Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (76 page)

Dutch Republic: in Triple Alliance (1668); provokes near war with England (1623); defensive league with England; treaty with England (1625); alliance with France; attacks Spanish fleet (1639); as trade rival; war with England (1665–7); defensive treaty with France (1666); peace negotiations; raid into England (1667); Anglo-French secret treaty against; French and English war with (1672–4); merchant vessels elude English navy; French successes against; and marriage of Princess Mary and William; Louis XIV makes peace with

Earle, John

Earle, Sir Walter

East India Company: rivalry with Dutch; trade with Russia

eastern association

Edgehill, battle of (1642)

Edinburgh: Charles I visits (1633); (1641); James I visits (1617); Charles I’s religious orders defied; draws up national covenant; parliament meets (1640); supposed conspiracy (’the incident’);
see also
Scotland

Edward III, King

Edwards, Thomas:
Gangraena

elections (parliamentary): (1639); (1640); (1659); (1679); (1688);
see also
Commons, House of; Parliament

Eliot, Sir John: on failure of 1621 parliament; on impeachment of earl of Middlesex; on death of James I; criticizes Charles I in parliament; criticizes Buckingham; taken to Tower and released; speechmaking and oratory; on power of bishops; imprisoned; death

Eliot, T. S.

Elizabeth, Princess (Charles I’s daughter)

Elizabeth, Princess (
later
queen of Bohemia)

Elizabeth I, Queen: death and succession

Ellesmere, Sir Thomas Egerton, baron

England: economic problems; prosperity and trade; population increases; social divisions; Dutch trade rivalry; troops conscripted for European service; war with Spain (1625); peace with France (1629); harvest failure (1630) and food riots; secret treaty with Spain (1634); and beginnings of war against Scots; labourers and craftsmen pressed into Charles I’s military service; harvest failures (1646–51); commonwealth proclaimed; post-civil-war condition; foreign relations under commonwealth; Cromwell divides into eleven districts; Spain declares war on (1655); power and administration under Charles II; war with Dutch (1665–7); war with France (1666–7); proliferation of Christian sects; war with Dutch (1672); peace with Dutch (1674); economic and social improvements following second Dutch war; industrial development; standing army under James II

Essex, Arthur Capel, 1st earl of

Essex, Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of: marriage to and divorce from Frances Howard; dismissed by Charles I; as member of committee for petitions; as privy councillor; as lord chamberlain; commands parliamentary army; proposes truce offer to Charles I and deciding battle; relieves Gloucester; advances on Oxford; in committee of both kingdoms; favours accommodation with Charles I; criticized; laments Laud’s death; removed from military command

‘etcetera oath, the’

Etherege, Sir George:
She Wou’d if She Cou’d

Eure, Margaret

Evelyn, John: on Charles I’s return from negotiations with Scots; on apparition; attends Anglican service; on women’s behaviour; on Cromwell’s funeral; on Richard Cromwell’s dissolving parliament; witnesses return of Charles II; on changes under Charles II; on Charles II’s gambling; on Great Fire of London; disparages Charles II’s entourage; on battle of Sole Bay; on duke of York’s Catholicism; on Rye House plot; on dissoluteness of Charles II’s court; on James II’s summary acts; on impending invasion by William of Orange

Everard, William

excise (tax): introduced

Exclusion Bills (1679); (1681)

Fairfax, Sir Ferdinando

Fairfax, Sir Thomas: commands New Model Army; besieges and captures Bristol; greets Charles I; petition of complaint from army; in army’s march on London; in second civil war; besieges Colchester; and trial of Charles I; opposes Lilburne; refuses to invade Scotland

Fanshawe, Anne, Lady (
née
Harrison)

Fanshawe, Sir Richard

Farmer, Anthony

farming
see
agriculture

Farnham Castle

Fauconberg, Mary, countess (
née
Cromwell; Oliver’s daughter)

Fauconberg, Thomas, earl

Fawkes, Guy

Feake, Christopher

Felton, John

fens: drained

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (
earlier
archduke)

Fifth Monarchy men

Finch, Heneage

Finch, Sir John

five knights case

fleet (English): failed attack on Cadiz; sails against France (1627); rebuilt and sails (1635); supports parliament; dominance; strengthened under Charles II; parliament money to (1675); Pepys develops for James II

Fleetwood, Major-General Charles

food and drink: under Charles II

Fox, George

Foxe, John:
Acts and Monuments

France: demands liberties for English Catholics; as prospective ally against Spain; Protestants under threat; expedition against (1627); peace with England (1629); alliance with Dutch; rumoured potential invasion by; payments to Charles II; Cromwell makes treaty with (1655); relations with England under Charles II; Dunkirk sold to; occupies St Kitts; war with England (1666–7); Triple Alliance against; Charles II forms anti-Dutch alliance with; war on Dutch (1672); fleet inactive at battle of the Texel; successes against United Provinces;
see also
Louis XIV, king of France

Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate (
later
king of Bohemia)

Fuller, Thomas

furniture

Galileo Galilei

Gataker, Thomas

gentry: rise under James I; authority

Gerard, Father John, SJ

Glanville, John

Glorious Revolution (1688)

Gloucester: in civil war

Goaden
v.
Hales
(lawsuit)

Godfrey, Sir Edmund Berry

Gondomar, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, count of

Goodwin, Thomas

Gramont, comte de

‘Grand Remonstrance’

Great Britain: as title;
see also
England

Green Ribbon Club

Grenville, Sir John

Gresham College, London

Grimstone, Harbottle

Grosseteste, Robert, bishop of Lincoln

Gunpowder Plot (1605)

Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden

Gwyn, Nell

Habeas Corpus Act (1679); James II wishes to repeal

Habsburg family: and Bohemia

hackney carriages

Halifax, George Savile, 1st marquess of

Hall, Joseph:
Characters of Virtues and Vices

Hallam, Henry

Halley, Edmund

Hamilton, James, 1st duke of

Hamilton, James, 2nd marquess of

Hammond, Colonel Robert

Hampden, John: imprisoned; tried before court of exchequer; supports Scots against Charles I; supports Providence Island Company; Strafford threatens; impeachment charges against; and Cromwell’s low estimate of parliamentary army; dies of wounds

Hampton Court: conference (1604); Charles I at

Harington, Sir John: on Hampton Court debate; on court behaviour; Suffolk advises on gaining favour at court; appointed tutor to Prince Henry

Harley, Lady Brilliana

Harrington, James:
Oceana

Harrison, Sir John

Haselrig, Sir Arthur

Hastings, Henry

Hatfield House, Hertfordshire

Heads of the Proposals

hearth tax (1662)

Henri IV, king of France: assassinated

Henrietta Anne, Princess, duchess of Orléans

Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I: betrothal; marriage; Catholicism; marriage relations; declines to attend coronation; French attendants sent home; poverty; birth of son Charles; in masques and theatrical pieces; offended by Prynne; on Scottish service book; supports husband; defies parliamentary control of court and council; threatened with impeachment; leaves for Holland (1642); sends arms from Holland; returns from exile in war; exile abroad; mediates between Charles II and Louis XIV

Henry, Philip

Henry, Prince (Charles I’s son)

Henry, prince of Wales: tutored by Harington; character; betrothal to Maria Anna; death

Herbert, Sir Edward

Heylyn, Peter

Heyman, Sir Peter

Hobbes, Thomas: on death of Laud; career; and political theory;
Leviathan

Holborne, Sir Robert

Holland, Henry Rich, 1st earl of

Holland: Henrietta Maria travels to;
see also
Dutch Republic

Hollar, Wenceslaus

Holles, Denzil; impeachment charges against

Holmby House, Northamptonshire

Holt, Wiltshire

Holy Roman Empire: in Thirty Years War

honours: sale under James I

Hooke, Robert

Hopkins, Sir William

Hopton, Sir Ralph

Hotham, Sir John, as governor of Hull

Hough, John, bishop of Worcester

Houghton, John:
Collection of Letters for the Improvement of Husbandry and Trade

Hounslow Heath

Howard family: oppose Buckingham

Howe, John Grubham

Hudlestone, John

Huguenots;
see also
Protestantism

Hull: military arsenal; Charles I denied entry

Hunt, Leigh

Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, 5th earl of

Hurst Castle, Hampshire

Hutchinson, George

Hutchinson, Colonel John

Hutchinson, Lucy (
née
Apsley);
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

hygiene: Pepys and

‘incident, the’

Independents (sect)

‘Instrument of Government’ (Lambert’s)

intelligencers (busy-bodies)

Ireland: Strafford (Wentworth) in; rebellion (1641); social structure and land ownership; English forces sent to; New Model Army destined for; Charles I seeks to raise army in; Cromwell deputed to subdue; Cromwell travels to and suppresses; Act of Settlement (1652); ordinance incorporating into commonwealth

Ireton, Sir Henry

Ironsides

Jaffray, Alexander

Jamaica

James, Henry

James I, king of England (James VI of Scotland): accession to English throne; journey from Edinburgh to London; appearance and manner; creates new knights; coronation; plot against; personal retinue and court; clerical and religious discussions; learning; relations with Parliament; honoured and praised; hunting; informed of Gunpowder Plot; court laxity and excesses; behaviour; favourites; extravagance and debts; view of law; financial situation; and royal power; joins Protestant Union; sells honours and titles; progress to Newark (1612); and Somerset’s self-pardon; health declines; rebukes judges; progress to Edinburgh (1617); and Bohemian crisis; progress (1620); and parliament’s petitions against Catholics and Spain; Mytens portrait; loses popular support; fears treason; thrown from horse and falls through ice; and son Charles’s visit to Spain with Buckingham; near-war with Dutch (1623); and prospective war with Spain; final letter to Buckingham; death; called ‘the wisest fool in Christendom’; attends and finances masques; religious views; distributes land in Ireland;
Basilikon Doron
;
Declaration of Sports

James II, king (
earlier
James, duke of York): marriage to Anne Hyde; Catholicism; sea victory over Dutch; assists in Great Fire of London; retires from public life; marriage to Mary of Modena; Charles II tells of French subsidies; and rumoured plot against Charles II; Shaftesbury opposes as successor to Charles II; refuses to return to Anglicanism and takes exile in Spanish Netherlands; in exclusion crisis; Charles II’s low opinion of; contends for throne; regains powers; character and qualities; succeeds to throne; maintains standing army; appoints Catholic officers to army and navy; relations with Louis XIV; tensions with parliament; declaration of indulgence order; and William of Orange’s invasion; opposes William of Orange; flees, apprehended and returned to London; allowed to escape abroad; exile in France