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The English Civil War: A People’s History (Text Only)

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by Diane Purkiss


  Hurry, Sir John, 398

  Hurst Castle, Hampshire, 549

  Hutchinson, Colonel John, 5, 570

  Hutchinson, Lucy, 5, 36, 51, 143, 489

  Hutton, Ronald, 242

  Hyde, David, 130

  iconoclasm, 185–6, 190–1, 196–206, 213, 245–7, 561–2

  idolatry see iconoclasm

  image-breaking see iconoclasm

  Independents: differences with Presbyterians, 279, 433, 465; criticise Cromwell, 337; principles and practices, 433–4, 465–6; triumph at Naseby, 433; cooperate with Army agitators, 467; radicalism, 468, 470; hatred of Levellers, 476

  Inverary, 397

  Ireland: population and conditions, 88–9; Plantation Scheme, 89; rebellion (November 1641), 109–13; reported Catholic atrocities, 109–11; Protestant refugees from, 114–15; Levellers protest at service in, 485, 505–6; Cromwell in, 563–4

  Ireton, Bridget (née Cromwell), 489

  Ireton, Henry: leads Ironsides, 325; at Naseby, 427–8; offer to Charles in custody, 456, 460, 490; Levellers question authority, 478, 505; at Putney debates, 487, 489, 490–7, 509; background and character, 489–90; Rainborough mistrusts, 489; corpse disinterred and hanged, 509, 565; death, 509; condemns Lucas, 541; and appointment of judges for Charles’s trial, 554

  Ironsides, 325–6, 329

  Isabella, Archduchess, Spanish infanta, 244

  Isham, Elizabeth, 301–4

  Isle of Wight see Wight, Isle of

  Italy: Milton in, 314

  Jackson, Alice, 409

  James I, King (James VI of Scotland): hunting, 7, 13; relations with son Charles, 7, 11–15, 16; stature, 14; favours Buckingham, 15; statue, 27; Henry Percy dislikes, 49; attempts union of England and Scotland, 72; signs confession of faith, 77; financial extravagance, 93; entry into London (1603), 213; on need for bishops, 452

  James II, King (earlier Prince and Duke of York): Greenhill acts as chaplain to, 47; at Edgehill, 176, 178–9, 181; in Oxford, 250; captured at Oxford, 442; Bampfield and Anne Halkett help escape to Holland, 446–7, 546, 565; upbringing, 447; succeeds to throne, 566

  Jane, Joseph, 363

  Janssen, Cornelius, 308

  Jeames, Daniel, 43

  Jefferson, Thomas, 2

  Jeffery, Edward, 173

  Jermyn, Henry, 454

  Jersey, 405–6

  Jesuits: discharged from prison, 106; and Irish rebellion, 112; Pym attacks, 118; Milton and, 307; and Levellers, 466

  Jews, 528, 569

  Johnston, Archibald, of Warriston, 76

  Jones, Inigo, 31, 34, 57, 61, 159, 249

  Jones, Captain William, 264

  Jonson, Ben, 92; Christmas His Masque, 237

  Jordaens, Jakob, 60

  Jordan, Lady, 290

  Joscelin, Elizabeth, 143

  Joyce (messenger to Charles in custody), 456

  Juxon, Thomas, 467

  Juxon, William (later Archbishop of Canterbury), 557, 559

  Kent: disputes over Christmas, 239–40; witch-hunting in, 388; army levies, 417; Royalist troops at Blackheath, 474; supports Charles in Second Civil War, 533–4

  Kettell, Ralph, 271

  Kilsyth, battle of (1645), 398

  Kineton, 249

  King, Edward, 313

  King, Lieutenant-General James, 335

  Kingdomes Faithfull and Impartiall Scout, The (Leveller newsbook), 510

  King’s Cabinet Opened, The, 431

  kingship: abolished, 499

  Kirk, Mary, 537

  Kirke, Anna, 170

  Knaresborough, 328

  Lambert, John, 533, 535, 538–9

  Lambeth Palace: attacked (1640), 121

  Lancashire, 327–8, 540

  Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, 332, 426, 428–9, 538–40

  Langley, William, 267

  Lanier, Jerome, 570

  Lanier, Nicholas, 59, 62, 567, 570

  Lanyer, Aemilia, 528

  Lansdown, 229

  Lathom House, Lancashire, 327

  Latimer, Hugh, Bishop of Worcester, 198

  Laud, Erasmus, 135

  Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury: beheaded, 4, 151, 213, 374, 516, 555; unpopularity, 26–7, 98, 135, 248; religious practices and reforms, 26–8, 30, 31, 35, 82, 136, 173, 198; anti-Catholicism, 35, 37; adds to Lord’s Prayer, 71; and Scottish Prayer Book, 71, 75; and Marie de Medici’s visit, 78; charged with high treason, 99, 373–4; London apprentices oppose, 122; Lucy Hay opposes, 125; and London discontent, 129; rumoured sympathetic to Catholicism, 136; and iconoclasm, 198–9, 202, 206; character and career, 210—12; diary, 211; dreams, 211–12; in Tower, 373; satirized by Overton, 480

  Le Nôtre, André, 58

  Leicester: Parliamentarian sympathies, 160; Rupert attacks and sacks, 425

  Leicester, Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of, 197

  Leighton, Major, 225

  Leighton, Sir William, 306

  Lely, Sir Peter, 570

  Leominster, 154

  Leslie, Alexander see Leven, 1st Earl of

  Leslie, David, 85, 329, 333, 399–401, 539

  Leslie, John, 83

  Levellers: doctrines, 466, 476–8, 481, 496, 499, 504, 510; and New Model Army, 468, 484–6; repressed, 483; and Putney debates, 492–4, 496–8; and draft of An Agreement of the People, 497; propose alliance with Charles, 497, 516; rounded up at Corkbush Field, 499; flout vertical honour, 500; join Thompson’s mutiny, 501–3; decline, 504; and women’s rights, 506, 508; on reopening common land, 515

  Leven, Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of: returns to Scotland, 82; confronts Earl of Holland, 85; commands Scottish army at Marston Moor, 328–30; retires to Newcastle, 338; opposes Montrose, 425

  Lewis, John, 519

  Licensing Act: suspended, 283, 408

  Lichfield: iconoclasm in, 206, 361

  Lilburne, Elizabeth (earlier Dewell; John’s wife), 481–4, 506, 567

  Lilburne, Elizabeth (John/Elizabeth’s daughter), 483

  Lilburne, Henry, 177

  Lilburne, John: in London unrest, 130; at Edgehill, 176; captured at Brentford, 191–2, 481; as Leveller leader, 477, 481; army service, 481; imprisoned, 481–3; marriage relations, 482–4, 567; political activities and pamphleteering, 482; on grandees at Putney debates, 490; Rainborough visits in prison, 497; proposes alliance with Charles, 498; opposes trial of Charles, 548; death, 567; A Cry for Justice, 410

  Lilburne, Robert, 498

  Lilly, William: and Hopkins’s childhood, 10; on Charles I’s childhood weakness, 14; on Queen’s secret councils, 124; publishes almanac (1644), 301; told of Marston Moor, 334; and trial of Archbishop Laud, 374; known to Matthew Hopkins, 382, 384; predicts Parliamentary victory, 407; Jane Whorwood consults, 458–9; The Starry Messenger, 407

  Lindsey, Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of, 177, 180, 333–4

  Liscarroll, battle of (1642), 184

  Lisle, Sir George, 541–2

  Lister, Joseph, 111

  Lithgow, William, 286

  Littleton, Sir Edward, 24

  Littleton, William, 152

  Liverpool, 328

  Lloyd, Sir Charles, 192

  Lloyd, Major Richard, 369

  Lloyd, Lady Ursula, 161

  Lockyer, Robert, 499–501

  London: conditions and character, 39–40, 42–3, 45–6, 128–30, 278–9; political divisison, 40; West End developed, 40, 45; houses and housing, 43–5; population, 45; coal fires and dust, 62, 129, 280; unrest and riot in, 121–2; Charles’s attitude to, 127–8; and Charles’s invasion of Commons, 127; finances Parliament in war, 128; trained bands (militia), 130–1, 193, 255–6; defences against Charles, 193–5, 209, 279, 285–7; Parliamentarianism, 209; coal shortage, 280, 283; Royalist supporters in, 281–2; playhouses closed, 282; Thames freezes (1645–6), 283, 347; trade and industry declines, 283; food supply, 341; print trade in, 408–10; welcomes Naseby victory, 432; occupied by New Model Army, 467; Anna Trapnel sees as Holy Land, 474; Skippon defends in Second Civil War, 534

  Londo
n Bridge, 45

  Long, George, 379

  Long Melford, Suffolk, 133–4

  Lord of Misrule, 234

  Lords, House of: abolished, 499; see also Parliament

  Lord’s Prayer, 71

  Lostwithiel, battle of (1644), 300, 360, 362–6; Parliamentary surrender and retreat, 367–9

  Loudoun, John Campbell, 1st Earl of, 79

  Louis XIII, King of France, 90, 95

  Louis XIV, King of France, 58, 208

  Lovelace, Richard, 273

  Lowes, John, 382–3

  Lucas family (of Essex), 131

  Lucas, Sir Charles, 181, 311, 331–3, 335, 534–6, 541

  Lucas, Sir John, 132

  Lucas, Margaret, 250

  Ludlow, Colonel Edmund, 114, 181–2, 335, 389, 441, 464

  Ludlow, Gabriel, 335

  Ludlow, Shropshire, 206, 216

  Luke, Sir Samuel, 302, 410, 425

  Lunsford, Colonel Sir Thomas, 130

  Lush, William, 436

  Lydney House, Gloucestershire, 515

  Lyme, Dorset, 358

  Lynne, John, 20

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron, 69

  MacColla, Alasdair, 80, 397

  MacDonald clan, 397–8

  McDonalds of Clan Ian Mor, 89

  MacDonnell clan, 89, 397

  Maldon, Essex, 512

  Mallory, Captain Robert, 570

  Manchester, Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of: at York, 328–9; returns to Eastern Association, 338; at second battle of Newbury, 370–1; conflict with Cromwell, 420–1; ousted from military command, 420–1

  Manningtree, Essex, 380, 383–5, 388

  Mantua, Duke of: art collection, 57–60

  Marie de Medici, Queen of France, 56, 59, 78, 87, 121–2, 246, 352, 410

  Market Harborough, 426

  Markham, Gervase, 342; The English Housewife, 351

  Marlowe, Christopher, 309

  Marrow, Lieut.-Colonel John, 219

  Marshall (preacher), 187

  Marshall’s Elm, battle of (1642), 141

  Marston Moor, battle of (1644), 300, 320, 328–36; casualties, 335; paintings of, 339; weapons at, 428

  Marten, Henry: character, 95; radicalism in Parliament, 95, 116, 464; hostility to Charles, 116; desecrates Henrietta Maria’s chapel, 244, 246–7; Pym imprisons, 280; republicanism, 464, 488–9; helps select judges for Charles’s trial, 554; discovers crown jewels, 568

  Martin family (of East Anglia), 135

  Marvell, Andrew, 537, 551, 566

  Mary I (Tudor), Queen, 101

  Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland, 72

  Mary (laundress assistant), 544

  Mary, Princess, 101, 166, 447, 459, 562

  Mary Queen of Scots, 13, 35, 72–3, 553

  Mason, Henry, 519

  masques (court), 60–2, 65

  Massey, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Edward, 219, 425

  Massie, Captain George, 262

  Mathew, Sir Toby, 63–4

  Mathis, Robert, 201–2

  Maurice, Prince: ends siege of Plymouth, 208; Atkyns serves under, 222–3, 225, 227—8; in west country, 358; captures Dartmouth, 369; looting and raiding, 515

  May, Robert, 348

  Mayerne, Sir Theodore, 21

  Mayney, Sir John, 336

  Mayor, Richard, 20 maypoles, 205, 213–14, 301

  Mazarin, Cardinal Jules, 402

  medical services, 411–13

  Megerne, Theodore Turquet de, 59

  Mercurius Aulicus (newspaper), 207, 214, 285, 289, 360, 365, 376

  Mercurius Britannicus (newspaper), 207

  Mercurius Civicus( newspaper), 289

  Mercurius Rusticus (newspaper), 292

  Merrick, Sir Gilly, 359

  Methven: Highland women massacred, 398

  Middlesex, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of, 353–5

  Middlewick, John, 414

  Mildmay, Sir Humphrey, 45, 214, 235–6, 282, 566

  Military Ordinance, 105

  Milton family, 305–6

  Milton, Anne (John’s sister), 306

  Milton, Christopher (John’s brother), 306, 309, 312, 318

  Milton, John: account of war, 3; bookishness, 8; family house, 44; hostility to bishops, 99; on individual liberty, 169; and Skippon, 193; polemical writings, 207, 315–16, 319–20; on London, 282; defends freedom of press, 300, 320–1; on Gunpowder Plot and Catholic threat, 305, 307, 321; meets and marries Mary, 305, 317; background and upbringing, 306–9; at Cambridge, 308—13; early poetry, 310–12; reading and learning, 312–13; meets Galileo, 314; travels abroad, 314; and family divisions, 317–18; separation from Mary, 317–19, 321; pamphlet on divorce and marriage, 318, 320; sides with Parliament, 318; qualities, 321–2; loses sight, 407–8; on licence and liberty, 532; addresses Fairfax in sonnet, 551; remarriages and death, 566; Areopagitica, 321–2; Comus, 322; Eikonokhstes, 561; Lycidas, 118, 313, 322, 407; Of Civil Powers, 321; Of Reformation, 315; Paradise Lost, 322, 566

  Milton, John, Senior, 306, 312, 318; The Tears and Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soule, 306

  Milton, Mary (née Powell): marriage to and separation from John, 317–19; attachment to family, 455

  Milton, Sara (John’s mother), 306; death, 313

  Minories, London, 473

  miracles and wonders, 442–3

  Miriam (Anne Halkett’s maid), 444–5, 447

  Mockett, Thomas: Christmas, The Christian’s Grand Feast, 240

  Moderate Intelligencer, The (journal), 377

  Mollet, André, 58

  Monckton, Sir Philip, 331

  Montagu, Walter: converts to Catholicism, 37; in court masque, 65; at battle of Bridge of Dee, 86; The Shepherd’s Paradise, 34

  Monteverdi, Claudio, 208

  Montreuil, Jean de, 452

  Montrose, James Graham, 1st Marquess and 5th Earl of: power and offices, 79, 83; subscribes to Covenant, 79–82; background and character, 81, 402; view of monarchy, 82–3, 215; signs letter to Louis XIII, 90; supports Charles, 215; rise of, 300; raises troops for Charles in Scotland, 323, 397; meets Rupert, 337; campaign in Scotland, 397–9, 407, 425; fatalism, 399–400; deserted by followers, 400; escapes to continent, 401–2; captured after Carbisdale and executed, 402; Discourse on Sovereignty, 215

  Montrose, Magdalene, Marchioness of (née Carnegie), 81

  Moore, Roger, 173

  Moray, Mrs (Falkland’s mistress), 255

  More, James, 377

  More, Samuel, 218, 221

  Morrison, Andrew, 268

  Morrison, Edmund, 570

  Morton, Henry, 297

  Motteville, Madame Francoise Langlois de, 84

  Mullan, Edward, 111

  Mullan, Mary, 111

  Murray, David, 544

  Musgrove (Halketts tenant), 445

  muskets, 418–19

  Mynne, George, 410

  Mynschull, Richard, 205

  Nantwich, battle of (1644), 198

  Naseby, battle of (1645): nature of, 209; massacre, 398; Parliamentary victory at, 407; conduct of, 426–30; casualties, 431; effects of, 433

  Nedham, Marchamont, 563

  Neville, Henry, 124, 277

  Neville, Thomas, 1

  Neville, William, 1

  New Model Army: and holy war, 416; recruitment and composition, 417–18; tactics, 419; equipment and provisions, 420; ideology, 420; officers, 421; preachers in, 422, 424; under Fairfax, 423; Naseby victory, 426–31; strength, 426; ordered to relieve Taunton, 438; radicalism and post-war demands, 455–8, 465–8, 485–8, 495; religious devotion, 464–6; occupies London, 467; Levellers and, 468, 484–6; disbandment ordered, 484–5; acts against Parliament, 485–6; petitions for pay, 485; and Ireton’s arguments in Putney debates, 497; mutinies, 499, 501–5; demands trial of Charles, 548–9; see also Agreement of the People, An

  Newark, Nottinghamshire, 326, 452

  Newbridge Crossing, 501

  Newburn, battle of (1640), 97

  Newbury, first battle of (1643), 253–65
; dead, 298

  Newbury, second battle of (1644), 300, 369–72, 530

  Newcastle, Margaret, Countess of, 334

  Newcastle, William Cavendish, Earl (later Marquess and Duke) of: in 1st Bishops’ War, 86; informed of Barthomley massacre, 289; commands Royalist army in north, 296, 326, 328; at Marston Moor, 329–30, 333–5; character, 334–5; flees country, 336; post-battle differences with Rupert, 336; threatens Eastern Association, 375

  Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Scots advance on, 96; Scots capture (October 1644), 283; Charles enters, 452

  Newport, Anne, Lady, 37

  Newport, Isle of Wight: Charles imprisoned in, 546

  newsbooks, 284–5, 360, 408

  newspapers, 207, 283

  Newton, Sir Isaac, 208

  Newton, Thomas, 445

  Nineteen Propositions, 105

  No pamphlet, but a detestation against all such pamphlets…concerning the Irish rebellion, 111

  Norfolk, 326

  North Scale, Lancashire, 336

  Northampton, James Compton, 3rd Earl of, 369

  Northern Army, 96

  Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of, 68, 548

  Northumberland, Dorothy, Countess of (née Devereux), 49–50

  Northumberland, Henry Percy, 9th Earl of, 49–52, 54–5

  Norwich, George Goring, Earl of, 534, 541

  Nottingham: Charles raises standard in, 140–1, 158

  Nottingham, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of, 14

  Nurse, Samuel, 267

  Ochiltree, Lady Margaret, 11

  Oglander, Sir John, 461

  Okey, John, 176, 421, 428–9

  Oldfield, John, 297

  Orell, Henry, 111

  Ormonde, James Butler, 12th Earl and 1st Duke of, 17, 88

  Osney Abbey, 359

  Overton, Mary, 476, 478–80, 483, 506

  Overton, Richard: in prison, 473, 476, 478; as Leveller leader, 477; on Mary’s imprisonment, 479–80; background, 480; on sectarian sermons, 506; The Arraignment of Mr Persecution, 528; Articles of High Treason Exhibited Against Cheap-Side Cross, 480; The Baiting of the Great Bull of Bashan, 480; Martin Mar-Priest, 466

  Overton, Thomas, 476, 478–81, 483

  Owen, Cadwallader, 148

  Owen, Morgan, 196

  Owram, Yorkshire, 297

  Oxford: Harley men attend university, 148–51; Charles withdraws to, 194; Parliamentarian iconoclasm in, 196, 205; Laud dreams of, 211; Atkyns in, 222; Henrietta Maria in, 250–1; conditions as Royalist capital, 266–72, 276–7; money problems, 269; Castle, 270; plague (1643 and 1644), 276; loyal Londoners join Charles in, 282; Royalist decline in, 408; intelligence network in, 410; Fairfax threatens, 425; surrenders (24 June 1646), 442

 

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