Charles I. afcends the English throne, 132; his high notions of prerogative, ib. refolves to profecute the war with vigour, 133; diffolves the parliament, 1343 orders a benevolence to be exacted, ib. affembles the parliament, 135; is refolved to fupport Buckingham, ib. orders the commons not to concern them. felves with that favourite, 236; commits two members of the lower houfe to prifon, ib. releases them, ib. diffolves the parliament, ib. refolves to keep up a standing army, 137; agrees to a difpenfation of the penal laws against the papifts, ib. borrows a fum of the nobility, ib. levies flip money, ib. confines thofe who refufe to pay this impofition, ib. embroiled with the parliament, how, 138; declares war against France, 139; calls a third parliament, 140; threatens them, ib. gives the royal affent to the petition of right, 141; prorogues the parliament, 142; diffolves it, 143; commits feveral members of the lower houfe to prifon, 144; grieves for the lofs of Buckingham, 146; concludes a peace with France and Spain, 147 countenances the proceedings of Laud, 150; refolves to call no more parliaments, ib. iffues a proclamation, ib. levies tonnage and poundage by his regal authority alone, 151; questions the judges concerning his power; 153; endeavours to establish epifcopacy in Scotland, 154; a rebellion formed against him in that nation, 155; demands forces of the nobility, ib. enters into a treaty with the Scots, 156; endeavours to raise money for carrying on a war against that people, ib. is obliged to affemble a parliament, 157; his difficulties, ib. diffolves the parliament, 158; fues the citizens in the Star-chamber, ib. extorts a loan from the Spanifh merchants, ib. his fchemes for raising money, b. ill ftate of his army, 159; fummonfes a council of peers, ib. calls a parliament, ib. defends the earl of Strafford, 162; receives a letter from that Deman, ib. confents to his death, ib. alarmed

e proceedings of parliament, 165; goes into land, 167, folicits the Scots to affift the protef is in Ireland, 169; refufed affiftance by his parment, 170; orders an accufation of high-treafon

to be entered against lord Kimbolton, &c. 173; goes to the house of commons, and demands five of their members, 174; complains to the common council of the city, ib. retires to Windfor, 175; writes to the parliament, ib. his reply to the petition of the lower house, relative to a militia, 176; his peremptory refufal to the infolent request of the commons, ib. refolves to have recourse to arms, ib. retires to York, ib offers propofals to the commons, 177; rejects nineteen propofitions made him by the lower houfe, ib. his fpeech on this occafion. ib. his diftreff.d fituation, 179; adhered to by the greater part of the nobility, ib. ercets the royal ftandard at Nottingham, 180, his proteftation before the army, ib. retires to Derby and Shrewsbury, 181; is refused admittance into Hull, ib accepts the fervices of prince Rupert and prince Maurice, 182; engages the parliamentary army, ib. receives foldiers and ammunition from Holland, 183; enters into several negotiations with the parliament, 184; reduces Cornwall, ib. his great fuccefs, ib. affembles a parliament at Oxford, 186; prorogues it, ib. his army receives a fevere defeat, 187; fails in a treaty which he began at Uxbridge, ib. makes a truce with the Irifh, 191, receives fome of the natives of Ireland into his ftrvice, ib. his army defeated by Fairfax, ib. retires to Oxford, ib. is totally defeated, 192; his cabinet of letters feized, 193; retreats to Oxford, 194; makes conceffions to the parliament, ib. furrenders his perfon to the Scots general, 195; is infolently treated by their preachers, 196; is delivered up to the parliament by the perfidious Scots, ib. is confined in Holmby caitle, 198; treated with the utmoft feverity, ib. his perfon feized by order of Cromwell, 201; is conducted to the army, ib. confined by them at Hampton-court, 203; has hopes of being made mediator between the parliament and the army, 204; his noble fortitude, ib. efcapes from. Hampton-court, 205; goes to Carisbrook-castle, 206; enters into a treaty with the parliament, 208; his perfon feized by the army, 209; an attempt made in his favour by the parliament, ib. is conveyed to Windfor,

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 Edin-
burgh, ib. his difagreeable fituation there, 221;
endeavours to efcape, 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; en-
deavours to escape into Wales, ib. meets with co-
lonel 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 dan-
ger of being difcovered by a fmith, ib. embarks on
board a fmall veffel at Shoreham in Suffex, 227;
Jands in Normandy, ib. his intereft in England favour-
ed by general Monk, 252; his propofals accepted by
the parliament, 254; is proclaimed king, 255; em-
barks 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; re-
ftores the ceremonies of the church, ib. his diffolute
conduct, 261; receives, great power from the parlia-
ments of England and Scotland, 262; his exceffive
pleasures, 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 alli-
ance with France, 273; declares war against Hol-
land, ib. iffues feveral proclamations, 274; calls a
parliament, 276; retracts his declaration of indul-
gence, ib. prorogues the parliament, 277; concludes
a peace

a peace with Holland, 278; fends an army of three
thoufand men over to the continent, 280; enters in-
to the quadruple alliance, ib. receives intelligence of
a plot being formed against his life, 281; treats the
defign with contempt, 287; orders Titus Oates to
be confined, and his papers feized, 291; changes the
fentence of the earl of Stafford, 294; defends lord
Danby against the parliament, 295; changes his
council, ib. difgraces the duke of Monmouth, 296;
fummonfes a parliament to meet at Oxford, 301-
imprifons Fitzharris, 303; diffolves the parliament,
ib. refolves never to call another, ib. alteration in
his temper, ib. humbles the prefbyterians, ib. de-
prives the city of London of their charter, 304; in-
cenfed against the earl of Shaftesbury, 305; a con-
fpiracy formed against him, 306; refufes to extend
his mercy to lord Ruffel, 310; marries his niece to
prince George of Denmark, 312; his death, 313.
Charnock, joins in a confpiracy to deftroy Elizabeth, 78
Civil War, account of, 179.

Clarendon, lord, appointed chancellor of England, 258;
deprived of the feals, 271; impeached by the com
mons, ib. banifhed the kingdom, ib.

Clifford, lord, minister of state to Charles II. fome ac-
count of, 273.

Coleman, Edward, feeretary to the Duke of York, tried:
and executed, 290.

College, Stephen, called the Proteftant Joiner, who,
304; tried and executed at Oxford, 305.
Committee of fafety, what, 246.

Covenant of Scotland, what, 154.

Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, thrown into pri-
fon, 32; condemned for high treafon, ib. figns his
recantation, 42; his great diftrefs, ib. recants the
paper he had figned, ib. his conftancy at the flake,

43.
Cromwell, Oliver, embarks for North America, 152;
the fhip detained by order of council, ib. defeats
the royalists at Marfton Moor, 187; reforms the ar-
my, 192; defeats the king's army at Nafeby, 193 ;
heads the independents, 198; account of his family,
ib. gains the affections of the army, 199; forms a
military

military parliament, 200; becomes one of the agi-
tators, b. invested with the chief command, 201;
advances to St. Alban's, ib. accufes eleven members
of treafon, 202; replaces the two fpeakers, 203;
inftance of his tendernefs, 204; difperfes the level-
lers, 207; defeats the Scottish army, 208; fucceff-
fully profecutes the war in Ireland, 221; his barba-
rous policy, 222; recalled by the parliament, ib.
made general of the army, ib. totally defeats the
Scottish army, 224; routs the enemy at Worcester,
ib. enters London in triumph, 227; becomes for-
midable to the parliament, 229; drives the commons
from their houfe, 230; forms a new parliament, 231;
diffolves them, 233; declared protector of the com-
monwealth of England, 234; his power, ib. his po-
litic meafures, 235; makes a peace with the Dutch,
ib. oppreffes the royalifts, 238; refufes the crown,
240; detefted by his own family, 241; his dreadful
fituation, 242; his death, 243.

Cromwell, Richard, proclaimed protector, 244; calls a
parliament, ib. diffolves it, 245; figns his own ab-
dication, leads a private life for the future, ib.

D.

DANBY, lord-treafurer, impeached by Seymour)
294; fent to the Tower, 295.

Dangerfield, his plot, 297.

Darnley, lord, fon to the earl of Lenox, marries Mary
queen of Scots, 56; his eftates feized by Elizabeth,
57; his character, ib. caufes Rizzio to be murdered,
59; retires to Glafgow, 61; vifited by the queen,
ib. attends her to Edinburgh, ib. put to death, ib.
Davifun, fecretary of ftate, draws the warrant for Ma-
ry's execution, 86, fends it to the chancellor, and
then delivers it to Beale, ib. committed to prifon,
90

Day, bifhop of Chichefter, deprived of his fee, 19;
reftored to his bishopric, 31.

Delinquents, who, 163.

Digby, fir Everard, attempts to feize the princess Eliza-
beth, 117; taken, and put to death, ib.

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