Rochester, 348; his services for- gotten, 349, 366; brings Mon- mouth into favour, 373; his jest on Rochester, 384, 389; his jest on a Siam missionary, 390; complains of erasures in the treasury books, 391; moves in council to examine who have taken the test, 418, 419; dis- missed, 420; argues for the test, 425; meets at Lord Shrewsbury's, 452, 485; sent by King James to the Prince of Orange, 503, 507, 511, 517, 518; made privy seal, 526; is attacked in the House of Lords, and quits the court, 544; heade the opposi- tion, 585; his death, 613 Hallifax, Lord (see MONTAGUE),
674, 677; is impeached by the Commons, 680, 681, 685; his answer, 685; acquitted by the Lords, 688, 708; his project for a public library, 745, 788, 789; argues for the union, 802, 819, 839
Halloway's conspiracy, 355: and execution, 374 Halloway, Judge, 470
Halton, Lord, 200; charged with perjury, 339
Hamburgh, sedition there quelled, 814
Hamden, his character, 353, 354;
sent to the Tower, 360; his trial, 374, 375, 404, 415; ad- vises a clause in King William's speech, 529
Hamilton, Duke of, 16; his secret powers, 22; in favour with Charles II., 34 Hamilton, Duke of, his character,
71, and note, 80; against restor- ing episcopacy, 88, 101; presi- dent of the convention, 161, 165, 192, 199, 200, 224, 240, 241, 245, 247, 249, 267; complains of the Highlanders quartered in the West, 278, 291, 312, 338; for the succession in the duke of York, 338, 433; with others of the Scotch nobility, addresses the Prince of Orange, 510; is pre- sident of the convention in 1689, 537, 538; is commissioner of parliament, 538, 539, 560; re- fuses it in 1690, 560, 597; is commissioner in 1693, 597; his death and character, 613 Hamilton, Duke of, his son, 711, 749, 762, 799, 800; opposes the Duke of Queensbury, 836; made Duke of Brandon, 876; refused to be admitted by the House of Lords, 877; appointed ambassador to France, 892; killed by Lord Mohun in a duel, ib.
with Tyrconnel, 511; King Wil- liam's humanity to him at the Boyne, 559
Hamilton, Bishop of Galloway, 89 Hamilton, made Bishop of Dunkeld, 434
Hammond, Henry, his character, 121 and note
Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 817 Hanover, Duke of, 481; quits the
French interest, 573; made an elector, ib., 660 Hanover, (Duchess of,) Electress of, proposed to be named in the succession, 533; is named, 682; a further security for their suc- cession, 723; designs to invite her over, 768; debated in par- liament, 782; a regency in case of absence, 783, 784; her suc- cession guaranteed, 882, 883, 892, 893
Hanover, Elector of, her son, has the garter sent him, 684; sur- prises the Dukes of Wolfenbut tle and Saxe Gotha, 711; com- mands the army on the Rhine, 812, 830, 838, 843; his mini- ster's memorial against the treaty with France, 874 Hanover, Electoral Prince of, mar- ries the Princess of Anspach, 811; has precedence in the House of Lords by Act of Par- liament, 877, 879
Harbord, Sir Charles, his character, 257
Harbord, Mr., 582
Harcourt, Mareschal de, 842 Harcourt, 295; his trial, 308, 310 Harcourt, Sir Simon, 706; draws the act of union very artfully, 802 and note; adheres to Mr. Harley, 817; lays down with him, 822; counsel for Sache- verel, 848; made attorney-gene- ral, 856; and lord-keeper, ib. Hardy, Captain, 718 Hare, Dr., 885 and note Harlay, president of the Parliament of Paris, 368, 642 Harley, Mr., opposes the court,
589, 625; is chosen speaker, 674 and note, 683, 695; is made secretary of state, 752, 804; sets up independent of Lord Godolphin, 816, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821; lays down his em- ployment, 822; his spies ill chosen, ib.; contrives a change of ministry, 852, 856; promotes enquiries into abuses, 862; is stabbed by Guiscard, 864, and note; is made Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, 866. See OXFORD Haro, 56, 717
Harrington, 43; for choosing par- liaments by ballot, 55, and note
Hascard, Dr., 386 Haversham, Lord, his saying at a conference, 687; it raises great contests, 688, 691, 781, 819 Hawkins, 331 Hay, 12
Hedges, Sir Charles, 699; secre- tary of state, 706 and note Heinsius, Pensioner, 842, 889 Hemmings, apothecary, his story of the Prince of Wales's death, 478
Henderson, Alexander, 20* Henly, Mr., his story of King Charles's death, 393 and note Henry, Prince, believed to be poi- soned, 4 and note
Herbert, Sir Edward, Chief Justice, 427, and note; goes the Western circuit, 428; made an ecclesias- tical commissioner, 431; a judge in the seven bishops' trial, 470 Herbert, Admiral, against repealing the test, 428, and note; goes over to Holland, 483; is lieu- tenant-general of the Dutch fleet, 492, 493, 494, 495, 498; made Earl of Torrington, 528. See TORRINGTON
Hervall, de, his account of the Duke of Savoy, 732 Hervey, John, his reply to King
Charles, 255; his character, ib.* Hervey, Mr., made a baron, 726 Hesse, Landgrave of, 481, 582, 590, 660, 755
Hesse, a Prince of, 638, 667, 730; governor of Gibraltar, 757; his brave defence of it, 758; goes with King Charles to Catalonia, 775; killed in attacking Fort Montjui, 776
Hesse, a prince of, defeated by Count Medavi, 798 Hawes, 337 Heylin, 31
Hicks, Dr., 277, 887 and note High Church, the distinction be- tween it and Low Church wher begun, 670, 671, 727 Hill, 295, 296
Hill, General, his expedition to Canada, 871 Hoadley, Mr., his character and writings, 847
Hobbes, 69; his Leviathan, 128 and note Holland, Sir John, 745 Holland, disorders there, 6. See DUTCH
Holles, Lord, his advice how to
save Lord Strafford, 19; and end the Civil War, 23, 27; his character, 65 and note; and conduct in France, 142; opposes the test, 256, 267, 287; against the bishops' votes in treason, 306 Holmes, attacks the Dutch Smyrna fleet, 205, and note Holmes, corresponds with Argyle, 379 Holstein, Duke of, 660, 667,668, 716
Holt, Sir John, made Chief Justice 666; of the King's Bench, 527, his behaviour in the affair of Aylesbury, 743, 768, 807; his death and character, 850 and
Home's trial, 345 Hone's execution, 364 Hooper, Dr., 430, 690, and note; is made a bishop and opposes the union, 802
Hope, Sir Thomas, 12 and note Horneck, Dr., 709
Hough, Dr., chose president of Magdalen College, 445; turned out by the ecclesiastical commis- sion, 445, 446 and note; is made Bishop of Oxford, 569 Howard of Escrick, Lord, 16 Howard, Lord, 249, 285, 331; brings Monmouth and Sidney acquainted, 353, 355, 357, 359; his confession and examination, ib., 360; evidence against Lord Russel, 360, 361, 362; against Sidney, 371, 372; and Hamden, 374
Howard, Cardinal, 423 Howe, John, Mr., 719 and note, 722, 724
Hubert confesses setting fire to London, ib.
Huddleston gives King Charles II. the Sacrament, 392 Hume, Sir Patrick, corresponds with Argyle, 404 Humieres, 367
Hungary, wars there with the Turks, 573, 582, 603, 617, 629, 644; a peace, ib.; the Hungarians re- volt, 694, 759, 729; an accom- modation treated without suc- cess, 760; campaigns there, 778, 791, 807, 832, 846; all matters accommodated, 866 Huntingdon, Earl of, his bravery, 683, 713
Huntley, Marquis of, kills the Earl of Murray, 10, 23 Hutchinson, 187, 190; refuses Leightoun's terms for a compre- hension, 195, 197, 198 Hutton, Dr., Physician to King William, gives two remarkable instances of his equality of tem- per, 558
Huy taken by King William, 601 Hyde, Chancellor, 39, 48, 58, 59,
60. See CLARENDON Hyde, Sir Henry, Ambassador from
Charles II., in his exile, to the Porte, 53; delivered up to Crom- well, and executed, ib., and note
JAMES I., King, his minority, 1; in- clines secretly to France, 2; the Kirk disgusted at his fickleness in religion, 2, 3; his misconduct, sets up episcopacy in Scotland, 3;
afraid of the Jesuits, 5; jealous of Prince Henry, 4; will not acknowledge the Elector Palatine King of Bobemia, 6; parts with the Dutch cautionary towns, 7; diminishes the power of the Crown, ib.; his death and charac- ter, 8
James II., King, (see YORK,) begins his reign with great advantage, 398; his education, ib.; learned war under Turenne, 399; is pro- claimed, ib.; addresses from Ox- ford and London, ib.; customs and excise levied without law, 400; goes openly to Mass, 401; his course of life, ib.; summons a parliament, 402; his Coronation, 403; his success against Mon- mouth and Argyle, 415; cruelties of soldiers and of Jefferies in the West, 416; the nation turned by them, 417; disputes about the test, ib.; the King's declaration against the Test Act, 419; the Commons address for observing the Act, 425; some members closetted, others disgraced for their voting, 426; the Judges consulted as to the King's dis- pensing power, 427; the Test neglected, 428; an ecclesiastical commission, 431; he sends the Earl of Murray to hold a par- liament in Scotland, 433; the Parliament will not take off the Test there, 433; and is dissolved, 434; the King makes Mrs. Sidley Countess of Dorchester, 434, 435; attempts to bring Papists into the two Universities, 443, 444; the President and Fellows of Magda- len College turned out, 445, 446; the King courts the Dissenters, ib.; his army encamps on Houns- low Heath, 447; sends an Am- bassador to Rome, ib.; and Albe- ville Envoy to Holland, 450; the King's designs disclosed by the Jesuits at Liege, 452; by his Proclamation in Scotland he claims absolute power, 452, 453; his declaration for Toleration in England, ib.; addresses of the Dis- senters, 454; the Parliament dis- solved, ib.; the Pope's Nuncio received, 455; the King's progress ib.; changes the Magistrates over England, ib.; questions put about elections, 456; his letter to the Princess of Orange about religion, 457, 458; her answer, 458, 459; Steward in favour, 463; F. Petre a Privy Councillor, 464; the King demands his regiments in the States service, 465; a new Declaration for toleration, 466; the Clergy refuse to read it, 467; the Bishops petition against it, 467, 468; are sent to the Tower, 469; are tried in Westminster Hall, 469, 470; great joy at their acquittal, 470 and note; the
Clergy cited, 473; the Queen gives out she is with child, 476; an account of the birth of that child, 476, 477, 478, 479; a fleet set out, 480; the Court alarmed, ib., 481, 487; Lord Dartmouth commands the fleet, 487; Irish recruits refused by the officers of the army, ib.; the French troops refused, 488; the Earl of Sunderland prevents the seizing suspected persons, 497; proofs of the birth of the pretended Prince of Wales, 497, 498; the fleet is forced back into Portsmouth, 500; the King comes to Salisbury, 501; many forsake him, ib.; the Princess of Denmark does, ib.; he returns to London, 503; sends for the Lords there, and by their advice sends to treat with the Prince of Orange, ib.; strange counsel of the Priests, 504; the King goes away in disguise, ib.; taken and brought to Feversham, 505; ad- vices given as to his person, 506; brought to Whitehall, ib.; sent under a Dutch guard to Roches- ter, 508; his Queen presses him to come to France, 509; he flies thither, ib.; proceedings in Par- liament after his departure, 519, 520, 521; a party forming for him in England, 532; his great seal found in the Thames,534; his con- duct at the French Court ruins his affairs, 535; goes to Ireland, ib.; cabals in Scotland in his favour, ib.; forced to raise the siege of Londonderry and Enniskillen, 536; some Whigs in his interest, 545; his conduct in Ireland, 552, 553; his behaviour at the Boyne, 554; leaves Ireland, ib.; slighted in France, 557; his partisans in Scotland dispersed, 560; plots there in his favour discovered, 560, 561; he intends a descent on England, 578; in a plot against King William, 581; the abjuration him not carried, 585; Middle- toun's proposition to him, 598; his Declaration, ib.; Charnock and the Earl of Ailesbury sent to him, 612; he grants a Commission to attack King William's person,
is ready to invade England, 622, 623; Berkeley, who had his commission, escapes, 624, 643, 652; his death and character, 695, 696
Jane, Dr., 436 Jefferies, Sir George, 321, 362, made Chief Justice, 369 and note; 371, 372, 375, 376, 383, 387, 388; his cruelty in the West, made & Baron, 415, and note; and Lord Chancellor, 425, 430, 444, 447, 497; sent to the Tower, 505 Jefferies, Lord, 683
Jekyll, Sir Joseph, 745 and note;
a manager in Sacheverell's trial, 848 Jenkins, Sir Lionel, Plenipotentiary
at Cologne, 234, and note; and at Nimeguen, 280, 291; made Secretary of State, 319; his vio- lence as to the City of London, 347, 348; dismissed, 384 Jeunison, his evidence in the Popish plot, 297
Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans, 25,
Jersey, Earl of, 641, and note, 666,
678, 708, 752; employed in treating with France, 872; death, ibid.
Ingoldsby, 56
Inniskillen, siege of, 536
Keith, George, leaves the Quakers, 670
Keith, in a plot, 746, 748 Ken, Bishop, his character, 382, 383; attends King Charles on his death-bed, 392; and Duke of Monmouth at his execution, 413 Kennet, Dr., 689
Kent, Earl of, made Lord Cham- berlain, 752; a Duke, 882; has the Garter, 892
Keppel, made Earl of Albemarle, 656, and note Ker, 169
Keys, in the Assassination-Plot, 625 Kid, sent against pirates in the East- Indies, 663; turns pirate, ib.; taken and hanged, 680
Johnston, 415, 486, 575, 579, 761, Killigrew, in the Admiralty, 585
Johnston, Sir Patrick, 801 Jones, John, 8, 264, 303, 319, and note, 325, 327, 328, 329, 335, 869
Jones, Bishop of St. Asaph, 658 Joseph, King of the Romans, takes Landau, 714, 755; succeeds Leopold, his father, as Emperor, 773; his separate treaty for evacuating Italy, 807; is the cause of disappointing the design upon Toulon, 808, 809, 810; Naples reduced to his obedience, 812; his death, 866 Ireland, the war there after the
Revolution, 535, 536, 551, 552, 553, 554; wasted by the rappa- rees and soldiers, 560, 562,563; reduced by Ginkle, 570, 571, 572; a parliament there, 575; another in 1695, 619; Trustees
of the forfeited estates there, 694, 695; Whig and Tory prevail there, 738; the Papists' estates split by Act of Parliament, 739; the Protestants divided, 738, 739; and the Clergy there, 839 Ireland, his trial, 294, 297, 298 Ireton, the author of King Charles the first's death, 28, 30 Irish massacre, 25 Ironside, Dr., made Bishop of Here- ford, 569, and note
Isabella, Archduchess, 6, 30 Italy, campaigns there, 574, 583,
590, 616, 628, 729, 774, 791; evacuated by the French, 807 Judges, a bill to make their salaries for life, 575
Justices, Lords, during King Wil- liam's absence, 613 Juxon, attends King Charles at his execution, 28, and note; made Archbishop of Canterbury, 120
KEELING, draws the Act of Unifor- mity, 125
Keeling, his depositions, 356, 364 Keiserwaert, siege of, 541, 712
Kincardine, Earl of, his character, 72; against Episcopacy, 88; and Sharp's violence, 143, 165, 166, 186, 195, 250; turned out of the council, 267, 291, 339 King, a physician, 391 King, Dr., Archbishop of Dublin, 847
King, in the Assassination Plot, 625, 626
King, Sir Peter, a manager in Sach- everell's trial, 848
Kirk, 415 and note, 486, 536 Kirkton, a conventiele preacher, 267 Knightly, views the ground for attacking King William, 622; condemned and pardoned, 627
LAKE, Bishop of Chichester, absent from Parliament, 528, is deprived, 569
Lambert, General, 55, 56; accused by Oates, 286
Landau, taken by the Germans, 714; retaken by the French, 730; taken by the Imperialists again, 754,755
Landen, battle of, 591 Langham, Sir James, 181 Langhorne, 155, 285; his trial and death, 309
Langston, Colonel, 501 Lanier, 558
La Rue discovers the Assassination Plot, 622
Lavardin, Count, enters Rome in a hostile manner, 482 Lauderdale, Earl of, 13, 14, 17, 22, 23, 29, 34, 35; his character, 70, and note; urges the King to grant an indemnity, 73; proposes to destroy Cromwell's forts, 73, 74; for Presbytery, 74; made Secretary of State, 75; against a Scotch council at Whitehall, 76, 80, 87, 88, 94, 96; is in the incapacitating list, 99; accuses Middletoun, 137, 138, 139, 140; gives way to Sharp, 141, 143, 144, 162, 164, 165, 166, 177,
180, 188, 191; his speech to Parliament, 197; passes the act of supremacy, 194, 195; screens Papists, 196, 200; marries Lady Dysart, 204; is made a Duke and has the Garter, 206; his inso- lence, 224; angry at the Presby- terians, 225, 226; his violent counsel, 231, 235, 236; a party against him, 240; puts off the Session, 241; an address to remove him, 242; is reconciled to Ar- gyle, 245; made Earl of Guil- ford, 246, 248, 249, 250, 264, 266, 271, 274, 275, 276, 277; his violent administration, 277, 278, 279, 287, 288, 291; charge against him, 312; heard in coun- cil, 312, 313; draws the indem- nity after the rebellion at Both- well Bridge, 314; votes against Lord Stafford, 325, 337, 338 Lauderdale, Duchess of, 225, 240 Lauzun commands the French troops
sent to Ireland, 535; his ill con- duct there, 558, 559
Leak, or Lake, Sir John, 758;
raises the siege of Gibraltar, 771, 791, 792; and of Barcelona, 794 Learmonth surprises Turner, 158 Lee, Sir Thomas, 232; his charac- ter, 266
Leeds, Duke of, 616; acquitted of his impeachment, 688 Leefdale disappoints an intended assassination of King William, 581 Le Fevre, Dr., 393 Leg, 356
Leganes, Marquis of, 775 Leicester, Earl of, 211 Leightoun, Bishop, his character, 89, 90, 91, 92; his moderation, 92, 24, 96, 145; proposes a com- prehension, 166, 185, 186, 187, 189, 192; made Archbishop of Glasgow, 194; his scheme of accommodation with the Presby- terians, ib.; his conferences with them, 195; angry at the act against conventicles, 196; his further conferences with the Pres- byterians, 198, 199, 200, 225; resigns his archbishoprick, 226; his death, 381 Lenox, Duke of, 3 and note, 11 Leopold, the Emperor, loses Bel- grade, 562; beats the Turks, 573; a great victory over them near Belgrade, 644; makes the peace of Carlowitz, ib.; secretly consents to the Partition Treaty, 661, 677; begins the war with France in Italy, 679, 692, 693; refuses to own the Pretender, 696; is in great distress, 728, 729, 752; the Duke of Marlborough saves the empire, 752; the Emperor con- tinues the war in Hungary, 759; his death and character, 773 Lesley, 36 Lesley, author of the Rehearsal, 847, and note
L'Estrange, Sir Roger, 307, and note Levingston defeats the Highlanders,
500; his share in the massacre at Glencoe, 577, 622 Lexington, Lord, sent Ambassador to Spain, 892
Leybourn, a Bishop sent from Rome, 464
Lichtenstein, Prince of, a favourite
of King Charles of Spain, 777, 730, 793, 794
Liege, the factions there, 601 Limerick, siege of, raised, 558; capitulates, 572
Lindsay sent from King James to Scotland, 535, 747 Linlithgow, Earl of, 313
Lisie, Lord, 416; his lady's character
and execution, 417, and note Littleton, Sir Thomas, 156, 169,
180; his character, 156, 259, 281, 230, 302, 327, 328 Liturgy in Scotland, how prepared, 15 Lloyd, Dr., his character, 130, and note; his account of the fire of London, 156, 281, 285, 288, 296, 323, 443, 478, 523; is Bishop of Worcester, 644 Lloyd, Bishop of Norwich, absent from Parliament, 528; is deprived, 569, 632
Lob advises sending the Bishops to the Tower, 468
Locke, Mr., 404*
Lockhart, Sir George, stands it
against the King's order, 246; counsel for Mitchell, 275; against Lauderdale, 312, 338 Lockhart, Sir James, 101 Lockhart, Cromwell's Ambassador
in France, 50, 56, 57, 153; sent to France by King Charles II., 203, 260, 261 London, the Lieutenancy in Tory hands, 547, 857 Londonderry, siege of, raised, 535 Lonsdale, Viscount, 678 Lorn, Lord, 38, 73; solicits in behalf of his father, 83; his letter intercepted, 98; sketch of his pre- vious life,98; it hastenshis father's execution, 98, 99; made Earl of Argyle, 141. See ARGYLE
Lorrain, Cardinal, 208 Lothian, Earl of, 10, 83 Lothian, Marquis of, 835 Louvois, dragoons the Protestants,
421, 438, 487; is secretly an enemy to King James, 535, 580 Lowdun, Earl of, 15, 17, 26, 83 Lower, Dr., 333
Lowick is in the Assassination-plot, 627
Lumley, Lord, 412, 485, 487, 501 Lunenburgh, Duke of, 481, 667 Lunt, 609; some tried on his evi- dence, ib.
Luxemburgh, Duke of, marches
marches into Holland, 223, 270; gains the battle of Fleurus, 554, 581; of Steenkirk, 581; and of Landen, 591; his death, 614
MACCAIL dies in the torture, 160 Maccarty, Colonel, 389 Macclean, Sir John, his account of a plot, 746, 747, 748, 749, 750 Macclesfield, Earl of, 495, 684 Macdonalds, from Ireland, 22, 23; of Glencoe, 576
Mackay commands in Scotland, 540; his services in Ireland, 571, 572;
killed at Steenkirk, 582 Mackenzie, 27, and note Macom, 432
Magna Charta, an original in the
author's hands, 19 and note, 514 Maintenon, Madame de, 580, 590, 651, 672, 797, 842 Manchester, Lord, 56; made Lord
Chamberlain, 66; his character, 66; is for moderation, 131, 178 Manchester, Earl of, Ambassador in France, 672; leaves that court, 696
Mansel, Colonel, 315 Mansel, Sir Thomas, 752, 822 Mansfield, Count, 715, 729 Manton, Dr., 175, and note, 206 * Mantua, Duke of, 679, 692, 693 Manwaring, Dr., 851 Marchmont, Earl of, promotes the Union, 800
Marlborough, Earl of, (see CHUR- CHILL) takes Cork and Kinsale, 559,574; is dismissed, 577,578, and note; sent to the Tower on a forged accusation, 584, 585; Governor to the Duke of Glou- cester, 648, 678; sent to Hol- land on Queen Anne's accession, 704; made Captain-General, 706, 708, 713; takes Venlo, Rure- mond, Stevenswaert, and Liege, 713; escapes from a French party, 714; beloved in Holland, ib.; made a duke; ib.; has thanks from both Houses of Par- liament, ib.; takes Bonne, Huy, Limbourg, Guelder, and all the Coudras, 727; his secrecy in con- ducting his designs, 728, 752; routs the Bavarians at Schellem- berg, 753; joins Prince Eugene, ib. ; the victory at Blenheim, 754; is made a prince of the Empire, 754, 755; his negotia- tions at several courts, 756, 764; disappointed by the Prince of Baden, 772; breaks through the French lines, 773; goes to seve- ral courts, 774, 786; his victory at Ramillies, 795; reduces all Flanders and Brabant, ib.; takes Ostend, Menin, Dendermond, and Aeth, ib., 809, 814; re- moves Mr. Harley, 821, 826; his victory at Oudenard, 827; six thousand of his men beat twenty thousand French, 828, 829; forces the French lines, 830; Lille taken, ib.; and Ghent
and Bruges, 831, 834; he is Plenipotentiary for treating with France, 840, 841, 843; takes Tournay, ib.; his victory at Blareignies, ib.; takes Mons, 852, 853; takes Doway, ib. ; and Fort Escarp, 853; rejects King Philip's offers, 854; takes Bethune, Aire, and St. Venant, 858, 859; has not the usual thanks of Parliament, 862; car- ries the Queen a.surrender of his lady's places, ib.; passes the French lines, 870; and takes Bouchain, 871; retires from council, 874; turned out of all his employments, 878; his pre- sent from the Jew voted illegal, 880; and the two and a half per cent. from the foreign troops, ib. ; Libels against him, 880, 881; Prince Eugene's saying as to one of these, ib. ; suits against him, 893; his innocence apparent, 880, 881; on Lord Godolphin's death he goes abroad, 893 Marlborough, Countess of, and after-
wards Duchess, (see CHURCHILL) is forbid the court, 578; is re- flected on for favouring the Whigs, 781; her authority quoted, 782; her interest at Court declines, 816; is again in favour, 822; she leaves the Court, 852; and sends a surrender of her places, 862, and note
Marsin, Mareschal, 233, and note. 753,754
Martin, Admiral, 106, 107,795 Mary, Queen. See QUEEN MARY. Masquerades at Court, 178 Masham, Mrs., made Privy Purse,
Massey, Dean of Christchurch, 443 Matthias resigns the Crown of Bo- hemia, 5
Maurice, Elector of Saxony, 208 Maximilian against persecution, 5 Maxwell an incendiary, 158 May, Mr., 312, 390 Maynard, Serjeant, 44, 292, 409; his repartee to King William, 509; made one of the Commis- sioners of the Great Seal, 526 Mayne, Duke de, 614 Mazarin, Cardinal, 48, 50, 56, 112 Meaux, Bishop of, 420, 651 Medina Celi, Duke of, '693; sent prisoner to Segovia, 85 Melfort, Earl of, 408, 418, 496, 747
Melvil, Lord, 404; Secretary of State for Scotland, 539; zealous for Presbytery, 539, 541, 545; holds a Parliament as Commis- sioner, 560; gives up the su- premacy and the rights of patro- nage, ib.; advises an indemnity, 561; has Dalrymple joined to him in the Secretary's post, 567; is removed, 575 Merci, Count, 843 Meres, 300
Mesnager brings preliminaries from France, 872 Methuen, Lord, 9
Methuen, Mr., his negotiations in Portugal, 694, 712, 718; con- cludes a treaty there, 730, 731, 756
Mews, or Meaux, Bishop of Win- chester, 383, and note Middlesex, Earl of, 687 Middleton, 39
Middleton, Earl of, 72, 75; Com-
missioner and General in Scot- land, 75, 77, 78; passes the res- cissory act, 80; inveterate against Argyle, 83; and Guthry, 84, 85; disputes with the Earl of Craw- ford, 86; for episcopacy, 87, 94; for fines in the indemnity, 97; passes the incapacitating act, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102; accused by Lauderdale, 137; and turned out, 138, 139
Midddleton, Earl of, his son, Secre-
tary of State for Scotland, 384; his advice to Paterson, 433, 435, 507; goes over to King James with a wise proposal, 598, 696, 747
Militia, a bill to take it out of the Crown, 532, 645, 646 Millington, Dr., 393, 477 Milton, his famous poem, 107, and
Minas, Marquis das, 812
Minorca taken by the British fleet, 831
Mirandola, Princess of, 693
Mitchell, his trial for the attempt
Modena, Duchess of, 476 Modena, Duke of, 693, 729 Mohun, Lord, killed in a duel with
Duke Hamilton, 892 Monk, General, left to reduce Scot- land, 38; desired to declare for the Parliament, 55; breaks open the gates of London, 57; declares for the secluded members, ib.; moves to restore the king with- out terms, 58; made Duke of Albemarle, and has the Garter, 66; his character, 66; he sends Argyle's letters to Scotland, 84, 112, 117; is Admiral against the Dutch, 154
Monkton, Mr., a bold saying of his, 676
Monmouth, Duke of, 176, 235,
290, 302, 312; sent to suppress the rebellion at Bothwell-Bridge, 313; his clemency, 314; sent beyond sea, ib.; returns and is disgraced, 316: pushes on the exclusion, 322; meets Lord Rus- sel at Shepherd's, 352, 353; treats with the Scotch, 354, 357; escapes, 358, 360, 364; is par- doned, 373; and again disgraced; 374; meets the King at Lady Portsmouth's, 390; dismissed from Holland, 402, 403, 404; forced to an unripe invasion, 404,
405; lands at Lyme, 410; at- tainted by Parliament, ib. ; de- feated and taken, 412, 413, and notes; executed, 414; dies calmly, ib.
Monmouth, Earl of (see MOR- DAUNT), made first Commissioner of the Treasury, 527; turned out, ib.
Mons taken by the French, 567;
taken by the English, 843 Montague, Admiral, comes in to King Charles, 57; made Earl of Sandwich, and has the Garter, 66; blows up his own ship at Solbay, 215 and note Montaguo, Lord, Ambassador at Paris, 224, 261, 273, 280, 291, 293, 302, 319, 322; is an earl, 293, and note Montague, Mr., Chancellor of the
Exchequer, 588,652; made Lord Halifax, 674. See HALIFAX. Montague, Sir James, Attorney- General, 856
Montausier, Duke of, 367 Monterey, 270
Montespan, Madame, sent to a nun- nery, 252
Montgomery, Colonel, 37 Montgomery, Sir James, his services to King William, 538; sent with the tender of the crown of Scot- land, ib.; disgusted, ib.; enters into a plot, 545, 546; discovers it, but will not name his accom- plices, 561
Montgomery, Lord, 626 Montjui, fort, taken, 776, 792 Montrevel, Mareschal, his cruelty in the Cevennes, 733 Montrose, Earl of, his brave under- taking, 34; is routed and his papers taken, 23, 24; his offers to the King, 34 and note; his constancy at his execution, 37 Montrose, Marquis of, his son, 84 Montrose, Marquis of, his son, for the Union, 805; made a Duke, ib.; opposes the Duke of Queens- bury, 836
Moore, Sir John, Lord Mayor, ap- points North Sheriff, 347, 348 Moor, Arthur, 898
Mordaunt, Lord, 425, 495. See MONMOUTH
More, Dr. Hen., 128 and note More, Dr., 307; Bishop of Norwich,
569; and of Ely, 817 Morel of Berne, his account of a plot against King William, 581 Morland, 43, 50 Morley, made Bishop of Worcester,
and of Winchester, 121; his cha- racter, 121; his account of the Duchess of York's religion, 207; his death and character, 382 Morrice, Secretary, his character, 67 and note
Moulin, du, 249, 252 Mulgrave, Earl of, 635, 584, 586. See NORMANBY Murray, Earl of, 10, 13, 433
Murray, Sir Robert, his character, 39, 88, 99; President of the Royal Society, 131, 163, 165, 166, 175, 177, 189, 191, 192, 196, 200, 240 Murray, William, 39, 164 Muscovy, Czar of, dangerous to the
Turks, 629; his travels, 640; comes to England, ib.; his cha- racter, 655; Plots in Muscovy call him home, ib.; his wars with Sweden, 660, 675, 760, 807; defeats them at Pultowa, 844; makes peace with the Turks, 846; takes all Livonia, 859; war breaks out between him and the Turks, 858, 866; he is in great straits, 871, 872; reduces Finland, 895
Musgrave, Sir Christopher, 589,745
NAIRN, Mr., his character, 146, 192, 196; refuses a bishoprick, 200
Namur, taken by the French, 581; re-taken by King William, 615 Naples, kingdom of, 809; reduced, 312
Nassau, a princeof, 712, 730 Needham, Dr., 393 Nelthorp, 416
Netherlands, Spanish, in a scheme for a Republic, 30; put into the Elector of Bavaria's hand, 574: the campaigns there, before the peace of Ryswick, 541, 554, 556, 570, 590, 601, 614, 628, 638; in the hands of France on the King of Spain's death, 675; cam- paigns there before the treaty of Utrecht, 712,713,728, 729,752, 753, 772, 794, 809, 814, 827, 828, 829, 830, 831, 843, 866 Neufchatel, its succession adjudged to the King of Prussia, 813 Nevill, 43, 55
Newburgh, Earl of, 97 Newcastle, Duke of, Privy Seal, his caution in passing public accounts, 872
Nicholas, Secretary, his character, 68 and note
Nicholson, Sir Thomas, 37 Nisbitt, Sir John, 191 and note Nithesdale, Earl of, 11 Noailles, Duke de, 858 Norfolk, Duke of, his repartee to King James, 435; the affair of his divorce, 600, 601 Norfolk, Duchess of, 600, 637 Normanby, Marquis of (see MUL-
GRAVE), heads the Tories, 271 and note, 706; made Duke of Buck- ingham, ib. See BUCKINGHAM Norris, Lord, 321 North, Chief Justice, 323, 332 made Lord Guildford, 349, 386. his character, 424, 425 North, Sheriff of London, 347 Northampton, Marquis of, 600
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