Index of Gardiner's History of England

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,