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Authors: Peter Ackroyd
Dutch Republic: in Triple Alliance (1668); provokes near war with England (1623); defensive league with England; treaty with England (1625); alliance with France; attacks Spanish fleet (1639); as trade rival; war with England (1665–7); defensive treaty with France (1666); peace negotiations; raid into England (1667); Anglo-French secret treaty against; French and English war with (1672–4); merchant vessels elude English navy; French successes against; and marriage of Princess Mary and William; Louis XIV makes peace with
Earle, John
Earle, Sir Walter
East India Company: rivalry with Dutch; trade with Russia
eastern association
Edgehill, battle of (1642)
Edinburgh: Charles I visits (1633); (1641); James I visits (1617); Charles I’s religious orders defied; draws up national covenant; parliament meets (1640); supposed conspiracy (’the incident’);
see also
Scotland
Edward III, King
Edwards, Thomas:
Gangraena
elections (parliamentary): (1639); (1640); (1659); (1679); (1688);
see also
Commons, House of; Parliament
Eliot, Sir John: on failure of 1621 parliament; on impeachment of earl of Middlesex; on death of James I; criticizes Charles I in parliament; criticizes Buckingham; taken to Tower and released; speechmaking and oratory; on power of bishops; imprisoned; death
Eliot, T. S.
Elizabeth, Princess (Charles I’s daughter)
Elizabeth, Princess (
later
queen of Bohemia)
Elizabeth I, Queen: death and succession
Ellesmere, Sir Thomas Egerton, baron
England: economic problems; prosperity and trade; population increases; social divisions; Dutch trade rivalry; troops conscripted for European service; war with Spain (1625); peace with France (1629); harvest failure (1630) and food riots; secret treaty with Spain (1634); and beginnings of war against Scots; labourers and craftsmen pressed into Charles I’s military service; harvest failures (1646–51); commonwealth proclaimed; post-civil-war condition; foreign relations under commonwealth; Cromwell divides into eleven districts; Spain declares war on (1655); power and administration under Charles II; war with Dutch (1665–7); war with France (1666–7); proliferation of Christian sects; war with Dutch (1672); peace with Dutch (1674); economic and social improvements following second Dutch war; industrial development; standing army under James II
Essex, Arthur Capel, 1st earl of
Essex, Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of: marriage to and divorce from Frances Howard; dismissed by Charles I; as member of committee for petitions; as privy councillor; as lord chamberlain; commands parliamentary army; proposes truce offer to Charles I and deciding battle; relieves Gloucester; advances on Oxford; in committee of both kingdoms; favours accommodation with Charles I; criticized; laments Laud’s death; removed from military command
‘etcetera oath, the’
Etherege, Sir George:
She Wou’d if She Cou’d
Eure, Margaret
Evelyn, John: on Charles I’s return from negotiations with Scots; on apparition; attends Anglican service; on women’s behaviour; on Cromwell’s funeral; on Richard Cromwell’s dissolving parliament; witnesses return of Charles II; on changes under Charles II; on Charles II’s gambling; on Great Fire of London; disparages Charles II’s entourage; on battle of Sole Bay; on duke of York’s Catholicism; on Rye House plot; on dissoluteness of Charles II’s court; on James II’s summary acts; on impending invasion by William of Orange
Everard, William
excise (tax): introduced
Exclusion Bills (1679); (1681)
Fairfax, Sir Ferdinando
Fairfax, Sir Thomas: commands New Model Army; besieges and captures Bristol; greets Charles I; petition of complaint from army; in army’s march on London; in second civil war; besieges Colchester; and trial of Charles I; opposes Lilburne; refuses to invade Scotland
Fanshawe, Anne, Lady (
née
Harrison)
Fanshawe, Sir Richard
Farmer, Anthony
farming
see
agriculture
Farnham Castle
Fauconberg, Mary, countess (
née
Cromwell; Oliver’s daughter)
Fauconberg, Thomas, earl
Fawkes, Guy
Feake, Christopher
Felton, John
fens: drained
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (
earlier
archduke)
Fifth Monarchy men
Finch, Heneage
Finch, Sir John
five knights case
fleet (English): failed attack on Cadiz; sails against France (1627); rebuilt and sails (1635); supports parliament; dominance; strengthened under Charles II; parliament money to (1675); Pepys develops for James II
Fleetwood, Major-General Charles
food and drink: under Charles II
Fox, George
Foxe, John:
Acts and Monuments
France: demands liberties for English Catholics; as prospective ally against Spain; Protestants under threat; expedition against (1627); peace with England (1629); alliance with Dutch; rumoured potential invasion by; payments to Charles II; Cromwell makes treaty with (1655); relations with England under Charles II; Dunkirk sold to; occupies St Kitts; war with England (1666–7); Triple Alliance against; Charles II forms anti-Dutch alliance with; war on Dutch (1672); fleet inactive at battle of the Texel; successes against United Provinces;
see also
Louis XIV, king of France
Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate (
later
king of Bohemia)
Fuller, Thomas
furniture
Galileo Galilei
Gataker, Thomas
gentry: rise under James I; authority
Gerard, Father John, SJ
Glanville, John
Glorious Revolution (1688)
Gloucester: in civil war
Goaden
v.
Hales
(lawsuit)
Godfrey, Sir Edmund Berry
Gondomar, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, count of
Goodwin, Thomas
Gramont, comte de
‘Grand Remonstrance’
Great Britain: as title;
see also
England
Green Ribbon Club
Grenville, Sir John
Gresham College, London
Grimstone, Harbottle
Grosseteste, Robert, bishop of Lincoln
Gunpowder Plot (1605)
Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden
Gwyn, Nell
Habeas Corpus Act (1679); James II wishes to repeal
Habsburg family: and Bohemia
hackney carriages
Halifax, George Savile, 1st marquess of
Hall, Joseph:
Characters of Virtues and Vices
Hallam, Henry
Halley, Edmund
Hamilton, James, 1st duke of
Hamilton, James, 2nd marquess of
Hammond, Colonel Robert
Hampden, John: imprisoned; tried before court of exchequer; supports Scots against Charles I; supports Providence Island Company; Strafford threatens; impeachment charges against; and Cromwell’s low estimate of parliamentary army; dies of wounds
Hampton Court: conference (1604); Charles I at
Harington, Sir John: on Hampton Court debate; on court behaviour; Suffolk advises on gaining favour at court; appointed tutor to Prince Henry
Harley, Lady Brilliana
Harrington, James:
Oceana
Harrison, Sir John
Haselrig, Sir Arthur
Hastings, Henry
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
Heads of the Proposals
hearth tax (1662)
Henri IV, king of France: assassinated
Henrietta Anne, Princess, duchess of Orléans
Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I: betrothal; marriage; Catholicism; marriage relations; declines to attend coronation; French attendants sent home; poverty; birth of son Charles; in masques and theatrical pieces; offended by Prynne; on Scottish service book; supports husband; defies parliamentary control of court and council; threatened with impeachment; leaves for Holland (1642); sends arms from Holland; returns from exile in war; exile abroad; mediates between Charles II and Louis XIV
Henry, Philip
Henry, Prince (Charles I’s son)
Henry, prince of Wales: tutored by Harington; character; betrothal to Maria Anna; death
Herbert, Sir Edward
Heylyn, Peter
Heyman, Sir Peter
Hobbes, Thomas: on death of Laud; career; and political theory;
Leviathan
Holborne, Sir Robert
Holland, Henry Rich, 1st earl of
Holland: Henrietta Maria travels to;
see also
Dutch Republic
Hollar, Wenceslaus
Holles, Denzil; impeachment charges against
Holmby House, Northamptonshire
Holt, Wiltshire
Holy Roman Empire: in Thirty Years War
honours: sale under James I
Hooke, Robert
Hopkins, Sir William
Hopton, Sir Ralph
Hotham, Sir John, as governor of Hull
Hough, John, bishop of Worcester
Houghton, John:
Collection of Letters for the Improvement of Husbandry and Trade
Hounslow Heath
Howard family: oppose Buckingham
Howe, John Grubham
Hudlestone, John
Huguenots;
see also
Protestantism
Hull: military arsenal; Charles I denied entry
Hunt, Leigh
Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, 5th earl of
Hurst Castle, Hampshire
Hutchinson, George
Hutchinson, Colonel John
Hutchinson, Lucy (
née
Apsley);
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
hygiene: Pepys and
‘incident, the’
Independents (sect)
‘Instrument of Government’ (Lambert’s)
intelligencers (busy-bodies)
Ireland: Strafford (Wentworth) in; rebellion (1641); social structure and land ownership; English forces sent to; New Model Army destined for; Charles I seeks to raise army in; Cromwell deputed to subdue; Cromwell travels to and suppresses; Act of Settlement (1652); ordinance incorporating into commonwealth
Ireton, Sir Henry
Ironsides
Jaffray, Alexander
Jamaica
James, Henry
James I, king of England (James VI of Scotland): accession to English throne; journey from Edinburgh to London; appearance and manner; creates new knights; coronation; plot against; personal retinue and court; clerical and religious discussions; learning; relations with Parliament; honoured and praised; hunting; informed of Gunpowder Plot; court laxity and excesses; behaviour; favourites; extravagance and debts; view of law; financial situation; and royal power; joins Protestant Union; sells honours and titles; progress to Newark (1612); and Somerset’s self-pardon; health declines; rebukes judges; progress to Edinburgh (1617); and Bohemian crisis; progress (1620); and parliament’s petitions against Catholics and Spain; Mytens portrait; loses popular support; fears treason; thrown from horse and falls through ice; and son Charles’s visit to Spain with Buckingham; near-war with Dutch (1623); and prospective war with Spain; final letter to Buckingham; death; called ‘the wisest fool in Christendom’; attends and finances masques; religious views; distributes land in Ireland;
Basilikon Doron
;
Declaration of Sports
James II, king (
earlier
James, duke of York): marriage to Anne Hyde; Catholicism; sea victory over Dutch; assists in Great Fire of London; retires from public life; marriage to Mary of Modena; Charles II tells of French subsidies; and rumoured plot against Charles II; Shaftesbury opposes as successor to Charles II; refuses to return to Anglicanism and takes exile in Spanish Netherlands; in exclusion crisis; Charles II’s low opinion of; contends for throne; regains powers; character and qualities; succeeds to throne; maintains standing army; appoints Catholic officers to army and navy; relations with Louis XIV; tensions with parliament; declaration of indulgence order; and William of Orange’s invasion; opposes William of Orange; flees, apprehended and returned to London; allowed to escape abroad; exile in France