Lincoln, Henry Fiennes-Clinton, 7th Earl of 311
Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre 53, 54, 73, 74, 76, 131, 135, 136
Lindsay, Thomas, Bishop of Killacoe 214
Locke, John 7, 14, 94, 261, 345, 394
Loftus, Lucy, see Wharton, Lady Lucy
London 10–11, 223, 280
London Gazette 98
Long, Anne 232
Louis XIV, King of France 91, 248
despotism and savagery 89, 214
and Jacobites 51, 87, 104
Paris rebuilding projects 88
patronage 40, 138
peace treaty with England 50, 285
wars 95, 103, 109, 128, 163, 377
Love for Love (Congreve) 38, 53–4, 56, 149
Lover, The (Addison and Steele) 298
Loves of Ergasto, The (Greber) 143–4
Lying Lover, The (Steele) 109, 135
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 24, 200, 277, 345, 392, 394
Macbeth (Shakespeare) 135
Macky, John 38, 41
Magdalen College, Oxford 27, 29, 30, 87, 88, 151, 224, 243
Malone, Edmond 374
Malplaquet, Battle of 195–6, 220
Malt Lottery 54
Manchester, Charles Montagu, 4th Earl and 1st Duke 86, 177, 179
artistic interests 185
diplomatic career 89, 92, 132, 183
on dismissal of Somers 93
as model of male behaviour 253
musical interests 132, 144, 184, 258
patronage 122, 132, 200
political career 105, 108
and Prior 92
Vanburgh rebuilds country seat of 185
Manchester, Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of 22
Manchester, Countess Dowager of (wife of Charles Montagu, Baron Halifax) 67, 86
Manchester, Doddington Greville, Lady (wife of Charles Montagu, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Manchester) 89
Manchester, Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of 24
Manley, Mary Delariviere 72, 233
Mar, John Erskine, 22nd or 3rd Earl of 320
March Club 276
Marchmont, Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of 164
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of 103–4, 177
Anne's favourite 108–9
corruption charges 276, 279
dismissed from all posts 276
exiled 288, 299, 304
falls from favour 231
and Furnese 219–20
in George's Cabinet 305
and Hanoverians 304
and Harley's resignation 179
journalistic attacks on 237, 257, 274
and Kit-Cat Club 110–11
Marlborough–Godolphin ministry 139, 147, 155
military commander 112, 128–9, 140, 158, 160, 167, 187, 195, 196, 218, 220, 225, 251, 272
patronage 147
reported attendance at Kit-Cat Club 221
return to London 274–5
as Unionist 163
Whig hero 110–11
Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of 219, 220, 221, 282
Addison and 167
Barn Elms visit 127, 313
and daughter's affair with Congreve 141–2, 143, 306–7
on Garth 269
on Halifax 305
and Harley's resignation 179
on Montagu 67
quarrel with Vanburgh 280, 308, 313, 337, 352, 364
relations with Anne 224, 280
toasted 191
Whig 110, 190
and Woodstock ruins 168
Mary II, Queen 10, 26–7, 31, 49, 63
Maxwell, Ghislaine 379
Maynwaring, Arthur 124, 149, 219–20, 225
anonymous poems attributed to 116, 187
classical translations 330
death 282
lewd ballads of 258
mistress of 185, 259
musical talents 132
patrons 105
on Spectator 242
Tatler volume dedicated to 228
toast 142
Whig propagandist 181, 228, 232, 233, 234, 240, 275, 282
McCrea, Brian 388
Medley, The 234
Mercier, Philip 373
Mermaid tavern 40
Merton College, Oxford 29
Methuen Treaty (1703) 124
Middle Temple 13, 16, 23, 105
Milton, John 347, 384
Paradise Lost 12, 261–2
Minorca 285
Mirror, The 377
Miscellany Poems (publ. Tonson) 30, 78–9, 127, 193
Mississippi Scheme 352, 354, 510–11n
Mistake, The (trans. Vanburgh) 153
Moderator 234
Mohun, Charles, 4th Baron 111, 129, 220, 267, 268, 282
Molière: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac 136
Montagu, Charles, see Halifax, Baron and 1st Earl or Manchester, 4th Earl and 1st Duke
Montagu, Elizabeth 61
Montagu, Sir James (‘Jemmy’) 21, 23, 100, 222, 315
Montagu, John Montagu, 2nd Duke of 226, 274, 372
Montagu, Mary Montagu, Duchess of 226, 260
More, Sir Thomas 347
Moses, Robert 375
Mourning Bride, The (Congreve) 55
Murray, John 375
Muses Mercury, The 184
music 6, 131–3
in Dublin 212
opera 131–2, 133, 137–8, 141, 143–5, 166–9, 183, 212, 258–9, 390
private performances 184
subscription performances 135–6
Namier, L. B. 392
National Portrait Gallery 376
Netherlands 94, 109, 158, 165
New Ballad Writ by Jacob Tonson… 147
New East India Company 87, 97, 194
Newcastle, Harriet Godolphin, Duchess of 143, 313, 330, 361
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, John Holles, 1st Duke of 308
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of and Earl of Clare 334, 362
Barn Elms visits 313, 361
commissions Englishman 318, 319
financial situation 308–9, 354
Freemason 372
joins Kit-Cat Club 308
loathed by Prince of Wales 351
Lord Chamberlain 331, 334, 350–51
marriage 330
musical interests 390
organizes Whig mob 320
patronage 308–10, 320, 334–5, 362
personality 308
peace-making initiatives 329–30
Prime Minister 393
and Steele 309–10, 312–13, 351–2, 361
and Tonson 362–3
and Vanburgh 308–9, 313, 314, 357
Newcastle House, see Powys House
Newton, Sir Isaac 67, 333
Principia 48
Nichols, John 375
Nicolini, see Grimaldi, Nicolo
Nine Years War, see War of the League of Augsburg
North America 46, 318, 331, 371
Northumberland House, Strand 61
Norton, Richard 132, 148
Nottingham, Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of 275, 304
Nottingham Castle 309
Occasional Conformity Bill 139–40, 275, 343
October Club 239
Old Batchelor, The (Congreve) 17, 18, 38, 66
Old East India Company 87, 194
Old Pretender, see Stuart, James Edward
Old Whig, The (Anon. [Addison]) 344–5, 348
Oldfield, Ann (‘Nancy’) 185, 260, 288
Oldisworth, William 289
Oldmixon, John 139, 277
Orange Comedians 65–6, 247, 260, 386
Orford, Edward Russell, 1st Earl of 50, 100, 101, 153, 221
Orford House, Chelsea 312
Orléans, Duc d' 328
Ormonde, James Butler, 1st Duke of 28, 149
Ormonde, James Butler, 2nd Duke of 220, 302
Oudenarde, Battle of 187
Ousley, Elizabeth 71, 72
Ovid: Metamorphoses
330, 367
Oxenard (priest hunter) 210
Oxford and Mortimer, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of: Anne's favourite 108
assassination attempt 248
and Brothers Club 241
coalition leader 50–51, 86, 87, 93, 99, 225
crypto-Jacobitism 295, 297
and Defoe 129
dismissed 300
enemy of Junto Whigs 185, 232, 233–4
ennoblement 259
and extremist Tory backbenchers 239
founder of South Sea Company 352
and Kit-Cats'
procession 274, 275
as Lord Treasurer 231
as minister 97
ministry of 235–6, 248, 272, 292
peace negotiations with French 273
portrait of 395
resignation 179–80
rivalry with Bolingbroke 298
rivalry with St John 241
Saturday Club of 239–40
and Scriblerus Club 294
Somerset defects to 224
and Steele 237, 290, 293
and Swift 235, 237, 294
treason charges and imprisonment 319, 335
vendetta against Marlboroughs 276, 280
and Whig press 280
Oxford University 29
Paine, Thomas 395
Palatine refugees 214–16, 248, 318
Paradise Lost (Milton) 12, 132, 261–2, 269
Paris 47, 88–9, 91, 92, 281
opera 132
Parliament, see House of Commons
House of Lords
Parnell, Thomas 294
Partition Treaties (1699 and 1700) 92–3, 95, 99–100
Patentee, The (anon) 58
Peerage Bill (1719) 343–5, 351
Pelham, Henry 393
Pellegrini, Giovanni Antonio 185
Penal Laws 203, 209–10
Pepys, Samuel 6, 47, 114
Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of 180
Petworth, Sussex 44, 81
Philippe, Duc d'Anjou 95
Philips, Ambrose 259, 277, 284, 343
Philips, Katherine 54
Phillips, Sir Richard 377
Pierrepont, Lady Mary, see Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Pilgrim, The (Vanburgh) 133
Pix, Mary 144
Playford's Dancing Master 233
Plebeian, The (Steele) 344
Plumb, J. H. 392–3
Pope, Alexander:
GENERAL: and Addison and Steele 264, 289, 294, 382
and Addison's Cato 286–7, 289, 294
on Addison's marriage 326
and Congreve 365, 367
on Halifax 305
and Prior 319
and Scriblerus Club 294, 359
and Swift 294, 363
on Tonson 12, 363
WRITINGS 387
collaboration with Swift 363
Dunciad 367, 382
epigrams 125
Epistle to Burlington 357
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 382
Iliad 305, 365
influences on 382
Miscellanies193, 363
satire on Garth 330
Spectator contributions 246
Porter, Mrs Frances 94, 143
Portugal 158
Postboy, The 275, 298
Powys House, Lincoln's Inn (later Newcastle House) 14, 49, 61, 284, 308–9, 330
Pratt, Captain 485n
Presbyterian Church 163, 165, 201, 202, 209
Present State of the War, The (Addison) 181
Preston, Battle of 320, 321
Pretender, see Stuart, James Edward
Priestley, Joseph 375
Pringle, Robert 192
Prior, Matthew:
GENERAL: appearance 22, 273
background 21, 25, 31
candidate for Stepney's jobs 178
Commissioner of Trade 94
death 335
defection to Tories 92, 94, 100–101, 147–8, 178, 233, 240, 393
diplomatic career 25, 46, 47, 89, 92, 281, 302–3
and Dorset 21–4, 90–91, 157, 253
Duke Street townhouse 94
education 21, 22
expelled from Kit-Cat Club 148, 158, 233
financial situation 178
on France 89, 91
friendship with Montagu and Stepney 21–3, 25, 26–7, 38–9, 47, 48, 90, 177–8, 318–19
and Garth 53
ill health 74
joins Brothers Club 240–41
on Kit-Cat meetings 44
love life 67, 89–90
and Manchester 92
member of Parliament 99–100
musical interests 132
patrons 21–2, 24, 26, 92, 93, 159, 234, 335
peace negotiator with French 273–4, 285, 291
on political fortunes 231
resigns as ambassador 302
and South Sea bubble 354
target of Whig vengeance 314
on theatre outing 73, 74
and Tonson 33
treason charges and imprisonment 319, 335
WRITINGS: Alma (poem) 319
anti-Whig propaganda 233–4
classical translations 197, 249
An Essay Upon Opinion 218
A New Answer to An Argument against a Standing Army 51
poems 23, 24, 26, 56, 100–101, 302–3, 335, 383
‘Prologue for Falstaff’
73, 75
Privy Council 232, 300, 304, 307, 329
Irish 211, 214
Protestantism 29, 62, 86, 164, 203, 206, 209, 214, 251, 343
Provok'd Wife, The (Vanburgh) 54–5, 58, 66, 83, 253
Publick Spirit of the Whigs, The (Swift) 294
Pulteney, William, 1st Earl of Bath xiv, 154, 155, 278–9
defends Steele in Commons 296
Kit-Cat member 362
marriage 340
Prime Minister 393
resignation 331
Secretary-at-War 307
Purcell, Daniel 132–3
Purcell, Henry 132
Puritans 69
Quacks, The (play) 118–19
Quakers 208, 209, 318
Queen's Arms, Pall Mall 143, 274
Queen's College, Oxford 29
Queens Theatre, Haymarket 131, 133, 136–8, 143
Anne attends 138
financial problems 144–5, 152, 159, 184, 259
Handel operas 258, 378
management of 136, 138, 141, 152, 159, 183, 377, 378
merger with Drury Lane 163, 168, 183
opening 141, 143–4
patrons 136–9, 143–4, 184–5
problem with acoustics 141
redesigned by Vanburgh 145
Steele's involvement in 153, 173
Ramillies, Battle of 160
Ranelagh Club 377–8
Ratcliffe, Dr 266
Regency Act (1706) 156, 158, 300, 395
Rehearsal (Leslie) 144
Relapse, The (Vanburgh) 19, 54, 64–5, 67, 245, 247, 253
Restoration 34, 38, 62, 319
drama and theatres 66, 75
Review (Defoe's journal) 232, 233
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 6, 373, 391
Members of the Society of Dilettanti 270
Rhenish Wine House, Whitehall 21–22
Rialton, Viscount, see Godolphin, Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of
Rich, Mr Christopher 138
Richmond, Charles Lenox, 1st Duke of 225, 307
Rinaldo (Handel) 258
Riot Act (1716) 319
Robin Hood Society 374
Robinson, Sir William 202
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) 382
Roche, Anne 157
Rochester, Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of 96
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of 38, 382
Romanticism 383, 384
Rome 95
Rosamund (Clayton and Addison) 166–9, 212, 258, 280, 287
Rose Club 97
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br /> Rowe, Nicholas 230
Rowntree 380
Royal Academy of Music 390
Royal College of Physicians 1, 2, 4
Royal Exchange 9–10, 62, 281
Royal Society 48, 137
Ryswick, Treaty of 46, 47, 50, 71
Sacheverell, Dr Henry 220–29, 248, 275, 296
Sackville, Charles, see Dorset, 6th Earl of
St Anne's, Soho 1
St Germain-en-Laye 87
St James's, London 372, 374
St James's Coffee House 172, 301
St James's Palace 334
St John, Henry, see Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount
St John's College, Cambridge 22
Samwell, Sir Thomas 373
Saturday Club 239–40
Satyr against Wit (Blackmore) 79
Savage, Richard 383
Saxony, Elector of 25–6
Scarbrough, Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of 225–6, 302, 307, 340
Scarlatti, Alessandro 169
Schellenberg, Battle of 128
Schulenburg, Melusine, Countess von der 303
Schism Bill 299
Scotland 181, 199, 201
Enlightenment 395
Jacobite Risings (1715) 320–21, 322, 346
Parliament 164, 166
rebel estates forfeited 324
Spanish landing in 346
Union 162–6, 169, 174, 202, 204, 320, 395–6
Scriblerus Club 294, 365, 388, 389
Scurlock, Mary, see Steele, Lady Mary
Second Defence of the Short View (Collier) 73
Secular Masque (Dryden) 1, 5
Semele (Eccles) 141, 143
Sensorium see Censorium
Septennial Act (1716) 323, 324, 343
Several Orations of Demosthenes (ed. Somers) 110
Seymour, Sir Edward 107, 140
Shakespeare, William 40, 230, 262, 384
Falstaff 73–4, 75, 257
Julius Caesar 184, 185
Macbeth 135
Shannon, Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount 112, 158, 258, 335
Sheriffmuir, Battle of 320
Sherwood, Alice 379
Shippen, William: Faction Display'd 118
Short Character of His Excellency Thomas Earl of Wharton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Swift) 217, 238–9
Short History of Standing Armies 87
Short View of the Immorality and Prophaness of the English Stage, A(Collier) 65, 69
Short Vindication of The Relapse and The Provok'd Wife (Vanburgh) 69
Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of 225, 300, 304
Shrimpton, Major-General John 180, 187
slave trade 226, 352
Sly, John 171
Smith, Jack 107, 154, 179, 180
Chancellor of the Exchequer 223
elected Commons Speaker 154–5, 174
and impeachment of Sacheverell 222, 223, 224
moderate political views 191
resignation 231, 331
Smithers, Peter Otway 387–8
Society for the Reformation of Manners 63, 69, 125, 138, 257
Soho House 375
Somers, John, Baron Somers of Evesham 11, 13, 26, 61, 182, 323, 393
and Addison 30, 88, 89, 109, 200, 322–3
adulterous affair 70
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