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by Braddick, Michael


  Christ Church, Newgate, lecturer at 340, 445–6

  Gangraena… 446–8, 446, 480

  reputation 447, 503

  death 503

  Eikon Basilike 580–81, 581, 588

  Eleanor Crosses see Cheapside Cross

  elections see voting/voters

  Elgin, Earl of 418, 420–21

  Eliot, Sir John xxiv

  Elizabeth I 57, 535, 536

  Church of England under 19–29, 21

  Elizabeth of Bohemia 157

  Ellit, Robert 255

  The New Yeares wonder… 255, 256

  enclosure, of common land 68

  enclosure riots 234–5, 418, 420–21

  the Engagement (C’s agreement with the Scots), 1647 522–5, 527, 529, 536

  Engagers (Scottish royalist troops): in Second Civil War 529, 537, 541

  northern England, invasion of 537, 543–5, 543, 551–2

  at Preston 544–5

  England, as a Commonwealth and Free State 585–9

  England’s Complaint to Jesus Christ Against the Bishops canons 108

  English Reformation 19–20, 26

  See also Church of England

  English troops

  in Ireland 295–6, 303, 305, 306, 307, 309, 469–70, 530

  Enlightenment xxiv–xxv, 567, 568, 591, 592

  entertainment 109

  at court 63, 278, 388, 527, 580

  public, ban on 255, 532–3

  episcopacy see bishops

  Erastians 311

  Erle, Sir Walter 289

  Essex 62, 66, 97, 99, 102–3, 110, 184, 202, 531, 533, 534, 541

  Catholics, attacks on 199, 230–31, 231

  enclosure riots 234–5

  forest jurisdictions 419

  iconoclasm 314, 433

  neutralism 219, 222

  New Model Army, campaign to disband 489

  as parliamentarian 230–31

  petitions from 185; on Prayer Book 152–3

  political issues 188, 213

  Protestation, support for 144

  royalist rising, 1648 533, 534, 535, 538, 539, 541

  witch trials 428, 429, 430

  Essex, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl 105, 297

  C and 347; C declares him a traitor 210

  at Chalgrove Field 287–8

  at Chipping Norton council of war, 1644 327

  commission from Parliament 218, 324;

  resignation, 1643 288; loss of command 372

  in Cornwall, 1644 332

  criticism of 288, 289, 324, 327, 332, 336, 351, 353

  Cromwell and 350 at Edgehill 242, 243, 244, 247, 248

  at Gloucester 290

  Henrietta Maria and 331

  on William Laud 360

  military experience 210, 242

  at Newbury 320

  as a parliamentarian 210, 224, 265, 271, 280, 287, 300, 301, 318, 326, 327, 331, 352, 450

  peace negotiations, involvement in 250, 347

  in Plymouth 331–2

  John Pym and 210, 288

  in Worcester 241

  death 477; funeral 477–8, 480; attack on his effigy 478–9

  Essex Trained Bands 249

  ethnic identities 317–19, 322

  Evelyn, Sir John 248, 252

  Everenden, John 396

  Evers, Compton 100

  Ewer, Colonel Isaac 360

  Evesham, C in 327

  Exchequer 92, 127

  Exchequer, Court of 69

  excise tax 269–70, 296, 496

  resentment of 422–4, 482, 484–5

  See also finance/revenues

  Exeter 59, 83, 331, 385, 393, 394

  royalist attack on, 1642 251

  siege of, 1645 388

  Exeter, Earl of 105

  Fairfax, Lady (wife of Sir Thomas Fairfax) 576, 580

  Fairfax, Ferdinando, 2nd Baron 220–21, 288–9, 297, 298, 326, 351

  Fairfax, Sir Thomas (son of Lord

  Ferdinando Fairfax) 220–21, 298, 301, 404, 476

  The Case of the Armie… presented to 512, 513

  C’s trial, absence from 576; as possible executioner 580

  as Constable of the Tower 502

  General Council of the Army, membership of 510–12, 511, 559

  in Kent, 1648 541; at Colchester 541, 546–8; execution of royalist commanders 547–8

  at Marston Moor 330, 332–3

  military experience 242

  at Naseby 376, 377, 378

  as New Model Army Lord General 371, 374, 376, 384–6, 461, 481, 491, 494, 497, 498, 499, 501, 519, 543; his commission 371–2

  in Newmarket, 1647 495

  as a parliamentarian 251, 288–9, 297, 301, 371

  peace negotiations, involvement with 554

  Remonstrance promoted by 519

  Self-Denying Ordinance and 370

  at York, siege of 326, 328

  Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount 189–90, 193, 228, 229

  famine see food supplies; harvest failures

  farming see agriculture

  Farnham Castle 265

  Farr, Colonel 548

  Faunt, Sir William 66–7, 134

  Felton, John

  assassination of Duke of Buckingham 40–45, 46; motivation 40–41, 46, 53, 80

  C’s attitude to 42

  as a Protestant 41, 42

  reading habits 53, 54, 55, 109

  support for 41–2, 43–4, 55

  trial/execution 41, 42–3, 44, 53–4; his speech from the scaffold 43, 54

  Fens

  Lincolnshire 462

  Norfolk 419–20, 426

  Feoffes for Impropriation 74

  Ferne, Henry 257, 258

  Fettiplace, John 397

  Fiennes, Nathaniel (son of Viscount Saye and Sele) 105, 130

  his court martial 288

  at Edgehill 245–6

  treason charges against 300, 356, 449, 459

  Filch, Richard 461

  finance/revenues 68, 78–9, 98, 119, 127, 132–4, 323

  Books of Rates 133, 134, 140

  military campaigns before 1640, payment for: by forced loans 45, 48, 86; through Parliament 45, 89, 91, 92, 96, 132

  Coat and Conduct money 87, 99, 119

  coinage, debasement of 184

  customs revenues 133–4, 140

  excise tax 269–70, 296, 422–4, 483, 496

  forest jurisdiction fines 68, 140, 141

  knighthood fines 68, 71, 140–41

  Long Parliament debates on 131–4, 140

  monopolies, granting of 47, 67–8, 71

  Propositions on 211

  ship money see ship money

  subsidies 132–3, 140, 269

  taxation see taxation

  under Charles II 141

  Finch, Sir John (Lord Keeper) 90

  fire, fear of 103

  Firebrace, Sir Henry 526, 535

  Five Articles of Perth, 1617 17, 24, 31

  Five Knights case 45–6

  Five Members (of Parliament): C’s attempt to detain 179–80, 498; charges against dropped 186; events following 180–81, 180, 182, 183, 200

  Flacke, William 461–2

  Flatchett, John 422

  Fleming, Colonel 539, 549

  food supplies/prices 57–8, 59, 98, 115, 184, 387

  harvest failures xxii, 401, 483, 530–31, 579

  troops foraging for food 396, 397, 416

  forced loans 45, 48, 86

  foreign policy 49, 54 See also France; Spain

  forest jurisdictions/fines 68, 140, 141, 235, 419, 426

  Formaston, Thomas 406

  Forth, Patrick, Lord Ruthven, Earl 284

  fortifications

  construction 392–3, 392, 402, 402, 541

  slighting of 542

  Four Bills, 1647 522–4

  Foxe, John: Book of Martyrs 48–9, 197

  France 592

  C, French peace broker sent to 471–2

  Charles, Prince of Wales in 537

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nbsp; England, proposed invasion of 472

  England, war with 46, 65, 242, 469

  Henrietta Maria in 186, 250, 348

  Mazarin as chief minister 252, 348

  Protestants in 40, 44, 46

  Richelieu as chief minister 252

  royalists, support for 250, 252, 316, 348

  Scotland and 12, 89, 90–91

  Spain and 472

  under Louis XIII 89, 90–91

  franchise see voting/voters

  Gainsborough engagement, 1643 289, 320–21

  garrison towns 391–2, 393, 396–7, 401, 407–8, 414

  arms industry supported by 399

  Gascoigne, Sir Bernard 548

  Gauden, John 157

  Gell, Sir John 251, 265, 422, 423

  Gell, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas 422

  gender issues see women

  General Council of the Army 495, 499, 500, 507

  The Agreement of the People and 565

  Fairfax as member of 510–11, 511, 559

  Heads of Proposals discussed by 511–12 513

  importance/influence 515

  meetings 510–12, 511

  New Model Army coup, 1648 and 560

  Parliament, support for 524

  Elizabeth Poole’s appearance before 566–7

  Putney debates see Putney debates

  The Remonstrance of the Army discussed by 559

  gentlemen/gentry 54, 58–9, 61, 62, 396, 405–6

  Germany 242

  Gerrard, Charles 385

  Gil, Alexander 46

  Glamorgan, Henry Somerset, Earl: in Ireland 348, 369–71, 471

  Glasgow 38, 39, 88, 89 See also Scotland

  Glemham, Sir Thomas 529

  Gloucester, siege of, 1643 289, 190–91, 297, 301, 302, 308, 371; C’s call for surrender 301; lifting of 320, 321, 322, 393; damage caused by 393–4

  Gloucester, Henry, Duke of (son of C), as possible regent 552, 564, 572

  Gloucestershire 63, 232, 235, 251–2, 265

  Glover, George, engraving of John Lilburne 440

  Goffe, William 517, 549, 551

  Goodwin, John 345

  Goodwin, Thomas 338–9, 339, 442

  Goring, George 191, 216, 374, 375, 376, 378, 388, 397, 414, 541

  at Marston Moor 330

  after Naseby 384, 385

  Gough, Richard 390, 406, 408

  Gower, Stanley 118

  Gowrie, William Ruthven, 1st Earl 15, 242, 244, 264

  grain riots 61, 184, 236, 483

  Grand Juries 65, 66, 67, 153, 205, 212, 213–24, 216, 226, 285, 417, 533, 534, 540

  Grand Remonstrance, 1641

  presented to Parliament 169–71, 175, 176, 195, 337, 525

  publication/circulation 171, 172–3, 195

  significance 177–8

  Grantham engagement, 1643 264

  Graves, Colonel 494

  Great Council, Parliament as 183, 188–9, 192

  Great Seal 212

  new, authorized by Parliament, 1643 323–4, 476, 522

  new, excluding authority of the Lords, 1649 570–71, 586

  Green, Hugh 200

  Green, John 344

  Greene, Father Thomas 199–200

  Greene, William 579

  Greenwich 187

  Grey of Groby, Thomas, Baron 561

  Grimston, Harbottle 91, 555

  Guildhall 274

  Guisborough 297, 299

  gunpowder 398, 455–6 See also arms industry

  Gunpowder Plot, 1605 199

  Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden 244

  Guthry, Henry 28

  Hamilton, James, 3rd Marquess (later Duke) 36, 37, 159, 471

  capture/imprisonment 562, 565

  C and 307, 308, 629

  Engager troops raised by 543–5, 543, 551–2

  plot against 159–60

  in Prayer Book rebellion 36–7, 38, 39, 83, 88, 89

  at Preston 544–5, 547

  Hammond, John 433

  Hammond, Colonel Robert 488, 560 as C’s custodian at Carisbrooke 521, 533, 559

  Hammond, Thomas 488

  Hampden, John 68–9, 83, 186, 199 death 287, 356, 390

  Hampshire 212, 413, 421

  pro-royalist campaign, 1648 535–6

  Hampton Court 182, 185

  Hampton Court proposals, 1647

  C’s letter to Lords offering compromise settlement 521–2; Four Bills as response to 522–4; C’s rejection of 523; Parliament reopens negotiations on 551; See also Newport negotiations; New Model Army’s attitude to 551–2, 553–4

  Harley, Lady Brilliana 204

  Harley, Sir Robert 118, 281

  Harley, Edward 243

  Harley Committee 274–5, 253, 312, 314, 315

  Harley family 59

  Harper, Richard 202–3

  his prophetic pamphlets 205–6, 410

  Harris, Sir Paul 224, 401

  Harrison, Major (later Colonel) Thomas 439, 567, 575

  Harryman, Richard 462

  Hartlib, Samuel 157, 158, 454–8

  Baconian science, interest in 454, 455, 463

  Sir Cheyney Culpeper, correspondence with 294, 457

  as a letter writer 294, 454, 457

  John Milton and 454

  The Parliaments Reformation 455, 456 as a radical 457

  Harvey, William 246

  harvest failures xxii, 401, 483, 530–31, 579

  See also food supplies

  Harwood, Richard 53

  Haselrig, Sir Arthur 66, 135, 139, 494, 544 at Newbury 333

  Hastings, Sir Henry 265

  Haverfordwest Castle 385

  Hawley, William 98

  Heads of Proposals, July 1647 499–500, 504, 507, 509, 511, 552–3, 555

  presented to C 501; Ireton’s discussion with him on 509; C’s response to 509–10, 520, 521; republished September 1647 510; General Council of the Army discussions on 511–12, 513

  Heath, Sir Robert (Attorney General) 45

  Henderson, Alexander 28, 34, 79

  ‘Instructions for Defensive Arms’ 107

  instructs C in Presbyterianism 471

  Henrietta Anne, Princess (daughter of C) 331

  Henrietta Maria, Queen 278, 298, 299, 331

  attacks on 178–9

  as a Catholic 23, 73, 142, 178–9

  C and 185, 210, 228, 261, 289, 331, 472

  in Civil War: First 186, 250, 253; Second 552, 555

  Essex and 331

  in France 186, 250; return to England, 1643 264–5; return to France, 1644 331, 348

  in Netherlands, 1642 250, 264

 

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