Oates, Titus, tells the story of the Popish Plot, [615]
O'Donnell, Rory, flight of, [484]
O'Neill, Hugh, defeats Bagenal at the Blackwater, [475];
submission of, [478];
flight of, [484]
O'Neill, Shan, defeat of, [452]
Orleans, Henrietta, Duchess of, negotiates the Treaty of Dover, [600]
Ormond, Thomas Butler, Marquis of, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [542];
abandons Ireland to Parliament, [562];
returns to Ireland, ib.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, poisoned, [488]
Oxford, study of Greek in the University of, [367];
Parliament adjourned to, [502];
headquarters of Charles I. at, [537];
Parliament held at, during the Plague, [590];
the third Short Parliament meets at, [621];
Roman Catholic propaganda of James II. in, [639]
Painting, mainly in the hands of foreigners, during the Stuart period, [631]
Palatinate, the, Spinola's invasion of, [490];
Imperialist invasion of, [496];
loss of, [497];
failure of the negotiation to induce the king of Spain to obtain the restitution of, [500];
attempt to send Mansfeld to recover, [501]
Papacy, the, immorality of, [375];
legislation against the payment of annates and Peter's pence to, [388], [390]
Papal jurisdiction in England, abolition of, [389], [391]
Paradise Lost, publication of, [596]
Paris submits to Henry IV., [464]
Parker, Matthew, becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, [429];
character and position of, [430]
Parker, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, a secret Roman Catholic, [639];
intrusive President of Magdalen College, [641]
Parliament, relations of Henry VIII. with, [385];
relations of Elizabeth with, [444];
the Addled, [485];
the Short, [528];
the Long, [529];
formation of parties in, [532];
struggles with Charles I. for the militia, [536];
raises forces against the king, [537];
tries to disband the army, [553];
its speakers take refuge with the army, [555];
dissolution of, by Cromwell, [566];
the Barebone's, ib.;
the first, of the Protectorate, [570];
the second, of the Protectorate, [572];
Richard Cromwell's, [574];
restoration of the Long, [575];
final dissolution of the Long, [576];
the first convention, [577]- [584];
the Cavalier, [585];
supports the Church more than the king, [586];
rejects the declaration of Charles II. in favour of toleration, [587];
Albemarle resists the dissolution of, [599];
opposes James II., [638];
James II. attempts to pack, [641]
Parma, Alexander Farnese, Prince of, governor of the Spanish Netherlands, [450];
gains ground in the Netherlands, [454]- [456];
takes Antwerp, [456];
takes Zutphen, [457];
hopes to transport an army to England, [459];
blockaded by the Dutch, [462];
sent to aid the League, [464]
Parris, Van, burnt, [419]
Parsons, Robert, lands in England, [453];
escapes, [454]
Parsons, Sir William, one of the Lords Justices in Ireland, [533]
Parties, Parliamentary, formation of, [532];
development of, [610], [628]
Paulet, Sir Amias, refuses to put Mary Stuart to death, [457]
Pavia, battle of, [372]
Penn and Venables, expedition of, to the West Indies, [571]
Pennsylvania, colonisation of, [629]
Penruddock captures the judges at Salisbury, [571]
Penry, John, hanged, [472]
Pepys pities dissenters, [588]
Perth, the five articles of, [525]
Peter Martyr teaches in England, [416]
Peter's Pence, abolition of, [391]
Petition of Right, the, [508]
Petitioners, party name of, [620]
Philip II., King of Spain, marries Mary, [423];
abdication of Charles V. in favour of, [426];
deserts Mary, ib.;
induces Mary to declare war against France, [427];
makes peace with France, [431];
proposes to marry Elizabeth, [432];
persecutes the Protestants in the Netherlands, [443];
annexes Portugal, and shares in a plot for the invasion of England and the murder of Elizabeth, [454];
undertakes the invasion of England, [456];
claims the English crown, [458];
appoints a commander for the Armada, [460];
supports the League in France, [464]
Philip III., King of Spain, James I. seeks an alliance with, [488]
Philip IV., King of Spain, receives Prince Charles, and negotiates with the Pope about his sister's marriage, [497];
consults theologians, [498];
informs Charles of his terms, [500];
death of, [592]
Philiphaugh, battle of, [549]
Philip's Norton, Monmouth at, [637]
Pilgrim Father, the, [489]
Pilgrim's Progress, publication of, [596]
Pilgrimage of Grace, the, [396], [397]
Pinkie Cleugh, battle of, [413]
Pius V., Pope, excommunicates Elizabeth, [441]
Plague, the, devastations of, [590]
Plymouth held by a Parliamentary garrison, [538]
Pole, Reginald, opposes Henry VIII. and becomes a cardinal, [399];
as Papal legate reconciles England to the see of Rome, [424];
becomes archbishop of Canterbury, [426];
death of, [427]
Ponet made Bishop of Winchester, [416]
Popish Plot, the, [615]
Portland, Richard Weston, Earl of, as Lord Weston, becomes Lord Treasurer, [514];
made Earl of Portland and dies, [521]
Portsmouth, Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of, betrays the secrets of Charles II., [602];
extravagance of, [603]
Portugal subdued by Philip II., [454]
Post-nati, the, [483]
Powick Bridge, skirmish at, [537]
Poyntz, Major-General, defeats Charles I. at Rowton Heath, [549]
Prayer Book, the, see [Common Prayer], Book of
Prayer Book, the Scottish, introduced by Charles I., [525]
Prerogative, the, opinion of James I. about, [492]
Presbyterian clergy, the, prepared to accept a modified episcopacy, [583];
expelled from their livings, [585];
proposal of Charles II. to obtain comprehension for, [599]
Presbyterian party, the, in a majority in the House of Commons, [546];
attempts to disband the army, [553];
negotiates with the Scots for a fresh invasion of England, [554];
generally accepts the Prayer Book, [586]
Presbyterianism emanates from Geneva, [430];
its organisation completed in France, [431];
adopted in Scotland, [434];
attempts to establish, in England, [470];
feeling in the Long Parliament about, [532];
adopted by the Assembly of Divines, [543];
Charles I. urged to establish in England, [551]
Preston, Cromwell's victory at, [557]
Prichard, Lord Mayor, [624]
Pride's Purge, [557]
Privilege of Parliament, Strickland's case of, [445];
Eliot's vindication of the, [512]
Privy Council, the, Temple's scheme for reforming, [617]
Prophesyings, the, [450]
Protectorate, establishment of the, [568]
Protestants, the English, feeling of Henry VIII. and More towards, [388];
parties amongst, [413];
the Marian persecution of, [424];
local distribution of, [426];
their position at Elizabeth's accession, [428];
influence of Calvinism on, [430]
Prynne, character and writings of, [519];
his sentence in the Star Chamber, ib.;
second sentence on, [521]
Pularoon, refusal of the Dutch to surrender, [589];
abandoned by the English, [593]
Puritans, the, aims of, [444];
gain influence in the House of Commons, [445], [468];
the Court of High Commission directed against, [470];
opinions of, at the Hampton Court Conference, [482];
unpopular after the restoration, [586]
Purveyance, abolition of, [582]
Pym differs from Eliot on the method of dealing with the question of Tonnage and Poundage, [512];
addresses the Short Parliament on grievances, [529];
proposes in the Long Parliament the impeachment of Strafford, ib.;
his view of Strafford's case, [530];
discloses the army plot, [531];
is one of the leaders of the party of the Grand Remonstrance, [534];
accused as one of the five members, [535];
urges the House of Commons to resist Charles I., [540];
death of, [542]
Quo warranto, writs of, [624], [625]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, takes part in the capture of Cadiz, [464];
sentenced to death and imprisonment, [481];
loses Sherborne, [486];
voyage to Guiana and execution of, [499];
his colony in Virginia, ib.
Ré, Buckingham's expedition to, [506]
Reading taken by Essex, [538]
Reading, the abbot of, executed, [400]
Recusancy laws, the, penalties inflicted by, [454]
Regicides, the, execution of, [582]
Reims, College at, [453]
Relics, destruction of, [398]
Renascence, the, character of, [366];
its influence on England, [367];
immorality of, [374], [375]
Requesens, governor of the Netherlands, [449]
Ruyter, De, captures English forts in Guinea, [589]
Revenue of the crown fixed after the Restoration, [582]
Revolution of 1688-9, [646]- [648]
Ridley made Bishop of London, [416];
burnt, [425]
Ridolfi plot, the, [444]
Rinuccini, Archbishop, arrives in Ireland, [550];
leaves Ireland, [562]
Ripon, treaty of, [529]
Rising in the North, the, [441]
Rizzio, David, murder of, [439]
Roads, improvement in, [633]
Rochelle, Buckingham lends ships to fight against the Huguenots of, [504];
siege of, [506];
expedition to the relief of, [510]
Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of, advises against the summoning of Parliament, [626];
dismissal of, [640]
Rogers, John, burnt, [424]
Rome taken by the Duke of Bourbon, [374]
Root and Branch Bill, the, [533]
Roundway Down, battle of, [538]
Rowton Heath, battle of, [549]
Royal Society, the, foundation of, [598]
Rump, the name given to the remnant of the Long Parliament, [565];
dissolved by Cromwell, [566];
brought back, expelled and brought back again, [575];
final dissolution of, [576]
Rupert, Prince, commands the cavalry at Edgehill, [537];
storms Bristol, [538];
is defeated at Marston Moor, [543];
takes part in the battle of Naseby, [548];
surrenders Bristol, [549];
holds a command in the battle off the North Foreland, [592];
defeated off the Texel, [608]
Russell, William Russell, Lord, supports the Exclusion Bill, [617];
refuses to take part in acts of violence, [624];
trial of, [625];
execution of, [626]
Rye House Plot, the, [625]
Sa, Dom Pantaleon, execution of, [569]
St. Andrews captured by the French and recaptured, [413]
St. Bartholomew, massacre of, [449]
St. Bartholomew's day, ejection of the Presbyterian clergy on, [585]
St. Paul's, Old, burnt, [592]
Salisbury, Penruddock captures the judges at, [571]
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, as Sir Robert Cecil, secretary to Elizabeth and James I., [480], [481];
becomes Earl of Salisbury and Lord Treasurer, [484];
orders the levy of new impositions, ib.;
death of, [486]
Salisbury, Countess of, executed, [401]
San Domingo, Penn and Venables attack, [572]
Santa Cruz, Blake destroys Spanish ships at, [573]
Savoy Conference, the, [585]
Savoy, Duke of, persecutes the Vaudois, [572]
Scotland, power of the nobles in, [404];
Hertford's invasion of, [409];
Protestant missionaries in, [412];
Somerset's invasion of, [413];
the Reformation in, [432];
the intervention of Elizabeth in, [433];
Presbyterianism in, [434];
Mary lands in, [435];
Mary's government of, [437]- [440];
civil war in, [443];
projected union with, [482];
Episcopacy and Presbyterianism in, [524];
introduction of a new prayer book in, [525];
national covenant signed in, ib.;
first Bishops' war with, [526];
episcopacy abolished by the Assembly and Parliament of, [527];
the second Bishops war with, [529];
visit of Charles I. to, [532];
solemn league and covenant with, [540];
sends an army into England, [542];
its army recalled, [553];
proposal of a new invasion of England by, [554];
engagement signed with Charles I. by Commissioners of, [556];
Charles II. and Cromwell in, [563];
Restoration settlement of, [595];
Lauderdale's influence in, [602];
Lauderdale's management of, [619];
Covenanters in, ib.;
rising of the Covenanters in, [620];
under James II., [639]
Scottish army, the, encamps on Dunse Law, [526];
routs the English at Newburn, [529];
invades England, [542];
besieges York, ib.;
takes part in the battle of Marston Moor, [543];
receives Charles I. at Southwell, and conveys him to Newcastle, [551];
negotiation for the abandonment of Charles I. by, [553];
returns to Scotland, [553];
is defeated at Dunbar, [563];
and at Worcester, [564]
Second Civil War, the, [556], [557]
Sedgemoor, battle of, [637]
Selby taken by the Fairfaxes, [542]
Selden, John, takes part in drawing up the Petition of Right, [508]
Self-denying Ordinance, the, [545]
Seminary priests, the, [453];
Act of Parliament against, [456]
Separatists, the, principles of, [470];
settlement of, in Leyden and New England, [469];
receive the name of Independents, [543];
see [Independents]
Settlement, Irish Act of, [595]
Seven Bishops, the, petition presented by, [642];
trial of, [643]
Seymour, Jane, see [Jane Seymour]
Seymour of Sudley, Lord, execution of, [415]
Seymour, William, heir of the Suffolk line, [480]
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, early life of, [602];
policy of, [603];
supports the Declaration of Indulgence, [605];
becomes Earl of Shaftesbury and Chancellor, ib.;
his invective against the Dutch, [606];
dismissal of, [608];
leads the opposition, ib.;
supports toleration for Dissenters only, [610];
declares the present Parliament to be dissolved, [612];
encourages belief in the Popish Plot, [616];
his position similar to that of Pym, [618];
supports the Exclusion Bill, ib.;
indicts the Duke of York as a recusant, [621];
supported by the third Short Parliament, ib.;
the Grand Jury throw out a Bill against, [622];
Dryden's satire on, [623];
proposes to attack the king's guards, [624];
exile and death of, ib.
Shakspere, William, teaching of, [474]
Sharp, Archbishop, murder of, [620]
Sherborne taken by Fairfax, [548]
Sherfield, Henry, fined by the Star Chamber, [515]
Ship-money, levy of, [523];
resisted by Hampden, [524]
Ships, comparison between English and Spanish, [459]
Shrines, destruction of, [398]
Sidney, Algernon, execution of, [626]
Sidney, Sir Philip, death of, [457]
Sinclair, Oliver, killed at Solway Moss, [405]
Skeffington, Lord Deputy, takes Maynooth, [402]
Slave trade, the, carried on by Elizabethan sailors, [447]
Smerwick, slaughter at, [453]
Solemn league and covenant, the, [540]
Solway Moss, defeat of the Scots at, [405];
Charles I. urged by the Scots to take, [551]
Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of, invades Scotland as Earl of Hertford, [406];
becomes Duke of Somerset and Protector, [412];
defeats the Scots at Pinkie Cleugh, [413];
possession of Church property by, [415];
expelled from the Protectorate, [416];
execution of, [418]
Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, favourite of James I., [486];
disgrace of, [488]
Somerset House, building of, [435]
Southwell, Charles I. surrenders to the Scots at, [551]
Southwold Bay, battle in, [605]
Spain, resources of, [426];
maritime power of, [447];
authority of, in the West Indies challenged by English sailors, ib.;
navy of, [459];
English attacks on, [464];
sends an expedition to Kinsale, [478];
its alliance sought by James I., [486];
attack of Raleigh on the colonies of, [489];
sends troops to occupy the Palatinate, [490];
protest of the Commons against an alliance with, [496];
visit of Prince Charles to, [497];
eagerness in England for war with, [500];
money voted for war with, [501];
expedition against Cadiz in, [503];
Charles I. makes peace with, [514];
Cromwell makes war on, [571];
question of the succession to, [592]
Spenser, Edmund, his Faerie Queen, [473]
Spinola, Ambrogio, invades the Palatinate, [490]
Spurs, battle of the, [364]
Stadholder, office of, [449];
abolition of the office of, [565]
Stainer, Admiral, captures a Spanish fleet, [572]
Star Chamber, Court of, its sentences in the reign of Charles I., [514], [519], [521];
abolition of, [531]
Stillingfleet aims at comprehension, [598]
Stop of the Exchequer, the, [604]
Stow-on-the-Wold, surrender of the last Royalist army at, [550]
Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, execution of, [621]
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, as Sir Thomas Wentworth, his policy contrasted with that of Eliot, [508];
brings in a bill to secure the liberty of the subject, ib.;
becomes Lord Wentworth and President of the Council of the North, [514];
becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland, [527];
created Earl of Strafford, and advises the summoning of the Short Parliament, [528];
does not advise the prolongation of the second Bishops war, [529];
collects an Irish army, ib.;
is impeached, [530];
Bill of Attainder against, ib.;
execution of, [531]
Stratton, battle of, [538]
Strickland moves for an amendment of the Prayer Book, [445]
Strode, William, one of the five members, [535]
Submission of the clergy, the, [386]
Succession, Act of, [392]
Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, marries Mary, sister of Henry VIII., [364]
Suffolk, Thomas Howard, Earl of, [486]
Suffolk line, its title to the succession, [410];
Elizabeth's feeling towards, [435];
William Seymour, the heir of, [480]
Supremacy, Act of, [393];
Elizabethan Act of, [429]
Supreme head of the Church of England, title of, conferred by Convocation on Henry VIII., [386];
abandoned by Elizabeth, [429]
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, execution of, [411]
Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of, minister of Henry VIII., [363]
Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of, the commander at Flodden, see [Norfolk, Duke of]
Sussex, Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of, Lord Deputy of Ireland, [452]
Sweden takes part in the Triple Alliance, [599]
Tangier acquired by Charles II., [587]
Taunton, siege of, [548]
Taylor, Rowland, burnt, [424]
Temple, Sir William, negotiates the Triple Alliance, [599];
advises the reform of the Privy Council, [617];
failure of his scheme, [620]
Terouenne, [364]
Test Act, the, passed, [607];
a second, [616];
violated by James II., [638]
Texel, the, Rupert defeated off, [608]
Thirty Years' War, the, beginning of, [490];
end of, [564]
Thomas of Canterbury, St., destruction of the shrine of, [398]
Throgmorton's conspiracy, [456]
Tippermuir, battle of, [547]
Tithes, proposal of the Barebone's Parliament to abolish, [567]
Toleration, Cromwell's advocacy of, [543];
Charles II. proposes to adopt, [583];
Charles II. issues a declaration in favour of, [587];
tendency of science to promote, [598]
Tonnage and Poundage, nature of, [509];
claimed by Charles I. in spite of the Petition of Right, [510];
Act preventing the king from levying, [531]
Torbay, arrival of William III. in, [644]
Tory party, the, origin of the name of, [620];
reaction in favour of, [622];
elects officers in the city, [623];
gains a majority in the Common Council, [624]
Tournai, [364]
Treasons, Act creating new, [392]
Trent, the Council of, [436]
Triennial Act of Charles I., the, [530];
repealed, [588]
Triers, Commission of, [569]
Trimmer, origin of the name of, [618]
Triple Alliance, the, [599]
Tulchan bishops, the, [524]
Tunis, Blake sent against, [571]
Turnham Green, the militia of the city resist Charles I. at, [537]
Tuscany, Duke of, Blake sent against, [571]
Tyndale, William, translates the New Testament, [396]
Tyrconnel, Earl of, see [O'Donnell]
Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Earl of, Lord Deputy in Ireland, [640]
Tyrone, Earl of, see [O'Neill, Hugh]
Ulster, plantation of, [484];
insurrection and massacre in, [534]
Undertakers, the, [487]
Uniformity, Elizabethan Act of, [429];
Restoration Act of, [585]
Universities consulted on the divorce of Henry VIII., [385]
Utopia, [367]
Utrecht, union of, [450]
Valentine takes part in holding down the Speaker, [514]
Vandevelde paints marine subjects, [631]
Van Dyck, portraits by, [631]
Vane, Sir Henry, the younger, produces evidence against Strafford, [530];
negotiates the Solemn League and Covenant, [540];
brings in a Reform bill, [566]
Vaudois, the, Cromwell intervenes in favour of, [572]
Venice, League of Cambrai formed against, [363]
Venner's plot, [584]
Vere, Sir Horace, defends the Palatinate, [490]
Verrio paints ceilings, [631]
Vestments, ecclesiastical, Hooper's rejection of, [417];
Puritan resistance to the use of, [444];
Whitgift's opinion on the propriety of, [468]
Virginia, colonisation of, [489]
Vote of No Addresses, [556]
Walker, Obadiah, Roman Catholic Master of University College, [639]
Waller, Sir William, defeated at Lansdown and Roundway Down, [538];
takes Arundel Castle and defeats Hopton at Cheriton, [542];
fights at Cropredy Bridge, [544];
resigns his command, [545]
Walsingham, Sir Francis, Secretary to Elizabeth, [457]
Warwick, Earl of, see [Northumberland, Duke of]
Wentworth, Sir Thomas, see [Strafford, Earl of Wentworth], Thomas Wentworth, Lord, governor of Calais, [427]
Wesley, Samuel, sermon by, [642]
West Indies, the, conflicts between English and Spanish sailors in, [447]
Weston, Lord, see [Portland, Earl of]
Westphalia, Peace of, [564]
Westmorland, Charles Neville, Earl of, takes part in the rising of the North, [441]
Westward Ho! [447]
Wexford, slaughter at, [563]
Whig party, the, origin of the name of, [620];
has a hold on the city of London, [622]
'Whip with six strings, the,' [400]
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, opinions of, [468];
the High Commission Court under, [470];
compared with Hooker, [472]
Wilkins, Bishop, aims at comprehension, [598]
William I., Prince of Orange, Stadholder of the Dutch republic, [449];
Jaureguy's attempt to murder, [454];
murdered by Gerard, [456]
William II., Prince of Orange, death of, [565]
William III., Prince of Orange, defends the Dutch republic, [605];
is offered the hand of Mary, daughter of the Duke of York, [608];
at the head of a continental alliance, [609];
marriage of, [613];
invited to England, [644];
lands at Brixham and marches on London, [645];
arrives at Whitehall, [646];
the crown offered to, [647]
Williams, John, Archbishop of York, impeachment of, [535]
Winceby, fight at, [542]
Winchester taken by Cromwell, [549]
Winnington Bridge, Booth defeated at, [575]
Wishart, George, burnt, [413]
Witt, John de, Pensionary of Holland, [589];
negotiates the Triple Alliance, [599];
murder of, [605]
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, rise of, [363];
magnificence of, [364];
supports a policy of peace, [365], [366];
comes into the House of Commons, [371];
becomes unpopular on account of the Amicable Loan, [372];
secures his position by an alliance with France, [374];
aspires to the papacy, [375];
is named legate a latere, ib.;
his views on Church reform, [376];
founds two colleges, [377];
fails to persuade Henry VIII. to abandon Anne Boleyn, [380];
is appointed legate to try Henry's divorce, [382];
fall of, [383];
death of, [384]
Worcester, battle of, [564]
Wren, Sir Christopher, buildings by, [632]
Wriothesley, Lord Chancellor, excluded from the Council, [412]
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, rebellion and execution of, [423]
York, Charles I. at, [537];
siege of, [542]
York, James, Duke of, see [James II.]