Read Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution Online
Authors: Peter Ackroyd
Jeffreys, George, 1st baron (Judge)
Jesuits: banished (1604); and Gunpowder Plot; parliament denounces; rumoured Popish Plot against Charles II
Johnson, Robert
Jones, Inigo
Jonson, Ben: writes plays on ambition and corruption; on Salisbury; masques;
Bartholomew Fair
;
Love Restored
;
News from the New World
;
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
;
Sejanus
Joyce, Cornet
judges: loyalties in civil war
Junto, the (puritan)
justices of the peace
Juxon, Thomas
Juxon, William, bishop of London
Ketch, Jack
Keymis, Lawrence
Keynes, John Maynard
Kid’s Coffee House (the Amsterdam)
Kilfenny Castle, Limerick
Killigrew, Thomas
King’s Players, the (theatre company)
Kirk
see
Church of Scotland
Kirkby, Christopher
Knatchbull, John
Knight (Oxford preacher)
Knox, John
Knyvett, Sir Thomas
La Rochelle, France
Lambe, Dr John
Lambert, General John
land: ownership under Charles II
Langport (near Bristol), battle of (1645)
Latitudinarianism (‘Latitude men’)
Laud, William, archbishop of Canterbury (
earlier
bishop of St David’s): administers coronation oath to Charles I; supports Arminians; supports Charles I; on Church’s authority; ‘Declaration on the Articles of Religion’; appointed chancellor of Oxford University; opposition to; preaches on sixth anniversary of Charles I’s accession; and ‘Thorough’ (regime); character and appearance; in Edinburgh; Van Dyck portrait; reforms Church rites and doctrines; puritan reaction to; on Scottish defiance; Pym criticizes; and Charles I’s calling great council of peers; impeached and imprisoned; at Strafford’s execution; executed
Lauder, Sir John
Lauderdale, John Maitland, 1st duke (
earlier
2nd earl) of
learning: Bacon on
Leeds: captured by royalists
Legate, Matthew
Leicester, Robert Sidney, 2nd earl of
Leicester: Charles I storms
Leighton, Alexander
Lenthall, William
Leslie, Alexander (
later
1st earl of Leven)
Leslie, David (
later
baron Newark)
L’Estrange, Roger
levellers
Licensing Act (1662)
Lilburne, John
‘Lillibulero’ (song)
‘Little Parliament’,
see under
Parliament
local government: under Charles I; gentry and
Locke, John
London: plague (1603); James I rides in state through (1604); Tower’s defences strengthened; described by contemporary writers; hackney carriages; City ordered to lend £200,000 to Charles I; petitions parliament for church reformation; Suckling’s party attempts to breach; Charles I’s procession in (1641); common court elections (1641); civil disorder; Charles loses loyalty; stands against royalist forces; defences erected in civil war; royalist supports in; merchants; mob intimidates parliament; New Model Army marches on; dress and fashion; houses and furniture; Pepys on life in; Great Plague (1665); Great Fire (1666); ‘bawdy house riots’ (1668); Charles II investigates City Charter and privileges; James II returns Charter;
see also
Whitehall
London Gazette
Londonderry
‘London’s Defiance to Rome’ (pamphlet)
‘Long Parliament’,
see under
Parliament
Lord of Misrule (custom)
Lords, House of: Charles I defends Buckingham in; bishops in; differences with Commons;
see also
Parliament
Louis XIII, king of France: as possible ally against Spain; dislikes Buckingham; and expulsion of Henrietta Maria’s attendants from England; persecutes Huguenots; promises toleration of Protestants
Louis XIV, king of France: Cromwell makes treaty with (1655); praises Cromwell; and monarchy under Charles II; ambitions and absolutism; declares war on England (1666); defensive treaty with Dutch; Charles II’s relations with; and England in Triple Alliance; subsidies to Charles II; inactivity at battle of the Texel; makes peace with United Provinces; pays out bribes; hostility to Danby; sends money to James II; amity with James II; warns James II of prospective invasion by William of Orange
Love, Christopher
Lovelace, Richard
Love’s Triumph
(masque by Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson)
Lowe, Roger
Lowestoft, battle of (1665)
Lowther, Sir John
Ludlow, Edmund
Lunsford, Thomas
Lutter, battle of (1626)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, baron;
History of England
Mackintosh, James:
Eminent British Statesmen
Magalotti, Lorenzo
Magdalen College, Oxford
Maidstone, John
Manchester, Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of (
earlier
viscount Mandeville)
Manchester: first death in civil war
Mandeville, viscount
see
Manchester, 2nd earl of
Mansfeld, Ernest, count of
Mantegna, Andrea:
The Triumph of Caesar
(painting)
Maria Anna, infanta of Spain
Marie de’ Medici, queen of France
Marlborough, Wiltshire: falls to Charles
Marlowe, Christopher
Marston Moor, battle of (1644)
Marvell, Andrew; ‘The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C.’; ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’; ‘A Poem upon the Death of O.C.’
Mary, princess: marriage to William of Orange; designated as regent; Protestantism
Mary of Modena, wife of James II: marriage; pregnancy and birth of son; William of Orange opposes; escapes to Calais
Mary Queen of Scots
Mason, Captain
masques
Mather, Richard
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian I, duke of Bavaria
May, Humphrey
Mayflower
(ship)
Maynard, Joseph
maypoles: reintroduced (1660)
Mazarin, Cardinal Jules
Mead, Joseph
Meade, Revd Joseph
melancholy
Meres, Sir Thomas
Middlesex, Lionel Cranfield, 1st earl of
Middleton, Thomas:
A Game at Chess
(play)
Militia Act (1663)
millenary petition (1603)
Milton, John;
Areopagitica
;
The Reason of Church Government
Monck, George (
later
1st duke of Albemarle): in Scotland; and dispute between army and parliament; marches into England and intervenes in parliament; and Charles II’s restoration; meets Charles II on return to England
Monmouth, James Scott, duke of: birth; claim to throne; illegitimacy; victory at Bothwell Bridge; returns to England from exile; tour of West Country; offers to act as surety to Shaftesbury; implicated in Rye House Plot; rebellion (1685); beheaded
monopolies
Monson, Henry
Monson, William
Montagu, Ralph
Montagu, Richard
Monteagle, William Parker, 4th baron
Montrose, James Graham, 5th earl (
later
1st marquess) of
More, John
Morland, Sir Samuel
Muggletonians (sect)
Murray, Will
music: in James I’s reign; Pepys on
Mytens, Daniel
Nantes, Edict of: revoked (1685)
Naseby, battle of (1645)
navy
see
fleet (English)
Naylor, James
Nedham, Marchamont
Netherlands
see
Dutch Republic
Nethersole, Sir Francis
Neville, Christopher
‘new disease’ (fever)
New Model Army: Cromwell forms; Fairfax commands; character; disbandment planned; petition of complaint to Fairfax; escorts Charles I from Holmby House; recruited for service in Ireland; arrears of pay granted by parliament; dealings with Charles I; proposals to Parliament; marches on London; demands representative parliament; divided over fate of Charles I; victory in second civil war; demands death of Charles I; status after king’s death; disillusion with parliament; petition of complaint to parliament; requests commanding officer; conflict with parliament (1659); dispersed under Charles II;
see also
army (English)
Newburn, battle of (1640)
Newbury: first battle of (1643); second battle of (1644)
Newcastle, William Cavendish, 1st earl (
later
duke) of
Newcastle: surrenders to Scots (1640)
news: demand for under Charles II
newsletters
Newton, Sir Isaac;
De motu corporum in gyrum
Newton, Sir John
Nicholas, Edward
nonconformists
see
dissenters
North, Roger
Northampton, Henry Howard, 1st earl of
Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 10th earl of
Norwich, George Goring, 1st earl of
Nottingham: Charles I raises standard in; Hutchinsons at
Oates, Titus
offices of state: holders
Oglander, Sir John
Olivares, Gaspar de Guzman, count-duke of
opera: introduced into England
optics
Ormonde, James Butler, 1st duke of
Otway, Thomas
Overbury, Sir Thomas
Oxford: parliament convened in (1626); Charles I and Henrietta Maria visit (1636); Charles I makes headquarters in; peace negotiations (February 1643); Charles I summons parliament of supporters (1644); Charles I escapes from to Worcester; Fairfax besieges; Charles II orders assembly in (1681)
Oxford University: Laud reforms; James II interferes in
Packe, Sir Christopher
Palatinate
Palmer, Sir Geoffrey
pamphleteering
Paris Garden (Southwark)
Parliament: James I opens (1604); relations with James I; and Gunpowder Plot; business under James I; reconvened and dissolved (‘Addle Parliament’, 1614); meets (1621); assembles (February 1624); powers; ‘Long’ (1640–60); Charles I first calls; debates Charles I’s finances; reconvened in Oxford (1626); criticizes Buckingham; Charles I addresses; Charles I dissolves (1626); conflict with Charles I over sovereignty; opposes unlawful imprisonment; prorogued (1628); proceedings reported; opened (1629); adjourns for eleven years (1629); nine members arrested and imprisoned; summoned and meets (‘stillborn parliament’, 1639–40); called (‘Short Parliament’, 1640); work on renovation; and Triennial Act; challenges Charles I; votes money to Scots; bill allowing staying in session until dissolution voted; rule; reassembles (October 1641); and ‘Grand Remonstrance’; popular petitions to; prepares for war against Charles I; nineteen propositions to Charles I; sets up committee of safety for military preparations; army strength in civil war; wartime strategy; assumes supreme power (1643); committee of two kingdoms (with Scots); self-denying ordinance; sends propositions to Charles I; receives Large Petition from army supporters; and army discontent; grants arrears of pay to army; accepts army’s proposals; expels eleven Presbyterian members; treats with imprisoned Charles I; ‘Rump’; decides on trial of Charles I; constitution after Charles I’s death; dissolution (1653); army’s petition of complaint to; Cromwell reforms; ‘Little’ (‘Barebone’s’); Cromwell calls and dissolves (1654–5); business under Cromwell; second protectorate; conflict with army (1659); Rump expelled; Monck orders Rump to dissolve; and Charles II’s 1660 declaration from Breda; elected 1660 (‘Convention’); meets (1661; ‘Cavalier’); anger at Charles II’s declaration of indulgence; and Charles II’s expenses; reluctance to finance second Dutch War; Charles II prorogues (1674 & 1675); opposition to royal cause; reassembles (February 1677); differences with Charles II; grants £1 million to Charles II for war against France; Charles II dissolves ‘Cavalier’ (January 1679); Charles II prorogues (1679); beginnings of party politics; dissolved (1679); and exclusion crisis; relations with James II;
see also
Commons, House of; elections (parliamentary); Lords, House of