Chamillart, Minister of France, his rise, ii, 11.
Charades, i. 297.
Charles Martel, his combat with, and defeat of, the Mahometans, ii. 430.
Charles the Bald of France, his remarkable vision, ii. 423.
Charles the First, account of his expedition into Spain, ii. 1-4; anecdote of him and Buckingham, 6; history of his diamond seal, 326; his love of the fine arts, 327; the magnificence and taste of his court entertainments, 328; anecdote of, 329; catalogue of his effects, 331-334; an artist and a poet, 334, 335, and note; influence of his wife on, doubted, 336; his dismissal of his wife’s French establishment, 345; reply to the French ambassador’s remonstrances, 347; his conduct on the death of Buckingham, 371; secret history of him and his first Parliaments, iii. [448]; the latter a sullen bride, ib.; his address to his first Parliament, and their ungracious conduct, [449]; they abandoned the king, [450]; raises money on Privy Seals, ib.; on the failure of the expedition to Cadiz he called his second Parliament, [451]; communications between him and his Parliament, ib.; his address to them, noticing the impeachment of Buckingham, [452]; his conduct on that occasion the beginning of his troubles, [453]; on the Commons’ further remonstrance against Buckingham, he dissolves his second Parliament, [457]; his distress for money, ib.; his fresh distresses on the failure of the expedition to the Isle of Rhé, and his expedients to raise money, [458], [459]; their ill success, [460], [461]; reflections on his situation, [463]; rejects the proffered advice of the President of the Rosy-Cross, [464]; anonymous letter sent to the Commons, and by them forwarded to the king without perusing, [465]; secret measures used by the opposition, [466]; speech of the king to Parliament, [467]; his emotion on being informed that the Parliament had granted subsidies [468]; debates on the king’s message, [469]; Eliot’s speech thereon, [470]; Coke’s memorable speech, [473]; the king grants his assent to the Petition of Right, [475]; popular rejoicings, [476]; presentation of the Remonstrance, ib.; the king’s conduct after the assassination of Buckingham, [477]; vow of the Parliament to maintain the Articles of Religion of the 13th Eliz., [478]; tumult in the House, and dissolution of the Parliament, [480].
Charles the Fifth, his edicts against the Reformed religion, iii. [242]; his conduct influenced by political, not religious motives, [243].
Charles the Ninth, account of the death of, ii. 7-9; his apology for the massacre of St. Bartholomew, iii. [255]-259; his character, [260].
Cherries, introduction of, into Great Britain, ii. 156; loss and reintroduction of, in the reign of Henry VIII., ib.
Chess, clergymen prohibited from playing, ii. 32; Kempelen’s Mechanical Chess-player, iii. [284], note.
Chinese language, i. 267; difficulties of, experienced by P. Bourgeois, 268.