you can for the securing the City of Gloucester, and put the arms into such hands as are true and faithful to us and this Commonwealth. We desire you to be very careful, and to let us hear from you of the receipt of this, and what you shall do in pursuance of this Letter.
Your very assured friend,
City Records of Gloucester (in Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis, p. 421).
ABBOT, Colonel, in Ireland, 405.
Aberdeen, Provost, at Dunbar fight,
466. See Jaffray.
Alablaster, Dr., preaches Popery, 62.
Allen, Trooper, examined, 215; Ad-
jutant-General, his account of
Prayer-Meeting at Windsor, 252-
256; disturbances by, ii., 134-136.
Allertoun House, Cromwell at, 534,
535.
Alured, Thomas, M.P., letter by, 58.
Col. Matthew, captures Scots
Committee, 557; Anabaptist, ca-
shicred, ii., 79-81; Cromwell's
letter to, 80.
Col. John, King's Judge, ii., 80.
Alyth, Scots Committee extinguish-
ed at, 557.
Amps, Mr. Thomas, plotting at his
house, ii., 71.
Anabaptists favored by Cromwell,
169.
Antichrist, designated by Cromwell,
ii., 91; Magistracy considered An-
ti-christian, 93.
Apprentices, riots of, 117, 120, 225,
Arcklow, skirmish at, 402.
Ardes, Lord of, assists Ormond, 384.
Argyle, Marquis, dines with Crom-
well, 311; Cromwell's letter to,
296; his party in 1650, 493.
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, notice of,
402.
Army, King's and Parliament's, 121,
2; of Parliament in 1643, 135;
New Model, 170; motions of, in
1645, 182; too near London, 209;
against Parliament, 210, 211; state
of, in 1647, 213; at Saffron Walden,
215; Agitators in, 216, 217; will
not disband, 217; Rendezvous at
Newmarket, 217; at Royston, 218
comes to St. Albans, 220; Mani-
festo and claims of, 220; Declara-
tion against, expunged, 224; ad-
to London, 225; enters
London, 226; Prayer-Meeting at
Windsor Castle, 254; against
Treaty with Charles I., 319; Re-
monstrance, 320; at Windsor, 320;
in London, St. James's, &c., 326.
Arnald. See Levellers.
Array, Commission of, 121,-see St.
Albans; in Eastern Association,
132.
Artists in 1651, 525.
Ascham, Anthony, slain in Spain,
ii., 214.
Ashburnham, Mr., notice of, ii., 84.
Ashe, John, M.P., notice of, 315,
317; Cromwell's letter to, 315.
Ashton, Sir Arthur, Governor of
Tredah, 380.
Col., at Preston, 276.
Assembly, General, answer Crom-
Associated Counties, origin of, 126,
well, 446.
134; raise an army, 143.
Astley, Sir Bernard, taken, 177.
Sir Jacob, last of Royalist gene-
rals, 191.
Axtel, Col., regicide, ii., 135.
Ayscough, Sir George, his house like
Ayr Citadel built by Cromwell, 560:
Augustin, Mosstrooper, 497, 520-522.
a ship at sea, ii., 216.
Bacon, Nathaniel, author of Burton's
Diary, ii., 314.
Baillie's remarks on Scots Demands,
106.
Baillie, Gen., at Preston fight, 272
perplexed, 280.
Balder, Allegory of, 12.
Baltimore, Lord, in Maryland, ii.,
Bamfield, Col., spy, ii., 257.
Banks, Mr., on Cromwell, 17.
Bannockburn, Cromwell at, 540.
Barbadoes, delinquents sent to, ii.,
Barbarous nations, records of, 6.
Barbone, Mr. Praisegod, account of,
ii., 33.
Barebones's Parliament, ii., 33.
Barclay of Ury, Scotch Quaker, 518.
Barkstead, Col., a Major-Gen., ii., 184.
Barlow, Mrs., and Charles II., 391.
Barnard, Robert, Justice of the Peace,
65, 127; his descendants, 128;
Cromwell's letter to, 127.
Barnet, Col., at Wogan, 411.
Basing House described, 184, 186.
Bastwick, John, Dr., in pillory, 92;
his Widow provided for, ii., 347.
Bates, Dr., sent to Cromwell in Scot-
land, 537.
Battles: Edgehill, 23d Oct., 1642,
125; Grantham, 13th May, 1643,
135; Newbury (first), 20th Sept.,
1643, 144; Winceby, 11th Oct.,
1643, 145; Marston Moor, 2d July,
1644, 149; Cropredy, 30th June,
1644, 153; Newbury (second),
27th Oct., 1644, 154; Naseby,
14th June, 1645, 165-168; Pres-
ton, 17th Aug., 1648, 271; Dun-
bar, 3d Sept. 1650, 465, 466, 471:
Worcester, 3d Sept., 1651, 551,
Baxter's, Richard, opinion of Edge-
hill battle, 125; unfriendly to
Cromwell, ii., 75.
Beard, Dr., Schoolmaster, 35, 62,
65.
Bedford, Earl, chief of Puritans, 115;
General of Parliament horse, 124.
Bedford Level, 95.
Bennet, Richard, Cromwell's letter
to, ii., 132.
Berkley, Sir John, tutor to Duke of
York, ii., 257.
Berners's, Lord, ancestors, 130.
Berney, Sir Richard, fined, 134.
Berwick demanded by Cromwell, 298.
Bethel, Major, at Bristol siege, 179.
Biddle, Mr., Socinian, ii., 129.
Billingsley, butcher, in Gerard's plot,
ii., 81.
Biographers of Cromwell, criticised,
15. See Heath, Noble, Ludlow,
Banks, Maidston, Kimber, Forster,
Harris.
Birch, Col., at Bristol siege, 179.
Dr., prints Hammond's letters,
238.
Bishops, pretended Scotch, 41. Bi-
shops, their lands sold, 89 (ii., 17,
&c.); insulted, 119; protest of,
119; twelve of them sent to the
Tower, 120.
Bishopsgate, mutiny in, 359.
Blake, Col. Robert, relieved, 170;
in Ireland, 400; as Admiral, beats
the Dutch, ii., 17; in Little Par-
liament, 33; fires the Turkish
ships, 171; letters from Cromwell
to, 171, 178, 181, 204, 206, 349;
letter to Cromwell, 173; sends
thirty-eight waggon-loads of silver
to London, 252; beats the Spa-
niards at Santa Cruz, 312; death
of, 349.
Bletchington House taken, 161.
Bohemia, King of, dies, 68.
Boteler, Major, a Major-General, ii.,
184. See Butler.
Bourchier pedigree, 45.
Boyd, Rev. Zachary, against Crom-
well, 496.
Brandenburg, Duke of, mastered, ii.,
375.
Bradshaw, John, presides at trial of
Charles I., 328; in Council of
State, 335; President of, 340,
Cromwell's letters to, 380, 392,
417, 444, 473, 489, 526, 540; in
Cromwell's First Parliament, ii.,
87; does not sign the Recognition,
127; a rejected M. P. candidate,
Bramston, Judge, notice of, 124.
Brandly, Captain, at Tredah, 381.
Brewster, Rev. Mr., ii., 175.
Bright, Colonel, notice of, 296.
Briot, Nicholas, engraver, 523.
Bristol, Parliament loses, 142; siege
of, Sept., 1645, 176.
Brocksmouth and House described,
460.
Broghil, Lord, in Ireland, 401, 408,
|