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Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

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by Peter Ackroyd


  Scottish Church see Church of Scotland

  Scroggs, William

  Scrope, Philadelphia, Lady (née Carey)

  Sealed Knot (royalist conspiratorial group)

  Sedgemoor, battle of (1685)

  Sedley, Sir Charles

  self-denying ordinance

  Seller, Abednego: The History of Passive Obedience

  sermons; published

  seven bishops: consigned to Tower and acquitted

  Sexby, Edward

  Seymour, Sir Francis

  Seymour, William

  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of: Charles II attacks; as senior councillor; as controversial figure; supports royal prerogative; on duke of York’s undependability; dismissed by Charles II; opposes Danby; urges dissolution of Cavalier Parliament; followers; objects to long suspension of parliament; sent to Tower; as champion of Protestantism; proposes dismissal of duke of York from king’s council; on election of ‘courtiers’ to parliament; appointed lord president; on Charles II’s proroguing parliament (1679); opposes James II’s accession, 4435; presents Charles II with petition for sitting of parliament; attempts prosecution of duke of York and Duchess of Portsmouth; takes refuge and dies in Holland; ‘Letter from a Person of Quality’

  Shakespeare, William; The Tempest; The Winter’s Tale

  Sharp, James, archbishop of St Andrews

  Sheffield: poverty

  Sheldon, Gilbert, archbishop of Canterbury

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe

  Sherland, Anthony

  ship-money (tax)

  Shirley, James

  ‘Short Parliament’, see under Parliament

  Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, 12th earl (later duke) of

  Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, 7th earl of

  Sidney, Algernon

  silver: minted in England for Antwerp

  Sindercombe, Miles

  slaves: in Pepys’s London

  Slingsby, Sir Henry

  soap: manufacturing monopoly

  Sole Bay, battle of (1672)

  solemn league and covenant; burned

  Somerset, Frances Howard, countess of (earlier countess of Essex)

  Somerset, Robert Carr, 1st earl of (earlier viscount Rochester): as James I’s favourite; Prince Henry disparages; infatuation with and marriage to Frances Howard; and Overbury murder; breach with James I; as lord chamberlain; draws up self-pardon; trial

  Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of

  Spain: peace with England; marriage arrangements for Charles I; Raleigh attacks on Orinoco; and Bohemian crisis; popular hostility to; Prince Charles visits with Buckingham; prospective war with; war with England (1625); secret treaty with England (1634); fleet in English Channel (1639); Cromwell considers alliance with; declares war on England (1655); defeated at battle of the dunes (1658)

  sports: controlled under James I

  Spottiswoode, John, archbishop of St Andrews

  Sprat, Thomas

  stagecoaches

  Stamford, Henry Grey, 1st earl of

  Star Chamber; abolished

  Stewart, Frances

  ‘stillborn parliament’, see under Parliament

  ‘stop, the’

  Stourbridge Fair

  Strafford, Sir Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of: opposes illegal imprisonment; titles; as lord president of north and lord deputy of Ireland; and ‘Thorough’ (regime); letters from Laud; and Scottish defiance; returns from Ireland to advise Charles I; unpopularity; and invading Scots army (1640); Commons issue grievances against; joins Charles in London; threatens Pym and Hampden; accused of high treason; trial; Bill of Attainder against; demands for death; executed

  Strode, William

  Stuart, Lady Arabella

  Stuart dynasty: ends (1688)

  Stukeley, William

  Suckling, Sir John

  Suffolk, Thomas Howard, 1st earl of

  Sweden: England proposes holy crusade against Catholic powers; under Gustavus Adolphus; in Triple Alliance (1668)

  syphilis: spread from Naples

  Tate, Zouch

  taxation: under James I; under Charles I; after Charles I’s death; under Cromwell; under Charles II; see also excise; ship-money; tonnage and poundage

  tea

  Temple, Sir William; Memoirs

  ‘ten propositions’

  Tenby Castle

  Tenison, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury

  Test Acts: (1673); (1678); James II seeks to repeal

  Texel, battle of the (1673)

  Tey, John

  Teynham, Sir John Roper, baron

  Thames, river: ‘water-pillar’ (1626)

  theatre: in James I’s reign; in Restoration

  Thirty Years War (1618–48): beginnings; Catholic advances; Gustavus Adolphus enters

  Thirty-Nine Articles (Church of England)

  Thoresby, Ralph

  ‘Thorough’ (principles)

  Thurloe, John

  ‘Tom-Tell-Truth’ (writer)

  Tomkins, Thomas

  tonnage and poundage (tax)

  Tory: as term

  trained bands: raised (1642)

  Tresham, Francis

  Trevor, Sir John

  Triennial Act (1640)

  Triple Alliance (England–Dutch Republic–Sweden, 1668)

  Tuke, Sir Samuel

  Turner, Anne (née Norton)

  Turnham Green

  Twysden, Sir Roger

  United Provinces see Dutch Republic

  Uxbridge: peace negotiations (1645)

  Van Dyck, Sir Anthony: portrays Charles I; portrays Wentworth (Strafford); portrait of Laud

  Vane, Sir Henry

  Venables, General Robert

  Venn, John

  Verney, Sir Edmund

  Verney, Sir Ralph

  Villiers, George see Buckingham, 1st duke of; Buckingham, 2nd duke of

  Viner, Sir Robert

  Wakeman, Sir George

  Wales: revival of civil war

  Waller, Edmund

  Waller, Sir William

  Wallington, Nehemiah

  Walpole, Horace

  Walters, Lucy

  Walton, Valentine

  Warton, Philip, 4th baron

  Warwick, Sir Philip; Memoirs of the Reign of Charles I

  Warwick, Robert Rich, 2nd earl of

  Waterford, Ireland

  Watkins, Daniel

  Webster, John: The Duchess of Malfi

  Weldon, Sir Anthony

  Wentworth, Thomas

  West Indies: Cromwell’s venture in; parts conceded to France (1667)

  Westminster Assembly

  Weston, Richard see Portland, 1st earl of

  Wexford, Ireland

  Wharton, Philip

  Wharton, Thomas

  Whigs: as term; oppose James II’s rights to succession; support Shaftesbury; and Rye House Plot

  White Mountain, battle of (1620)

  Whitehall, Palace of; Banqueting House; Charles II occupies

  Whitelocke, Bulstrode: on beginnings of civil war; on Cromwell; on starvation in Cumberland; advises Cromwell against becoming king

  Whitgift, John, archbishop of Canterbury

  Wight, Isle of: Charles I in

  Wightman, Edward

  William, Prince of Orange (later King William III): marriage to Princess Mary; and Charles II’s proroguing of parliament (1680); Calvinism; observes situation in England during James II’s reign; invited to invade England; lands in England and advances on London; guards take up London posts

  Williams, John, bishop of Lincoln

  Willis, Dr Thomas

  Wilson, Arthur

  Wilson, Jackie (singer)

  Windebank, Sir Francis

  Windsor Castle: Charles I in

  Winter (or Wintour), Thomas

  witch trials

  women: delegation demands peace in civil war; role in civil war; maltreated at Naseby; use of cosmetics under commonwealth

 
Wood, Anthony

  Woodford, Robert

  Worcester: battle of (1642); Charles I escapes to from Oxford

  Wren, Sir Christopher: on Prynne; in Royal Society

  Wren, Matthew, bishop of Ely

  Wycherley, William: The Country Wife

  York: Charles I raises forces at (1639); great council of peers meet at (1640); Charles I travels to (1642); support for Charles I; royalists capture; besieged and surrenders (1644)

  York, Anne, duchess of (née Hyde)

  York, James, duke of see James II, king

  Also by Peter Ackroyd

  Fiction

  The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

  The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

  The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

  Chatterton

  First Light

  English Music

  Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

  Milton in America

  The Plato Papers

  The Clerkenwell Tales

  The Lambs of London

  The Fall of Troy

  The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

  The Death of King Arthur

  Nonfiction

  The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures

  (edited by Thomas Wright)

  London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

  Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession

  London: The Biography

  Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

  Thames: Sacred River

  Venice: Pure City

  T. S. Eliot

  Dickens

  Blake

  The Life of Thomas More

  Shakespeare

  Chaucer

  J. M. W. Turner

  Newton

  Poe: A Life Cut Short

  Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

  Tudors: The History of England from

  Henry VIII to Elizabeth I

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  First published in Great Britain under the title Civil War by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

  First U.S. Edition: October 2014

  eISBN 9781466855991

  First eBook edition: September 2014

 

 

 


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