Index of Gardiner's History of England

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