Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (77 page)

Jeffreys, George, 1st baron (Judge)

Jesuits: banished (1604); and Gunpowder Plot; parliament denounces; rumoured Popish Plot against Charles II

Johnson, Robert

Jones, Inigo

Jonson, Ben: writes plays on ambition and corruption; on Salisbury; masques;
Bartholomew Fair
;
Love Restored
;
News from the New World
;
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
;
Sejanus

Joyce, Cornet

judges: loyalties in civil war

Junto, the (puritan)

justices of the peace

Juxon, Thomas

Juxon, William, bishop of London

Ketch, Jack

Keymis, Lawrence

Keynes, John Maynard

Kid’s Coffee House (the Amsterdam)

Kilfenny Castle, Limerick

Killigrew, Thomas

King’s Players, the (theatre company)

Kirk
see
Church of Scotland

Kirkby, Christopher

Knatchbull, John

Knight (Oxford preacher)

Knox, John

Knyvett, Sir Thomas

La Rochelle, France

Lambe, Dr John

Lambert, General John

land: ownership under Charles II

Langport (near Bristol), battle of (1645)

Latitudinarianism (‘Latitude men’)

Laud, William, archbishop of Canterbury (
earlier
bishop of St David’s): administers coronation oath to Charles I; supports Arminians; supports Charles I; on Church’s authority; ‘Declaration on the Articles of Religion’; appointed chancellor of Oxford University; opposition to; preaches on sixth anniversary of Charles I’s accession; and ‘Thorough’ (regime); character and appearance; in Edinburgh; Van Dyck portrait; reforms Church rites and doctrines; puritan reaction to; on Scottish defiance; Pym criticizes; and Charles I’s calling great council of peers; impeached and imprisoned; at Strafford’s execution; executed

Lauder, Sir John

Lauderdale, John Maitland, 1st duke (
earlier
2nd earl) of

learning: Bacon on

Leeds: captured by royalists

Legate, Matthew

Leicester, Robert Sidney, 2nd earl of

Leicester: Charles I storms

Leighton, Alexander

Lenthall, William

Leslie, Alexander (
later
1st earl of Leven)

Leslie, David (
later
baron Newark)

L’Estrange, Roger

levellers

Licensing Act (1662)

Lilburne, John

‘Lillibulero’ (song)

‘Little Parliament’,
see under
Parliament

local government: under Charles I; gentry and

Locke, John

London: plague (1603); James I rides in state through (1604); Tower’s defences strengthened; described by contemporary writers; hackney carriages; City ordered to lend £200,000 to Charles I; petitions parliament for church reformation; Suckling’s party attempts to breach; Charles I’s procession in (1641); common court elections (1641); civil disorder; Charles loses loyalty; stands against royalist forces; defences erected in civil war; royalist supports in; merchants; mob intimidates parliament; New Model Army marches on; dress and fashion; houses and furniture; Pepys on life in; Great Plague (1665); Great Fire (1666); ‘bawdy house riots’ (1668); Charles II investigates City Charter and privileges; James II returns Charter;
see also
Whitehall

London Gazette

Londonderry

‘London’s Defiance to Rome’ (pamphlet)

‘Long Parliament’,
see under
Parliament

Lord of Misrule (custom)

Lords, House of: Charles I defends Buckingham in; bishops in; differences with Commons;
see also
Parliament

Louis XIII, king of France: as possible ally against Spain; dislikes Buckingham; and expulsion of Henrietta Maria’s attendants from England; persecutes Huguenots; promises toleration of Protestants

Louis XIV, king of France: Cromwell makes treaty with (1655); praises Cromwell; and monarchy under Charles II; ambitions and absolutism; declares war on England (1666); defensive treaty with Dutch; Charles II’s relations with; and England in Triple Alliance; subsidies to Charles II; inactivity at battle of the Texel; makes peace with United Provinces; pays out bribes; hostility to Danby; sends money to James II; amity with James II; warns James II of prospective invasion by William of Orange

Love, Christopher

Lovelace, Richard

Love’s Triumph
(masque by Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson)

Lowe, Roger

Lowestoft, battle of (1665)

Lowther, Sir John

Ludlow, Edmund

Lunsford, Thomas

Lutter, battle of (1626)

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, baron;
History of England

Mackintosh, James:
Eminent British Statesmen

Magalotti, Lorenzo

Magdalen College, Oxford

Maidstone, John

Manchester, Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of (
earlier
viscount Mandeville)

Manchester: first death in civil war

Mandeville, viscount
see
Manchester, 2nd earl of

Mansfeld, Ernest, count of

Mantegna, Andrea:
The Triumph of Caesar
(painting)

Maria Anna, infanta of Spain

Marie de’ Medici, queen of France

Marlborough, Wiltshire: falls to Charles

Marlowe, Christopher

Marston Moor, battle of (1644)

Marvell, Andrew; ‘The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C.’; ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’; ‘A Poem upon the Death of O.C.’

Mary, princess: marriage to William of Orange; designated as regent; Protestantism

Mary of Modena, wife of James II: marriage; pregnancy and birth of son; William of Orange opposes; escapes to Calais

Mary Queen of Scots

Mason, Captain

masques

Mather, Richard

Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian I, duke of Bavaria

May, Humphrey

Mayflower
(ship)

Maynard, Joseph

maypoles: reintroduced (1660)

Mazarin, Cardinal Jules

Mead, Joseph

Meade, Revd Joseph

melancholy

Meres, Sir Thomas

Middlesex, Lionel Cranfield, 1st earl of

Middleton, Thomas:
A Game at Chess
(play)

Militia Act (1663)

millenary petition (1603)

Milton, John;
Areopagitica
;
The Reason of Church Government

Monck, George (
later
1st duke of Albemarle): in Scotland; and dispute between army and parliament; marches into England and intervenes in parliament; and Charles II’s restoration; meets Charles II on return to England

Monmouth, James Scott, duke of: birth; claim to throne; illegitimacy; victory at Bothwell Bridge; returns to England from exile; tour of West Country; offers to act as surety to Shaftesbury; implicated in Rye House Plot; rebellion (1685); beheaded

monopolies

Monson, Henry

Monson, William

Montagu, Ralph

Montagu, Richard

Monteagle, William Parker, 4th baron

Montrose, James Graham, 5th earl (
later
1st marquess) of

More, John

Morland, Sir Samuel

Muggletonians (sect)

Murray, Will

music: in James I’s reign; Pepys on

Mytens, Daniel

Nantes, Edict of: revoked (1685)

Naseby, battle of (1645)

navy
see
fleet (English)

Naylor, James

Nedham, Marchamont

Netherlands
see
Dutch Republic

Nethersole, Sir Francis

Neville, Christopher

‘new disease’ (fever)

New Model Army: Cromwell forms; Fairfax commands; character; disbandment planned; petition of complaint to Fairfax; escorts Charles I from Holmby House; recruited for service in Ireland; arrears of pay granted by parliament; dealings with Charles I; proposals to Parliament; marches on London; demands representative parliament; divided over fate of Charles I; victory in second civil war; demands death of Charles I; status after king’s death; disillusion with parliament; petition of complaint to parliament; requests commanding officer; conflict with parliament (1659); dispersed under Charles II;
see also
army (English)

Newburn, battle of (1640)

Newbury: first battle of (1643); second battle of (1644)

Newcastle, William Cavendish, 1st earl (
later
duke) of

Newcastle: surrenders to Scots (1640)

news: demand for under Charles II

newsletters

Newton, Sir Isaac;
De motu corporum in gyrum

Newton, Sir John

Nicholas, Edward

nonconformists
see
dissenters

North, Roger

Northampton, Henry Howard, 1st earl of

Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 10th earl of

Norwich, George Goring, 1st earl of

Nottingham: Charles I raises standard in; Hutchinsons at

Oates, Titus

offices of state: holders

Oglander, Sir John

Olivares, Gaspar de Guzman, count-duke of

opera: introduced into England

optics

Ormonde, James Butler, 1st duke of

Otway, Thomas

Overbury, Sir Thomas

Oxford: parliament convened in (1626); Charles I and Henrietta Maria visit (1636); Charles I makes headquarters in; peace negotiations (February 1643); Charles I summons parliament of supporters (1644); Charles I escapes from to Worcester; Fairfax besieges; Charles II orders assembly in (1681)

Oxford University: Laud reforms; James II interferes in

Packe, Sir Christopher

Palatinate

Palmer, Sir Geoffrey

pamphleteering

Paris Garden (Southwark)

Parliament: James I opens (1604); relations with James I; and Gunpowder Plot; business under James I; reconvened and dissolved (‘Addle Parliament’, 1614); meets (1621); assembles (February 1624); powers; ‘Long’ (1640–60); Charles I first calls; debates Charles I’s finances; reconvened in Oxford (1626); criticizes Buckingham; Charles I addresses; Charles I dissolves (1626); conflict with Charles I over sovereignty; opposes unlawful imprisonment; prorogued (1628); proceedings reported; opened (1629); adjourns for eleven years (1629); nine members arrested and imprisoned; summoned and meets (‘stillborn parliament’, 1639–40); called (‘Short Parliament’, 1640); work on renovation; and Triennial Act; challenges Charles I; votes money to Scots; bill allowing staying in session until dissolution voted; rule; reassembles (October 1641); and ‘Grand Remonstrance’; popular petitions to; prepares for war against Charles I; nineteen propositions to Charles I; sets up committee of safety for military preparations; army strength in civil war; wartime strategy; assumes supreme power (1643); committee of two kingdoms (with Scots); self-denying ordinance; sends propositions to Charles I; receives Large Petition from army supporters; and army discontent; grants arrears of pay to army; accepts army’s proposals; expels eleven Presbyterian members; treats with imprisoned Charles I; ‘Rump’; decides on trial of Charles I; constitution after Charles I’s death; dissolution (1653); army’s petition of complaint to; Cromwell reforms; ‘Little’ (‘Barebone’s’); Cromwell calls and dissolves (1654–5); business under Cromwell; second protectorate; conflict with army (1659); Rump expelled; Monck orders Rump to dissolve; and Charles II’s 1660 declaration from Breda; elected 1660 (‘Convention’); meets (1661; ‘Cavalier’); anger at Charles II’s declaration of indulgence; and Charles II’s expenses; reluctance to finance second Dutch War; Charles II prorogues (1674 & 1675); opposition to royal cause; reassembles (February 1677); differences with Charles II; grants £1 million to Charles II for war against France; Charles II dissolves ‘Cavalier’ (January 1679); Charles II prorogues (1679); beginnings of party politics; dissolved (1679); and exclusion crisis; relations with James II;
see also
Commons, House of; elections (parliamentary); Lords, House of