A History of Britain, Volume 2 (84 page)

Philip III of Spain 49

Philiphaugh, battle of 126

Phillips, Thomas 336, 343

Pitt, William the elder, Earl of Chatham 301, 318,
321, 346–49, 357, 359, 360, 361–6, 371–3
passim
, 381, 386

The younger 381, 386, 391

plague 16, 20, 52, 216–17

Plassey, battle of 402, 403

Popish Plot 236–41
passim

Portuguese 330, 331, 335, 391, 392

Powell, Vavasour 157, 185, 186

Pratt, Sir Roger 221, 224–7
passim

prayer book 69, 71, 73, 74

Presbyterians 88, 93, 123, 129–32
passim
, 134, 165, 211, 212, 251
see also
Scotland

Preston, battle of 135

Preston, John 98

Prestonpans, battle of 305

Price, Richard 372

Pride, Col. Thomas 136, 165, 182, 184, 205

Prince, Thomas 152, 155

Protectorate 161, 187–202, 203, 231, 261

Providence Island Company 83

Prynne, William 80, 81, 87

Puritans 23, 34, 35, 45, 46–7, 54–7, 65, 66, 80, 82–3, 84, 213

Pye, Sir Robert 58

Pym, John 18, 58, 62, 63, 83–90
passim
, 91, 93, 96, 99–101, 119, 120, 177, 196, 230

Quakers 156–9, 212

Quebec 350, 356, 359–60, 362

Quiberon Bay, battle of 361

Quincy, Josiah 368, 377

Rainborough, Col. Thomas 131, 150

Rampaigne, Dorothy 132

Zachariah 97

Ranters 157

Reason, Gilbert 47

Regency Act 274

Reilly, Tom 166, 168

religion 22, 29, 34–6, 45–7, 55–6, 67–75, 93–4, 156–8
see also individual entries

Revere, Paul 374, 379, 382

Richelieu, Cardinal 55

Rinuccini, Cardinal 97, 166

Roe, Sir Thomas 392

Roebuck, Dr John 312

Rogers, John 157, 185, 187

Rota Club 203, 213

Roundway Down, battle of 117, 119

Rous, Francis 58, 185

Royal Africa Company 333, 338

Royal Naval Hospital 276

Royal Society 192, 210, 214, 215, 241

rum 366

Rupert, Prince 102, 109–12
passim
, 115, 117, 120, 127–9, 333

Rush, Dr Benjamin 376

Rushworth, John 385

Russell, Lord William 246

Rutherford, Samuel 73, 74, 82–3

Rye House Plot 246

Rysbrack, John Michael 319, 322

Sacheverell, Dr Henry 281, 282

Sancroft, Archbishop 247, 248, 255

Sanquhar, Lord 28

Saxton, Christopher 14

Saye and Sele, Viscount 59, 77, 82, 83, 85–8
passim
, 113

Schomberg, Field Marshal 253

Scotland 14, 21–3
passim
, 63, 69, 71–80, 85–7, 119, 120, 124–6, 133–4, 135, 148, 172–4, 265–76, 283–4, 302–16, 357–8

Company of 270–5

Hebrides/Highlands 30–1, 95–6, 125, 266–9, 309–11

Kirk 24, 25, 29, 71–5, 276; and bishops 25, 29, 71–2, 74–5

parliament 74–5, 77–8, 276

Scottophobia 28, 307

Scott, John 241

Scott, Thomas 58, 182, 189

Scudamore, Viscount 67, 68, 103, 108

Selden, John 84, 106

‘separates' 61, 80, 237

Settlement, Act of 274

Shaftesbury
see
Ashley Cooper

Shah Alam 405, 418

Sheldon, Archbishop 211, 221, 224, 231

Sherriffmuir, battle of 283–4

‘ship money' 65, 77, 81, 84, 87, 93, 236, 381

Shirley, Governor William 349, 352

Shuja-ud-Daulah, nawab of Awadh 397, 404

Sibbald, Sir Robert 269

Sidney, Algernon 246, 261, 323

Siraj-ud-Daulah, nawab of Bengal 356, 400–1, 402

Skippon, Philip 101, 122

Slare, Dr Frederick 329

slave trade 324–7, 330–44

Sloane, Hans 324

Smellie, William 314

Smith, Adam 315, 316, 407

Smith, Sir Thomas 31

Smollett, Tobias 311, 312

smuggling 367, 373

Solemn League and Covenant 114, 119, 120, 126, 130

Sophia, Electress of Hanover 274

South Sea Bubble 286–7

Spain 36, 48–50, 51, 55, 301, 345, 363

war with 49–50, 52–3, 55, 190–1, 194, 301–2

Speed, John 13, 14, 15, 22

The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
13, 15

Speirs, Alexander 313

Spencer, Charles, 3rd Earl of Sunderland 288, 289

Robert 245, 252, 255

Star Chamber and High Commission, courts of 80, 85, 87, 150, 151

Stillingfleet, Dr Edward 229

St John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke 278, 282, 318–20
passim
, 322

Patriot King
318, 321

Oliver 58, 81, 83, 87, 88, 89, 91, 96, 136, 161, 180, 188

St Paul's Cathedral 67, 68, 94, 219, 222–30
passim

Stowe 321–3, 385, 421

Strafford
see
Wentworth

Strange, Lord 109

Strode, William 100, 117–18

sugar 329–32, 340, 343–4,
345, 359, 367, 368, 422

Sussex, Lady 107, 114, 133

Sydenham, William 186

Tarleton, Banastre 412

taxation 40, 54, 179, 181, 277–8, 292, 367–75, 380, 381, 387

America 367–75; stamp 367–73; tea 375; Townshend 373–4

India 396–9
passim
, 404–5, 406, 407, 414–16

non-parliamentary 56–61
passim
, 65, 81–2, 88, 263

tonnage and poundage 56, 60

tea 328–9, 375–6, 377–9, 422

Temple, Sir Richard, Viscount Cobham 318, 320–3
passim
, 348

Test Act 235, 248, 251–3
passim
, 257

Thistlewood, Thomas 340, 341

Thomson, James 315, 317, 319, 321, 322

Thornhill, James 276, 277

Thurloe, John 188–90
passim
, 195, 207

Ticonderoga, battle of 358

Tipu Sultan of Mysore 416–17, 419

tithes, abolition of 149, 186

tobacco 313, 325, 327, 328, 332

Toleration Act 261

Tonge, Israel 236, 239, 240

Tories 238, 242, 248–53
passim
, 259, 260, 278–81
passim
, 282

Torricelli, Evangelista 142

Townshend, Charles 373–5
passim

trade 269–71, 313, 324–5, 328, 329, 343–5, 346, 367, 380, 391–2, 393, 395

boycott 370, 377

Traquair, Earl of 72

Treason Act 283

Tresham, Francis 36, 37

Sir Thomas 36, 37

Turner, Anne 44–5

Turnham Green, battle of 115

Tytler, James 314

Uniformity, Act of 212

union, England-Scotland 21, 22, 28, 29, 120, 128–9, 274–5, 276

flag 19

Utrecht, Treaty of 282, 354

Van Dyck 53, 64, 65

Vane, Henry 91, 136, 177, 178, 182, 183, 202, 210

Vaudreuil, Governor 361–2

Verney, Sir Edmund 52, 54, 76, 77, 81, 86, 106–7, 109–10, 113, 114

Edmund 168

Mary 133

Ralph 76, 81, 107, 113–14, 132–3, 194

Vernon, Vice-Admiral 302, 309, 319

Versailles, Treaty of 386

Victorians 17–18, 89, 140, 253

Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham 49–52
passim
, 55–6, 59

Wade, General 306, 314

Wafer, Lionel 271

Wakeman, George 244

Walahjah, Muhammad Ali 398

Wales 124, 135, 186

Waller, Sir William 116–17, 120, 122, 123

Wallington, Nehemiah 80, 81, 85–7
passim
, 93, 96–8
passim
, 132

Walpole, Horace 290, 311, 318, 361–6
passim

Sir Robert 284–93
passim
, 297, 300–1, 302, 323–4

Walter, Lucy 173, 242

Walton, Col. Valentine 121

Walwyn, William 149, 152–4
passim
, 155, 156

war

American Independence 382–6, 387–8

Austrian Succession 397

civil 1st 109–29, 143, 144; 2nd 134–5, 147, 151, 165, 166

with France 253, 273–4, 302, 322, 355–66, 398, 399, 418–19

with Holland 178, 186, 216, 226, 234–5

in India 417, 419–21

with Scotland 23, 76–7, 86–7, 173–4
see also
Jacobitism

with Spain 49–50, 52, 55, 190, 194, 301–2

Wardour Castle, siege of 16

Warwick, Earl of 59, 65, 83, 87, 89, 133, 196, 333

Washington, George 351, 353, 379, 383, 386, 387

Watt, James 314

Wellesley, Arthur 418, 419, 420

Henry 417, 421

Hyacinthe 418, 419

Richard, 1st Marquis 347, 417–21
passim

Wentworth, Sir Peter 183

Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford 55, 78, 79, 85, 87–96
passim
, 104, 139, 236

West Indies 344, 345, 348–9, 359, 363
see also individual entries

Wharton, Nehemiah 111

Whateley, Thomas 377

Whigs 238, 242, 243, 245, 247, 249, 251, 252, 253, 259, 260, 278–92
passim

Whistler, Henry 332

White, Rev. John 35, 46, 47, 81, 83, 118

White Mountain, battle of 48

Whitelocke, Bulstrode 81, 102, 177, 180–1, 196

de Wicquevoort, Abraham 247

Wild, Jonathan 296–7

Wildman, John 156, 246, 262

Wilkins, John 177, 192

William of Orange 206–7, 232, 247, 249, 252–61; William III 261–5, 274, 280, 383, 384

Williams, Bishop John 53, 84, 87

Wilton House 39

Winstanley, Gerard 155

Winter, Thomas 36

Winwick, battle of 135

Winwood, Sir Ralph 44

Wolfe, James 323, 347, 357, 358, 360–1

Wood, Anthony 168

Worcester, battle of 174

Wren, Christopher 177, 192, 221–30
passim
, 276

Bishop Matthew 68, 87, 211, 221, 223, 224

Stephen 227

Wyatt, Sir Francis 327

York, siege of 120–1

Yorktown, surrender at 386, 387–8, 413

Zoffany, Johann 410