INDEX.

ABERCORN, Earl of, 22

Aberdeen, Earl of, 345; breaks
with Queensbury, 377; loses the
Chancellor's place, 378
Abingdon, Earl of, goes to the Prince
of Orange, 501, 706
Act of Uniformity, 125, 126, 131

Fining in Scotland, 145
Admiralty, their conduct censured,

592,599, 639,734,735, 736,766
See SEA AFFAIRS
Aghrem, battle of, 571
Ailesbury, Earl of, sent to King
James in 1695, 612; in a plot
of invasion, 626
Ailesbury, town of, the right of
electing members is tried at com-
mon law, 742; disputed in the
Queen's Bench, if triable, 743;
judged not, and writ of error
brought in the House of Lords,
ib.; they reverse the judgment,
ib. 744; other actions brought on
the same cause, 768; the Com-
mons imprison the plaintiffs, ib.;
Prisoners brought up by Habeas
Corpus to Queen's Bench and
remanded, ib.; Writ of error
thereupon, ib.; Commons address
the Queen not to grant it, 769;
Lords counter-address, ib.
Ailoffe, 405, 406; executed, 407
Aird, 196

Albano chosen Pope Clement XI.
672. See POPE.

Albano, his nephew, 844
Albemarle, Earl of, in favour with
King William, 656, 666, 701;
his loss at Denain, 703, 708
Albert, Duke, 5

Alberville, Marquis de, his charac-

ter, 450; King James's envoy to
the States, ib. 451; his memo-
rial about Bantam, 461; he dis-
covers King James's designs too
soon, 464, 488
Aldrich, Dr., 430

Aimanara, battle of, 857
Almanza, battle of, 809
Almirante of Castile, 730
Ambrun, siege of, 583
Amsterdam, errors of, 220; their love

for the Duke of Marlborough, 276

Ancram, Earl of, 10, 238
Anglesey, Earl of, manages the
English interest in Ireland, 120;
his character, 120*, 152; votes
against Lord Stafford, 325, 372;
opposes Monmouth's attainder,
410

Anjou, Duke of, offered to Spain,
598; declared King of Spain in
1700-672, 675; crowned by
the States, ib.; and by King Wil-
liam, 682. See PHILIP, King of
Spain

Annandale, Earl of, in a plot, 560;
discovers it to Queen Mary, 561,
738; opposes the Union, 800; is
zealous for the Protestant succes-
sion, 780, 835

Anne, Queen. See QUEEN ANNE
Annesley, Mr., 56; made Earl of An-

glesey, 64. See ANGLESEY, Earl of
Anspach, Princess of, 811
Antrim, Earl of, 22, 24, 25
Arco, 753

Argyle, Earl of, 14, 15; heads the
Whiggamore insurrection, 26;
refuses King Charles the First's
offers, 38; submits to Monk, ib. ;
one of the Scotch commissioners,
40; charged as accessory to the
king's murder, and sent to the
Tower, 73; his trial, 82, 83;
tries to escape, 83; his attainder,
84; his execution and speech
there, ib.; his character, 84*
Argyle, Earl of, his son, (see LORD
LORN) against violent proceed-
ings, 143; raises 1500 men,
159,
165,200,278; the Duke of York
tries to gain him, 338; his answer,
offers to explain the test-act,
340,342; is imprisoned, ib. ; con-
demned, 343; but escapes, ib.;
cabals with Monmouth, 354,355,
379; and invades Scotland, 404,
405; is defeated, taken, and ex-
ecuted, 406

Argile, Earl of, sent to tender the
crown of Scotland in 1689, 538,
560; made a duke
Argyle, Duke of, his son, commis-

sioner of parliament, 738, 766,
780; his instructions debated,

780, 827; is sent to command in
Spain

Arlington, Earl of, 68, 167, 180,
203; Knight of the Garter, 206,
216; in the interests of France,
218, 224, 229, 231; loses the
Duke of York, 233, 239; at-
tacked by the Commons, 242;
Lord Chamberlain, 243, 244;
sent to Holland to the Prince of
Orange, 251, 252, 384
Armagh, Primate of, 419
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, with the
Duke of Monmouth, 352, 358;
seized at Leyden, sent over and
executed, 375, 376, and note
Army, Scotch, defeated by Crom-

well, 36; attempts to raise a new
army in Scotland, ib.; a body of
Highlanders stand for the king,
38; their chief officers, 38, 39;
send over messages to the king,
39; are dispersed, 40; the En-
glish army how managed at the
Restoration, 57; disbanded, 105;
army on free quarters in the west
of Scotland, 278; the army at
Hounslow Heath, 447; King
James's desert to the Prince of
Orange, 501; parties engage in
Dorsetshire and at Reading, 506
Army, standing, odious to English
ears, 574, 645, 654; reasons for
and against one, 645, 646; re-
duced to 7000 men, and how
modelled, 654, 678
Arnot, Rachel, 9

Arragon, kingdom of, declares for
King Charles III., 793; reduced
by the Duke of Orleans, 809,
857, 858

Arran, Lord, 319, 334, 400, 477
Arundel, Lord, 263, 285, 325
Asgill, 670

Ashby, 310, 579

Ashley Cowper, 56. See SHAFTES-
BURY, Earl of
Ashton, seized with Lord Preston,
564; executed, 565; his paper
to the Sheriff, ib.

Aston, Sir Roger, employed by King
James I. as his messenger to
Queen Elizabeth, 3⚫

Astrologers, consulted by many men

of celebrity, 17
Athlone, the siege of, 571
Athlone, Earl of (see GINKLE), 654,
664, 700, 712; his conduct in
Flanders extolled, 713, 714
Athol, Marquis of, 165, 200, 224,

226, 267; sends Highlanders in
the West to live on free quarter,
277, 278, 287
Athol, Marquis of, 737; made a

duke, 746, 762; opposes the
Union, 800

Atterbury, Dr., 430, 671, and note,
689, 866, 868, 886; is made
Bishop of Rochester, 902
Aubigny, Lord, in the secret of King
Charles II.'s religion, 48; marries
him to Queen Catherine, 118;
seconds the motion for a general
toleration, 133, 135, 396
Augustus, King of Poland, 640, 641
(See Elector of SAXONY); his
conduct in Poland, 655; his alli-
ances against Sweden, 660; his
designs on Poland, ib.; the war
there, 667, 668, 675, 711, 716;
he is deposed, 734; Stanislaus
chosen and crowned in his room,
760, 778: resigns the throne,
807; the war continues, 832;
he resumes the crown on the
King of Sweden's defeat, 844
Aumont, Duke de, ambassador from
France, 892

Austria, Charles Archduke of, 661;
a treaty with Portugal in his
favour. See CHARLES III. King
of Spain

Auverquerque, General, his emi-

nent service in Flanders, 570,701
Azuph taken by the Muscovites, 629

B.

BADEN, Lewis Prince of, beats the
Turks, 573; comes to England,
600, 601; besieges Landau, 712;
and takes it, 714; repulses Villars
at Stolhoffen,728,729,753; takes
Landau a second time, 755; dis-
appoints the Duke of Marlbo-
rough after measures concerted,
772; his death, 807
Baillie, Mr., cited before the council
in Scotland and fined, 267, 287;
confers with Monmouth's party
at London, 354; seized and ex-
amined before the king, 358; im-
prisoned and cruelly used, 359,
370; further proceedings against

him, 379,380; his execution, 380
Baillie, Principal of Glasgow Col-
lege, 21, and note
Balmerinoch, Lord, his trial, 12, 13;
condemned, but pardoned, 14
Bamfield, Colonel, 398
Bank of England, when erected,
599; its good consequences, ib. ;
enlarged in 1709, 838; against a
change of ministry in 1710, 856,
857

failed

Bank, Land, 625, and note ;
totally, 628
Bantry Bay, sea fight there, 536
Bara, 822

Barbesieux, son to Louvois, 580
Barcelona besieged by the French,
601; siege raised by the English
fleet, ib.; taken by the French,
628; taken by King Charles in
1705, 777; besieged by the
French, 790; King Charles de-
fends it in person, 792; the
English fleet raises the siege, 793
Bareith, Marquis of, 582, 8
807
Bargeny, Lord, 339
Barillon, 273, 390
Barlow, Bishop, 289, and note
Barnevelt, 6; executed, 211
Bates, Dr., 175 and note, 611
Bath, Earl of, 392; his practices on
Cornish elections, 402; offers to
join the Prince of Orange, 499;
makes Plymouth declare for him,
503

Bavaria, Elector of, 6; Spanish
Flanders put into his hand, 574;
his son proposed as successor to
the Spanish monarchy, 656, 679;
he is gained by France, 694, 711,
712,714; distresses the Empire,
714,727, 728, 729, 733, 752;
his troops routed at Schellem-
berg, 753; he is beaten at Hoc-
sted, 754; loses all his territo-
ries, 755; his conduct in Flan-
ders, 772; his share at the battle
of Ramillies, 794, 796; com-
mands on the Rhine, 829; his
attempt on Brussels, 830; is re-
stored to his dominions, 894
Baxter, Mr., manager at the Savoy
conference, 123; his character,
123*; he refuses the Bishoprick
of Hereford, 126; at a treaty for
comprehension, 175; returns the
pension sent him from the court,
206
Bayly, 21

Beachy in Sussex, a sea-fight near
it, 555

Beaufort, Duke of, 84, 892
Beaumont, Colonel, refuses Irish
recruits, 487
Beddingfield, 282

Bedlow, his evidence in the Popish
plot, 286 and note, 295, 296,297,
298, 309, 310, 311, 323
Belcarras, Earl of, 38, 39
Belhaven, Lord, 11
Bellarmine, Cardinal, 3
Bellasis, Lord, 285, 236
Bellasis, Lady, her contract with the
Duke of York, 233
Bellefonds, Mareschal, 203; his cha-
racter, 367

Bennet, Secretary of State, 68. See
ARLINGTON, Earl of
Bentinck, Envoy from the States to
Brandenburgh, 481; his secrecy
in his expedition to England, 495,
506; made earl of Portland, 527,
and note

Berkley, Charles, made earl of Fal-

mouth, 68; his character, 68,
69, and note

Berkley, Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, 181 and note, 230, 398
Berkly, Lord, 856
Berkley, Sir George, 622; has King
James's commission to attack the
Prince of Orange in his winter
quarters, 622, 623; escapes, 624
Berkshire, earl of, 98
Berry, Duke of, 885
Berry, executed, 295, 296
Berwick, Duke of, his character,
476, 622, 747, 749, 757, 791,
793,809, 842

Bethel, Sheriff, 818

Beveridge, Dr., 709; is made Bishop
of St. Asaph, 767 and note, 802
Beuning, Van, 818

Bezons, Mareschal, 842, 844
Bierly, 742

Bill of Rights, 533, 534, and note
Binks, Dr., 708

Birch, Colonel, his character, 258,
293

Bishops, English, their conduct at
the Revolution,528,529 and note;
they engage in a correspondence
with St. Germains, 564, 565;
their sees are filled up, 568; the
character of the new Bishops, 569,
570,596, 600; divided as to the
point of the Duke of Norfolk's
divorce, 601, 689, 690, 691,
692

Bishops, Scotch, their errors, 4, 14;

men sought out to be bishops, 88,
89; are consecrated, 92; come
to Scotland, 94; are introduced
to the Parliament, 95; prejudices
against them, 103, 147; their
severity to prisoners, 160, 161;
are against a comprehension, 185;
are offended at the act of su-
premacy, 192; their conduct at
the Revolution, 538; is the cause
of abolishing episcopacy, ib.
Blacklow, 133
Blackhall, Dr., Bishop of Exeter,
816 and note

Blair, Mr., his character, 21
Blair, of Virginia, 596
Blake, Admiral, 52

Blakewood, his trial, 345, 346
Blandford, Bishop, attends

the

Duchess of York in her last
sickness, 207

Blareignies, battle of, 843

Blenheim, or Hocksted, battle of,
754, 755

Bohemia, affairs there, 7
Bolingbroke,

Viscount, sent to
France 892, 898; receives the
seals, 856 and note

Bolton, Duke of, 544; attacks the

Marquis of Halifax in Parliament,
ib.; his death and character, 657
Bonantine, Bishop, 14
Booth, Sir George, 43
Boots, a torture used in Scotland,
160
Borel, his answer to King Charles
II., 53, 216

Borghese, Prince, 423

Boucher, in a plot, 747,748, 749
Boucour, Mr., 481

Bouflers, Mareschal, 614; his de-
fence of Namur, 614, 615; his
negotiation with Lord Portland
concerning King James, 642;
commands in Flanders, 712, 713,
and note; his conduct in 1703
censured, 728, 729; his de-
fence of Lille, 830, 831; his
retreat after the battle of Mons,
843

Bourdaloue, Father, his character,
368, 369

Bowles, Sir John, 683

Box, refuses to be Sheriff, 347
Boyle, Earl of Cork, 209; his ac-
count how the Spanish Armada
was delayed, 209, 210
Boyle, Mr. Robert, of the Royal

Society, 132, and note
Boyle, Mr., Secretary of State, 822
and note; is dismissed, 856
Boyne, the battle of, 553, 554
Bredalbane, Earl of, sends 1700

Highlanders into the west of Scot-
land to live on free quarter, 277;
his conduct in the affair of Glen-
coe, 576, 617

Braddon, fined for talking of Lord
Essex's murder, 371
Bradshaw, the regicide, 28
Brandenburgh, Elector of, 7, 221,

227, 244; his death and charac-
ter, 474, 475
Brandenburgh, Elector of, takes

Keiserwaert and Bonn, 541;
joins the Dutch in Flanders, 615,
640,660,667; is King of Prussia.
See PRUSSIA.
Brandon, Lord, 415
Brayer, Father, 368
Brereton, Lord, chairman of the

committee at Brook-House, 181
Brett, Dr., 887, and note
Bridgman, Lord Keeper, 153, 170,

171, and note; for a compre-
hension, 175; and union with
Scotland, 189; refuses to seal a
declaration for toleration, and is
dismissed, 206
Brihuega, the loss there, 858
Bristol, Earl of, his character, 69,

and note; consults with the Pa-
pists for a general toleration, 133,
134; a prediction of his, 135;
he attacks the Earl of Clarendon,
135, and note, 326, 396
Broderick, Sir Allen, 49, 133
Broghill, Lord, his scheme for
uniting the families of Stuart and
Cromwell, 47*
Bromley, Mr., stands for Speaker,
and loses it, 781, and note; is
chosen Speaker in 1710, 859, and

note

Brounker, Lord, of the Royal So-
ciety, 131

Brounker, 148, and note
Brown, Lady, 263

Bruce, his secret management for
King James I., 3

Buckingham, Duke of, 8, and note,
10, 11, 29; letter of his to King
James, 9; courts the Anti-epis-
copalians, 10

Buckingham, Duke of, in favour
with King Charles II., 33; his
character, 33 and note, 69; pro-
motes Wilkins to the see of
Chester, 17, presses the King
to own a marriage with Mon-
mouth's mother, 176; proposes
to steal away the Queen, 178;
brings Davies and Gwyn to the
King, ib.; his friends, 180;
moves for dissolving the Parlia
ment, 188; is for an union with
Scotland, 189; and an alliance
with France, 201, 203, 216, 218;
hinders Ossory's design on Hel-
voetsluys, 222; sends over a
French mistress to the King, 224,
228, 229; offers to take out of
both Houses those that opposed
the King's declaration, 230, 238;
is attacked by the Commons, 242;
loses the King's favour, ib.; op-
poses the Test Act, 256, 258;
questions the legality of preroga-
tions, 267; sent to the Tower,
268 and note
Buckingham, (Sheffield) Duke of,
(see NORMANBY), 706; is made
Privy Seal to Queen Anne, 706,
819; and Lord Steward of the
Household, 856, 861
Bull, Dr., made Bishop
David's, 767, and note
Burgundy, Duke of, 629; marries

of St.

the Duke of Savoy's daughter,
ib. 673; heads the French army
in Flanders, 712; takes Brisack,
729; commands in Flanders in
1708, 826, 829; quarrels with
the Duke of Vendome, 842; is
Dauphin by his father's death,
866. See DAUPHIN.
Burnet, made Archbishop of Glas-
gow, 143; his character, ib.;
severe to prisoners, 159, 160;
proposes a special council at Glas-
gow, 162, 164, 166, 188; against
the indulgence, 190; resigns his
Archbishoprick, 193; is restored
to it, 248; his death, 382
Burnet, Gilbert (the author) lays
some grievances of the clergy
before the bishops, 147; his trea-
tises on divorce and polygamy,
177; gets some moderate Pres-
byterians into the vacant churches,
189; chosen divinity-professor at
Glasgow, 193; is at a conference
with the Presbyterians, 198, 199;

writes Memoirs of the two Dukes
of Hamilton, 199; reconciles the
Dukes of Hamilton and Lauder-
dale, 200; proposes a further
indulgence, ib.; refuses a bishop-
ric, ib.; refuses it with the
promise of the first vacant arch-
bishoprick, 225; obtains a farther
indulgence, 226; his remon-
strances to Duke Lauderdale, 236;
has many marks of the king's
favour, ib.; attacks the Duke of
York about his religion, 237;
introduces Dr. Stillingfleet to
him, 237, 238, 239; the Duke's
private discourse, 239; Lauder-
dale persecutes him, 240; he is
disgraced at court, 247, 248; ex-
amined by the House of Com-
mons, 252; is made Chaplain at
the Rolls, 253; his conference
with Coleman, 264; undertakes
to write the History of the Refor.
mation, ib. and note; what passed
between him and Tonge and Oates,
284; his opinion of the witnesses,
287; his private interviews with
the King, 288, 290, 291; his
thoughts on the exclusion, 305;
his expedient of a Prince Regent,
327; he lives retired, 329; his
letter to the King about his course
of life, 333, 334, and note; his
reception afterwards, 335; his
good offices to the Earl of Argyle,
342, 343; examined in Council
concerning Lord Russel's speech,
365, 366; goes over to France,
367, and note; his character of
some eminent men there, 367,
368, 369; deposes against Lord
Howard's credit, 372; turned
out of all his preferments, 386;
goes out of England, 404; resides
at Paris, 419; his account of the
persecution in France, 420, 421,
422; well received at Rome, 422;
Cardinal Howard's freedom with
him, 423; the cruelty he saw in
Orange, 424; his observation on
the reformed churches, 437; is
invited by the Prince and Prin-
cess of Orange, 438; discovers a
conspiracy against the Prince, ib.;
his character of the Prince and
Princess, 438, 439; much em-
ployed and trusted by them, 439,
440; puts the Princess on de-
claring what share the Prince may
expect in the government, 440;
forbid their Court in appearance
at King James's instance, 450;
is more trusted; ib.; draws
Dyckvelt's private instructions
when sent Ambassador to Eng-
land, ib.; is prosecuted in Scot-
land for high treason, 460; natu-
ralized at the Hague, ib. Albe-
ville demands him to be delivered
up or banished, 461, 462; the
States answer, 462; other de-
signs on his life, 463; acquaints
the house of Hanover with the

Prince of Orange's design, and
intimates the probability of an
entail on that family, 481; goes
with the Prince of Orange as his
Chaplain, 492; what passed be-
tween the Prince and him at
landing, 500; draws up an asso-
ciation at Exeter, 502; his con-
ference with the Marquis of Hali-
fax concerning King James, 503,
506; protects the Papists and
Jacobites at London from insults,
508; opposes Bentinck in behalf
of the Princess of Orange, 517;
declares her sentiments, 519; is
made Bishop of Salisbury, 529;
opposes the imposing the oaths on
the clergy, 530; for the tolera-
tion, ib.; for leaving the com-
prehension to the Convocation,
531; by King William's order
moves the naming the Duchess of
Hanover in the succession, 533;
enters into a correspondence with
her, 534; endeavours to preserve
episcopacy in Scotland, 538,539;
Lord Melville excludes him from
meddling in Scotch affairs, 539;
his share in the scheme for a com-
prehension, 542, 543; King Wil-
liam's free discourse to him about
the civil list, 544; Montgomery's
plot discovered to him, 546; his
reply to King William when the
civil list was granted for only
five years, 549; dissuades the
Duke of Shrewsbury from resign-
ing, 551; King William's dis-
course to him before he went to
Ireland, ib.; he is reflected upon
by both parties, 596; is for erect-
ing the Bank of England, 599;
his friendship with Archbishop
Tillotson, 605; attends Queen
Mary in her last sickness, 606,
607; speaks for the bill of at-
tainder against Sir John Fenwick,
637; does him private services,
ib.; is made Preceptor to the
Duke of Gloucester against his
will, 648; his character of the
Czar of Muscovy and conversa-
tion with him, 655; he publishes
an Exposition of the thirty-nine
articles, 658; a motion to remove
him from the Duke of Glouces-
ter rejected in the House of Com-
mons by a great majority, 663;
his conduct in that Prince's edu-
cation, 668, 669; the lower
House of Convocation censure
his Exposition, 691; but refuse
to point out their objections, ib. ;
he attends King William in his
last sickness, 701; his character
of that Prince, 702, 703; he
opposes a clause in the bill for
Prince George of Denmark, 722;
his zeal against the occasional bill,
721, 741; his scheme for aug-
menting the poor livings in Eng-
land takes effect, 745, 746; he
argues for the union, 802; his

reflections on it, 804, 805; he
proposes that forfeitures in trea-
son shall not affect the posterity,
837; argues against Sacheverel,
851; speaks freely to the Queen,
853; reasons for continuing his
history beyond its first intended
period, 853, 854; his justifica-
tion of the old Ministry, 869; he
speaks freely to the Queen against
the peace, 874; his sentiments as
to censuring Whiston's teuets in
Convocation, 887: a speech pre-
pared by him in case the Ministry
had moved for an approbation of
the peace, 899, 900, 901, 902,
903

Burton, 175, 333

Buys, plenipotentiary at Gertruy-
demberg, 855, 889

Byng, Sir George, sent after Four-
bin to Scotland, 824, 825; pre-
vents the Pretender's landing
there, chases the French fleet,
and takes their Vice-admiral, 825

C.

CADIZ, the expedition thither, 716,

717

Calamy, Edmund, refuses a bishop-
ric, 126, 307

Calemburgh, Admiral, saves the
Dutch fleet near Beachy by a
stratagem, 555
Calonitz, Cardinal, 729
Callieres, 630

Camaret, a design upon it miscarries,
602

Cambray, Archbishop of, 651, 657
Campbell, father and son imprisoned,

408

Canada, an expedition thither un-
successful, 871

Cant, 21

Capel, Sir Henry, 317; votes for
the exclusion, 319

Capel, Lord, sent one of the Lords

Justices to Ireland, 596; is made
Lord Lieutenant, 618; his dis-
pute with Porter the Lord Chan-
cellor there, 619
Caprara, 574
Caraffa, 574

Cardenas, Don Alonso de, endeavours
to engage Cromwell in the Span-
ish interest, 47
Cargill, executed, 338; obstinacy of
his followers, ib.
Carlisle, Earl of, 42, 247, 637, 708
Carlton, Sir Dudley, his advice

to King James I. to beware of
Priests, 5

Carmarthen, Marquis of, (see DAN-
BY) made president of the council,
526; sets the whigs upon attack-
ing the Marquis of Halifax, 527;
is himself attacked, 564; discovers
a negotiation with king James, ib.;
is attacked for a present said to
have been made him by the East
India Company, 611; impeached

for it, 612; he is made Duke of
Leeds, 616. See LEEDS
Carmarthen, Marquis of, his son,
commands a squadron, 616
Caron, 133

Carril, a divine, with Richard Crom-
well, 54

Carstairs, his letters taken, 225; a

persecutor of conventicles, 266,
267; his practices against Lauder-
dale and Staley, 287, 291; dies
in horror, 291

Carstairs, Mr. William, tortured,
379, and note

Cartwright, made bishop of Chester,
442

Casal surrendered to be demolished,
616

Cassilis, Earl of, 12; sent to the
Hague to treat with king Charles
II., 33; desires to explain the
oath of supremacy, 95; quits his
employments, ib.; moves in par-
liament against the King's mar-
rying a papist, 118, 153
Cassilis, Earl of, his son, against the
act to punish conventicles, 196
Castile, Almirante of, 775
Catalonia, a rising there, 775
Catinat, Mareschal, 190, 692, 712
Cavendish, Lord, 232; his charac-
ter, 259 and note; desists from
going to council, 317; offers to
manage Lord Russel's escape, 364.
See DEVONSHIRE

Cecil, Secretary, his private corre-
spondence with king James, 3
Cellier, Mrs., gets Dangerfield out
of prison, 315

Century XVIII. how opened, 673,
674, 675

Cevennes, the insurrection there,

716, 733; is quieted at last, 759
Chaise, Father la, his character, 369
Chamberlain, Dr., 478

Chamillard, 829; he is dismissed,
842

Charity Schools, there rise here,
651, 709

Charles of Gratz, a patron of the
Jesuits, 5

Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine, his

motives of choosing a religion, 6
Charles V., Emperor, subdues the
Smalcaldick league, 208
Charles VI., (see CHARLES III. King
of Spain) chosen Emperor, and
crowned at Frankfort, 870, 874;
sends Prince Eugene to England,
879; resolves to carry on the war
with France, 891, 893, 894;
will not come into the treaty of
Utrecht, 896
Charles II., King of Spain, 593;
hearty against France, ibid.;
attacked in Catalonia, and relieved
by the English fleet, 601, 602;
his sickness, 629, 645, 648, 656;
a treaty for the partition of his
succession, 656; his death, ar.d
pretended will, 672; the Duke of
Anjou declared his successor, ib.
Charles III., King of Spain, owned

is

by England, 730; comes over
hither, 731, 732; goes to Lisbon,
732; thence to Catalonia, 775; is
for besieging Barcelona, ib.; his
letters to Queen Anne and Lord
Godolphin, 777; Valentia and
Catalonia declare for him, 790;
stays at Barcelona when besieged
by the French, 790, 792; delays
going to Madrid, 793; Arra-
gon declares for him, ib.; and
Carthagena, 794; takes Alicant,
ib.; Earl Rivers sent with forces
to him, 796; his affairs take an
unhappy turn, 808, 809, 811;
seven thousand Imperialists sent
him from Italy, 811; he marries
the Princess of Wolfenbuttle,
811, 812; complains of the Earl
of Peterborough, 820; his con-
duct in Spain censured, ib.; sup-
plies sent from Italy to Spain by
Sir John Leak, 826; the campaign
in 1709, 842; the battle of Al-
marara, 857; he goes to Madrid,
858; the battle of Villa Viciosa,
ib.; he is neglected by his Allies,
and his affairs go amiss, ib.; he
succeeds to the Austrian do-
minions, 866; quiets the troubles
in Hungary, ib.; leaves his Queen
in Spain, and goes to Italy, 870;
thence into Germany, ib.; is
chosen Emperor, ib. See CHARLES
VI. Emperor.

Charles I. of England, at first a
friend to Puritans, 10; dislikes
his father's familiar behaviour, ib.;
crowned in Scotland, 11; erects
a new bishoprick at Edinburgh,
12; feebleness of the government,
15; complaints of Popery, ibid.;
ill state of the King's affairs, 17;
good advice given, but not followed,
23, 24, and note; his slowness
ruins the treaty in the Isle of
Wight, 27; his character, 28, 29;
his conduct towards the Queen,
29, and note; the secret of the
design of erecting the Netherlands
into a republic ill kept by him,
30; who were chiefly concerned
in his death, 28; his death turned
the nation, 30; his statue at
Charing Cross, 248, and note.
Charles II., his son, proclaimed
King by the Scots, 32; they send
commissioners to him at the

Hague, 35; he goes to Scotland,
and is ill used, 35, 37; his decla-
ration condemning himself and his
father, 37; attempts to escape,
but prevented, ib.; is crowned
and takes the covenant, 38; comes
into England, and is pursued by
Cromwell, ib.; a body in the
Highlands stand firm, 38, 39;
their little army routed, 40; the
king and his brother dismissed
from France, 48; he changes his
religion there, ib.; goes to the
congress at tho Pyrenees, 56;
matters in England tending to his

restoration, he goes to Breda, 56;
he is called home without terms,
58, 59; the nation runs into vice,
60; the King's character, 61, and
note; the state of his court, 61,
62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69;
the chief of the Scots, 70, 71,
72; a general pardon in Scotland
advised, 73; and to demolish
Cromwell's forts, ib.; and for
settling the church, 74; the King
confirms Presbytery, 75; a coun-
cil for Scotch affairs at Whitehall,
76; the committee of estates
meet, 77; a parliament called, ib.;
the king disapproves of the recis-
sory act, 80; is indifferent as to
restoring episcopacy, 87; angry
at the Incapacitating act, 100;
gives himself up to pleasure, 108;
account of his mistresses and ille-
gitimate children, 109*, 110*,
111; maintains the indemnity,
111; his marriage, 112; sells
Dunkirk, 117; the ceremony of
his marriage, 118; Ireland settled,
119; his declaration for toleration,
133; discontinues the ecclesias-
tical commission in Scotland, 145;
augments the forces there, ib. ;
resolves on the Dutch war, 147;
the victory over them not followed,
148; the English flect saved by
Prince Rupert, 154; a rebellion
in the West of Scotland, 158; is
defeated, and the prisoners se-
verely used, 159, 160, 161; the
Scotch council changed and mo-
deration shown, 161; the Scotch
army disbanded, 163; the King
tries to regain the affections of his
people, 167; rides through the
city while the Dutch were in the
river, 168; grows weary of Lord
Clarendon, 169; seems to favour
a comprehension, 171; enters
into the triple alliance, ib.; of-
fended at many of the Bishops,
175; will not own a marriage
with the Duke of Monmouth's
mother, 176; sets on Lord Roos's
divorce, 177; will not send the
Queen away by surprise, 178;
goes to the House of Lords and
solicits votes, 184; orders an in-
dulgence in Scotland, 189; dis-
likes the act against conventicles,
196; shuts up the Exchequer,
204; suspends the penal laws by
his declaration, 205, 206; an at-
tempt on the Dutch Smyrna fleet,
205; complains to Sheldon of the
sermons against Popery, 207;
creates his mistress Duchess of
Portsmouth, 224; jealousies of
him, 228; divisions at court, 229;
and in council, 230, 231; can-
cels his own declaration suspend-
ing the penal laws, 232; sends
Plenipotentiaries to Cologne, 234;
calls a parliament in Scotland,
240; mediates a peace between
France and Holland, 244; he

prorogues the Parliament in Eng-
land, 245; and in Scotland, ib.;
deals roughly with the Scotch
lawyers in appeals, 246; marries
his niece, Lady Mary, to the
Prince of Orange, 272; his easi-
ness in signing papers, 277; re-
fuses to see the Scotch Lords who
come up with complaints of Lau-
derdale, 278; suffers the Duke
of Monmouth to intercede for
them, ib.; his going to Newmar-
ket when the Popish plot broke
out is censured, 283; refuses his
assent to the militia act, 290;
his sense of the Plot, ib.; his
message to the Commons against
Mountague, 291; the Parliament
prorogued, 294; a reward offered
for farther discoveries of the Plot,
298; a new parliament called,
300; he refuses Seymour for
Speaker, ib.; disowns his mar-
riage with the Duke of Mon-
mouth's mother, ib. ; changes his
council, 302; debates in council
about dissolving the Parliament,
311; sends Monmouth to suppress
the rebellion in Scotland, 313;
when ill, sends for the Duke of
York, 315; jealousies of him,
315, 316; sends the Duke of
York to Scotland, 318; asks a
supply for Tangier, 320; sum-
mons a parliament at Oxford,
327; likes the scheme of a Prince
Regent in lieu of the exclusion,
ib.; by his declaration complains
of the three last parliaments, 329;
charters of corporations surren-
dered to, 346; changes in the min-
istry and divisions, 348, 349; the
Rye-house plot, 356; a procla-
mation thereupon, 357; his con-
cern for the Duke of Monmouth,
358; sends to the Common Coun-
cil of London to deliver up their
charter, 370; calling a parliament
proposed, but rejected, ib.; he
pardons the Duke of Monmouth,
373; forbids him the court, 374;
a passage between him and the
Prince of Orange, ib.; he deter-
mines that husbands in Scotland
shall be fined for their wives
going to conventicles, 377; aban-
dons Tangier, 384; a strange
practice in a trial of blood, 388;
and in the marriage of the Earl
of Clancarty's son, 388, 389;
employs Papists in Ireland, and
tries to model the army there,
389; suspicions of his declaring
himself a Papist, 390; a new
scheme of government concerted
at Lady Portsmouth's, ib; the
King's fondness of her, 391; his
sickness, ib.; takes the sacrament
in the Popish way, 392; his death,
393; a remarkable story relating to
it, 393, 394, and note; his charac-
ter, 394-397, and note; attempt
to resume his grants, 654, 865