fense enough to ftem the general torrent of rancour and factious fufpicion. Hampden was tried foon after; and as there was nothing to affect his life, he was fined forty thousand pounds. Holloway, a merchant of Briftol, who had fled to the Weft-Indies, was brought over, condemned, and executed. Sir Thomas Armstrong alfo, who had fled to Holland, was brought over, and fhared the fame fate. Lord Effex, who had been imprifoned in the Tower, was found in an apartment with his throat cut ; but whether he was guilty of fuicide, or whether the bigotry of the times might not have induced fome affaffin to commit the crime, cannot now be known. This was the last blood that was shed for an imputation of plots or confpiracies, which continued during the greatest part of this reign. Neverthelefs the cruelty, and the gloomy fufpicion of the Duke of York, who fince the diffolution of the laft parliament, daily came into power, was dreadful to the nation. Titus Oates was fined an hundred thousand pounds, for calling him a popish traitor, and he was imprisoned till he could pay it, which he was utterly incapable of. A like illegal fentence was paffed upon Dutton Colt for the fame offence. Sir Samuel Barnardifton was fined ten thousand pounds, for having, in fome private letters, reflected on the government. Of all thofe who were concerned in the late conspiracy, scarce one escaped the feverity of the court, except the duke of Monmouth, and he was the moft culpable of any. At this period, the government of Charles was as abfolute as that of any monarch in Europe; but to please his fubjects by an act of popularity, he judged it proper to marry the lady Anne, his niece, to Prince George, brother to the king of Denmark. Denmark. This was the laft tranfaction of this extraordinary reign. The king was feized with a fudden fit, which refembled an apoplexy; and though he was recovered from it by bleeding, yet he languished only for a few days, and then expired, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. During his illness, fome clergymen of the church of England attended him, to whom he discovered a total indifference. tholic priests were brought to his bed-fide, and from their hands he received the rites of their communion. Two papers were found in his closet, containing arguments in favour of that perfuafion. Thefe were foon after publifhed by James his fucceffor, by which he greatly injured his own popularity, and his brother's memory. Ca INDE X. AB A. BHORRERS, who, 298; many of them committed to prifon, 304 Agitators of the army, what, 200 Anjou, duke of, pays his addreffes to queen Elizabeth, 76; a day fixed for the marriage, ib. difmiffed by that princefs, ib. Antinomians, what, 232 Arlington, lord, minifter to Charles II. 273 Armada, the invincible, account of, 91; fhattered by a tempeft, 93; attacked by the English, 94; totally defeated, ib. difperfed by a storm, 95 Arundel, Humphry, heads the infurgents in Devonshire, 13; befieges Exeter, ib. taken prifoner and executed, 14 fir Thomas, executed for treason, 21 Ajcham, tutor to queen Elizabeth, his remarkable anecdote of lady Jane Gray, 27 B. BABINGTON, Anthony, joins in a confpiracy for murdering Elizabeth, 78; informs Mary of the defign, 79; apprehended and committed to prifon, 80 Bacon, lord keeper, prefides in a public difputation, 52; regulates the finances of the kingdom, 54 Ballard, John, refolves to deftroy Elizabeth, 78; gains over Babington to his party, ib. betrayed by his accomplices, 79; is apprehended, 80 Barebone's parliament, what, 232 Barnwell, joins in a confpiracy to destroy Elizabeth, 78 Baftwick, Baftwick, Dr. punifhed by the court of Star-chamber, Blake, admiral of the fleet, fome account of, 228; his intrepid behaviour in the Mediterranean, 236; his death and character, 237 Bonner, bishop, fent to the Tower, 10; reinftated by Mary, 31; made the inftrument of perfecution, 38; his inhuman cruelty, 39; blames the court for his feverities, 43 Bothwell, earl of, becomes the favourite of Mary queen of Scots, 60; account of, ib. accufed of Darnley's murder, 92; feizes the perfon of the queen, ib. marries that princefs, ib. capitulates, 63; efcapes to Denmark, and dies miferably, ib. Buckingham, duke of, one of Charles II. minifters, his conduct, 273 Burton, a clergyman, punifhed by the court of Starchamber, 151; releafed from his imprisonment, 165 C CABAL of Wallingford, what, 244 Calais, town of, its fortifications, 46; taken by the Capel, lord, condemned and executed, 219 Carre, Robert, becomes the favourite of James I. 119; created viscount Rochester, and earl of Somerset, ib. caufes Sir Thomas Overbury to be murdered, 121; marries the countess of Effex, ib. tried and found guilty, ib. pardoned, 122; dies in obfcurity, ib. Catefby, Robert, contrives the powder-plot, 113; flain in battle, 117 Cavaliers, who, 172 Cecil, fir William, principal counsellor to queen Elizabeth, 5; his wife regulations, 54; created lord Burleigh, 71; defeats the defigns of the infurgents, ib. his abilities as a ftatefinan, 74; created earl of Salisbury, 109; his artful conduct, ib. Chalgrave field, battle of, 184 O 2 Charles Windfor, 211, is conducted to St. James's, 212; brought to his trial, ib. enters upon his defence, 213; infulted by the mob, ib. fentence pronounced against him, 214; his refignation, ib. defires to fee his children, ib. his exhortations to them, ib. his calm behaviour on the morning of his execution, 215; his addrefs to the people, 216; his reply to Juxon, ib. his death, ib. his character, 217. Charles II. accompanies his father to York, 176; is in vited from France by the Scotch, 220; enters Edinburgh, ib. his difagreeable fituation there, 221; endeavours to escape, ib. heads the Scotch army, 224; marches into England, ib. is abandoned by numbers of the Scotch, ib. is defeated, and obliged to fly, ib. cuts faggots for feveral days; 225; endeavours to escape into Wales, ib. meets with colonel Careless, ib. conceals himself in an oak, ib..~ retires to the houfe of colonel Lane, ib. goes to Briftol, ib. recognized by the butler of the family he is with, 226; goes to Dorfetfhire, ib. is in danger of being difcovered by a fmith, ib. embarks on board a fmall veffel at Shoreham in Suffex, 227; lands in Normandy, ib. his intereft in England favoured by general Monk, 252; his propofals accepted by the parliament, 254; is proclaimed king, 255; embarks at Scheveling, ib. lands at Dover, ib. enters London in triumph, ib. his age and character at the time he afcends the throne, 257; his prudent choice of his minifters, 258; difbands the army, 260; reftores the ceremonies of the church, ib. his diffolute conduct, 261; receives, great power from the parliaments of England and Scotland, 262; his exceffive pleafures, 263; marries Catharine, 264; gives lord Clarendon up to parliament, ib. begs a fupply of the commons, 265; declares war against the Dutch, ib. concludes a treaty of peace with that republic, 270; takes the feals from Clarendon, 271 : forms the triple alliance, 272; enters into a fecret alliance with France, 273; declares war against Holland, ib. iffues feveral proclamations, 274; calls a parliament, 276; retracts his declaration of indulgence, ib. prorogues the parliament, 277; concludes a peace |