Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century

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INDEX.

Abbott, George, Archbishop of Canterbury Achitophel. See Shaftesbury. Aires, or Ayres, Captain. Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, first Earl of. Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of. Arminius. Army, The New Model. Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of: character by Clarendon; by Sir Edward Walker; his art collections. Ascham, Roger. Ashley, Lord. See Shaftesbury. Aubrey, John: description of Hobbes; of Milton; his manuscripts; quoted. Aulicus Coquinariæ.

Bacon, Sir Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans:
character by Jonson;
by Arthur Wilson;
by Fuller;
by Rawley;
his relations with Hobbes;
Essays quoted by Baxter;
Advancement of Learning;
Henry VII;
Apophthegms.
Baker, Sir Richard.
Balfour, Sir William.
Bankes, Anne, wife of Edmund Waller.
Bate, or Bates, George: Elenchus Motuum.
Baxter, Richard:
character of Cromwell;
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ;
letter to Lauderdale.
Bedford, Francis Russell, fourth Earl of.
Bee, Cornelius, bookseller.
Bendish, Bridget.
Bendish, Henry.
Bentivoglio, Cardinal Guido.
Berry, James.
Bible.
Boileau.
Bolton, Edmund: Hypercritica.
Bradshaw, John: Milton's praise of.
Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of:
character by Clarendon.
Bristol, John Digby, first Earl of.
Bristol, second Earl of. See Digby, George.
Brooke, Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron.
Brooke, Robert Greville, second Baron.
Buckingham, George Villiers, first Duke of:
character by Clarendon;
by Sir Henry Wotton;
Clarendon's early account.
Buckingham, George Villiers, second Duke of:
character by Burnet;
by Dryden (Zimri);
other characters.
Buckingham, or Buckinghamshire, John Sheffield, Duke of:
'Character of Charles II'.
Burleigh, William Cecil, Baron.
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury:
characters of Charles II;
Clarendon;
Lauderdale;
Shaftesbury;
Buckingham;
Halifax;
seventeenth-century divines;
James II;
account of Vane;
Waller;
Sir Philip Warwick;
his characters;
revision of his characters;
History of His Own Time;
Memoirs of Dukes of Hamilton;
Life of Hale;
Life of Rochester;
relations with Lauderdale;
with English divines.
Burton, John.
Bushell, Thomas.
Butler, Samuel: character of Shaftesbury;
of Buckingham.
Byron, John, first Baron Byron.

Cæsar. Calamy, Edward. Calvert, Sir George, Baron Baltimore. Camden, William. Cambridge Platonists. Canterbury College. Capel, Arthur, Baron Capel: character by Clarendon, Cromwell's character of him. Carew, Thomas. Carleton, Sir Dudley, Baron Carleton, Viscount Dorchester. Carlisle, James Hay, Earl of. Carlyle, Thomas. Carnarvon, Robert Dormer, Earl of: character by Clarendon. Cavendish, George. Cecil, Robert. See Salisbury. Chamberlayne, Edward: Angliæ Nolitia. Charles I: character by Clarendon; by Sir Philip Warwick; Prince. Charles II: his character by Halifax; by Burnet; other characters; his taste in sermons. Cheynell, Francis. Chillingworth, William: character by Clarendon; his siege engine. Christ Church, Oxford. Christie, W.D. Cicero. Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of: character by Burnet; other characters of him; characters written by him, see Contents; his long study of Digby; his merits as a character writer; his conception of history; his manuscripts; the History; its authenticity; editorial alterations; the Life; View of Hobbes's Leviathan; Essays quoted; Letters quoted; other writings; his picture gallery. Clarendon, Henry Hyde, second Earl of. Clarke, Abraham. Clélie. Coke, Sir Edward. Coke, Roger: Detection of the Court and State of England. Coleridge, S.T. Cominges, Le Comte de, French ambassador. Con, Signior, papal nuncio. Connoisseur, The. Conway, Sir Edward, Viscount Conway. Cottington, Sir Francis, Baron Cottington. Cotton, Sir Robert. Cousin, Victor. Coventry, Sir Thomas, Baron Coventry: character by Clarendon. Coventry, Sir William, character by Burnet. Cowley, Abraham: 'Of My self', character by Sprat, note by Aubrey, his Essays, verses on Falkland, Latin verses. Crofts, William, Baron Crofts. Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector: character by Clarendon, by Sir Philip Warwick, by John Maidston, by Baxter. Cudworth, Ralph: character by Burnet. Culpeper, or Colepeper, Sir John. Cumberland, Henry Clifford, Earl of. Cyrus, Le Grand.

Davenant, Sir William. Davila, Enrico Caterino. Desborough, John. Digby, George, Baron Digby, second Earl of Bristol: character by Clarendon; others by Clarendon; description by Shaftesbury. Diogenes Laertius. Divers portraits. Dominico, Signior. Dorchester, Viscount. See Carleton. Dort, Synod of. Dryden, John: character of Shaftesbury, of Buckingham; of Halifax; Absalom and Achitophel; Annus Mirabilis; Of Dramatick Poesie; Verses to Duchess of York; dedication of King Arthur. Duke, Richard, The Review. Dunton, John, Life and Errors.

Earle, or Earles, John, Bishop of Worcester: character by Clarendon; described by Walton; letters from Clarendon; Micro-cosmographie. Eikon Basilike. Elizabeth, daughter of James I. England's Black Tribunall. Episcopius. Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of: Clarendon's early study. Essex, Robert Devereux, third Earl of: character by Clarendon, by Arthur Wilson. Evanson, William. Evelyn, John: Diary; letter quoted.

Fairfax, Ferdinando, second Baron.
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, third Baron:
character by Baxter,
Milton's sonnet;
and Latin character;
Clarendon's estimate,
Warwick's estimate.
Falkland, Henry Cary, first Viscount.
Falkland, Lattice, second Viscountess.
Falkland, Lucius Gary, second Viscount:
character by Clarendon (1647);
later character (1668);
his marriage;
his death;
his speech concerning episcopacy;
his writings;
quoted by Fuller.
See also Tew.
Finch, Sir John, Baron Finch.
Firth, C.H.
Fouquet, Nicholas.
Fuller, Thomas:
his character (anonymous);
described by Aubrey;
his Life;
his character of Bacon;
of Laud;
his characters;
Church-History;
Holy State;
Worthies of England.

Galerie des Peintures, La.
Gardiner, S.R.
Gauden, John.
Gentleman's Magazine.
Gildon, Charles.
Glencairn, William Cunningham, Earl of.
Godolphin, Sidney: character by Clarendon.
Gondomar, Spanish ambassador.
Goodwin, Thomas, President of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Goring, George, Baron Goring: character by Clarendon.
Greville, Fulke. See Brooke.
Grotius, Hugo.
Guilford, Francis North, Baron of, Lord Keeper.

Hacket, John: Scrinia Reserata. Hale, Sir Matthew, Lord Chief Justice. Hales, John, of Eton: character by Clarendon; letters on Synod of Dort; Tract concerning Schisme; Golden Remains; praise of Shakespeare. Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of: character by Burnet; by Dryden; his character of Charles II. Hall, Joseph, Bishop. Hamilton, Antoine. Hamilton, James, third Marquis and first Duke of Hamilton. Hamilton, William, second Duke of Hamilton. Hammond, Henry, chaplain to Charles I. Hampden, John: character by Clarendon; Clarendon's reference to it; its authenticity; character by Sir Philip Warwick. Hastings, Henry: character by Shaftesbury. Hawkins, Sir Thomas. Hayward, Sir John. Henry, Prince. Herbert, Sir Thomas. Hertford, William Seymour, Marquis of: character by Clarendon. Hobbes, Edmund. Hobbes, Thomas: described by Clarendon; by Aubrey; assists Bacon; Burnet's opinions. Holinshed, Raphael. Holland, Philemon. Holles, Denzil, first Baron Holles. Hopton, Ralph, first Baron Hopton. Horace. Howard, Charles, Baron Howard of Effingham, Earl of Nottingham. Howard, Leonard: Collection of Letters. Howell, James: character of Ben Jonson. Hudibras. Huntingdon, Earls of. Hutchinson, John, Colonel: character by his widow; her Memoirs. Hyde, Edward. See Clarendon.

Irenæus. Irenicum, Stillingfleet's. Islip, Simon, Archbishop of Canterbury.

James I:
character by Arthur Wilson;
by Sir Anthony Weldon;
'the wisest foole in Christendome'.
James II:
characters by Burnet;
his journal;
High Admiral.
Jermyn, Henry, Baron Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans.
Johnson, Samuel:
quoted;
Lives of the Poets.
Jonson, Ben:
character by Clarendon;
by James Howell;
his character of Bacon,
and description.
Jotham. See Halifax.
Juxon, William, Archbishop of Canterbury: character by Sir Philip Warwick.

Killigrew, Henry.
Killigrew, Thomas, the elder.
Kimbolton, Baron. See Manchester, Earl of.
King, James, General.
Knolles, Richard: History of The Turkes.
Knott, Edward: 'the learned Jesuit'.

La Bruyère. Lachrymæ Musarum. Lake, Sir Thomas. Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury: character by Clarendon; by Fuller; by Sir Philip Warwick; speech on scaffold. Lauderdale, John Maitland, Earl of: character by Clarendon; character by Burnet; his library. Lawes, Henry, musician. Leicester, Robert Sidney, Earl of. Levett, Mr., Page of Bedchamber to Charles I. Lewgar, John. Lilburne, John. Lincoln, Bishop of. See Williams, John. Livy. Lloyd, William, Bishop of Worcester: character by Burnet. Lucan. Lugar. See Lewgar.

Macaulay, Lord, Machiavelli, Maidston, John: character of Cromwell, Manchester, Edward Montagu, second Earl of, Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, Viscount Mandeville: character by Clarendon, by Warwick, by Burnet, Manchester, Henry Montagu, first Earl of, Mandeville, Viscount. See Manchester, Earl of. Mansell, Sir Robert, Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, Martyrdom of King Charles, Maurice, Prince. Maynard, Sir John, Mercurius Academicus, Middlesex, Lionel Cranfield, Earl of, Middleton, John, Earl of Middleton, Millington, Edward, bookseller and auctioneer, Milton, John: described by Aubrey, note by Edward Phillips, notes by Jonathan Richardson, his sonnet to Fairfax, to Vane, to Henry Lawes, his Latin character of Fairfax, Eikonoklastes, Defensio Secunda, his daughters, ignored by Clarendon, Milward, Richard, Molière, Montaigne, Montgomery, Earl of. See Pembroke, fourth Earl of. Montpensier, Mlle de, More, Henry, the Cambridge Platonist: character by Burnet, More, Sir Thomas, Morley, George, Bishop of Worcester, 'My part lies therein-a',

Naunton, Sir Robert, Needham, Marchamont, Newcastle, William Cavendish, Marquis of, afterwards Duke of: character by Clarendon, character by Warwick, Life by the Duchess, his books on horsemanship, Clarendon's opinion of his military capacity, Nicholas, Sir Edward, North, Francis. See Guilford, Lord Keeper. North, Roger: character of Sir Edmund Saunders, his Lives of the Norths, North, Sir Thomas, Northampton, Spencer Compton, second Earl of: character by Clarendon, Northumberland, Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of, Nott. See Knott.

Oldmixon, John,
Olivian, Dr., 'a German',
Orrery, Roger Boyle, first Earl of,
Osborne, Francis: Traditionall Memoyres on the Raigne of King James,
Overbury, Sir Thomas,
Ovid,
Owen, John, Dean of Christ Church,

Patrick, Simon, Bishop of Chichester: character by Burnet,
'Peace begot Plenty',
'Peace with honour',
Pearson, John, Bishop of Chester,
Peck, Francis: Desiderata Curiosa,
Pemberton, Sir Francis, Lord Chief Justice,
Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery, fourth Earl of,
Pembroke, William Herbert, third Earl of: character by Clarendon,
Pepys, Samuel: Diary,
Percy, Sir Henry, Baron Percy of Alnwick,
Persius,
Peyton, Sir Edward: Divine Catastrophe of the House of Stuarts,
Philips, Ambrose,
Phillips, Edward:
note on Milton, his uncle,
Life of Milton,
Theatrum Poetarum,
Phoenix Britannicus,
Plato,
Plutarch,
Poems on State Affairs,
Polybius,
Portland, Earl of. See Weston, Sir Richard.
Preaching, reform in,
Prynne, William,
Pym, John: character by Clarendon,

Raleigh, Sir Walter,
Rawley, William:
character of Bacon,
Life,
Reliquiæ Wottonianæ,
Retrospective Review,
Rich, Robert, Earl of Warwick's grandson,
Richardson, Jonathan:
notes on Milton,
Explanatory Notes on Paradise Lost,
Robinson, Sir Tancred,
Rochester, first Earl of. See Wilmot, Henry.
Rochester, John Wilmot, second Earl of,
Rochester, Laurence Hyde, first Earl of the Hyde family,
Rothes, John Leslie, Earl and Duke of,
Rowe, Nicholas,
Rupert, Prince: character by Clarendon,
Rushworth: Historical Collections,
Russell, Sir William, Treasurer of the Navy,
Ruthven, Patrick. See Brentford, Earl of.
Rutland, Francis Manners, sixth Earl of,

St. John, Oliver,
St. John's College, Oxford,
St. Martin's, 'the greatest cure in England',
St. Paul's Cathedral,
St. Peters in Cornhill,
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, first Earl of,
Salisbury, William Cecil, third Earl of: character by Clarendon,
Sallust,
Sanderson, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln,
Saunders, Sir Edmund, Lord Chief Justice: character by Roger North,
Savile, Sir Henry,
Savile, George. See Halifax, Marquis of.
Savile, Thomas, Viscount Savile,
Savoy Hospital,
Say and Sele, William Fiennes, Viscount:
character by Clarendon,
by Arthur Wilson,
Scott, Sir Walter,
Scudéry, Madeleine de
Selden, John: character by Clarendon
Seneca, Lucius Annæus
Seneca, Marcus Annæus
Session of the Poets (Restoration poem)
Sessions of the Poets, Suckling's
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Baron Ashley, Earl of:
character by Burnet;
by Dryden (Achitophel);
by Butler;
by Duke;
his character of Henry Hastings;
description of Digby;
his Autobiography
Shakespeare
Sheldon, Gilbert, Archbishop of Canterbury
Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, Earl of
Smith, Edmund
Somaize, Antoine Bandeau, sieur de
Somerset, Robert Ker or Carr, Earl of
Sorel, Charles
Spelman, Sir Henry
Spenser, Edmund
Sprat, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester:
character of Cowley;
Life of Cowley
Stillingfleet, Edward, Bishop of Worcester: character by Burnet
Stow, John
Strada, Famiano
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of:
character by Clarendon;
by Warwick;
Stuart, Richard, dean of the King's Chapel
Suckling, Sir John
Suetonius
Suffolk, Thomas Howard, Earl of
Sully, Duc de: Mémoires
Swift, Jonathan

Tacitus
Tanfield, Sir Lawrence
Tate, Nahum
Temple, Sir William
Tenison, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury: character by Burnet
Tew, seat of Lord Falkland
Theophrastus
Thuanus (Jacques de Thou)
Thucydides
Thurloe, John, Secretary of State;
State Papers
Tiberius, James I compared to;
Charles II compared to
Tillotson, John, Archbishop of Canterbury: character by Burnet
Triplet, Dr. Thomas
Tuesday Sermons of James I
Turenne, Marshal

Vane, Sir Henry, the elder
Vane, Sir Henry, the younger:
characters by Clarendon;
character by Baxter;
Milton's sonnet;
other accounts
Velleius Paterculus

Walker, Sir Edward: Historical Discourses
Walker, John: Sufferings of the Clergy
Walker, Mr., of the Temple, 'a Relation of Milton's'
Waller, Edmund:
his character by Clarendon,
described by Burnet,
by Aubrey,
Walpole, Horace: Royal and Noble Authors,
Walton, Izaak,
Warwick, Mary, Countess of,
Warwick, Sir Philip:
character of Charles I,
Strafford,
Laud,
Juxon,
Cromwell,
Hampden,
Fairfax,
Clarendon,
his characters,
his Mémoires,
a Straffordian,
imprisoned,
described by Burnet,
Warwick, Robert Rich, second Earl of:
character by Clarendon,
by Arthur Wilson,
pillar of the Presbyterian party,
Wayte, Mr.,
Weldon, Sir Anthony:
character of James I,
Court and Character of King James,
Welwood, James: Memoirs,
Weston, Sir Richard, Earl of Portland:
character by Clarendon,
by Wotton,
Whitchcot, or Whichcote, Benjamin: character by Burnet,
Whitelocke: Memorials,
'White Staff',
Wilkins, John:
character by Burnet,
his Essay Towards a Real Character,
William of Wickham,
Williams, John, Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Keeper,
Wilmot, Henry, Baron Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: character by Clarendon,
Wilson, Arthur:
character of James I,
of Bacon,
of Essex, Warwick, and Say,
Reign of King James,
Wolsey, Cardinal,
Wood: Athenæ Oxonienses,
Worthington, John: character by Burnet,
Wotton, Sir Henry,
Wright, Dr., 'an ancient clergyman in Dorsetshire',

Xenophon,

Young, Sir Peter,
Young, Patrick,

Zimri. See Buckingham.