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Spadafora, David, The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth Century Britain (Yale 1990)
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Ayling, Stanley, The Elder Pitt (Collins 1976)
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Bailyn, Bernard, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (Harvard UP 1974)
Bailyn, Bernard, Voyagers to the West. A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (Random House 1988)
Bayly, C. A., Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870 (CUP 1997)
Bayly, C. A., Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780–1830 (Longman 1989)
Bayly, C. A., Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770–1870 (CUP 1983)
Bayly, C.A. et al. (eds.), The Raj: India and the British, 1600–1947 (Nat. Portrait Gallery 1990)
Bayly, Susan, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age (CUP 1999)
Beckles, Hilary, A History of Barbados (CUP 1990)
Blackburn, Robin, The Making of New World Slavery. From the Baroque to the Modern 1492–1800 (Verso, 1997)
Butler, Jon, Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776 (Harvard UP 2000)
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Cohn, Bernard S., Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge. The British in India (Princeton 1996)
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INDEX
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Abbey Dore 67–9
Abbot, George 35, 84
Abel, John 68
Abercromby, General 358
Aberdeen, sack of 125
Adam, Robert 315–16
Adams, John 369, 374, 378, 384
Adams, Sam 368, 370, 374, 378–9 passim, 382, 383
Addison, Richard 285, 293
‘Agreement of the People’ 135, 151, 154–5
agriculture 292–3, 312
Ahmed Shah Durrani 404
Aislabie, John 288
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of 346, 397
Akbar I 395, 421
Alfred the Great 64, 317, 319–20 passim, 322
Aliens Act 274
Alivardi Khan, nawab of Bengal 397, 400
America, North 31, 72, 83, 191, 262, 313, 325–28, 346, 348–3 passim, 354–60, 366–86, 387–8, 405, 413
Declaration of Independence 362, 385
Indians 350–1, 356, 357, 360, 366
New England 83, 191, 245, 349, 352, 366–8, 385 see also Boston
Ohio country 351–3, 355
and taxation
366–75, 380, 381, 387
War of Independence 473–7, 480
Amherst, Gen. Jeffrey 357–60 passim, 361
Andrewes, Lancelot 35, 55, 67
Andros, Sir Edmund 245
Anne of Denmark 25, 36, 37
Anne, Princess 232–3, 247, 258
Queen 274, 282, 321
Antigua 324, 341, 342
Arcot, siege of 399
Arlington, Lord 233, 234
Arminius, Jacob 56
army 77, 85–7, 123–4, 126–7, 129–32, 133–4, 148–9, 151–2, 154–5, 180, 181, 201–2, 253, 255, 258, 261, 277, 313, 323, 366
Arne, Thomas 317, 319–20, 323
Ashley Cooper, Anthony, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury 185–6, 188, 201, 233, 236–46 passim, 252
Astley, Sir Jacob 112, 127
Aston, Sir Arthur 167, 169
Aubrey, John 17, 142, 143, 144
Audley End 39, 41
Augusta, Princess 363
Aurangzeb I 395, 396
Bacon, Francis 19, 28, 41, 50, 63, 321
Baillie, Robert 89
Baksar, battle of 404
Balfour, Sir William 112
Banqueting House, Whitehall 33, 138
Barbados 331–4, 341–4 passim, 346, 363
Barbon, Praisegod 185
Barré, Isaac 370
Barwell, Richard 409
Basing House 16, 128
Bastwick, John 80, 81, 87
Baxter, Richard 334
Becher, Richard 406
Beckford, William 301, 344, 348
Bedford, Earl of 66, 83, 87, 92
Benburb, battle of 124, 126
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo 225, 228
Berwick-on-Tweed, Pacification of 77–8
Bible 35
Bill of Rights 59, 323, 381, 385
bishops 25, 29, 35, 45, 71–2 passim, 73, 74, 75, 84, 88, 94, 150, 211–12, 255 see also individual entries
Blair, Robert 72, 73
Blake, Admiral 178
Bludworth, Sir Thomas 217, 218
Bohemia 48, 49
Bolton, massacre 16
Bonaparte, Napoleon 420
Booth, Col. George 202
Boscawen, Admiral 356
Boston 368–9, 371–4, 376–9
Boulton, Matthew 314
Boyle, Robert 192, 215
Boyne, battle of the 253, 264
Braddock, General 353–4, 356, 357
Bradshaw, John 137, 138, 159, 176, 208, 210
Brampton Bryan 108–9, 118–19
Brazil 330, 331
Breadalbane, Earl of 266, 267
Breda, Declaration of 210
Bristol 117, 128, 344
Britain 13, 18, 21, 22, 120, 139, 263, 264, 275, 276, 277
Empire 268, 313, 324–422 passim
Broghill, Lord 192, 203
Brooke, Lord 77, 82, 83, 87, 88, 94, 111, 113
Buchanan, George 24, 25, 36
Buckeridge, John 55
Buckingham see Villiers
Burke, Edmund 386, 388, 391, 406, 412–13 passim
Burton, Dr Henry 80, 81, 87
Bute, Lord 363, 366
Byng, Admiral 356
Calvinists 22–5, 35, 36, 45, 56, 69–73 passim, 74, 85, 89, 93, 157, 211
Camden, William 13, 18, 21, 22, 31, 49
Cameron of Lochiel 303–4
Campbell, Archibald, 8th Earl of Argyll 95, 125, 126, 129, 173
Florence 16
John, 4th Earl of Loudoun 355, 356
Canada 346, 349, 350, 354, 355–7, 359–61, 362, 366, 379
Quebec Act 379
Capel, Lord Arthur 152
Carew, Sir Alexander 104, 116
Caribbean 83, 194, 231, 325, 332–3, 340, 343–4, 345, 348–9, 359, 363
Carleton, Sir Dudley 82
Carr, Robert 42, 43–5
Carteret, Sir George 214
Carteret, John 289, 318, 347
Castlemaine, Lady 213
Catesby, Robert 36–7
Catherine of Braganza 221, 232, 393
Catholics 33, 35–7 passim, 49, 55, 230–1, 232–42 passim, 247, 248–9, 250–2, 323
Cecil, Robert 27, 36, 37, 40, 41, 63
Chalgrove Field, battle of 119
Chanda Sahib 398, 399
Charles I 15, 18, 41, 49–140, 230, 323
and civil war 109–29
Eikon Basilike 145–7 passim
family 64–5, 136
ideology 64–5, 94–5, 135–6, 139–40
and parliament 53–7, 59–62, 79, 85–8, 99–102, 109–29, 135–8, 146–7, 177
and Scotland 71–3, 85, 86, 95, 127, 129, 134
trial 136–8
Charles II 109–10, 135–6, 143, 144, 148, 165, 172–5, 202, 206–48, 249, 250, 333
and Catholicism 233, 246
court 213, 232, 246
Charles Edward Stuart 173, 302–12 passim, 315
Charnock, Job 401
Chesterfield, Earl of 289, 296
Chidley, Katherine 153
Child, Josiah 393, 395–7 passim
China 422
chocolate 328
Church of England 34–5, 66–7, 68–9, 145, 211–12, 231, 235, 243, 249, 251, 281
Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough 253, 259, 321
Clarendon see Hyde
Clarkson, Laurence 157
Clavering, Lt-Gen. John 409
Clifford, Thomas 233, 234
Clinton, Gen. Sir Henry 387–8
Clinton, Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln 57
Clive, Robert 346, 356, 359, 398–9, 402–8 passim, 422
Clotworthy, Sir John 90
clubs 237, 280, 293
Cobham see Temple
Codrington, Christopher 344
coffee 328; -houses 237, 280, 293
Coke, Sir Edward 26, 27
Coleman, Edward 240
Commonwealth 141–88, 202–5, 242
Compton, Bishop Henry 251
constables 65, 86, 195
Cook, James 323
Cook, John 137
Cope, Lt-Gen. Sir John 304, 305
Coram, Thomas 298–9
Foundling Hospital 299–300
Cornwallis, Earl 385–8 passim, 391, 413–17 passim
Coryton, William 57, 58, 104
Council of Officers 185, 187
Council of State 187–8, 190, 193
Covenant, National 74–5, 134, 172
Covenanters 23, 75–6, 79, 82, 84–6 passim, 95, 119, 124–6, 134, 173
Cowper, William 334
Craig, James 315
Cranfield, Lionel 48, 52, 63
Croke, Judge George 81
Cromwell, Henry 192, 202
Oliver 89, 119–24 passim, 127–8, 130, 134–7, 138, 140, 146, 147, 149–52 passim, 155, 160–99, 204, 208, 210, 230, 231, 242, 250, 322, 333
as general 164
ideology 122–4
and Ireland 165–72
and kingship 180–1, 188, 197
as Lord Protector 187, 188–98
and parliament 165, 178–86
and Scotland 173–4
Richard 193, 201, 202
Culloden, battle of 309–10, 311
Cumberland, Duke of 307–10 passim, 353
Curzon, Nathaniel, 1st Baron Scarsdale 315
Dalrymple, John, Master of Stair 267
Danby, Lord 235–7, 240, 242, 245, 247, 249, 253, 257, 258
Darien expedition 269–75, 313
Davies, Sir John 32
Dawes, William 382
Debt, National 277, 287
Declaration of Rights 261
Declarations of Indulgence 212, 231, 234–5, 252, 255, 257, 258
Defoe, Daniel 216, 270, 274, 275, 283, 297, 313, 334
Dekker, Thomas 19–22 passim
Dering, Sir Edward 99
Derwentwater, Earl of 284
De Witt brothers 234, 256, 257
Dickinson, John 384
Dickson, David 72, 73
Digby, Sir Everard 36
Digby, Lord George 100, 101
‘Diggers’ 155
Dinwiddie, Robert 351
Dissenters see Nonconformists
Dorchester 46–7, 48, 66, 80, 83, 117, 118
Dover, Treaty of 234, 254
Downes, John 138
Drax, James 332
Drogheda, siege of 166–9
Dryden, John 201, 213
Dugdale, William 68, 94, 223
Dunbar, battle of 173, 204
Dundas, Henry 413
Dupleix, Marquis de 397, 398, 399
Dutch Republic see Holland
East India Company 270, 328, 346, 356, 359, 375, 376, 388, 389–411 passim, 416, 418, 419, 422
Eastern Association 115, 122, 151
Edgehill, battle of 110–16 passim
Edinburgh 315
elections 57, 82, 212, 242, 246, 258, 261, 278–81 passim, 290
Elector Frederick 42, 48, 49
Eliot, Sir John 58., 60, 62, 79, 104
Elizabeth I 19, 24, 38, 39, 40, 49, 50, 52, 53, 138, 178, 243, 321, 322, 375
Elizabeth, Princess 37, 42, 48
Ellesmere, Lord 41
Equiano, Olaudah 335–6, 338, 339, 358, 362, 363
Essex, Earl of 42, 83, 87, 100, 109, 110, 111–14, 120–3 passim, 151, 164
Evangelicals 34, 36
Evelyn, John 175–7 passim, 197, 203, 207, 208, 213, 215, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 225, 227, 231, 241, 246
Exclusion crisis 238, 242–4, 247, 249
Fagel, Gaspar 257
Fairfax, Sir Thomas 121, 124, 127, 131, 132, 136–7, 150, 155, 165, 173, 198, 206
Falkirk, battle of 308
Falkland, Lord 84, 88, 91, 99, 104, 110, 143
Fawkes, Guido 36–7, 240
Feake, Christopher 185–7 passim, 203
Felton, John 59
Fens, drainage of 66
Fergus, King of Scotland 73
Ferguson, Adam 315
Fielding, Henry 295
Fifth Monarchists 148, 157, 186, 203, 211
Filmer, Sir Robert 242, 244
Finch, Sir John 60, 87, 94, 101
Fleetwood, Charles 171, 193, 197, 201, 204
Fletcher, Andrew 270, 275
Fortescue, Sir Faithful 112
Fowey, battle of 121–2
Fox, Charles James 388
Fox, George 158–9, 161, 196, 203, 334
France/French 55, 56, 79, 233, 234, 251, 253, 254, 256, 273, 283, 284, 306, 308–9
Empire 345–7 passim, 348–52, 385–6, 387, 388, 397
war with 253, 273–4, 322, 353, 355–63, 398, 399, 418–19
franchise 149, 185
Francis, Philip 409
Franklin, Benjamin 349–50, 352, 353, 362, 366, 372–3, 375, 381
Fraser, Simon, 12th Baron Lovat 311
Frederick, Prince of Wales 317, 318–19, 348
