General in,
  • James resolves to break off the marriage treaty with,
  • Lord Hay's mission to,
  • end of the marriage treaty with,
  • favour shown to the cause of the Duke of Savoy in,
  • condition of the Protestants in,
  • civil war in,
  • Doncaster's mission to,
  • Mansfeld is prevented from entering,
  • probable change in the foreign policy of,
  • threatening position of Spain on the frontiers of,
  • relative importance attributed to the Palatinate and the Valtelline in,
  • enters into a treaty with the Dutch, and prepares for war,
  • forms a league for the recovery of the Valtelline,
  • position of the Huguenots in,
  • beginning of a civil war in,
  • reported peace in,
  • negotiations earned on at Fontainebleau between the Huguenot deputies and the King of,
  • resolution formed in, to make peace with the Huguenots and to attack Spain,
  • rupture of the negotiations between the King and the Huguenots in,
  • question raised as to the liability to seizure of ships of,
  • reprisals on English vessels in,
  • efforts of Holland and Carleton to mediate between the King and the Huguenots in,
  • reprisals for the sale of prize goods taken from,
  • friendly disposition towards England of the Government of,
  • doubts of the English alliance felt in,
  • treaty of Barcelona accepted by,
  • end of the alliance of England with,
  • excitement in, at the capture of French ships,
  • Buckingham hopes for a new alliance with,
  • stoppage of English ships in,
  • seizure of the English wine fleet in,
  • resolution of Richelieu to increase the maritime power of,
  • causes of the rupture with,
  • beginning of the war with,
  • agreement by Spain for a common action against England with,
  • prospect of peace with,
  • the resistance of Rochelle regarded as a misfortune by the Protestants of,
  • tolerant policy of Richelieu in,
  • acceptance by the Council of a treaty with,
  • takes part in the quarrel for the succession of Mantua and Montferrat,
  • treaty of peace signed at Susa between England and,
  • Rohan's rebellion in,
  • the Day of Dupes in,
  • takes a more prominent part after the death of Gustavus,
  • growing dependence of the German princes on,
  • seizes Lorraine and occupies posts in Alsace,
  • alliance of the Elector of Treves with,
  • engages to make an annual payment to the States-General,
  • Bernhard's army taken into the pay of,
  • agrees with the Dutch for a partition of the Spanish Netherlands,
  • declares war against Spain, and invades the Spanish Netherlands,
  • Charles rejects the offer of an alliance with,
  • negotiations of Leicester in,
  • Spanish invasion of,
  • repels the Spanish invasion,
  • Charles accepts Richelieu's terms for an alliance with,
  • reference to a conference at Hamburg of Charles's treaty with,
  • victories of the navy of,
  • intention of the Scots to make overtures for the renewal of the alliance with,
  • attempt of Charles to obtain a loan from,
  • movement of troops on the coast of,
  • Cottington asks for a loan from,
• Franceschi, Colonel,
  • forms a plot against James,
  • incites Newce to murder James,
  • is allowed to leave England,
• Francisco de Jesus.
  • See Jesus, Francisco de
• Frankenthal,
  • is besieged by Cordova,
  • Mansfeld raises the siege of,
  • proposed sequestration of,
  • the English garrison hindered from abandoning,
  • besieged by Tilly,
  • James proposes that Frankenthal be sequestrated,
  • negotiation between James and Frederick on the sequestration of,
  • signature of a treaty for the sequestration of,
  • is surrendered to Verclugo,
  • its restoration demanded by James,
• Franklin, James,
  • provides poison for Overbury,
  • charges Lady Somerset with complicity in Overbury's murder,
  • trial and execution of,
• Frederick IV. (Elector Palatine, 1583-1610),
  • conduct of, as head of the Union,
  • death of,
• Frederick V. (Elector Palatine, 1610-1632)
  • proposed marriage of, with the Princess Elizabeth,
  • is accepted,
  • arrives in England,
  • betrothal of,
  • marriage of,
  • leaves England,
  • character of,
  • designs of,
  • intrigues with the Duke of Savoy,
  • sends Christopher Dohna to England,
  • sends Mansfeld to treat with the Duke of Savoy,
  • his reception of Doncaster,
  • asks for English aid,
  • opens negotiations with the Elector of Saxony,
  • is chosen King of Bohemia,
  • accepts the crown,
  • sends Christopher Dohna again to England,
  • leaves Heidelberg for Bohemia,
  • finds no support in the Assembly of the Union at Nuremberg,
  • is defeated in the battle of Prague,
  • maintains his claim to Bohemia,
  • leaves Silesia,
  • is put to the ban,
  • gives contradictory promises to James and Mansfeld,
  • appears before the Assembly of Segeberg,
  • sets out for the Hague,
  • refuses to go to the Palatinate without an army,
  • arrives at the Hague,
  • persists in opposition to the Emperor after the dissolution of the Union,
  • demands a general amnesty,
  • appoints Mansfeld to command his troops in Bohemia,
  • publication of his secret papers,
  • refuses to abandon Bohemia,
  • joins the camp of the Prince of Orange,
  • refuses to make submission to the Emperor,
  • Spanish proposal for his abdication, and the education of his son at the Emperor's Court,
  • returns to the Hague, and promises Sir Edward Villiers that he will submit to the Emperor,
  • is required by James to renounce the crown of Bohemia,
  • promises to accept these terms,
  • want of enthusiasm for,
  • joins Mansfeld's army,
  • hesitates to consent to a truce,
  • refuses to agree to a truce and seizes the Landgrave of Darmstadt,
  • alienates the German princes by his behaviour at Darmstadt,
  • is ready to agree to an armistice,
  • accompanies Mansfeld to Alsace,
  • complains of the state of Mansfeld's army,
  • leaves the army for Sedan,
  • hopelessness of the cause of,
  • proposed abdication of,
  • proposal to neutralise Heidelberg as a residence for,
  • arrives at the Hague,
  • appeals to the Elector of Saxony for aid,
  • is deprived by the Emperor of his Electorate,
  • is asked by James to agree to the sequestration of Frankenthal,
  • objects to the sequestration,
  • refuses his signature to a treaty binding him not to disturb the peace of the Empire,
  • impracticability of his military designs,
  • fails to obtain the support of the two Protestant Electors, or of the States of Lower Saxony,
  • accepts a treaty for a suspension of arms,
  • declares that he will be ready to listen to overtures for his son's marriage after his own restoration,
  • proposal of Olivares to educate at Vienna the two sons of,
  • refuses to accept the Spanish terms,
  • urges James to support him in war,
  • negotiation between Charles and Philip on the claims of,
  • mocks at Charles's hope of recovering the Palatinate with Spanish aid,
  • receives permission from Charles to join Gustavus,
  • hopes of restoration given by Gustavus to,
  • is proposed by Charles as the military and political successor of Gustavus,
  • death of,
• Frederick Henry, Count,
  • succours Mansfeld's troops at Gertruidenberg,
  • succeeds his brother as Prince of Orange,
  • See Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
• Frederick Henry (Prince of Orange, 1625)),
  • receives with coldness Buckingham's proposal for a combined attack on Dunkirk,
  • sends a message to Carleton to order Alleyne to leave the Texel,
  • is informed by Charles of his wish to make peace with Spain,
  • assumes the offensive against Spain,
  • disapproves of Charles's wish to make peace with Spain,
  • besieges Hertogenbosch,
  • takes Hertogenbosch and Wesel, and refuses to come to an understanding with Charles for the recovery of the Palatinate,
  • takes Venloo and Koermonde and besieges Maastricht,
  • takes Maestricht and urges the Belgian provinces to declare their independence,
  • captures Rhinberg,
  • proposes to Richelieu a joint attack on Dunkirk,
  • joins the French in an attack on the Spanish Netherlands,
  • grants toleration to the Arminians,
  • receives Mary de Medicis with respect,
  • aid expected by Charles from,
  • is expected by Charles to send material assistance,
  • Charles applies for aid to,
  • advises Charles to keep clear of war,
  • Henrietta Maria proposes to marry the Prince of Wales to the daughter of,
  • proposes to offer the mediation of the States between the King and the Parliament,
  • withdraws his countenance from the Queen,
• Freedom of trade,
  • Bill for,
• Free gift, a,
  • demanded by Charles,
  • resistance to the payment of,
• French actors,\
  • visit London,
• Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies, The,
  • is written by Dr. Ames,
• Frias, Duke of.
  • See Constable of Castile
• Fryer, Sir Thomas,
  • is present at Buckingham's murder,
• Fuentes, Marquis of,
  • refuses to acknowledge Charles's fishing licences,
• Fuller, Nicholas,
  • is a member of the first Parliament of James I.,
  • speaks depreciatingly of the Scots,
  • speaks against the naturalisation of the Scots,
  • defends Ladd and Maunsell,
  • attacks the High Commission,
  • is imprisoned,
  • submits and is released,
  • is elected to the Parliament of 1614,
• Fundamental laws, the,
  • alleged violation of,
• Gage, Colonel,
  • proposes to induce the Cardinal Infant to lend Spanish troops to Charles,
• Gage, George,
  • arrives at Rome to obtain the Pope's approval of the marriage treaty,
  • brings back the Pope's terms,
  • his instructions from a congregation of cardinals,
  • is sent back to Rome,
  • visits Madrid and afterwards returns to Rome,
  • returns to England, and is present at a banquet after the oath taken by James to the Spanish marriage treaty,
• Gainsborough,
  • emigration of a Separatist congregation from,
  • probable connection between Clifton's congregation and that at,
• Galway,
  • Wentworth's treatment of the jury of,
  • petition of the inhabitants of,
• Gamester, The.
  • Charles suggests the plot of Shirley's play of,
• Gardiner, Sir Thomas (Recorder of the City of London),
  • is intended to be the Speaker of the Long Parliament, but fails to obtain a seat,
  • speaks angrily of a clause in a petition declaring that the Common Council desired the exclusion of the Bishops from the House of Lords,
  • is impeached,
• Garnet, Henry (Provincial of the Jesuits in England),
  • receives breves from the Pope,
  • gives Winter an introduction to the King of Spain,
  • Gerard's' friendship with,
  • is acquainted with the Gunpowder Plot.
  • is taken,
  • is examined,
  • his narrative of his connection with the plot,
  • his trial, his doctrine of equivocation,
  • his execution,
  • fable of his straw,
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Garway. Henry (Lord Mayor),
  • is threatened by the King,
  • attempts to distrain for ship-money,
• Gaston (Duke of Orleans),
  • takes part in the Day of Dupes, and escapes to Lorraine,
  • asks Charles to join Spain and Lorraine against Richelieu, and to lend him English ships,
  • prepares to invade France,
  • fails to support Montmorency,
• Gates, Sir Thomas,
  • is Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia,
  • arrives in Virginia,
  • becomes Governor,
• Gateshead,
  • is left unfortified,
• Gazettes,
  • forbidden to print foreign news,
• Geere, Alderman,
  • imprisonment of,
  • liberation of,
  • is a favourite candidate for the mayoralty,
• General Assembly.
  • See Assembly.
• General pardon,
  • offered by the King, and set aside by the Commons,
• General Supplication.
  • See Supplication, the General
• Genoa,
  • Raleigh proposes an attack on,
  • proposed attack on, by the Duke of Savoy,
  • request of the Duke of Savoy to James for men and money to be used against,
  • Lesdiguieres proposes an attack upon,
  • French troops co-operate with the Duke of Savoy in an attack on,
  • Lesdiguieres commands the French troops employed against,
  • Charles attempts to obtain a loan from,
• George William, Elector of Brandenburg,
  • offers to Gustavus the leadership of the North German princes,
• Gerard, Father John,
  • informs Cecil of Watson's plot,
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Gerbier, Balthasar,
  • accompanies Buckingham to Paris,
  • is sent to Brussels to propose a suspension of arms,
  • returns to England to propose a separate peace with Spain,
  • is directed to inform Rubens that England will not treat with Spain apart from the States-General,
  • his negotiation with Rubens comes to nothing,
  • continues to correspond with Rubens,
  • is sent as resident minister to Brussels,
  • application of the discontented nobles to,
  • receives instructions with regard to the proposed revolution in the Netherlands,
  • betrays Charles,
  • is employed to persuade the Cardinal Infant to acknowledge Charles's fishing licences,
  • carries on a secret negotiation with the Princess of Pfalzburg,
• Germany,
  • results of the Reformation in,
  • the ecclesiastical reservation in,
  • Catholic reaction in,
  • danger of the dissolution of the Empire in,
  • opposition of the Union and the League in,
  • danger arising from the disputed succession of Cleves and Juliers in,
  • Lutheran party in,
  • Calvinist party in,
  • effect of the Bohemian revolution on,
  • James's attempts to mediate in,
  • Doncaster's mission to,
  • mission of Wotton to,
  • mission of Conway and Weston to,
  • effect of the battle of Prague upon,
  • contrast between France and,
  • want of enthusiasm for Frederick in,
  • plan adopted by the Spanish Council of State for the settlement of,
  • English commissioners appointed to treat for peace in,
  • James signs a treaty for a suspension of arms in Germany,
  • course of the Thirty Years' War in,
  • unwillingness of the House of Commons to engage in war in,
  • the ecclesiastical territories in the north of,
  • position of Christian IV. in,
  • defeat of Mansfeld and Christian IV. in,
  • end of English military intervention in,
  • Pembroke and Dorchester wish Charles to intervene in,
  • decline of English sympathy with the Protestants of,
  • progress of Wallenstein in,
  • issue of the Edict of Restitution in,
  • peace of Luebeck in,
  • dismissal of Wallenstein and landing of Gustavus in,
  • Richelieu's diplomacy in,
  • defeat of Tilly by Gustavus at Breitenfeld in,
  • consequences of the battle of Breitenfeld in,
  • fresh successes of Gustavus in,
  • struggle between Gustavus and Wallenstein in,
  • death of Gustavus in,
  • growing influence of France in,
  • Charles offers to join France in the war in,
  • further growth of French influence in,
  • increasing strength of the House of Austria in,
  • results of the Imperialist victory at Nordlingen in,
  • the signature of the Treaty of Prague in,
  • Taylor's description of the miserable condition of,
  • Arundel's mission to,
  • Roe's report of the condition of,
• Gertruidenberg,
  • miserable condition of Mansfeld's troops at,
• Gibbons. —(?),
  • alleged malpractices of,
  • is fined at Holland's justice-seat at Gloucester,
• Gifford, Dr.,
  • brings a message from the Pope,
• Giles, Sir Edward,
  • wishes Floyd to be pilloried,
  • complains that a pardon has been granted to a Jesuit,
• Gill, Alexander,
  • is prosecuted in the Star Chamber for proposing Felton's health,
• Giron, Don Fernando,
  • quarrels with Buckingham,
• Gladstanes, George (Archbishop of St Andrews, 1605-1615),
  • appointed Archbishop of St. Andrews,
• Glanville, John,
  • produces precedents in Wentworth's election case,
  • draws up the protestation adopted by Charles's first Parliament,
  • is sent to sea as secretary to the Cadiz expedition,
  • charges Buckingham with exacting money from the East India Company and lending ships against Rochelle,
  • argues before the Lords against the additional clause proposed in the Petition of Right,
  • declares against the ship-money judgment,
• Glanville, Richard,
  • case in Chancery of,
• Glasgow,
  • meeting of the Assembly at,
• Glass,
  • the monopoly of, considered by the Commons, 1614,
  • patents in support of the manufacture of,
• Gloucester,
  • alteration of the position of the communion-table at,
  • Holland's justice-seat at
  • Workman's sermons at,
• Gloucestershire,
  • resistance to the forced loan in,
• Glueckstadt
  • flight of Christian IV. from,
  • is defended by the Danes,
  • Morgan is sent to aid in the defence of,
  • Morgan ordered to remain at,
  • danger of,
• Glyn, John,
  • reports that the recusancy laws have not been put in force against priests and Jesuits,
  • argues in support of Vane's evidence,
  • offers fresh evidence,
  • replies to Strafford's general defence,
• Goad, Dr.,
  • criticises the Histriomastix,
• Goffe, Stephen,
  • uses the Prayer-book as chaplain of Lord Vere's regiment,
• Gold,
  • fines imposed for the exportation of,
• Gold and silver thread,
  • patents for the manufacture of,
  • inquiry by the Commons into the monopoly of,
• Gondomar, Count of,
  • tries to throw obstacles in the way of the expedition against the pirates,
  • favour shown by James to,
  • asks for justice on Raleigh,
  • leaves England,
  • attack by a mob on one of the servants of,
  • makes a report on English affairs,
  • comments on Buckingham's letter,
  • prepares to return to England,
  • lands at Dover,
  • his first audience,
  • replies to Digby's remonstrance,
  • answers James's question about the Spanish designs on the Palatinate,
  • proposes the resumption of the marriage treaty,
  • complains of James's proceedings,
  • his opinion of the Prince,
  • advises Philip to go on with the marriage treaty,
  • pleads for Lake,
  • listens to Buckingham's plan for the partition of the Netherlands,
  • induces James to believe that Spinola will not attack the Palatinate,
  • announces that the Palatinate must be conquered,
  • asserts that he had never engaged that the Palatinate should not be attacked,
  • tries to stop the expedition against Algiers,
  • complains of Naunton,
  • obtains from James an acknowledgment that he had not deluded him about the Palatinate,
  • is ordered to amuse James about the marriage treaty,
  • is alarmed by threats of assassination,
  • advises James to submit to the Pope,
  • is allowed to export ordnance,
  • complains of Ward's caricature,
  • is insulted in the streets,
  • complains to the Lord Mayor,
  • accompanies Buckingham in a litter,
  • is assured by James that he need not fear Parliament,
  • writes to James to complain of the insolence of the House of Commons,
  • receives Buckingham's congratulations on the dissolution of Parliament,
  • expresses his satisfaction at the dissolution, and urges James to punish the leaders of the Commons,
  • policy of, contrasted with that of Digby,
  • hires ships to break the blockade of the Flemish ports,
  • asks for the recall of the Earl of Oxford,
  • returns to Spain,
  • persuades Prince Charles to promise to visit Madrid,
  • is appointed a commissioner on the marriage treaty, and assures James that all difficulties will be removed,
  • uses his influence in the junta on the marriage treaty against the acceptance of the Pope's terms,
  • mediates between Bristol and the junta on the marriage,
  • proposes a middle course between the English demands and those of the Spanish Council of State,
  • informs Olivares of the Prince's arrival at Madrid,
  • is created a Councillor of State,
  • advises the Spanish Government to show confidence in Charles,
  • quells a tumult caused by an assault on a priest by Sir E. Verney,
  • desires that Frederick's son may be brought up as a Catholic,
  • opposes the scheme of Olivares for the settlement of the Palatinate,
  • resolution taken for his return to England,
  • passes through Paris on his way to Brussels,
• Good behaviour,
  • refusal of the imprisoned members to give security for,
• Goodman, Godfrey (Bishop of Gloucester 1624),
  • is secretly a Roman Catholic,
  • is imprisoned for his conduct in the Convocation of 1640,
  • Falkland's allusion to,
• Goodman, John,
  • is convicted as a priest,
  • his execution demanded by the Commons,
  • is left by Charles to the judgment of Parliament, and remains unmolested in prison,
• Goodwin, John,
  • is dissuaded by Sibbes from separating from the Church of England,
• Goodwin, Sir Francis,
  • is elected by Buckinghamshire,
  • his election questioned,
  • vacates his seat,
• Gordon, Lord (George Gordon)
  • accompanies Huntly to Edinburgh,
• Gordon, Sir Lewis,
  • imprisonment of,
• Gorges, Sir Ferdinando,
  • favours the colonisation of New England,
  • hangs back from employment against Rochelle,
  • refuses to give up his ship to be used against Rochelle,
  • is appointed to the Governorship of Massachusetts, under the Crown,
• Goring, George,
  • is challenged by Lord Fielding,
  • quarrels with Nethersole,
  • is proposed as Lieutenant-General of the Northern Army, to bring it to the support of the King,
  • is Governor of Portsmouth, and offers to hold it for the Queen,
  • asks that the army may be brought up and the Tower secured,
  • refusal of Percy and the officers to serve under,
  • betrays the Army Plot to the Parliamentary leaders,
  • tells Chudleigh that the Queen means to take refuge at Portsmouth,
  • is expected to shelter Charles and Henrietta Maria,
  • Charles hears of the treason of,
  • his oath of secrecy mentioned in the House,
  • is cleared by a vote of the Commons,
  • denies a rumour that fresh fortifications had been raised at Portsmouth,
  • holds Portsmouth for the King,
• Goring, Lord, 1628 (George Goring),
  • complains of Nethersole to the Council,
  • reads Catholic books,
  • See Goring, Sir George
• Goring, Sir George,
  • is to go to France to clear up difficulties,
  • his mission countermanded,
  • informs Buckingham that it is impossible to borrow money,
  • See Goring, Lord
• Gormanston, Lord, 1599-1637 (Jenico Preston),
  • objects to the meeting of an Irish Parliament,
• Gosnold, Bartholomew,
  • visits New England,
  • death of,
• Gouge, William,
  • character and work of,
  • his language about the sanctity of churches,
• Gough, Sir James,
  • nominates Everard as Speaker of the Irish Parliament,
  • gives out that James will grant liberty of conscience,
• Gower, Sir Thomas,
  • resists the jurisdiction of the Council of the North,
  • is imprisoned,
• Graces, the,
  • first draft of,
  • amended form of,
  • Wentworth's resolution about,
  • the greater part of them become law,
• Graham, Sir Richard,
  • accompanies Charles to Madrid,
• Grandison, Viscount, 1620-1630 (Oliver St. John),
  • is a member of the Council of War,
  • proposal of Heath to produce the evidence of,
  • is made Lord Tregoze in the English peerage,
  • urges the English Council not to neglect the army in Ireland,
  • See St. John, Sir Oliver
• Grant, John.
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Grantham,
  • dispute about the position of the communion-table at,
• Gravesend,
  • Charles and Buckingham cross the ferry at,
• Gray, Lady
  • Catherine, her claim to the throne,
  • her marriage with the Earl of Hertford,
• Gray, Sir Andrew,
  • asks permission to levy troops for Bohemia,
  • is allowed to levy them,
• Gray's Inn,
  • preachership of Sibbes at,
• Great Britain,
  • proposed title of King of,
• Great Council, the.
  • See Council, the Great
• Great Level of the Fens,
  • drainage of,
• Greenway, Oswald.
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Gregory XV., Pope, 1621-1623,
  • appoints a congregation to consider the marriage treaty,
  • demands new conditions in the marriage treaty,
  • receives a letter from James,
  • writes to Prince Charles,
  • death of,
• Grenville, Sir Richard,
  • lands with troops in Ireland,
• Gresley, Walsingham,
  • meets Prince Charles at Irun,
• Greville, Sir Fulk,
  • becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer,
  • gives his opinion on the preparation for Parliament,
  • argues against the surrender of the cautionary towns,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • becomes Lord Brooke,
  • See Brooke, Lord
• Grey, a friar
  • suggests a marriage between Charles and Henrietta Maria,
• Grey of Wilton, Lord, 1593 (Thomas Grey),
  • takes part in Watson's plot,
  • trial and conviction of,
  • is reprieved and sent to the Tower,
• Grey Friars' Church,
  • signature of the Covenant in,
• Grimston, Harbottle,
  • speaks on grievances in the Short Parliament,
  • tells an anecdote about the judges and the bishops,
  • declares Laud to be the root of all the miseries of the country,
• Grimston, Sir Harbottle,
  • asks for an explanation of the law on committal,
• Grindal, Edmund (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1575-1583),
  • sends Presbyterians to gaol,
  • favours the prophesyings,
  • is suspended for protesting against their suppression,
  • death of,
• Grison Leagues, the,
  • lose possession of the Valtelline,
• Grocers' Hall,
  • the Commons meet in committee at,
• Grol,
  • captured by the Dutch,
• Grotius, Hugo,
  • sent as commissioner to treat of the East India trade in England,
  • writes the Mare Liberum,
• Guernsey,
  • imprisonment of Burton in,
• Guiana,
  • Raleigh's first voyage to,
  • voyage of Keymis to,
  • Berry's voyage to,
  • explorations of Leigh and Harcourt in,
  • claimed by the King of Spain,
  • supposed position of a gold mine in,
  • Raleigh's second voyage to,
• Guildhall, the,
  • a committee of the whole House ordered to meet at,
  • meeting of the Commons in committee at,
• Guiton, Jean,
  • refuses to surrender Rochelle,
  • has difficulty in keeping up the spirits of the Rochellese,
• Gun, Colonel,
  • alleged treachery of,
• Gunpowder Plot,
  • the idea of, conceived by Catesby,
  • suggested to Percy,
  • suggested to Thomas Winter and John Wright,
  • Winter brings Fawkes from Flanders to England,
  • Percy fully informed,
  • after an oath of secrecy, a house is taken at Westminster, and another, under the charge of Keyes.at Lambeth,
  • commencement of the mine,
  • Robert Winter, John Grant, John Bates, and Christopher Wright admitted,
  • a cellar hired,
  • visit of Fawkes to Flanders,
  • Baynham sent to the Pope,
  • attitude of Garnet, Gerard, and Greenway,
  • want of money amongst the conspirators leads them to inform Digby, Rokewood, and Tresham,
  • preparations made for an insurrection,
  • some Catholic lords warned,
  • Tresham resolves to give information,
  • and conveys it in a letter to Lord Monteagle,
  • who carries it to Whitehall,
  • information given to the King,
  • the gunpowder discovered, and Fawkes captured,
  • Tresham's part in the discovery discussed,
  • warning given to the conspirators,
  • who refuse to abandon the design,
  • on the arrest of Fawkes, they take flight,
  • the hunting at Dunchurch,
  • seizure of horses at Warwick,
  • attempt to gain over Abington and Talbot,
  • conduct of Garnet and Greenway,
  • the flight to Holbeche,
  • death of the two Wrights, Catesby, and Percy, and capture of the other plotters,
  • character of the plot,
  • examination of Fawkes,
  • torture of Fawkes,
  • death of Tresham,
  • trial of the surviving conspirators,
  • their execution,
  • anniversary of the discovery of the plot ordered by Parliament to be observed, and a Bill of Attainder against, the conspirators passed,
  • See Garnet, Henry
• Gurney, Richard (Lord Mayor),
  • is knighted,
  • See Gurney, Sir Richard
• Gurney, Sir Richard,
  • is made a baronet,
  • opposes the signing of a petition,
  • interferes with citizens petitioning the House of Commons,
  • commits Prophet Hunt to prison,
  • remonstrates against Lunsford's appointment,
  • is ordered to keep the peace in the City,
  • refuses to call out the trained bands,
  • cannot proclaim the members traitors,
  • orders the King's proclamation prohibiting the publication of the Militia Ordinance to be read in the City,
  • is impeached for publishing the King's commission of array,
  • is sentenced by the Lords,
• Gustavus II, Adolphus (King of Sweden, 1611),
  • proposes to marry the Princess Elizabeth,
  • plan for a war against the House of Austria laid down by,
  • critical position of,
  • suggests the formation of a general Protestant league,
  • plan of campaign proposed by,
  • fears a Danish attack,
  • alarm of James at the magnitude of the demands of,
  • proposal of James that the King of Denmark shall serve under,
  • refuses to take part in the war on James's conditions,
  • makes war against Poland,
  • sends an ambassador to the congress at the Hague, who dies before its meeting,
  • aids Stralsund,
  • wishes that a Protestant alliance may be formed against the Emperor,
  • is allowed to levy regiments in England and Scotland,
  • lands in Germany,
  • establishes himself in Pomerania,
  • makes a treaty with the French, but is unable to relieve Magdeburg,
  • defeats Tilly at Breitenfeld,
  • receives Vane at Wuerzburg,
  • refuses to be bargained with by Charles,
  • keeps Christmas at Mentz,
  • offers to regain the Palatinate if Charles will aid him with a fleet and army,
  • defeats Tilly on the Lech, and enters Munich,
  • in the midst of his struggle with Wallenstein at Nueremberg, rejects Charles's offer of aid,
  • is slain at Luetzen,
• Guthrie, John (Bishop of Moray, 1623),
  • preaches at Holyrood in a rochet,
• Gwilliams, George,
  • gives evidence against the Lakes,
• Gwynn,
  • confesses a design to murder James,
• Habeas Corpus, the writ of,
  • demand of the five knights to be bailed on,
  • proposal of Noy for a bill regulating the issue of,
  • proposal of Wentworth to introduce a bill on,
  • application of imprisoned members of Parliament for,
  • applied for by Pargiter,
• Habington, William,
  • his Castara,
• Hackney coaches,
  • licences granted to,
• Haddington, 2nd Earl of (Thomas Hamilton),
  • heads a deputation to summon the Scottish Council to keep the peace with the English Parliament,
• Haddington, Viscount, 1606-1625, Earl of Holderness, 1620-1625 (John Ramsay),
  • payment of the debts of,
  • is appealed to by Raleigh,
  • becomes Earl of Holderness,
  • See Holderness, Earl of
• Hague, the,
  • Congress proposed by James, to meet at,
  • delay in the meeting of the Congress at,
  • Buckingham prepares to visit,
  • meeting of the Congress at,
  • treaty between England, Denmark, and the States-General, signed at,
  • conference of deputies from the two parts of the Netherlands at,
• Haguenau,
  • is besieged by the Archduke Leopold,
  • is abandoned by Mansfeld,
• Haig, William,
  • draws up the supplication of the Scottish lords of the Opposition,
  • escapes to Holland,
• Hakewill, William,
  • is a member of the first Parliament of James I.,
  • believes the imposition on currants to be legal,
  • changes his opinion and takes part in the debate on impositions,
  • recommends the House of Commons in 1614 to discuss the impositions,
• Halberstadt, Administrator of.
  • See Christian of Brunswick
• Hales, John,
  • opinions of,
  • his interview with Laud,
  • becomes a canon of Windsor,
• Hail, Joseph (Bishop of Exeter, 1627; of Norwich, 1641),
  • publishes Episcopacy by Divine Right,
  • is obliged to beg pardon of Saye,
  • his Humble Remonstrance for Liturgy and Episcopacy,
  • becomes Bishop of Norwich,
• Hamburg,
  • ships from, placed under an embargo,
  • Wallenstein marches past,
  • is blockaded by Trevor,
  • attempt of Dr. Ambrose to read the English service at,
  • the French refer the consideration of their treaty with Charles to a congress to meet at,
  • delay in the meeting of the congress at,
  • meeting of the congress at,
  • result of the congress at,
• Hamilton, Lord John,
  • is invited by the ministers of Edinburgh to put himself at their head,
  • is created Marquis of Hamilton,
  • See Hamilton, Marquis of
• Hamilton, Lord William,
  • created Earl of Lanark,
  • See Lanark, Earl of
• Hamilton, Marchioness of,
  • wish of Charles that she shall be a lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen,
  • attempts made to induce her to change her religion,
• Hamilton, 2nd Marquis of, 1604-1625, Earl of Cambridge, 1619-1625 (James Hamilton),
  • speaks in Bacon's favour,
  • votes against war with Spain,
  • is believed to have employed Frenchmen to rob Lafuente of his despatches,
  • dissuades Buckingham from sending Bristol to the Tower,
  • opposes Buckingham's subserviency to France,
  • death of,
• Hamilton, 3rd Marquis of, 1625 (James Hamilton),
  • is allowed by Charles to levy volunteers for Gustavus,
  • Charles explains to Coloma the conditions of the enterprise of,
  • Roe disbelieves the possibility of the success of,
  • levies volunteers in Scotland,
  • rumour of the intended treason of, disbelieved by Charles,
  • raises volunteers in England, and sails to join Gustavus,
  • failure of his enterprise,
  • becomes Charles's adviser on Scottish affairs,
  • opposes Necolalde,
  • secures a payment from the Vintners' Company,
  • has the right of licensing Hackney coaches,
  • is selected to carry on Charles's negotiations with the Scots, as commissioner,
  • character of,
  • is indifferent to the religious side of the dispute,
  • despairs of success,
  • arrives in Scotland,
  • enters Edinburgh,
  • despairs of obtaining the submission of the Covenanters without war,
  • proposes to return to England,
  • has the King's declaration read in Edinburgh before leaving Scotland,
  • encourages the resistance of the Covenanters,
  • returns to England,
  • is sent back to Scotland to authorise an Assembly and a Parliament,
  • brings with him a Covenant proposed by the King, and tries to divide the Covenanters,
  • returns to England, and comes back to Scotland with fresh instructions,
  • fails to produce jealousy between the gentry and the clergy,
  • gives advice on the best way of dealing with the Assembly,
  • tries to gain a party for the King, and purchases Edinburgh Castle,
  • complains of the composition of the Assembly of Glasgow,
  • gives hopes of being able to raise a party for the King,
  • dissolves the Assembly,
  • makes his report to the English Council,
  • is sent with a force to Aberdeen,
  • is directed to reinforce Huntly at Aberdeen,
  • is charged by Dorset with treason,
  • is sent to the Forth,
  • condition of his troops at Yarmouth,
  • seizes Scottish shipping, and sails up the Firth of Forth,
  • despairs of success,
  • advises the King to give way,
  • is ordered to negotiate,
  • announces that he has held a conference with the Covenanters,
  • sends two regiments to Holy Island,
  • sends Aboyne to the North, and asks Charles for money,
  • warns Charles that Englishmen will not take his part against the Scots,
  • joins the King,
  • instals Ruthven as Governor of Edinburgh Castle, and is ill-treated by the populace,
  • warns Charles against any attempt to restore episcopacy in Scotland,
  • resigns his commissionership, and carries on an intrigue with the Covenanters,
  • supports Wentworth's proposal to summon a Parliament,
  • suggests Vane for the Secretaryship,
  • is asked to preside over the Scottish Parliament,
  • persuades Charles to set Loudoun at liberty,
  • suggests the seizure of the bullion in the Tower,
  • large numbers of Catholics in command under,
  • attempts to dissuade Charles from going to York,
  • disbandment of the troops of,
  • proposes to betray the Scots,
  • is said to have persuaded Charles to send for Strafford,
  • proposal to impeach,
  • advises the appointment of new Privy Councillors,
  • gives evidence that he does not remember hearing Strafford propose to bring over the Irish army,
  • paper brought by Walter Stewart to warn the King against the influence of,
  • attempts to win over Argyle,
  • accompanies the King to Scotland,
  • attaches himself to Argyle,
  • is regarded as a deserter by the King's party, and is challenged by Ker,
  • plot formed to arrest,
  • talk of stabbing,
  • takes flight from Edinburgh,
  • the King speaks of his old affection for,
  • returns to Edinburgh,
  • accompanies Charles to the City after the attempt on the five members,
• Hamilton, Sir Thomas,
  • acts as Lord Advocate at the trial of Forbes and other ministers,
  • See Binning, Lord
• Hamilton, William,
  • is sent to Rome as the Queen's Agent,
• Hampden, John,
  • is imprisoned for refusing to pay the forced loan,
  • corresponds with Eliot,
  • musters trained bands in a churchyard,
  • selection for submission to the judges of his refusal to pay ship-money,
  • arguments on the case of,
  • opinions of the judges on the case of,
  • Wentworth's opinion of,
  • asks that the King's demand of twelve subsidies may be put to the House,
  • his study searched,
  • takes part in a meeting of the opponents of the Court,
  • self-abnegation of,
  • wishes the Londoners' petition to be sent to a committee,
  • wishes the question of Strafford's legal guilt to be argued, in spite of the Bill of Attainder,
  • comes to an understanding with Falkland, that episcopacy is not to be abolished,
  • is a member of the committee for investigating the Army Plot,
  • rumoured appointment of, to the Secretaryship,
  • rumoured approaching appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
  • is appointed a Parliamentary Commissioner to attend the King in Scotland,
  • arrives at Edinburgh,
  • watches Charles's conduct,
  • returns to Parliament,
  • quiets a tumult in the House of Commons,
  • the King resolves to impeach,
  • impeachment of,
  • his study sealed up,
  • withdraws to the City,
  • announces that his constituents are on their way with a petition,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
  • sends Berkshire a prisoner to London,
• Hampden, Sir Edmund,
  • applies for a habeas corpus,
• Hampshire,
  • men levied for the expedition to Rhé in,
  • alleged meeting of recusants in,
• Hampton Court,
  • conference at,
  • Charles and Henrietta Maria take refuge at,
• Hansby, Ralph,
  • is said to have bribed Bacon,
• Harcourt,
  • his voyage to Guiana,
• Harcourt, Sir Simon,
  • proposal to send troops to Ireland under,
  • arrives with troops in Ireland,
  • is slain,
• Harley, Sir Robert,
  • presents a petition from the ministers for reformation of Church government,
• Harrison, John,
  • offers a loan of 50,000l., and is knighted,
  • See Harrison, Sir John
• Harrison, Sir John,
  • offers to lend 150,000l.
• Harsnet, Samuel (Bishop of Chichester, 1609;of Norwich, 1619; Archbishop of York, 1628),
  • draws up the Lords' propositions on imprisonment,
  • suggests that the Lords should ask the Commons to join in requesting the King to give another answer to the Petition of Right,
  • reprimands Davenant for preaching on predestination,
  • death of,
  • his Popish impostures,
• Harvest of 1630,
  • deficiency of the,
• Harvey, Dr. William,
  • is doubtful of the recovery of James I.,
• Harvey, Lord, 1620-1642 (William Harvey),
  • is a member of the Council of War,
• Harvey, Sir Sebastian,
  • refuses to marry his daughter to Christopher Villiers,
• Harwich,
  • is in danger from the Dunkirk privateers, and is occupied by the Essex trained bands,
  • Pennington sent to protect,
• Hastings, Henry,
  • tries to seize the county magazine at Leicester,
  • is unsuccessful,
  • finds general resistance in Leicestershire,
• Hastings, Sir Francis,
  • moves for a committee on religion,
  • reprimanded by the Council for drawing up a petition in favour of the Nonconformists,
  • objects to the King's refusal to allow the Commons to discuss the impositions,
• Hatfield Chase,
  • drainage of,
• Hatton, Lady,
  • marries Coke,
  • refuses to take his name,
  • appeals to the Privy Council,
  • supports her daughter's refusal to marry Sir John Villiers, and sends her to Oatlands,
  • appeals to the Council,
  • is flattered by Buckingham,
  • refuses to make over her property to her daughter,
  • persists in her refusal,
  • her advice asked by Lepton and Goldsmith how to revenge themselves on her husband,
• Hatton, Luke,
  • his connection with the quarrel between Lady Exeter and the Lakes,
• Hatton, Sir Christopher,
  • is fined for encroachments on Rockingham Forest,
• Haultain, Admiral,
  • defeats the Spaniards off Dover,
• Havre,
  • orders given to Pennington to attack French ships at,
• Hawley, James,
  • quarrels with Maxwell,
• Hay, Lord, without place in Parliament, 1606-1615, Lord Hay of Sawley, 1615-1618 (James Hay),
  • payment of the debts of,
  • witnesses the confession of Balmerino,
  • his mission to Paris,
  • his courtship of Lucy Percy,
  • marries, and resigns the Mastership of the Wardrobe,
  • See Doncaster, Viscount
• Hay, Sir George (Chancellor of Scotland),
  • tries to stop the Dutch from attacking a Dunkirk privateer at Leith,
  • is sent for by Charles,
  • becomes Earl of Kinnoul,
  • See Kinnoul, Earl of
• Hay, Sir John,
  • is made Provost of Edinburgh,
  • is unable to suppress the riots,
  • suggests that the petitioners may leave a small deputation in Edinburgh,
• Haye, La,
  • is sent as a French agent to Denmark and Sweden,
• Hazlerigg, Sir Arthur,
  • supports the Bill of Attainder,
  • passes on the Root-and-Branch Bill to Dering,
  • asks if it is safe for the King to visit Scotland when a new plot has been discovered there,
  • brings in the Militia Bill,
  • the King resolves to impeach,
  • impeachment of,
  • withdraws to the City,
• Head of the Church,
  • the King's title of, explained by Cosin,
• Heath, Robert,
  • is Somerset's nominee for the execution of Roper's office,
  • is supported by Villiers,
  • is admitted, jointly with Shute, to the office,
  • is put forward by Buckingham for the Recordership,
  • is elected Recorder,
  • See Heath, Sir Robert
• Heath, Sir Robert (Solicitor-General, 1620: Attorney-General, 1625; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1631-1634; Justice of the King's Bench, 1641),
  • becomes Solicitor-General,
  • supports a petition on religion,
  • acknowledges that the liberties of Parliament are inherited,
  • promises an answer to the grievances of 1624,
  • opposes the limitation of tonnage and poundage to a single year,
  • tells the Commons that the additional supply asked for by Coke is not needed,
  • defends the issue of a pardon to a Jesuit,
  • warns the Commons against inquiring into the conduct of Montague on the ground that he is in the King's service,
  • asks the Commons to come to an understanding with the King on the proposed war against Spain,
  • asserts that the Council of War has often been consulted,
  • becomes Attorney-General,
  • defends Buckingham before Eliot's committee,
  • gives an opinion adverse to the claim of the Commons to ask what advice had been given by the members of the Council of War,
  • delivers charges against Bristol,
  • helps Buckingham in his defence,
  • begs Charles to postpone the dissolution,
  • argues for the Crown in the five knights' case,
  • argues against the Commons' resolutions on the liberty of the subject,
  • disavows Sergeant Ashley's statement that the question of imprisonment is too high for legal decision,
  • draws up forms of the answer to be given by the King to the Petition of Right,
  • prosecutes Chambers in the Star Chamber, and applies to the Court of Exchequer to prevent Rolle from regaining his goods,
  • appeals to Montague to revise his book,
  • explains by what authority he has drawn pardons for Montague and others,
  • is accused of stifling a charge against Cosin,
  • acknowledges that the summons of a member on a subpoena is a breach of privilege,
  • propounds questions to the judges on the case against the imprisoned members,
  • exhibits an information in the Star Chamber against them,
  • replies to the demand of the members for bail,
  • advises the King not to produce the prisoners in court,
  • confers with three Privy Councillors on the terms on which bail is to be offered to the imprisoned members,
  • brings an information in the King's Bench against Eliot, Holles, and Valentine,
  • charge brought against Eliot, Holles, and Valentine by,
  • makes a reply,
  • becomes Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
  • is on the side of leniency in Sherfield's case,
  • is dismissed from the Chief Justiceship,
  • postpones his argument in the case of Chambers,
  • becomes a puisne judge,
  • his appointment of Master of the Wards cancelled,
• Heenvliet, John van der Kerckhove, Lord of,
  • converses with Charles about the marriage of Prince William of Orange,
  • is told by Charles that the Commons mean to take the Queen from him, and refuses to beg the King to stay,
  • has an interview with Charles and the Queen,
  • informs Charles that the Prince of Orange advises him to keep clear of war,
• Heidelberg,
  • Frederick sets out for Bohemia from,
  • Digby provides for the defence of,
  • first siege of,
  • proposed neutralisation of,
  • second siege and fall of,
  • James summons Philip to obtain the restitution of,
  • reception in Madrid of the news of the fall of,
  • the Spanish Government refuses to promise the immediate restitution of,
  • foundation of a college of Jesuits in,
  • the French compel the Imperialists to raise the siege of,
• Heilbronn, the League of,
  • is formed,
  • asks aid of Charles,
  • its troops defeated at Nordlingen,
• Heiligenhafen,
  • defeat of the Margrave of Baden at,
• Hein, Peter,
  • captures the Spanish treasure fleet,
• Helwys, Sir Gervase,
  • appointed Lieutenant of the Tower,
  • conceals an attempt to poison Overbury,
  • makes a statement of his part in the murder,
  • implicates the Earl and Countess of Somerset,
  • trial and execution of,
• Henderson, Alexander,
  • draws up a protest against the new Prayer-book,
  • appears before the Council with a large following,
  • takes part in drawing up the Covenant,
  • gives satisfaction to those who doubt about the Covenant,
  • accompanies Montrose to Aberdeen,
  • is probably the author of the protestation against the King's Covenant,
  • is elected Moderator of the Assembly of Glasgow,
  • draws up a declaration of the wish of the Scottish Commissioners to see episcopacy abolished in England,
  • draws up a memorial for unity of religion,
  • is constantly at the King's side,
• Henrietta Maria, Princess,
  • is ready to consent to marry Charles,
  • is seen by Charles at Paris,
  • Parliament is informed of Charles's projected marriage with,
  • receives Kensington,
  • personal appearance of,
  • marriage of,
  • See Henrietta Maria, Queen of England.
  • See Marriage Treaty.
• Henrietta Maria (Queen of England, 1625),
  • her first interview with Charles,
  • enters London with Charles,
  • impetuous character of,
  • refuses to alter the regulations of her household,
  • is disappointed at Charles's failure to observe his engagements in favour of the Catholics,
  • resents her husband's attempt to impose English Ladies of the Bedchamber upon her,
  • disturbs the Protestant service at Titchfield,
  • Charles refuses to discuss with Blainville the arrangements for the household of,
  • Charles declares his resolution to introduce English ladies into the household of,
  • refuses to be crowned, or to be present at her husband's coronation,
  • her conduct on the day of the opening of Parliament,
  • interferes on Arundel's behalf,
  • quarrels with her husband,
  • visits Tyburn,
  • expulsion of the French attendants of,
  • is dissatisfied with the new arrangements for her household,
  • Bassompierre's influence with,
  • is on better terms with her husband,
  • becomes affectionate to her husband after Buckingham's death,
  • declares herself satisfied with her English household, and advocates peace with France,
  • miscarriage of,
  • is happy in the affection of her husband, and cannot be persuaded to take interest in politics,
  • proposal to send a bishop to preside over the Capuchins in the household of,
  • profuse expenditure of,
  • gives birth to Prince Charles,
  • receives Coloma coolly, and tells Charles that he will have many white hairs before Spain restores the Palatinate,
  • poverty of,
  • shows her displeasure at the peace with Spain,
  • asks for justice against Fontenay-Mareuil,
  • refuses to be reconciled to Fontenay-Mareuil,
  • Weston intercepts a letter from,
  • obtains Holland's pardon,
  • gives birth to the Princess Mary,
  • Alington's fine secretly paid to,
  • gives birth to Prince Tames,
  • alleged attack by Prynne on her acting in the Shepherds Pastoral,
  • receives the Inns of Court masquers,
  • character of the Court of,
  • obtains Jermyn's pardon
  • tries to find out what Charles intends to do with the ship-money fleet,
  • urges Charles to enter into an alliance with France,
  • takes Cottington's part against Laud,
  • urges Seneterre to persist in his negotiation,
  • suggests that France may exchange Lorraine for the Palatinate,
  • throws open her chapel at Somerset House,
  • proposed residence of a Papal agent at the Court of,
  • takes her eldest son to mass,
  • promises to do her best to bring up her son as a Catholic,
  • is forbidden to take the Prince to mass,
  • is urged to take the part of Lady Purbeck,
  • visits Oxford,
  • orders the repetition of The Royal Slave,
  • is roused by Con to take interest in Catholic conversions,
  • opposes Laud,
  • keeps back the proposed proclamation against the Catholics,
  • obtains the modification of the proclamation,
  • defies the proclamation,
  • pleads with Charles to allow her mother to visit England,
  • urges the Catholics to contribute to the war with Scotland,
  • wishes the ladies of England to contribute to the war,
  • wishes to visit her husband at Berwick,
  • is pleased at the conclusion of peace with Scotland,
  • supports Bellievre against Cardenas,
  • urges Charles to appoint Leicester Secretary,
  • favours Vane's candidature,
  • fears lest the Short Parliament will persecute the Catholics,
  • asks her husband to protect Rossetti, and misrepresents the stipulations of her marriage treaty,
  • appeals to Strafford for help,
  • gives her full support to Strafford,
  • sends a message to the Pope to ask for money and men,
  • influences her husband in favour of the Catholics,
  • is disappointed at the refusal of the Pope to send men and money unless Charles will become a Catholic,
  • asks Essex to offer his services to the King,
  • assures Strafford of her protection,
  • is the centre of intrigue,
  • character of,
  • asks the Catholics to fast in support of her intention,
  • gives Windebank a letter of introduction on his flight to France,
  • applies to Rome for money with which to bribe the Parliamentary leaders, and favours a Dutch marriage for her daughter,
  • protects Rossetti and repeats her request to the Pope for help,
  • informs Rossetti that the King, if successful with the Pope's aid, will grant liberty of worship to the Catholics,
  • negotiates with the Parliamentary leaders,
  • hopes for aid from the Prince of Orange,
  • appeals to the King to pardon Goodman,
  • proposes to visit France,
  • sends a message to the Commons,
  • has interviews with Bedford and Pym,
  • her message coldly received by the Commons,
  • is present at Strafford's trial,
  • is refused permission to visit France,
  • is informed that the Pope will not give her money unless he is assured that her husband has changed his religion, and replies that all that can be expected is liberty of worship for the Catholics,
  • Goring offers to hold Portsmouth for,
  • is informed of the Army Plot,
  • supports the Army Plot,
  • statement of Goring that she intends to take refuge at Portsmouth,
  • wins over Digby, Holland, and Savile,
  • schemes for overpowering Parliament recommended by,
  • prepares to fly from Whitehall,
  • is dissuaded by Montreuil from taking flight,
  • is vexed at the treatment of the Catholics,
  • again makes offers to the Pope through Rossetti,
  • her last interview with Rossetti,
  • proposes to go to Spa,
  • remonstrance of La Ferte Imbault, and of Parliament against the proposed journey of,
  • resolves to leave London when the King visits Scotland,
  • is not informed of Ward's execution till it is too late to plead for him,
  • accompanies her mother to the sea-coast and talks of leaving England,
  • again begs for money from the Pope,
  • a large number of peers pay their respects to,
  • boasts of the number of men who will rally to Charles,
  • supports the petition of the Irish Catholics for toleration,
  • joins her husband at Theobalds, and accompanies him into the City,
  • is excited by the persecution of the Catholics,
  • urges her husband to break thoroughly with his opponents,
  • alleged intention to impeach,
  • urges Charles to seize the five members,
  • despatches Charles to the House of Commons and tells the secret to Lady Carlisle,
  • Charles anxious for the safety of,
  • leaves Whitehall,
  • advises Charles to assent to the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
  • leaves England,
  • wide-reaching designs of,
  • urges the King to secure Hull,
  • hopes for aid from the Dutch,
  • looks to the King of Denmark for help,
  • is probably the adviser of Charles's proposal as to Ireland,
  • sells or pawns the Crown jewels, and purchases munitions,
  • proposes to join Charles in Ireland,
  • arrival in the Humber of a vessel sent with arms and ammunition by,
  • opinion of Lady Sussex on the conduct of,
• Henry IV. (King of France', 1589-1610),
  • sends Rosny to England,
  • wishes James to support the Dutch secretly, and concludes a treaty with James for their defence,
  • offer for a double marriage made by Spain to,
  • news of the murder of,
  • resolves to intervene in Cleves,
  • murder of,
• Henry VII. (King of England, 1485-1509),
  • reign of,
• Henry VIII. (King of England 1509-1547),
  • reign of,
  • breaks with the Papacy,
  • treatment of religious parties by,
  • representative character of,
  • freedom of arrest on civil process granted to members of the House of Commons by,
  • Windebank and Lord Herbert of Cherbury converse with Panzani on the conduct of,
• Henry Frederick (Prince of Wales, 1610-1612),
  • proposed marriage of, with the Infanta Anne,
  • proposed marriage of, with the Infanta Anne,
  • proposed marriage of, with the Infanta Anne,
  • is created Prince of Wales,
  • stands by Phineas Pett,
  • various marriages proposed for,
  • various marriages proposed for,
  • his own opinion on his proposed marriage,
  • illness and death of,
  • Coke attributes to poison the death of,
• Herbert, Edward,
  • maintains the charge against Buckingham of purchasing offices,
  • takes part in the arrangement of the Inns of Court masque,
  • See Herbert, Sir Edward
• Herbert, George,
  • his lines on the observance of Sunday,
  • his life at Cambridge,
  • delivers an oration on the return of Charles from Spain,
  • takes orders and removes to Hemerton,
  • character of the poetry of,
  • death of,
• Herbert, Lord (Edward Somerset),
  • military commission issued to,
  • brings money to the King,
• Herbert of Cherbury, Lord (1629),
  • assures Panzani that he will make his Life of Henry VIII. as favourable as possible to the Church of Rome,
  • offers to submit his book, De Veritate, to the Pope,
  • wishes to break off the treaty of Ripon,
  • See Herbert, Sir Edward
• Herbert, Sir Edward,
  • advocates a French marriage,
  • offers to mediate between Louis XIII. and the French Protestants,
  • is insulted by Luynes,
  • is recalled to England,
  • returns as ambassador,
  • advises James not to show too much confidence in France,
  • is recalled,
  • informs James that the French do not intend to break with Spain,
  • becomes Lord Herbert of Cherbury,
  • See Herbert of Cherbury, Lord
• Herbert, Sir Edward (Attorney-General, 1641),
  • becomes Attorney-General,
  • impeaches the five members,
  • is impeached,
  • sentence on,
• Herbert Sir Gerard,
  • is killed at Heidelberg,
• Herbert, Sir John,
  • second Secretary,
• Herbert, Sir Percy,
  • alleged military preparations by,
• Herefordshire,
  • payment of the forced loan in,
  • declares for the King,
• Heritable jurisdictions of the Scottish nobility,
  • James wishes to abolish,
  • Charles wishes to buy up,
• Herring fishery, the,
  • James claims rights over,
  • an English company formed to carry on,
  • is interrupted by Dunkirk privateers,
  • the Dunkirk privateers attack Dutch boats engaged in,
  • Northumberland sells licences to Dutch boats for,
  • Charles wishes to persuade the Dutch to accept his licences for,
  • and urges the Cardinal Infant to acknowledge his protection of the Dutch boats employed in,
  • Fielding prevented from offering licences for,
• Hertford, Earl of, 1621-1640 (William Seymour),
  • votes against interference with the Commons,
  • See Seymour, William
  • See Hertford, Marquis of
• Hertford, Marquis of, 1640 (William Seymour)
  • signs the petition of the twelve peers,
  • asks the Council to support the petition,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • is governor of the Prince of Wales and is ordered by the Lords to keep a strict watch over him,
  • rumoured dismissal of, from the Council and office,
  • warns the bishops against risk from the mob outside the House of Lords,
  • is required by the Parliament to keep the Prince of Wales in his care,
  • brings the Duke of York to the King,
  • is appointed to command for the King in the West, and puts himself at the head of a force raised in Somerset,
  • is driven from Wells, and takes up his quarters at Sherborne,
  • See Seymour, William
  • See Hertford, Earl of
• Hertfordshire,
  • resistance to the forced loan in,
  • deputy-lieutenants of, express themselves doubtfully of the legality of coat-and-conduct money,
  • levy of soldiers resisted in,
  • destruction of communion-rails in,
  • petition of grievances presented from,
• Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc),
  • siege of,
  • is taken by the Prince of Orange,
• Hesse-Cassel, Maurice, Landgrave of,
  • urges Frederick to summon a meeting of German Protestants,
  • is compelled to submit to the Emperor,
• Hesse-Darmstadt, Lewis, Landgrave of,
  • is seized by Mansfeld and Frederick,
  • flies and is recaptured,
  • takes part in the Assembly of Ratisbon,
• Heveningham, Sir John,
  • applies for a habeas corpus,
• Hewat, Thomas,
  • takes part in the preparation of a Scottish Prayer-book,
  • rejection of his book,
• Heylyn, Peter,
  • preaches against the feoffees for impropriations,
  • examines Histriomastix,
  • publishes A Coal from the Altar,
  • converses with Hales,
• Heyman, Sir Peter,
  • expresses sorrow that Finch is a Kentish man,
  • having been imprisoned, satisfies the Court and is liberated,
• Heywood, Peter,
  • attempted assassination of,
• Heywood, Thomas,
  • is joint-author of The Lancashire Witchess,
• Heyworth Moor,
  • meeting on,
• High Commission, Court of,
  • established by Elizabeth,
  • powers of,
  • cases of Ladd and Maunsell in,
  • Fuller's attack on,
  • Fuller imprisoned by,
  • the judges abandon Fuller to be punished by,
  • enters on a dispute with the judges on Chauncey's case,
  • new commission issued for,
  • Coke's opposition to,
  • proceedings against unlicensed books in,
  • degradation of Leighton by,
  • cases of Bernard and Alington in,
  • protection given to injured wives by,
  • attempts to suppress Antinomianism,
  • a congregation of Separatists brought before,
  • case of Vicars in,
  • sentence pronounced on Lady Eleanor Davies by,
  • submission of Chauncey in,
  • sentence of Ward in,
  • gentlemen cited before,
  • case of Lady Purbeck in,
  • testimony to its character borne by the Act Books of,
  • attack by a mob on,
  • no opposition in the Commons to a Bill for the abolition of,
  • abolition of,
• High Commission, the Scottish Court of,
  • establishment of,
  • abolition of,
• Highlanders, the,
  • dress and equipment of,
  • bows and arrows of,
• Hinchinbrook,
  • is sold by Sir Oliver Cromwell,
• Hippesley, Sir John,
  • protests that martial law is useless with unpaid soldiers,
• Histriomastix, The,
  • publication of,
  • alleged attack on the Queen in,
• Hobart, Sir Henry (Attorney-General, 1606; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1613),
  • becomes Attorney-General,
  • objects to Sandys's proposal to allow counsel to prisoners,
  • gives an opinion on Legate's case,
  • argues against Whitelocke,
  • becomes Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
  • is spoken of as Ellesmere's successor,
  • his vote on Suffolk's trial,
  • death of,
• Hobart, Sir Miles,
  • locks the door of the House of Commons,
  • having been imprisoned, applies for a habeas corpus,
  • is removed to the Tower,
• Hoby, Sir Thomas Posthumus,
  • agrees to the Petition of Right,
• Hoechst,
  • battle of,
• Holborne, Robert,
  • is retained to plead for Hampden,
  • argument of,
  • argues that canons bind the laity,
  • argues against the clause of the Bill of Attainder which declared that Strafford had committed treason,
  • votes against the third reading,
• Holderness, Earl of, 1620-1625 (James Ramsay),
  • blames James for allowing himself to be tricked by the Spaniards,
  • See Haddington, Viscount
• Holland.
  • See Netherlands
• Holland, Earl of, 1624 (Henry Rich),
  • is dissatisfied with the French,
  • accompanies Buckingham to the Netherlands,
  • is sent on a mission to France conjointly with Carleton,
  • negotiates, together with Carleton, a peace between Louis and the Huguenots,
  • is ordered to carry reinforcements to Rhé,
  • difficulties in the way of,
  • sails from Portsmouth, but is driven back,
  • goes by land to Plymouth, where the wind is unfavourable,
  • is detained by a storm in Plymouth Sound,
  • becomes Master of the Horse,
  • suggests to Chateauneuf to ask Charles to summon Parliament,
  • splendid hospitality of,
  • is unable to obtain repayment of the debt owed him by the King,
  • weakness of the party headed by,
  • seizure of a packet of letters from,
  • challenges Weston and is placed in confinement, and released at the Queen's intercession,
  • holds a justice-seat for the Forest of the Dean,
  • holds a justice-seat for Waltham Forest,
  • enforces the extension of the boundaries of Waltham Forest,
  • gives sentence at Winchester against the Earl of Southampton,
  • supports the Queen's plan of an exchange of Lorraine for the Palatinate,
  • resists Laud's claim to visit the University of Cambridge,
  • levies fines in Rockingham Forest,
  • appointed General of the Horse in the first Bishops' War,
  • accompanies Arundel to Dunse.
  • marches against the Scottish troops at Kelso,
  • gives a silent vote to the King, in votes against the dissolution of the Short Parliament,
  • attempts to dissuade Charles from going to York,
  • tells Montreuil that he will use his influence on behalf of Rossetti,
  • is suggested by Henry Percy for the command of the army,
  • is won over by the Queen,
  • is excused from voting on the Attainder Bill,
  • is appointed General of the Northern Army,
  • writes to Essex enigmatically of danger,
  • is ordered by Parliament to secure Hull,
  • returns from disbanding the Northern Army,
  • thinks the Incident may be imitated at Westminster,
  • the Lords restrict his authority over the trained bands to the terms of the King's commission,
  • rumoured dismissal of, from the Council and office,
  • intention of Charles to call as a witness against the accused members,
  • accompanies Charles to the City after the attempt on the five members,
  • wishes Charles to postpone his departure from Whitehall,
  • is stopped by the House of Lords from obeying Charles's summons to attend him at York,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
  • brings a message from the Houses to the King,
  • is despised by the Royalists as having been driven into opposition by loss of Court favour,
  • See Kensington, Viscount
• Holles, Denzil,
  • complains of the disaster at Rhé,
  • holds the Speaker down in his chair,
  • reproves Eliot for burning his resolutions,
  • puts the resolutions from memory,
  • having been imprisoned, applies for a habeas corpus,
  • information in the King's Bench against,
  • is transferred to the Marshalsea,
  • argument of Heath against,
  • fine imposed on,
  • says that there is danger of a general assassination,
  • wishes the Londoners' petition against episcopacy to be referred to a committee,
  • opposes Pym's proposal to compel the Londoners to lend,
  • approves of the preparation of a protestation,
  • is a member of the committee for investigating the Army Plot,
  • rumoured appointment of, to the Secretaryship,
  • proposes to charge with treason the bishops impeached for their part in making the new canons,
  • asks that the declaration against toleration may apply to all the King's dominions,
  • carries up a protest against the delay of the Lords in proceeding with the Impressment Bill,
  • the King resolves to impeach,
  • impeachment of,
  • his study sealed up,
  • withdraws to the City,
  • carries to the Lords the artificers' petition,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
• Holles, Sir John,
  • fined and imprisoned by the Star Chamber,
  • buys a peerage,
  • See Houghton, Lord
• Holy Island, the,
  • arrival of two of Hamilton's regiments at,
• Holy Table, Name and Things The,
  • published by Williams,
• Holyrood,
  • dispute about the carvings in the chapel of,
  • use of an organ at,
  • ceremonial magnificence in the chapel of, during Charles's visit,
  • Laud's sermon at,
• Hooker, Richard,
  • his Ecclesiastical Polity,
  • his opinion on the consecration of churches
• Hope, Sir Thomas,
  • is said to have been an instigator of the tumult at St. Giles's,
  • gives an opinion favourable to the organisation of the supporters of the General Supplication,
  • remonstrates with Rothes,
• Hopton, Arthur,
  • is English resident at Madrid,
  • advises Charles not to trust Spain,
  • See Hopton, Sir Arthur
• Hopton, Sir Arthur,
  • is ordered to suggest Spanish marriages for Charles's children,
  • receives instructions on the language which he is to hold on the fight in the Downs,
  • See Hopton, Arthur
• Hopton, Sir Ralph,
  • wishes the Londoners' petition against episcopacy not to be referred to a committee,
  • wishes the Protestation to be in favour of religion as established,
• Hoskins, John,
  • attacks the Scottish favourites,
  • is imprisoned,
  • See Hoskins, Serjeant
• Hoskins, Serjeant,
  • argues that what has not received the assent of the King and all the State is not a public act of the Church,
  • See Hoskins, John
• Hotham, John,
  • is sent by his father to secure Hull,
  • fails to induce the Mayor to let troops into Hull,
  • makes himself master of Hull,
• Hotham, Sir John,
  • declares that the military charges are more burdensome than ship-money,
  • refuses to answer questions about his conduct in Parliament,
  • is imprisoned,
  • liberation of,
  • thinks that Laud is guilty of treason,
  • is ordered by Parliament to secure Hull,
  • is ordered to reinforce the garrison at Hull,
  • refuses to admit Charles into Hull,
  • is proclaimed a traitor,
  • promises Digby to surrender Hull, but changes his mind,
• Houghton, Lord, 1616-1624 (John Holles),
  • offers to buy the Secretaryship,
  • See Clare, Earl of
• Howard de Walden, Lord, 1610-1626 (Theophilas Howard),
  • asks that Bacon's peerage may be suspended during his life,
• Howard de Walden, Lord, 1597-1603, (Thomas Howard),
  • is created Earl of Suffolk,
  • See Suffolk, Earl of
• Howard, Lady Frances,
  • marriage of,
  • See Essex, Countess of
  • See Somerset, Countess of
• Howard, Lord Henry,
  • his character,
  • is raised to the peerage,
  • See Northampton Earl of
• Howard of Escrick, Lord, 1628 (Edward Howard),
  • signs the petition of the twelve peers,
  • brings the petition of the twelve peers to Charles,
  • is appointed a Parliamentary Commissioner to attend the King in Scotland,
• Howard, Sir Robert,
  • lives in adultery with Lady Purbeck,
• Howson, John (Bishop of Oxford, 1618; Bishop of Durham, 1628-1632),
  • declares that Montague's opinions are not condemned by the Church,
  • becomes Bishop of Durham,
  • is alarmed at Cosin's proceedings,
  • is commanded by Charles to forbear any further action against Cosin,
• Howth, Lord, 1606 (Christopher St. Lawrence),
  • assures Chichester that there is a plot for a revolt in Ireland,
  • refuses to be produced as a witness,
• Hudson, the,
  • Dutch settlement at the mouth of,
• Huguenots, the.
  • See France
• Hull,
  • magazine of military stores established at,
  • Parliament orders Holland to secure,
  • attempts made by King and Parliament to secure,
  • intention of Charles to land Danish soldiers at,
  • refuses to admit troops from either side,
  • is occupied by Hotham,
  • Charles hopes to make himself master of,
  • rumoured preparation of a large Danish army for,
  • the Queen urges Charles to secure,
  • Charles temporarily abandons his design on,
  • orders given to reinforce the garrison of,
  • the Queen again urges Charles to make himself master of,
  • order of Parliament for the removal of the magazine from,
  • Charles resolves to demand the surrender of,
  • Hotham refuses to admit the King into,
  • controversy on the King's right to,
  • peremptory order of the Houses for the removal of the munitions from,
  • Warwick fetches the munitions from,
  • Digby urges Hotham to surrender,
  • Digby escapes from,
  • the King's troops driven off by a sally from,
• Hume, Sir George,
  • appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and Master of the Wardrobe,
  • becomes Earl of Dunbar,
  • See Dunbar, Earl of
• Hungary, King of.
  • See Ferdinand
• Hunsdon, Lord, 1640 (John Cary),
  • votes against the refusal of the Lords to impart their resolution on Divine worship to the Commons,
• Hunt, Robert,
  • is factor at Puloway,
• Hunt, Prophet,
  • is imprisoned for creating a disturbance in a church,
• Huntingdon,
  • Cromwell's early life at,
  • a new charter granted to,
  • Cromwell removes from,
• Huntly, Earl of, 1576-1599 (George Gordon),
  • engages in a conspiracy,
  • is defeated by James,
  • is driven into exile, and returns to Scotland,
  • conditions exacted from,
  • is released from excommunication,
  • is created a Marquis,
  • See Huntly, Marquis of
• Huntly, 1st Marquis of, 1599-1636 (George Gordon),
  • excommunication of,
  • See Huntly, Earl of
• Huntly, 2nd Marquis of, 1636 (George Gordon),
  • is sent to the North to prepare an opposition to the Covenanters,
  • position of, in the North,
  • nature of the royalism of,
  • is to be reinforced by Hamilton,
  • collects men at Inverary, but soon dismisses them,
  • has an interview with Montrose,
  • is carried to Edinburgh, and refuses to sign the Covenant,
  • takes refuge in England,
• Hurry, Colonel,
  • gives information of the plot for seizing Hamilton and Argyle,
• Hutchinson, Anne,
  • controversy in Massachusetts on the theological opinions of,
• Hutchinson, John,
  • character of,
  • Puritanism of,
• Hutchinson, Lucy,
  • sketches her husband's character,
• Hutton, Matthew (Archbishop of York, 1595-1606),
  • his opinion of Puritanism,
• Hutton, Sir Richard (Justice of the Common Pleas, 1617-1639),
  • is made a judge,
  • does not sign the opinion of the judges on the legality of ship-money,
  • signs the judges' declaration on ship-money,
  • delivers judgment in the case of ship-money,
  • mediates between Vermuyden and the inhabitants of Hatfield Chase,
• Hyacintho. the friar,
  • urges the Emperor to break off negotiations with Digby,
  • receives from the Emperor an Act conferring Frederick's electorate on Maximilian,
  • is sent to Spain to obtain the approval of Philip,
  • arrives at Madrid,
• Hyde, Captain David,
  • stands at the entrance of the House of Commons after Charles has entered,
• Hyde, Edward,
  • takes part in arranging the Inns of Court masque,
  • complains to Laud of Portland's conduct,
  • moves that the question shall be put whether supply shall be given,
  • moves that the judges who had delivered the ship-money judgment shall be asked to what solicitations they had been exposed,
  • accuses Finch of slaying justice itself,
  • political views of,
  • wishes the Londoners' petition against episcopacy not to be referred to a committee,
  • is employed to persuade Essex to vote against Strafford's death,
  • is chairman of the committee on the Root-and-Branch Bill,
  • his conversation with Charles on the Bill,
  • is startled by the language of Fiennes and Marten,
  • thinks that the English Parliament should take no notice of the Incident,
  • objects to the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
  • acknowledges the narrative part of the Grand Remonstrance to be true,
  • protests against the Grand Remonstrance,
  • is the real leader of the Royalist party, but prefers not to take office,
  • becomes the King's secret counsellor,
  • constitutional views of,
  • has" no part in Charles's plan of visiting Ireland,
  • joins the King at York,
• Hyde, Nicholas,
  • is put out of the commission of the peace,
  • prepares Buckingham's defence,
  • becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench,
  • See Hyde, Sir Nicholas
• Hyde, Sir Lawrence,
  • conducts the prosecution of Weston,
• Hyde, Sir Nicholas (Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, 1627-1631),
  • presides in the Court of King's Bench at the hearing of the five knights' case,
  • orders the reprieve of a condemned priest,
  • character of,
  • is consulted on the case against the imprisoned members of Parliament,
  • expresses an opinion that the members are bailable,
  • begs Charles not to forbid the King's Bench to grant bail,
  • is dissatisfied with the course proposed to him,
  • death of,
• Hymn of Beauty, Spenser's,
  • the idea of, compared with that of Milton's Comus,
• Icklington,
  • the soldiers drive away the minister of,
• Il Penseroso,
  • character of the thought underlying,
• Imposition on currants,
  • mention,
  • its payment resisted,
  • its legality declared by the Court of Exchequer,
  • the judgment on, not questioned by the House of Commons,
  • resistance to the payment of,
  • questioned by Vassall,
• Imposition on tobacco,
  • mention,
  • mention,
• Impositions, the new,
  • levied by Salisbury,
  • the King forbids the Commons to discuss,
  • permission granted to discuss,
  • debate on, in 1610,
  • the Commons almost unanimous against the King's claim to,
  • Bill brought in on,
  • Bill on, dropped in the House of Lords,
  • partial remission of,
  • James offers to consent to the Bill on,
  • taken into consideration by the Commons in 1614,
  • debate on,
  • discussion in the Council on the mode of dealing with,
  • question about, not revived in 1621,
  • silence of the Parliament of 1624 on,
  • Phelips wishes them not to be forgotten,
  • resistance to the payment of,
• Impressment Bill, the,
  • amended by the Lords,
  • Charles offers to consent to, if a clause is inserted saving the rights of himself and his subjects,
  • the Commons declare themselves free from responsibility if the Lords refuse to pass,
• Imprisonment without cause shown,
  • arguments on, in the five knights' case,
  • Coke's proposal relating to,
  • Wentworth's allusion to,
  • argument in the Commons on,
  • resolution of the Commons on,
  • argument of the lawyers of the Commons before the Lords on,
  • second argument of the lawyers on,
  • debate in the Lords on,
  • the Lords propose a middle course on,
  • Wentworth proposes a Bill on,
  • Wentworth suggests that a good Habeas Corpus Bill will render innocuous,
  • clause in the Petition of Right directed against,
  • Charles defends his right to,
  • debate in the Lords on,
  • the Lords adopt an additional clause respecting,
  • difference between the two Houses on,
  • acceptance by the Lords of the view of the Commons on,
• Impropriations.
  • See Feoffees for impropriations
• Inchcolm,
  • is occupied by Hamilton,
• Inchkeith,
  • is occupied by Hamilton,
• Incident, the,
  • mention,
• Inclosures,
  • disturbances about,
• Inns, issue of a patent for,
  • mention,
  • inquiry concerning,
  • condemned by the Commons,
• Inns of Court, the,
  • present a masque to the King,
  • gentlemen of, offer their services to the King,
  • Charles attempts to rouse against the Commons,
  • the members of, declare their readiness to defend both King and Parliament,
• Inojosa, Marquis of,
  • signs the treaty of Asti, and is recalled,
  • ordered to go as ambassador to England,
  • sets out for England,
  • is present when James swears to the articles of marriage,
  • complains of the mode in which James proposes to relax the penal laws,
  • approves of the agreement of Salisbury,
  • is dissatisfied with James's resolution to make no more concessions to the Catholics,
  • complains of the delay of issuing a pardon to the Catholics,
  • receives a copy of the pardon,
  • draws from James an acknowledgment that he cannot expect Philip to take arms against the Emperor,
  • makes fresh offers about the Palatinate to James,
  • complains to James of Buckingham,
  • diverts the attention of Charles and Buckingham whilst Coloma gives a paper to James,
  • accuses Buckingham of conspiring to dethrone James,
  • is detained in England,
  • leaves England,
  • is acquitted in Spain of the charge of conspiring against Buckingham,
• Inquisition, the,
  • stipulations in the treaty of 1604, on the treatment of Englishmen by,
• Interest, the legality of,
  • questioned,
• Interpreter, The,
  • condemned by the Commons,
  • disavowed by the King,
• Inverury,
  • Huntly gathers men at,
• Ipswich,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
  • proceedings of Samuel Ward at,
• Ireland,
  • results of the Norman Conquest of,
  • degeneracy of the conquerors of,
  • want of a central government in,
  • Sir W. Fitzwilliam Lord Deputy of,
  • the English defeated on the Blackwater in,
  • Mountjoy's conquest of,
  • grievances of the towns of,
  • debasement of the coinage in,
  • behaviour of the garrisons in,
  • religious condition of,
  • rebellion of the southern towns of,
  • suppression of the rebellion in,
  • Mountjoy returns to England from,
  • Sir G. Carey appointed Lord Deputy of,
  • restoration of the currency in,
  • Sir A. Chichester appointed Lord Deputy of,
  • tenure of land in,
  • political institutions of,
  • the Government is anxious to introduce English customs into,
  • progress made in the settlement of,
  • condition of the northern part of,
  • first circuit in the North of,
  • distribution of the army in,
  • proclamation for the cessation of martial law, and for a disarmament in,
  • proclamation for an amnesty, and for the protection of tenants in,
  • Chichester's first progress through the North of,
  • practical toleration enjoyed under Elizabeth in,
  • religious condition of,
  • attempt to enforce the laws against recusancy in,
  • aldermen of Dublin summoned before the Castle Chamber of,
  • petition presented by the lords and gentlemen of,
  • imprisonment of the petitioners in,
  • resistance to the payment of fines in,
  • justification of the course taken by the Council of,
  • relaxation of the persecution in,
  • proceedings against Lalor for exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction in,
  • Chichester's efforts to reform the Church in,
  • Chichester's second progress through the North of,
  • opinion of the English Council that but few Englishmen should become colonists in,
  • extension of English rule in the South of,
  • dispute between Tyrone and O'Cahan in,
  • conspiracy against the Government of,
  • flight of Tyrone and Tyrconnell from,
  • condition of the North of, after the flight of the Earls,
  • O'Dogherty's insurrection in,
  • the Tory Island massacre in,
  • proposed settlement of the North of,
  • results of the plantation of Ulster in,
  • money obtained by the sale of baronetcies for the expenses of,
  • grievances felt in,
  • proposal to call a Parliament in,
  • new constituencies erected in,
  • dissatisfaction of the Catholics of,
  • petition of the Lords of the Pale of,
  • protest of the Catholic lords of,
  • opening of the Parliament of,
  • tumult in the House of Commons of,
  • hearing by the King of a deputation from,
  • Commissioners sent to investigate the grievances of,
  • discontent of,
  • proceedings of the Parliament of,
  • grievances of the Parliament of,
  • dissolution of the Parliament of,
  • recall of Chichester from,
  • extension, in consequence of the Spanish treaty, of the relaxation of the penal laws to,
  • St. John, Lord Deputy of,
  • plantation of Wexford in,
  • suspicions of the Celtic population of,
  • transportation to Virginia from,
  • difficulties of the English Government of,
  • Falkland, Lord Deputy of,
  • banishment of priests from,
  • excited feeling of the Catholics of,
  • the priests again banished from,
  • bad payment of the army in,
  • increase of the army in,
  • the first draft of the Graces offered to,
  • a contribution demanded from the nobility of,
  • meeting of an Assembly of the lords and representatives of,
  • refusal of the Assembly to contribute to the maintenance of soldiers in,
  • a contribution agreed to, by the agents of,
  • second draft of the Graces for,
  • prospect of the meeting of the Parliament of,
  • sanguine feeling of the Catholics of,
  • case of the Byrnes of Wicklow in,
  • recall of Falkland from,
  • appointment of Loftus and Cork as Lords Justices of,
  • Wentworth named Lord Deputy of,
  • condition of, at the time of Wentworth's appointment,
  • Wentworth's system of government in,
  • need of an army to Wentworth inn,
  • prolongation of the contribution for a year in,
  • arrival of Wentworth in,
  • the contribution prolonged for another year in,
  • the army paid, and brought under discipline in,
  • the Privy Council in,
  • piracy repressed, and trade encouraged in,
  • cloth manufacture discouraged in,
  • the Government to retain the right of importing salt into,
  • state of the Church in,
  • preparations for a Parliament in,
  • opening of Parliament in,
  • grant of six subsidies in,
  • resistance to Wentworth in the Parliament of,
  • Wentworth recovers the mastery over the Parliament of,
  • dissolution of the Parliament of,
  • Convocation of,
  • adoption of the English Articles by the Convocation of,
  • attempt to repress nonconformity in the North of,
  • English view of the proposed plantations in,
  • condition of the North of,
  • Wentworth's visit to Connaught in,
  • titles found for the King to lands in,
  • causes of Wentworth's failure in,
  • Charles approves of Wentworth's government of,
  • conduct of Mountnorris in,
  • court-martial on Mountnorris in,
  • Wentworth's defence of his government of,
  • establishment of Wentworth's power in,
  • Wentworth's account of the improvement of the West of,
  • Wentworth's attack on the Chancellor of,
  • Strafford returns to,
  • subsidies voted by the Parliament of,
  • an army to be levied in,
  • balance of parties shifted in the second session of the Parliament of,
  • alteration of the mode of rating for subsidies in,
  • preparation for gathering an army in,
  • proposal of Strafford to drive the Scots out of the North of,
  • the Long Parliament takes into consideration Strafford's conduct in,
  • Pym's sketch of Strafford's administration in,
  • Pym's want of sympathy with the Celtic population of,
  • negotiations between the King and the Catholics of,
  • continuation of the King's negotiations with the Catholics of,
  • refusal of the English Parliament to allow the Spanish ambassador to levy soldiers in,
  • news reaches London of a rebellion in,
  • retrospect of the treatment of,
  • Charles makes concessions to,
  • toleration demanded by the Catholics of,
  • Church question and land question in,
  • leaders of the Celtic population of,
  • plan formed for a rising in,
  • division between the Catholic lords and the leaders of the dispossessed natives of,
  • betrayal of the plot to the Lords Justices of,
  • rising in the North of,
  • weakness of the English army in,
  • seizure of conspirators in,
  • the English Commons declare that unless the King makes his ministers responsible they will themselves provide for,
  • no general massacre in the North of,
  • atrocities committed in,
  • estimate of the number of murders in,
  • resolution of the English Commons to send an army to re-conquer,
  • proposal to send Scots at once to,
  • a larger Scottish force to be sent to,
  • progress of the rebellion in,
  • declaration of the English House of Commons that no toleration shall be granted in,
  • no toleration for any religion except that established by law in England to be granted to,
  • petition from Irish Protestants, setting forth the wretched state of,
  • alleged overtures from Charles and the Queen to the rebels in,
  • arrival of Lord Dillon in,
  • proposed change of government in, and grant of toleration to,
  • refusal of the Catholic lords to obey the summons of the Lords Justices of,
  • cruelties of Coote's soldiers in,
  • junction of the Lords of the Pale with the rebels of the North of,
  • revolt of the South of,
  • the King proposes to send volunteers to,
  • confidence of Charles that it cannot be pacified by anyone but himself,
  • troops sent to, and a scheme of confiscation adopted for,
  • slaughter of the natives of,
  • Ormond's campaign in,
  • miserable condition of,
  • the Royal assent given to a Bill for confiscation in,
  • Charles proposes to visit,
  • Charles abandons his plan of visiting,
• Irun,
  • arrival of Prince Charles at,
• Isabella Clara Eugenia, the Infanta,
  • her claim to the English throne,
  • receives the sovereignty of the Netherlands jointly with her husband,
  • becomes Governor of the Spanish Netherlands after her husband's death,
  • does not expect that the Conferences at Brussels will produce a peace,
  • requests Chichester to negotiate an armistice,
  • despairs of obtaining peace in the Palatinate,
  • writes to Onate to urge the Emperor to give up his design of transferring the Electorate,
  • writes to Philip in favour of a suspension of arms,
  • proposed surrender of Mannheim and Frankenthal to,
  • requires an assurance of peaceable conduct from Mansfeld and Christian,
  • informs Philip IV. that the Spanish troops cannot fight against the German Catholics,
  • does not favour the sequestration of Frankenthal.
  • proposal to deposit the Lower Palatinate in the hands of,
  • Frankenthal placed in the hands of,
  • offers to deliver Frankenthal to an English garrison, but refuses to guarantee the troops against attack,
  • asks the Dutch to make peace on condition of the opening of the Scheldt,
  • directs Rubens to propose a separate peace between England and Spain, and deplores the exhaustion of her treasury,
  • encourages the French refugees,
  • summons the States-General of the Spanish Netherlands,
  • death of,
• Jacatra,
  • victory of Dale at,
• Jagerndorf, the Margrave of,
  • heads an army in Silesia,
• James I. (King of England, 1603-1625), (King of Scotland, 1567-1625),
  • character of,
  • restores the jurisdiction of the bishops,
  • defeats the Northern Earls,
  • negotiates with the ministers,
  • is insulted by Melville,
  • breaks with the clergy,
  • asks for fresh powers over the clergy,
  • summons Black before the Council,
  • exacts conditions from Huntly,
  • offers terms to the clergy,
  • banishes Black,
  • conduct of, during the tumult in Edinburgh,
  • leaves Edinburgh,
  • reduces Edinburgh to submission,
  • summons an assembly at Perth,
  • establishment of the authority of,
  • makes fresh efforts to obtain for the clergy a representation in Parliament,
  • speaks in the Basilicon Doron of his intention to restore episcopacy,
  • urges the Assembly to allow the representatives of the clergy to be styled bishops,
  • appoints bishops,
  • maintains his claim to the English throne,
  • is too eager to raise a party in England,
  • supports the candidature of Bishop Chisholm for the cardinalate,
  • has his signature surreptitiously obtained to a letter to the Pope,
  • his views on toleration,
  • his secret correspondence with Cecil,
  • is proclaimed King of England,
  • hears of the death of Elizabeth,
  • leaves Scotland,
  • confides in Cecil,
  • receives an overture from Clement VIII,
  • his language to Thomas Percy,
  • his intentions about the Catholics,
  • recalls the monopolies,
  • orders the collection of the recusancy fines,
  • is ready to make peace with Spain,
  • requests Rosny not to appear in mourning for Elizabeth,
  • makes a treaty with France for the defence of the Netherlands,
  • promises to remit the recusancy fines,
  • coronation of,
  • receives fresh overtures from Clement VIII.,
  • promises not to exact the recusancy fines,
  • is annoyed at the discovery that his wife has received presents from the Pope,
  • banishes the priests,
  • receives the millenary petition,
  • recommends the universities to support preaching ministers,
  • touches for the King's evil,
  • holds the Hampton Court Conference,
  • issues a proclamation defining the persons who are to be members of the House of Commons,
  • opens his first Parliament,
  • gives his opinion on the treatment of Puritans and Catholics,
  • enters into controversy with the Commons on Goodwin's case,
  • his title recognised by Act of Parliament,
  • answers the Commons' petition on purveyors,
  • presses the Commons to forward the union with Scotland,
  • wishes to be styled King of Great Britain,
  • thanks the Commons for naming Commissioners for the Union,
  • financial difficulties of,
  • prorogues Parliament and scolds the Commons,
  • causes of the misunderstanding between the Commons and,
  • orders the enforcement of conformity on the Puritans,
  • vacillation of, with regard to the Catholics,
  • is alarmed at the increase of the Catholics,
  • does not put in force the Act of 1604 against,
  • is asked to mediate between Spain and the Dutch,
  • prepares to open negotiations with Spain,
  • accepts a treaty with Spain, in which he refuses to abandon the Dutch,
  • swears to the treaty with Spain,
  • Spanish marriage proposed for the son of,
  • converses with the agent of the Duke of Lorraine on the Papal claims,
  • appoints Commissioners to banish the priests,
  • exacts the recusancy fines from wealthy Catholics,
  • is annoyed at a rumour that he means to change his religion,
  • resolves to put in force the penal laws against the Catholics,
  • informed of the Gunpowder Plot,
  • refuses to assent to the canons of 1606,
  • financial difficulties of,
  • promises to retrench,
  • reported murder of,
  • visit of the King of Denmark to,
  • wishes to forbid the meetings of the General Assembly of the Scottish Church,
  • appoints bishops in Scotland,
  • compels the Scottish ministers to submit to his authority,
  • summons Parliament in Scotland to enable him to endow the bishops,
  • imprisons Andrew Melville,
  • strives to have the bishops' authority accepted in Scotland,
  • proposes the appointment of constant Moderators,
  • causes of his success in Scotland,
  • addresses Parliament in favour of a union with Scotland,
  • orders the Commons to punish Pigott,
  • addresses Parliament on the question of naturalisation,
  • plots formed against,
  • receives Tyrone and Tyrconnell,
  • decides upon hearing the case of O'Cahan against Tyrone,
  • offers to economise,
  • fails to reduce his expenditure,
  • entails the Crown lands,
  • banishes the priests,
  • wishes the Pope to excommunicate English rebels,
  • considers the expectations of the Dutch exorbitant,
  • offers a guarantee to the Dutch,
  • writes an Apology for the Oath of Allegiance,
  • contemplates a toleration for the Catholics,
  • is annoyed by the assertion that he had made overtures to the Pope,
  • orders Balmerino to be examined,
  • writes A Premonition to all Monarchs,
  • has an altercation with Coke,
  • interferes in Fuller's case,
  • loses his temper with Coke,
  • postpones a decision on the prohibitions,
  • disavows Cowell's Interpreter,
  • forbids the Commons to discuss his claim to impositions,
  • gives permission for the discussion,
  • promises to put in force the laws against recusants,
  • accepts the terms of the Commons on the Great Contract,
  • answers the grievances of the Commons,
  • resolves to intervene in Cleves,
  • obtains from the General Assembly an acknowledgment of Scottish episcopacy,
  • withdraws his claim to issue proclamations with the force of law,
  • asks the Commons whether they mean to go on with the Contract,
  • is dissatisfied with the Contract,
  • breaks off the Contract,
  • loses patience with the Commons,
  • dissolves his first Parliament,
  • grants money to his favourites,
  • his conduct towards Arabella Stuart,
  • his part in the burning of Legate and Wightman,
  • issues a proclamation for the apprehension of Lord Sanquhar,
  • wishes to marry his daughter to the Elector Palatine,
  • desires to marry the Prince of Wales to the Infanta Anne,
  • breaks off negotiations for a Spanish marriage,
  • consents to the marriage of his daughter with the Elector Palatine,
  • determines to dispense with a Secretary after Salisbury's death,
  • expects Zuniga to ask for the Princess Elizabeth for the King of Spain,
  • proposes to marry Prince Henry to the Princess Christina,
  • thinks of appointing Sir H. Neville Secretary,
  • favours the alliance between the Union and the Dutch,
  • is at the head of a Protestant alliance,
  • ill-treatment of the recusants by,
  • brings about a marriage between the Earl of Essex and Lady Frances Howard,
  • favours Lady Essex in her suit for a divorce,
  • replies to Abbot's arguments,
  • his conduct in supporting the divorce,
  • proposes to Overbury a diplomatic employment,
  • imprisons Overbury,
  • increased financial difficulties of,
  • is advised to call another Parliament,
  • issues a proclamation against duels,
  • accepts money from Sutton's executors,
  • supports the making of the New River,
  • learns the secret of the Spanish pensions,
  • makes Somerset his sole confidant,
  • aim of the foreign policy of,
  • proposes to banish Donna Luisa de Carvajal,
  • releases her,
  • is desirous of carrying out Prince Charles's marriage with the Princess Christina,
  • decides on summoning Parliament,
  • appoints Winwood Secretary,
  • opens Parliament,
  • being angry with the Commons, consults Sarmiento,
  • dissolves the Addled Parliament,
  • imprisons members of Parliament,
  • complains of the Commons to Sarmiento,
  • proposes to take up the Spanish marriage,
  • a benevolence offered by the bishops to,
  • asks for a general benevolence,
  • orders that the judges shall be consulted separately in Peacham's case,
  • hears a deputation from the Irish Parliament,
  • sends commissioners to investigate Irish grievances,
  • decides against the Irish deputies,
  • recalls Chichester,
  • sends Wotton to negotiate the Treaty of Xanten,
  • fails to obtain the execution of it by the Dutch and the Spaniards,
  • continues to negotiate a marriage treaty with France,
  • thinks of carrying out the proposed alliance with Spain,
  • Somerset's favour with,
  • Villiers presented to,
  • expostulates with Somerset on his rudeness,
  • visits Cambridge,
  • assists the Duke of Savoy,
  • makes Villiers a Gentleman of the Bedchamber,
  • Is alarmed by the articles of the Spanish treaty,
  • is afraid of assassination,
  • offers to accept the Spanish treaty,
  • refuses some of Somerset's requests,
  • remonstrates with Somerset,
  • orders Ellesmere to pass Somerset's pardon,
  • withdraws his order,
  • hears that Overbury has been murdered,
  • orders Coke to examine into the murder,
  • appoints a commission to conduct the examination,
  • sees Somerset for the last time,
  • refuses to alter the course of investigation,
  • wishes to pardon Somerset,
  • is threatened by Somerset,
  • pardons the Countess of Somerset,
  • keeps Somerset a prisoner, but finally pardons him,
  • asks the Council how his finances can be brought into order,
  • assures Sarmiento that he wishes to go on with the marriage treaty,
  • wishes to summon Parliament,
  • abandons the idea of calling a Parliament,
  • releases Raleigh,
  • enters upon a treaty for the sale of the cautionary towns,
  • attempts to support the cloth manufacture against the rivalry of the Dutch,
  • resolves to put an end to the French marriage treaty,
  • sends Hay to Paris,
  • gives up his requirement that Philip III. shall obtain the Pope's consent before the marriage treaty with Spain is opened,
  • sells peerages,
  • attempts in vain to obtain the execution of the Treaty of Xanten,
  • does not wish to desert the Dutch,
  • orders Coke not to give judgment on the effect of the writ de rege inconsulte till he has seen him,
  • orders the judges not to proceed with the case of commendams,
  • replies to a letter of the judges, and summons the judges before him,
  • argues with Coke,
  • obtains from eleven judges a declaration of submission to his opinion,
  • addresses the judges in the Star Chamber,
  • suspends Coke, and decides in favour of Chancery in its dispute with the common law judges,
  • dismisses Coke,
  • view of the Spanish claim to Guiana taken by,
  • gives a commission to Raleigh,
  • supports Savoy against Spain,
  • is inclined to favour a proposed attack on Genoa,
  • abandons the project,
  • allows Raleigh to sail,
  • orders a list of Raleigh's vessels to be given to Sarmiento,
  • submits the marriage treaty to commissioners chosen from the Privy Council,
  • sends Digby to Madrid to open formally the negotiation for the marriage,
  • supports a proposal for an expedition against Algiers,
  • his relations with the Privy Council,
  • is unable to control his courtiers,
  • places patronage in Buckingham's hands,
  • receives a present from Yelverton,
  • sets out for Scotland,
  • finds fault with Bacon for interfering with the marriage of Sir John Villiers,
  • receives Coke favourably,
  • compares Buckingham to the Apostle John,
  • is present at a feast at Hatton House,
  • refuses to assent to the terms on which the Spaniards offer to consent to the Infanta's marriage,
  • congratulates Louis XIII. on the murder of Ancre,
  • calls for evidence against Raleigh,
  • offers to send Raleigh to Spain,
  • orders the rioters who had attacked a steward of Gondomar to be punished,
  • directs Stukeley to act as a spy on Raleigh,
  • his responsibility for Raleigh's proceedings,
  • appoints commissioners to examine Raleigh,
  • asks the commissioners how to dispose of Raleigh,
  • rejects the commissioners' proposal,
  • orders Raleigh's execution,
  • orders Bacon to draw up a declaration of Raleigh's proceedings,
  • speaks scornfully to Stukeley,
  • his views on the negotiation with the Dutch on the East India Trade,
  • claims rights over the herring fishery,
  • mediates between the English and Dutch East India Companies,
  • does not press the Dutch to make restitution to the English whale fishers,
  • drives young Monson from Court,
  • drinks the health of the Villiers family,
  • sends Lady Suffolk into the country,
  • detects Sara Swarton's perjuries, and sends for Lord Roos,
  • pronounces sentence in the Star Chamber on the Lakes,
  • is in want of money,
  • proposes to retrench,
  • orders the Countess of Buckingham to leave the Court,
  • sale of honours by,
  • his treatment of the Scottish Church,
  • presses ecclesiastical changes upon it,
  • proposes five articles,
  • directs alterations to be made in the chapel at Holyrood,
  • visits Scotland,
  • orders that the communion shall be received on the knees in his chapel,
  • his relations with the Scottish nobility,
  • proposes an Act acknowledging his control over the external government of the Church,
  • recommends the adoption of the five articles,
  • threatens the ministers with the loss of their stipends if they refuse to adopt the articles,
  • threatens the Assembly of Perth,
  • finds the strict observance of the Sabbath enforced in Lancashire,
  • asks Morton for advice,
  • issues the Declaration of Sports,
  • calls Selden to account for his History of Tithes,
  • forbids Selden to reply to his accusers,
  • sends deputies to the Synod of Dort,
  • is asked to mediate in Bohemia,
  • accepts the mediation,
  • is urged by the Dutch to break with Spain,
  • refuses to quarrel with Spain,
  • renews his treaty with the Union,
  • receives Christopher Dohna,
  • orders naval preparations to be made to defend Venice,
  • orders an expedition to be sent to Algiers,
  • sends Doncaster to mediate in Bohemia,
  • sends Wake to Turin,
  • serious illness of,
  • writes verses on his wife's death,
  • visits London after his illness,
  • attempts to find a wife for Christopher Villiers,
  • gives instructions to Doncaster,
  • abandons the plan of sending an expedition to Algiers,
  • refuses to aid Frederick.
  • rejects a suggestion to go to war in defence of the Bohemians,
  • asks the advice of the Council whether he shall recommend Frederick to accept the Bohemian crown,
  • declares that he will postpone his decision,
  • sends Doncaster to congratulate the Emperor,
  • cannot resolve to help either side,
  • dissatisfaction felt at the hesitation of,
  • writes two religious tracts,
  • is asked to defend the Palatinate,
  • investigates Frederick's title to Bohemia,
  • does not give a positive reply to Gray's request to levy troops for Bohemia,
  • permits the levy,
  • sends to Denmark to borrow money for the Palatinate,
  • welcomes Gondomar's return,
  • receives Gondomar's explanations,
  • sanctions the levy of volunteers for the Palatinate,
  • refuses to give money to the German Union,
  • hears a sermon at Paul's Cross,
  • varying language of,
  • offers to write a letter to Philip III. containing engagements to show favour to the Catholics,
  • holds a double language with the Princes of the Union,
  • assures Gondomar that he will not help his son-in-law,
  • refuses to accept Dutch offers of co-operation,
  • is irritated by the news of Dutch outrages in the East,
  • agrees to Buckingham's proposal for the partition of the Netherlands,
  • is convinced that Spinola wilt not invade the Palatinate,
  • declares that his son-in-law can only be brought to reason by force,
  • Is urged by the Dutch to defend the Palatinate,
  • refuses to break with Spain,
  • receives the news of the invasion of the Palatinate,
  • speaks impatiently to Gondomar,
  • declares that he will defend the Palatinate,
  • appoints a commission to prepare for a Parliament,
  • adheres to his resolution of sending a fleet against Algiers,
  • acknowledges that Gondomar had never said that Spinola would not invade the Palatinate,
  • rejects Bacon's draft of a proclamation for summoning Parliament,
  • summons Parliament,
  • receives the news of Frederick's defeat,
  • calls a Council of War,
  • refuses to enter upon a French marriage treaty,
  • repels the advances of Cadenet,
  • disgraces Naunton,
  • complains Of disorderly alehouses,
  • takes the monopoly of gold and silver thread into his own hands,
  • recommends a plan for taking bonds,
  • opens his third Parliament,
  • holds a conversation with Gondomar on the reconciliation of the Churches,
  • thanks the Commons for granting supply,
  • defends his permission to Gondomar to export ordnance,
  • refuses to persecute the Catholics,
  • finds fault with the Commons for proceeding against the referees,
  • orders the Commons to refrain from business till the Subsidy Bill is passed,
  • proposes to refer Bacon's case to a new tribunal,
  • abandons his proposal,
  • addresses the Houses on the monopolies and Bacon's case,
  • rejects Buckingham's request for a dissolution of Parliament,
  • has an interview with Bacon,
  • is on good terms with Parliament,
  • asks for an additional supply,
  • is vexed at the condemnation of the patent for alehouses,
  • asks Parliament to punish Yelverton,
  • leaves Yelverton to the judgment of the Peers,
  • issues a proclamation against freedom of speech,
  • insists on the punishment of an apprentice who had attacked a Spaniard,
  • questions the jurisdiction of the Commons over Floyd,
  • leaves Floyd's case to the Lords,
  • directs the Houses to adjourn,
  • offers a prorogation,
  • orders the translation of the Commons' declaration for the defence of the Palatinate,
  • is reluctant to give the bishopric of St. David's to Laud,
  • refuses to blame Abbot for his unintentional homicide,
  • issues a proclamation against monopolies,
  • consents to the colonisation of New England by the Leyden Separatists,
  • loses time in his mediation in Germany,
  • complains of the behaviour of the Dutch in the East,
  • refuses to inform the Dutch of his intentions about the Palatinate,
  • inquires whether Philip IV. means to go on with the marriage treaty,
  • sends money to Frederick,
  • gives instructions to Digby for his mission to Vienna,
  • orders Frederick to submit to the Emperor,
  • wishes to break up the blockade of the Flemish ports,
  • receives Digby's report,
  • hastens the meeting of Parliament, and proposes fresh terms to the Emperor,
  • assures Gondomar that he need not fear Parliament,
  • orders the Commons to abstain from meddling with the Prince's marriage,
  • orders the ambassadors' stools for a deputation of the Commons,
  • refuses to admit the right of the Commons to discuss foreign affairs,
  • declares that the privileges of the Commons are held by his permission,
  • writes to explain his meaning,
  • destroys the protestation of the Commons, and resolves to dissolve Parliament,
  • imprisons the leaders of the Commons, and dissolves Parliament,
  • falls into the New River,
  • defends his conduct in dissolving Parliament,
  • consents to Gondomar's plan for breaking the blockade of the Flemish ports,
  • instructs Digby to propose to Spain a joint attack on the Netherlands,
  • orders Oxford to seize two Dutch ships,
  • imprisons the Earl of Oxford,
  • turns Wray out of the bed-chamber
  • takes part in the conferences with Fisher,
  • welcomes De Dominis,
  • becomes dissatisfied with him,
  • is angry at the proposal of De Dominis to return to Rome,
  • sends Doncaster to mediate between Louis XIII and the Protestants,
  • sends Doncaster again to France, and receives commissioners from Rochelle,
  • continued self-confidence of,
  • unpopularity of,
  • orders Pareus's Commentaries to be burnt,
  • gives directions to alter the mode of studying divinity at Oxford,
  • requires Frederick to renounce the crown of Bohemia,
  • sends Weston to Brussels,
  • fails to obtain influence over the armies in Germany,
  • approves of Frederick's journey to the Palatinate,
  • insists on Frederick's consenting to a truce,
  • objects to the proposed assembly at Ratisbon,
  • rejects a proposal made at Brussels for the sequestration of the towns in the Palatinate,
  • issues directions to preachers,
  • causes a reaction in favour of Puritanism,
  • sets free Catholic prisoners,
  • liberates Coke, Phelips, and Mallory,
  • complains of the terms brought from Rome by Gage,
  • contrast between the words and actions of,
  • summons the King of Spain to obtain the restitution of Heidelberg,
  • writes to the Pope,
  • expects to obtain his objects with the aid of Spain,
  • sends fresh instructions to Bristol
  • refuses to summon Parliament, and asks the Prince of Orange to pay Mansfeld's troops,
  • refuses to allow Spanish ships to take refuge in English ports,
  • recalls Chichester,
  • accepts the articles of marriage as amended in Spain,
  • negotiates for the sequestration of Frankenthal,
  • asks Frederick to agree to the sequestration,
  • comparison between his religious and his commercial policy,
  • is acquainted with the Prince's wish to visit Spain,
  • consents to the journey,
  • regrets his decision,
  • gives a final permission,
  • sends Carlisle to Paris,
  • states his opinion on the Papal supremacy,
  • directs Charles and Buckingham to appear in the robes of the garter on St. George's Day,
  • sends chaplains to his son,
  • exhorts his son not to be ashamed of his religion,
  • asks Williams whether his son is likely to bring home the Infanta,
  • creates Buckingham a duke
  • hears that the dispensation is clogged with conditions,
  • sends full powers to his son, but regrets the necessity of building a chapel for the Infanta,
  • is distressed at hearing that the Infanta is not to accompany the Prince,
  • urges Charles to marry and come home,
  • despairs of seeing his son again,
  • objects to some of the articles of the marriage treaty,
  • replies to Williams's question whether he felt conscientious scruples about swearing to the treaty,
  • asks the Privy Councillors whether they can swear to the marriage treaty,
  • swears to the public articles,
  • takes an oath to the private articles,
  • explains the sense in which he understands the oath,
  • complains of the expense to which he is put by the delay in sending the Infanta,
  • opens negotiations for the sequestration of Frankenthal, and for a suspension of arms,
  • engages that neither he nor his son-in-law shall disturb the peace of the Empire,
  • impracticability of his diplomacy,
  • proposes a joint English and Spanish attack on the Dutch Netherlands,
  • remonstrates with the Dutch for blockading Dunkirk vessels at Leith and Aberdeen,
  • determines to free the ports of Scotland from a Dutch blockade,
  • sends powers to Buckingham and Bristol to treat for a partition of the Dutch territory,
  • orders Captain Best to convoy the privateer at Leith to a Flemish port,
  • speaks in friendly terms of the Dutch,
  • orders Rutland to sail at once,
  • discusses with the Spanish ambassadors the mode of relaxing the penal laws,
  • agrees at Salisbury to a scheme in favour of the Catholics,
  • refuses to give way to the further demands of the ambassadors,
  • orders his son to return,
  • signs the pardon and dispensation for the Catholics,
  • receives his son at Royston,
  • listens to a plan of the Spanish ambassadors for the pacification of Germany,
  • proposes to Frederick to marry his son to the Emperor's daughter,
  • is satisfied with Bristol's assurances that the Infanta will not take the veil,
  • but expects to hear that Philip will provide for the restitution of the Palatinate,
  • shrinks from making the restitution of the Palatinate an indispensable condition of his son's marriage,
  • orders Bristol to obtain an explicit declaration from Philip, and proposes that the Electoral Prince shall be educated in England,
  • acknowledges that he cannot expect Philip to take arms against the Emperor,
  • lays the Spanish terms before Frederick,
  • hesitates between peace and war,
  • directs the issue of writs for a Parliament, and recalls Bristol,
  • virtual end of his reign,
  • character of the policy of,
  • is determined to regain the Palatinate,
  • sends ambassadors to form an alliance,
  • agrees to send Kensington to Paris to talk about a French marriage,
  • fresh offers made by the Spanish ambassadors to,
  • consults the commissioners for Spanish affairs,
  • refuses to give full information to the commissioners,
  • cannot decide whether to go to war or not,
  • refuses to agree to the education of the Electoral Prince at Munich, and refers the breach with Spain to Parliament,
  • proposes to send Coke and Sandys to Ireland,
  • opens Parliament with a request for advice, and explains his treatment of the Catholics,
  • refers the complaint of the Spanish ambassadors against Buckingham to Parliament,
  • disapproves of the Commons' petition against Spain,
  • accepts Rudyerd's four points and declares that he is anxious for the restitution of the Palatinate,
  • proposes to send aid to the German princes,
  • tells Carondelet that he is anxious to remain at peace with Spain,
  • refuses to declare war immediately against Spain,
  • proposes a continental alliance for a war in Germany,
  • allows Buckingham and Charles to explain away his answer,
  • declares the treaties dissolved,
  • announces that he will be guided in his military operations by the advice of a Council of War,
  • informs Lafuente that he will not quarrel with Philip, if he will engage to support with arms a fair settlement in the Palatinate,
  • receives Dutch commissioners favourably,
  • sees Carondelet in private,
  • complains that his son is led astray by Buckingham,
  • sends a courier to Madrid to break off the treaties, but recalls him,
  • asks the Spanish ambassadors to make good their charges against the Duke,
  • sends off a despatch announcing the breach of negotiations with Spain,
  • nature of Buckingham's influence over,
  • motives which led him to break off the negotiations,
  • engages to furnish men and money to Mansfeld,
  • receives Lafuente's complaints against Buckingham,
  • replies to the Commons' petition against the recusants, and confirms his son's engagement that the Catholics shall not benefit by the marriage treaty,
  • orders inquiry to be made into Inojosa's charges against Buckingham,
  • detains Inojosa in England,
  • warns Charles and Buckingham of the consequences of the impeachment of Middlesex,
  • places Bristol in confinement,
  • will not allow him to demand a trial in Parliament,
  • assents to the Monopoly Bill,
  • criticises the Bills presented to him at the close of the session of 1624,
  • is satisfied with Bristol's replies,
  • forces the East India Company to pay 20,000l. to himself and Buckingham,
  • threatens to take measures against the Dutch unless they do justice on the authors of the massacre of Amboyna,
  • refuses to see Inojosa before he leaves England,
  • refuses to allow the privileges of neutrality to Dunkirk privateers in the Downs,
  • refuses to head a religious war,
  • sends embassies to Denmark and Sweden,
  • draws back from the French marriage treaty,
  • agrees to write a letter promising relief to the Catholics,
  • refuses to sign an article in favour of the Catholics,
  • agrees to accept Richelieu's terms,
  • is obliged to prorogue Parliament,
  • disputes with Louis about Mansfeld's passage,
  • accepts the full demands of the French,
  • his mistake in thinking that he could regain the Palatinate without giving offence to Spain,
  • summons the Infanta Isabella to surrender the Palatinate,
  • objects to allow Mansfeld to take part in the relief of Breda,
  • gives explanations to the agent of the Infanta Isabella,
  • uses a stamp to ratify the marriage treaty,
  • allows Mansfeld to march through Flanders,
  • is unwilling to allow Mansfeld to land in Holland,
  • talks of disbanding Mansfeld's troops,
  • prohibits Mansfeld from relieving Breda,
  • thinks that the demands of Gustavus are too high,
  • proposes a congress at the Hague,
  • adopts Christian's plan of operations, and asks Gustavus to co-operate,
  • wishes to make war economically,
  • is persuaded to lend ships for an attack on Genoa,
  • is ready to lend ships to be used against Rochelle,
  • rejects the condition which the Pope wishes to impose on the marriage of Henrietta Maria,
  • last illness of,
  • medicine administered by Lady Buckingham to,
  • death of,
  • character of,
  • is buried in the tomb of Henry VII.,
  • charge brought against Buckingham of administering medicine to,
  • orders given for the enforcement of the Articles of Perth by,
• James, John,
  • attempts to murder Heywood,
  • Bill brought in for the punishment of,
• James, Prince,
  • birth of,
  • is created Duke of York, and is intended eventually to be Lord Admiral,
  • is brought to the King at York,
  • is sent to visit Hull,
• James, Richard,
  • lends Dudley's paper of advice to St. John,
• Jars, De, the Chevalier,
  • theft of his correspondence,
  • is imprisoned,
  • efforts of Henrietta Maria to obtain the liberation of,
  • liberation of,
• Jask,
  • station established by the East India Company at,
• Jeannin, Pierre,
  • gives explanations to the English Commissioners,
• Jehangir, the Emperor,
  • Roe's embassy to,
• Jermyn, Henry,
  • carries Holland's challenge to Weston,
  • seduces Eleanor Villiers, is sent to prison and forgiven,
  • disapproves the Queen's proposed visit to France,
  • consults with Suckling on the Army Plot,
  • confers with Chudleigh,
  • has a conference with Percy and the officers,
  • rejection by Charles of the plan of,
  • sends Chudleigh to the Northern army,
  • escapes to France,
  • Henry Percy accuses,
  • is declared a traitor by the Commons,
• Jermyn, Sir Thomas,
  • objects to a guard being placed at the door of the House of Commons,
  • asks what treason Finch had committed,
  • brings a message from the Queen to the Commons,
• Jersey,
  • imprisonment of Prynne in,
• Jesuits,
  • arrest at Clerkenwell of a party of,
  • complaints made in the Commons of the lenient treatment of,
  • are hostile to the Bishop of Chalcedon,
• Jesus, Francisco de,
  • engages in a theological discussion with Buckingham,
• Jewels, the Crown,
  • resolution taken to pawn,
  • are offered by Buckingham to the merchants of Amsterdam,
  • refusal of the merchants to take them in pledge,
  • reference made by Eliot to,
  • Charles carries from London,
  • are taken by the Queen to Holland,
  • sold or pawned by the Queen,
• Joachimi, Albert,
  • takes alarm lest Buckingham intends to negotiate a separate peace between England and Spain,
  • is informed by Portland that an attack on Dunkirk will be a breach of international law,
  • proposes a compromise on the right of search,
• John, the Archduke
  • his proposed marriage with the Infanta Maria,
• John George (Elector of Saxony, 1611),
  • political opinions of,
  • offers to mediate in Bohemia,
  • conduct of, after the death of Matthias,
  • negotiates with Maximilian,
  • promises to attack Lusatia and Silesia,
  • occupies Silesia,
  • hesitates as to the conduct to be pursued after the battle of Prague,
  • refuses to help Frederick to recover Bohemia,
  • refuses to attend the Assembly of Ratisbon,
  • pleads for Frederick, but, on hearing of his behaviour at Darmstadt, approves of the transference of the Electorate,
  • protests against the expulsion of the Lutheran clergy from Bohemia,
  • jeers at the King of France,
  • furthers the advance of Gustavus,
  • offers to support the Emperor if he will modify the Edict of Restitution,
  • takes part with Gustavus at Breitenfeld,
  • signs the Peace of Prague,
• Johnson, Francis,
  • conduct of, as a Separatist minister in Amsterdam,
• Johnson, Margaret,
  • acknowledges herself to be a witch,
• Johnston, Archibald, of Warriston,
  • reports the movements of the Council in Edinburgh to the opponents of Charles,
  • reads a protestation at Stirling,
  • takes part in drawing up the Covenant,
  • is chosen Clerk of the Assembly of Glasgow,
  • advocates the holding of a session of Parliament in defiance of the King's order for a prorogation,
  • writes to Savile to ask for an understanding with the English peers,
  • discovers Savile's treachery,
• Jones, Inigo,
  • is the architect of the new banqueting-house at Whitehall,
  • prepares houses for the reception of the Infanta,
  • is the architect of the western portico of St. Paul's,
• Jones, William (Justice of the Common Pleas, 1621; of the Kings Bench, 1624-1640),
  • is startled by the strength of the defence in the five knights' case,
  • gives judgment in the case of ship-money, viii,
• Jonson, Ben,
  • writes lines on Bacon's birthday,
  • verses on Buckingham's murder assigned to,
  • Falkland's appreciation of,
  • death of,
• Joseph, Father,
  • expresses to Leicester his distrust of Charles,
• Jourdain, John,
  • attempts to open trade with the Spice Islands,
• Judges, the
  • naturalise the post-nati,
  • relations of the Crown with,
  • opinion of, on Fuller's case,
  • conference with, on the subject of prohibitions,
  • oppose the High Commission in Chaunceys case,
  • are consulted separately in Peacham's case,
  • views of Coke and Bacon on the constitutional position of,
  • protest of, against the King's order to delay the case of commendams,
  • are summoned before the King,
  • discussion on the oath taken by,
  • submit to the King,
  • refuse to acknowledge the legality of the forced loan,
  • position intended by Wentworth to be occupied by,
  • questions on the Petition of Right put by the King to,
  • the interpretation of the law acknowledged by Charles to be with,
  • are consulted on the case of the imprisoned members of Parliament,
  • question of the jurisdiction of the Star Chamber over members of Parliament referred to,
  • inform the King that it is their duty to bail the members of Parliament,
  • are forced to submit to the King,
  • jurisdiction over members of Parliament assumed by,
  • their relation to the Crown,
  • freedom from corruption, but political dependence of,
  • give an opinion on the legality of ship-money,
  • are consulted by Charles on the legality of ship-money,
  • give a favourable answer,
  • political position of,
  • Hampden's case argued before,
  • are to hold office during good behaviour,
  • declare Strafford to have been guilty of treason,
• Juliers,
  • seized by the Archduke Leopold,
  • retaken,
  • occupied by the Brandenburg party,
  • taken by the Spaniards,
• Junto, the.
  • See Committee of the Privy Council for Scottish affairs, the
• Justices of the Peace,
  • dismissal of,
• Jutland,
  • overrun by the Imperialists,
• Juxon, William (Bishop of London, 1633),
  • becomes Bishop of London,
  • becomes Lord Treasurer,
  • his conduct at the Treasury,
  • holds aloof from Panzani,
  • attempts to reconcile Laud and Windebank,
  • discovers a quarry which produces marble for St. John's,
  • takes part in the revision of the Scottish canons,
  • is ready to surrender the Treasurership,
  • gives evidence that he does not remember hearing Strafford propose to bring over the Irish army,
  • urges Charles to refuse his assent to the Bill of Attainder,
  • resumes the Treasurership,
• Kedle, John,
  • his opinion on churches in Scotland,
• Kelso,
  • Holland marches against the Scottish troops at,
• Kennedy, Sir John,
  • his gift to Bacon,
• Kensington, Viscount, 1622-1624 (Henry Rich),
  • sent to Paris to pave the way for a French marriage,
  • welcomed by Mary de Medicis and Henrietta Maria,
  • falls under the influence of the French Court, and attempts to remove Charles's objections to a marriage treaty without a preceding league,
  • is asked by La Vieuville to return to England,
  • brings back to Paris news that James has accepted La Vieuville's proposal,
  • appeals to the Queen Mother,
  • enters into secret communications with Richelieu,
  • is created Earl of Holland,
  • See Holland, Earl of
• Kent,
  • refusal of pressed men to leave,
  • the levy of soldiers resisted in,
  • petition against episcopacy signed in,
• Kentish petition, the,
  • demands made in,
  • four of the signers of, sent for by the Commons,
  • is presented to the Commons,
  • imprisonment of two of the gentlemen who present it,
• Ker, Lord (Harry Ker),
  • challenges Hamilton, but is forced to apologise,
  • brings armed men to Parliament,
• Keyes, Robert.
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Keymis, Lawrence,
  • gives evidence at Raleigh's trial,
  • takes part as a commissioner in the survey of the Sherborne estate,
  • his voyage to Guiana,
  • hears of a gold mine,
  • Raleigh wishes to send back to Guiana,
  • Raleigh sends up the Orinoco,
  • ascends the Orinoco,
  • takes San Thome,
  • fails to reach the mine,
  • returns to Raleigh,
  • commits suicide,
• Khevenhueller, Count of,
  • urges the Spanish Government to invade the Palatinate,
  • proposes a marriage between the Archduke Ferdinand and the Infanta Maria,
  • is instructed to inform the Spanish Government of the Emperor's resolution to transfer the Palatine Electorate,
  • is asked by Olivares to propose a marriage between Prince Charles and the Emperor's daughter,
  • is threatened by Buckingham,
• Kilkenny,
  • mass celebrated at,
  • submits to Mountjoy,
• Killigrew, Sir William,
  • is sent to rouse the members of the Inns of Court to join the King,
• Killigrew, Henry,
  • recommends that the House of Commons should inquire what were the opinions of the constituencies,
  • answers a demand for a horse for the service of Parliament,
• Killigrew, Sir Robert,
  • advises that the question of giving supply be not put,
• Kilt, the,
  • worn by the Highlanders,
• Kilvert, Richard,
  • brings charges against Williams and Pregion,
  • attacks the Vintners' Company,
• Kimbolton, Lord.
  • See Mandeville, Viscount
• Kineill,
  • Hamilton, Argyle, and Lanark take refuge at,
• King, Captain,
  • assists Raleigh in his attempt to escape,
• King, John (Bishop of London, 1611-1621),
  • is a commissioner in the Essex divorce case,
  • attempts to induce Weston to plead,
• King, Sir Robert,
  • reports that alarming words had been used by Radcliffe,
• King's Bench, the Court of,
  • case of the five knights in,
  • admits Chambers to bail,
  • bail demanded for the imprisoned members of Parliament in,
  • submits to the refusal of the King to produce the imprisoned members of Parliament,
  • Charles's conduct to the judges of,
  • discussion by the judges of, on the terms on which bail is to be offered to the imprisoned members,
  • refusal of the members to give a bond for good behaviour in,
  • information against Eliot, Holles, and Valentine in,
  • proceedings against Eliot, Holles, and Valentine in,
  • fines imposed on the defendants in,
  • Issues prohibitions against the Council of the North,
  • attempt of Chambers to obtain a decision on the legality of ship-money from,
  • the Massachusetts Charter declared null and void by,
  • shows uneasiness in continuing its support to the Crown,
• King's evil, the,
  • James touches for,
• Kingston,
  • alleged intention of Lunsford to seize the magazine of arms at,
  • dispersal of the Cavaliers at,
• Kinloss, Lord, 1602-1611 (Edward Bruce),
  • appointed Master of the Rolls,
• Kinnoul, Earl of, 1633-1634 (George Hay),
  • refuses to allow Spottiswoode to take precedence of him,
  • death of,
• Kirk, Captain,
  • seizes Port Royal and storms Quebec,
• Kirton, Edward,
  • asks for the discovery of the King's enemies,
  • declares that the root of all mischief is in the ambition of the clergy,
  • complains of the information in the Star Chamber against the merchants who refused to pay tonnage and poundage,
  • expresses admiration of Eliot,
  • speaks against the Scots,
  • informs the House that Digby has been created a peer,
  • charges Venn with sending for armed citizens,
• Knewstubs, John,
  • takes part in the Hampton Court Conference,
• Knight, John,
  • is imprisoned for preaching that it is lawful for subjects to take arms against their sovereign,
• Knighthood fines,
  • compositions for,
  • their legality questioned by the sheriff of Yorkshire,
  • vindicated by Wentworth,
  • Selden brings in a Bill for the abolition of,
  • the Royal assent given to the Bill for the abolition of,
• Knight-service,
  • tenants by, are ordered to follow the King to the field,
• Knightly, Sir Valentine,
  • reprimanded by the Council,
• Knollys, Lord, 1603-1616 (William Knollys),
  • supports Essex in resisting his wife's suit for a divorce,
  • puts down names of subscribers to the benevolence without their knowledge,
  • See Wallingford, Viscount
• Knott, Edward (pseudonym),
  • writes Charity Mistaken, and replies to Dr. Potter,
  • comments on Chillingworth's intention to reply to him,
• Knox, John,
  • his views on Church government,
• Krempe,
  • is defended by the Danes,
  • Morgan is sent to the relief of,
  • surrender of,
• Kreutroach,
  • surrenders to Spinola.
• La Chesnee,
  • visits Raleigh,
  • is examined by the Council and imprisoned,
• Ladensium autokatakrisis
  • published by Baillie,
• Lady Mora, the,
  • mention,
  • her waiting maid,
• Lafuente, Fray Diego de,
  • is sent to England to assure James that the marriage treaty will be proceeded with,
  • is sent to Rome to obtain the dispensation,
  • carries on negotiations at Rome,
  • reconciles Cottington to the Church of Rome,
  • is attacked near Amiens,
  • his interview with James,
  • complains of Buckingham to James,
  • complains of Buckingham's conduct in Spain,
• Lake, Arthur,
  • attacks Lord Roos,
• Lake, Lady,
  • condemned to fine and imprisonment,
• Lake, Sir Thomas,
  • is a candidate for the Secretaryship after Salisbury's death,
  • reads the contract at the betrothal of the Princess Elizabeth,
  • is supported by the Howards,
  • his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
  • is appointed Secretary,
  • is threatened with disgrace,
  • supports his daughter in her quarrel with Lady Exeter,
  • is sentenced to fine and imprisonment,
  • is forced to resign office,
  • Gondomar pleads for,
• Lalor, Robert,
  • tried for exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Ireland,
• Lambe, Dr.,
  • murder of,
• Lambert, Moy,
  • seizes a ship in Cowes Roads,
• Lambeth,
  • changes effected by Laud in the chapel at,
  • riots at,
• Lame Giles, his haltings,
  • is written by Prynne,
• Lanark, Earl of, 1639 (William Hamilton),
  • is ordered to inform the Scots that the King has summoned the Great Council,
  • attaches himself to Argyle, and is named by Charles to retain the Secretaryship,
  • pleads for his brother,
  • takes flight from Edinburgh,
• Lancashire,
  • contest on the observance of the Sabbath in,
  • issue of the Declaration of Sports in,
  • assessment of ship-money in,
• Lancashire witches, the,
  • mention,
• Lancastrian kings,
  • mention,
• Landguard Fort,
  • repairs ordered for,
• Lane, Richard,
  • is imprisoned by the High Commission,
• Langres, Hercules,
  • gives information to the Commons of the King's approach,
• Lanzarote,
  • Raleigh's proceedings at,
• Lapthorne, Anthony,
  • emits part of the service,
  • reviles his congregation and his neighbours,
• Large Declaration, The,
  • publication of,
• Latitudinarianism,
  • influence of,
• Laud, William (Bishop of St. David, 1621; of Bath, and Wells, 1626; of London, 1628; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1633),
  • character and opinions of,
  • is elected President of St. John's,
  • opinions of,
  • becomes Dean of Gloucester,
  • alters the position of the communion-table at Gloucester,
  • becomes Bishop of St. David's,
  • refuses to be consecrated by Abbot,
  • holds conferences with Fisher,
  • is treated by Buckingham as a confessor,
  • opinions of, on religious liberty,
  • character of the religious movement in which he partakes,
  • gains Charles's ear,
  • draws up an O and P list,
  • declares that Montague's opinions are not condemned by the Church,
  • preaches at the opening of Charles's second Parliament,
  • his devotion to Charles,
  • reports in favour of Montague's book,
  • helps Buckingham in his defence,
  • view taken of the Royal authority by,
  • political theories of,
  • remonstrates against licensing Manwaring's sermons,
  • preaches at the opening of the Parliament of 1628,
  • becomes Bishop of London,
  • advises the re-issue of the substance of the King's proclamation for the unity of the Church,
  • comments on the resolutions of the Commons on the Articles,
  • writes to Vossius on the intolerance of the Commons,
  • his views on toleration, and on the beauty of holiness,
  • his attention to dreams and omens,
  • respects the Royal supremacy,
  • his unpopularity in London,
  • is appealed to on behalf of Cosin,
  • forbids Dr. Brooke to publish a controversial book,
  • is elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford,
  • enforces discipline,
  • is pleased at the birth of an heir to the Crown,
  • baptizes Prince Charles,
  • defends episcopacy in his speech against Leighton in the Star Chamber,
  • becomes intimate with Wentworth,
  • authority of, in Oxford and London,
  • enforces bowing in church, and consecrates St. Catherine Cree,
  • urges the collection of money for the repair of St. Paul's,
  • encourages Page to write against Prynne, and enforces the King's declaration at Oxford,
  • attempts to enforce conformity, but is not spiteful in doing so,
  • his respect for legality,
  • urges the punishment of Sir Giles Alington,
  • is pleased at the arrest of a congregation of Separatists,
  • votes for a heavy sentence in Sherfield's case,
  • attacks the feoffees for impropriations,
  • is consulted on the Prayer-book prepared by the Scottish bishops,
  • thinks that the English Prayer-book ought to be introduced into Scotland,
  • accompanies Charles to Edinburgh,
  • preaches at Holyrood on conformity,
  • tells Charles that he must not execute Balmerino,
  • becomes Archbishop of Canterbury,
  • offer of a cardinal's hat to,
  • want of imaginative sympathy in the mind of,
  • his conduct in the cases of Ludowick Bowyer and Lady Eleanor Davies,
  • his harshness,
  • is directed to restrict ordination,
  • and to bring lecturers and chaplains to order,
  • objects to power being given to laymen to appoint or dismiss ministers,
  • his view on the Royal authority over the Church,
  • takes an interest in the repairs at St. Paul's,
  • makes changes in the chapel at Lambeth,
  • speaks in favour of placing the communion-table at St. Gregory's at the east end,
  • promotion of bishops favoured by,
  • does not wish to interfere with foreign churches,
  • wishes to bring to conformity English churches on the Continent,
  • urges the use of the Prayer-book by the English regiments in the Dutch service,
  • hears that a large number of Puritans are emigrating to New England,
  • finds fault with Chief Justice Richardson, and makes inquiry as to the feeling in Somerset about the wakes,
  • his speech at the sentence on Prynne for the Histriomastix,
  • objects to depriving Prynne of pen and ink,
  • is without female admirers,
  • brings charges against Portland,
  • informs Charles that Portland does not answer Wentworth's letters,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • advocates the policy of Thorough,
  • his conversation with Hyde,
  • conduct of, on the Treasury Commission,
  • quarrels with Cottington about the soap monopoly,
  • quarrels with Windebank,
  • is energetic in looking for new sources of revenue,
  • opposes the enclosure of Richmond Park,
  • complains of the selfishness prevalent at Court,
  • takes part in the Star Chamber against Bagg,
  • his wish to make men equal before the law,
  • claims the right of metropolitical visitation,
  • sends Sir Nathaniel Brent as his Vicar-General,
  • his superstitious reverence for legality,
  • orders the removal of communion-tables to the east end,
  • unsympathising nature of,
  • brings his authority to bear on the foreign churches in England,
  • treats rich and poor on an equality,
  • is thought to wish to place England at the feet of the Pope,
  • tells the King that if he wishes to go to Rome the Pope will not meet him,
  • recovers influence with Charles,
  • exults over the appointment of Juxon as Treasurer,
  • holds aloof from Panzani,
  • is not sure of the King,
  • decision that the right of visiting the Universities belongs to,
  • refuses to be reconciled to Windebank,
  • Hyde expostulates with,
  • his reception at Oxford,
  • accompanies the King at Oxford,
  • is an advocate of peace,
  • shrinks from toleration,
  • is placed on a commission for regulating the colonies,
  • warns Wentworth of the danger of exciting enemies at Court,
  • comments on the proposal to send the Elector Palatine to sea,
  • is attacked by the unlicensed press,
  • defends his conduct in a speech at the trial of Prynne, Bastwick, and Burton,
  • his views on episcopal jurisdiction,
  • complains that the prisoners are allowed to speak to the people from the pillory,
  • libels against,
  • wishes to execute the laws against the Catholics,
  • urges Charles to allow proceedings to be taken against Walter Montague,
  • proposes that the chapels of the Queen and of the ambassadors shall be closed against English Catholics,
  • triumph of Henrietta Maria over,
  • regrets Charles's determination to pardon Williams,
  • helps Chillingworth to return to the Church of England,
  • his views compared with those of Chillingworth,
  • is supposed to have instigated Chillingworth to write The Religion of Protestants,
  • his interview with Charles,
  • insists on the full payment of tithes due to the City clergy,
  • remarks on the deformation of the Scottish churches,
  • takes part in the revision of the new Prayer-book and canons for Scotland,
  • urges the King to insist on the adoption of the Prayer-book,
  • Archie Armstrong flogged for railing at,
  • blame of the troubles of Scotland thrown on,
  • dislikes the Queen Mother's visit,
  • publication of his Conference with Fisher,
  • takes a despondent view of Scottish affairs,
  • supports Wentworth's proposal to summon a Parliament,
  • his report of the state of the Church in 1639,
  • acknowledges that he cannot suppress the Separatists and Anabaptists in his own diocese,
  • asks the Lords to adjourn on account of the sitting of Convocation,
  • instigates Hall to publish his Episcopacy by Divine Rights
  • says that it is lawful for the King to take the supply which the Commons have denied him,
  • riots directed against,
  • a party of lawyers drinks confusion to,
  • Baillie's attack on,
  • objects to the continuance of Convocation after the dissolution of Parliament,
  • suspends Bishop Goodman,
  • protests that Charles is far from Popery,
  • is ordered to suspend the Etcetera Oath,
  • wishes the Star Chamber to punish the mob which had broken into the High Commission Court,
  • proposal to impeach,
  • impeachment of,
  • Articles voted against,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • gives his last blessing to Strafford,
  • is amused by a caricature of Williams,
• Lawes, Henry,
  • instigates Milton to write the Comus,
• Lay preachers,
  • offence given by.
  • are reproved by the House of Commons,
  • encouraged by the Separatists,
• Layton, Sir Thomas,
  • is summoned before the Council of the North, for resisting Wentworth's authority,
• League, the Catholic,
  • formation of,
  • reconstruction of,
  • agrees to the treaty of Ulm,
• Lech,
  • defeat of Tilly on the,
• Le Clerc
  • invites Raleigh to take refuge in France,
  • visits Raleigh,
  • is obliged to leave the kingdom,
• Lecturers, the,
  • position in the Church of,
  • are forbidden to preach unless they first read the service,
  • attempt made to cut short the supply of,
  • order of the Commons on the establishment of,
• Legate, Bartholomew,
  • convicted of heresy,
  • burnt,
• Legg, Captain,
  • is entrusted with a petition to be signed in the army,
  • evidence given to the Commons on the mission of,
  • is sent to secure Hull for the King,
  • is refused permission to bring troops into Hull,
• Leicester,
  • arrangement for the position of the communion-table in a church at,
  • failure of Hastings to seize the magazine of arms in,
  • Charles fails to obtain support in,
• Leicester, 1st Earl of, 1618-1626 (Robert Sydney),
  • is a member of the Council of War,
• Leicester, 2nd Earl of, 1626 (Robert Sydney),
  • is ordered to negotiate in France,
  • finds it difficult to carry out Charles's instructions,
  • is friendly to France,
  • is a candidate for the Secretaryship,
  • is appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
• Leicestershire,
  • opinion of the electors of, on the Great Contract,
  • prepares to send reinforcements to the Northern army,
  • proceedings of Hastings in,
  • return of Hastings to,
  • Parliamentary troops despatched to,
• Leigh, Captain,
  • his voyage to Guiana,
• Leighton, Alexander,
  • early life of,
  • writes Sion's Plea against Prelacy,
  • is arrested,
  • character of the opinions of,
  • is brought before the Star Chamber,
  • sentence on,
  • is degraded by the High Commission,
  • execution of the sentence of the Star Chamber on,
  • attends Gouge's preaching,
  • the Commons order the liberation of,
  • the Commons vote reparation to,
• Leinster,
  • condition of, after James's accession,
• Leipzig, battle of.
  • See Breitenfeld
• Leith,
  • a Dunkirk privateer takes refuge in,
  • some of the houses of, struck by balls from a Dutch vessel,
  • attack by the Dutch on a privateer at,
  • war-like munitions landed at,
  • fortification of,
• Leitrim,
  • settlement of,
• Lennox, Duke of, 1583 (Earl of Richmond, 1613-1624; Duke of Richmond, 1623-1624) (Ludovick Stuart),
  • is created Earl of Richmond,
  • votes against conferring with the Commons on impositions,
  • is favourable to the French marriage,
  • opposes a proposal to deprive Bacon of his peerage,
  • offers to buy York House,
  • is created Duke of Richmond,
  • votes against war with Spain,
  • is sent by Charles to assure James that war with Spain is necessary,
  • death of,
• Lennox, Duke of, 1624 (James Stuart),
  • takes Portland's part,
  • brings Buckingham's widow to Court,
  • supports Williams,
  • speech falsely attributed to,
  • is created Duke of Richmond,
  • See Lennox and Richmond, Duke of
• Lennox and Richmond, Duke of, 1641 (James Stuart),
  • accompanies the King to Scotland,
  • becomes Lord High Steward,
  • is reprimanded for asking for an adjournment for six months,
  • See Lennox, Duke of
• Lent,
  • proclamation for the observance of abstinence in,
• Lenthall, William,
  • is chosen Speaker in the Long Parliament,
  • expects to be killed in a riot in the House,
  • replies to the King's demand for the five members,
• Leonard, the Indian,
  • does not forget Raleigh,
• Leopold, the Archduke,
  • seizes Juliers,
  • besieges Hagenau,
  • makes head against Mansfeld,
• Lepton and Goldsmith,
  • affair of,
• Lerma, Duke of,
  • favours a policy of peace,
  • proposes to substitute influence for conquest,
  • offers the Infanta Maria to Prince Henry instead of the Infanta Anne,
  • declares that the Prince will be expected to become a Catholic,
  • keeps on foot the negotiation for the Infanta's marriage,
  • is driven from power,
• Lesdiguieres, Marshal,
  • proposes to employ English and Dutch ships against Genoa,
  • wishes for peace with the Huguenots,
• Leslie, Alexander,
  • early life of,
  • becomes General of the Scottish army,
  • accompanies Montrose to Aberdeen,
  • posts himself at Dunglas,
  • marches towards the Border,
  • occupies Dunse Law,
  • Baillie's description of the influence exercised by,
  • suggests the sending of a Scottish force to the Palatinate,
  • begins to collect an army for the invasion of England,
  • takes up his post at Choicelee Wood,
  • routs Conway at Newburn,
  • is popular in the North of England,
  • offers his service to Charles, and returns to Scotland,
  • is believed by Charles to be devoted to him,
  • is informed of the project for seizing Argyle and Hamilton,
  • is created Earl of Leven,
• Letter-post,
  • the institution of,
• Levant Company, the,
  • financial history of,
• Ley, Lord, 1625-1626 (James Ley),
  • is appointed a member of the committee for foreign affairs,
  • financial statement by,
  • is created Earl of Marlborough,
  • See Ley, Sir James
  • See Marlborough, Earl of
• Ley, Sir James,
  • goes on the first circuit in Wicklow,
  • becomes Chief Justice of England,
  • is created Lord Ley,
  • See Ley, Lord
  • See Marlborough, Earl of
• Leyden,
  • Separatist congregation in,
  • Alexander Leighton at,
  • remarks made on the English Prayer-book by the professors of,
• Liberty of Speech in Parliament,
  • report of a committee on,
  • proclamation against,
  • discussed in the House of Commons,
  • precedents concerning,
• Lifford,
  • reserved for a colony by Chichester,
  • holds out against O'Dogherty,
• Lilburne, John,
  • is charged with printing Puritan books at Rotterdam,
  • is sentenced in the Star Chamber,
  • harsh imprisonment of,
  • the Commons order the liberation of,
  • the Commons vote reparation to,
• Limerick,
  • mass said at,
  • is secured by Wilmot,
  • Wentworth's visit to,
• Lincoln, Charles
  • encourages resistance to the Militia Ordinance at,
• Lincoln, Earl of, 1619 (Theophilus Clinton),
  • refuses to pay the forced loan,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • is restored to his seat in Parliament at the instance of the Lords,
  • visits Eliot in the Tower,
• Lincolnshire,
  • resistance to the forced loan in,
  • fresh effort to obtain payment in,
  • drainage of fens in,
  • holds back from sending reinforcements to the Northern army,
  • Charles finds support amongst the gentlemen of,
• Lincoln's Inn,
  • preachers at,
• Lindsay, David (Bishop of Brechen, 1619; Bishop of Edinburgh, 1635),
  • approves of the introduction of the English Prayer-book into, Scotland,
  • attempts to still tho tumult at St Giles',
  • saves his life with difficulty,
• Lindsay of Balcarres, John (Lord of Session),
  • proposes that the clergy shall be represented in the Scottish Parliament,
• Lindsay of Byres, Lord, 1616, created Earl of Lindsay, 1633, but the patent suspended till 1635 (John Lindsay),
  • visits Charles at Berwick,
  • is vouched by Montrose as his authority for alleging that Argyle proposed to depose the King,
• Lindsay, Sir James,
  • is employed by the Pope to carry a message to James,
  • is sent by James to Rome,
• Lindsell, Augustine (Bishop of Peterborough),
  • becomes Bishop of Peterborough,
• Lindsey, Earl of, 1626 (Robert Bertie),
  • commands the fleet after Buckingham's murder,
  • fails to relieve Rochelle,
  • receives instructions as commander of the first ship-money fleet,
  • convoys vessels to Dunkirk, and sails down Channel,
  • finds no enemy,
  • bad state of the provisions on board the fleet of,
  • end of the employment of,
  • convoys Spanish vessels to Dunkirk,
  • is sent to command at Berwick,
  • the King offers the Commons a guard commanded by,
  • is made General of the King's army,
  • See Willoughby de Eresby, Lord
• Linlithgow,
  • Charles orders the removal of the Council and the Court of Session to,
  • proclamation of Charles read at,
• Lisle, Viscount, 1605-1618 (Robert Sydney),
  • created Earl of Leicester,
  • See Leicester, Earl of
• Little Gidding,
  • community established by Nicholas Ferrar at,
• Liveries, Statute of,
  • enforced by Henry VII.,
• Lodgers,
  • householders prohibited from taking,
• Loan, the forced.
  • See Forced loan, the
• Loftus of Ely, Viscount, 1622 (Lord Chancellor of Ireland),
  • charges brought by Falkland against,
  • is appointed a member of the Commission of Investigation into the case of the Byrnes,
  • is one of the Lords Justices,
  • gives Wentworth a lukewarm support,
  • Wentworth takes the Great Seal from,
  • is to be prosecuted in the Star Chamber,
• Loftus, Sir Adam,
  • gives money to the King, and becomes Vice-Treasurer of Ireland,
• Loix, Isle of,
  • defeat of Buckingham's forces in retreating to the,
• London, City of,
  • greatness of the trade of,
  • feeling in favour of the Dutch in,
  • attack of the mob of, on Gondomar's servant,
  • lends money to James,
  • contest for the Recordership of,
  • James's visit to, after his illness,
  • attempt to raise a loan for Frederick in,
  • attempt to raise a loan for the Palatinate in,
  • is urged to contribute to the repair of St. Paul's,
  • is asked by James to contribute to the Palatinate,
  • offers a voluntary subscription,
  • outbreak of the plague in,
  • refuses to lend to Charles,
  • resists the requisition of ships for Willougby's fleet, but is obliged to fit them out,
  • again refuses to lend to Charles,
  • its ships under Pennington's command.
  • mutiny in the ships of,
  • impossibility of borrowing money for the army at Rhé in,
  • is fined for failing to discover the murderers of Dr. Lambe,
  • Laud's unpopularity in,
  • attempts to prevent overcrowding in,
  • orders to the Lord Mayor to keep down the price of corn in,
  • the country gentlemen ordered to leave,
  • authority of Laud over,
  • objects to the first writ of ship-money,
  • makes submission,
  • is fined in the Star Chamber for breaking the charter of the Londonderry Settlement,
  • slowness of the sheriffs in assessing ship-money in,
  • growth of,
  • complaints of the increase of buildings in,
  • proposal to divide the government of the new districts between Westminster and,
  • demolition of new buildings in,
  • sanitary defects of,
  • exaction of tithes due to the City clergy in,
  • new corporation for governing the suburbs of.
  • strength and organisation of,
  • is asked for a contribution for the war with Scotland,
  • a loan demanded from,
  • fresh attempt to obtain a loan by threats from,
  • refuses to lend to the King,
  • attempt to enforce a loan from, by the imprisonment of four aldermen,
  • abandonment of Charles's attempt to enforce a loan from,
  • attempt of the Lord Mayor personally to collect ship-money in,
  • failure to collect coat-and-conduct money in,
  • the levy of soldiers resisted in,
  • rejects a demand (or a loan made by Cottington and Vane,
  • persists in refusing to lend in spite of a promise that negotiations will be opened with the Scots,
  • refuses to lend after the Scottish invasion,
  • circulation of copies of the petition of the twelve peers in,
  • a petition similar to that of the peers signed in,
  • its petition presented to the King,
  • disturbances in,
  • agrees to lend on the security of the peers,
  • reduces its loan, and chooses Alderman Wright as Lord Mayor,
  • attack by a mob on St. Paul's Cathedral in,
  • refuses to elect its Recorder to the Long Parliament,
  • unpopularity of Strafford in,
  • alarm lest the King's review of troops at the Tower should be intended to be followed by an attack on,
  • offers to lend money to Parliament conditionally,
  • petition for the abolition of episcopacy numerously signed in,
  • stoppage of the payment of the loan offered by,
  • petition for the execution of Strafford signed in,
  • the supposed French attack on Jersey and Guernsey causes a panic in,
  • overtures of Charles to,
  • disturbances and fanaticism in,
  • is ready to lend money for the suppression of the Irish rebellion,
  • petitions for the securing of Catholic lords, and depriving the bishops of their votes,
  • importance to Charles of securing popularity in,
  • royalist opinions of the wealthy citizens of,
  • organisation of the ceremonial for the King's entry into,
  • the King's entrance into,
  • Charles is applauded by the citizens of,
  • Charles directs the Lord Mayor to quiet tumults in,
  • petition against the votes of the bishops and of the Catholic lords,
  • interference of the Lord Mayor and Recorder with the petitioners in,
  • arrest of Prophet Hunt, and attack on Barebone's house in,
  • election of a Puritan Common Council in,
  • declaration of the Lord Mayor that unless Lunsford is dismissed from the Lieutenancy of the Tower he cannot answer for the peace of,
  • the Commons ask for the protection of the trained bands of,
  • Charles orders the Lord Mayor to keep the peace of,
  • the five members take refuge in,
  • refuses to surrender the five members to the King,
  • the Commons meet in committee in,
  • panic in,
  • offers a guard to the Commons,
  • triumphal procession of the Commons from,
  • review of the trained bands of,
• Londonderry,
  • state of the settlement at,
  • sentence in the Star Chamber on the City of London for abuses in the settlement of,
  • forfeiture of the lands held by the City of London in,
  • the City asks for the restitution of its lands in,
  • is seized by the army,
• Londoners' petition against episcopacy, the,
  • See Root-and-Branch petition, the
• Long, Walter,
  • being imprisoned, applies for a habeas corpus,
  • is removed to the Tower,
  • is liberated on giving security for good behaviour,
  • returns to prison,
• Longford,
  • settlement of,
• Lope de Vega,
  • his verses on the Prince's visit to Madrid,
• Lords, House of,
  • position of, at the accession of James,
  • takes part, in 1604, in the controversy on Goodwin's case,
  • and in the inquiry into purveyance,
  • proposes to hold a conference on Sunday,
  • concurs in a petition on wardship,
  • blames the proposal of the Commons on the subject,
  • opposes the ecclesiastical policy of the Commons,
  • rejects a proposal for inflicting an extraordinary punishment on the Gun-powder Plotters,
  • throws out a Bill on purveyance,
  • a petition on the grievances of the merchants in Spain forwarded by the Commons to,
  • Bill on impositions dropped in,
  • consults the judges on the question of impositions,
  • refuses to confer with the Lords on the impositions,
  • acquaints the Commons with Bishop Neile's regret for his speech,
  • old and new peers in,
  • repudiates the answer of Bacon and Mandeville to the charges against the referees,
  • its unfitness for conducting a political trial,
  • evidence against Bacon laid before,
  • sentences Mompesson,
  • sentences Bacon,
  • sentences Michell,
  • receives a charge against Sir J. Bennett,
  • examines Yelverton,
  • sends Yelverton to the Tower,
  • considers Yelverton's insult to Buckingham,
  • sentences Yelverton,
  • sentences Floyd,
  • judicial functions of,
  • dismisses the Bishop of Llandaff to the censure of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
  • releases Sir John Bennett on bail,
  • exculpates Buckingham,
  • condemns the Spanish treaties,
  • discusses James's demand of a supply,
  • orders an inquiry into insults to the Spanish embassy,
  • sentences Middlesex,
  • allows a Bill granting tonnage and poundage for a year to drop,
  • is adjourned to Oxford,
  • reassembles at Oxford,
  • is summoned before the King in Christchurch Hall,
  • orders that no peers shall hold more than two proxies.
  • asks the Commons to support the King's armaments,
  • takes up Arundel's case,
  • demands an account of Arundel's absence,
  • acknowledges the writ sent to Bristol,
  • orders that the charges against Buckingham and Bristol shall proceed together,
  • Bristol defends himself before,
  • debate on Bristol's claim to use counsel debated in,
  • impeachment of Buckingham before,
  • continues to urge the King to liberate Arundel, and refuses to imprison Buckingham,
  • sends a curt message to Charles about Arundel,
  • questions the accuracy of the report given to Charles of the words used by Digges,
  • protest that Digges had said nothing contrary to the King's honour argued in,
  • insists upon allowing counsel to Bristol,
  • proposal to deprive new peers of their votes in,
  • Arundel takes his place in,
  • begs for a postponement of the dissolution,
  • insists upon the restoration to their seats of five excluded peers,
  • the Commons' resolutions on the liberties of the subject laid before,
  • inclines to support the King, and consults the judges,
  • legal argument on the Commons' resolutions before,
  • discusses the question of the King's power of committal,
  • draws up counter-propositions to the Commons' resolutions,
  • spirit in which the propositions were adopted by,
  • report on the Petition of Right by a committee of,
  • attempts to modify the clause of the petition relating to imprisonment,
  • an additional clause added to the petition by,
  • hesitates to proceed with the new clause after its rejection by the Commons,
  • sends the clause again to the Commons with an explanation,
  • is forced to abandon the clause,
  • asks the Commons to join in a protestation to satisfy the King,
  • adopts a declaration that its members had no intention of lessening the power which they were bound by the oath of supremacy to defend, and accepts the Petition of Right,
  • directs the Lord Keeper to acquaint the King that its feeling is against a dissolution,
  • asks for a better answer to the Petition of Right,
  • gives sentence upon Manwaring,
  • suggestion that Catholic peers need not take the oath of allegiance in,
  • refuses to adjourn on account of the sitting of Convocation,
  • questions Manwaring's appointment to a bishopric,
  • unpopularity of the bishops in,
  • obliges Bishop Hall to beg pardon of Saye,
  • the King appeals for support against the Commons to,
  • gives support to the King,
  • continues by a reduced majority to support the King,
  • Strafford appears in,
  • receives Strafford's impeachment, and commits him to custody,
  • the preliminary charges against Strafford laid before,
  • ship-money condemned by,
  • a congregation of Separatists brought before,
  • joins the Commons in asking for the execution of the recusancy laws,
  • passes the Triennial Bill,
  • orders the arrest of Berkeley,
  • irritates the Commons by granting time to Strafford to prepare his defence,
  • grants Strafford another week,
  • anxiety of Charles to win votes in,
  • Strafford's answer read in,
  • joins the Commons in asking for the dispersion of the Irish army, the disarmament of the Catholics, and the dismissal of the Queen's Catholic attendants,
  • appoints a committee on ecclesiastical innovations,
  • urges the City to lend, and the King to disarm the Catholics and disband the Irish army,
  • allows both Strafford and his accusers to produce fresh evidence,
  • is irritated at the introduction of the Bill of Attainder,
  • hears the legal argument on behalf of Strafford,
  • altercation between Savile and Strafford in,
  • reads the Bill of Attainder the second time,
  • hears St. John's argument on the legality of the Bill of Attainder,
  • alarm felt in, at the King's intrigues,
  • is beset by a mob demanding Strafford's execution,
  • sees to the safety of the Tower,
  • the Protestation taken in,
  • appoints a committee to examine the Army Plot,
  • pushes on the Attainder Bill,
  • passes the Attainder Bill and the Bill against the dissolution of Parliament,
  • sends a deputation to urge the King to give the Royal assent to the Attainder Bill,
  • agrees to the withdrawal of the clergy from temporal functions, but excepts the bishops' seats in Parliament,
  • discusses the Bishops' Exclusion Bill in conference,
  • throws it out,
  • does not adopt any particular plan of Church reform,
  • does not support Williams's scheme of Church reform,
  • throws out a Bill for making the signature of the Protestation obligatory,
  • is recommended by the King not to oppose the Commons til his return from Scotland,
  • joins the Commons in asking the King to make Pembroke Lord Steward and Salisbury Lord Treasurer,
  • gives a day for the adjournment,
  • adopts amendments to the Commons' resolutions on ecclesiastical innovations,
  • orders Divine service to be performed according to law,and refuses to communicate its resolution to the Commons,
  • appeals to the law,
  • adjournment of,
  • the second Bishops' Exclusion Bill sent up to,
  • the King's declaration that he will stand by the discipline and doctrine of the Church circulated in,
  • is asked to suspend the bishops from voting on the Exclusion Bill,
  • postpones consideration of the suspension of the bishops,
  • imprisons Father Philips,
  • unpopularity of protections given by members of,
  • the City petition for depriving bishops of their votes in,
  • agrees to the proposal that 5,000 Scots shall be sent to Ireland,
  • orders an inquiry into Beale's allegations,
  • refuses to give powers to Essex and Holland in excess of those conferred by the King's commission,
  • amends the Impressment Bill,
  • is dissatisfied with the King's speech on the Impressment Bill,
  • declares that no religion except that established by law in England is to be tolerated,
  • enters into a contest with the Commons on the Scottish army for Ireland, and the Impressment Bill,
  • refuses to join in a petition for Lunsford's removal,
  • wishes to give Charles time to reconsider Lunsford's appointment,
  • intimidation of the bishops outside,
  • offers to join the Commons in bringing to justice Newport's accusers, and asks the Commons to support them in demanding a guard against riotous assemblages,
  • most of the bishops absent themselves from,
  • is asked by Rigby to declare that Parliament is no longer free,
  • rejects Digby's motion, and attempts to mediate between the King and the Commons,
  • sides with the Commons after the protest of the bishops,
  • accepts the impeachment of the bishops who had signed the protest, and imprisons them,
  • refuses to ask that Essex may command the guard,
  • Mandeville and five members of the House of Commons' charged with treason before,
  • appoints a committee to inquire into the legality of the proceeding,
  • places itself in opposition to the King,
  • joins the Commons in ordering Hotham to occupy Hull,
  • is agreed with the Commons in taking measures of defence, but objects to ask the King to appoint Conyers Lieutenant of the Tower,
  • Byron refuses to answer a summons from,
  • objects to the form of the Commons' declaration for defence,
  • wishes to thank the King for his conciliatory message,
  • refuses to join in the demand of the Commons for the fortresses and the militia, or to censure Lennox heavily,
  • resists the Commons,
  • presentation of the artificers' petition to,
  • joins the Commons about the militia, and passes the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
  • accepts the list of Lords-Lieutenants sent up by the Commons,
  • the bishops deprived of their seats in,
  • accepts the Commons' resolution for putting the kingdom in a state of defence,
  • sentences Benyon to fine and imprisonment,
  • many Royalist peers abandon,
  • sentences Sir Edward Herbert,
• Lords Justices of Ireland, the (Sir William Parsons and Sir John Borlase),
  • find it difficult to manage Parliament,
  • are horrified to hear that the plantation of Connaught is abandoned,
  • fresh confiscations desired by,
  • receive intelligence of a plot to seize Dublin Castle,
  • arrest the chief conspirators,
  • do not know how to deal with the Catholic lords,
  • project of superseding,
  • summon the Catholic lords to Dublin,
  • behaviour of, to Ormond,
  • think that the spread of the rebellion will lay open a great part of Ireland to confiscation and the settlement of religion,
  • send Ormond to relieve Drogheda, but order him not to follow up the enemy,
• Lords-Lieutenants,
  • a committee of the Commons recommends that the members of each county shall nominate,
• Lords of the Articles, the Scottish,
  • manner of the election of,
  • necessity of reconstituting,
  • reconstitution of,
• Lorkin. Thomas,
  • is Charles's agent at the French Court,
• Lorne, Lord (Archibald Campbell),
  • wish of Charles to marry Elizabeth Stuart to,
  • quarrels with the Bishop of Galloway,
  • See Argyle, Earl of
• Lorraine,
  • armies of Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick threaten to enter,
  • is ravaged by Mansfeld,
  • mission of Walter Montague to,
  • is seized by Richelieu,
  • Charles wishes France to surrender, in exchange for the Palatinate,
  • See Charles III., Duke of
• Lothian, Earl of, 1631 (William Ker),
  • his opinion of Montrose,
• Loudoun, Earl of,by patent granted in 1633, but superseded till 1641 (John Campbell),
  • is interrupted in Parliament by Charles,
  • Charles complains to,
  • visits Charles at Berwick,
  • is sent to England to plead the cause of the Scottish Parliament,
  • arrives in London,
  • is sent back to Scotland,
  • returns to England, and negotiates with Charles,
  • is committed to prison,
  • declares himself ignorant of French,
  • is set at liberty,
  • finds that the terms which he brings from Charles do not give satisfaction in Scotland,
  • takes the lead on the Scottish side at the Treaty of Ripon,
  • discovers Savile's treachery,
  • goes to Scotland charged with a secret commission from the King,
  • returns from Scotland,
  • information brought by,
  • Charles proposes to make Chancellor of Scotland,
  • is accepted as Chancellor by the Parliament,
• Louis XIII (King of France, 1610-1643),
  • his relations to the States-General,
  • approves of the murder of Ancre,
  • mediates in Germany,
  • accompanies Luynes against the Huguenots,
  • refuses to accept Doncaster as a mediator,
  • makes peace with the Huguenots,
  • takes alarm at the power of Spain,
  • appoints La Vieuville as his minister,
  • sends Mariscot to the Elector of Bavaria,
  • is more anxious about the Valtelline than about the Palatinate,
  • receives Mansfeld and sends him to England,
  • insists on the insertion in the marriage treaty of an engagement in favour of the English Catholics,
  • dismisses La Vieuville and appoints Richelieu his chief minister,
  • promises to support Mansfeld,
  • aims at the conquest of the Valtelline,
  • explains that Mansfeld will be used for the recovery of the Valtelline,
  • disputes with James about Mansfeld's passage,
  • gives a vague promise about the Palatinate,
  • promises to allow Mansfeld to land in France,
  • wishes Mansfeld to be employed in the relief of Breda,
  • refuses to allow Mansfeld to land in France,
  • wishes to involve James in a war with Spain,
  • prohibits Mansfeld from landing in France,
  • neglects to pull down Fort Louis,
  • obtains from England and the States-General the promise of a loan of ships to be used against the Huguenots,
  • intimates his wish that Charles shall not appear in person at his marriage,
  • refuses to engage in war with Spain,
  • opens negotiations with the Huguenots,
  • is reported to have made peace with the Huguenots,
  • the Huguenot deputies demand peace from,
  • wishes to play the first part in an alliance against Spain,
  • refuses to allow Buckingham to visit France,
  • Buckingham instructed to demand engagements in favour of the Huguenots from,
  • claims the restoration of the 'St. John,'
  • offers to receive Buckingham if the English Catholics are relieved from the penal laws, and if the old arrangement of the Queen's household is unchanged,
  • is irritated at the proposal that he shall play a secondary part in the league for the recovery of the Palatinate,
  • carries on negotiations with the Huguenots,
  • comes to an agreement with them, through the mediation of Holland and Carleton,
  • offers to release the English ships detained in reprisal for the prize goods seized in England,
  • wishes to co-operate with England,
  • offers to recall Blainville,
  • finds the hope of an alliance with England slipping away,
  • accepts the Peace of Barcelona with Spain,
  • is angry at the expulsion of his sister's attendants, and resolves to send Bassompierre to England,
  • sends an ultimatum to Charles,
  • crosses the Alps to take part in a campaign in Italy,
  • abandons the English Catholics in the Treaty of Susa,
  • refuses to dismiss Richelieu on the Day of Dupes,
  • expects the German Princes on the left bank of the Rhine to seek his protection,
  • refuses to do anything for Frederick which will ruin the German Catholics,
  • takes Bernhard's army into his pay,
  • presses Charles to make a league with him,
  • takes the field against a Spanish invasion,
  • birth of the son of,
  • first letter written, but not sent, by the Covenanters to,
  • second letter sent by the Covenanters to,
  • Charles sends a copy of the first letter of the Covenanters to,
• Louis, the Dauphin (afterwards Louis XIV.),
  • birth of,
• Louth,
  • misappropriation of the property of the Free School at,
• Louth, county of,
  • rebellion of a great part of the gentry of,
• Louvain,
  • the French abandon the siege of,
• Lowe, Sir Thomas,
  • brings before the Commons the grievances of the merchants in Spain,
• Lubeck,
  • peace of,
• Ludlow Castle,
  • performance of the Comus at,
• Ludovisi, Cardinal,
  • letter of Olivares to,
  • announces the decision of the Cardinals on the grant of a dispensation for the Infanta's marriage,
• Lumsden, Thomas,
  • fined and imprisoned by the Star Chamber,
• Lunsford, Thomas, complains of the conduct of his soldiers, ix. 160
  • is appointed Lieutenant of the Tower,
  • the Lords refuse to join the Commons in a petition for the removal of,
  • protest of the Commons against,
  • dismissal of,
  • drives a mob out of Westminster Hall,
  • collects his followers at Kingston,
  • is supposed to have a design on Portsmouth,
  • accompanies Hastings into Leicestershire,
• Lutheranism,
  • character of,
  • influence in Germany of,
• Luttrell, Thomas,
  • is a member of an Irish deputation to the King, and is sent to the Fleet,
• Luetzen,
  • battle of,
• Luynes, Duke of,
  • rise of, at the French Court,
  • is victorious over the French Protestants,
  • insults Sir Edward Herbert,
  • death of,
• Lycidas,
  • written by Milton,
  • lines relating to Laud in,
• Lynn,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
• Lyttelton, Edward,
  • declares that the subject will be in a worse position if the statutes are confirmed without explanation,
  • moves to send for those who had seized Rolle's goods,
  • does not support Eliot in his resolution to appeal to the country,
  • asks in the King's Bench that the imprisoned members of Parliament may be bailed,
  • becomes Recorder of the City of London,
  • becomes Solicitor-General,
  • See Lyttelton, Sir Edward
  • See Lyttelton, Lord
• Lyttelton, Sir Edward,
  • argues for the Crown in Hampden's case,
  • is made Lord Keeper,
  • See Lyttelton, Edward
  • See Lyttelton, Lord
• Lyttelton, Lord, 1640 (Edward Lyttelton),
  • is disabled by illness from presiding over the House of Lords during Strafford's trial,
  • refuses to seal a commission for the Parliamentary Commissioners,
  • votes against the refusal of the Lords to lay their resolution on Divine service before the Commons,
  • receives the protests of the bishops from Nicholas,
  • takes the Great Seal to York,
  • See Lyttelton, Edward
  • See Lyttelton, Sir Edward
• Macbeth,
  • reference to touching for the King's evil in,
  • reference to Garnet's doctrine of equivocation,
• Machiavelli,
  • Wentworth adopts the maxims of,
• MacMahon, Hugh,
  • prepares to seize Dublin Castle,
  • is arrested,
• Madrid,
  • treaty of,
• Maestricht
  • is besieged by Frederick Henry,
  • surrender of,
• Magdeburg,
  • is stormed by Tilly,
• Magna Carta,
  • is asserted in the Lords' propositions to be in force,
  • declaration by Coventry that the King holds it to be in force,
  • Rudyerd speaks of it as bedridden, and wishes to see it walk abroad,
• Maguire, Cuconnaught,
  • his feud with Connor Roe Maguire,
  • his feud with Connor Roe Maguire,
  • is reported to intend to leave Ireland,
  • joins Tyrone in his flight,
• Maguire, Lord, Baron of Enniskillen, 1633 (Connor Maguire),
  • character of,
  • resolves to act independently of the Catholic lords,
  • prepares to seize Dublin Castle,
  • is arrested,
• Maid of Honour, the,
  • Massinger's, political allusions in,
  • ideal of womanhood in,
• Mainwaring, Sir Henry,
  • receives Gondomar at Dover,
• Maldon,
  • riot at,
• Mallett, Thomas (Justice of the Kings Bench, 1641),
  • directs the return of the Grand Jury at the assizes at Maidstone,
  • is committed to the Tower,
• Mallory, William,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • is liberated, but ordered to restrain himself to the neighbourhood of his own house,
  • is relieved from restraint,
  • moves for an adjournment at the opening of Charles's first Parliament,
• Malton,
  • siege of Lord Eure's house at,
• Maltravers, Lord, 1639 (Henry Frederick Howard),
  • falls in love with Elizabeth Stuart,
  • marries her,
• Maltsters and brewers, the,
  • regulation of the trade of,
• Malvezzi, the Marquis Virgilio,
  • arrives in England, as Spanish ambassador,
  • Milton's reference to,
• Manchester,
  • the first blood shed in the Civil War at,
• Manchester, Earl of, 1626 (Henry Montague),
  • moves an amendment of the Lords message about Arundel,
  • explains that the report of the words spoken to Digges had been altered by Digges.
  • checks Serjeant Ashley for saying that the question of imprisonment is too high for a legal decision,
  • is a member of the Lords' committee on imprisonment,
  • becomes Lord Privy Seal,
  • reminds the Merchant Adventurers that they are released by the King from a statutory penalty, and therefore ought to pay tonnage and poundage,
  • takes part in a conference on the terms on which bail is to be offered to the imprisoned members,
  • arbitrates between Cromwell and Barnard,
  • gives an opinion in favour of the legality of ship-money,
  • argues that the City of London is bound to pay ship-money,
  • becomes a commissioner of the Treasury,
  • does not favour the attempt of the Council to force the City to lend money,
  • takes part in the Councillors' loan,
  • attempts to persuade the City to lend money to the King,
  • suggests the summoning of the Great Council,
  • lays a copy of the petition of the twelve peers before the Privy Council,
  • votes against the refusal of the Lords to communicate their resolution on Divine service to the Commons,
  • See Montague, Sir Henry
  • See Mandeville, Viscount
• Mandeville, Viscount, Lord Kimbolton in his own right (Edward Montague),
  • signs a letter to Johnston of Warriston,
  • signs the petition of the twelve peers,
  • brings the petition of the twelve peers to the King,
  • asserts his ignorance of the letter forged by Savile,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • is informed of the Army Plot,
  • is sent to Portsmouth to examine into Goring's proceedings,
  • rumoured appointment of, to the Secretaryship,
  • protests against the refusal of the Lords to communicate to the Commons their resolution on Divine service,
  • after intending to call him as a witness, Charles resolves to impeach,
  • is impeached,
  • is proclaimed a traitor,
  • returns in triumph to Westminster,
• Mandeville, Viscount, 1620-1626 (Henry Montague),
  • is called to order on his reply to the charges against the referees,
  • protests against a proposal to deprive Bacon of his peerage,
  • is attacked as one of the referees,
  • argues that Yelverton should not be condemned unheard,
  • resigns the Treasurership, and becomes President of the Council,
  • receives security for the repayment of the money given for the Treasurership,
  • is created Earl of Manchester,
  • See Montague, Sir Henry
  • See Manchester, Earl of
• Manners, Lady Catherine,
  • courtship of,
  • marriage of,
  • See Buckingham, Duchess of
• Mannheim,
  • arrival of Frederick and Mansfeld at,
  • arrival of Christian of Brunswick at.
  • is evacuated by Mansfeld and Christian,
  • proposed sequestration of,
  • is besieged by Tilly,
  • surrender of,
  • is occupied by the French,
• Mannourie,
  • assists Raleigh to feign illness,
• Mansell, Sir Robert,
  • opposes inquiry into the navy,
  • is imprisoned,
  • is censured by the Star Chamber,
  • has a part in the glass monopoly,
  • commands a fleet against Algiers,
  • fails in his attack and is recalled to England,
  • is a member of the Council of War,
  • is asked to testify whether the Council of War had authorised Buckingham's proceedings,
  • holds his peace,
  • explains that the Council of War had voted under compulsion,
  • asserts that the Council of War had referred his scheme to Buckingham,
  • is summoned before the Council and reprimanded,
  • is dismissed from the justiceship of the peace,
• Mansfeld, Count Ernest of,
  • commands a regiment for the Duke of Savoy,
  • is sent into Bohemia,
  • is sent on a mission to Turin,
  • keeps Bucquoi in check,
  • is defeated,
  • fortifies Pilsen,
  • character of,
  • inaction of,
  • is appointed by Frederick to command the army in Bohemia,
  • retires to the Upper Palatinate,
  • fortifies Rosshaupt, and attacks the Bishop of Bamberg and Wuerzburg,
  • seizes the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg,
  • behaviour of, in the Upper Palatinate,
  • irritation of the inhabitants of the Upper Palatinate against,
  • enters on an intrigue with Maximilian,
  • meets Digby,
  • loses the Upper Palatinate,
  • marches to the Lower Palatinate,
  • quarters his army in Alsace,
  • sentiments prevailing in the camp of,
  • writes to James that he expects to be allowed to keep Hagenau if peace is made,
  • offers to the Infanta to change sides,
  • is joined by Frederick,
  • breaks off his negotiation with the Infanta,
  • checks Tilly at Wiesloch, takes Ladenburg and retreats,
  • takes Darmstadt and seizes the Landgrave,
  • is frustrated in his endeavour to join Christian of Brunswick,
  • returns to the Palatinate,
  • Chichester's opinion on the state of the army of,
  • offers to accept an armistice,
  • retreats to Alsace,
  • makes exorbitant demands at the conference at Brussels,
  • demands a passage through Lorraine,
  • ravages Lorraine,
  • is invited to march to the relief of Bergen-op-Zoom,
  • crosses the Spanish Netherlands, and fights a battle at Fleurus,
  • assures Weston that his diplomacy is useless,
  • joins in the relief of Bergen-op-Zoom,
  • is discharged by the States, and invades East Friesland,
  • looks to France for aid,
  • visits France,
  • arrives in England and receives from James a promise of men and money,
  • leaves England,
  • refusal of the Council of War to supply money to,
  • French plan for the employment of,
  • assures James that his troops will be allowed to land between Calais and Gravelines,
  • dispute between James and Louis about the passage of,
  • order of the Council of War to advance money to,
  • arrives in England to command the troops,
  • permission to enter France given by Louis to,
  • hesitation of Louis to fulfil his obligation to,
  • suggests that he may be employed to relieve Breda,
  • is refused permission to land in France,
  • is required by the French ambassadors to march through Holland,
  • wretched condition of his troops,
  • cannot obtain money from the English Government,
  • is gained over by the French ambassadors,
  • declares his intention of carrying his army to Flushing,
  • is prohibited from landing in France,
  • is forbidden to go near Breda, and sails for Flushing,
  • miserable condition of his men in the Netherlands,
  • money lent by the Dutch for the payment of the army of,
  • his army wastes away,
  • is allowed to assist the Dutch,
  • deplorable condition of the troops of,
  • is unable to march to the Palatinate,
  • Lord Cromwell complains of,
  • is defeated at the Bridge of Dessau,
  • death of,
• Mantua,
  • disputed succession in,
  • claim of the Duke of Nevers to,
• Manwaring, Roger (Bishop of St. Davids, 1636),
  • preaches a sermon on obedience to the King,
  • obtains a licence for its publication,
  • opinions of,
  • Phelips protests against the sermon of,
  • impeachment and condemnation of,
  • receives a pardon from the sentence of the Lords, and the living of Stanford Rivers,
  • receives a special pardon,
  • his right to his bishopric questioned by the Lords,
  • the Lords are persuaded by the King not to censure,
• Mar, Earl of, 1634 (John Erskine),
  • commands the Castle of Edinburgh,
  • treats with Hamilton for the surrender of Edinburgh Castle to the King,
  • gives over the Castle to Hamilton,
  • holds Stirling Castle,
  • signs the Bond of Cumbernauld,
• Mare Clausum,
  • written by Selden,
• Mare Liberum,
  • written by Grotius,
• Marescot, M. de,
  • sent as ambassador to Germany,
  • failure of the mission of,
• Margaret, the Infanta (daughter of Maximilian II.),
  • urges Philip IV. to marry his sister to the Archduke Ferdinand,
• Margaret, the Infanta (daughter of Philip III.),
  • death of,
• Maria, the Infanta,
  • offered to Prince Henry,
  • proposal to marry her to Prince Charles,
  • proposal to marry her to the Archduke Ferdinand,
  • her interview with Digby,
  • character of,
  • is averse to marrying Charles.
  • urges her brother to abandon the marriage treaty,
  • threatens to go into a nunnery,
  • impression made on Charles by her appearance,
  • continues reluctant to marry Charles,
  • receives Charles's formal addresses,
  • proposal to detain after marriage,
  • runs from the garden when Charles leaps over the wail,
  • preparations in England for the reception of,
  • is to be kept in Spain after the Prince leaves it,
  • appears at the Court Theatre at Madrid,
  • is urged by Olivares to consent to marry Charles,
  • has an interview with Buckingham,
  • sees Charles for the last time,
  • fear of Charles that she will go into a nunnery,
  • assurance given by Bristol that she has no such intention,
  • assures the Countess of Olivares of her affection to the Prince,
  • is officially styled Princess of England, and studies the English language,
  • Bristol's account of the feelings of,
  • arrival of the dispensation for the marriage of,
  • day fixed for the marriage of,
  • indefinite postponement of the marriage of,
  • See Marriage treaty between Prince Charles and the Infanta Maria
• Marillacs, the two,
  • deaths of,
• Marischal, the Earl, 1635 (William Keith),
  • drives the Gordons out of Aberdeen,
  • secures Aberdeen,
  • is joined by Monro at Aberdeen,
  • signs the bond of Cumbernauld,
• Markham, Chief Justice,
  • quotation of his opinion that the King cannot arrest,
• Markham, Sir Griffin,
  • takes part in Watson's plot,
  • is convicted,
  • his sentence commuted to banishment,
• Marlborough, Earl of, 1626 (James Ley),
  • is urged by Charles to find money for the expedition to Rhé,
  • is too old to be energetic,
  • becomes President of the Council,
  • resigns the Presidentship of the Council,
  • See Ley, Sir James
  • See Ley, Lord
• Marriage treaty between Prince Charles and the Infanta Maria, the,
  • proposed by James to Sarmiento,
  • referred to the Pope by the King of Spain,
  • advice of a junta of theologians about,
  • preparation of the articles of the contract of,
  • informal negotiations opened for,
  • James dissatisfied with the articles of,
  • James accepts the articles of,
  • Somerset entrusted with the management of,
  • Sarmiento assured that, in spite of Somerset's fall, it will be carried on,
  • Digby advises the abandonment of,
  • modification of the articles of,
  • Philip again consults the Pope on,
  • the theologians again consulted on the articles to be required in,
  • submitted to commissioners chosen from the Privy Council,
  • instructions to Digby to negotiate formally for,
  • progress of the negotiation for,
  • suspension of the negotiation for,
  • Lafuente sent to assure James that it will be proceeded with,
  • Philip III. requests the Pope's assent to,
  • Gondomar proposes to James the resumption of,
  • James offers to engage by letter to favour the Catholics in consideration of,
  • Gondomar advises Philip to proceed with,
  • wish of Philip III. to break off,
  • mission of Lafuente to ask for the Pope's approbation of,
  • assurance given by Philip IV. of his intention to persevere with,
  • its effect on English opinion,
  • Lafuente carries on a negotiation at Rome about,
  • Digby urges the Spanish Government to decide whether it is to be carried out,
  • assurance given by Philip IV. of his intention to go on with it,
  • the Pope demands new conditions for the confirmation of,
  • alterations made at Rome in the articles of,
  • complaints of James and Buckingham on the state of the negotiations for, 353,
  • a junta appointed in Spain to treat with Bristol on,
  • instructions to Bristol to give way on some points in,
  • discussions in the junta on,
  • objection of the Infanta Maria to,
  • resolution of Philip to put an end to,
  • memorial presented by Olivares to the Council of State on,
  • alterations made by the Spanish Government in the articles of,
  • the amended articles of, sent to Rome,
  • acceptance by James and Charles of the amended articles of,
  • arrival of Charles and Buckingham at Madrid to forward,
  • the Prince's conversion regarded as a necessary preliminary to,
  • conversation between Buckingham and Olivares on,
  • conditions suggested by the Nuncio for,
  • mission of Pastrana to Rome to forward,
  • reluctance of the Infanta to carry out,
  • discussion at Rome on,
  • resolution taken at Rome to impose conditions on the conclusion of,
  • arrival in Spain of the dispensation for,
  • fresh demands made by the Pope as conditions of the dispensation for,
  • English and Spanish commissioners appointed to discuss,
  • speech of Olivares on,
  • refusal of the Nuncio to give the dispensation for,
  • decision of the Junta of Theologians on,
  • Olivares asserts that Philip III. had never intended to conclude,
  • engagement of James to ratify the articles of,
  • vain attempt of the Prince to obtain a modification of the terms of,
  • public announcement at Madrid of the conclusion of,
  • James hesitates to accept the articles of,
  • is accepted by the English Privy Council,
  • private dissatisfaction of the Councillors with,
  • oath taken by James to the public articles of,
  • oath taken by James to the private articles of,
  • Charles accepts fresh articles of,
  • signature by Charles and Philip of,
  • agreement made at Salisbury to carry out the relaxation of the penal laws promised in,
  • oath taken by Charles to,
  • approval by Urban VIII of the dispensation for carrying out,
  • indefinite postponement of the marriage fixed by,
  • the House of Lords repudiates,
  • James declares the dissolution of,
  • public rejoicings in London at the end of,
  • despatch of James announcing the final breach of,
  • See Charles, Prince of Wales
  • See Maria, the Infanta
• Marriage treaty between Prince Charles and the Princess Henrietta Maria,
  • suggested by Du Buisson,
  • mission of Grey to England to suggest,
  • is unpopular in the House of Commons,
  • mission of Kennington to prepare the way for,
  • arrival of Carlisle at Paris to negotiate,
  • refusal of the French to negotiate unless the English Catholics are provided for in,
  • terms demanded by Richelieu for the conclusion of,
  • acceptance by James of Richelieu's terms for,
  • signature of, by the English ambassadors,
  • rejoicings in London at the conclusion of,
  • ratification of,
  • Richelieu frustrates the attempt of the Pope to add new conditions to,
  • See Charles, Prince of Wales
  • See Henrietta Maria, Princess
• Marshall, Dr.,
  • alleged ill-treatment of, by Neile,
• Marshall, George,
  • carries the news of Elizabeth's death to James,
• Marshall, Stephen,
  • is one of the authors of the pamphlet issued under the name of Smectymnuus,
• Marten, Henry,
  • character of,
  • moves that no money shall be advanced to the Scots till Strafford is executed,
  • asks that the Bill of Attainder shall be read a second time without further inquiry,
  • wishes that there may be a declaration to unite the members,
  • moves that Digby be sent for,
  • tells Hyde that one man is not wise enough to govern them all,
  • opposes sending immediate help to Ireland,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
• Marten, Sir Henry,
  • alludes to Buckingham's failure as a diplomatist,
  • urges a grant of supply,
  • dislikes the sale of French prize goods before they are condemned,
  • orders the restitution of the 'St. Peter,'
  • is consulted by Buckingham on the case of the 'St. Peter,'
  • warns the Commons on the danger of acknowledging a power superior to the laws,
  • suggests that Eliot has spoken from disaffection to the King,
  • convinces the Commons that Montague is legally a bishop,
  • is forbidden to give judgment on a suit relating to the communion-table at St. Gregory's,
• Martial law,
  • established at Wimbledon's suggestion,
  • debate in the Commons on,
  • clause in the Petition of Right directed against,
  • proposal of the Lords to exclude only civilians from the operation of,
  • exercised by Conway,
  • Northumberland questions the legality of,
  • orders given to Conway to exercise,
  • refusal of the Commons to entrust the officers of the Northern army with the exercise of,
• Martin, Dr..
  • wishes that pontifical vestments could be used in the Church of England,
• Martin, Richard,
  • takes part in the debate on impositions,
• Mary de Medicis (Widow of Henry IV.),
  • becomes Regent of France, and sends troops to besiege Juliers,
  • is not anxious to effect a marriage between her daughter, Christina, and Prince Charles,
  • hinders Frenchmen from helping the Duke of Savoy,
  • her answer about her daughter's marriage considered by James to be a refusal,
  • sends Grey to London to suggest a marriage between Charles and Henrietta Maria,
  • welcomes Kensington,
  • Carlisle and Kensington appeal to,
  • Buckingham's conversation with,
  • fails to overthrow Richelieu, and escapes to the Spanish Netherlands,
  • fails to persuade Charles to take part in a combination against Richelieu,
  • requests her daughter to give her a refuge in England,
  • leaves Brussels for the Dutch Netherlands, and embarks for England,
  • arrives in England and resides at St. James's,
  • begs to be allowed to return to France,
  • threatened attack by the mob on,
  • unpopularity of,
  • stoppage of the allowance of,
  • tells Rossetti that the King means to dissolve Parliament and liberate Strafford,
  • is preserved by guards from an attack of the mob,
  • demand of the Commons for her removal from the kingdom,
  • leaves England,
  • sends Monsigot to England,
• Mary, Princess (Daughter of Charles I.),
  • birth of,
  • rejection of an offer of marriage with Prince William of Orange,
  • consent given by Charles to her marriage with Prince William,
  • formal demand of the hand of,
  • completion of the treaty for the marriage of,
  • her approaching marriage announced to Parliament,
  • marriage of,
• Mary, Queen of England, 1553-1558,
  • reign of,
  • revives the levy of customs without a Parliamentary grant,
• Mary, Queen of Scots,
  • flies to England,
  • her imprisonment and execution,
• Maryland,
  • intention of the first Lord Baltimore to colonise,
  • charter granted to the second Lord Baltimore for colonising,
  • position of the Catholics in,
  • landing of the settlers in,
  • struggle for political rights in,
  • toleration secured in,
• Masham, Sir William,
  • refuses to sit on the Essex Commission for the forced loan,
• Mason, R.,
  • pleads on Eliot's behalf in the King's Bench,
• Mason, Captain,
  • is sent to Plymouth to restore order,
  • occupies the house in which Buckingham is assassinated,
• Massachusetts,
  • settlements in,
  • rejection of toleration in,
  • large emigration to,
  • announcement that the King will not impose the ceremonies of the Church on,
  • attempt to hinder emigration to,
  • resists the attempt made in England to change its institutions,
  • banishment of Roger Williams from,
  • proposed emigration of English noblemen to,
  • landing of Vane in, and alleged intention of Pym and others to emigrate to,
  • Vane, Governor of,
  • dispute in, on Mrs. Hutchinson's opinions,
  • complete liberty of speech impossible in,
• Massachusetts Company, the,
  • formation of,
  • transference to America of the government of,
  • the charter of, declared null and void,
• Massinger, Philip,
  • political allusions in the plays of,
  • occasional immorality of,
  • view taken of womanhood by, contrasted with that of Milton,
• Massini, De (Nuncio at Madrid),
  • urges Olivares to support the transference of the Electorate,
  • is said to oppose Charles's marriage with the Infanta,
  • throws difficulties in the way of the marriage,
  • proposes the cession of a fortress to the English Catholics,
  • receives coldly a proposal of Olivares for the deposit of the Palatinate in the hands of the Infanta Isabella,
  • refuses to proceed with the Infanta's marriage without a dispensation,
  • informs Olivares of the conditions on which the dispensation has been granted,
  • receives the dispensation from Rome,
  • refuses to give the dispensation on Charles's terms,
  • refuses to give the dispensation on Charles's terms,
• Mastership of the Rolls,
  • sold to Sir Charles Cæsar,
• Matthew, Tobias, Archbishop of York,
  • votes for conferring with the Commons on impositions,
  • is accustomed to announce his own death,
• Matthew, Sir Toby,
  • is sent to Madrid to induce the Spanish Ministers to allow the Infanta to accompany the Prince,
  • is suspected of taking a part in the conversion of Lady Hamilton,
• Matthias, Emperor, 1612,
  • proposes Ferdinand of Styria as his successor in Bohemia
  • seeks for help against the Bohemian revolutionists,
  • loses all Bohemia except Budweis,
  • death of,
• Maurice (Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel),
  • urges Frederick to summon a meeting of German Protestants,
  • dissuades him from accepting the Crown of Bohemia,
  • submits to the Emperor,
• Maurice of Nassau, Count,
  • leads the war party in the Netherlands,
  • conducts the siege of Juliers,
  • occupies Emmerich and Rees,
  • makes difficulties about the execution of the Treaty of Xanten,
  • opposes Barneveld,
  • becomes Prince of Orange,
  • See Maurice, Prince of Orange
• Maurice, Prince of Orange, 1618-1625,
  • drives Barneveld from power,
  • converses with Dohna on Frederick's difficulties,
  • sneers at James's hesitation to assist his son-in-law,
  • offers made by the Archduke Albert to.
  • refuses to break up the Dutch blockade of the Dunkirk privateers in Leith and Aberdeen,
  • excuses the conduct of the Dutch officers who had attacked a privateer at Leith,
  • interest taken by him in Breda,
  • his opinion of the qualities of English soldiers,
  • death of,
• Mawe, Leonard,
  • sent to Spain as the Prince's chaplain,
• Maximilian I., Duke of Bavaria, 1596-1623,
  • occupies Donauwoerth,
  • refuses to aid Matthias against the Bohemian revolutionists,
  • is named as a mediator in Bohemia,
  • receives Doncaster,
  • character of,
  • receives Ferdinand at Munich,
  • obtains a promise of the transference of Frederick's electorate to himself,
  • sends Ferdinand to Vienna,
  • negotiates with Saxony and Spain,
  • urges the Spanish Government to make a diversion on the Palatinate,
  • invades Austria,
  • is displeased with the Emperor for negotiating with Digby,
  • protests against Digby's mediation,
  • prepares to attack Mansfeld,
  • subdues the Upper Palatinate,
  • receives secretly the Electoral title,
  • public grant of the Electorate to,
  • See Maximilian I., Elector of Bavaria
• Maximilian I., Elector of Bavaria, 1623,
  • sends Francisco della Rota to England to propose that the Electoral Prince shall be educated at Munich,
  • compels the Emperor to dismiss Wallenstein,
  • signs a secret treaty with France,
  • supports the Emperor in spite of Richelieu's diplomacy,
  • enters into a closer alliance with the Emperor,
  • marries his niece,
  • urges the Emperor to reject Arundel's terms,
  • votes at the election of a King of the Romans,
• Maxwell, James.
  • Quarrels with Hawley,
  • as Usher of the Black Rod brings a message from Charles to the Commons,
  • takes Strafford into custody,
  • arrests Berkeley on the Bench,
  • assures the Commons that Parliament is not to be dissolved,
• Maxwell, John (Bishop of Ross, 1632),
  • shows the Prayer-book of the Scottish bishops to Laud,
  • warns Laud against the danger of introducing the English Prayer-book into Scotland,
  • arranges the ceremonies in the chapel at Holy rood,
  • becomes Bishop of Ross, and assents to the introduction of the English Prayer-book into Scotland,
  • is supposed to be aiming at the Treasurership,
• May, Sir Humphrey,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • supports Sandys in arguing against the committal of Montague,
  • delays a motion for further supply,
  • defends Buckingham's foreign policy,
  • reports Weston's eagerness to serve Buckingham,
  • asks the Commons to forget and forgive,
  • interrupts Eliot's attack on the King's foreign policy,
  • says that he has never heard that a member has privilege of goods against the King,
  • protests against obedience to the King's commands being counted as a delinquency,
  • declares the King's crown to be at stake,
  • pleads for a compromise between the King and the Commons,
  • attempts to release the Speaker,
• Mayerne, Dr.,
  • is absent during Overbury's illness,
  • See Mayerne, Sir Theodore
• Mayerne, Sir Theodore,
  • advises Henrietta Maria not to go to Spa,
  • See Mayerne, Dr.
• 'Mayflower,' the,
  • lies in Southampton Water,
  • voyage of,
  • arrives at Cape Cod,
  • sickness on board,
  • returns to England,
• Maynard, John,
  • his remark as a manager in Strafford's trial,
  • argues in support of Vane's evidence,
  • tells Waller that a member who does not know what are the fundamental laws ought not to sit in the House,
• Maynard, Sir John,
  • said to have forged a letter about the Jesuits at Clerkenwell,
• Mayo,
  • proposed plantation of,
  • title found for the King in,
• Mead, John,
  • incites to rebellion at Cork,
  • proposes a league between the towns,
  • is tried and acquitted,
• Meade, Joseph,
  • applauds Laud for punishing Sir Giles Alington,
• Measure for Measure,
  • character of Isabella in,
• Meath,
  • rebellion of a great part of the gentry of,
  • meeting between the Lords of the Pale and the gentry of,
• Melander, General,
  • enters the French service,
• Melrose, Earl of, 1619-1627, Earl of Haddington, 1627-1637 (Thomas Hamilton)
  • advises James to maintain a standing, army in Scotland,
  • urges the Scottish Privy Council to obey the King,
  • reports that the Articles of Perth are not much observed in Edinburgh,
  • See Binning, Lord
• Melville, Andrew,
  • attacks episcopacy in Scotland,
  • attacks James,
  • pulls the King by the sleeve,
  • is forbidden to sit in the Assembly,
  • is summoned to London,
  • behaves rudely before the Council, is imprisoned and banished,
• Mende, Bishop of,
  • exhorts Henrietta Maria to behave with civility to the English nobility,
  • protests against the proposed persecution of the Catholics,
  • is informed by Charles of intended changes in the Queen's household,
  • objects to the dismissal of the Queen's French attendants,
• Mentz,
  • is occupied by Spinola,
  • treaty of,
  • Gustavus keeps Christmas at,
• Meppen, is seized by the Imperialists, viii. 376
• Merchant Adventurers,
  • the old and new companies of,
  • explain that they are afraid to pay duties after the protestation of the Commons,
  • Forbes preaches at Delft at the church of,
  • the Prayer-book introduced at the church of,
  • protest against the seizure of the bullion in the Tower,
• Metropolitical visitation, the,
  • mention,
  • mention,
• Michell, David,
  • insulted in Edinburgh for refusing to sign the Covenant,
• Michell, Sir Francis,
  • is a commissioner for gold and silver thread,
  • violent proceedings of the Commons against,
  • sentence passed by the Lords on,
  • degradation of,
• Michelson, Margaret,
  • is regarded as a prophetess,
• Middle Ages, the,
  • aspirations of,
• Middlesex,
  • attempt to raise a free gift in,
  • levy of the forced loan in,
• Middlesex, Earl of, 1622 (Lionel Cranfield),
  • is on bad terms with Buckingham,
  • votes against war with Spain,
  • is believed to have given information against Buckingham to Inojosa,
  • gives offence to Charles,
  • impeachment of,
  • sentence on,
  • reduction of the fine of,
  • Charles removes his name from the list of Privy Councillors,
  • See Cranfield, Lionel
  • See Cranfield, Sir Lionel
  • See Cranfield, Lord
• Middleton, David,
  • his voyage to the Banda Islands,
• Middleton, John,
  • storms the Bridge of Dee,
• Mildmay, Sir Henry,
  • proposes a vote of money for setting out the fleet against Spain,
  • recommends that time be given to the King,
• Milford Haven,
  • alleged intention of landing the Irish army at,
• Military charges,
  • the demand made in the Short Parliament for the abolition of,
  • the demand made in the Short Parliament for the abolition of,
• Military oath, the,
  • refused by Saye and Brooke,
• Militia, the,
  • the Lords suggest that a general order may be made for calling out,
  • the Commons wish to name persons to command,
  • the Lords ask the King to entrust, to persons in whom Parliament may confide,
  • appointment of Parliamentary Lords-Lieutenants to command,
• Militia Bill, the first,
  • foreshadowed in the instructions given to the Committee of Defence,
  • the germ of, in Strode's motion to put the kingdom in a posture of defence,
  • is brought in by Hazlerigg,
  • is read the first time,
  • is read a second time,
• Militia Bill, the second,
  • is offered by the King,
  • is amended by the Commons in committee,
  • the Royal assent refused to,
• Militia Ordinance, the,
  • is drawn up by the Commons,
  • the King asked what authority was intended to be conveyed by,
  • passes both Houses and is sent to the King,
  • opposition in the City to,
  • the King suggests a compromise on, which is voted a denial,
  • Charles absolutely refuses to accept,
  • the Houses order it to be put in execution,
  • is put in execution to the south of the Humber,
• Millenary petition, the,
  • presented to James,
• Milton, John,
  • admires Gill, the headmaster of St. Paul's School,
  • Puritanism of his lines, At a solemn music,
  • is not in early life hostile to the Church,
  • thought underlying his Il Penseroso,
  • writes the Comus,
  • his view of beauty as spiritual,
  • his doctrine of virginity,
  • his Lycidas,
  • character of his attack on Laud,
  • his reference to Malvezzi,
  • his first pamphlet, Of Reformation touching Church Discipline,
  • his political idealism,
  • his argument on ecclesiastical jurisdiction,
• Ministers, petition of,
  • for reformation of the government of the Church,
  • for the calling of a synod,
• Misselden, Edward,
  • supports Boswell's effort to enforce the use of the Prayer-book by the English congregation at Delft,
• Mohacz,
  • battle of,
• Mohun, Lieutenant,
  • is murdered by his soldiers,
• Moluccas, the,
  • the Dutch drive the Portuguese out of,
• Mompesson, Sir Giles,
  • suggests a patent for inns,
  • appointed a commissioner for licensing inns,
  • is a commissioner for gold and silver thread,
  • is examined by a committee of the Commons,
  • Coke's report on the malpractices of,
  • escape of,
  • charges against, carried up to the Lords,
  • sentence on,
• Monaghan,
  • Chichester's visit to,
  • impossibility of securing convictions in,
  • the 'Caterers' of,
  • the Catholics celebrate mass in the churches in,
  • rises against the English,
• Monarchy of Man, The,
  • written by Eliot in the Tower,
• Monk, George,
  • lands with troops in Ireland,
• Monopolies, the,
  • called in by James,
  • considered by the Commons in 1614,
  • protected by the Star Chamber,
  • theories on the legality of patents of,
  • increase of,
  • Noy moves for an inquiry into,
  • Buckingham declares against,
  • a Bill brought in against,
  • some of, cancelled by proclamation,
  • are condemned by the Commons,
  • granted by Charles to corporations,
  • granted by Charles to corporations,
  • granted by Charles to corporations,
  • partially recalled by proclamation,
  • results of the introduction into Ireland of,
  • Culpepper's attack on,
• Monopoly Bill, the,
  • brought in by Coke in 1621,
  • passes the Commons,
  • passes both Houses in 1624,
  • change of the law effected by,
• Monro, Robert,
  • a regiment kept on foot under,
  • coerces Aberdeen and Strathbogie,
• Monsigot,
  • is in favour with Mary de Medicis,
  • announces to Charles that Mary de Medicis is on her way to England,
  • is sent on a mission to England, and summoned before the Commons,
• Monson, Sir John,
  • is maligned by Williams,
  • informs the King that Williams is offering bribes,
  • obtains a fine from Williams,
• Monson, Sir Thomas,
  • obtains for Weston an appointment in the Tower,
  • maintains his innocence of Overbury's murder,
  • postponement of the trial of,
  • is pardoned,
• Monson, Sir William,
  • accepts a Spanish pension,
  • captures a Dutch ship,
  • is arrested,
  • is set at liberty,
  • opposes the expedition against Algiers,
  • his son put forward as a rival to Buckingham,
  • is Lindsey's Vice-Admiral,
• Monson, William (son of Sir William),
  • put forward as a rival to Buckingham,
  • is knighted and sent abroad,
• Montague, Edward,
  • arrangement for the marriage of,
  • See Mandeville, Viscount
• Montague, Lord (Anthony Browne)
  • protests against a recusancy Bill,
  • his connection with the Gunpowder Plotters,
  • is fined in the Star Chamber,
• Montague, Richard, (Bishop of Chichester, 1628; of Norwich, 1638),
  • early life of,
  • writes A New Gag for an Old Goose,
  • Abbot remonstrates with,
  • writes Appello Cæsarem,
  • character of the religious movement in which he partakes,
  • report of a committee of the Commons on the books of,
  • is committed to custody but released on bond,
  • is defended by Charles as being a Royal chaplain,
  • writes that he is too ill to surrender,
  • is excused attendance on the ground of ill-health,
  • his opinions declared by Bishops Buckeridge, Howson, and Laud, not to be liable to condemnation,
  • conference on the doctrines of,
  • becomes Bishop of Chichester,
  • is asked by Heath to revise his book,
  • writes to Abbot disclaiming any wish to uphold Arminianism,
  • receives a special pardon,
  • question raised of the legality of the episcopacy of,
  • the Commons acknowledge him to be legally a bishop,
  • confers with Panzani,
  • converses with Panzani about the reunion,
  • becomes Bishop of Norwich,
  • declares his diocese to be conformable,
• Montague, Sidney,
  • buys Hinchinbrook from Sir Oliver Cromwell,
• Montague, Sir Edward,
  • reprimanded by the Council,
• Montague, Sir Henry,
  • is a member of the first Parliament of James I.,
  • prosecutes Mansell,
  • takes part in the prosecution of Somerset,
  • is appointed Chief Justice,
  • admits Heath and Shute to the execution of Roper's office,
  • asks for Coke's official collar,
  • saves one of Gondomar's servants from the mob,
  • awards execution against Raleigh,
  • is a referee for the patent for inns,
  • imprisons offenders against the patent for gold and silver thread,
  • suggests that bonds shall be taken not to sell unlicensed gold and silver thread,
  • offers to buy the Treasurership,
  • is created Viscount Mandeville and becomes Lord Treasurer,
  • See Mandeville, Viscount
  • See Manchester, Earl of
• Montague, Walter,
  • is sent to Lorraine and Italy to stir up discontent against France,
  • meets with little encouragement,
  • reports to Charles that he will have no allies,
  • is seized by Richelieu, and sent to the Bastille,
  • is sent to Richelieu to see what terms can be had,
  • returns to England with Richelieu's terms,
  • takes back Charles's message rejecting the French overtures,
  • writes The Shepherd's Pastoral,
  • announces his intention of becoming a Father of the Oratory,
  • writes to his father to announce his conversion,
  • supports Con's efforts to rouse the Queen to interest herself in Catholic conversions,
  • is suspected of taking part in the conversion of Lady Hamilton,
  • is the Queen's agent in collecting a contribution from the Catholics,
  • is ordered by the Commons to give an account of the Catholic contribution,
  • disapproves the Queen's proposed visit to France,
• Montaigne, George (Bishop of Lincoln, 1617; of London, 1621; of Durham, 1628 ; Archbishop of York, 1628),
  • is sent to Cambridge to canvass for Buckingham,
  • licenses Sibthorpe's sermon,
  • character of,
  • licenses Manwaring's sermon,
  • becomes Bishop of Durham, and afterwards Archbishop of York,
  • consecrates St. James's, Aldgate,
• Montauban,
  • raising of the siege of,
• Monteagle, Lord (William Parker).
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Montferrat,
  • disputed succession to,
• Montgomery, Earl of, 1605 (Philip Herbert),
  • quarrels with Southampton,
  • has a share in the glass monopoly,
  • becomes Lord Chamberlain,
  • succeeds his brother as Earl of Pembroke,
  • See Pembroke and Montgomery, Earl of
• Montgomery, George (Bishop of Derry, 1610-1620),
  • supports O'Cahan,
• Montpellier, Peace of,
  • is violated by the King,
• Montmorency, Duke of (Admiral of France)
  • promises a commission to Raleigh,
  • urges Pennington to admit French soldiers on board his ships,
  • his rebellion and execution,
• Montreuil, M. de,
  • reports Strafford's speech about the Irish army,
  • is instructed to enter into communication with the popular party,
  • assures the Parliamentary leaders of Richelieu's friendship,
  • dissuades the Queen from taking flight, and assures Holland that France will do nothing for Strafford,
• Montrose, 3rd Earl of, 1571-1608 (John Graham), Chancellor of Scotland,
  • mention,
• Montrose, 5th Earl of, 1626 (James Graham),
  • reports Hamilton's expressions of sympathy with the Covenanters,
  • early life and character of,
  • is sent by the Covenanters to Aberdeen,
  • attempts to enforce subscription to the Covenant in Aberdeen,
  • prepares for another expedition to the North,
  • arrives in Aberdeen and distributes blue badges,
  • takes Huntly to Edinburgh and allows Aboyne to escape.
  • returns to Aberdeen and refuses to plunder it,
  • storms the Bridge of Dee, and again spares Aberdeen,
  • visits Charles at Berwick,
  • his plan for the reconstitution of the Lords of the Articles,
  • policy of,
  • signs the letter from the Covenanters to Louis,
  • advises obedience to the King's orders for a fresh prorogation of Parliament,
  • his ideas compared with those of Strafford,
  • remains a Covenanter,
  • puts a garrison into Airlie House,
  • signs the bond of Cumbernauld,
  • is the first to cross the Tweed with the invading army,
  • reasons for his adoption of a Royalist policy.
  • explains his political principles in a letter to the King,
  • is examined by the Committee of Estates on his statement that Argyle proposed to dethrone the King,
  • is imprisoned,
  • writes twice to Charles,
  • writes a third letter to Charles, accusing Hamilton of treason,
  • his part in the Incident,
  • is liberated,
• Moore, Dr.,
  • is said to have been ordered by Neile not to preach against Popery,
  • declares that the story is true,
• Mordaunt, Lord, 1601-1608 (Henry Mordaunt),
  • his connection with the Gunpowder Plotters,
  • escapes without a fine,
• More, Roger,
  • popularity and character of,
• More, Sir George,
  • receives a letter from James about Somerset's threats,
  • brings Somerset to his trial,
  • expresses an opinion that Bacon's case must be investigated,
  • wishes Floyd to be whipped,
  • objects to a conference with the Lords on the King's demand for supply,
• Morgan, Sir Charles,
  • is sent to assist the King of Denmark,
  • payment of money for the troops of,
  • reports that his men are mutinous from want of pay,
  • miserable condition of the troops of,
  • surrenders Stade,
  • proposed employment of, in aid of the King of Denmark,
  • is ordered to go back to the King of Denmark,
  • is ordered to remain at Glueckstadt,
• Morocco,
  • surrender of English captives by the King of,
• Morton, Earl of, 1638 (William Douglas),
  • is named by Charles as Treasurer of Scotland, but is attacked by Argyle, and relinquishes his claim,
• Morton, Sir Albertus,
  • sent with money to the Palatinate,
  • his reception at Heilbronn,
  • becomes Secretary of State,
  • accompanies Buckingham to Pans,
  • is sent to urge the Dutch to join in an attack on the ports of Flanders,
  • death of,
• Morton, Thomas (Bishop of Chester, 1616; of Lichfield and Coventry, 1619; of Durham, 1632),
  • character of,
  • advises James on the observance of the Sabbath,
  • asks that Yelverton may not be condemned unheard,
  • converses with De Dominis,
  • takes part in the conference on Montague's book,
  • becomes Bishop of Durham,
• Mother of the Musket,
  • name given to cannon by the Highlanders,
• Moulins,
  • capture of Charles Lewis at,
• Mountgarret, Viscount, 1602 (Richard Butler),
  • complains that Ireland is driven to desperation,
• Mountjoy, Lord (Charles Blount),
  • conquers Ireland,
  • proclaims King James in Dublin,
  • represses the rebellion of the southern towns,
  • returns to England,
  • See Devonshire, Earl of
• Mountnorris, Lord, 1628 (Francis Annesley),
  • gives lukewarm support to Wentworth,
  • is charged by Wentworth with malversation,
  • speaks disrespectfully of Wentworth, and is summoned to account for his official conduct,
  • is tried by a Council of War,
  • is sentenced to death,
  • Wentworth's defence of his conduct towards,
  • is expelled from office,
  • Wentworth collects evidence against,
  • charge brought by Wentworth against,
  • escapes from want of proof,
  • petitions the English House of Commons,
• Mulgrave, Earl of, 1626 (Edmund Sheffield),
  • signs the petition of the twelve peers,
  • See Sheffield, Lord
• Multyfarnham,
  • congress held at,
• Munich,
  • entry of Gustavus into,
• Munster,
  • governed by Sir H. Brouncker,
  • fines imposed on recusants in,
  • abandonment of the attempt to repress recusancy in,
  • St. Leger calls for troops for,
  • St. Leger's difficulties in,
  • St. Leger exasperates the rebels in,
• Murford, Nicholas,
  • invents a new method of making salt,
• Murray, William,
  • is suspected of having betrayed the King's attempt on the five members,
• Music,
  • Milton and Herbert on,
• Myddelton, Hugh,
  • carries out the making of the New River,
• Mynn, George,
  • fined for malpractices in the Forest of Dean,
• Nantes, the Edict of,
  • concessions made to the Huguenots by,
• Napier, Lord, 1627 (Archibald Napier),
  • dislikes the meddling of the clergy in political affairs,
  • is imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle,
• National Synod,
  • proposal of Dering to assemble,
  • is demanded in a petition of ministers,
• Naturalisation of the Scots, the,
  • debates on,
  • acknowledged by the judges to be the right of the Post-nati,
• Naunton, Sir Robert,
  • becomes Secretary,
  • is appointed a Commissioner to examine Raleigh,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • lays before the Council an account of the negotiations about Bohemia,
  • Gondomar complains of,
  • disgrace of,
  • is deprived of the Secretaryship,
  • is not asked to attend the Council when an oath is taken to the Spanish marriage treaty,
  • proposed retirement of, from the Mastership of the Wards,
  • death of,
• Navy, the,
  • commission to inquire into the management of,
  • report of a second commission on the state of,
  • reforms proposed in,
• Navy Commission, the,
  • appointment of, as a permanent body under Buckingham,
  • is blamed by Eliot as delaying the sending out the Meet against Spain,
  • countermands the employment of the King's ships against pirates,
• Necolalde, Juan de,
  • makes Charles jealous of France and the Dutch,
  • comments on Charles's vacillation,
  • opens a secret negotiation with Charles's ministers,
  • receives fresh overtures from Charles,
  • is ordered to be cautious in his negotiation with Charles,
  • informs Charles that the Dutch project an attack on Dunkirk in combination with the French,
  • articles of a treaty drawn up in concert with,
  • distrusts Charles,
  • reports that Charles detests the French,
  • informs Cottington that Olivares wishes Charles to sign the treaty for the partition of the Netherlands,
  • gives the title of Electoral Highness to Charles Lewis,
• Negotium Posterorum, the,
  • written by Eliot in the Tower,
• Neile, Richard (Bishop of Rochester, 1608; of Lichfield and Coventry, 1610; of Lincoin, 1614; of Durham, 1617; of Winchester, 1627; Archbishop of York, 1632-1640),
  • supports Laud,
  • favours the Essex divorce,
  • attacks the House of Commons,
  • excuses himself,
  • opposes a proposal to deprive Bacon of his peerage,
  • stops a tumult at Durham House,
  • the Commons complain of,
  • becomes Bishop of Winchester,
  • character of,
  • charges brought in the House of Commons against,
  • charge of Cromwell against,
  • charge of Phelips against,
  • declaration by Moore of the truth of a charge against,
  • maintains the Divine right of episcopacy against Leighton,
  • votes for a heavy sentence in Sheffield's case,
  • becomes Archbishop of York,
  • compels the foreigners engaged in the drainage of Hatfield Chase to conform to the English Church,
  • thinks it would be good if heretics were burnt,
• Netherlands, the Spanish,
  • are dissatisfied with the Spanish Government,
  • are unwilling to be annexed by France,
  • the assistance of Charles requested by the nobility of,
  • meeting of the States-General of,
  • the Prince of Orange urges them to declare their independence,
  • refusal of the States-General of, to separate from Spain,
  • conferences at the Hague between the deputies of, and those of the independent provinces,
  • Charles protests against the partition of,
  • continue to negotiate with the independent provinces,
  • revolution suggested in,
  • refuse to assist the Prince of Orange,
  • suppression of the revolutionary party in,
  • treaty between France and the Dutch for the partition of,
  • are invaded by the French and the Dutch,
  • failure of the attack by the French and Dutch on,
  • Lindsey convoys Spanish vessels to,
  • Windebank sends over bullion to,
• Netherlands, the States-General of the United Provinces of the,
  • carry on war with Spain,
  • send an Embassy to England to urge the continuance of the war,
  • refuse to negotiate with Spain,
  • James refuses to abandon the support of,
  • insists upon continuing the blockade of the Flemish ports,
  • defeat of Spaniards off Dover by the fleet of,
  • agree to a cessation of arms with Spain,
  • negotiate with James for a guarantee,
  • sign a treaty with France,
  • negotiate with Spain,
  • sign a treaty with England,
  • accept the Truce of Antwerp,
  • make a treaty with the Princes of the Union,
  • order their troops to enter the duchies of Cleves and Juliers,
  • agree to the Treaty of Xanten,
  • differ from the Spaniards on the execution of the Treaty of Xanten,
  • their rivalry with England in the whale fishery and the East India trade,
  • surrender of the cautionary towns to,
  • manufacture of cloth in,
  • refuse to execute the Treaty of Xanten,
  • disputes between the English East India Company and the merchants of,
  • agree to a treaty with England, regulating the East India trade,
  • Maurice drives Barneveld from power in,
  • Synod of Dort in,
  • movement of troops in,
  • offers to co-operate with James in the Palatinate,
  • Buckingham's proposal for a partition of,
  • urge James to defend the Palatinate,
  • renew the war with Spain,
  • send Commissioners to England to treat on the restitution of goods taken in the East,
  • partition of, proposed by James,
  • offer to take Mansfeld into their service,
  • proposal of James for a joint English and Spanish attack on,
  • proposal of James for a joint English and Spanish attack on,
  • agree to the convoy of a Dunkirk privateer to a Flemish port,
  • are invited by James to form an alliance with him,
  • send commissioners to ask for English aid,
  • signature of a treaty for sending English soldiers to the help of,
  • overtures for peace made by Spain to,
  • are urged by the French to allow Mansfeld to land in their territory,
  • give a reluctant consent,
  • lend money for the payment of Mansfeld's troops,
  • offer to lend ships for an attack on Genoa,
  • agree to lend ships to France to be used against Rochelle,
  • give security for a loan for Mansfeld's army,
  • agree to furnish ships for the fleet against Spain,
  • agree to the treaty of Southampton with Charles,
  • agree, by the Treaty of the Hague, to furnish supplies to the King of Denmark,
  • Buckingham wishes a suspension of arms with Spain to be accepted by,
  • mission of Carleton to urge the acceptance of reasonable terms of peace by,
  • wish to remain on good terms with both England and France,
  • are indignant at Charles's proposal to make peace with Spain,
  • restitution of captured East Indiamen to,
  • disapprove of Charles's wish to make peace with Spain,
  • treaty signed between England and Spain for the partition of the territory of,
  • the Spanish Netherlands urged to declare their independence by,
  • conference at the Hague between the deputies of, and those of the obedient provinces,
  • continue to negotiate with the obedient provinces,
  • make a treaty with France, by which they are to receive an annual payment,
  • revival of the project for partitioning the dominions of,
  • agree with France for the partition of the Spanish Netherlands,
  • send ambassadors to demand the hand of the Princess Mary for Prince William of Orange,
• Nethersole, Sir Francis,
  • gives a gloomy account of the state of Bohemia,
  • is sent to England,
  • is sent by Chichester to inform James of the state of the Palatinate,
  • is satisfied with Buckingham's warlike zeal,
  • argues that it is sometimes necessary to imprison without showing cause,
  • fears that the Commons will prove intractable on matters of religion,
  • hopes to raise a benevolence fur the Palatinate,
  • imprisonment of,
• Neuburg, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Palatine of,
  • marries a sister of the Duke of Bavaria,
  • declares himself a Catholic,
• Nevers, Duke of,
  • hinders Mansfeld from entering France,
  • is supported by France in his claim to the succession of Mantua and Montferrat,
• Neville, Christopher,
  • abuses the courtiers,
  • is imprisoned,
• Neville, Sir Henry,
  • his view of the enforcement of the laws against the Catholics,
  • is a candidate for the Secretaryship after Salisbury's death,
  • probable appointment of.
  • advises James to call another Parliament,
  • concessions proposed by,
  • Northampton opposes his candidature for the Secretaryship,
  • paper drawn up by, produced in the House of Commons,
  • death of,
• New buildings,
  • Act of Parliament and proclamation against,
  • complaints of the growth of,
  • the Star Chamber authorises the demolition of,
• New corporation, the, for governing the suburbs of London,
  • mention,
• New England, early exploration of, ii. 50
  • unsuccessful attempts to colonise,
  • arrival of the 'Mayflower' in,
  • instrument of government drawn up for the emigrants to,
  • exploration of,
  • landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in,
  • hardships of the settlers in,
  • progress of the colony in,
  • resolution of Winthrup to go to,
  • settlement of Massachusetts in,
  • increased emigration to,
  • attempt made to check emigration to,
  • chances of toleration in,
  • restrictions placed on emigration to,
  • surrender to the Crown of the powers of the Council of,
• New Forest,
  • the enforcement of the King's claims in,
• New Gag for an Old Goose, A,
  • Montague writes,
• New River, the,
  • opening of,
• Newark,
  • Charles passes through,
• Newborn,
  • the rout of,
• Newcastle,
  • state of Conway's force at,
  • Conway urges the importance of fortifying,
  • reported intention of the Scots to seize,
  • orders given for the fortification of,
  • partial fortification of,
  • Conway marches out from,
  • is occupied by the Scots,
  • a contribution demanded by the Scots from,
  • Charles entertained by the Scots at,
  • the Scottish army leaves,
  • is occupied for the King,
• Newcastle, Earl of, 1628 (William Cavendish),
  • appointed Governor of the Prince of Wales,
  • character of,
  • takes part in the Councillor's loan,
  • is suggested as General of the Northern army, in order that he may bring it to support the King,
  • is appointed Governor of Hull,
  • is summoned before Parliament to give an account of his proceedings at Hull,
  • occupies Newcastle,
• Newce, Captain,
  • gives evidence on a plot against James,
• Newcomen, Matthew,
  • is one of the authors of the pamphlet issued under the name of Smectymnuus,
• Newfoundland,
  • Baltimore's settlement in,
• Newington Woods,
  • a congregation of Separatists taken in,
• Newmarket,
  • wood said to be dear at,
• Newport, Captain,
  • carries colonists to Virginia,
  • returns to Virginia,
• Newport, Countess of,
  • fails to prevent her father's change of religion,
  • becomes a Catholic,
• Newport, Earl of, 1628 (Montjoy Blount),
  • appeals to Laud to procure the punishment of those who had converted Lady Newport,
  • bargains with Cardenas for the sale of gunpowder for Oquendo's fleet,
  • offers to transport Spanish soldiers to Dunkirk,
  • does not fulfil his bargain,
  • says that he had voted against the King by mistake,
  • is informed by Goring of the Army Plot, and carries the news to Bedford and Mandeville,
  • is appointed Constable of the Tower,
  • offers to execute Strafford even if Charles refuses his assent to the Bill of Attainder,
  • is ordered by Parliament to reside in the Tower,
  • protests against the refusal of the Lords to communicate to the Commons their resolution on Divine service,
  • is alleged to have spoken of the Queen and her children as hostages,
  • is asked by the Commons to reside in the Tower,and is dismissed by Charles from the Constableship,
  • accompanies Charles to the City after the attempt on the five members,
• Newry,
  • the insurgents overpower the garrison of,
• News,
  • prohibition of the printing of,
• News from Ipswich,
  • written by Prynne,
• Nicholas, Edward,
  • is employed on a mission to Pennington at Dieppe,
  • secret instructions given by Buckingham to,
  • negotiates with Effiat on the surrender of Pennington's ships,
  • encourages Pennington's crews to mutiny,
  • uses double language,
  • is appointed to carry on the correspondence relating to ship-money,
  • remains in London to correspond with the King in Scotland,
  • advises Charles to show that he does not intend to use military force,
  • circulates amongst the peers the King's declaration that he will stand by the doctrine and discipline of the Church,
  • is appointed Secretary of State,
  • See Nicholas, Sir Edward
• Nicholas, Sir Edward,
  • receives the protest of the bishops from Charles and gives it to Lyttelton,
  • signs the protestation of the peers at York,
  • See Nicholas, Sir Edward
• Nineteen Propositions, the,
  • mention,
• Nithsdale, Earl of, 1620 (Robert Maxwell),
  • is sent to Scotland to carry out the Act of Revocation,
  • receives a grant out of the Irish subsidies,
  • holds Caerlaverock Castle for the King,
• Nobility, the,
  • ordered to follow the King to the war against the Scots,
• Nonconformists, the,
  • Elizabeth decides against,
  • attempt of, to hold meetings for worship suppressed,
  • the Millenary petition presented by,
  • their case heard at the Hampton Court Conference,
  • dissatisfaction of the House of Commons with the treatment of,
  • the canons of 1604 directed against,
  • resolution of Bancroft to eject,
  • proceedings against,
  • Northamptonshire petition in favour of,
  • Cecil's opposition to.
  • ejection of,
  • Cecil's view of the position of,
  • variety of character and opinion amongst,
• Nordlingen,
  • results of the victory of the Imperialists at,
• Norman conquest, the,
  • effect of,
• Norris, Elizabeth,
  • proposal that she shall marry Edward Wray,
  • marriage of,
• Norris, Lord, 1600-1620,
  • created Earl of Berkshire,
  • See Berkshire, Earl of
• Norris, Sir Francis,
  • finds it difficult to collect ship-money in Oxfordshire,
• Norry, William,
  • mission of to Bohemia,
• North and South of England,
  • the difference between,
• North, Captain Roger,
  • informs the King of Raleigh's proceedings,
  • sails for the Amazon,
  • is imprisoned,
  • liberation of,
• North, Lord, 1605 (Dudley North),
  • protests against Buckingham's charge against Digges,
  • asks whether the clause added by the Lords to the Petition of Right is necessary,
• Northampton,
  • rise of the prophesyings at,
• Northampton, Earl of, 1604-1614 (Henry Howard),
  • takes part in the negotiations with Spain,
  • accepts a Spanish pension,
  • speaks on the grievances of the English merchants in Spain,
  • becomes Lord Privy Seal,
  • wishes to marry the Prince of Wales to a Catholic,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • persons fined in the Star Chamber for slandering,
  • supports Lady Essex,
  • recommends the imprisonment of Overbury,
  • opposes the summoning of Parliament,
  • opposes Nevilles candidature for the Secretaryship,
  • is said to have plotted for a dissolution of Parliament,
  • urges the King to make an alliance with Spain,
  • death of,
  • See Howard, Lord Henry
• Northampton, 1st Earl of, of the family of Compton, 1618-1630 (William Compton),
  • buys his peerage,
  • asks for the payment of ship-money in Warwickshire,
  • wishes to defend both the liberties of the subject and the King's prerogative,
• Northampton, 2nd Earl of, of the family of Compton, 1630 (Spencer Compton),
  • declares his intention of executing, the commission of array in Warwickshire,
  • stops guns intended for the defence of Warwick Castle,
  • is beaten off from Warwick Castle,
• Northamptonshire,
  • petition from, in favour of the Nonconformists,
  • resistance to the forced loan in,
• Northumberland,
  • good conduct of the Scottish invading army in,
  • a contribution demanded by the Scots from,
• Northumberland, 9th Earl of, 1585-1632 (Henry Percy),
  • his behaviour in the Council after Elizabeth's death,
  • his opinion of Raleigh,
  • sends Thomas Percy to James,
  • tried in the Star Chamber,
  • sentenced to fine and imprisonment,
  • throws obstacles in the way of his daughter's marriage with Hay
  • liberation of,
• Northumberland, 10th Earl of, 1632 (Algernon Percy),
  • is sent in command of the second ship-money fleet, and sails up and down the Channel,
  • sells licences to the Dutch herring-boats,
  • is placed in command of the third ship-money fleet,
  • sends Fielding to induce the Dutch fishermen to take the King's licences,
  • appointed Lord Admiral during pleasure,
  • is prevented by illness from commanding the fleet,
  • votes against war with Scotland,
  • approves of Tromp's conduct in taking Spanish soldiers out of English vessels,
  • instructs Pennington not to allow two tides to Oquendo's fleet,
  • is puzzled by Charles's contradictory orders,
  • assures Pennington that he cannot get clear instructions,
  • is appointed general of the army to be employed in the second Bishops' war,
  • speaks bitterly of Laud,
  • votes against the dissolution of the Short Parliament,
  • character of,
  • speaks against a war of aggression,
  • writes despondingly of the prospects of the War,
  • complains of numerous desertions from the army,
  • obtains a legal opinion on the legality of Conway's exercise of martial law,
  • predicts the future of the campaign,
  • thinks that money is wanting,
  • informs Conway that he is to exercise martial law,
  • refuses to command the army without money,
  • illness of,
  • is anxious to surrender his command,
  • receives a letter from the officers in Yorkshire on their grievances,
  • gives evidence that he did not remember that Strafford had proposed to bring over the Irish army,
  • resigns the command of the Northern army,
  • rumoured dismissal of, from the Council and office,
  • is requested by Parliament to appoint Warwick to command the fleet,
  • is forbidden by Charles to appoint Warwick, and commanded by Parliament to make him Vice-Admiral,
  • is dismissed from the Admiralty,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
• Norton, Sir Daniel,
  • visit of Charles to,
  • brings a charge against Neile,
• Norwich,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
  • Montague's account of the state of the diocese of,
• Nottingham,
  • the Royal Standard set up at,
• Nottingham, county of,
  • is ready to send its trained bands to the Northern army,
• Nottingham, Earl of, 1596-1624 (Charles Howard), Lord Admiral,
  • meeting of the Council at the house of,
  • takes part in the negotiations with Spain,
  • is appointed ambassador to swear to the peace in Spain,
  • resents an inquiry into the state of the navy,
  • opposes the expedition against Algiers,
  • resigns the Admiralty,
  • death of,
• Nova Scotia,
  • French settlement in,
• Novum Organum, the,
  • mention,
• Noy, William,
  • proposes an inquiry into the monopolies,
  • defends the five knights,
  • proposes a Habeas corpus Bill,
  • wishes to modify the Bill of Liberties,
  • proposes a Bill to invalidate all judgments based on the King's claim to levy tonnage and poundage,
  • becomes Attorney-General,
  • character of,
  • prosecutes Sherfield in the Star Chamber,
  • exhibits an information in the Exchequer against the feoffees for impropriations,
  • takes part in arranging the Inns of Court masque,
  • examines Prynne on his letter to Laud,
  • wishes to debar Prynne from the use of pen and ink,
  • suggests the levy of ship-money,
  • death of,
• Nuremberg,
  • assembly of the Princes of the Union at,
  • entry of Gustavus into,
  • struggle between Gustavus and Wallenstein at,
• O'Cahan, Sir Donnell,
  • quarrels with Tyrone,
  • lays his case before the Deputy,
  • submits to the Government and is imprisoned,
  • is sent to England,
• Ochiltree, Lord, 1615 (James Stewart),
  • tells Weston that Hamilton means to make himself King of Scotland,
  • is tried and sentenced to imprisonment,
• O'Conolly,
  • betrays the plot for seizing Dublin Castle,
• O'Connor,
  • is reported to have talked of a massacre,
• Octavians, the,
  • mention,
• O'Dogherty, Sir Cahir,
  • promises to create freeholders,
  • his disputes with Sir G. Paulet
  • defends himself to the Deputy,
  • prepares an insurrection,
  • captures Culmore and Derry,
  • retreats to Doe Castle,
  • is defeated and slain,
• O'Donnell, Hugh,
  • rises against Elizabeth's government,
• O'Donnell, Neill Garve,
  • claims the earldom of Tyrconnell,
  • is refused the earldom by Mountjoy,
  • keeps possession of the lands of the sept,
  • is forced to submit,
  • incites O'Dogherty to rebel,
  • quarrels with O'Dogherty,
  • makes overtures to the English,
  • is treacherous to the English,
  • is sent to England,
• O'Donnell, The.
  • See O'Donnell, Hugh
  • See Tyrconnell, Earl of
• Ogilvy, Lord, 1617-1639 (James Ogilvy),
  • created Earl of Airlie,
  • See Airlie, Earl of
• Ogilvy, Lord (James Ogilvy),
  • surrenders his father's house to Montrose,
• Ogle, Sir John,
  • is a member of the Council of War,
  • is sent to investigate the state of Mansfeld's troop,
• Oleron, Isle of,
  • proposal to send Pennington to,
• Olivares, Count of (Duke of San Lucar), (Gaspar de Guzman),
  • the favourite of Philip IV.,
  • succeeds Zuniga as the chief minister of Philip IV.,
  • character and plans of,
  • assures Bristol that his master will, if necessary, help James in the Palatinate,
  • gives a sharp answer to Porter,
  • urges Philip to carry out the marriage treaty,
  • is directed by Philip to put an end to the treaty,
  • lays before the Council of Slate a memorial on the relations between Spain and England,
  • visionary character of his policy,
  • the Council of State rejects the scheme of,
  • hears of the Prince's arrival at Madrid,
  • carries the news to Philip,
  • difficulty of his position,
  • expects the Prince to change his religion,
  • talks to Buckingham about the conversion of the Prince, and writes to Cardinal Ludovisi,
  • attempts to convert the Prince,
  • urges Buckingham to make concessions,
  • asks for liberty of worship in England,
  • consults the Nuncio on the concessions to be demanded from England,
  • asks Buckingham to surrender a fortress to the Catholics,
  • offers to hasten the dispensation,
  • converses with the Nuncio on a compromise with James,
  • wishes to negotiate with the Emperor on the disposal of the Palatinate,
  • hears that the dispensation's to be granted,
  • hopes that the Prince will privately acknowledge a change of religion,
  • urges Buckingham to ask the Prince to take part in a religious discussion,
  • takes part in an attempt to convert Buckingham,
  • informs Charles that the dispensation will be granted,
  • forbids the Prince's chaplains to enter the Royal Palace,
  • quarrels with Buckingham,
  • advocates in the Council of State the scheme of detaining the Infanta after marriage,
  • is outvoted,
  • declares that the Prince must return without the Infanta,
  • obtains the support of the Junta of theologians,
  • informs Charles of the decision of the Theologians, and states that Philip III. had never intended to carry out the marriage treaty,
  • Bristol remonstrates with,
  • shelters himself behind the Junta of Theologians,
  • asks Khevenhueller to renew his proposal for marrying Prince Charles to the Emperor's daughter,
  • assures the Prince that it is impossible to allow him to take the Infanta to England,
  • presents fresh articles to Charles,
  • changes his tactics, and urges the Infanta to consent to the marriage,
  • wishes to obtain the consent of Charles to a marriage between Frederick's son and the Emperor's daughter,
  • declares in the Council that the King of Spain can never go to war with the Emperor, and proposes a scheme for the settlement of the Palatinate,
  • engages in an altercation with Buckingham,
  • produces a letter of Philip III.,
  • is upbraided by Buckingham,
  • proposes the education of two of Frederick's sons as Catholics at Vienna,
  • wishes to avert a breach with England,
  • offers to Bristol anything for which he may choose to ask,
  • prepares the Treaty of Barcelona with Du Fargis,
  • informs the French ambassador of Buckingham's overtures,
  • obtains from France an engagement for common action against England,
  • Porter sent to Spain, to come to an understanding with,
  • makes overtures about the Palatinate,
  • maintains silence on Charles's request for the restoration of the fortresses in the Palatinate,
  • rejects Cottington's demand for an engagement to effect the restitution of the Palatinate,
  • signs a treaty for the partition of the Netherlands,
  • character of the statesmanship of,
  • advises the Emperor to suspend the Edict of Restitution,
  • does not like to support Mary de Medicis,
  • is overwhelmed by the multiplicity of the interests of the Spanish monarchy, and wishes to avoid a conflict with France,
  • distrusts Charles,
  • agrees with Necolalde in his distrust of Charles,
  • declares that he does not expect Charles to go to war with the Dutch, but proposes to give him a small sum,
  • speaks scornfully of Charles,
  • expects Charles to declare war against the Dutch,
• Olivares, Countess of,
  • persuades the Infanta to consent to marry Charles,
  • conveys a message from the Infanta to Buckingham,
  • informs Charles that the Infanta will accompany him,
  • asks the Infanta whether she thinks of going into a nunnery,
  • sends a present to Charles,
• Onate, Count of,
  • negotiates with Doncaster,
  • tells Doncaster that James's mediation cannot be accepted,
  • opposes the transference of the Electorate,
  • is ordered to declare that Spain does not wish to extend her territory,
• Onate y Villa Mediana, Count of,
  • arrives as Spanish ambassador in England,
  • tells Charles that he will not be able to make war under his nephew's cloak,
  • is not satisfied with Windebank's proposal to treat about the Palatinate,
  • announces that he shall build a larger chapel than the Queen's,
• O'Neill, Daniel,
  • his part in the two Army Plots,
  • flight of,
  • returns and is placed in custody,
  • examination of,
• O'Neill, Owen Roe,
  • promises to send arms to Ireland,
• O'Neill, Sir Phelim,
  • position of,
  • issues a proclamation that no harm is intended to the King or his subjects,
  • takes Armagh, and exhibits a commission from the King,
• O'Neill, the,
  • See Tyrone, Earl of
• Oppenheim,
  • is occupied by Spinola,
• Oquendo, Antonio de,
  • sails from Corunna,
  • fights with the Dutch in the Channel, and takes refuge in the Downs,
  • appeals to Charles for protection,
  • orders given for the protection of,
  • reinforcements arrive for,
  • is attacked by Tromp,
  • rumour of the intended attack on England by,
• Orange, Prince of.
  • See Maurice, and Frederick Henry
• Orange, Prince William of.
  • See William of Orange, Prince
• Oratorians,
  • their dismissal from the Queen's household proposed by Chateauneuf,
• Ordinances of Parliament,
  • issue of, recommended by D'Ewes,
• Ordinations,
  • restrictions placed on,
• O'Reilly, Philip,
  • clemency of,
• Orleans, Duke of,
  • See Gaston
• Ormond,
  • proposed plantation in,
  • progress of the plantation in,
• Ormond, Earl of, 1632 (James Butler),
  • supports Wentworth,
  • is instructed to join Antrim in the seizure of Dublin Castle,
  • is proposed as the successor of the Lords Justices,
  • ill-feeling of the Lords Justices towards,
  • relieves Drogheda, but is checked by the Lords Justices,
• Ormuz,
  • is taken for the Shah of Persia by the East India Company,
• Osbaldiston, Lambert,
  • escapes a prosecution in the Star Chamber, by flight,
• Osborne, Sir Edward,
  • gives a discouraging account of the unwillingness of the Yorkshiremen to resist the Scots,
• Ostend,
  • siege of,
  • siege of,
• Oundle,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
• Overbury, Sir Thomas,
  • his connection with Rochester,
  • dissuades Rochester from his intention to marry Lady Essex,
  • is offered a diplomatic appointment,
  • is committed to the Tower,
  • attempts made to poison,
  • murder of,
  • information given to James of the murder of,
  • investigation into the murder of,
  • connection of the Earl and Countess of Somerset with the murder of,
• Owen, John,
  • tried and sentenced for declaring it lawful to kill the King,
  • liberation of,
• Owen, Nicholas,
  • tortured,
• Owen, Sir Roger,
  • asks the Commons to name the terms on which it will proceed with the contract,
  • takes part in a debate on impositions,
  • is put out of the commission of the peace,
• Oxenstjerna, Axel,
  • Anstruther sent to offer aid to,
  • signs the League of Heilbronn,
  • Bernhard and Horn jealous of,
  • treats Charles's overtures with disdain,
• Oxenstjerna, John,
  • comes to England to beg Charles to help the League of Heilbronn,
• Oxford,
  • adjourned meeting of Parliament at,
  • payment of the forced loan at,
• Oxford, Earl of, 1604-1626 (Henry de Vere),
  • serves under Vere in the Palatinate,
  • returns from Germany, and becomes a member of the Council of War,
  • imprisonment of,
  • is set at liberty,
  • commands the fleet in the Narrow Seas,
  • is imprisoned,
  • is set at liberty,
• Oxford, the University of,
  • opposes the millenary petition,
  • doctrines of Pareus repudiated by,
  • directions given by James to alter the mode of studying divinity in,
  • payment of the forced loan in,
  • election of Laud as Chancellor of,
  • revival of discipline in,
  • authority of Laud in,
  • party feeling at,
  • enforcement of the King's Declaration at,
  • degrades Prynne,
  • acknowledgment of Laud's right to hold a metropolitical visitation in,
  • speech of Sir John Coke at the introduction of the Caroline statutes into,
  • Charles proposes to visit,
  • Charles's reception at,
  • the Palatine Princes at,
  • Charles conducted to the libraries of,
  • decoration of the chapels of,
  • sends 10,000l. to the King,
• Oxfordshire,
  • resistance to ship-money in,
  • partial enforcement of payment in,
• Oyapok, the,
  • Raleigh arrives at the mouth of.
• Padre Maestro, the.
  • See Lafuente, Diego de
• Page, William,
  • is stopped by Abbot from writing against Prynne,
  • is encouraged by Laud to write,
• Paget, Lord, 1629 (William Paget),
  • wishes to ask the opinion of the judges on the Lords' clause in the Petition of Right,
• Painted windows,
  • Sherfield's objection to,
  • Laud repairs, at Lambeth,
• Palatinate, the,
  • Maximilian recommends an invasion of,
  • Philip III. agrees to the dismemberment of,
  • James is asked to defend,
  • general contribution and volunteers for,
  • voluntary contribution for the defence of,
  • Perrot's motion that the House of Commons shall declare in favour of the defence of,
  • declaration of the Commons for the defence of,
  • plan of the Spanish Council of State for giving it to Frederick's son, who is to be educated as a Catholic,
  • resolution of the Spanish Council of State to satisfy the King of England about,
  • Nethersole's mission to inform James of the state of,
  • James addresses a summons to Spain to aid in procuring the restitution of,
  • assurances given by Olivares to Bristol concerning,
  • Spanish answer to the English demand for the restoration of,
  • anxiety of Olivares to make a compromise about,
  • wish of the Spanish Council of State to get as much as possible of,
  • scheme of Olivares for the settlement of,
  • opinion of James on the Spanish proposal about,
  • James expects Philip to give assurance of the restitution of,
  • resolution of Charles not to marry the Infanta without the restitution of,
  • declaration of Philip that he is ready to do good offices for the ultimate restitution of,
  • James's determination to regain,
  • fresh Spanish offers for the restitution of,
  • the Lords condemn the treaty for the restoration of,
  • James declares the dissolution of the treaty for the restoration of,
  • inability of Lafuente to give James satisfaction about,
  • despatch sent by James to announce the final breach of the negotiation for the restoration of,
  • Louis is not anxious to reconquer,
  • vague promise given by Louis about,
  • Alford asserts that the Commons had not engaged in 1624 to make an attempt to recover,
  • declaration of Rubens that it will be difficult to effect the restitution of,
  • Charles's foreign policy confined to an effort to regain,
  • the Prince of Orange refuses to come to an understanding with Charles for the recovery of,
  • Olivares rejects Cottington's demand for a positive engagement for the restitution of,
  • attempt of Charles to bargain with Gustavus for the restitution of,
  • terms proposed by Gustavus for the restitution of,
  • Charles prohibits an invitation to contribute alms for the exiles from,
  • Charles refuses to join the French in an attempt to recover,
  • Charles wishes the Emperor to surrender in exchange for Lorraine,
  • overtures made by Richelieu to Charles about the restitution of,
  • treaty proposed by Windebank to Onate concerning,
  • fresh negotiation with Spain for the restitution of,
  • proposal to send a Scottish army to,
  • Charles issues a manifesto in favour of,
• Palatinate, the Lower,
  • is invaded by Spinola,
  • proceedings of Sir Horace Vere in,
  • march of Mansfeld to,
  • armies of Mansfeld and Tilly in,
  • conduct of Vere in,
  • Tilly's proceedings in,
  • Frederick joins Mansfeld in,
  • failure of Chichester to negotiate an armistice in,
  • state of Frederick's troops in,
  • is abandoned by Mansfeld,
  • hopeless position of Vere in,
  • is ravaged by Cordova,
  • proposal to give it to the Infant Charles,
  • proposed sequestration of the towns in,
  • proposal of Olivares to deposit in the hands of the Infanta Isabella,
  • demand of Charles for the surrender of the fortresses held by the Spaniards in,
  • Charles opens negotiations without obtaining a promise of the surrender of the fortresses of,
  • the restitution of the fortresses in, treated by Spain as conditional on an attack by Charles upon the Dutch,
  • French garrisons admitted into the fortresses of,
• Palatinate, the Upper,
  • is occupied by Mansfeld,
  • is wasted by Mansfeld's troops,
  • is conquered by the Bavarians,
  • is evacuated by Mansfeld,
  • is guaranteed by France to Bavaria,
• Palmer, Geoffry,
  • is placed on the Committee for Church affairs,
  • raises a tumult in the House by claiming a right to protest,
  • imprisonment and liberation of,
• Palmer, Mr.,
  • is fined for neglecting to return home,
• Palmes, Sir Guy,
  • is made sheriff to prevent his appearance in Parliament,
  • asks by what evidence the charge against Strafford is substantiated,
• Panzani, Gregorio,
  • arrives in England, and negotiates with Windebank,
  • converses with Windebank on religion, offers men and money to be supplied by the Pope for the suppression of Puritanism, and asks on what terms the Church of England will be re-united to Rome,
  • reports that Catholic doctrines prevail at Court,
  • reports to Rome favourable accounts of the English Court,
  • confers with Bishop Montague,
• Pappenheim, Gottfried Heinrich, Count of
  • blockades Frankenthal,
• Pareus, David,
  • burning of his Commentaries,
  • arguments of,
• Pargiter, William,
  • applies for a Habeas corpus,
• Parima,
  • fabulous lake of,
• Parker, Matthew (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1559-1575)
  • his testimony to the dislike of the use of common bread in the Sacrament,
• Parliament of 1604,
  • the first session of
  • second session of,
  • third session of,
  • fourth session of,
  • fifth session of,
• Parliament of 1614, the,
  • session of,
• Parliament of 1621, the,
  • session of,
  • session of,
• Parliament of 1624, the,
  • session of,
• Parliament of 1625, the,
  • session of,
  • session of
• Parliament of 1626, the,
  • session of,
• Parliament of 1628, the,
  • first session of,
  • second session of,
• Parliament of 1640 (the Short),
  • session of,
• Parliament of 1640 (the Long),
  • meeting of,
  • derives strength from the presence of the Scottish army,
  • is in danger of dissolution,
  • proposed violent dissolution of,
  • Act providing against the forcible dissolution of,
  • appoints Commissioners to attend the King in Scotland,
  • executive power drops into the hands of,
  • adjournment of,
  • re-assembly of,
  • orders Hotham to secure Hull,
  • invites the counties to defend themselves,
  • sends the militia ordinance to the King,
  • appoints Parliamentary Lords-Lieutenants,
  • presents to the King a declaration of fears and jealousies,
  • claims command at sea,
  • ceases to represent the nation,
  • issues a declaration on Church reform,
  • requests Charles not to go to Ireland,
  • orders the execution of the militia ordinance,
  • summons the King to desist from raising troops,
  • the nineteen propositions sent to the King by,
  • calls for money, plate, and horses,
  • orders troops to be sent against Henry Hastings, and appoints Warwick to command the fleet,
  • appoints a joint-committee of safety, and orders the raising of an army,
  • declares that the King has begun the war, and appoints Essex to command the army against him,
  • issues a declaration of its reasons for taking up arms,
  • See Lords, House of
  • See Commons, House of
• Parliament, the English,
  • its constitution in the reign of Edward I.,
• Parliament, the Irish,
  • proposal for the meeting of,
  • opening of, in 1613,
  • tumult at the election of a Speaker of the House of Commons of,
  • meeting after the adjournment of,
  • dissolution of,
  • meets in 1634,
  • is dissolved in 1635,
  • meets and votes subsidies in 1640,
  • alters the mode of rating for subsidies,
  • Charles makes concessions to,
• Parliament, the Scottish,
  • proposal for a representation of the clergy in,
  • permission given to bishops and abbots to sit in,
  • is ready to support James against the clergy,
  • constitution of,
  • petition prepared by the leaders of the Opposition in,
  • Charles takes down the names of voters in,
  • necessity of reconstituting the Lords of the Articles in,
  • formation of parties in,
  • the Lords of the Articles reconstituted in,
  • Charles resolves to resist the constitutional and legislative changes voted by,
  • adjournment of,
  • prorogation of,
  • a fresh prorogation ordered,
  • holds a session in defiance of the King's orders to prorogue,
  • remodels the constitution, and appoints a Committee of Estates,
  • Charles's visit to,
  • ratification of the Acts of,
  • demand that officers shall be appointed with the consent of,
  • struggle between Charles's and Argyle's party for the mastery in,
  • conducts an investigation into the Incident,
  • is asked to send 1,000 men to suppress the Irish rebellion,
• Parliamentary Committee appointed to attend the King, the,
  • mention,
  • upon Lyttelton's refusal to seal the commission for, are authorised by an ordinance to represent the wishes of Parliament to the King,
  • the King refuses to allow them to communicate with the Scottish Parliament,
• Parliamentary parties.
  • See Parties, Parliamentary
• Parry, Dr.,
  • argument founded on the arrest of,
• Parry, Sir Thomas,
  • forwards a message from Del Bufalo to James,
  • is expelled from the House of Commons,
  • gives his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
• Parsons, Sir William,
  • gains influence over Falkland,
  • takes part in getting up a case against the Byrnes,
  • is appointed Lord Justice,
  • See Parsons, William
  • See Lords Justices, the
• Parsons, William,
  • claims lands in Wexford,
  • See Parsons Sir William
• Parties, Parliamentary,
  • begin to form on the question of episcopacy,
  • causes of the division of the Long Parliament into,
• Pastrana, Duke of,
  • is sent to Rome with secret instructions,
  • negotiates with the cardinals,
• Patents.
  • See Monopolies
• Paul V., Pope, 1605-1621,
  • character of,
  • condemns the oath of allegiance,
  • is opposed to the Infanta's marriage with a Protestant,
  • again expresses his disapprobation of the marriage treaty,
  • his remark on Frederick's acceptance of the Bohemian crown,
  • death of,
• Paulet, John,
  • sent for as a witness to Peacham's charge against Sydenham,
• Paulet, Sir George (Governor of Derry),
  • quarrels with O'Dogherty,
  • attacks Birt Castle,
  • is slain,
• Paul's Walk,
  • condition of,
  • Charles enforces order in,
• Pawel, Andreas,
  • negotiates for Frederick at Vienna,
• Peacemaker, The,
  • publication of,
• Peacham, Edmond,
  • charges against,
  • torture of,
  • opinion of the judges on the case of,
  • accuses Sir John Sydenham,
  • is examined,
  • is convicted, and again examined,
  • death of,
• Peard, George,
  • refers to the precedent of the association in Elizabeth's reign,
  • moves that the Remonstrance be printed,
• Pecquius (Chancellor of Brabant)
  • negotiates at the Hague for the submission of the Dutch Netherlands,
  • tells Weston that, if Frederick is restored, places of caution must be made over to the Imperialists,
• Pedrosa, Father,
  • preaches a sermon against the Infanta's marriage,
• Peerages,
  • sale of,
• Peers at York, the,
  • protestation of,
• Peers, the English,
  • petition against the precedence of Scottish Peers,
  • See Lords, House of
• Peers, the Petition of the Twelve,
  • is signed,
  • is presented to the King,
  • circulation of copies of,
• Pelham, Sir Edward
  • goes on circuit through Ulster,
• Pelham, Sir William,
  • believes that a storm has been raised by the Lancashire witches,
• Pell, Sir Anthony,
  • case of, against Sir James Bagg,
• Pembroke, Earl of, 1601-1630 (William Herbert),
  • gives his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
  • is appointed Lord Chamberlain,
  • Raeigh's charges against,
  • urges the payment of a benevolence,
  • finds fault with Bacon and Mandeville for speaking of a conference without permission,
  • moves that Bacon's submission shall not be accepted,
  • asks if the Great Seal is to be brought to the bar,
  • protests against a proposal to deprive Bacon of his peerage,
  • is dissatisfied with the King's resolution to dissolve Parliament,
  • is prevented by illness from attending the Privy Council when the oath is taken to the Spanish marriage treaty,
  • votes against war with Spain,
  • places himself in opposition to Buckingham,
  • is reconciled to Buckingham,
  • asks the House of Lords to exculpate Buckingham,
  • objects to Buckingham's plan of sending Bristol to the Tower,
  • opposes Buckingham's subserviency to France,
  • attends on James in his last illness,
  • is appointed a member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs,
  • sends Pennington a message from Huckingham,
  • directs Pennington to give up his fleet to the French,
  • is ordered to protect Harwich against the Dunkirk privateers,
  • wealth of,
  • is reconciled to Buckingham,
  • holds out hopes to the Commons that an alliance may be brought about with France,
  • explains that when the ships used against Rochelle were surrendered it had been intended to use them against Genoa,
  • acknowledges that he knew of Buckingham's intention to send Bristol to the Tower,
  • becomes Lord Steward,
  • moves for a committee to examine the question of imprisonment,
  • supports Contarini's negotiation,
  • death of,
• Pembroke and Montgomery, Earl of, 1630 (Philip Herbert),
  • fails to be elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford,
  • seizure by the Dutch of a herring-boat belonging to,
  • is asked to present to the King the deputies of the foreign congregations in England,
  • attends on the King at Oxford,
  • tries to obtain a remission of Lord Cork's fine,
  • is dismissed from the office of Lord Chamberlain,
  • is recommended by Parliament for the office of Lord High Steward,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
• Penfield,
  • the soldiers drive away the minister of,
• Pennington, Isaac (Alderman),
  • announces the amount of the loan subscribed in the City, and offers a guard of citizens,
  • vindicates the London petition against episcopacy,
  • announces that the greater part of the London loan is paid,
  • informs the House of Suckling's proceedings,
• Pennington, John,
  • difficulties of, as a captain in Raleigh's fleet,
  • bears evidence against Raleigh,
  • is appointed commander of the fleet lent to the King of France,
  • is informed that he will not have to fight against the French Protestants,
  • arrives at Dieppe,
  • refuses to admit French soldiers on board, and returns to England,
  • is ordered to return to Dieppe, and to deliver his ships to the French,
  • protest of the captains of the fleet of,
  • is directed by Buckingham to surrender the fleet,
  • offers to resign his command,
  • receives orders to get up a mutiny in his fleet,
  • returns to Dieppe, and refuses to give up his ship,
  • informs Nicholas that his crew has mutinied,
  • excuses himself from surrendering his ship,
  • sails from Dieppe,
  • returns to Dieppe and surrenders the 'Vanguard' and six other ships,
  • commands a fleet in the Downs,
  • is ordered to attack French ships at Havre,
  • returns without finding French ships there,
  • mutiny in the fleet of,
  • is sent to attack the French shipping,
  • See Pennington, Sir John
• Pennington, Sir John,
  • is directed to attack the Scottish trading vessels in the Firth of Forth,
  • approves of Tromp's conduct in taking Spanish soldiers out of English vessels,
  • separates the Dutch and the Spaniards in the Downs,
  • uncertain orders given to,
  • attempts to prevent the attack of Tromp on the Spanish fleet,
  • is ordered to send a ship to Portsmouth when the King leaves Whitehall,
  • probable intention of the order given to,
  • is sent by Charles to take command of the fleet in the Downs, but arrives too late,
  • See Pennington, John
• Pennyman, Sir William,
  • has a seat in the committee appointed to investigate Irish grievances,
• Pensions, the Spanish,
  • names of those to whom they were granted,
  • list of, discovered by Digby,
• Pepper,
  • money raised by Charles on a purchase of,
• Perceval, Richard,
  • the first man slain in the Civil War,
• Percy, Henry,
  • gains influence with the Queen,
  • supports Leicester's candidature for the Secretaryship,
  • proposes a petition from the army in support of Charles,
  • is asked by Charles to confer with Suckling,
  • the Army Plot discussed at his lodgings,
  • suggests that Holland shall command in chief,
  • escapes to France,
  • gives an account of the Army Plot in a letter to his brother,
  • is declared a traitor by the Commons,
• Percy, Lucy,
  • Lord Hay's courtship of,
  • marriage of,
  • See Carlisle, Countess of
• Percy, Thomas,
  • sent to James to ask for toleration for the Catholics,
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Pernambuco,
  • demand of Spain for the surrender of,
• Perrot, Sir James,
  • asks the House of Commons to receive the communion,
  • approves of James's proposed tribunal for examining Bacon's case,
  • moves for a declaration in favour of the Palatinate,
  • asks for a war of diversion,
  • wishes to ask the King for fresh guarantees against Popery,
• Persia, the Shah of,
  • incites the English to besiege Ormuz,
• Persons, Father Robert,
  • induces the Pope to send presents to the Queen,
• Perth,
  • meeting of the General Assembly at,
• Perth, articles of.
  • See Articles of Perth, the five
• Perth, Earl of, 1611 (John Drummond),
  • speaks in derision of Argyle's supremacy
• Peterborough,
  • state of the diocese of,
• Peters, Hugh,
  • preaches at Rotterdam,
  • is beyond the reach of Laud,
• Petition of Right, the,
  • its substance originates in a speech by Wentworth,
  • is proposed by Coke,
  • is brought in,
  • report of the lords Committee on,
  • attempt of the Lords to take a middle course on,
  • Williams's amendment to,
  • the Lords adopt a clause proposed by Arundel and amended by Weston,
  • rejection by the Commons of the clause added by the Lords to,
  • the Lords send back to the Commons the new clause of,
  • debate in the Commons on the reasons to be presented to the Lords for the rejection of their amendment of,
  • the Lords abandon the new clause of,
  • the Commons reject a proposal of the Lords for appending a protestation to,
  • is accepted by the Lords,
  • the judges consulted by the King on the force of,
  • discussion in the Council on the answer to be given to,
  • Charles gives an evasive answer,
  • demand of the Lords for a better answer to,
  • Royal assent given to,
  • compared with the Great Charter,
  • the Commons complain of its enrolment with both answers,
  • complaints of the violation of,
  • work of future Parliaments in carrying out to its results the leading principle of,
  • violation of,
  • view taken in Yorkshire of the clause relating to billeting in,
  • view taken by the King on the billeting clause in,
• Pett, Phineas,
  • imparts a knowledge of shipping to Prince Henry,
• Pews,
  • Bishop Corbet's remarks on,
• Pfalzburg, the Princess of,
  • carries on a negotiation with Gerbier,
• Phelips, Sir Edward,
  • takes part in the prosecution of Raleigh,
  • treatment of the Catholics of Lancashire by,
• Phelips, Sir Robert,
  • accuses the Catholics of rejoicing at the defeat of Frederick in Bohemia,
  • demands an inquiry into the monopoly of gold and silver thread,
  • lays the charges against Bacon before the Lords,
  • recommends delay in proceeding against the patent for alehouses,
  • asks for a heavy punishment on Floyd,
  • speaks against Spain,
  • reiterates his arguments,
  • supports a petition on religion,
  • expresses satisfaction with the King's answer to the Commons' claim to free discussion,
  • wishes that the Spanish marriage had not been mentioned in the House,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • is liberated,
  • asks the House of Commons to exculpate Buckingham,
  • advocates war with Spain,
  • supports Mallory's motion for an adjournment,
  • declares that the House is not bound to support the war in which Charles had engaged,
  • moves a grant of two subsidies,
  • wishes the question of impositions to be considered,
  • objects to the liberation of priests at the request of foreign ambassadors,
  • reminds the House that James had declared that his servants were not to be questioned,
  • comment on the neglect of the Government to give satisfaction to former Parliaments, and complains of want of counsel,
  • asks that Parliament may inquire into the causes of the mischief,
  • approves of Sir N. Rich's five propositions,
  • puts the question of confidence in the Government,
  • complains of Buckingham,
  • dissuades the House from asking that the dissolution may be delayed,
  • opposes a proposal for a declaration in favour of those likely to be questioned for their speeches,
  • is the leader of the Commons in the Parliament of 1625,
  • is made sheriff to prevent his appearing in Parliament,
  • is dismissed from the justiceship of the peace,
  • is of opinion that the rights of subjects must be vindicated,
  • protests against the sermons of Sibthorpe and Manwaring,
  • asks what is the use of ascertaining the law if the judges can expound it as they please,
  • is startled by Selden's doubt whether men can be pressed for the army,
  • urges the Commons to reject the proposal of the Lords for a joint committee on the Petition of Right,
  • proposes to the Commons to ask leave to go home,
  • complains of the seizure of Rolle's goods,
  • is sent to ask by whose authority the pardons for certain clergymen had been drawn,
  • brings a charge against Neile,
  • takes no part in Eliot's resolution to appeal to the country,
  • complains of the restrictions placed on the Somerset wakes,
• Philip II., King of Spain, 1556-1598,
  • extent of the monarchy of,
  • schemes of,
• Philip III., King of Spain, 1598-1621,
  • refuses to help the English Catholics,
  • abandons his father's projects,
  • wishes to gain influence with the European governments,
  • agrees to a cessation of arms in the Netherlands,
  • negotiates for a peace with the Dutch,
  • attempts to obtain aid from France,
  • agrees to the Truce of Antwerp,
  • is ready to give the Infanta Maria to Prince Henry if he will change his religion,
  • rumoured intention of, to propose for the Princess Elizabeth,
  • refers the proposed marriage of his sister to the Pope,
  • and to a junta of theologians,
  • again consults the Pope on the marriage treaty,
  • wishes Raleigh to be executed in England,
  • resolves to send assistance to the Emperor,
  • hesitates to invade the Palatinate,
  • agrees to Maximilian's plans,
  • is afraid of English interference in Germany,
  • wishes to marry his daughter to the Emperor's son,
  • is anxious for peace after the battle of Prague,
  • death of,
• Philip IV. (King of Spain, 1621),
  • accession of,
  • assures James that he means to go on with the marriage treaty,
  • objects to the transference of Frederick's electorate to Maximilian,
  • proposes that the son of Frederick shall be educated at the Emperor's court,
  • character of,
  • assures Digby of his wish to go on with the marriage treaty,
  • is summoned by James to obtain the restitution of Heidelberg,
  • assures Bristol of his dislike of the Emperor's proceedings,
  • directs the Infanta Isabella to order Spanish troops to aid in the defence of Mannheim and Frankenthal,
  • refuses his support to the transference of the Electorate,
  • is urged by his sister to abandon the marriage treaty,
  • directs Olivares to give up the marriage treaty without offending James,
  • vows that he will not yield in anything affecting religion, in consequence of the arrival of Prince Charles,
  • drives in the streets of Madrid to see the Prince,
  • receives Charles,
  • expects Charles to change his religion,
  • conducts Charles to the Queen and the Infanta,
  • hears that the dispensation for his sister's marriage will be granted, and conducts Charles to a religious conference,
  • is required to swear that James and Charles will keep their engagements,
  • professes himself satisfied with Charles's concessions,
  • is shaken in his resolution by Father Pedrosa's sermon,
  • on Charles's assurance that he will accept the Spanish terms, embraces him as a brother,
  • signs the marriage contract,
  • requires Charles to dismiss his Protestant attendants,
  • forbids Charles to give a present to the Infanta,
  • urges Charles to return to England,
  • parts with Charles,
  • informs James that he is ready to do good offices for the ultimate restitution of the Palatinate,
  • informs Bristol that he will try to get the Electorate for Frederick after Maximilian's death,
  • but will not take up arms,
  • replies to James's summons to take up arms for regaining the Palatinate,
  • protests that the restitution of the Palatinate was never intended to be a condition of the marriage,
  • receives Bristol at a final audience and goes to Seville,
  • promises Charles to support Frederick's claims,
• Philippsburg,
  • is about to be surrendered to the French,
• Philips, Robert,
  • is the Queen's confessor,
  • informs the Queen that the Pope cannot help her unless Charles becomes a Catholic,
  • begs Rossetti to support the Queen's request for money from the Pope,
  • is sent for by the Commons,
  • is imprisoned by the Lords,
  • is released, but forbidden to go near Whitehall,
• Physicians, the College of,
  • makes a report on overcrowding in London,
• Pierce, William (Bishop of Peterborough, 1630; of Bath and Wells, 1632)
  • appointed Bishop of Bath and Wells,
  • sends a report to Laud of the feeling in Somerset about the wakes,
  • excommunicates the churchwardens of Beckington,
• Piers Ploughman,
  • fable of the cat and the rats in,
• Pigott, Sir Christopher,
  • abuses the Scots,
  • is sent to the Tower,
• Pilgrim Fathers, the,
  • land at Plymouth in New England,
• Plague, the,
  • ravages London in 1625,
  • many members of Parliament leave Westminster in consequence of,
  • breaks out at Oxford,
  • reappears in 1630,
  • report of the College of Physicians on the causes of,
• Plague-rag, a,
  • sent to Pym,
• Plessen, Volrad de,
  • his mission to England,
• Plumleigh, Sir Richard,
  • appointed by Wentworth to suppress piracy in Ireland,
• Plunder,
  • introduction of the word,
• Plymouth,
  • Raleigh sails from,
  • the Pilgrim Fathers sail from,
  • condition of the soldiers assembled at,
  • arrival of three Dutch ships at,
  • Charles reviews the fleet for Cadiz at,
  • a storm delays the sailing of the fleet from,
  • wretched condition of the soldiers at,
  • detention of Wilmot's force at,
  • detention of Holland at,
  • arrival of recruits without money or instructions at,
  • wretched condition of the soldiers and sailors at,
  • violence of the soldiers at,
  • a Spanish fleet off,
• Plymouth (in New England),
  • arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers at,
• Pocahontas,
  • story of,
  • marries Thomas Rolfe, and visits England,
  • dies,
• Poll-tax Bill, a,
  • discussed by the Commons,
  • receives the Royal assent,
• Pollard, Hugh,
  • wishes the army to present a petition in support of the King,
• Poor, the,
  • commission for the relief of,
• Popham, Sir John, (Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1592-1607),
  • sentences Raleigh to death,
  • proposes that the Spanish trade shall be given to an open company,
  • is consulted by Raleigh on his title to Sherborne,
  • takes an interest in colonisation,
• Popish Impostures,
  • Harsnet's,
• Popish plot, the.
  • See Catholics
• Port Royal, French settlement at,
  • captured by Kirk,
• Portadown,
  • drownings at,
• Porter, Endymion,
  • carries on a correspondence on the proposed visit of the Prince to Spain, and is selected to carry a message to Gondomar,
  • sets out for Spain,
  • arrives at Madrid and asks Olivares to engage that Spanish troops will support Vere in the Palatinate,
  • receives a sharp answer,
  • returns to England,
  • charge brought by Bristol against,
  • is sent to Spain to propose peace,
  • returns from, his mission,
  • is sent with a message to Cardenas,
  • joins Jermyn in instructing Chudleigh on the Army Plot,
  • laments Charles's incapacity,
• Porter, Olive,
  • carries off her father, and procures his conversion,
• Portland, Earl of, 1633-1635 (Richard Weston),
  • overtures of Richelieu to,
  • persuades Charles not to allow the raising of a benevolence for the Palatinate,
  • is named to treat with Necolalde,
  • takes part in a fishing company,
  • charges brought by Laud and Coventry against,
  • Charles refuses to abandon,
  • investigation into the malpractices of the clients of,
  • defends himself against the charge of being implicated in the misdeeds of his dependents,
  • informs Joachimi that an attack on Dunkirk would be a breach of international law,
  • irregular receipts of,
  • his character as a financier,
  • dies a Catholic,
  • See Weston, Sir Richard
  • See Weston, Lord
• Portland Roads,
  • a French and Dutch fleet in,
• Portsmouth,
  • Willoughby's fleet collected at,
  • forces for the relief of Rochelle arrive at,
  • arrival of Charles and Buckingham at,
  • Holland sails from,
  • Buckingham fails to satisfy the soldiers and sailors at,
  • bad condition of the fleet at,
  • mutiny at,
  • murder of Buckingham at,
  • execution of Felton at,
  • strengthening of the fortifications of,
  • Goring is Governor of, and offers to hold it for the Queen,
  • Goring returns to his post at,
  • Goring asserts that the Queen intends to take refuge at,
  • alleged intention of Charles and Henrietta Maria to take refuge at,
  • Pym declares his fear that the French are aiming at,
  • Goring denies a rumour that fresh fortifications had been raised at,
  • orders given to Pennington to send a ship to,
  • Charles expects to secure,
  • probable intention of Charles to betake himself to,
  • is held by Goring for the King,
• Portugal
  • declares its independence,
• Portuguese
  • in the East,
• Portumna,
  • Wentworth's treatment of a jury at,
• Poslingford,
  • proceedings of Francis Abbot at,
• Post, establishment of a, for private letters,
  • mention,
• Post-nati,
  • the legal view of the position of,
  • Bacon's view of the naturalisation of,
  • view taken in the House of Commons on,
  • opinion of Coke in favour of,
  • judgment in the Exchequer Chamber in the case of,
• Potter, Barnabas (Bishop of Carlisle, 1629-1642),
  • warns Lady Hamilton against changing her religion,
• Potter, Dr. Christopher,
  • replies to Charity Mistaken,
• Pougny, Marquis of,
  • arrives as French ambassador, and asks Charles to join France against Spain,
  • refuses to give the title of Electoral Highness to Charles Lewis,
• Poulett, Lord,
  • heads a petition against the wakes,
• Pound, Thomas,
  • sentence in the Star Chamber on,
• Praemunire, the statute of,
  • appeal of Coke to, against the jurisdiction of Chancery,
  • the King's decision on Coke's appeal to,
• Prague,
  • the battle of,
  • the Peace of,
• Prayer Book, the Scottish,
  • orders given for the preparation of,
  • Hewat's compilation of,
  • instructions given by Charles to prepare another,
  • revision of, in England,
  • character of,
  • unpopularity of,
  • is sent to Scotland,
  • tumult at St. Giles's in consequence of the reading of,
  • riots in Edinburgh caused by Charles's persistency in requiring the use of,
  • Charles offers not to press, except in a legal way,
  • Charles agrees to the abandonment of,
  • abolished by the Assembly of Glasgow,
• Predestination, the Calvinistic doctrine of,
  • Montague's resistance to,
  • moral value of,
  • Charles prohibits the preaching of,
  • Rouse's defence of,
  • Davenant preaches on,
• Pree, La, Fort of,
  • is battered by Buckingham's fleet,
  • French soldiers cross over to,
  • troops come out from, to attack Buckingham's soldiers,
• Pregion, John,
  • is a witness in Williams's case,
• Presbyterianism in England,
  • rejection of,
  • oath introduced into the Universities against,
  • Leighton's advocacy of,
  • opinion in London favourable to,
  • general English opinion on,
  • qualified approval of, in the House of Commons,
  • Milton's defence of,
  • attack of the Cheshire Remonstrance on,
  • the Commons refuse to adopt,
• Presbyterianism in Ireland,
  • Went worth attempts to repress,
• Presbyterianism in Scotland,
  • general acceptance of,
  • its ascendency,
  • its struggle against James's bishops,
  • re-establishment of,
  • character of,
• Press, the,
  • Selden's opinion on the liberty of,
  • the Star Chamber enforces the licensing of,
  • the unlicensed,
  • Star Chamber decree against the liberty of,
• Pressing men for the army,
  • Selden calls in question the right of,
• Presteign,
  • tithes taken for a church in London from,
• Preston, Dr. John,
  • impugns Montague's doctrine,
  • his relations with Buckingham,
• Preston, Thomas,
  • pardon of,
• Price, ----,
  • nonconformity of,
• Price, Dr.,
  • extraordinary story told of,
• Prideaux, John (Bishop of Worcester, 1641)
  • appointed Bishop of Worcester,
• Printing, liberty of.
  • See Press
• Privas,
  • capture of,
• Privilege of goods from arrest,
  • Rolle's case raises the question of,
  • is claimed by a vote of the Commons,
• Privilege of person against arrest,
  • mention,
  • is vindicated by the liberation of Eliot in 1626,
  • is left unmentioned by Heath in 1629,
  • is appealed to by the imprisoned members,
  • is brought in question by Heath's information in the case of Eliot, Holles, and Valentine,
  • opinion of the judges on,
• Privy Council, the.
  • See Council, the Privy
• Privy Seal loans,
  • levied in 1625,
  • proposal to levy in 1628,
• Prize law.
  • a commission issued for inquiry into,
  • its difficulties discussed by Bassompierre,
• Prizes, French,
  • taken as carrying contraband of war,
  • sent to London,
  • orders given for the sale of goods from,
  • release and re-seizure of goods from,
  • fresh capture of, by Denbigh's squadron,
  • clamour of the English merchants for the detention of,
• Proclamations,
  • complaint of the Commons against,
  • acknowledgment by James that they can only enforce the law,
• Prohibitions,
  • dispute between the clergy and the judges on,
  • dispute between the clergy and the judges on,
  • issued by the Court of King's Bench, against the Council of the North,
  • refusal of the High Commission to recognise the right of the Common Pleas to issue,
• Prophesyings, the,
  • spread of,
  • Grindal draws up rules for the conduct of,
  • are suppressed by Elizabeth,
• Protections,
  • Bill for remedying the abuse of,
• Protest of the bishops, the,
  • is placed in the King's hands to be laid before the Lords,
  • probable authorship of,
  • impeachment of the bishops who had signed it,
• Protestation
  • of the House of Commons in defence of its privileges,
• Protestation protested, The,
  • Henry Burton's,
• Protestation, the,
  • proposed to the Commons,
  • is drawn up,
  • is taken by the two Houses,
  • is circulated in the City for signatures,
  • the Lords throw out a Bill for making obligatory,
• Protestation, the right of,
  • claim laid by members of the House of Commons to,
  • refusal of the House to allow,
  • subsequent practice virtually admits,
• Proxies,
  • order of the Lords that no peer shall hold more than two,
• Prynne, William,
  • early life of,
  • appears as an author,
  • attacks Cosin, and asks for the silencing of the Arminians,
  • writes Lame Giles, his haltings,
  • attacks the stage,
  • publishes the Histriomastix,
  • attacks female actors,
  • is sent to the Tower,
  • proceedings in the Star Chamber against,
  • the sentence of the Court executed on,
  • tears up his letter to Laud,
  • is brought again before the Star Chamber,
  • sentence on, not unpopular,
  • writes A Divine Tragedy Litely acted, and News from Ipswich,
  • is tried and sentenced in the Star Chamber,
  • stands in the pillory,
  • is imprisoned in Jersey,
  • Wentworth's remarks on the case of,
  • the Commons order the liberation of,
  • enters London in triumph,
  • the Commons vote reparation to,
• Public acts of the Church,
  • discussion in the Commons on the nature of,
• Puck,
  • origin of Shakspere's,
• Pularoon,
  • is surrendered to Hunt,
  • Courthope resists the Dutch at,
  • seizure of, by the Dutch, who promise to restore it to the English Company,
• Puloway,
  • struggle between the English and Dutch at,
• Puntal, Fort,
  • resolution of Cecil's council of war to attack,
  • surrender of,
  • is abandoned by the English,
• Purbeck, Lady,
  • lives in adultery,
  • is committed to prison, and escapes to France,
  • lives in Paris,
• Purbeck, Viscount, 1619 (John Villiers),
  • insanity of,
• Puritan conformists, the,
  • mention,
• Puritanism,
  • gains adherents in the course of Elizabeth's reign,
  • reaction against, at the end of the reign,
  • its demands at the beginning of James's reign,
  • its opinions maintained at the Hampton Court Conference,
  • ideas of, on the observance of the Sabbath,
  • reaction in favour of, caused by James's interference with the Church,
  • attitude of Laud towards,
  • attitude of the High Commission towards,
  • its view on the observance of the Sabbath,
  • various shades of,
  • encouragement given by Laud's system to,
  • does not influence the agricultural poor,
• Purveyance,
  • discussed in 1604,
  • a Bill upon, thrown out by the Lords,
  • composition for,
• Pye, Sir Robert,
  • warns Buckingham of his unpopularity,
• Pym, John,
  • speaks against tolerating Catholics,
  • political opinions of,
  • confinement of,
  • takes part in a petition against the recusants,
  • moves for a committee on all questions relating to religion,
  • charges Buckingham with obtaining honours for his kinsfolk,
  • urges that the King's promise needs explanation,
  • professes himself unable to understand the phrase 'sovereign power,'
  • carries the charges against Manwaring before the Lords.
  • replies to Manwaring's assertion of principle,
  • religious and constitutional opinions of,
  • asserts the supremacy of Parliament in ecclesiastical matters,
  • opposes Eliot's proposal to call the Custom House officers to account,
  • speaks on grievances in the Short Parliament,
  • his views on parliamentary privilege and ecclesiastical innovations,
  • parliamentary leadership of,
  • constitutional position of,
  • opposes an immediate grant of supply,
  • moves that Dr. Heale be sent for,
  • intends to move the House to consider the case of the Scots,
  • his study searched,
  • takes part in a meeting of the opponents of the Court,
  • joins St. John in drawing up the petition of the twelve peers,
  • is probably the adviser of the circulation of copies of the petition of the twelve peers,
  • his position in the Long Parliament,
  • conservatism of,
  • believes in the existence of a plot for the suppression of Protestantism,
  • makes a copy of Vane's notes of Strafford's speeches in the Committee of Eight,
  • speaks of the state of the kingdom, and moves for a Committee of Inquiry,
  • moves that the doors be locked,
  • declares that the House cannot afford to give time to Strafford,
  • carries the impeachment of Strafford to the Lords,
  • suggests that the losses of the country may be made good out of the estates of the authors of mischief,
  • recommends that the penal laws be put in execution,
  • takes a leading part in the collection of evidence against Strafford,
  • declares that the endeavour to subvert the laws is treason,
  • moves the impeachment of Laud,
  • complains of the intermission of Parliaments,
  • carries up the detached charges against Strafford,
  • is named by rumour Chancellor of the Exchequer,
  • wishes to reform, not to abolish, episcopacy,
  • his position between the extreme parties,
  • proposes to compel the Londoners to lend,
  • opens the case against Strafford,
  • has no sympathy with the Irish Celts,
  • his conception of treason,
  • is informed of the Army Plot,
  • is anxious to prove that Strafford had advised the King to bring the Irish army into England,
  • has long had a copy of Vane's notes in his hands,
  • suspects that Strafford is feigning illness in order to create delay,
  • persuades the Commons to go on with the impeachment,
  • replies to Strafford's general defence,
  • questions involved in the charge brought against Strafford by,
  • would have been content to go on with the impeachment,
  • with difficulty persuades the Commons not to interrupt the proceedings before the Lords,
  • supports the Attainder Bill,
  • has interviews with the King, and is named by rumour Chancellor of the Exchequer,
  • moves an adjournment to prevent rash speeches,
  • declares his belief that the kingdom is in danger,
  • proposes an appeal to the nation,
  • reveals his knowledge of the Army Plot,
  • is a member of the secret committee for the investigation of the Army Plot,
  • obtains political information from Lady Carlisle,
  • his views on the retention of episcopacy,
  • brings forward the ten propositions,
  • again proposed as Chancellor of the Exchequer,
  • probably hears of the understanding between Charles and the Scottish Commissioners,
  • is a member of the Committee of Defence,
  • wishes to restrain the censure of the House to those who actually create disturbance in a church,
  • listens to rumours of plots,
  • his share of responsibility in the Parliamentary conflict,
  • considers a Bishops' Exclusion Bill a necessary preliminary to a satisfactory Church Reform,
  • a plague-rag sent to,
  • loses the advantage of definiteness of plan,
  • stops a motion of Holles for charging with treason the bishops impeached for their part in the canons, and asks the Lords to suspend all the bishops from voting in the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
  • reveals his knowledge of the second Army Plot, and gives his opinion that other plots are in existence,
  • moves an Additional Instruction for a responsible ministry on pain of refusing assistance for the reduction of Ireland,
  • is obliged to change his proposal to a declaration that, if the request is not framed, the Commons will provide for Ireland without the King,
  • carries the instruction thus modified,
  • revolutionary character of the proposal thus make by,
  • justification of,
  • is the main author of the Grand Remonstrance,
  • produces evidence on the second Army Plot, to influence the votes on the Grand Remonstrance,
  • speaks in the final debate on the Grand Remonstrance,
  • says that he has heard of conspiracy to accuse members of treason, and gives reasons for demanding a guard,
  • moves that the Westminster justices be asked to set a guard on the House,
  • moves for a committee to throw upon the Lords the responsibility of not passing necessary Bills,
  • moves that money be provided to hasten the troops to Ireland,
  • finds that the Lords will not give way to protestations,
  • reports on Lord Dillon's negotiation with the Irish Catholics,
  • refuses to blame the mob by which the bishops had been insulted,
  • moves that the City trained bands be sent for,
  • moves the impeachment of the bishops who had signed the protest,
  • his intention in impeaching the bishops,
  • the Chancellorship of the Exchequer offered to,
  • Charles resolves to impeach,
  • impeachment of,
  • complains that his study has been sealed up,
  • takes refuge in the City,
  • triumphant return to Westminster of,
  • declares that the armed gatherings of the Royalists are illegal,
  • assumes that the voice of the House of Commons is the voice of the nation,
  • Charles quotes from a speech of,
  • moves that measures be taken to oppose Hastings in Leicestershire,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
• Quebec,
  • stormed by Kirk,
• Queen Mother, the.
  • See Mary de Medicis
• Quiroga,
  • gives information to Anstruther on the policy of Spain,
• Raby,
  • Strafford offends Vane by taking a title from,
• Radcliffe, Sir George,
  • becomes a member of the Irish Privy Council,
  • recommends Strafford to abandon his scheme for driving the Scots out of Ulster, ix,
  • says that, if the Scots are satisfied, the King may have what he pleases in England,
  • is sent for by the English House of Commons,
  • declares that, with his army, the King cannot want for money,
• Raine,
  • leaves money by will for the appointment of a lecturer,
• Rainsborough, Captain,
  • commands an expedition against Sallee,
• Rainton. Alderman,
  • imprisonment of,
  • liberation of,
• Raleigh, George,
  • commands the land forces in the expedition up the Orinoco,
• Raleigh, Lady,
  • advances money for her husband's voyage,
  • helps Pennington to borrow money,
  • visits her husband in the Gatehouse,
• Raleigh, Sir Walter,
  • is hindered from meeting the King,
  • his isolated position,
  • is dismissed from the Captaincy of the Guard,
  • wishes the war with Spain to be prolonged,
  • is summoned before the Council on suspicion of a conspiracy,
  • denounces Cobham,
  • loses his patent for wine licences, and is expelled from Durham House,
  • writes to his wife,
  • is tried at Winchester,
  • verdict against,
  • is sentenced to death,
  • discussion on the justice of the verdict against,
  • is reprieved and sent to the Tower,
  • disposition of the property of,
  • his title to Sherborne questioned,
  • hopes to recover his liberty,
  • loses Sherborne,
  • pleads for liberty,
  • writes the History of the World,
  • writes a pamphlet on the Savoy Match,
  • writes The Prerogative of Parliaments,
  • character of,
  • meditates an expedition to the Indies,
  • hopes to reach El Dorado,
  • his first voyage to Guiana,
  • goes to Cadiz and sends Keymis to Guiana,
  • wishes to return to Guiana,
  • is released from the Tower,
  • declares that he will not infringe on the rights of the King of Spain
  • inexpediency of the proposed voyage of,
  • commission given to,
  • projects of,
  • imperfect evidence of the existence of a gold mine in Guiana possessed by,
  • prepares for his voyage,
  • talks of seizing the Mexico fleet,
  • proposes an attack on Genoa,
  • communicates with the French Protestants,
  • promises Arundel to return to England,
  • sets out from London,
  • difficulties of,
  • sends Faige to Montmorency,
  • sends Faige to fit out French ships to assist him,
  • his explanation of his intentions,
  • reaches the Canaries,
  • crosses the Atlantic,
  • prepares to ascend the Orinoco,
  • remains at the mouth of the river,
  • hears that Keymis's attempt on the mine has failed,
  • proposes to attack the Mexico fleet,
  • writes home from St. Christopher's,
  • returns to England,
  • is arrested,
  • attempts to escape,
  • has an interview with La Chesnee,
  • writes the apology,
  • is examined,
  • Sir T. Wilson set as a spy over,
  • acknowledges his dealings with the French, and lays the blame on his supporters,
  • discussion on the mode of trying,
  • is brought before commissioners,
  • appears before the King's Bench,
  • last hours of,
  • execution of,
  • popularity of,
  • the King's declaration of the proceedings against,
• Raleigh, Walter,
  • commands a company in the expedition up the Orinoco,
  • is slain at San Thome,
• Ramsay, David,
  • claims trial by combat with Lord Reay,
• Ranelagh, Lord, 1628 (Roger Jones),
  • fears for the maintenance of order in Connaught,
• Ratisbon,
  • proposal to convoke an assembly at,
  • announcement by the Emperor of his intention to hold an assembly at,
  • meeting of the assembly at,
  • transference of the Electorate from Frederick to Maximilian announced at,
  • negotiations about the Palatinate referred to a Diet to be held at,
  • dismissal of Wallenstein at the Diet of,
  • is taken by Bernhard of Weimar,
  • is taken by the Imperialists,
• Raville, Sieur de,
  • negotiates with Mansfeld, on behalf of the Infanta Isabella,
• Reay, Lord, 1614 (Donald Mackay),
  • spreads a report that Hamilton means to make himself King of Scotland,
  • names Ramsay as his informant, and claims a trial by combat,
• Recordership of London,
  • the contested election for,
• Recusants, the.
  • See Catholics, the English
• Referees, the,
  • are attacked by Buckingham,
  • Cranfield asks for inquiry into the conduct of,
  • wish of the Commons to call in question,
  • charges brought against,
  • refusal of the King to abandon,
• Reformation, the English,
  • character of,
• Rege inconsulto,
  • writ of,
• Registrars of Chancery, the,
  • misconduct of,
• Religion of Protestants, The,
  • publication of,
• Religious liberty,
  • want of desire for, in the Long Parliament,
• Remonstrance, the Grand,
  • day fixed for the consideration of,
  • reading of,
  • analysis of,
  • plan of Church discipline proposed in,
  • demand for a responsible ministry made in,
  • no division taken in its clauses relating to the Kind's misgovernment in,
  • passes through committee with amendments,
  • conversation between Cromwell and Falkland on the length of time required for the final debate on,
  • final debate on,
  • is passed,
  • protest raised against the printing of,
  • storm raised by the proposal to print,
  • feeling roused by,
  • presented to the King,
• Renzi, Lawrence,
  • carries messages between Aremberg and Cobham,
• Replevin,
  • sued out by the owners of goods seized for tonnage and poundage,
  • declared illegal by the Court of Exchequer,
• Revenue.
  • See Finances
• Reynolds, John,
  • takes part in the Hampton Court Conference,
• Rhé, Isle of,
  • proposal to send Pennington to,
  • arrival of Buckingham off,
  • landing of Buckingham on,
  • arrival of reinforcements for Buckingham at,
  • anxiety of the English forces in,
  • disastrous retreat from,
  • losses of the English troops at,
  • causes of the disaster at,
• Rheinfelden,
  • Bernhard's victory at,
• Rhinberg,
  • is taken by the Prince of Orange,
• Rich, Lord, 1581-1618 (Robert Rich),
  • buys the Earldom of Warwick,
  • fits out privateers,
• Rich, Lord (Robert Rich),
  • takes part in piracy,
  • See Warwick, Earl of
• Rich, Sir Nathaniel,
  • lays down rive propositions for acceptance by the Government as a condition of supply,
  • carries up the demand of the Commons for the imprisonment of Buckingham,
  • compares the King to a debtor,
  • prefers a Petition of Right to a Bill,
  • proposes to ask the Lords to join in the Remonstrance of the Commons,
  • explains what are the public acts of the Church,
  • questions whether a member have privilege for his goods against the King,
• Richardot, President,
  • takes part in the conferences between England and Spain,
• Richardson, Sir Thomas (Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1626; of the King's Bench, 1631-1635),
  • becomes Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
  • character of,
  • is consulted on the case of the imprisoned members of Parliament,
  • is on the side of leniency in Sheffield's case,
  • his order on the Somerset wakes,
  • revokes the order disrespectfully, and is rated by Laud,
  • takes part in the sentence on Prynne,
  • recommends that Prynne be allowed to read the Book of Martyrs,
• Richelieu, Cardinal,
  • is consulted by Mary de Medicis,
  • receives the English ambassadors in bed,
  • is appointed chief minister of Louis XIII.,
  • becomes the mouthpiece of a policy which is not his own,
  • assures the English ambassadors that James must engage himself in writing on behalf of the English Catholics,
  • draws up a form of engagement to be signed by James and Charles,
  • assures the Elector of Bavaria that France will make no immediate attack, and proposes to James a plan for the pacification of Germany,
  • assures the English ambassadors that the interest of the Palatinate is as dear to France as to England,
  • value of the success gained by, in concluding the marriage treaty,
  • aims at a more active policy in Germany,
  • suggests to Louis to borrow ships abroad to be used against Rochelle,
  • urges the Pope to grant a dispensation for Henrietta Maria's marriage with Charles,
  • frustrates the attempt of the Pope to add new conditions to the marriage treaty,
  • embarrassment felt by, at Buckingham's visit to France,
  • declares that, if Charles will assist Louis, peace will be made with the rebels,
  • advises peace with the Huguenots,
  • wishes to avert a breach with England,
  • is allowed to make fresh overtures to Buckingham,
  • insists on terms unpalatable to the Huguenots,
  • is ready, after peace has been made, to join in the war in Germany,
  • informs Holland and Carleton that his master could not break with Spain till the Huguenot rebellion is suppressed,
  • further conciliatory proposals of,
  • wishes to co-operate with England,
  • consents to the Treaty of Barcelona with Spain,
  • resolves to make France a maritime nation,
  • superintends the blockade of Rochelle,
  • resolves that the war with Rochelle shall not be a war of religion,
  • insists upon the surrender of Rochelle, but announces the terms on which Charles can have peace,
  • accords liberty of worship to the Protestants after the capture of Rochelle,
  • sends over a treaty which is accepted in England,
  • accompanies Louis in a campaign in Italy,
  • returns to France to suppress Rohan's rebellion,
  • supports the dismissal of Wallenstein, and the expedition of Gustavus,
  • enters into engagements with both Sweden and Bavaria,
  • proposes to Weston to establish a good understanding,
  • preserves the favour of Louis on the Day of Dupes,
  • combination formed against,
  • is disappointed by the success of Gustavus at Breitenfeld,
  • attacks the Duke of Lorraine, and expects some of the German princes to look to France for protection,
  • puts down the Marillacs, and enforces submission in Lorraine,
  • overpowers Montmorency, and seeks a Dutch alliance,
  • offers men and money to the Dutch,
  • imprisons Chateauneuf and De Jars,
  • sends to Portland letters seized from De Jars,
  • his aims in Germany,
  • seizes Lorraine,
  • is asked by the Prince of Orange to join in besieging Dunkirk,
  • sends Seneterre to England,
  • keeps the French fleet out of sight of the English,
  • proposes to Charles a compromise about saluting flags,
  • failure of his attack on the Spanish Netherlands,
  • makes fresh overtures to Charles,
  • protects Lady Purbeck,
  • carries on a negotiation with Charles without expecting any result from it,
  • calls out the patriotism of France against a Spanish invasion,
  • becomes strong through toleration,
  • proposes to Charles a French alliance on easy terms,
  • does not expect more of Charles than neutrality,
  • takes Melander's army into the service of France,
  • liberates De Jars,
  • his authority strengthened by Bernhard's victories, and the birth of the Dauphin.
  • is incorrectly supposed to be stirring up rebellion in Scotland,
  • Charles continues to suspect,
  • receives proposals from Charles about Oquendo's fleet,
  • communicates with Tromp,
  • takes no part in the Scottish troubles,
  • recalls Bellievre,
  • congratulates himself on not having followed Bellievre's advice to negotiate with the Scots,
  • instructs Montreuil to enter into communications with the popular party,
  • refuses to receive Henrietta Maria in France,
  • assures the Parliamentary leaders of his friendship,
• Richmond,
  • enlargement and inclosure of the Park at,
• Richmond, Earl, and Duke of.
  • See Lennox, Duke of
• Ridgway, Lord,
  • his evidence against Suffolk,
  • See Ridgway, Sir Thomas
• Ridgway, Sir Thomas,
  • nominates Davies as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons,
  • proposes a petition in favour of the recusant lawyers,
  • See Ridgway, Lord
• Rigby, Alexander,
  • announces that the Catholics had been asked to fast in support of the Queen's intentions,
• Ripon,
  • opening of negotiations at,
  • preliminary arrangement with the Scots at,
• Robartes, Lord, 1625-1634 (Richard Robartes),
  • buys a peerage,
• Robinson, ----,
  • refuses to lend to the King, and is compelled to follow him on foot,
• Robinson, ----
  • accuses several persons of witchcraft,
  • acknowledges that his evidence is false,
• Robinson, John,
  • becomes Clifton's assistant at Scrooby,
  • becomes pastor of the Leyden congregation,
  • takes leave of the emigrants going to New England,
  • compared with Selden,
• Rochelle,
  • reception by James of commissioners from,
  • is endangered by the erection of Fort Louis,
  • ships borrowed from England and the States-General to be used against,
  • preparation of the English ships lent for service against,
  • reluctance of English captains to take part against,
  • success of Soubise at,
  • refusal of the English crews to serve against,
  • Toiras breaks the peace by firing on the people of,
  • defeat of Soubise off,
  • proposal to send a fleet to bring away the English ships from,
  • information of Charles's intention to relieve the town given to the deputies of,
  • peace accepted by the deputies of,
  • stoppage of English ships off,
  • cool reception of Buckingham's overtures to,
  • is threatened by the Duke of Angoulême,
  • Buckingham's support requested by,
  • is desirous that Buckingham shall continue the siege of St. Martin's,
  • is blockaded by Richelieu,
  • arrival of Denbigh's fleet at,
  • failure of Denbigh's fleet to succour,
  • famine at,
  • desperate resistance of,
  • increasing famine at,
  • failure of Lindsey to relieve,
  • capitulation of,
• Rochelle, English ships lent for service against,
  • Buckingham and James approve of the loan of,
  • Buckingham wishes them not to be used against Protestants,
  • are prepared for sea,
  • discrepancy between the orders for the employment of,
  • arrive at Dieppe,
  • return to England,
  • are ordered back to Dieppe,
  • employment of Nicholas to prevent the surrender of,
  • message of Pembroke about,
  • return to Dieppe,
  • refusal of the crews to surrender,
  • all except one are surrendered,
  • Buckingham ordered to demand the restoration of,
  • Blainville announces that only the 'Vanguard' will be restored,
  • Richelieu repeats the statement of Blainville about,
  • Richelieu offers the restoration of,
  • Buckingham tells the true story of,
  • reference of Eliot to,
  • See Pennington, John
• Rochester, Earl of, 1611-16i3 (Robert Carr),
  • becomes a Privy Councillor, and assists James in his correspondence,
  • forms an alliance with the Howards,
  • is advised by Overbury,
  • is dissuaded by Overbury from seeking to marry Lady Essex,
  • obtains the imprisonment of Overbury,
  • employs Helwys in his communications with Overbury,
  • sends an emetic to Overbury,
  • assures Overbury that he is urging his liberation,
  • uncertainty of the evidence against, as to his part in Overbury's murder,
  • becomes Earl of Somerset,
  • See Somerset, Earl of
• Rochford, Viscount, Lord Hunsdon in his own right, 1640 (John Carey),
  • visits Eliot in the Tower,
  • protests against the refusal of the Lords to communicate their resolution on Divine worship to the Commons,
• Rockingham Forest,
  • fines levied for encroachments on,
• Rodney, Sir Edward,
  • justifies the conduct of the Deputy-Lieutenants in making rates for the maintenance of soldiers,
• Roe, Sir Thomas,
  • embassy of, to Agra,
  • advises a condemnation of the patent for alehouses,
  • speaks in the debate on Floyd's case,
  • wishes aid to be sent to the King of Denmark,
  • is sent on a mission to the Hague,
  • is sent on a mission to the Baltic,
  • receives no despatches from England,
  • joins a French ambassador in mediating between Gustavus and Poland,
  • doubts the success of Hamilton's levies,
  • rejoices at the victories of Gustavus,
  • political advice of,
  • fails to obtain a Secretaryship of State,
  • regrets the neglect of Charles to support Gustavus,
  • objects to see Dunkirk in the hands of the French,
  • gives an opinion on ship-money,
  • attends the Congress of Hamburg,
  • thinks that the resistance of Scotland is fatal to the reputation of England on the Continent,
  • gives an account of the miseries of Germany,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor, and argues against the debasement of the coinage,
  • is sent to ask the City for a loan on the ground that negotiations will be opened with the Scots,
  • is sent on another mission to Germany,
• Roermonde,
  • is taken by Frederick Henry,
• Rohan, Duke of,
  • resolves to take arms against the King,
  • proposes to begin a civil war at Languedoc,
  • promises to take the field,
  • rises in insurrection, but finds no general support,
  • continuance of the rebellion of,
  • reduction of,
• Rokewood, Ambrose.
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Rolfe, Thomas,
  • marries Pocohontas,
• Rolle, John,
  • seizure of the goods of, for refusing to pay tonnage and poundage,
  • is a member of the House of Commons,
  • technicality of the privilege claimed for,
  • receives a subpoena to appear in the Star Chamber,
  • vote of the Commons acknowledging his claim to privilege,
• Roos, Lady,
  • quarrels with her husband,
  • brings charges against Lady Exeter,
  • Star Chamber proceedings against,
  • sentence on,
  • confession and liberation of,
• Roos, Lord, 1616-1618 (William Cecil),
  • is sent on an embassy to Madrid,
  • quarrels with his wife,
  • is attacked by Arthur Lake,
  • flies to Rome,
  • dies,
• Root-and-Branch Bill, the,
  • is brought in and read twice,
  • goes into committee,
  • clause for Church government proposed by Vane in,
  • clause for Church government adopted in,
  • is dropped in the House of Commons,
  • is finally abandoned,
• Root-and-Branch party,
  • urges the Scottish Commissioners to declare against episcopacy in England,
  • is in a minority,
  • its position in the House and the nation,
• Root-and-Branch petition, the,
  • signed in London,
  • is considered by the Commons,
  • its authors vindicated by Pennington,
  • is referred to a committee, with the exception of the clause relating to the abolition of episcopacy,
• Roper, Sir Anthony,
  • fined for depopulation,
• Roper, Sir John,
  • buys a peerage,
  • See Teynham, Lord
• Roper's office,
  • affair of,
• Roscommon,
  • proposed plantation in,
  • title found for the King in,
• Rosencrantz,
  • is sent by Christian IV. to ask Charles for men and money,
  • urges Charles to send to Denmark some of the ships returning from Rochelle,
• Roses, the War of the,
  • mention,
• Rosny, Sieur de,
  • sent as ambassador to England,
• Rossetti, Count,
  • is surprised at the liberty enjoyed by Catholics in England,
  • asks the Queen for protection against the Parliament,
  • thinks Strafford to be a Puritan,
  • is requested by Windebank to write to the Pope for money and men,
  • placards set up proposing the murder of,
  • suggests to the Queen that she should apply for help to the King of France,
  • the Queen wishes to prevent the dismissal of,
  • applies to the Queen on behalf of Goodman,
  • Richelieu refuses to interfere on behalf of,
  • Charles announces that the Queen is ready to dismiss,
  • recommends Henrietta Maria to try to convert the King,
  • is again urged by the Queen to obtain help from the Pope,
  • Charles consents to dismiss,
  • last interview of Charles and the Queen with,
  • leaves England and establishes himself first at Ghent, and then at Cologne,
• Rota, Francesco della,
  • negotiates in England for the Elector of Bavaria,
  • blames Anstruther for the miscarriage of his mission at Vienna,
• Rothes, Earl of, 1621-1641 (John Leslie),
  • opposes Charles in the Scottish Parliament,
  • proposes to Charles to show him the supplication of the Lords of the Opposition,
  • objects to the introduction into Scotland of the English Prayer-Book,
  • circular letter of,
  • his interview with Hamilton,
  • his altercation with Charles at Berwick,
  • Hope remonstrates with,
  • advocates the holding of a session of Parliament, though the King had ordered a prorogation,
  • is won over by Charles,
  • death of,
• Roundheads,
  • origin of the name of,
• Rouse, Francis,
  • speaks against Popery and Arminianism,
  • questions the legality of the Canons of 1640,
• Rovida, Alessandro, Senator of Milan,
  • takes part in the negotiation of the peace between England and Spain,
• Roxburgh, Countess of,
  • refusal of Charles to entrust his son to the care of,
• Roxburgh, Earl of, 1616 (Robert Ker),
  • protects the Bishop of Edinburgh,
  • is named by Charles as Privy Seal of Scotland,
  • keeps open the door of the House of Commons after Charles has entered,
• Royal Slave, The,
  • written by Cartwright,
• Royal supremacy, the,
  • its place in the English Reformation,
  • Cosin's opinion on,
  • Laud's respect for,
• Royalist constitutional party in the Long Parliament, the,
  • definite formation of,
  • prospects of,
• Rubens, Peter Paul,
  • urges Buckingham to make peace with Spain,
  • recommends Gerbier to ask for a separate peace between England and Spain,
  • is to be told that Charles will not treat apart from the States-General,
  • continues to correspond with Gerbier, and holds out hopes that Spain will make peace,
  • comes to England to pave the way for a peace with Spain,
  • is told that if there is to be peace, Spain must surrender the fortresses in the Palatinate,
  • persuades Charles to open negotiations with Spain,
  • is knighted, and paints the picture of Peace and War before leaving England,
• Rudd, Anthony (Bishop of St. Davids, 1594-1615),
  • objects to the Canons of 1604,
• Rudolph II (Emperor, 1576-1612),
  • death of,
• Rudyerd, Sir Benjamin,
  • rejoices at James's resolution to defend the Palatinate,
  • appointed Surveyor of the Court of Wards,
  • urges the Commons to grant supply,
  • position of,
  • moves that the King be asked to take warlike measures,
  • proposes a supply for four points,
  • asks for a conference on the four points,
  • warns the House not to be led into disputes,
  • asks the Commons to grant a larger subsidy than that proposed by Seymour,
  • expresses satisfaction that the rank weeds of Parliament have been rooted up,
  • moves for a committee on the state of the clergy,
  • tries to persuade the Commons in the Short Parliament to grant supply,
  • tries at the opening of the Long Parliament to reconcile the King and the Commons,
  • wishes to see Magna Carta walking abroad,
  • speaks on the virtue of moderation,
  • complains of the condition of the Church,
  • proposes a reformation without punishing anyone,
  • opens the debate on the ecclesiastical petitions,
  • speaks in favour of primitive episcopacy,
• Rumborough.
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
• Rupert, Prince,
  • arrives in England,
  • the degree of Master of Arts conferred on,
  • returns to Holland,
  • is taken prisoner by the Imperialists,
• Rusdorf, John Joachim,
  • advises Frederick to abandon Bohemia,
  • his opinion of the defects of James and Charles,
  • attempts to divert to Germany the land force destined for the coast of Spain,
• Russell, Lord (William Russell),
  • takes part in a meeting of the opponents of the Court,
  • See Bedford, Earl of
• Ruthven of Ettrick, Lord, 1639-1642 (Patrick Ruthven),
  • reinforcement of the garrison under,
  • fires on the citizens of Edinburgh,
  • continues to defend the Castle,
  • surrenders it,
  • See Ruthven, Patrick
• Ruthven, Patrick,
  • is appointed Governor of Edinburgh Castle,
  • is created Lord Ruthven,
  • See Ruthven of Ettrick, Lord
• Rutland, Earl of, 1612-1632 (Francis Manners),
  • opposes his daughter's marriage to Buckingham,
  • assents to the marriage,
  • is sent in command of the fleet which is to fetch Prince Charles from Spain,
  • is ordered to sail at once,
• Rutland, Earl of (George Manners),
  • signs the petition of the twelve peers,
• Sabbath, the,
  • strict observance of, upheld by the Puritans,
  • enforced in Lancashire,
  • issue of the King's Declaration of Sports to regulate,
  • proposed legislation on,
  • Puritan view of the right mode of observing,
  • Prynne's attack on the breakers of,
• Sackville, Sir Edward,
  • kills Lord Bruce in a duel,
  • character of,
  • supports Coke's objections to a new tribunal for the trial of Bacon,
  • advises a condemnation of the patent for alehouses,
  • asks the Commons to grant the money needed in the Palatinate,
  • declares that if the money is given, the King will declare war against Spain,
  • deprecates the insertion, in the petition on religion, of a clause relating to the Prince's marriage,
  • defends the right of the Commons to freedom of speech,
  • advises Bacon to part with York House,
  • his interview with De Dominis,
  • See Dorset, Earl of
• St. Andrews,
  • James's speech to the clergy at,
  • assembly held at,
• St. Catherine Cree,
  • consecration of the church of,
  • abusive sermons preached at,
• St. Chaumont, Marquis of,
  • is sent on a mission to Charles,
  • is coldly received,
• St. Edmund's at Salisbury,
  • Sherfield is a member of the vestry of,
  • the vestry order the removal of a painted window in,
  • Sherfield breaks the window in,
• St. Georges, Madame de,
  • dispute about the precedence of,
• St. George's Fields,
  • attempted gathering of apprentices in,
• St. Giles', at Edinburgh,
  • the surplice used at,
  • tumult in the Cathedral of,
• St. Gregory's,
  • dispute about the position of the communion-table at,
• St. James's Palace,
  • prepared by Inigo Jones for the reception of the Infanta,
  • apartments assigned to Mansfeld in,
  • residence of Mary de Medicis at,
  • threatened attack on,
• St. John, Lord,
  • visits Eliot in the Tower,
• St. John, of Bletsho, Lord, 1618-1624 (Oliver St. John),
  • does not support the Benevolence,
  • See Bolingbroke, Earl of
• St. John, Oliver, of Marlborough,
  • writes against the Benevolence,
  • is brought before the Star Chamber,
  • is fined and imprisoned,
• St. John, Oliver (Solicitor-General, 1641),
  • borrows Dudley's paper of advice, and is sent to the Tower,
  • is prosecuted in the Star Chamber,
  • is retained to plead for Hampden,
  • argument of,
  • is pleased at the dissolution of the Short Parliament,
  • joins Pym in drawing up the petition of the twelve peers,
  • asserts that Convocation cannot bind even the clergy,
  • moves that the King's subsistence may be provided for,
  • becomes Solicitor-General,
  • wishes the Londoners' petition to go before a committee,
  • argues before the Lords on the Bill of Attainder,
  • draws up the Root-and-Branch Bill,
• St, John, Sir Oliver,
  • is one of the commissioners for the settlement of Ulster,
  • seconds the motion for the election of Davies as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons,
  • is sent on a mission to England,
  • becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland,
  • takes part in the plantation of Wexford,
  • recommends that merchants from Bristol shall be induced to settle at Waterford,
  • is created Viscount Grandison, and recalled,
  • See Grandison, Viscount
• St. John, Sir William,
  • informs the King of Raleigh's intention to escape,
• St. John, the,
  • brought as a prize to Falmouth by Soubise, and claimed by the King of France,
• St. John's College, Oxford,
  • repaired by Laud,
  • the King's visit to,
• St. Lawrence, Sir Christopher,
  • gives information of a conspiracy,
  • See Howth, Lord
• St. Leger, Sir Warham,
  • is detained in the Downs,
  • remains with Raleigh at the mouth of the Orinoco,
  • bears evidence against Raleigh,
  • is sent to investigate the state of Mansfeld's troops,
• St. Leger, Sir William,
  • protests against delay in attacking the Spanish fleet at Cadiz,
  • is President of Munster, and pleads against delay in sending reinforcements,
  • thinks that Magna Carta is not to be insisted on, and exasperates the rebels,
• St. Margaret's, Lothbury,
  • removal of the communion-table at,
• St. Margaret's, Westminster,
  • the Commons partake of the communion at,
  • removal of the communion-table at,
  • Calamy preaches before the House of Commons at,
• St. Martin's, the Fort of,
  • Buckingham's march towards,
  • commencement of the siege of,
  • proposed surrender of,
  • supplies having been introduced, a council of war resolves to abandon the siege of,
  • but afterwards determines to continue the siege of,
  • attempted storm of,
  • retreat of the English from,
• St. Paul's, the Cathedral of,
  • appeal for contributions for the repair of,
  • Charles and Laud urge the collection of money for the repair of,
  • removal of houses round,
  • state of Paul's Walk in,
  • Charles interferes to enforce order in,
• St. Peter, the, of Havre de Grace,
  • is captured by Argall,
  • order of the Council for the re-delivery of,
  • order of the Admiralty Court for the release of,
  • is re-arrested,
  • petitions to Buckingham and the Council for the release of,
  • is again released,
• St. Valery,
  • Raleigh's proposed attack on,
  • Salem, settlement at,
  • the cross torn out of the English flag at,
• Salisbury,
  • agreement made at, in favour of the English Catholics,
  • conduct of Sherfield at,
  • report of the metropolitical visitation of,
• Salisbury, Earl of, 1605-1612 (Robert Cecil),
  • receives information of the Gun-powder Plot,
  • urges James to retrench,
  • speaks on the grievances of the English merchants in Spain,
  • writes letters about the impositions,
  • becomes Lord Treasurer,
  • levies the new impositions,
  • reduces the debt,
  • view taken by him of the negotiations in the Netherlands,
  • wishes the Pope to excommunicate English rebels,
  • inquires into the opinion of the judges on Fuller's case,
  • suggests the grant of Sherborne to Carr,
  • seeks to influence elections,
  • financial exposition by,
  • demands supply and support,
  • reports that the King has disavowed Cowell's Interpreter,
  • expresses dissatisfaction with the offer of the Commons,
  • urges the Commons to agree to the Great Contract,
  • brings the King and the Commons to terms,
  • proposes a fresh bargain after the breach of the Contract,
  • wishes to oppose Spain,
  • throws difficulties in the way of a Savoyard marriage for the Prince of Wales,
  • is pleased with the failure of the negotiation for a Spanish marriage,
  • supports a marriage with a Tuscan Princess,
  • illness of,
  • death of,
  • estimate of the career of,
  • discovery of the Spanish pension paid to,
• Salisbury, Earl of (William Cecil),
  • has a reversion of the Mastership of the Wards, but is passed over,
  • tries to obtain a remission of Lord Cork's fine,
  • is fined for encroachments in Rockingham Forest,
• Sallee,
  • English vessels captured by the pirates of,
  • Rainsborough's expedition against,
• Salmons and lobsters,
  • patent for,
• Saltworks,
  • company for the management of,
• Sanchez de Ulloa, Juan de,
  • left by Gondomar as Spanish agent,
• Sandys, Sir Edwin,
  • character of,
  • is at the head of a committee on freedom of trade,
  • speaks on the naturalisation of the Scots,
  • wishes that all prisoners should have the assistance of counsel,
  • calls attention to grievances,
  • takes part in a debate on impositions,
  • has to give bond to appear when called for,
  • is Treasurer of the Virginian company,
  • is afraid lest Floyd will be made a martyr,
  • speaks of the danger of religion,
  • imprisonment of,
  • liberation of,
  • supports the proposal of the Leyden Separatists to colonise New England,
  • Calvert gives explanations on the imprisonment of,
  • proposal to send him to Ireland,
  • carries up the impeachment of Middlesex,
  • takes part in drawing up a petition against the Recusants,
  • argues that Montague is not guilty of contempt of the privileges of the Commons,
• Sanquhar, Lord, 1609-1612 (Robert Crichton),
  • has Turner murdered,
  • is tried and executed,
• San Salvador,
  • captured by the Dutch,
• San Thome,
  • first Spanish town of,
  • second Spanish town of,
  • its position discussed,
  • attacked and burnt,
• Santa Clara, Franciscus a, pseudonym for Christopher Davenport.
  • See Davenport, Christopher
• Sarmiento de Acuna, Diego,
  • appointed Spanish ambassador in England,
  • character and objects of,
  • obtains the liberation of Donna Luisa de Carvajal,
  • makes no show of anxiety to gain James to an alliance with Spain,
  • gives no pensions,
  • gives a wedding present to Somerset,
  • receives overtures from Somerset,
  • is asked by James to assure him of Spanish support,
  • listens to James's complaints of the Addled Parliament,
  • diplomatic schemes of,
  • expects to bring about the conversion of England,
  • urges Philip to take up the marriage treaty,
  • hopes that Prince Charles will be married in Spain,
  • secret negotiation of Cotton with,
  • secret negotiation of Cotton with,
  • protests against Raleigh's voyage,
  • renews his protest,
  • See Gondomar, Count of
• Savage, ----,
  • is punished in the Star Chamber,
• Savage, Sir Arthur,
  • is appointed a member of the committee of investigation into the case of the Byrnes,
• Savage, Sir Thomas,
  • admitted as a commissioner of Prince Charles's revenue after refusing to take the oath of allegiance,
• Savile, Sir John,
  • is put out of the commission of the peace,
  • disputes Wentworth's election for Yorkshire,
  • receives the office of Custos Rotulorum,
  • is active in the collection of the forced loan,
  • opposes Buckingham's project of levying a standing army,
  • is a leading member of a commission for compounding with Catholics,
• Savile, Sir William,
  • urges the abolition of ship-money,
• Savile, Viscount, 1628 (Thomas Savile),
  • receives proposals from Johnston of Warriston,
  • sends to Johnston a letter written by seven English peers, and subsequently another with forged signatures,
  • discovery of the forgery committed by,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • is won over by the Queen,
  • his altercation with Stamford,
  • urges Charles to declare that he will not restore Strafford to a place of authority,
  • frustration of Charles's intention to give the Lord-Lieutenancy of Yorkshire to,
  • receives a promise to be Comptroller of the Household,
• Saville, Sir Henry,
  • gloomy anticipations of,
• Savoy, Duke of.
  • See Charles Emanuel I.
• Saxby,
  • a corpse burnt by Lord Castleton's agent at,
• Saxony, Elector of.
  • See John George
• Saye and Sele, Viscount, 1624 (William Fiennes),
  • urges that Bacon shall be brought to the bar,
  • wishes to degrade Bacon from the peerage,
  • is imprisoned for opposing a benevolence,
  • is liberated, though ordered to confine himself to his house,
  • moves the Lords to acknowledge that Bristol had received his writ,
  • explains the Lords' message about Arundel,
  • asks the Peers to declare whether the words used by Digges can be interpreted as treason,
  • refuses to pay the forced loan,
  • moves that the judges be consulted on the right of the King to commit without showing cause,
  • does not object to an attempt to come to an understanding with the King on the right of imprisonment,
  • objects to the Lords' amendment to the petition,
  • questions the necessity of the amendment,
  • resistance to ship-money in the neighbourhood of the house of,
  • proposes to emigrate to New England,
  • wishes to test the legality of ship-money,
  • follows the King reluctantly to the war against the Scots,
  • refuses to take the military oath,
  • attack of Hall on,
  • votes against interference with the Commons,
  • his study searched,
  • his name forged to a letter to Johnston of Warriston,
  • takes part in a meeting of the opponents of the Court,
  • signs the Petition of the Twelve Peers,
  • visits a congregation of Separatists,
  • becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • reported intention to appoint as Master of the Wards,
  • is appointed Master of the Wards,
  • his speech on the dependence of the bishops on the King.
  • rumoured approaching appointment of, as Treasurer,
  • rumoured dismissal of, from the Council and office,
  • intention of Charles to call as a witness against the five members,
  • is a member of the Committee of Safety,
• Scaglia, the Abbot of,
  • is assured by Buckingham of his desire to make peace with Spain,
  • is invited to England,
  • negotiates an alliance, in which Charles is to aid Spain and the Emperor,
• Scarborough,
  • fight between the Dutch and Dunkirkers at,
• Scarnafissi, Count of,
  • is sent by the Duke of Savoy to ask James for aid against Spain,
• Scheldt, the,
  • offer of Spain to make peace with the Dutch on condition of the opening of,
  • Spain refuses to make peace without the opening of,
• Schenck's Sconce,
  • capture of,
• Schomberg, Marshal,
  • attacks Buckingham on his retreat from St. Martin's,
• Schools,
  • fraudulent appropriation of the property of,
• Schwarzenberg, Count of,
  • sent by the Emperor as ambassador to England,
• Scilly Isles, the,
  • English vessels seized by pirates near,
  • imprisonment of Bastwick in,
• Scot, Reginald,
  • criticises the evidence of witchcraft,
• Scot, Thomas,
  • writes the Vox Populi,
  • is compelled to fly,
• Scotland,
  • accepts Presbyterianism,
  • its Reformation contrasted with that of England,
  • relations of the nobility with the Church of,
  • establishment of the Tulchan bishops in,
  • establishment of Presbyterianism in,
  • restoration of jurisdiction to the bishops in,
  • re-establishment of Presbyterianism in,
  • quarrel between the King and the clergy in,
  • establishment of the Royal authority over the clergy in,
  • question of giving the clergy representatives in Parliament mooted in,
  • attempts of the King to obtain the assent of the Assembly to restrictions on the clergy of,
  • establishment of the King's authority in,
  • dispute about the representation of the clergy in the Parliament of,
  • appointment of bishops in,
  • proposed union with,
  • Commissioners appointed to consider the union with,
  • effect of James's accession to the English throne upon,
  • intention of James to summon no more General Assemblies in,
  • appointment of bishops in,
  • claim of the Assembly of the Church of, to meet at Aberdeen,
  • imprisonment and trial of ministers in,
  • Banishment of ministers of,
  • support given to James by the Parliament of,
  • Constant Moderators appointed in the Church of,
  • causes of James's success in,
  • establishment of a Court of High Commission in,
  • acceptance of episcopacy by the General Assembly of,
  • ratification of the establishment of episcopacy by the Parliament of,
  • ecclesiastical changes effected and. proposed in,
  • James's visit to,
  • heritable jurisdictions in,
  • condition of the clergy of,
  • preparation of a new Prayer-book for,
  • resistance to the proposed five articles in,
  • the Assembly of Perth held in,
  • adoption of the articles in,
  • enforcement of the articles in,
  • modified promise of James to extend the conditions of the Spanish treaty in favour of the Catholics off,
  • resistance to the articles of Perth in,
  • confirmation of the articles by the Parliament of,
  • payment of tithes in kind in,
  • an Act of Revocation of alienated Church property issued in,
  • compensation offered to tithe-owners in,
  • commutation of tithes in,
  • alienation of the nobility of,
  • coronation of Charles as King of,
  • attempts to provide a new Prayer-book for,
  • Laud wishes to introduce the English Prayer-book into,
  • position of the bishops in,
  • feelings roused by the use of the English ceremonies in,
  • meeting of the Parliament of,
  • constitution of the Parliament of,
  • the bishops, having been consulted on the introduction of the English Prayer-book, are directed to draw up a new one for use in,
  • contrast between the old and the new bishops in,
  • the Supplication of the Opposition Lords of,
  • proceedings against Balmerino in,
  • difficulty of governing, in the absence of the King,
  • bishops promoted to secular authority in,
  • dissatisfaction of the nobility at the promotion of bishops in,
  • condition of the Church of, in Charles's reign,
  • varieties of doctrine and ceremony in,
  • plain forms of the churches in,
  • remarks of Brereton on the physical and moral condition of the people of,
  • Charles directs the preparation of a Prayer-book and canons for,
  • political education of the middle classes through the local church government of,
  • preparation of the new Prayer-book for,
  • chief points in the new canons for,
  • mode of composition of the new Prayer-book for,
  • unpopularity of the Prayer-book in,
  • Charles orders the adoption of the Prayer-book in,
  • reception of the Prayer-book in,
  • riots at St. Giles' at the attempt to introduce the Prayer-book into,
  • composition of the Privy Council of,
  • suspension of the old and new forms of prayer in,
  • failure of the Privy Council to enforce the use of the Prayer-book in,
  • Charles finds himself unsupported by the Council of,
  • Charles's persistency in ordering the introduction of the Prayer-book causes fresh riots in,
  • postponement of the enforcement of the use of the Prayer-book in,
  • resistance to the proclamation for the removal of the Council and the Court of Session of,
  • presentation of the General Supplication in,
  • Commissioners chosen to represent the supporters of the Supplication,
  • organisation of the Commissioners in,
  • presentation of the General Supplication in,
  • proclamation in defence of the Prayer-book ordered to be read in,
  • establishment of the Tables in,
  • proposal to renew the Covenant in,
  • the Covenant drawn up in,
  • first signature of the Covenant in,
  • opinion of the Council that the King will not be obeyed till the Prayer-book is withdrawn in,
  • an Assembly and Parliament demanded in,
  • circulation of the Covenant for signature in,
  • is practically united in defence of the Covenant,
  • arrival of Hamilton in,
  • negotiation between Hamilton and the Covenanters in,
  • Charles prepares to make war on,
  • the King's declaration read in,
  • appeal to Assembly and Parliament in,
  • encouragement given by Hamilton to the Covenanters in,
  • Charles consults the English Council on the affairs of,
  • Bankes's plan for the reduction of,
  • divided state of opinion amongst the English Councillors on the proposed war with,
  • Wentworth's plan for the reduction of
  • position of Huntly and Argyle in,
  • Charles sends Hamilton to authorise an Assembly and Parliament in,
  • the first King's Covenant proposed to,
  • the King revokes the Prayer-book, Canons, and High Commission, and summons an Assembly and Parliament,
  • rejection of the King's Covenant in,
  • election of the Assembly in,
  • meeting of the Assembly in,
  • Presbyterianism re-established in,
  • Charles is driven into war with,
  • large numbers of veteran soldiers in,
  • Alexander Leslie chosen to command the army of,
  • manifesto published in,
  • Charles's plan for the reduction of,
  • the Covenanters seize the strong places in,
  • Montrose's campaign in the North-east of,
  • Charles's proclamation, setting a price on the heads of the leaders of the Covenanters of,
  • Covenanting zeal of the women of,
  • conflicting rumours on the state of the army in,
  • quality of the army raised in,
  • Charles's proclamation privately read in,
  • negotiations opened with,
  • Treaty of Berwick signed with,
  • Assembly and Parliament meet in,
  • proposal to aid the Elector Palatine with an army from,
  • difficulties in the way of the settlement of peace in,
  • an Assembly to be elected in,
  • complaint of Charles that his language has been misrepresented in,
  • secret protests to be made by the bishops of,
  • abolition of episcopacy confirmed by the Assembly of,
  • proposed reconstitution of the Lords of the Articles in,
  • formation of parties in,
  • refusal of Charles to rescind the Acts in favour of episcopacy in,
  • conflict between Argyle and Montrose in,
  • constitutional reform effected by Argyle in,
  • resolution of Charles to resist the legislative changes proposed in,
  • adjournment of Parliament in,
  • prorogation of Parliament in,
  • discussion with Committee of Eight on the mode of coercing,
  • appointment of commanders against,
  • proposal to renew the old French alliance with,
  • Charles listens to the Commissioners of,
  • Charles leads the Commissioners to understand that he will not consent to the abolition of episcopacy in,
  • imprisonment of the Commissioners from,
  • debate in the Committee of Eight on the mode of conducting war against,
  • proposed renewal of the negotiation with,
  • Charles resolves to go on with the war against,
  • military preparations in,
  • the deposition of Charles canvassed in,
  • session of Parliament held in, in defiance of the King's orders for a fresh prorogation,
  • constitution remodelled in,
  • rejection of the terms brought by Loudoun in,
  • an invasion of England projected in,
  • proposed appointment of a dictator in,
  • signature of the Bond of Cumbernauld in,
  • manifesto issued in the name of the people of,
  • agreement made at Ripon with the Commissioners of,
  • continuation at Westminster of the negotiation with,
  • compensation claimed for the war expenditure of,
  • Charles proposes to visit,
  • dissatisfaction with the English Parliament felt in,
  • answer of the Commons to the demand made for an ecclesiastical union with,
  • proposed freedom of trade with,
  • Montrose's opposition to Argyle in,
  • imprisonment of Montrose and his confederates in,
  • Charles's designs in visiting,
  • establishment of Argyle's authority in,
  • completion of the treaty with,
  • Charles sets out for,
  • an instalment of the Brotherly Assistance to be paid to,
  • Parliamentary Commissioners to attend the King in,
  • arrival of Charles in,
  • Charles ratifies the Acts of the Parliament of, and expects military assistance from,
  • return of the army to,
  • apparent popularity of Charles in,
  • demand of Argyle that offices shall be filled up with the consent of the Parliament of,
  • nomination of officers in,
  • Argyle's strength in,
  • the Incident in,
  • struggle between Charles and the Parliament of,
  • Charles distrusted in,
  • the authority of Argyle consolidated in,
  • causes of the early development of Parliamentary supremacy in,
  • Charles appeals in vain to the Privy Council of,
  • failure of Charles's second appeal to the Privy Council of,
• Scottish Commissioners for treating for peace with England, the,
  • meet the English Commissioners at Ripon,
  • demand 40,000l. a month till peace is made,
  • refuse to remove the negotiation to York,
  • accept 850l. a day, and agree to continue their sittings in London,
  • negotiate at Westminster,
  • attempt to obtain from Charles a promise to surrender the incendiaries to be tried by the Scottish Parliament,
  • the King comes to a compromise with,
  • demand for compensation made by,
  • account given in by,
  • direct the drawing up of a declaration of their wish to see episcopacy abolished in England,
  • report the offence given by their declaration,
  • set forth their desire for unity of religion with England,
  • growing difficulty of their relations with the House of Commons,
  • demand a union of religion,
  • ask for freedom of trade,
  • completion of the treaty with,
• Scrooby,
  • Brewster becomes postmaster at.
  • formation of a Separatist congregation at,
• Scrope, Lord, 1609-1627 (Emanuel Scrope),
  • is insulted by the Earl of Berkshire,
• Scudamore, Lord, 1628 (John Scudamore),
  • is ordered to serve a writ in Paris on Lady Purbeck,
• Sects,
  • the rise of,
  • strong feeling against,
• Secular priests,
  • quarrels of the Jesuits with,
  • quarrels of the Jesuits with,
• Sedan, Frederick
  • takes refuge at,
  • is threatened by Mansfeld's troops,
• Segeberg,
  • Assembly of the Princes of the Lower Saxon Circle at,
• Sejanus,
  • Buckingham compared to,
• Separatists, the,
  • doctrines of,
  • persecution and emigration of,
• Selby,
  • the army ordered to rendezvous at,
  • report of Astley on the condition of the troops at,
• Selden, John,
  • writes the History of Tithes,
  • is sent for by James, in consequence of the opposition of the clergy to,
  • signs a form of submission, and explains his views to Buckingham,
  • imprisonment of,
  • liberation of,
  • compared with Robinson,
  • declares that common law is a good ground for Buckingham's impeachment,
  • charges Buckingham with neglect to guard the Narrow Seas, and detaining the 'St. Peter,'
  • defends the five knights,
  • is of opinion that the rights of subjects must be vindicated,
  • calls in question the system of pressing men for the army,
  • is charged by Suffolk with razing a record,
  • objects to the Lords' propositions on imprisonment,
  • brings in the Petition of Right,
  • proposes to renew the impeachment of Buckingham,
  • complains of the violation of the Petition of Right,
  • suggests that the Commons shall accept the Articles as established in Parliament,
  • denies that anything not having the assent of Convocation is a public act of the Church,
  • position of, in the House of Commons,
  • declares that there is no law against printing any book,
  • complains of the favourable treatment of the priests seized at Clerkenwell,
  • advises that a message be sent to the Barons of the Exchequer on tonnage and poundage,
  • supports Eliot against Pym,
  • supports Eliot in his resolution to appeal to the country,
  • tells the Speaker that he is bound to put the question,
  • moves that Eliot take the chair,
  • having been imprisoned, denies all knowledge of what had passed in the House,
  • applies for a Habeas corpus,
  • puts in a plea demurring to the jurisdiction of the Star Chamber,
  • furnishes Lyttelton with the heads of an argument for demanding bail for the imprisoned members of Parliament,
  • is not produced in the Court of King's Bench,
  • is transferred to the Marshalsea,
  • takes part in the arrangement of the Inns of Court Masque,
  • writes Mare Clausum,
  • wishes the Londoners' petition against episcopacy not to be referred to a committee,
  • argues against the Bill of Attainder,
  • brings in Bills for declaring ship-money illegal, for limiting forests, and for abolishing knighthood fines,
  • argues for the clause in the Root-and-Branch Bill appointing lay commissioners to exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction,
• Seneterre, Marquis of,
  • is sent to England to urge Charles to join the alliance against Spain,
  • objects to negotiate with Charles,
  • refuses to transmit to France Charles's proposal for an exchange of Lorraine for the Palatinate,
  • refuses to give the title of Electoral Highness to Charles Lewis,
  • leaves England,
• Separatists, the,
  • spread of their opinions in England,
  • Act of Parliament directed against,
  • characteristics of,
  • unpopularity and persecution of,
  • first migration to Holland of,
  • further emigrations of,
  • tolerance and intolerance of,
  • emigration of the Scrooby congregation of,
  • position of, at Leyden,
  • emigration of, to New England,
  • arrest of a congregation of,
  • proceedings against,
  • the Church Courts in the diocese of Canterbury are unable to suppress,
  • find support amongst the small tradesmen and artisans,
  • arrest and examination by the Lords of a congregation of,
  • Saye and Brooke visit the congregation of, in Deadman's Place,
  • spread of the teaching of,
  • are blamed for encouraging lay-preaching,
  • attack on a congregation of, at Barebone's house,
• Seton, Alexander,
  • President of the Session,
  • becomes Earl of Dunfermline,
  • See Dunfermline, Earl of
• Seymour, Lady Arabella,
  • imprisonment of,
  • flight and recapture of,
  • death of,
  • See Stuart, Lady Arabella
• Seymour, Sir Francis,
  • wishes Floyd's beads to be hung round his neck.
  • speaks against a war in the Palatinate,
  • asks for the execution of the laws against priests and Jesuits,
  • proposes a grant of one subsidy and one fifteenth,
  • refuses to join in an attack on Williams,
  • attacks Buckingham's foreign policy,
  • hints at peculation at Court,
  • names Buckingham as the cause of the neglect of his officers at sea,
  • dissuades the House from granting supply,
  • is dismissed from the justiceship of the peace,
  • asks what need there was to give supply if the King might take what he would,
  • wishes to modify the Bill of Liberties,
  • supports Wentworth's Habeas Corpus Bill,
  • reminds Sir J. Coke that he had admitted that the laws had been violated,
  • supports Wentworth against Eliot,
  • supports a proposal of the Lords for a joint committee on the Petition of Right,
  • supports Pym's proposal that the question of the legality of tonnage and poundage shall take precedence of that of privilege,
  • speaks against ecclesiastical grievances,
  • speaks on grievances,
• Seymour, William,
  • is engaged to Arabella Stuart,
  • marries her, and is sent to the Tower,
  • escapes to Ostend,
  • is permitted to return to England,
  • See Hertford, Earl of Hertford,
  • See Hertford, Marquis of
• Sharp, Dr.,
  • is imprisoned for urging Hoskins to attack the Scots,
• Sheffield, Lord, 1569-1626 (Edmund Sheffield),
  • is deprived of the Presidentship of the Council of the North,
  • proposes to make Bacon incapable of holding an office of judicature,
  • See Mulgrave, Earl of
• Sheldon, Dr.,
  • reprimanded for preaching against the Catholics,
• Shelford, Robert,
  • his Five Discourses,
  • his remarks on preaching,
• Shepherd, Thomas,
  • speaks on a Bill for the observance of the Sabbath,
  • is expelled from the House of Commons,
• Shepherds Pastoral, The,
  • part taken by the Queen in,
• Sherborne, the manor of,
  • flaw discovered in Raleigh's title to,
  • is transferred from Raleigh to Carr,
  • computation of the value of,
  • resold to the King, and bought again by Somerset,
  • is given to Digby,
  • Hertford takes up his quarters at,
• Sherfield, Henry,
  • reports that Neile had caused words to be inserted in Montague's pardon,
  • returns to Salisbury,
  • asks the vestry to remove a painted window at St. Edmund's,
  • breaks the window, and is prosecuted in the Star Chamber,
  • is sentenced,
  • death of,
• Sheriffs,
  • appointment of the leaders of the Opposition as,
• Sherland,
  • charges Buckingham with compelling Lord Robartes to pay for his peerage,
• Shields,
  • saltworks at,
• Shilton, Sir Richard,
  • is made Solicitor-General,
  • feebly opposes Coke,
  • quotes from Anderson's reports in opposition to Coke,
  • declares that a bad king will not be bound by any law,
  • defends the legality of Montague's episcopacy,
  • resigns the Solicitor-Generalship,
• Ship-money
  • levied for the expedition to Algiers,
  • proposal to levy in 1628,
  • revocation of the orders for,
  • Noy suggests the levy of,
  • Charles orders the Council to be informed of his intention to levy,
  • a committee of the Council appointed to consider,
  • the first writ issued for,
  • Roe's opinion on,
  • its nature resembles that of a tax,
  • resistance of London to the payment of,
  • London abandons its opposition to,
  • Coventry announces the extension to the inland counties of,
  • Coventry is silent on the King's right to levy,
  • issue of the second writ of,
  • feeling in the nation about,
  • complaints against the mode of assessment of,
  • resistance in Oxfordshire and London to,
  • resistance in Essex and Devonshire to,
  • opinion of the judges on the legality of,
  • legal and political view of the King's claim to levy,
  • enforcement of its payment in Oxfordshire,
  • Berkeley refuses to allow Chambers to test the validity of,
  • justification of the resistance to,
  • issue of the third writ of,
  • Danby's protest against,
  • strong language of Warwick against,
  • Charles consults the judges on the legality of,
  • the judges' declaration on,
  • increased rapidity of the collection of,
  • meets an actual need, but is imposed without consent,
  • constitutional objection to,
  • the courts are to decide on the legality of,
  • Hampden's case of,
  • increase of the unpopularity of,
  • attempt to collect the arrears of,
  • fourth writ issued for,
  • slow payment of,
  • orders given for the full collection of,
  • Charles proposes to abandon, if some other mode of supporting the fleet is found,
  • Charles agrees to allow the House of Lords to reverse,
  • declaration of Glanville of the illegality of,
  • enforcement of the payment of,
  • small result of,
  • failure of an attempt to collect,
  • fresh orders for the collection of,
  • Falkland's speech against,
  • is condemned by the Lords,
  • Selden brings in a Bill declaring the illegality of,
  • the Royal Assent given to the Bill declaring the illegality of,
• Ships,
  • forced requisition of, for Willoughby's fleet,
• Shirley, James,
  • his Triumph of Peace, Gamester and Witty Fair One,
• Shrewsbury,
  • the Parliamentary party gains the upper hand in,
• Shrewsbury, Countess of,
  • is fined in the Star Chamber,
• Shropshire,
  • low condition of religion in,
  • payment of the forced loan in,
• Shute, Robert,
  • is proposed by Villiers to take part in the execution of Roper's office,
  • obtains the post,
  • is a candidate for the Recordership of London,
  • is elected recorder, and dies,
• Sibbes, Richard,
  • is one of the feoffees for impropriations,
  • character and work of,
  • is reprimanded for inviting subscriptions for the exiles from the Palatinate,
  • writes lines on the birth of a Prince, and dissuades Goodwin from separating from the Church,
• Sibthorpe, Robert,
  • attacks Parliament in a sermon,
  • sermon of, licensed by Bishop Montaigne,
  • protest of Phelips against the sermon of,
  • receives a special pardon,
• Silesia,
  • is occupied by the Elector of Saxony,
  • warlike operations of the Margrave of Jagerndorf in,
  • defeat of the Danes by Wallenstein in,
• Simmern, Duke of, 1610 (Ludwig Philipp),
  • is appointed Administrator of the Palatinate,
  • proposes that Charles shall send his nephew to the Palatinate,
  • admits French garrisons into the fortresses of the Palatinate,
• Sion College,
  • bequest of money for the purchase of books by,
• Sion's Plea against Prelacy,
  • mention,
• Sitva Torok, Peace of,
  • mention,
• Skinner, John,
  • is sent to trade in the Spice Islands,
• Skinner, Robert (Bishop of Oxford, 1641),
  • becomes Bishop of Oxford,
• Skippon, Philip,
  • is appointed to command the London trained bands,
  • commands a guard to defend the Houses,
  • blockades the Tower,
  • is sent for by Charles, but forbidden by the Houses to obey the order,
• Sligo,
  • proposed plantation of,
  • title found for the King in,
• Slingsby, Henry,
  • charters a vessel for Strafford's escape,
• Sluys,
  • captured by the Dutch,
  • proposal of Buckingham that it shall be occupied by English troops,
• Smart, Peter,
  • attacks the Durham Ceremonialists,
  • legal proceedings against,
  • sentence on,
• Smectymnuus,
  • pseudonym of,
• Smith, Captain John,
  • early adventures of,
  • accompanies the Virginian colony,
  • adventures of, in Virginia,
  • is president of the colony,
  • returns to England,
  • presents Pocahontas to the Queen,
• Smith, John,
  • a Separatist minister, character of,
• Smith, Miles (Bishop of Gloucester),
  • opposes Laud,
• Smith, Sir Thomas,
  • is Treasurer of the Virginia Company,
  • is Treasurer of the Virginia Company,
• Smith, William (Bishop of Chalcedon),
  • is obliged to leave England through the hostility of the Jesuits,
• Smithwick
  • complains against Bacon,
• Soames, Alderman,
  • imprisonment of,
  • liberation of,
  • is a favourite candidate for the Mayoralty,
• Soap company, the,
  • disputes about the monopoly granted to,
  • change in the constitution of,
• Soissons, Count of,
  • urges the Duke of Savoy to give him a force with which to invade France,
  • makes exorbitant demands of Montague,
  • refuses to help Charles till St. Martin's is taken,
  • makes his peace with Richelieu,
• Somers. Sir George,
  • made Admiral of the Virginia Company,
• Somerset,
  • resistance to the benevolence in,
  • payment of the forced loan in,
  • wakes in,
  • desertion and misconduct of the soldiers from,
  • Hertford in command of a force raised in,
  • Hertford driven out of,
• Somerset, Countess of,
  • marriage of,
  • is implicated in the charge of murdering Overbury,
  • is placed in confinement,
  • gives birth to a daughter,
  • pleads guilty,
  • is pardoned,
• Somerset, Earl of, 1613 (Robert Carr),
  • marriage of,
  • wealth of,
  • becomes James's sole confidant,
  • supports the Prince's marriage with a Savoyard princess,
  • urges Sarmiento to break off the French alliance,
  • votes against conferring with the Commons on the impositions,
  • becomes Lord Chamberlain,
  • his influence with James,
  • his rudeness to James,
  • is allowed to carry on the negotiation with Sarmiento on the Spanish marriage,
  • intrigues to substitute Villiers for, as James's favourite,
  • James refuses some of the requests of,
  • threatens Villiers,
  • prepares a pardon,
  • Ellesmere refuses to seal the pardon of,
  • is implicated in the charge of murdering Overbury,
  • his last interview with James,
  • urges the King to alter the course of the investigation into the murder,
  • is placed in confinement,
  • Bacon's opinion on the evidence against,
  • threatens to bring a charge against the King,
  • declares that he will not go to his trial,
  • is brought to the bar,
  • trial of,
  • is pardoned after a long imprisonment,
  • his connection with Dudley's paper of advice,
  • is prosecuted in the Star Chamber,
• Somerset House,
  • is occupied by Henrietta Maria,
  • the Queen's French attendants sent away from,
  • the Catholic converts receive the communion in the chapel of,
• Sotomayor, Antonio de,
  • takes part in a religious conference with Charles and Buckingham,
• Soubise, Duke of,
  • captures the King's ships at Blavet,
  • inflicts a check on the Dutch ships in the French service,
  • is defeated off Rochelle,
  • brings the 'St. John' into Falmouth,
  • is summoned to give information to Charles about the state of France,
  • accompanies Becher to Rochelle,
  • tries to explain the coolness with which the Rochellese receive Buckingham's overtures,
  • pleads with Buckingham to continue the siege of St. Martin's,
  • pleads with Buckingham against negotiations with France,
  • disbelieves a rumour that Rochelle has been relieved,
• Southampton,
  • treaty with the Dutch signed at,
  • men gathered for the relief of Rochelle at,
• Southampton, Earl of, 1581-1624 (Henry Wriothesley),
  • is set at liberty,
  • supports Neville's candidature for the Secretaryship,
  • supports Essex against his wife,
  • wishes to be employed against the Barbary pirates,
  • quarrels with Buckingham,
  • moves for an answer to Bacon's request for delay,
  • wishes Bacon to be banished,
  • wishes Yelverton to be heard before he is condemned,
  • meetings held at the house of,
  • imprisonment of,
  • liberation of,
  • is absent from the Privy Council when the oath is taken to the Spanish marriage treaty,
  • death of,
• Southampton, Earl of, 1624 (Thomas Wriothesley),
  • sentence against him in the Forest Court,
  • votes against interference with the Commons,
• Southesk, Earl of, 1633 (David Carnegie),
  • imprisonment of,
• Southwark,
  • assemblage of rioters in,
  • execution of a rioter in,
• Southwick,
  • visit of Charles to,
• Sovereign power,
  • discussion in the Commons on the clause in which the Lords ascribe it to the King,
• Sovereignty of the Seas, The,
  • written by Sir John Borough,
• Sovereignty of the seas, the,
  • Sir J. Coke exhorts Charles to recover,
  • meaning of Charles's claim to,
  • Coventry's explanation of the King's claim to,
  • Falkland in favour of Charles's claim to,
• Spain,
  • extent of the monarchy of,
  • prospect of peace with,
  • change in the policy of,
  • negotiations opened at London for a peace with,
  • terms of the treaty of peace with,
  • proclamation of the peace with,
  • English pensioners of,
  • defeat by the Dutch of the fleet of,
  • ill-treatment of Englishmen by the Inquisition in,
  • fresh proposal for a marriage between Prince Henry and the Infanta Anne made in,
  • English trade with,
  • delay of justice in the courts of,
  • complaints of the English merchants of their treatment in,
  • agrees to a cessation of arms in the Netherlands,
  • renews its overtures for the marriage of Prince Henry,
  • negotiates for peace with the Netherlands,
  • attempts to gain the alliance of France,
  • agrees to the Truce of Antwerp,
  • case of the English merchants in,
  • proposal for a marriage between the Prince of Wales and the Infanta Anne made by the ambassador of,
  • negotiation about the marriage carried on by Digby in,
  • Digby endeavours to obtain justice for the English merchants in,
  • proposal to appoint English consuls in,
  • Zuniga's mission to James from,
  • attempts to promise the election of the Archduke Albert as Emperor,
  • failure of Digby's efforts in favour of the English merchants in,
  • fears in England of an invasion from,
  • pensioners of,
  • marriage treaty with England again proposed to,
  • consultations on the marriage treaty in,
  • Digby conducts an informal negotiation on the marriage treaty in,
  • negotiations formally opened by Digby in,
  • cool reception of the proposal for an English expedition against Algiers in,
  • a small sum of money sent to Matthias from,
  • Lerma driven from power in,
  • economical condition of,
  • the English mediation in Bohemia accepted by,
  • preparation of a fleet in,
  • is urged by Maximilian to support the Emperor,
  • fear of a general war felt in,
  • wish for peace in,
  • carries on a negotiation with the Prince of Orange,
  • renewal of its war with the Netherlands,
  • opposes the transference of Frederick's Electorate to Maximilian,
  • desire for peace in,
  • refuses to accept an extension of territory,
  • scheme for the abdication of Frederick adopted by,
  • sends a fleet to the Channel,
  • the Lords condemn the treaties with,
  • popularity of a war against,
  • petition of the Commons against,
  • despatch from James announcing the end of the negotiations with,
  • threatening position of the monarchy of,
  • unavowed hostilities with,
  • open breach of Charles with,
  • negotiation of Du Fargis for a treaty between France and,
  • acceptance by France of the Treaty of Barcelona with,
  • overtures made by Buckingham to,
  • refuses to make peace with the Dutch without the opening of the Scheldt and the renunciation by the Stales-General of their independence,
  • is exhausted by the siege of Breda,
  • agreement made by France for a common action against England with,
  • hope entertained by Charles of peace with,
  • anxiety of Buckingham for peace with,
  • Charles hopes for a new alliance with,
  • takes part in the quarrel for the succession of Mantua and Montferrat,
  • mission of Rubens to England to pave the way to a peace with,
  • resolution of Charles to treat with,
  • embassy of Cottington to,
  • treaty signed at Madrid with,
  • multiplicity of the interests of,
  • the people in the Spanish Netherlands are discontented with the government of,
  • refuses to come to terms with the independent Netherlands, unless Pernambuco is surrendered,
  • articles of a treaty with, prepared in England,
  • money carried by an English ship to Dunkirk from,
  • fresh overtures of Charles to,
  • failure of Charles to form an alliance with,
  • fresh attempt of Charles to form an alliance with,
  • English vessels chartered to bring troops from,
  • negotiations with, on the treatment of Oquendo's fleet,
  • ambassadors arrive in England to negotiate an alliance with,
  • Strafford tries to obtain a loan from,
  • Strafford again presses for a loan from,
  • fresh attempt of Strafford to obtain a loan from,
  • Portugal declares its independence of,
• Spalatro, Archbishop of,
  • See Dominis, Marco Antonio de
• Spanish Company,
  • formation and overthrow of,
  • Spanish troops, proposal to employ in England ,
  • are conveyed to Flanders in English vessels,
• Sparks, Thomas,
  • takes part in the Hampton Court Conference,
• Speaker of the House of Commons, the
  • double allegiance of,
• Spencer, Lord, 1603-i627(Robert Spencer),
  • observes that no lords are to be called great lords,
  • asks if Bacon is to be brought to the bar,
  • wishes to deprive Bacon of his peerage,
  • quarrels with Arundel,
• Spencer, Mary,
  • is tried for witchcraft,
• Spens, Sir James,
  • is sent to the King of Sweden,
  • is sent again to Sweden,
  • proposes to Gustavus a scheme for a Protestant league,
  • returns to England to ask help from James,
  • is sent back to Sweden to ask Gustavus to co-operate with Christian,
  • comes to England to urge Charles to take part in the German war,
• Spenser, Edmund,
  • character of his Faery Queen,
  • idea of his Hymn to Beauty,
• Spenser, Sir Richard,
  • represents England at the conferences of the Hague,
• Spinola, Ambrogio,
  • success of, in the Netherlands,
  • invades Cleves and Juliers,
  • makes difficulties about the execution of the treaty of Xanten,
  • collects troops in the Netherlands,
  • marches towards the Rhine,
  • enters Mentz,
  • invades the Palatinate,
  • is ordered to support Maximilian,
  • is irritated at Mansfeld's conduct,
  • refuses to support a suspension of arms in the Palatinate,
  • besieges Bergen-op-Zoom,
  • raises the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom,
  • lays siege to Breda,
• Spires,
  • Vere's men quartered on the bishopric of,
• Sports, the King's Declaration of,
  • See Declaration of Sports
• Spottiswoode, John (Archbishop of Glasgow, 1605; Archbishop of St. Andrew's, 1615-1639),
  • appointed Archbishop of Glasgow,
  • becomes a Lord of Session,
  • begs James not to issue the five articles by his own authority,
  • character of,
  • urges the ministers to submit to the King,
  • preaches at the opening of the Assembly of Perth,
  • threatens the ministers who oppose the five articles,
  • takes part in the revision of a Prayer-book for Scotland,
  • wears a rochet and cope in Holyrood chapel,
  • shows to Charles the supplication of the Lords of the Scottish Opposition,
  • becomes Chancellor of Scotland,
  • dissatisfaction of the nobility with the promotion of,
  • asks the magistrates to expel the rioters from St. Giles',
  • advises the suspension of both forms of prayer,
  • recommends the withdrawal of the Prayer-book,
• Spurston, William,
  • is the author of a pamphlet issued under the name of Smectymnuus,
• Stade,
  • siege and surrender of,
• Stadtloo,
  • Tilly defeats Christian of Brunswick at,
• Stafford, Anthony,
  • his Female Glory,
• Staffordshire,
  • payment of the forced loan in,
  • holds back from sending reinforcements to the Northern army,
• Stage, the,
  • immorality of,
• Stamford,
  • proceedings of Vicars at,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
• Stamford, Earl of, 1628 (Henry Grey),
  • has an altercation with Savile,
  • is lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire,
  • the arms of the county removed to the house of,
• Standard, the Royal,
  • set up at Nottingham,
• Standen, Sir Anthony,
  • sent by James to Italy,
  • is imprisoned on his return,
• Standish, Miles, joins the emigrants for
  • New England,
  • nurses the sick,
• Stapleton, Sir Philip,
  • is one of the Parliamentary Commissioners appointed to attend the King in Scotland,
• Star Chamber, the Court of,
  • jurisdiction of, enlarged by Henry VII.,
  • sentence on Pound in,
  • sentence on the Earl of Northumberland in,
  • imposes a fine on the Countess of Shrewsbury,
  • fines the slanderers of Northampton,
  • punishes St. John,
  • fines Talbot,
  • fines and imprisons Holles, Wentworth, and Lumsden,
  • proceedings against the Lakes in,
  • sentences on the Lakes in,
  • sentence on the Earl and Countess of Suffolk in,
  • imposes fines for the exportation of gold,
  • protects monopolies,
  • sentence upon Yelverton in,
  • fines Sir John Bennett,
  • Eliot refuses to conduct a case against Buckingham in,
  • gives a sentence in favour of Buckingham,
  • Bristol is summoned before,
  • removal of the documents relating to Buckingham's prosecution from the file of,
  • prosecution of Chambers in,
  • case of Savage in,
  • proceedings taken in, against the merchants who had refused to pay tonnage and poundage,
  • constitution of,
  • sentence on Chambers in,
  • information against the imprisoned members of Parliament exhibited in,
  • the defendants demur to the jurisdiction of
  • reference to the judges on its jurisdiction over members of Parliament,
  • abandonment of the prosecution of the members of Parliament in,
  • the Court of Exchequer refuses to limit the jurisdiction of,
  • the publication of unlicensed books prohibited by,
  • prosecution of Sir R. Cotton and others concerned in circulating Dudley's paper of advice in,
  • proceedings against Leighton in,
  • sentences Foulis,
  • Palmer fined in,
  • prosecution cf Sherfield in,
  • Sibbes and Gouge reprimanded in,
  • punishes Ludowick Bowyer,
  • prosecution of Prynne in,
  • Prynne sentenced in,
  • fines the City of London for the breach of its Londonderry charter,
  • Sir Anthony Roper fined for depopulation in,
  • proceedings against Foljambe, Anderson, and Dunne in,
  • case of Pell and Bagg in,
  • trial of Prynne, Bastwick, and Burton in,
  • decree against the liberty of the press in,
  • sentence on Lilburne in,
  • prosecution of Williams in,
  • proceedings against the Vintners' Company in,
  • authorises the demolition of new buildings,
  • Williams fined in,
  • escape of Osbaldiston from prosecution in,
  • Wentworth prosecutes Crosby and Mountnorris in,
  • abolition of,
• Starchmakers,
  • company of,
• States-General, the, of France,
  • meeting of,
• States-General, the, of the United Netherlands.
  • See Netherlands, the States-General of the United Provinces of the
• Steenie, nickname of,
  • given by James to Buckingham,
• Steeple Aston,
  • painted windows in the church at,
• Steward, Sir Francis,
  • looks on while an English ship is being captured,
  • is sent out against pirates,
• Stewart, Alexander,
  • is employed to seize Argyle and Hamilton,
• Stewart, Sir Archibald of Blackball,
  • is imprisoned,
• Stewart, John, of Ladywell,
  • is imprisoned for maintaining that Argyle proposed to dethrone the King,
  • execution of,
• Stewart, Walter,
  • is captured with a paper from the opponents of Argyle,
• Stewart, William,
  • is asked to assist in seizing Hamilton,
  • informs Hurry,
• Stirling,
  • removal of the Council to,
  • reading of a protestation at,
  • the Earl of Mar holds the castle of,
• Stirling,
  • proclamation in defence of the new Prayer-book read at,
  • castle of, held for the Covenanters,
• Stirling, Sir George, of Keir,
  • is imprisoned,
• Stoke Newington,
  • resistance to ship-money at,
• Stourton, Lord, 1588-1632 (Edward Stourton),
  • is brother-in-law of Tresham,
  • is fined in the Star Chamber,
• Strafford, Earl of, 1640-1641 (Thomas Wentworth),
  • appointed Lieutenant-General of the army for the second Bishops' War,
  • supports Leicester's candidature for the Secretaryship,
  • his intimacy with Lady Carlisle,'
  • asks that Coke shall retain the secretaryship,
  • is asked by the Queen to protect the Catholics,
  • is supposed by Rossetti to be a Puritan,
  • sets out for Ireland,
  • obtains subsidies from the Irish Parliament,
  • returns to England,
  • advises the King to call on the Lords to declare that supply must precede grievances,
  • disservice rendered to the King by,
  • announces that a refusal of supply will be followed by a dissolution,
  • recommends the King to abandon ship-money and to be contented with eight subsidies,
  • reluctantly votes for the dissolution of the Short Parliament,
  • holds' that as Parliament has failed in its duty, the King is justified in helping himself,
  • argues for an aggressive war on Scotland,
  • reminds Charles that he has an army in Ireland,
  • talks of making the nobility smart,
  • his words about the Irish army immediately disclosed,
  • probable intention of,
  • does not realise the feeling which the employment of an Irish army would rouse in England,
  • becomes the embodiment of tyranny in the popular mind,
  • recommends the King to hang some of the aldermen,
  • appointed a commissioner to negotiate an alliance with Spain,
  • asks the Spanish ambassadors for a loan,
  • is blamed for the Lambeth riots,
  • illness of,
  • his conversation with Bristol on the political situation,
  • his secrets divulged by the courtiers,
  • is in danger of his life,
  • catches a chill in receiving the King's visit,
  • recovers his health,
  • dissuades Charles from paying the soldiers with base coin, but threatens those who oppose the debasement of the coinage,
  • pleads with the Spanish ambassadors for a loan,
  • wishes the King to reject a petition from Yorkshire,
  • receives a patent giving him command over the Irish army,
  • again presses the Spanish ambassadors for a loan,
  • expects England to be stirred to resistance by a Scottish invasion,
  • is appointed to command the English army,
  • continued hopefulness of,
  • is taken ill, but arrives at York, and urges the Yorkshiremen to support the King, even if he cannot pay them,
  • continued illness of,
  • complains of the state of the army after the rout of Newburn,
  • persuades the Yorkshiremen to offer their trained bands without petitioning for a Parliament,
  • is made a Knight of the Garter,
  • expects that England will rally round the throne,
  • urges on the Great Council the necessity of supplying the King,
  • recommends that the army shall remain on the defensive,
  • wishes the Scots to be allowed to do their worst,
  • is named a chief incendiary by the Scots,
  • proposes to drive the Scots out of Ulster,
  • does not venture to recommend a breach with the Scots,
  • general detestation of,
  • is sent for by Charles,
  • the Commons inquire into his conduct in Ireland,
  • resolution of the Commons to impeach,
  • is supposed to have taken part in a Catholic plot,
  • advises the King to accuse the Parliamentary leaders,
  • is reported to have boasted that the City would soon be brought into subjection,
  • charge prepared against,
  • is impeached and committed to-custody,
  • acknowledgment of Charles that some faults may have been committed by,
  • preliminary charge against,
  • is committed to the Tower, and writes to his wife,
  • detailed charges against,
  • Mary de Medicis asserts that the King intends to liberate,
  • remains in command of the Irish army,
  • is allowed time to prepare his answer,
  • his answer read,
  • arrangement of Westminster Hall for the trial of,
  • Pym opens the case against,
  • professes his respect for the House of Commons,
  • character of the Irish government of,
  • asserts that he had not committed treason,
  • growth of a feeling favourable to,
  • effect of the charge of intending to bring over the Irish army against,
  • evidence of Vane's notes against,
  • replies to the evidence,
  • hypothetical explanation of the words about the Irish army used by,
  • his enunciation of the principle on which the King can use his prerogative above the law,
  • impression produced by his argument,
  • danger apprehended by the Commons from the acquittal of,
  • charge arising from the wording of the commission granted to,
  • illness of,
  • anger of the Commons at the permission to adduce fresh evidence accorded by the Lords to,
  • proposal to bring in a Bill of Attainder against,
  • proceedings in the Commons on the Bill of Attainder against,
  • makes his general defence before the Lords,
  • finds advocates in the House of Commons,
  • hearing of the legal argument in behalf of,
  • is declared a traitor by the Commons,
  • is assured by Charles that he shall not suffer in life, honour, or fortune,
  • Essex refuses to vote against the death of,
  • the Londoners' petition for the execution of, and the Lords read a second time the Bill for the Attainder of,
  • preparations for the escape of,
  • considers the King's intervention impolitic,
  • Charles attempts to save by force,
  • a mob calls for the execution of,
  • writes to the King offering his life,
  • offers a bribe to Balfour to connive at his escape,
  • is informed that he is to die, and asks to see Laud,
  • last speech of,
  • execution of,
• Straffordians, the,
  • placard set up with the names of,
• Straiton, Sir Alexander,
  • acts as the King's Commissioner to the General Assembly,
  • communicates with the ministers at Aberdeen,
  • gives a false account of his proceedings there,
• Stralsund,
  • the siege of,
• Strange, Lord (James Stanley),
  • attacks Manchester,
  • begs the King to take refuge in Lancashire,
• Strangways, Sir John,
  • asks by what witnesses the evidence against Strafford is substantiated,
  • argues that a parity in the Church will lead to a parity in the commonwealth,
  • is surrounded by a mob in Palace Yard,
  • charges Vane with sending for armed citizens,
• Strathbogie,
  • return of Huntly to,
  • is plundered by Monro,
• Strode, William,
  • wishes money to be raised some other way than by subsidy,
  • hopes that Eliot's resolution may be read,
  • tells Finch that it is his duty to obey the House,
  • being imprisoned, applies for a Habeas corpus,
  • asks the King's Bench whether a priest is to be bailed, and not a member of Parliament,
  • is removed to the Tower,
  • is transferred to the Marshalsea,
  • remains in prison till the meeting of the Short Parliament,
  • release of,
  • sits in the Long Parliament,
  • brings in a Bill for Annual Parliaments,
  • brings to a close a debate on providing money for the Scots,
  • supports Pym's view that the Commons ought to go on with Strafford's impeachment,
  • says that the King is badly counselled,
  • is a member of the committee for investigating the Army Plot,
  • wishes to assert the claim of Parliament to a negative voice on appointments,
  • wishes to postpone the discussion on sending an army to Ireland,
  • moves that the kingdom be put in a posture' of defence,
  • the King resolves to impeach,
  • impeachment of,
  • is dragged out of the House to compel him to take refuge in the City,
• Strode, William,
  • is the author of The Floating Island,
• Struthers, William,
  • complains of innovations in the Scottish Church,
• Stuart, Elizabeth,
  • marries Lord Maltravers,
• Stuart, Lady Arabella,
  • her claim to the English throne,
  • alleged plot for placing on the throne,
  • James's conduct towards,
  • is arrested,
  • promises to marry William Seymour,
  • is privately married,
  • See Seymour, Lady Arabella
• Stukeley, Sir Lewis,
  • arrests Raleigh,
  • acts as a spy on Raleigh,
  • fate of,
  • his guardianship of the child of Pocahontas,
• Suckling, Sir John,
  • character of,
  • gives advice to Charles,
  • consults with Jermyn on a scheme for bringing the Northern army to London,
  • communicates with Chudleigh,
  • the officers refuse to confer with,
  • Charles rejects the plan of,
  • levies soldiers,
  • brings armed men to a tavern in Bread Street,
  • escapes to France,
  • is declared a traitor by the Commons,
• Suffolk,
  • mutiny of the soldiers in,
  • petition of ministers of,
• Suffolk, Countess of,
  • accepts a Spanish pension,
  • is ordered by James to go into the country,
  • is accused of participation in her husband's corruption,
  • Star Chamber proceedings against,
  • sentence on,
• Suffolk, 1st Earl of, 1603-1626 (Thomas Howard),
  • is Lord Chamberlain and refuses a Spanish pension,
  • suggests that the cellar under the House of Lords may have been used by the Gunpowder Plotters,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • supports Lady Essex,
  • becomes Lord Treasurer,
  • is chosen Chancellor of the University of Cambridge,
  • gives his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
  • is accused of conniving at his wife's corruption,
  • is charged with bribery and forced to resign the Treasurership,
  • Star Chamber proceedings against,
  • sentence on,
  • asks that Bacon may be brought to the bar,
  • attempts to mediate between Arundel and Spencer,
  • wishes Yelverton to be heard before he is condemned,
  • death of,
• Suffolk, 2nd Earl of, 1626-1640 (Theophilus Howard),
  • charges Selden with razing a record,
  • becomes Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports,
  • is directed to attend to the wants of Oquendo's men,
• Suffolk line,
  • the claim to the throne of,
• Sugar, John,
  • executed as a priest,
• Sunday,
  • the Lords propose a conference on,
  • views of the Puritans on the observance of,
  • George Herbert's ideas on,
  • issue of The Declaration of Sports to regulate the observance of,
  • Shepherd's speech on the observance of,
  • re-issue of The Declaration of Sports, on the observance of,
  • sitting of the House of Commons on,
• Supplication, the General,
  • drawn up,
  • presented to the Council,
• Supreme Head of the Church,
  • Cosin objects to the use of the King's title of,
• Surrey,
  • resistance to the levy of soldiers in,
• Susa,
  • is surrendered by the Duke of Savoy to the French,
  • a treaty between England and France signed at,
• Sutherland, Earl of, 1615 (John Gordon),
  • is the first to sign the Covenant,
• Sutton, Thomas,
  • intends to found a hospital,
  • endows the Charter House,
• Swanham,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
• Swarton, Sara,
  • false evidence of,
  • James detects the perjury of,
  • Star Chamber sentence on,
  • confesses her guilt, and is set at liberty,
• Swords,
  • meeting of the Lords of the Pale at,
• Sydenham, Sir John,
  • is accused by Peacham,
• Sydserf, Thomas, (Bishop of Brechin, 1634; of Galloway, 1635),
  • approves of the introduction of the English Prayer-book into Scotland,
  • Lorne's quarrel with,
  • is attacked by a mob in Edinburgh,
  • suggests that the petitioners shall leave a small deputation in Edinburgh,
• Synod, a national,
  • is demanded in the Grand Remonstrance,
  • ministers' petition for the calling of,
  • its proposed composition contrasted with that of Convocation,
• Tables, The,
  • establishment of,
  • are not dissolved immediately after the pacification of Berwick,
• Talbot, John,
  • attempt to induce him to join the Gunpowder Plotters,
• Talbot, William,
  • is a leading member of the Catholic party in the Irish House of Commons,
  • is questioned on his agreement with the doctrines of Suarez,
  • is sentenced in the Star Chamber,
• Taming of the Shrew, The,
  • apparent familiarity of Charles with,
• Tara, the Hill of,
  • gathering of rebels on,
• Taxis, Juan de,
  • See Villa Mediana, Count of
• Taylor, Jeremy,
  • defends the special connection of the bishops with the King,
• Taylor, John,
  • is sent to Vienna,
  • describes the miserable condition of Germany,
  • announces an offer of the Emperor about the Palatinate,
  • his negotiation disavowed,
  • is recalled and imprisoned,
• Temple, the Middle,
  • health of the Electress Palatine drunk at,
• Ten Propositions, the,
  • brought forward by Pym,
• Teynham, Lord, 1616-1618 (John Roper)
  • gives up his office to Villiers,
• Texel, the,
  • seizure of a French ship in,
• Theologians, junta of.
  • See Marriage Treaty
• Thirty Years' War, the,
  • character of,
• Thomond, Earl of, 1580-1621 (Donogh O'Brien),
  • sides with the English,
• Thornton, Sir George,
  • takes part in the government of Munster,
• Thorough,
  • the policy of,
  • remissness of Charles in carrying out,
• Throckmorton, Sir Clement,
  • begs Buckingham to wear a coat of mail,
• Tichborne, Sir Henry,
  • is besieged in Drogheda,
  • is relieved by Ormond,
• Tillieres, Count Leveneurde,
  • remonstrates, as French ambassador, against James's permission to the Rochellese privateers to bring prizes into English ports,
  • hears of Grey's mission to England,
  • reports that Charles will not insert an engagement on behalf of the Catholics in the marriage treaty,
  • is recalled,
  • comes to England as the Queen's chamberlain,
• Tilly, Count of (John Tserclaes),
  • commands the army of the Catholic League,
  • follows Mansfeld into the Lower Palatinate,
  • proceedings of, in the Lower Palatinate,
  • military position of,
  • is checked at Wiesloch, but defeats the Margrave of Baden at Wimpfen,
  • objects to sign an armistice with Mansfeld,
  • defeats Christian of Brunswick at Hoechst,
  • refuses to abandon the siege of Heidelberg at Chichester's request,
  • prevents Mansfeld from invading Bavaria,
  • receives orders to besiege Heidelberg,
  • takes the town of Heidelberg,
  • takes the castle of Heidelberg, and besieges Mannheim,
  • takes Mannheim and lays siege to Frankenthal,
  • founds a college of Jesuits at Heidelberg,
  • receives a check from Christian of Brunswick,
  • defeats him at Stadtloo,
  • comes up with Christian IV.,
  • defeats him at Lutter,
  • joins Wallenstein against Christian IV.
  • captures Stade,
  • storms Magdeburg,
  • is defeated at Breitenfeld,
  • is defeated and slain at the passage of the Lech,
• Tipperary,
  • attack by St. Leger on plunderers in,
• Tirlemont,
  • is stormed by the French,
• Tis a pity she's a whore,
  • quotation from,
• Titchfield,
  • visit of Charles and Henrietta Maria to,
  • disorderly scenes at,
• Tithes,
  • controversy on Selden's History of,
  • are paid in kind in Scotland,
  • are commuted in Scotland for a money payment,
• Tobacco,
  • the cultivation of, introduced into Virginia,
  • is seized by the Dunkirkers as munition of war,
  • working in Ireland of the monopoly of,
• Toiras, Marshal,
  • fires upon the people of Rochelle,
  • attempts to hinder Buckingham from landing at Rhé,
  • exchanges compliments with Buckingham,
  • is relieved,
  • holds out against Buckingham's attempt to storm St. Martin's,
• Toledo, Pedro de,
  • mission to France of,
  • breaks the Treaty of Asti,
• Toleration,
  • difficulties in the way of, in the 16th century,
  • growing feeling in favour of,
  • Elizabeth's partial acceptance of,
  • difficulties in the way of its concession to the Catholics,
  • Cranborne's objection to,
  • abandonment of James's attempt to carry out,
  • practical enjoyment of, in Ireland under Elizabeth,
  • opinion of the Irish Council on,
  • Chichester's opinion on,
  • views of Pym on,
  • growing possibility of establishing,
  • is conceded to the French Protestants after the surrender of Rochelle,
  • is rejected in Massachusetts,
  • difficulties in the way of,
  • progress of in Germany, France, and the Netherlands,
  • comparison between its prospects in England and France,
  • its chances in New England,
  • is accepted in Rhode Island,
  • impossibility of completely securing in Massachusetts,
  • is secured in Maryland,
  • the members of the Long Parliament unfamiliar with the idea of,
  • writings of Henry Burton and Lord Brooke in defence of,
  • demanded by the Irish Catholics,
  • the Commons issue a declaration against,
  • both Houses declare that only the religion established by the laws of England shall receive it, either in England or in Ireland,
• Tom Tell-truth,
  • large circulation of,
• Tomkins, Thomas,
  • moves for a conference on Strafford's treason,
• Tonnage and Poundage,
  • grant of, proposed in the first Parliament of Charles,
  • a Bill passes the Commons for the grant of, for one year, but is dropped in the Lords,
  • the Commons order a Bill to be brought in for the grant of,
  • declared by the Commons to be illegal without consent of Parliament,
  • debate in committee on,
  • proposal to pass a Bill for the temporary grant of,
  • Remonstrance of the Commons on,
  • Charles's statement of his case in claiming,
  • argument in favour of the King's claim to,
  • argument against the King's claim to,
  • readiness of the merchants to resist payment of,
  • a replevin sued out by merchants whose goods had been seized for refusing to pay,
  • decision of the Court of Exchequer that a replevin is not the proper way of regaining goods seized for non-payment of,
  • fresh tumults caused by the collection of,
  • the King's resolution to try to come to an understanding with Parliament on,
  • Phelips moves for a committee on,
  • the Commons postpone the consideration of,
  • resumption of the debates on,
  • the merchants resist the exaction of, after the dissolution of 1629,
  • continued resistance to the payment of,
  • Royal assent given to the Bill declaring it illegal to levy, without consent of Parliament,
• Topiawari,
  • an Indian chief visited by Raleigh,
• Torture,
  • inflicted on Fawkes,
  • on Owen,
  • on Peacham,
  • state of opinion on the use of,
  • inflicted on Mr. Byng's servant,
  • threatened in Felton's case,
  • the judges declare the illegality of,
  • the last English case of,
• Tortus, Matthew,
  • book written by Bellarmine in the name of,
• Tory Island,
  • massacre on,
• Totness, Earl of, 1626-1629 (George Carew),
  • offers to bear the brunt of the displeasure of the Commons,
  • is assured by Charles that he shall not be sent to the Tower,
• Tower, the,
  • appointment of Cottington as Constable of,
  • Charles reviews and dismisses the garrison of,
  • alarm of the Commons at the military preparations at,
  • committal of Strafford to,
  • project for the seizure of,
  • attempt to introduce Billingsley into,
  • men from the Tower Hamlets admitted as guards of,
  • Newport appointed Constable of,
  • Newport ordered by Parliament to reside in,
  • appointment of Lunsford to the Lieutenancy of,
  • appointment of Byron to the Lieutenancy of,
  • measures taken to secure,
  • the Commons wish Conyers to be Lieutenant of,
  • Byron refuses to leave,
  • is besieged by Skippon,
  • Conyers succeeds Byron as Lieutenant of,
• Townley, Zouch,
  • writes verses in praise of Felton,
• Townson, Robert (Dean of Westminster, 1617-1620),
  • visits Raleigh the night before his execution,
• Trading companies, the,
  • progress of,
• Traquair, Lord, 1638 (John Stuart),
  • is the leading member of the Scottish Privy Council,
  • is hustled by a mob at Edinburgh,
  • proposes the adoption of the English Prayer-book, and remonstrates against the organisation of the Commissioners,
  • begs the Commissioners to propitiate the King,
  • goes to London,
  • informs Charles that there will be no peace in Scotland till the Prayer-book is withdrawn,
  • stows the King's gunpowder at Dalkeith,
  • fails to defend Dalkeith,
  • is put under arrest for a short time,
  • is attacked by a mob at Edinburgh,
  • is appointed the King's Commissioner in Scotland,
  • his appointment disliked by the Covenanters,
  • gives assent to the Act of the Assembly of Edinburgh for the abolition of episcopacy,
  • adjourns the Parliament,
  • prorogues the Scottish Parliament,
  • reports to the Committee of Eight,
  • reports to the Privy Council,
  • is sent back to tell the Scots that they may send fresh Commissioners to England,
  • arrives in London, bringing the Covenanters' letter to the King of France,
  • refuses to preside over the Scottish Parliament,
  • repeats before the Great Council his narrative of the proceedings of the Scots,
  • declares that neither the King nor Lennox knows of a scheme for accusing Argyle,
• Treason, doctrine of,
  • discussed at Strafford's trial,
• Tregoze, Lord.
  • See Grandison, Viscount
• Tremoille, La, Duke of,
  • abandons Protestantism,
• Trendall, John,
  • proposal of the Council to burn,
• Tresham, Francis,
  • consults Garnet,
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Tresham, Sir Thomas,
  • persecution of,
• Treves, the Elector of,
  • admits the French into Ehrenbreitstein,
• Trevor, Sir Sackville,
  • blockades Hamburg,
  • seizes a French ship in the Texel,
• Trevor, Sir Thomas (Baron of the Exchequer, 1625),
  • is on the Bench at the assizes at Durham when Smart brings an action against the prebendaries,
  • delivers judgment in the case of ship-money,
• 'Trial,' the, case of,
  • brought before the House of Commons,
  • difficulty of obtaining satisfaction for injuries to,
• Triennial Bill, the,
  • the Annual Parliaments Bill changed into,
  • Charles declares that he will not assent to,
  • is passed by the Lords,
  • receives the royal assent,
• Trinidad,
  • Raleigh's visit to,
• Triumph of Peace, The,
  • Shirley's masque of,
• Tromp, Admiral,
  • intercepts English vessels with Spanish troops off Portland,
  • defeats Oquendo, but is prevented by Pennington from following up his victory,
  • appeals to Charles,
  • attacks the Spanish fleet,
  • again defeats Oquendo,
• Trot of Turriff, the,
  • mention,
• Trumbull, William,
  • is ordered to protest against the invasion of the Palatinate,
  • converses with Spinola about the truce,
  • is recalled from Brussels,
• Tserclaes, Madame,
  • conveys messages from the Archduke Albert to the Prince of Orange,
• Tudor Monarchy, the,
  • strength of,
• Tulchan bishops, the,
  • mention,
• Tunbridge, Lord (Ulick Burke),
  • remonstrates against Wentworth's proceedings in Galway,
  • See Clanrickard and St. Alban's, Earl of
• Tunis,
  • piracy at,
• Turatta, Madame,
  • gives lessons in the manufacture of gold and silver thread,
• Turin,
  • slaughter of the garrison of,
• Turner, Dr.,
  • declares Buckingham to be the cause of all grievances,
  • puts a set of queries to the House,
  • is taken ill, and abandons the attack on Buckingham,
• Turner, Mrs.,
  • consulted by Lady Essex,
  • employs Weston to poison Overbury,
  • is accused by Helwys,
  • asserts her innocence,
  • trial and execution of,
• Turriff,
  • Montrose rallies the friends of the Covenant at,
  • the Trot of,
• Twysden, Sir Roger,
  • summoned before the Commons to give account of his part in the Kentish petition,
• Tyburn,
  • alleged pilgrimage of Henrietta Maria to,
• Tyrconnell, Earl of, 1603 (Rory O'Donnell),
  • acknowledged by Mountjoy and accompanies him to England,
  • is unable to appear in his own district,
  • is reinstated by Chichester,
  • is reported to be intending to leave Ireland,
  • is said to have taken part in a conspiracy,
  • joins Tyrone in his flight,
  • attainder of,
• Tyrone, Earl of, 1587 (Hugh O'Neill),
  • resumes the title of The O'Neill after the victory of the Blackwater,
  • submits to Mountjoy,
  • receives back the greater part of his lands,
  • is dissatisfied with his position,
  • his views on his position as landowner,
  • continued irritation of,
  • quarrels with O'Cahan,
  • is summoned before the Irish Council,
  • insults the Lord Deputy,
  • is summoned to England,
  • flies from Ireland,
  • attainder of,
  • contemplated pardon of,
• Tytler, Peter,
  • engages, as Vicar of Grantham, in disputes with his parishioners,
  • moves the communion-table,
• Udenheim.
  • See Philippsburg
• Ulm,
  • the treaty of,
• Ulster, condition of,
  • after Mountjoy's conquest,
  • the first circuit in,
  • Chichester's first progress through,
  • Chichester's second progress through,
  • Chichester's views on the settlement of, after the flight of the Earls,
  • Chichester's notes on the condition of,
  • formation of a commission in London to consider the settlement of,
  • rival schemes for the plantation of,
  • Bacon's advice about,
  • Chichester's views on the plantation of,
  • publication of the scheme of the Commissioners in,
  • Chichester's remarks on,
  • the Irish removed from their homes in,
  • discontent in,
  • progress in the colonisation of,
  • Presbyterianism in,
  • condition of the settlement in,
  • belief of the return of the O'Neill and the O'Donnell among the natives of,
  • retrospect of the plantation of,
  • rebellion in,
  • proposal to send 1,000 Scots to put down the rebels in,
  • no general massacre in,
  • atrocities in,
• Undertakers, the,
  • mention,
  • the Commons wish to inquire about,
  • the Commons desist from inquiring about,
• Union between the Churches of Rome and England,
  • discussion of a plan for a,
• Union, the German Protestant,
  • formation of,
  • alliance of James with,
  • alliance of the Dutch with,
  • renews its treaty with James,
  • Doncaster's message to,
  • refuses to support Frederick in Bohemia,
  • sends Buwinckhausen to England,
  • attempts to raise a loan for,
  • urges James to send assistance to the German Protestants,
  • agrees to the Treaty of Ulm,
  • consults Conway and Weston on the danger from Spinola's army,
  • weakness of,
  • dissolution of,
• Union with Scotland, a,
  • proposed by James,
  • looked on with disfavour by the Commons,
  • commissioners named for considering the terms of,
  • report of the commissioners on,
  • debates in the House of Commons on,
  • James wishes to proceed with,
  • enforced abandonment of,
  • Universities the, oppose the millenary petition,
  • oath against Presbyterianism introduced into,
  • submission to Laud's claim to visit, as metropolitan,
• Unlicensed books,
  • proceedings in the High Commission against,
• Urban VIII., Pope, 1623,
  • falls ill after his election,
  • approves of his predecessor's dispensation for the Infanta's marriage,
  • asks for further concessions as a condition of the dispensation for Henrietta Maria's marriage,
  • orders the Nuncio at Paris to use the dispensation,
  • sends his nephew to Paris to mediate between France and Spain,
  • refuses to give men and money to Charles unless he will become a Catholic,
• Usher, James (Bishop of Meath, 1620; Archbishop of Armagh, 1624),
  • preaches at St. Margaret's,
  • recommends Sibbes for the Provostship of Trinity College, Dublin,
  • preaches at Falkland's arrival,
  • is a member of the committee of investigation into the case of the Byrnes,
  • his part in the amendment of the English Canons,
  • supports Wentworth and Laud,
  • carries a message from Strafford to Laud,
  • draws up a scheme of modified episcopacy,
• Utrecht,
  • Alexander Leighton at,
• Uvedale, Sir William,
  • announces that payment of the London loan has been stopped,
• Uzeda, Duke of,
  • supplants Lerma,
• Vaison, Bishop of.
  • See Chisholm
• Valaresso, Alvise,
  • mediates between Buckingham and Pembroke,
• Valentine, Benjamin,
  • holds the Speaker down in his chair,
  • having been imprisoned, refuses to answer questions on his Parliamentary action,
  • applies for a Habeas corpus,
  • is not produced in Court,
  • information in the King's Bench against,
  • is transferred to the Marshalsea,
  • argument in the King's Bench against,
  • fine imposed on,
  • remains in prison till the meeting of the Short Parliament,
  • release of,
• Valtelline, the,
  • insurrection and massacre in,
  • is occupied by Spanish troops,
  • league between France, Venice, and Savoy for the recovery of,
  • completion of the French preparations for the conquest of,
  • French success in,
• Vane, Henry,
  • lands at Boston,
  • early life of,
  • is elected Governor of Massachusetts,
  • sides with Mrs. Hutchinson against Winthrop, and fails to secure his re-election,
  • argues in favour of liberty of speech and thought,
  • returns to England,
  • becomes Joint-Treasurer of the Navy,
  • See Vane, Sir Henry, the younger
• Vane, Sir Henry,
  • declares the liberties of Parliament to be inherited,
  • is sent to the Hague to consult the Dutch on the Spanish offers of peace,
  • is to return to the Hague to persuade the Dutch to accept Charles's arbitration,
  • fails to persuade the Prince of Orange to make peace with Spain,
  • is sent again to the Hague to urge the Dutch to accept Charles's arbitration,
  • is sent to open a negotiation with Gustavus,
  • meets with a rebuff from Gustavus,
  • is recalled,
  • hesitates to vote for war with Scotland,
  • becomes Secretary,
  • announces to the Commons that a refusal of supply will be followed by a dissolution,
  • demands twelve subsidies,
  • declares that the King will not be content with less,
  • assures the King that the Commons will not grant a penny,
  • argues for a defensive war with Scotland,
  • is sent into the City to induce the citizens to lend,
  • calls on the Council to remedy the disasters in the North,
  • reports an improvement in the state of the army,
  • is said to have persuaded Charles to send for Strafford,
  • his notes of Strafford's speeches in the Committee of Eight copied by his son,
  • speaks of the London petitioners as Brownists,
  • declares that the Irish army should be kept on foot till the Scottish army is disbanded,
  • is examined on Strafford's words about bringing over the Irish army,
  • tells the Commons the story of his notes,
  • joins the King in Scotland,
  • is dismissed from the Secretaryship,
• Vane, Sir Henry, the younger,
  • takes a copy of his father's notes of Strafford's speeches in the Committee of Eight,
  • tells the Commons how he had found the notes,
  • passes on the Root-and-Branch bill to Hazlerigg,
  • proposes a scheme for the government of the Church,
  • his scheme rejected by the Commons,
  • is a member of the Committee of Defence,
  • moves for a committee on a present supply for Ireland,
• 'Vanguard,' the,
  • See Rochelle, English ships lent for service against
• Vassall, Samuel,
  • refuses to pay an imposition on currants,
  • the Court of Exchequer orders the sale of the currants of,
• Vaux, Lord, 1595 (Edward Vaux),
  • levies English troops for the Spanish service,
• Velada, the Marquis of,
  • is appointed Spanish ambassador to England,
  • arrives in England to negotiate an alliance,
• Velasco, Alonzo de (Spanish ambassador in England),
  • proposes that the Prince of Wales shall marry the Infanta Anne,
• Velutelli, Acerbo,
  • receives a monopoly of currants and oil,
• Venice,
  • the Bedmar conspiracy at,
  • Wake's mission to,
  • Wake's mission to,
  • its league with France for the recovery of the Valtelline,
• Venloo
  • is taken by Frederick Henry,
• Venn, John,
  • is charged with sending for armed citizens,
• Verdugo,
  • occupies Frankenthal,
• Vere of Tilbury, Lord, 1625-1635 (Horace Vere),
  • commands an English regiment in the Dutch service,
  • See Vere, Sir Horace
• Vere, Sir Francis,
  • commands the English force at Ostend,
• Vere, Sir Horace,
  • is appointed to command the volunteers for the Palatinate,
  • finds the payment for his troops come in slowly,
  • sets out for the Palatinate,
  • commands Frederick's forces in the Lower Palatinate, and quarters his men on the bishopric of Spires,
  • informs James that Mansfeld does not wish for a truce,
  • has no hope of being able to defend the Palatinate,
  • holds out with difficulty at Mannheim,
  • returns to England,
  • is a member of the Council of War,
  • See Lord Vere of Tilbury
• Vermuyden, Cornelius,
  • drains Hatfield Chase,
  • sells his interest in Hatfield Chase,
  • enters into a contract to drain the Great Level of the Fens,
• Verney, Edmund,
  • gives an account of the taking of Trim,
• Verney, Sir Edmund,
  • strikes Ballard, the Jesuit,
  • is ordered to leave Madrid,
  • approves of the letter written by the Covenanters to Essex,
  • writes despondently of the state of the King's army on the Borders,
  • writes that the King is betrayed,
  • is entrusted with the charge of the Royal Standard,
• Verney, Sir Francis,
  • joins the Barbary pirates,
  • captures English vessels,
• Verney, Sir Ralph,
  • does not wish for peace without the liberties of the subject,
• Verreyken, the Audiencer,
  • takes part in the conferences for a peace between England and Spain,
• Versellini
  • introduces an improved process for making glass,
• Vestiarian controversy, the,
  • mention,
• Vicars, John,
  • peculiar opinions of,
  • is removed from his ministry by the High Commission,
• Vienna,
  • is attacked by Thurn,
  • the besiegers driven from before,
  • is attacked by Bethlen Gabor,
• Vieuville, La, Marquis of,
  • becomes chief minister of Louis XIII,
  • informs Carlisle that he will be contented if the marriage treaty contains enough about the English Catholics to satisfy, the Pope,
  • asks James to write a letter if he will not sign an engagement,
  • acceptance by James of the proposal made by,
  • is dismissed,
• Villa Mediana, Count of (Juan de Taxis).
  • brings letters from the King of Spain,
  • is appointed ambassador to England,
  • receives instructions on the proposed marriage of the Prince,
• Ville-aux-Clercs, M. de,
  • is sent to England to receive James's oath to his engagement in favour of the Catholics,
  • obtains the ratification of the treaty,
  • is commissioned to persuade James to allow Mansfeld to relieve Breda,
  • converses with Buckingham on the employment of Mansfeld in Holland,
  • gives an opinion on Charles's character,
  • remonstrates with Charles on his treatment of the Catholics,
• Villiers, Christopher,
  • attempts made to procure a wife for,
  • has a pension out of the monopoly of gold and silver thread,
  • receives payment from the commissioners for alehouses,
  • is charged with sharing the profits of the commission for alehouses,
  • abandonment of the charge against,
  • Elizabeth Norris refuses to marry,
  • is created Earl of Anglesea,
• Villiers, Eleanor,
  • is seduced by Henry Jermyn,
• Villiers, George,
  • early life of,
  • comes to Court,
  • is made a cupbearer,
  • is favoured by Somerset's enemies,
  • is made a Gentleman of the Bed-chamber and knighted,
  • See Villiers, Sir George
  • See Villiers, Viscount
  • See Buckingham, Earl of
  • See Buckingham, Marquis
  • See Buckingham, Duke of
• Villiers, Lady,
  • birth and marriage of,
  • brings up her son with a view of introducing him at Court,
  • marries Sir Thomas Compton,
  • See Compton, Lady
• Villiers, Sir Edward,
  • is sent on a mission to Germany,
  • takes part in the monopoly for gold and silver thread,
  • urges Yelverton to commit some silk-mercers,
  • profits accruing to,
  • is allowed to take his seat in Parliament,
  • expostulates with Frederick,
  • advises Frederick to go to the Palatinate,
  • is sent to obtain from Frederick a promise that he will submit to the Emperor,
  • asks the Commons to avert a dissolution by desisting from their attack on Buckingham,
• Villiers, Sir George, the elder,
  • story of the appearance of the ghost of,
• Villiers, Sir George,
  • becomes Master of the Horse,
  • supports Raleigh's petition to go to Guiana,
  • becomes a Knight of the Garter,
  • Bacon's advice to,
  • is created a viscount,
  • See Villiers, Viscount
  • See Villiers, George
  • See Villiers, Sir George
  • See Buckingham, Earl of
  • See Buckingham, Marquis of
  • See Buckingham, Duke of
• Villiers, Sir John,
  • wishes to marry Frances Coke,
  • marriage of,
  • is raised to the peerage,
  • See Purbeck, Viscount
• Villiers, Viscount, 1616-1617 (George Villiers),
  • grant of lands to,
  • induces Roper to surrender his office,
  • favours the Spanish marriage,
  • becomes Earl of Buckingham,
  • See Villiers, George
  • See Villiers, Sir George
  • See Buckingham, Earl of
  • See Buckingham, Marquis of
  • See Buckingham, Duke of
• Vintners, the Company of,
  • their dispute with the French merchants referred to Bacon's arbitration,
  • Star Chamber proceedings against,
  • imposition laid on,
• Virginia,
  • early attempts to colonise,
  • first charter of,
  • colony sent to,
  • second charter of,
  • Lord De la Warr Governor of,
  • improved condition of,
  • Sir T. Dale Governor of,
  • Yeardley Governor of,
  • introduction of the cultivation of tobacco into,
  • Argall Governor of,
  • Lord De la Warr is re-appointed Governor of,
  • Yeardley re-appointed Governor of,
  • the first colonial Parliament in,
  • proceedings of the Company of,
  • patent granted for the colonisation of New England by the Company of,
  • Irishmen transported to,
• Virginia Company, the,
  • is defended by Nicholas Ferrar,
• Vorstius, Conrad,
  • James's controversy with,
• Vox Populi, the,
  • written by Thomas Scot,
• Waad, Sir William,
  • conducts Raleigh from the Tower to Winchester,
  • is dismissed from the Lieutenancy of the Tower,
• Wake, Sir Isaac,
  • is sent to warn the Duke of Savoy against ambitious designs in Germany,
  • is sent to gain Savoy and Venice for the alliance for the recovery of the Palatinate,
  • is sent again to Savoy and Venice,
  • proposes co-operation with the Duke of Savoy against Genoa,
  • proposes a joint action between England and France in Germany,
  • death of,
• Wales,
  • complaint against the jurisdiction of the Council of,
• Wallenstein, Albrecht (Duke of Friedland)
  • collects an army and defeats Mansfeld at the Bridge of Dessau,
  • follows him into Hungary,
  • returns to North Germany,
  • defeats the Danes, and drives Christian IV.from his Continental possessions,
  • position in Germany of, after his repulse at Stralsund,
  • dismissal of,
  • is recalled to his command, and opposes Gustavus at Nuremberg,
  • is defeated at Lutzen,
  • disputes with the Spanish commanders,
  • assassination of,
• Waller, Edmund,
  • attacks Cosin,
  • wishes the Londoners' petition against episcopacy not to be referred to a committee,
  • asks what are the fundamental laws,
  • declares that the Additional Instruction is a declaration that the House is absolved from its duty,
• Wallingford House,
  • is sold to Buckingham,
• Wallingford, Viscount, 1616-1632 (William Knollys),
  • is forced to surrender the Mastership of the Wards,
  • asks for a public sentence upon Bacon,
  • sells his house to Buckingham,
  • becomes Earl of Banbury,
  • See Banbury, Earl of
• Walter, Sir John (Chief Baron of the Exchequery 162S-1630),
  • high legal attainments of,
  • is selected as the popular candidate for the Recordership,
  • asks that Floyd's property may be confiscated,
  • character of,
  • is consulted on the case against the imprisoned members of Parliament,
  • is asked to resign his place as Chief Baron of the Exchequer,
  • is suspended,
• Waltham, Forest of,
  • the King's claim to the extension of the boundaries of,
  • enforcement of the extension of the boundaries of,
• Wandesford, Christopher,
  • charges Buckingham with administering physic to James on his death-bed,
  • See Wandesford, Sir Christopher
• Wandesford, Sir Christopher,
  • becomes Master of the Rolls in Ireland,
  • asks the Irish Parliament for six subsidies,
  • becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland, and expresses his grief at Strafford's illness,
  • hopes that the army will be ready in spite of the alteration of the rating of the subsidies,
  • death of,
• Ward, Captain,
  • joins the Barbary pirates.
  • story of his achievements,
• Ward, Samuel, of Ipswich,
  • is imprisoned for a caricature which is offensive to Gondomar,
  • complains of Montague,
  • conduct of, in the early years of Charles's reign,
  • is sentenced by the High Commission,
• Ward, William,
  • execution of,
• Wardship,
  • discussed in 1604,
  • discussed in 1604,
  • See Contract, the Great
• Ware,
  • removal of the communion-table at,
• Warwick,
  • seizure of guns intended for the defence of the castle of,
  • Brooke establishes himself in the castle of,
• Warwick, Earl of, 1618 (Robert Rich).
  • suggests that the adjacent shires shall combine to defend Harwich,
  • refuses to pay the forced loan,
  • resists the proposed extension of Waltham Forest,
  • his connection with New England,
  • takes part in a meeting of the opponents of the Court,
  • signs the petition of the twelve peers,
  • protests against ship-money,
  • protests against the refusal of the Lords to communicate to the Commons their resolution on Divine service,
  • intention of Charles to call as a witness against the five members,
  • Northumberland is asked to give the command of the fleet to,
  • Charles forbids the appointment of,
  • fetches the munitions from Hull,
  • is appointed by Parliament to the command of the fleet in the Downs,
  • secures the obedience of the fleet,
• Warwickshire,
  • demand of ship-money made in,
  • Northampton intends to execute the commission of array in,
  • Northampton stops Brooke's guns in,
• Washington. Henry,
  • sends for a Jesuit on his death-bed,
• Waterford,
  • Bibles and Prayer-books burnt at,
  • is threatened for electing recusant magistrates,
  • forfeiture of the charter of, and attempt to introduce Bristol merchants into,
  • refusal of the Bristol merchants to settle in,
  • restoration of the charter of,
  • St. Leger retires to,
• Watson, William,
  • obtains promises from James,
  • forms a plot,
  • is convicted of treason,
  • is executed.
• Wedderburn, James (Bishop of Dunblane, 1636),
  • approves of the introduction of the English Prayer-book into Scotland,
  • suggests alterations in the Scottish Prayer-book,
• Weiss, Captain,
  • sent by Mansfeld to the conference at Brussels,
• Wellington (Somerset),
  • murder of Lieutenant Eure at,
• Wells, Hertford
  • obliged to retreat from,
• Wemyss, Earl of, 1633 (John Wemyss),
  • saves the Bishop of Edinburgh after the tumult at St. Giles',
• Wentworth, Lord, 1628 (Thomas Wentworth),
  • his alleged apostasy discussed,
  • has a promise of the presidency of the Council of the North,
  • causes which estranged him from the House of Commons,
  • is created a viscount,
  • See Wentworth, Sir Thomas
  • See Wentworth, Viscount
  • See Strafford, Earl of
• Wentworth, Sir George,
  • says that the commonwealth will not be well till it is conquered,
• Wentworth, Sir John,
  • fined and imprisoned by the Star Chamber,
• Wentworth, Sir Peter,
  • finds it difficult to levy ship-money as sheriff of Oxfordshire,
  • is compelled to make the assessment in person,
• Wentworth, Sir Thomas,
  • is elected to the Parliament of 1614,
  • political opinions of,
  • proposes an adjournment of the debate on supply for the Palatinate,
  • recommends an immediate grant,
  • declares the liberties of Parliament to be its inheritance,
  • supports Mallory's motion for an adjournment,
  • disputed election of,
  • contrast between Eliot and,
  • his election declared void,
  • is re-elected by Yorkshire,
  • declares that the House is not bound by the engagement of a former Parliament,
  • refuses to yield to the threat of a dissolution,
  • is made sheriff to prevent his appearance in Parliament, and is spoken of by Charles as an honest gentleman,
  • is dismissed from the justiceship of the peace,
  • his desire of reform, and love of power,
  • character of his opposition to Buckingham,
  • asks for the presidency of the Council of the North, and has an interview with Buckingham,
  • the office of Custos Rotulorum taken from,
  • probable reason of the dismissal of,
  • refuses to pay the forced loan,
  • is placed in confinement,
  • is of opinion that the rights of subjects must be vindicated,
  • declares it to be necessary to stop the encroachments of the Government,
  • comparison between him and Eliot,
  • is the originator of the substance of the Petition of Right,
  • supports Coke against Shilton,
  • proposes an adjournment of the debate on supply,
  • moves for a committee to consider the subject of pressing men for the army,
  • carries a resolution of five subsidies in committee,
  • proposes a Bill for securing the liberties of the subject,
  • proposes a Bill to regulate the quartering of soldiers,
  • asks that the date for the payment of the subsidies may be fixed but not reported,
  • moves for a committee to explain that the House is not intentionally delaying supply,
  • proposes a Rill against committal without cause shown,
  • proposes to accept the King's declaration and to pass a Habeas Corpus Bill,
  • constitutional position assigned to the judges by,
  • appeals to the King on behalf of his Habeas Corpus Bill,
  • declares that the laws have been violated by the King's ministers,
  • end of his leadership of the Commons in consequence of the rejection of his overtures by Charles,
  • accepts Coke's proposal of a Petition of Right,
  • agrees to the rejection of the Lords' amendment, but wishes to come to an understanding with them rather than vote directly against them,
  • replies to Eliot's attack,
  • fails to obtain support in the Commons,
  • supports a proposal of the Lords for a joint committee on the Petition of Right,
  • advises the Commons to carry their Remonstrance to the King,
  • is created Lord Wentworth,
  • See Wentworth, Lord
  • See Wentworth, Viscount
  • See Strafford, Earl of
• Wentworth, Thomas,
  • is a member of the first Parliament of James I.,
  • proposes to ask the King to reduce his expenditure,
  • takes part in a debate on impositions,
  • is imprisoned,
• Wentworth, Viscount, 1628-1640 (Thomas Wentworth),
  • becomes President of the Council of the North, and delivers a speech at York,
  • his view of the ecclesiastical question, and of the cooperation of the people in the work of government,
  • devotes himself actively to the maintenance of the King's authority,
  • strength and weakness of his policy.
  • contrast between his ideas and those of Eliot,
  • regards himself as the maintainer of the old constitution,
  • carries to the King a paper containing Sir Robert Dudley's advice, and becomes a Privy Councillor,
  • becomes intimate with Laud,
  • his conduct as a Privy Councillor,
  • his conduct as President of the Council of the North,
  • influence of residence in the North on the political ideas of,
  • is insulted by Henry Bellasys,
  • death of the wife of,
  • is appointed Lord-Deputy of Ireland,
  • is attacked by Sir David Foulis,
  • summons the sheriffs of Yorkshire before the Council of the North,
  • vindicates the authority of the Council,
  • protests against the acceptance of Foulis's offer of service,
  • struggle of, against the influences of wealth and position,
  • urges the Star Chamber to show no mercy to Foulis,
  • appeals to the Privy Council to support the jurisdiction of the Council of the North over Sir Thomas Gower,
  • leaves York, having obtained the grant of fuller powers to the Council of the North,
  • married life of,
  • complains that Portland does not answer his letters,
  • becomes Lord-Deputy of Ireland,
  • his qualifications for governing the country,
  • his system of government,
  • needs the support of an army,
  • obtains prolongation of the contribution for a year,
  • intends to see with his own eyes,
  • writes a sharp letter to the Lords Justices,
  • arrives in Dublin,
  • obtains the prolongation of the contribution for another year,
  • his confidence in the power of government,
  • pays the army and reduces it to discipline,
  • his relations with the Irish Council and the King',
  • attempts to dissuade the King from promoting Lorenzo Cary,
  • represses piracy and encourages trade,
  • discourages the Irish cloth manufacture,
  • his remedy for the disorders of the Irish Church,
  • orders the removal of Lady Cork's tomb, and removes the communion-table at Christ Church,
  • his plan for managing the Irish Parliament,
  • his speech at the opening of Parliament,
  • his consistency considered,
  • obtains six subsidies, and asks in vain for an earldom,
  • announces that all the Graces will not be passed into law,
  • obtains the assent of the Irish Convocation to the English articles,
  • attempts to repress nonconformity in Ulster,
  • proposes to bring fresh English colonists into Ireland,
  • visits Connaught,
  • obtains a title for the King in Roscommon, Sligo, and Mayo,
  • puts down the resistance of the Galway jury,
  • bad example set by, in his treatment of the jury,
  • his policy of Thorough,
  • is spoken of as likely to be Lord Treasurer,
  • attacks upon, in the English Court,
  • disregards Laud's warning of the impolicy of provoking enemies, but regrets that he cannot depend on the King,
  • detects Mountnorris's malversations,
  • is authorised to proceed against Mountnorris,
  • brings Mountnorris before a council of war,
  • assures Mountnorris that his life will be spared,
  • reflections on his conduct to Mountnorris,
  • gives an account of his proceedings in Mountnorris's case,
  • visits England, and defends his government of Ireland,
  • his authority established in Ireland,
  • advises the King against going to war for the Palatinate,
  • wishes the King to have money for a land army,
  • wishes to vindicate the Crown from the conditions and restraints of subjects,
  • compared with Richelieu,
  • mediates between Vermuyden and the inhabitants of Hatfield Chase,
  • is satisfied with the improved condition of Ireland,
  • comments on Prynne's case,
  • wishes Hampden to be whipped into his senses,
  • criticises Antrim's capacity as a leader,
  • sneers at the Covenant,
  • his plan for the reduction of Scotland,
  • wishes Scotland to be governed by the English Council,
  • holds that the safety of the people is the highest law,
  • sends 2,000l. to the King for the war against the Scots,
  • reports against Antrim's military capacity, and dissuades Charles from invading Scotland,
  • begs Charles not to fight with an untrained army,
  • sends advice on the way in which the war should be carried on,
  • visits England to carry on his case against Crosby and Mountnorris,
  • alleged manslaughter of Esmond by,
  • takes the Great Seal from Lord Loftus,
  • induces Charles to allow the prosecution of Loftus,
  • becomes Charles's chief counsellor,
  • recommends the calling of a Parliament,
  • takes part in the Councillors' loan,
  • is created Earl of Strafford,
  • See Wentworth,Sir Thomas
  • See Wentworth, Lord
  • See Strafford, Earl of
• Wesel,
  • meeting of the German Protestants at,
  • Spinola directed to keep possession of,
  • is taken by the Dutch,
• Westmeath,
  • settlement of,
• Westminster,
  • proposal to extend the municipal boundaries of,
  • appearance of a well-dressed mob at, demanding Strafford's execution,
  • a rougher mob at,
  • apprentices appear at, to protest against the King's proposed journey to Scotland,
  • Dorset orders his men to fire on a crowd at,
  • a guard appointed by a justice of,
  • the bishops insulted by a mob at,
  • attack upon the Abbey by the mob at,
  • the King orders the Law Courts to be removed from,
• Westminster Abbey,
  • failure of an attempt of a mob upon,
• Westminster Hall,
  • arrangements made for Strafford's trial in,
• Westmoreland, Earl of, 1628 (Mildmay Fane),
  • is fined for encroachments in Rockingham Forest,
• Weston (Baron of the Exchequer, 1634),
  • his judgment in the ship-money case,
• Weston, Jerome,
  • defends his father against Eliot's attack,
  • is sent on a mission to France and Italy,
  • is instructed to assure Louis of Charles's readiness to agree to the independence of the Spanish Netherlands,
  • is ordered to protest against a partition of the Spanish Netherlands,
  • asks the French Government to support Charles Lewis,
  • See Weston, Lord
• Weston, Lady,
  • is a recusant,
• Weston, Lord (Jerome Weston),
  • returns to England with Richelieu's terms,
  • intercepts a packet of letters containing one from the Queen,
  • is challenged by Holland,
  • See Weston, Jerome
• Weston, Lord, 1628-1633 (Richard Weston),
  • gives its final shape to the Lords' amendment to the Petition of Right,
  • wishes to be sure that his amendment does not alter the Petition,
  • becomes Lord Treasurer, and introduces Wentworth to Charles,
  • warns Charles against erecting a monument to Buckingham,
  • character of,
  • political views of,
  • supports Contarini's negotiation,
  • growing influence of,
  • opposes interference in favour of Denmark,
  • announces that the question of tonnage and poundage is to be left to Parliament,
  • unpopularity of,
  • Eliot proposes to impeach,
  • urges Charles to dissolve Parliament,
  • tells Charles that if he does not make peace with Spain he must summon another Parliament,
  • finds difficulty in supplying the Queen's demands,
  • pays off part of the King's debts,
  • explains away to Coloma the King's hesitation to make peace without obtaining the Palatinate,
  • proposal of Richelieu to come to a good understanding with,
  • intrigues of Chateauneuf and De Jars against,
  • Massinger's allusions to,
  • announces Charles's intention to ally himself with Gustavus,
  • assures Richelieu of his wish to see England and France united,
  • talks contemptuously of Spain,
  • is created Earl of Portland,
  • See Weston, Sir Richard
  • See Portland, Earl of
• Weston, Richard,
  • is employed to poison Overbury,
  • is accused by Helwys,
  • implicates the Earl and Countess of Somerset in the murder,
  • trial of,
  • execution of,
• Weston, Sir Richard,
  • is sent to mediate in Germany,
  • gives advice to the Princes of the Union,
  • witnesses the battle of Prague,
  • recall of,
  • becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer,
  • is sent to Brussels to be present at the conferences on the restitution of the Palatinate,
  • arrives at Brussels,
  • is unable to produce powers from Frederick to treat,
  • presses Spinola for a suspension of arms,
  • tells James of a proposal for the sequestration of places in the Palatinate,
  • continues to ask for a suspension of arms,
  • declares that the King of England will make war upon Mansfeld and Christian if they do not submit to terms of peace,
  • acknowledges that there is no hope of obtaining their submission,
  • again presses for a suspension of arms,
  • is recalled,
  • makes a report of his mission to the Privy Council,
  • votes against war with Spain,
  • brings in the report of Buckingham's narrative,
  • gives an account of the King's expenses,
  • urges the Commons to grant supply,
  • brings, a message from the King urging the Commons to grant immediate supply,
  • demands an immediate supply,
  • charges Eliot with actions committed out of the House,
  • is urged by Charles to find money for the expedition to Rhé,
  • is unable to raise supplies,
  • his eagerness to serve Buckingham,
  • is silent during the debates on supply in the Parliament of 1628,
  • is created a Baron,
  • See Weston, Lord
  • See Portland, Earl of
• Weston, Thomas,
  • offers to lend money to the emigrants for New England,
• Wexford,
  • mass celebrated at,
• Wexford, the county of,
  • state of land tenure in,
  • Chichester proposes a plantation in,
  • resistance of the natives of,
  • difficulty of finding a title for the King to lands in,
  • a plantation carried out in,
  • improved material condition of,
  • rising of the natives of,
• Weymouth, Captain,
  • visits New England,
• Whale fishery, the,
  • rivalry between the English and the Dutch in,
  • Dutch Commissioners authorised to treat about,
  • postponement of the negotiation on,
• Wharton, Lady
  • Chancery suits of,
  • offers a bribe to Bacon,
  • the Lords, informed of the case of,
• Wharton, Lord, 1625 (Philip Wharton),
  • protests against the refusal of the Lords to communicate to the Commons their resolution on Divine service,
  • intention of the King to call as a witness against the five members,
• Wheatley, Alderman,
  • replaces the communion-table at Grantham in the choir,
• Wheelwright, Mr.
  • preaches a violent sermon in favour of Mrs. Hutchinson's opinions,
• Whistler, John,
  • proposes to ask the opinion of the Lords on the proposal to send out a fleet,
• White, Dr.
  • persuades the townsmen of Wexford to resist Mountjoy,
  • argues with Mountjoy,
• White, Dr. Francis (Chaplain to James I.),
  • holds conferences with Fisher,
• White Hill, the, battle on,
  • mention,
• Whitehall,
  • rebuilding of the banqueting-house at,
  • performance of the Inns of Court masque at,
  • panic at, when the mob arrives to cry out for justice on Strafford,
  • affray between Cavaliers and citizens in front of,
  • Charles orders a guard to be posted at the gate of,
• Whitelocke, Bulstrode,
  • takes part in the arrangements for the Inns of Court masque,
  • brings forward the charge against Strafford of advising the King to bring over the Irish army,
  • argues in support of Vane's evidence,
• Whitelocke, James,
  • takes part in the debate on impositions,
  • argues against a commission for inquiring into the state of the navy,
  • is imprisoned,
  • is censured in the Star Chamber,
  • pays a small sum to the benevolence,
  • abandons his share in Roper's office,
  • is a candidate for the Recordership of London,
  • See Whitelocke, Sir James
• Whitelocke, Sir James (Justice of the King's Bench, 1624-1632),
  • is on the Bench at the hearing of the five knights case,
  • position of the communion-table in the chapel built by him at Fawley,
  • is satisfied with the arrangements in Durham Cathedral,
  • has an interview with the King,
  • pronounces the judgment of the King's Bench on the exemption of Eliot, Holles, and Valentine from the jurisdiction of the court,
• Whitgift, John (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1583-1604),
  • argues against Cartwright,
  • becomes Archbishop of Canterbury,
  • death of,
• Wicklow,
  • made into shire-ground,
  • loyal feeling in,
  • rising of the natives of,
  • cruelty of Coote in,
• Widdowes, Giles,
  • writes in defence of bowing in church,
• Wiesloch,
  • combat at,
• Wightman, Edward,
  • convicted of heresy,
  • is burnt,
• William of Orange, Prince,
  • rejection of the proposed marriage of, with the Princess Mary,
  • acceptance of the offer of,
  • completion of the treaty for the marriage of,
  • arrives in England, bringing money to Charles,
  • marriage of,
• Williams, John (Bishop of Lincoln, 1621; Archbishop of York, 1641),
  • assists in bringing about Buckingham's marriage,
  • wishes the House of Commons to receive the communion at Westminster,
  • advises Buckingham to throw over the monopolists,
  • is offered the appointment of Lord Keeper,
  • is named as Bishop of Lincoln,
  • receives the Great Seal,
  • objects to the patent confirming the appointment of Arundel as Earl Marshal,
  • supports Laud's appointment to the bishopric of St. David's,
  • refuses to be consecrated by Abbot,
  • opens the proceedings in Parliament after the adjournment,
  • advises James to explain that the privileges of Parliament are inherent in the persons of the members,
  • warns the Prince against the dangers of his journey to Spain,
  • gives an opinion on the difficulties in the progress of the marriage treaty,
  • sends Toby Matthew to Madrid,
  • suggests that James shall be asked whether he feels conscientious scruples against swearing to the marriage treaty,
  • advises James to accept the treaty,
  • objects to the writing of a letter by James to the judges, restraining them from allowing proceedings against the Catholics,
  • interposes delays in the way of the issue of documents favouring the Catholics,
  • is ordered to set the priests at liberty,
  • votes against war with Spain,
  • informs Charles that he has discovered Carondelet's secret intercourse with the King,
  • gives offence to Buckingham by advising him to abandon the Admiralty,
  • administers the communion to James,
  • explains to Charles that he cannot summon Parliament without delay,
  • speaks at the opening of Parliament,
  • opposes the adjournment of the Houses to Oxford,
  • objects to sealing the pardons of priests,
  • advises Charles to declare that he must deal with the Catholics as he sees fit,
  • pleads against a dissolution,
  • causes of Buckingham's dislike of,
  • is dismissed from the Keepership of the Great Seal,
  • is restored to his seat in Parliament at the instance of the Lords,
  • speaks against the King's right to commit without showing cause,
  • wishes to find a formula which will leave the King a discretionary power in cases of necessity,
  • draws up an amendment to be inserted in the Petition of Right,
  • declares against the clause drawn up by Weston,
  • wishes to be sure that the clause does not alter the petition,
  • says that it is rumoured that the King's first answer to the petition came not from himself, but from the Council,
  • overtures made by the Countess of Buckingham to,
  • gives advice to Buckingham,
  • is asked by the parishioners of Grantham to settle the dispute about the position of the communion-table,
  • gives his decision,
  • predicts that the merchants will not continue to refuse payment of tonnage and poundage,
  • expresses approval of the community at Little Gidding,
  • gives his opinion on the position of the communion-table in a church at Leicester,
  • Star Chamber prosecution of,
  • writes The Holy Table, Name and Thing,
  • is sentenced in the Star Chamber to fine and imprisonment,
  • refuses to acknowledge himself guilty,
  • is fined in the Star Chamber on account of letters found at Buckden,
  • is set at liberty, and permits the removal of the communion-table at St. Margaret's,
  • pacifies the mob at Whitehall,
  • advises Charles to assent to the Bill of Attainder,
  • recommends Charles to reject the Bill against the Dissolution of Parliament,
  • condoles with Charles on the result of the Bill,
  • elaborates a scheme of Church reform,
  • recommends the King to conciliate Essex and Mandeville,
  • his scheme of Church reform not supported in the House of Lords,
  • is appointed Archbishop of York,
  • is insulted by a mob in Palace Yard,
  • places the protest of the bishops in the King's hands,
  • impeachment of,
  • caricatures of,
• Williams, Roger,
  • is banished from Massachusetts, and founds the settlement of Rhode Island,
• Willoughby de Eresby, Lord, 1601-1625 (Robert Bertie),
  • is sent in command of a fleet for the coast of Spain,
  • is driven back by a storm,
  • See Lindsey, Earl of
• Willoughby of Parham, Lord, after 1617 (Francis Willoughby),
  • executes the militia ordinance in Lincolnshire,
• Willoughby, Sir Francis,
  • is challenged by Lucius Cary,
  • secures Dublin Castle,
• Wilmot, Henry,
  • wishes the army to present a petition in support of the King,
  • has to ask pardon of the House for suggesting that Goring had perjured himself,
• Wilmot, Viscount, 1620-1632 (Charles Wilmot),
  • is appointed to command the troops for the relief of the expedition to Rhé,
  • writes that no arms have been sent,
  • is ordered to ship his men at Plymouth,
  • is called to account by Wentworth,
  • See Wilmot, Sir Charles
• Wilmot, Sir Charles,
  • takes part in the government of Munster,
  • secures Limerick,
  • See Wilmot, Viscount
• Wilson, Sir Thomas,
  • acts as a spy on Raleigh,
• Wiltshire,
  • disorderly conduct of the soldiers in,
• Wimbledon, Viscount, 1626-1638 (Edward Cecil),
  • recommends that the soldiers be brought under martial law,
  • See Cecil, Sir Edward
• Wimborne,
  • fraudulent appropriation of the funds of a school at,
• Wimpfen,
  • battle of,
• Winchester
  • men gathered for the relief of Rhé at,
  • position of the communion-table in the cathedral of,
• Winchester, Marquis of, 1628 (John Paulet), sends 200l.
  • to the King for the war against the Scots,
• Windebank, Francis,
  • gains the confidence of his soldiers by convincing them that he is not a Catholic,
• Windebank, Sir Francis,
  • becomes Secretary of State,
  • is appointed to carry on a negotiation with Necolalde,
  • is ordered to seize Coke's papers,
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • quarrel of Laud with,
  • takes Bagg's part in the Star Chamber,
  • character of,
  • negotiates with Panzani,
  • converses with Panzani on the employment of an armed force for the suppression of Puritanism, and on the terms of reunion with Rome,
  • thinks that the reunion will not be effected for a century,
  • assures Panzani that Parliament is not about to be summoned,
  • refuses to change his religion, but informs Panzani that he has the King's orders to treat on the reunion,
  • Juxon attempts to reconcile Laud to,
  • is imprisoned for a short time for sending Spanish money to the Netherlands,
  • proposes to Onate a secret treaty about the Palatinate,
  • orders Northumberland to explain away the story of Fielding's failure to induce the Dutch fishing-boats to take the King's licences,
  • votes for war with Scotland,
  • is ordered to exaggerate the number of men sent to reinforce the King's army,
  • supports a scheme for forcing the City to lend money,
  • demands money for the protection of Oquendo's fleet,
  • talks like a Catholic to Rossetti,
  • reads the letter from the Scots to Louit in the House of Commons,
  • brings a message from the Queen to Rossetti, asking him to obtain money and men from the Pope,
  • sees no difficulty in collecting an army against the Scots,
  • is accused of favouring the Catholics, and takes to flight,
• Windsor,
  • Charles removes to,
  • ammunition sent away from,
• Wingfield, Sir Richard,
  • plunders Innishowen,
  • defeats O'Dogherty,
• Winniffe, Dr.,
  • is imprisoned for preaching against Spinola,
• Winslow, Edward,
  • joins the emigrants for New England,
• Winter King, the,
  • meaning of the epithet,
• Winter, Robert.
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Winter, Thomas,
  • is sent into Spain,
  • is sent into Spain,
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Winthrop, John,
  • early life of,
  • resolves to go to New England,
  • emigrates to New England,
  • refuses to allow the use of the Common Prayer-book,
  • takes part against Mrs. Hutchinson, and is elected Governor of Massachusetts,
• Wintour, Sir John,
  • ordered to give an account of the Catholic contribution,
• Winwood, Sir Ralph,
  • is English member of the Dutch Council of State,
  • is employed as an English representative at the conferences of the Hague,
  • conducts the negotiation for the disposal of Juliers,
  • ordered to agree to a treaty with the Union,
  • gives a present to Lady Somerset,
  • becomes Secretary of State,
  • asks for a grant of supply,
  • takes part in a debate on impositions,
  • receives information that Overbury had been murdered,
  • gives his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
  • receives part of the money produced by the sale of a peerage,
  • listens to Scarnafissi's plan for an attack on Genoa,
  • supports Raleigh in his projects,
  • is ordered to give to Sarmiento a list of Raleigh's vessels,
  • quarrels with Bacon,
  • death of,
  • Raleigh's charges against,
• Witch of Edmonton, The,
  • play of,
• Witchcraft,
  • persistency of the belief in,
• Wither, George,
  • moral theories of,
• Wittstock,
  • Swedish victory at,
• Witty Fair One, The,
  • Shirley's play of,
• Womanhood,
  • contrast between Milton's and Massinger's ideal of,
• Women,
  • offence given by the preaching of,
  • crowd of, in Palace Yard,
  • petition of the,
• Worcester, Earl of, 1589-1628 (Edward Somerset),
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • appointed Lord Privy Seal,
  • appointed a commissioner to examine Raleigh,
  • death of,
• Worcester, Earl of, i628 (Henry Somerset),
  • alleged warlike preparations of,
  • report of a committee on the conduct of,
  • assists the King with money,
• Worcestershire,
  • preparations to execute the commission of array in,
• Workman, John,
  • preaches Puritan sermons,
• Wortley, Sir Francis,
  • presents a petition to the King against the removal of the munitions from Hull,
  • repudiation of the petition presented by,
• Wotton, Lord, 1604-1630 (Thomas Wotton),
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • is excluded from Charles's Privy Council,
• Wotton, Sir Henry,
  • is a candidate for the Secretaryship after Salisbury's death,
  • takes part in a debate on impositions,
  • is sent on an embassy to the Hague,
  • is sent as ambassador to Venice,
  • is ordered to mediate at Vienna,
  • failure of the mediation of,
  • goes on to Venice,
• Wray, Edward,
  • is proposed as a husband for Elizabeth Norris.
  • marries her,
• Wray, Sir John,
  • says that he smells gun-powder in the House,
• Wren, Matthew (Bishop of Hereford, 1634; of Norwich, 1635; of Ely, 1638),
  • sent to Spain as the Prince's chaplain,
  • his opinion on unity and uniformity,
  • is attacked by Prynne in News from Ipswich,
  • takes part in the revision of the Scottish Prayer-book,
  • becomes Bishop of Ely,
  • impeachment of,
• Wright, Alderman,
  • chosen Lord Mayor,
• Wright, Christopher.
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Wright, John.
  • See Gunpowder Plot
• Wurtemberg, Duke of (John Frederick),
  • offers to mediate between Frederick and the Emperor,
• Wych, Sir Peter,
  • signs the protestation of the peers at York,
• Wyville, Mr.
  • compounds for his knighthood fine,
• Xanten, the Treaty of,
  • signed,
  • refusal of the Dutch to execute,
• Yarmouth, Great,
  • Brent's report of the metropolitical visitation of,
  • salt-works at,
  • Hamilton's troops at,
• Yeardley, Sir George,
  • is Governor of Virginia,
  • is again Governor of Virginia,
• Yelverton, Henry,
  • compares the King's command to the roaring of a lion,
  • takes part in the debate on impositions,
  • becomes Solicitor-General,
  • See Yelverton, Sir Henry
• Yelverton, Sir Henry,
  • opposition of Buckingham to his appointment as Attorney-General,
  • becomes Attorney-General,
  • appears against Coke before the Council,
  • pleads Bacon's cause with Buckingham,
  • supports the patent for gold and silver thread,
  • gives his opinion that the patent is not a monopoly,
  • commits silk-mercers to the Fleet,
  • disgrace of,
  • assures the Lords that he has been unjustly punished,
  • attacks Buckingham,
  • debate in the Lords on the case of,
  • sentence on,
  • conduct of, as a judge of assize, when Smart brings an action against the prebendaries of Durham,
• York,
  • Wentworth's speech at,
  • arrival .of Charles at,
  • the Great Council meets at,
  • Charles finds a qualified support at,
  • arrival of Parliamentary Commissioners at,
  • the King orders the law courts to be removed to,
  • arrival of noblemen and gentlemen at,
  • protestation of the peers at,
• York, Duke of.
  • See Charles, Duke of York
  • See James, Duke of York
• York House,
  • negotiations for the sale of,
  • Buckingham entertains Bassompierre at,
• Yorkshire,
  • payment of the forced loan in,
  • a petition against the violence of the soldiers presented by the gentlemen of,
  • unwillingness to resist the Scots displayed in,
  • offer of the gentlemen of,
  • appearance at York of the trained bands of,
  • offer of the gentlemen to pay the trained bands of,
  • Charles asked to come to terms with his Parliament by the gentry of,
  • Wortley presents a petition from some gentlemen of,
  • repudiation of Wortley's petition in,
  • a Parliamentary Committee sent to,
  • Charles orders a guard from the gentry of, and sends for a regiment of the trained bands of,
  • meeting at Heyworth Moor of the freeholders and farmers of,
• Young, John (Dean of Winchester, 1616),
  • takes part in the revision of a Scottish Prayer-book,
• Young, Thomas,
  • is one of the authors of the pamphlet issued under the name of Smectymnuus,
• Zapata, Cardinal,
  • accompanies Prince Charles to Santander,
• Zouch, Lord, 1556-1625 (Edward la Zouch),
  • becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
  • becomes Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports,
  • is absent from the Council when the oath is taken to the Spanish marriage treaty,
  • surrenders the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports to Buckingham,
• Zouch, Sir Edward,
  • his patent for the manufacture of glass,
• Zorzi, Zuane,
  • forwards to Contarini a project for a treaty between France and England,
  • proposal to employ him in the negotiation,
• Zuniga, Balthazar de,
  • becomes the chief minister of Philip IV.,
  • opposes the transference of the Electorate to Maximilian,
  • his plan for conferring the Palatinate on Frederick's son adopted by the Spanish Council of State,
  • assures Fra Hyacintho that the King of Spain will not object to the transference of the Electorate, if Spain is not implicated,
  • policy of,
  • differs from the Council of State,
  • is appointed a commissioner for the marriage treaty,
  • death of,
• Zuniga, Pedro de,
  • is asked to communicate with the Pope,
  • his mission to England,
• Zweibruecken, Duke of,
  • is Administrator of the Palatinate,
  • urges Vere to action,