The King's Revenge (42 page)

execution order,
59
–
60
,
229
,
231
,
234
;

speech from the scaffold,
61
;

funeral and burial of,
64
–
6
,
162
;

cult of as martyred king,
67
–
9
,
75
;

Eikon Basilike
(‘The King’s Image’),
67
–
9
,
73
,
75
,
78
,
79
;

Milton on,
69
–
70
;

letters of captured at Naseby,
71
,
74
;

destruction of statue of (1649),
155
–
6
;

Grand Remonstrance (1641),
225
;

execution date made holy day,
246
;

see also
death warrant of Charles I;

trial of Charles I

Charles, Prince of Wales (future King Charles II): exile in Holland,
2
,
32
,
56
,
63
,
66
,
71
,
75
,
78
,
112
,
152
;

swears vengeance on regicides,
2
,
73
;

exile at French court,
9
,
14
,
70
,
78
,
263
;

First Civil War and,
11
,
12
–
13
,
86
;

childhood of,
11
–
12
;

escape to the continent (March 1646),
13
–
14
,
95
;

pleads for mercy for father,
32
,
56
,
59
;

law preventing succession of (1649),
58
–
9
;

learns of execution of father,
63
–
4
;

proclaimed as Charles II (1649),
66
,
67
,
73
,
74
–
5
;

plans for English invasion/uprisings (1649–50),
71
,
83
–
4
;

Scotland and,
71
,
78
,
84
–
5
,
193
–
4
,
253
–
4
;

revenge fever in northern Europe (1649–50),
73
–
8
,
80
–
3
;

money raising schemes,
74
–
5
,
81
;

assassinations (1649–50) and,
77
–
8
,
80
,
81
–
3
,
263
;

Montrose campaign (1651) and,
78
;

Prince Rupert’s fleet,
80
;

emissaries to Spain,
81
,
82
–
3
;

crowned king of Scots (Scone, January 1651),
85
,
193
–
4
,
253
–
4
;

at Battle of Worcester (3 September 1651),
85
–
6
,
194
;

invasion of England (1651),
85
–
6
;

escape from England (1651),
86
,
96
;

royalist-Leveller contacts,
88
,
93
,
100
,
103
;

Sealed Knot,
89
–
91
,
93
,
94
–
5
,
108
;

royalist uprising (1655),
95
–
9
,
115
,
199
,
203
,
322
;

links with Leveller conspirators,
100
,
103
;

negotiations with Spain,
107
,
108
,
128
;

court in exile relocates to Brussels,
112
;

reaction to Cromwell’s death,
112
;

desperation to regain throne (1658–9),
113
,
121
,
164
–
5
;

royalist uprising (August 1659),
120
–
2
,
125
,
127
;

promises of clemency and,
121
,
163
,
167
,
190
;

readiness to treat with regicides (1659),
121
;

approaches to Monck (1658–9),
124
–
6
;

holiday (late 1659),
128
;

overtures to France,
128
;

negotiations with Monck (March 1660),
150
–
2
;

relocation to Breda,
152
;

Declaration of Breda,
162
–
4
,
168
,
190
,
250
,
292
–
3
;

daughter of Lambert and,
164
–
5
;

demands unconditional restoration,
165
;

see also
Charles II, King

Charles II, King: character of,
3
,
9
,
12
,
64
,
78
,
86
,
167
,
211
–
12
,
285
–
6
,
287
,
292
,
314
;

coronation of (23 April 1661),
3
,
252
–
3
;

as interrogator of prisoners,
3
,
249
,
285
–
6
;

sex life,
4
,
13
,
32
,
64
,
211
,
282
,
285
,
287
,
317
–
18
;

Ludlow on,
16
–
17
,
190
;

views on political assassination,
103
,
106
,
272
,
305
;

property of regicides and,
162
,
180
,
190
,
245
;

restoration as unconditional,
165
–
6
;

arrival in England (May 1660),
166
,
176
,
177
,
178
–
9
;

Parliament gifts money to,
166
;

demands crackdown from Monck,
167
;

death lists and,
171
,
190
;

parade into London,
177
,
178
–
9
;

gushing adulation from Parliament,
178
–
9
,
248
–
9
;

motives over regicides,
190
;

orders burning of Milton’s books,
192
,
264
;

ambiguity of deadline proclamation,
195
–
6
;

Ceremony of the Royal Touch,
198
–
9
;

petitions from aspiring state servants (May 1660),
199
;

Bill of Indemnity in House of Lords and,
200
;

disbanding of the army and,
201
,
247
;

speech to Lords (27 July 1660),
201
–
2
,
203
;

remits execution of Vane and Lambert,
205
,
281
;

trial of the regicides and,
210
,
211
;

trials of dissidents,
212
;

witnesses execution of regicides,
240
–
1
,
243
;

clamp-down on printers and booksellers,
242
,
280
;

vengeance not sated by trials/executions,
242
;

posthumous dismemberment policy and,
245
–
6
,
250
–
2
;

‘White Plot’ and,
248
,
285
;

broken promise over religious freedom,
250
,
292
–
3
;

religious clampdown,
250
,
292
–
3
,
296
;

Irish assassins in pay of,
266
,
298
,
299
–
301
,
305
–
6
,
312
;

orders removal of corpses from Abbey,
273
;

marries Catherine of Braganza,
282
,
293
;

breaks word on Vane’s pardon,
283
–
4
;

Catholicism and,
293
,
318
^*
,
320
,
321
,
323
;

uprisings against (1663),
297
,
314
;

letter to authorities in Bern,
298
;

expeditionary force to New England (1664),
306
–
10
;

great fire (1666) and,
313
–
14
;

issues form of amnesty to sixteen men,
314
,
316
;

secret treaty with France,
318
,
320
,
321
;

death of (5 February 1685),
321
,
323
;

marries niece Mary to William of Orange,
321
;

see also
Charles, Prince of Wales (future King Charles II)

Chester, capture of (August 1659),
121

Cheynell, Francis,
72

Cicero,
24
,
25

Civil War, First,
14
,
70
,
95
,
121
,
153
,
214
,
224
,
261
–
2
,
289
,
325
–
6
;

Battle of Edgehill (23 October 1642),
11
,
12
–
13
,
86
;

Prince of Wales and,
11
,
12
–
13
,
86
;

Battle of Marston Moor (2 July 1644),
18
,
295
;

Battle of Naseby (14 June 1645),
18
,
71
,
74
,
90
,
114
;

Charles I’s surrender to Scots (1646),
18
–
19
;

charge against king and,
38
,
45
;

The King’s Cabinet Revealed
,
71
,
74
;

Belasyse’s defeats at Selby and Bradford (1644),
90
;

Monck and,
124

Civil War, Second,
21
–
2
,
23
,
25
–
6
,
84
,
124
,
241
,
325
–
6
;

Newport treaty (December 1648),
22
–
3
,
24
,
25
,
27
–
9
,
49
,
147
,
164
,
165
,
230
;

charge against king and,
38
,
45
;

execution of royalist leaders (March 1649),
83

Civil War, Third,
84
–
6
,
109
,
193
–
4

Clarendon, Lord
see
Hyde, Edward, Lord Clarendon

Clarges, John,
164

Clarges, Thomas,
138
,
192

Clarke, William,
131

Clement, Gregory,
183
,
207
,
220
,
226

Coates, Roger,
91

Cobbett, William,
165
–
6

Cochrane, Sir John,
74
–
5

Coke, Roger,
174

Coke, Thomas,
84
–
5

Colchester,
21
,
169

Cole, Thomas,
The Oxbow
,
307

Commonwealth: Council of State (Cabinet),
8
,
75
,
78
,
80
,
84
;

‘the Good Old Cause’ term,
9
,
87
^*
,
115
,
149
,
168
,
276
,
290
;

Cromwell’s ‘betrayal’ of,
15
,
87
–
8
,
99
,
111
;

independence of the judiciary,
39
;

religious toleration and,
39
;

royalist plots against,
73
,
78
,
83
,
84
–
5
,
86
,
120
–
2
,
125
,
127
,
145
–
6
;

Dorislaus’ mission to The Hague,
75
,
76
–
8
;

burials of luminaries in Westminster Abbey,
78
,
110
,
244
–
5
,
250
–
1
,
273
;

espionage and intelligence network,
78
–
9
,
83
,
84
,
85
;

Ascham as ambassador to Spain,
79
,
80
–
3
;

propaganda and,
79
;

‘engagement’ of faith to,
83
;

execution of royalist Civil War leaders (March 1649),
83
;

invasion of Scotland (1650),
84
;

abolition of,
87
–
8
,
111
;

Cromwell becomes Lord Protector (16 December 1653),
87
–
9
;

Lambert’s attempt to save,
87
^*
,
157
–
60
,
228
,
269
;

re-establishment of (May 1659),
117
–
19
;

Monck and,
124
–
9
,
133
–
6
,
138
–
44
,
147
,
148
,
149
,
150
–
3
,
154
,
158
,
159
,
160
;