satirised 116
seeks end to war 196
Tory Dozen appointed by 276, 343
Tory sympathies 106, 108, 110, 113, 116
and Union with Scotland 163
and Whigs 140, 153, 156, 165, 170, 190, 229, 231, 394
widowed 190
Apology for Himself and His Writings, An (Steele) 310
Apscourt Manor, Surrey 316
Arbuthnot, Dr 240, 257, 294, 361
Army: army supply Bills 24, 139, 140, 179, 227
disbanding of 87, 111
resupplied 104
standing army debate 50–51
Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (opera) 212
Artists'
Club (at Bull's Head) 373
Ashley House, Surrey 335
Ashurst, William 298
Astell, Mary 57, 61, 138–9, 196, 219
Aston, Anthony 212
Athenian Mercury, The 142–3
Austria 128, 285
Aynston, Mrs Eliza 366 Bacon, Sir Francis 262
Balchin, Nigel 380
Bank of England 25, 46, 95, 193–4, 219, 248, 352, 354
Barbary captives 83
Barn Elms 114–17, 126–7, 185, 268, 270, 313, 336, 376–7
Barrett, C. J. 378
Barry, Mrs 54
Bart'lemy Fair (Astell) 196
Barton, Mrs Catherine 67, 316
Basset, Thomas 11
Bastille, Paris 19
Bath 157
Bayfordbury House, Hampshire 376
Beaumont, Francis 40
Beaux Stratagem, The (Farquhar) 350
Bedford Coffee House 372
Beefsteak Club 125
Beggar's Opera (Gay) 232
Behn, Aphra 54
Bell tavern, King Street 239
Bellsise Gardens 113
Beningborough, Yorkshire 120
Benson, William 364
Berkeley, George 212, 285
Berkeley, James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of 112, 178, 308
Bertie, Mary 66
Bertie, Peregrine 64, 337
Betterton, Mr 17, 73, 76
theatre company of 53, 54, 73–6, 78, 83, 131, 136, 152
Betterton, Mrs Mary 17
Bill of Rights 14
Bilton Hall, Warwickshire 278, 292, 358
Blackmore, Sir Richard 334
The Kit-Cats, A Poem 34, 40, 191–2
A Satyr against Wit 79
Blanchard, Rae 387
Blandford, John Churchill, Marquess of 141
Bleek, Richard van 269
Blenheim, Battle of 128, 140
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire 140–41, 145, 152, 159, 168
quarrel between Vanburgh and Duchess of Marlborough over 280, 308, 313, 337, 352, 363–4
state funding of 140, 280, 364
Vanburgh's resignation from works 337
Blount, Mrs Elizabeth Fanshawe 70, 322
Board of Trade, see Commission of Trade and Foreign Plantations
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount 291, 305
and Addison and Steele 287, 288
crypto Jacobite 292, 295, 297, 298, 319
ennoblement 287
flees to France 314
founder of Brothers Club 240–41
impeachment resolution 314
inability to form ministry 300
patronage 241
peace negotiations with French 273
rivalry with Harley 241
rivalry with Oxford 298
Schism Bill of 299
and Swift 304
Tory leader 229, 236, 239, 248
Booth, Barton 288
Boswell, James 265, 375
Boughton House, Northamptonshire 226
Bourchier, John 120
Boyer, Abel 182, 275, 292, 299
Boyle, Henry, Baron Carleton
Chancellor of the Exchequer 108, 127
ennoblement 307
and impeachment of Sacheverell 222, 223
Lord Treasurer of Ireland 199
resignation 231
Treasurer's Whig 179
Boyle, Richard, see Shannon or Burlington
Boyne, Battle of the 203, 215, 216
Boyse, Revd Joseph 201
Bracegirdle, Mrs Anne (‘Bracey’) 17–18, 53, 54–5, 77–8, 83, 99, 133, 136, 143, 185, 367
Bridgeman, Charles 356, 357, 391
Briscoe, Samuel (printer) 68
British Empire 48, 200, 265, 321
Brookmans Manor, Hertfordshire 105
Brothers Club 240–41, 273
Browne, Tom 3, 78
‘Bubble Act’
(1720) 353, 355
Buckley, Sam 243, 282
Budgell, Eustace 205–6, 259, 277, 293, 305, 346
Burke, Edmund 209
Burlington, Juliana, Countess of 310
Burlington, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of 310–11, 321, 391
Busby, Dr 21
Bushy Park, near Hampton Court 358
Button's Coffee House, Covent Garden 277–8, 285, 289, 293, 331
Byng, Sir George 181
Byron, Lord 382, 384 Cabaret (musical) 379
Cabinet government 394
Cadogan, General William 299, 332, 513n
Caesar's Commentaries 117, 220, 279
Calypso and Telemachus (opera) 259
Cambridge University 22, 38, 44
Campaign, The (Addison) 128–9, 130
Carbery, John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of 47, 74, 89, 177, 283, 326
Carlisle, Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of 58, 61, 97, 301, 362
Barn Elms visit 313
building of Castle Howard 80–82, 108, 115, 119–21, 269, 357
eating and drinking 126
First Lord of the Treasury 104
in George's Privy Council 307
ill health 303
and impeachment of Sacheverell 224
landscaped garden of 391
regent 302
removed from office by Anne 107, 119
and South Sea bubble 354
and Vanburgh 107–8, 127, 336, 337, 338
Carlisle, Lady Anne Capel (wife of 3rd Earl of Carlise) 58–9
Carlos II, King of Spain 50, 93, 95
Carlos III, see Charles VI, Emperor of Austria
Carracci, Annibale 266
Carteret, John, 2nd Earl Granville 393
Castle Howard, Yorkshire 140, 269, 336, 337, 372
building of 107–8, 119, 159, 212
interiors 115, 120–21, 185
Kit-Cat input into design 81–2, 119
landscape gardens 357, 372
remote location 120
Cat, Christopher (‘Kit’) 32–5, 42, 113, 194, 376, 380
Cat and Fiddle, Gray's Inn Lane 32, 33, 43, 61, 113, 376
Catholics 23, 62, 163, 292, 322
anti-Catholic laws 322
Irish 203, 207, 209–11, 396
Penal Laws 203, 209–10
pro-Catholic Declaration 13–14
Cato (Addison) 286–9, 340, 385, 501n
Caulfield, James 376, 386
Cavendish, William, see Devonshire, 2nd Duke of
Censorium (entertainment) 316–17
Centlivre, Susanna 54
Chapelizod House, near Dublin 215
Charles VI, Emperor of Austria 180, 356, 371
as Archduke Charles 154
as claimant to the Spanish throne ‘Carlos III’
154, 180
Charles I, King 157, 276
Charles II, King 11, 22, 23, 38, 49, 99, 116, 225
Charles, Prince of Hesse 176
Charterhouse School 27, 28, 29
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire 80, 81, 188
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of 142, 371
Chevening, Kent 112
‘Chevy Chase’
(ballad) 261
Choice Collection of Italian Ayres, A (compiled Abell) 132
Christ Church, Oxford 29 Christian Hero, The (Steele) 105–6<
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Church of England 63, 139, 141, 156, 203, 250
Churchill, Arabella 110
Churchill, Henrietta, see Godolphin, Countess of
Churchill, John, see Marlborough, 1st Duke of
Cibber, Colley 351
City of London 14, 41, 121, 248, 353
Civil War 6, 13, 34, 62
Clare, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Earl of, see Newcastle, 1st Duke of
Claremont, Esher, Surrey 308–9, 311, 363
Claremont (Garth) 309
Clayton, Thomas 168, 212, 259
Clement XI, Pope 95
Cleveland, Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of 72
Clifford, Rosamund 166–7
Club, The (of Turk's Head) 373–4
Cobbett, William 377
Cobham, Richard Temple, 1st Viscount 356, 358–60, 362, 363, 391
Coldstream Guards 31
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 384, 387
College of Arms 121
Collier, Jeremy 63–70, 72–3, 93, 138, 257, 260, 364
Defence of the Short View 69
on Grand Storm 135
rebuttals of 68–9, 256
A Second Defence of the Short View 73
A Short View of the Immorality and Prophaness of the English Stage 65, 69
Collierites 73, 76, 138, 144, 184, 251, 325
Commission of Forfeited Estates 324–5
Commission of Trade and Foreign Plantations 48, 93–4, 178, 214, 306, 321, 322, 326
Committee of Secrecy 314, 318, 319, 320, 335
Compton, Spencer, 1st Earl of Wilmington 159, 319
and impeachment of Sacheverell 222, 223
loses Parliamentary seat 491n
member of Kitlings 154
nominal premiership 393
in Parliament 166
resignation 331
Speaker of the House 313–14, 331
and Steele 197
Treasurer's Whig 179
Conduct of the Allies and of the Late Ministry, The (Swift) 274
Congreve, William xiii, 15–18, 44, 45–6, 114, 124, 294, 388
GENERAL: and Addison 30, 88, 179, 204, 207, 286
background 15–16, 28, 31
biographies 367, 386
character 17, 268
censors and 6
and Cobham 358–60
Collier's attack on 65, 68–70
daughter 365, 366
death 365–6
on Dorset dying 157
and Dryden 4, 17, 52
on drinking 152
European travels 94, 95, 117
friendships 60, 71, 105, 136–7, 143, 311, 356, 358–60, 365
funeral 366
on gentlemen 389
on Great Storm 134
on Hanoverian succession 302
on humour 256, 261
and Keally 55, 71, 159, 206
ill health 133, 335, 341, 348, 363
legacy and literary reputation 386–7
love affair with Bracey 17–18, 53, 77–8, 133, 143, 367
love affair with Henrietta Churchill 141–3, 152, 183, 206, 307, 363, 365–6
monuments 358–9
musical interests and compositions 84, 133
partner in Queen's Theatre 136, 138, 141, 152
patronage 365
patrons 15, 38–9, 54, 94, 101, 136, 152, 155, 334, 389
physical incapacity 236
portraits 55, 268–9
prosecuted 68
on provincial society 254
sinecures 54, 94, 124, 136, 152, 236, 306–7
and Steele 71, 105, 149
and Swift 15, 216, 237
on theatre audiences 74–5
on theatre merger 168
and Tonson 18, 33, 61, 94, 118, 122, 152–3, 231, 363
on Union negotiations 163
and Vanburgh 55, 136–8
on Wharton 207
on Whig sackings 231
will 366–7
wit 16, 55, 60
on women 77, 325
LITERARY WORKS 383–4
Amendments of Mr Collier's False and Imperfect Citations 68
‘The Birth of the Muse’
(poem) 54
classical translations 52, 249, 330
collected works 335, 366
‘Doris’
(poem) 71
Double Dealer(play) 56, 65, 68, 70, 123
‘Epistle to Lord Cobham’
359–60
‘Jack Frenchman's Defeat’
(poem) 187
Judgement of Paris 98–9
Letter Concerning Humour 261
libretti 365
Love for Love (play) 38, 53–4, 56, 83, 133, 149
lyric poetry 84
Mourning Bride (play) 55, 384
‘Oath of the Toast’
(poem) 58
Old Batchelor (play) 17, 18, 38, 66
as playwright 16, 17, 31, 36–7, 65–6, 67, 78, 83, 138, 141, 212, 260, 267, 386
as poet 132, 365
Semele libretto 141, 143
Squire Trelooby (play) 136
Way of the World (play) 67, 76–8, 133, 143, 155, 226
writing style 247
Connolly, Cyril 387
Conscious Lovers, The (Steele) 364, 385
Copyright Act (1709) 229–31
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron 268
Craggs, James 293, 353
Crisis, The (Steele) 292–3, 294, 295
Cromwell, Oliver 6
Croxall, Dr Samuel 367–8
Curll, Edmund 230, 366–7, 369
Memoirs 382
Customs House 105, 116, 124
Cutts, John Cutts, 1st Baron 31, 71, 106, 149
Dartiquenave, Charles (‘Darty’) 125
Dartmouth, William Legge, 1st Earl of 296
Dashwood, Sir Francis 373
Dashwood, George 95
Davenant, Charles 95, 107
Defence of the Short View (Collier) 69
Defoe, Daniel 10, 115, 129–30, 137
on members of October Club 239
Review 232, 233
Robinson Crusoe 382
on war 272
Denain, Battle of 279
Dennis, John 69, 135, 289
Derwentwater, James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of 322
Devil tavern, Fleet Street 40–41, 235
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of 294, 343
accedes to Dukedom 188
Court position 188
in George's Cabinet 305
Kit-Cat member 362
as Marquess of Hartington 80, 119, 134, 149
as regent 302
resignation 231, 331
Devonshire House, Piccadilly 188
Dickens, Charles 96
Dilettanti Society 373
Dilly, Charles and Edward 375
Disbanding Bill (1697) 51, 86, 87
Dispensary, The (Garth) 4, 53, 247, 293, 335
Dissenters 49, 165, 217, 219, 223, 224, 239, 307
anti-Dissenter bills 139–40, 275, 276, 299
Irish 201–2, 206–7, 208–9, 214, 227
Distressed Mother, The (Philips) 259–60
Doddington, George Bubb 355
Dormer, John and James (brothers) 112, 186, 320
Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of 470n
collector of English ballads 261
death 157–8
dissipated lifestyle 38, 45, 70, 152, 326
and Dryden's funeral 1
illegitimate daughter of 158
Knole home of 22
Lord Chamberlain 24, 37, 47
Lord Dorset's Boys 24, 47, 53, 85, 93, 101, 154, 158, 178, 233
marriage 154, 157
military background 112
and Montagu 23
patronage 21–3, 25, 26, 36, 37–8, 39, 53, 79, 99, 105
and Prior 21–4, 90–91, 148, 335
Royal Society Fellow 48
at theatre outing 74, 75
and Tonson 33, 52
verses 58, 382
Dorset, Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of 158
admitted to Kit-Cat Club 158
and Hanoverians 158–9, 167, 303, 307
lack of patronage 159
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 396
and Prior 273
Dorset Garden Theatre 75, 98–9, 138, 168
Double Dealer, The (Congreve) 56, 65, 68, 70, 123
Drake, Dr James 107
Drummer, The (Addison) 325, 349
Drury Lane theatre, see Theatre Royal
Dryden, John:
GENERAL 35, 255
Addison's poem addressed to 30
Catholicism 15
character 17
Collier's attack on 65
and Congreve 4, 17, 52, 55, 78
funeral 1–8, 93
on Grub Street printers 4
holds court at Will's Coffee House 16–17, 34
ill health and death 78
musical interests 132
parodied 23
patrons 15, 38, 334
and Tonson 4, 12, 13, 33, 78
Witty Club of 5, 34, 36, 79, 80
WRITINGS AND LITERARY WORK: Absalom and Achitophel4
Cambridge classics 44
classical translations 52–3, 195, 249, 330
collected dramatic works 334–5
collection of English ballads 261
editor of Miscellany Poems30, 78–9
Maiden Queen 184
Marriage à
la Mode 184
Secular Masque 1, 5
Works of Virgil 358
Dublin 15, 27, 201–3, 205, 208, 212–13, 215, 272, 304
arts in 212
City of Dublin Corporation 207
Dublin Castle 201, 205–6, 207, 212, 214, 226, 227
Dublin Gazette 226
Dublin Spy by Tom Tatler, The 489n
Dunch, Edmund 110, 268
Dunch, Mrs Elizabeth (née Godfrey) 110, 187, 340
Dunkirk 291
D'Urfey, Thomas 35 East India Company 87, 97, 115, 122, 164, 194, 219
Eastbury, Dorset 355
Eccles, John 133
Semele 141, 143
Edinburgh Easy Club 255
Elizabeth I, Queen 40, 114, 274
Elphin, Bishop of 209
Englishman, The 291–2, 293, 295, 298, 386
collected edition 297
second series 318, 319–20
Englishman's Thanks to the Duke of Marlborough (Steele) 274
Epicurus 45
‘Essay to Restore the Kit-Cat Members to their lost Abilities, An’
232–3
Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (Berkeley) 212
Essay upon the Present Interest of England (Stepney) 103
Essex, Algernon Capel, 2nd Earl 121, 225
Eugene, Prince of Savoy 108
Evelyn, John 132
Examiner, The 233–4, 237, 238, 240, 289–90, 294, 297, 335
Faber, John Jr 268, 372, 378
Faction Display'd (Shippen) 118
Falkland, Lady 90
Farquhar, George 5, 350
Farrington, Thomas 182
Fenwick Affair 86
Fifteen, The 321, 322, 323
Flanders 11, 31, 104, 112, 179, 285
Kit-Cat Club, The Page 60
