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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

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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

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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

936

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

note

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

Howel, 155

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

I

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,

622;

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,

and note

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

764

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

K.

KEELING, draws the Act of Unifor-
mity, 125

Keeling, his depositions, 356, 364
Keiserwaert, siege of, 541, 712

Killock, 22

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

L.

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

Lee, 364

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

Ludlow, 28

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

M.

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

Macquair, 79

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,

862, and note

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

note

Minas, Marquis das, 812

Minorca taken by the British fleet,
831

Mirandola, Princess of, 693

Mitchell, his trial for the attempt

on Sharp, 275

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

N.

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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