Naseby, Battle of 60, 69, 71, 76, 111, 113, 144, 174, 353
Naylor, James (Quaker) 253, 254
Needham, Marchmont 279–80
New England’s Tears for Old England’s Fears 68
New Model Army 13, 67, 71, 74, 77, 90, 91, 92, 95, 96, 101, 113, 114, 128, 129, 187, 216, 233, 235
New Palace Yard 47, 143
Newark Fort, Leicestershire 174
Newbury, Battle of 174
Newcastle Propositions 91–2, 97, 141
Newgate Prison 281, 296, 307, 326, 327, 328, 333, 344
Newport (Isle of Wight) 101, 115, 182
Newport Treaty 224, 271, 272, 276, 289, 305, 330
Northumberland, Earl of 137
Nottingham Castle 64
Nuremberg 15, 362
Nutley, James 14, 220, 302, 309–10, 313
Okey, Colonel John 345, 346, 361
Old Bailey 3, 5, 6, 7, 68, 223, 292, 296, 307, 329, 338, 341, 353, 359
O’Neil, Phelim 61, 227
Ormond, Earl (later Duke) of 91, 115, 128, 131, 189, 227, 228, 251, 290
Overbury, Sir Thomas 23
Owen, Sir John 211, 212, 217
Oxford 10, 85, 133, 289
Oxford University 4
Paine, Tom 360; The Rights of Man 314
Painted Chamber, Westminster 141, 142, 145, 146, 151, 162, 178, 181, 187, 195, 196, 271, 302
Palmer, Sir Geoffrey 129, 291
Parker, Henry 89
Parliament 2, 4, 9, 11, 65; reasons for war against 15; prorogued 27; defiance of the King 35, 61–2; dissolution of 35, 37, 264; Nineteen Propositions 63–4, 141; support for 63; problems facing 66; and the justice system 71–2; determines to smash New Model Army 91; relationship with Army 94; presents four bills to king 102; indictment against Charles 111–12; sits on Christmas Day 135; listens to Dutch intercession 197; decisions concerning the regicides 282–5; Immunity and Oblivion debates 282
Penn, William 290
Penruddock’s rising, 252
Pepys, Sir Richard (Judge in Ireland) 262
Pepys, Samuel 1, 87, 279; at execution of the King 200; and roasting of the Rump 270; dislike of Monck 271; description of Muddiman 280; at execution of Harrison 326; at executions of the regicides 340; sees Cooke’s head on display 341–2; and hanging of Cromwell at Tyburn 344
Percivale, Sir John 240, 282
Peters, Hugh 6, 7, 39, 68, 69, 108, 125, 126, 129, 160, 161–2, 181, 195, 198, 214, 228, 256; trial 288, 291, 297, 300, 321–5; execution 327, 332, 334, 334–5, 337–8, 340, 341, 344
Petition of Right 34, 64, 89
Phayre, Colonel Robert 195, 275, 281, 282
Phelps, John 142, 147, 153, 163, 178, 346
Philip III 29
Pinochet, General Augusto 3, 6, 12, 362
Presbyterians 40, 63, 86, 90, 92, 94, 95, 99, 115, 128, 204, 208, 238, 276
Preston 114, 213
Pride, Colonel Thomas 13, 118, 119, 128, 253, 264, 284, 332
Prideaux, Edward (Attorney General) 224
Pride’s Purge 119, 146, 162, 204, 252, 270, 271, 302, 312, 330, 347
Privy Council 33, 42, 46, 53, 72, 204
Protestants 38, 42, 230, 235, 235–6, 238, 251
Providence Company 46, 53
Prynne, William 54, 86, 94, 112, 164, 253, 283; Women Actresses Notorious Whores 47
Puritans 7, 22, 23, 27, 37, 38, 39–40, 40–1, 42, 63, 69, 77, 99, 114, 203, 208, 233, 245, 264, 288, 354, 360
Putney debates 94, 99–100, 123–4
Pym, John 24, 32, 37, 52, 55, 56, 59, 60, 62, 65, 84, 86, 90, 111, 115, 345
Quakers 208, 264, 265, 266, 288, 290
Rainborough, Thomas 94, 99–100
Ralegh, Carew 28
Ralegh, Sir Walter 24, 28, 150, 170, 188; History of the World 28
Ranters 208
Regicides, bad press received by 1; trial of 2, 288–307; discreditable trial of 3–4; American remembrance of 7
Restoration 238, 273, 275, 285, 288, 343, 346
Riccio, David 22
Richard II 152, 185
Robespierre, Maximilien 360
Rogue (King’s spaniel) 194–5
Rota Club 269, 271, 347
Rugg, John 285
Rump Parliament 13, 119, 163, 164, 204, 217, 245, 246, 247, 264, 265, 265–6, 267, 268, 270–1, 273, 280, 315, 347, 355
Rupert, Prince 64, 65, 67, 68, 85, 117, 128, 130, 189, 205, 227
Rushworth, John 145
Sadler, John 234
Saffron Walden, army rendezvous 96
St Bride’s church 68, 75, 353
St Cross Hospital (Winchester) 223–4, 226, 243
St George’s Chapel, Windsor 202
St John, Oliver 37, 48, 52, 56, 57, 84, 94, 138, 170, 204, 246, 253, 268, 279, 284, 319
St Margaret’s church (Westminster) 345, 353
St Martin’s church, Vevey 346
St Olave’s, Hart Lane 87
St Paul’s 69, 77, 143
St Paul’s churchyard 10, 84
Say, William 153
Schama, Simon 35
Scot, Alderman Thomas, MP 132, 136, 272, 297, 304, 306, 307, 340
Scotland 42, 51–4, 193, 244–5, 248, 268
Scroggs, Judge 353
Scroop, Adrian, MP 283, 297, 304–5, 307, 328, 340
Sealed Knot 252, 264
Sedley, Sir Charles 294
Seldon, John 33
Self-Denying Ordinance (1645) 66
Serjeant’s Inn 291, 316
Shakespeare, William 21, 25, 96, 193
Short Parliament 53
Sibbes, Richard, Dr 30, 31, 69, 80
Sidney, Algernon 139, 354
Smith, Dr 44–5
Solemn League and Covenant 92, 110, 115, 244
Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of 23
Sophia, Electress of Hanover 354
Spain 44, 275
Speeches and Prayers of the Regicides 349–50
Spratt, Mr 221
Sprigge, Rev. Joshua 161
Stalin, Joseph 361
Star Chamber 35, 46–7, 51, 60, 71, 85, 86, 87, 89, 123, 132, 188, 212, 248
Starkey, George 176, 311–13, 316, 320, 322
Starling, Samuel 290
Steele, William 11–12, 142, 144, 202, 211, 214, 224–5, 263, 274
Stokes, Captain of The Hector 232
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of 23, 34, 37, 41, 47, 69, 74, 150, 152, 168, 170, 183, 188, 202; background 41–2; in Ireland 41–3; execution of 44, 57–8, 60, 272; recalled from Ireland 52; and war with Scotland 53; impeachment of 54–7
Strode, William, MP 61, 345
Stuart, Henry 22
Synod of Dort (1619) 41
Taylor, Charles 6, 363
Temple Bar 77
Temple, Sir Purbeck 201
Tench, carpenter 344
Thirty Years War 115, 230
Thomason, George 71
Thomason tracts 4
Thorpe, Judge 117, 220–1
Thurles, Viscountess 251
Thurloe, secretary to Cromwell 249, 252, 261, 264
Tomlinson, Col. Matthew 153, 198, 275, 282
Tower Hill 57
Tower of London 36, 55, 63, 65, 147, 152–3, 195, 218, 272, 278, 280, 286, 288, 293, 296, 300
Treason Act (1351) 54, 202
Treaty of Westphalia (1648) 14–15, 115
Trevelyan, G.M. 355
Trial of Charles I, literature on 2; Tory and Whig writers on 2; as discreditable affair 3; as just and fair 3; as precedent of modern trials 3; justification for 12; as momentous event 13, 14–15; evidentiary sessions 18, 173–6; demands for 123–30; precedents for 123; preparations for 130–4, 136–50; members of the court 142–4; security and choreography of 145–7; opening session 152–62; and incident of silver-topped cane 154–5, 311; and legitimacy of the court 155–9, 162–3, 164–8, 172; post-mortem on first session 162–4; Scots petition 162; second session 162–8; and curbing of king’s powers 169; speedy justice demanded 169–71; third session
169–73; and hearing of evidence 173; and sentence of conviction and death 177–80; king’s reply before sentencing 180–1; adjournment of 181–3; conduct of 187–90, 202–3; weakness of king’s case 190; sentencing of the king 1837
Trigg, Dr William 50, 88, 106, 107
Turks Head coffee house 269
Turner, Sir Edward 291
Twisden, Thomas 289
Tyburn 341, 344
University of Padua 44
US Constitution 87
van Dyck, Antony 4
Vane, Sir Henry Snr 7, 39, 53
Vane, Sir Henry Jnr 53, 56–7, 68, 94, 204, 261, 266, 284, 347–9, 353
Vaughan, John 129
Vernon, Justice 49
Vote of No Addresses 111, 114
Wadham College (Oxford) 27–8, 142, 255, 285
Wadham, Nicholas 27
Walbank, Matthew (bookseller) 84, 85
Waller, Sir Hardress 275, 297–8
Wallop, Sir Henry 236
Walwyn, William 77; England’s Lamentable Slavery 77
War of American Independence 15
Waterford 233, 235, 238, 273, 275
Wedgwood, Dame Veronica, The Trial of Charles I 2
The Weeping Onion 210
Westminster Abbey 143, 202, 262, 341
Westminster Hall 5, 6, 11, 37, 55, 56, 72, 75, 82, 84, 146, 175, 177, 188, 234, 286, 311, 329, 341, 342, 349
Wexford 229
Whaley, Colonel 346
Wharton, Sir George 209, 344
Whitchcott, Sir Jeremy 321, 322
Whitehall 118, 340, 358
Whitelocke, Bulstrode 9, 82, 84, 117, 129, 133–4, 138, 177, 204, 216, 229, 246, 253, 266, 284, 319
Whorwell, Jane 201
Widdrington, Thomas 117, 133–4, 138, 204, 246
Wilde, Sir William 292–3, 302
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 361
Wilson, Derek 359
Winceby, Battle of 65
Windmill Tavern 248
Windsor Castle 113, 130, 202, 203, 302
Winslow, Edward 69
Winstanley, Gerald 106, 208
Winthrop, John 39
Worcester 246, 289
Wyndham, William 289, 291, 318
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