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Chudleigh offends the prince of
Orange, III. 13, 26.
Church, the, its meddling with
politics unadvisable, III. 223.
necessity of an established
church, IV. 20, 21.
Church of England, its constitu-

tion, IV. 17. its members not
subject to excommunication by
the legislature, 18. its provision,
V. 119. inexpediency of divid-
ing the property of deans and
chapters, 120. dispute and de-
bate on the church's being in
danger, 242, 293.
Churchill, George, III. 282. placed
at the head of the admiralty, V.
342, 392.

Churchill, Henrietta, VI. 34.
Churchill, John, I. 485. his life
saved by the duke of York, II.
324. lord, III. 282, 283. See
Marlborough, duke of.
Churchill, Mrs., (afterwards duch-

ess of Marlborough,) supplants
Mrs. Cornwallis in princess
Anne's favour, II. 91. III.
358. See Marlborough duch-
ess of

Cibber, Colley, III. 6.
Clancarty, earl of, III. 144.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, earl

of, Pref. xxix, xxxiv. his His-
tory highly esteemed by Swift
and Evelyn, I. 58. differs in it
from this author, 72, 145.
disliked by general Monck, 161.
his caution as chancellor, 167,
172, 174. said to enrich him-
self by unfair means, 179. his
conduct commended, 302, 312,
313, 316, 319, 321, 323, 360,
361. owns his folly in build-
ing his house, 455, 456, 467,
470. ridiculed before the king,
471. acts imprudently in jus-
tifying his master, 559. 560.
II. 312, 317. one cause of
his ruin, IV. 176.

Clarendon, countess of, I. 424.
III. 258.
Clarendon, Henry Hyde, earl of,
his exclamation at the defec-
tion of his son, III. 331, treats
with the lords sent by James
II. 341. his advice about re-
moving king James, 355. IV.
520.
Clarke, James S. Life of King
James II. edited by him,
quoted, II. 21. III. 52. VI. 231.
Clarke, Samuel, queen Caroline
procures a promise that he
should be archbishop of Can-
terbury, V. 323.

Clarke, sir Thomas, I. 172.
Clement VIII. pope, III. 165.
Clements, author of a political
pamphlet, VI. 14.

Clergy in Charles the second's
reign, their piety and libera-
lity, I. 339. privilege of the
clergy's voting for members of
parliament, 360. when first
taxed by parliament, IV. 521.
Clerke, Dr., president of Magda-
len, III. 153.

Cleveland, duchess of, I. 398.
her hatred to lord Clarendon,
471. the king becomes tired
of her, 484. her letter to king
Charles against Mountague,
II. 143. her conduct towards
the queen, 169.
Clifford, lord treasurer, I. 455,
561.

Cobham, lord, blames the duke
of Marlborough, VI. 63.
Cockburn, Dr., John, answers
Burnet, I. 395. refutes his sto-
ry about James II. 418.
Cockburne, Mr., VI. 160.
Cogan's Tracts, III. 180, 221.
Coin, debased, IV. 253, 288, 289.

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Coke, lord chief justice, I. 19.
Colchester, lord, IV. 162.
Colt, sir William Dutton, IV.
545.

Commons, house of, their votes
attempted to be defended, II.
275.

Compton, sir Francis, a story of

his, I. 66.
Compton, bishop, II. 91, 252.
III. 159, 316. votes against a
regency, 399. commends bi-
shop Rose, IV. 41. excites the
risibility of the house, 80, 349.
orders a computation of the
numbers of dissenters, V. 139.
"Conduct of the Allies, its truth

"asserted," VI. 73.
Conformity, history of the bill

against occasional, V. 49. oc-
casional conformity, when al-
lowable, 108.
Conscience, liberty of, no protest

appears on the Journals against
the king's declaration, II. 8.
Convocation, right of to tax the
clergy waved, IV. 521.
Conway, lord, VI. 95.
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, see
Shaftesbury.
Cornbury, lord, III. 331.
Cornwallis, Mrs., introduces the
duchess of Marlborough, II.

91.

Cornwallis, lord, IV. 444.
Corporations, bill on, IV. 68, 69.
Corse, Vita Joh. Forbesii, I. 40.
Cosin, bishop, I. 339. IV. 227.
Cotton library, Pref. xiv, xvi, xvii.
Cotton, sir John, defended, II.

99.

Cotton, sir John Hynde, III. 356.
Cove's "Revenues of the church of
England."

Coventry, sir John, a whig, and
appeared to have been a Ro-
man catholic, I. 496, 497.
Coventry, Henry, 1. 442, 488,

Coventry, sir William, I. 163,
173, 467. various characters
of him, 488. challenges the
duke of Buckingham, ibid.
497.

Cowper, William, afterwards
chancellor, defends lord So-
mers, IV. 492. which leads to
bad consequences, ibid. made
lord keeper, great expectations
from him, V. 225. his Reflec-
tions now first published on
this event, ibid. lord chan-
cellor, VI. 7, 8, 13, 14. His
account of the duchess of Marl-
borough's disrespectful men-
tion of queen Anne, 34, 76,

82.

Cox, captain, I. 399, 400, 401,

402.

Coxe, archdeacon, cited, III. 283.

IV. 222. V. 197, 394, 425.
VI. 8, 82, 135, 146, 147.
Craggs, secretary, VI. 80, 81.
Crane, IV. 37.

Craven, earl of, Pref. xxx. I. 309.
Crawford, earl of, 113, 167.
Cresset, Mr., VI. 18o.
Crewe, bishop, III. 145. mean

character of, 399. IV. 327.
Cromarty, earl of, cited, Pref.
xxvii.

Cromwell, Henry, I. 150.
Cromwell, Mary, afterwards lady
Falconbridge, I. 152.
Cromwell, Oliver, Pref. xxix. I.
77, 85, 101. Tillotson's opin-
ion of him, 124, 128, 132,
134, 145, 141, 149, 448. IV.
234. V. 282.
Cromwell, Richard, II. 352. V.
282.

Crown of England, its direct
power nearly annihilated, Pref.
xxxii.

Crowne, author of the play called
"Sir Courtly Nice," his rela-
tion of a speech of Charles II.

Cumberland, bishop, bears of his
promotion in a singular way,
İv. 136.
Cunningham, (Alex.) his history
confirms Burnet's account, I.
226, 551. severe in his remarks
on Burnet, IV. 567.
Customs levied by James II. III.

10.

Cutler, sir Thomas, III. 66.
Dada, cardinal, his good sense,
III. 168. nuntio to king James,

IV. 257.
Dalmahoy, Mr., I. 369.
Dalrymple, sir John, Pref. vi.
found at Kensington palace
princess Sophia's letters to
king James, II. V. 239. his
character of lord keeper North,

III. 90.

Dalrymple, master of Stair, IV.
158. dismissed, 161. lord Stair,
564.
Dalziel, general, I. 451.
Danby, Thomas Osborne, lord

II. 65, 176, 178. his trial,
273. prevents a plan against
lord Nottingham, III. 279, 393.
IV. 6. sells his house in the
Cockpit to Charles II. 164,
480. See Carmarthen, mar-
quis of, and Leeds, duke of.
Dangerfield, the informer, II.
241, 443. wounded, III. 38,

39.
Danvers, John, accusation against,
III. 56, 263.

Danvers, Mrs., her account of an
interview between queen Anne
and the duchess of Marlbo-
rough, V. 454. VI. 35.
Dare of Taunton, III. 48.
Dartmouth, George Legge, lord,

I. 619. intercedes for lord Rus-
sel, II. 380. III. 55.
Dartmouth, William Legge, earl
of, his Notes on this work, vii
-xii, xxii. his character of bi-
shop Burnet, I. 5, 6. declines

seeing his MS. of the present
work, 6, 7. accuses him of
party partiality, 78. his opin-
ion of bishop Burnet's political
friends, 130. insinuates that he
was vain, 147. makes an experi-
ment of his secrecy, 279. letter
by him, relative to the charge
against his father, II. 325. re-
bukes Burnet, 341. his opinion
of Sidney on government, 351.
answers the duke D'Aumount,
III. 188. changes his opin-
ion of Burnet's intended ve-
racity, IV. 1. his question to
bishop Burnet about two si-
moniacal bishops, 417. prevents
a dissolution of parliament,
439. reasons of his opposi-
tion to king William, V. 11. his
speech to queen Anne at her
accession, ibid. declines going
to Hanover, 13. his opinions
relative to church property,
120. offered, but declines, the
embassy to Venice, 142. a
proposal to remove him, 359.
appointed secretary of state,
VI. 9. receives letters com-
plimentary from the States,
10. bearer of a message from
the duke of Marlborough to
the queen, 77. disapproves of
her creating twelve peers at
once, 94, 95. his letter to the
princess Sophia, 180.

D'Avaux, the French ambassa-
dor, III. 27. IV. 36.

Davenant, sir William, saves Mil-
ton's life, I. 292.
D'Aumount, duke, III. 188.
Dawes, sir William, archbishop
of York, V. 338, 339, 411.
Dawson, Mrs., III. 252, 321.
Deans and chapters of no more
use than abbots and monks;
an opinion hazarded by lord
Dartmouth, V. 120. contro-
verted, 121.

Declaration of king James II.,
III. 228, 229, 239, 241.
De Croise, madame, her pro-
phecy respecting the duke of
Marlborough, III. 281.
Denmark, George prince of, see
George prince of Denmark.
Denmark, Anne princess of, see
Anne.

Derby, countess of, made groom
of the stole, III. 407.
D'Este, Cæsar, III. 165.
Devonshire, earl of, IV. 88. then
duke of, votes for sir John Fen-
wick, 350, 352, 362, 403.
Devonshire, second duke of, loses
his place, VI. 12.

De Witt, an accusation against,

I. 405.
"Digitus Dei," a pamphlet so
called, cited, Pref. xxiii.
Dispensing Power, Pref. xxxii.

III. 101, 159.
Dissenters comply with James
II, III. 163. attempt to gratify
them, 217. bill against them,
V. 49. number of, 139.
Divine right, origin of the doc-
trine, III. 403.
Divorce, opinion of the fathers
on, IV. 227.
Dixwell, sir Basil, III. 346.
Dodwell's interview with bishop

Pearson, III. 142. an unpub-
lished collection of Letters to
him from the bishops Fell and
Lloyd, 160.

Dolben, archbishop. II. 99.
Dorset, Charles Sackville earl of,

I. 295. the supposed author
of Lilibulero, III. 336. IV. 88.
352. gives up the place of
lord chamberlain, 377. V.393.
Dover, lord, I. 309.

Douglas, a Scotish minister, I.
167.

Douglas, Archibald, I. 571.
Downing, sir George, I. 362.

archbishop Sancroft, II. 92.
refutes an assertion of Bur-
net's, III. 349, 360, 376.
Dudley, sir Robert, created duke
of Northumberland, V. 452.
Dugdale's bad character, II.
183.

his

Dumfries, earl of, I. 388.
Duncombe, sir Charles, I. 561.
Duncombe, Mr., IV. 284.
Dundee, lord, Pref. xxx.
death, IV. 49. his severe treat-
ment of the covenanters, III.
365. papers of importance
found on him, IV. 48, 49.
Dunkirk, sale of, I. 312.
Duskberry, I. 402.
Dutch, suspicions of their design
against England, III. 274. VI.
136.
Dutch fleet, engagement with, I.

398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403.
unfair attack on it, 563.
Dutch guards, improperly retain-

ed by king William, IV. 401.
Dyke, sir Thomas, II. 245.
Edwin, sir Humphrey, carries
the city sword to a meeting-
house, V. 49.

Eglington, earl of, I. 113. anec-
dote of him, 281.

Εἰκὼν Βασιλική, opinions concern-
ing who was the author, I. 93,
95.
Elections for the first parliament
of James II, III. 17. cases of
controverted elections, &c. V.
118, 195, 196, 197, 198. al-
teration in parliamentary re-
presentation attempted, 282.
Elizabeth, queen, her plan for

ap-

peasing James I. on the death
of queen Mary, I. 572, 573-
her conduct in 1588 defended
on the plea of necessity, III.
400. her striking the earl of
Essex excused, IV. 171. cha-
racter of her administration,

Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia, I.
309.

Elliot, Robert, his Specimens of
this History, Pref. xxi-xxiii.
Ellis, Henry, esq., Pref. xix. Ori-
ginal Letters edited by him
cited, I. 91, 571. II. 134, 324,
469, 477. III. 257, 348, 408.
V. 339, 351. VI. 38.
Ellis, the popish bishop, II. 245.
Emperor, his offers not to be de-

pended upon, VI. 97.
England, crown of, disposed of
in virtue of the rights of the
people, III. 405. king Wil-
liam's opinion of the constitu-
tion, IV. 246.

English, apt to decry each other,

IV. 219.

English, the surgeon, I. 405.
Episcopacy abolished in Scotland
by king William, III. 365.
Erskine, Mr., V. 363.
Essex, countess of, I. 19.
Essex, earl of, Pref. x. II. 237,

287, 352. his death, 375, 390.
inquired into, 404. V. I.
Evelyn, John, his Memoirs cited,

I. 120, 179, 180, 315, 447,
458, 470, 561, 563, 593. II.
168, 198, 215, 479, 485, 486.
III. 11, 17, 31, 240, 280. IV.
317, 540, 561. V. 9.
Eugene, prince, his character of
the duke of Marlborough, III.
280. VI. 103. his victory over
the Turks, IV. 373. various ac.
counts of his journey to Eng-
land, VI. 97. discouraged from
undertaking it, ibid. his de-
scent, ibid. his high opinion of
the duke of Marlborough, and
their mutual esteem, 103.
Europe, distracted state of, IV.
471.

European Magazine, Pref. viii.

XV.

Exclusion bill, account of the di-
vision on, II. 252, 253.

Executive government, Pref. xxxii.
"Faction Displayed," a poem by

Shippen, IV. 418.
Fagel, pensionary, III. 394.
Fairbone, admiral, proposes to
attack Cadiz, V. 60.
Fairfax, Dr., III. 153, 157-
Fairfax, general, I. 85. III. 153.
Falconbridge, countess of, I. 152.
Falconbridge, earl, privy coun-
sellor to various kings of Eng-
land, I. 152.

Faral, a Dominican friar, I. 354.
Farmer, Mr., recommended to

Magdalen college by James
II, III. 153, 157.
"Faults on hoth sides," a pam-
phlet, VI. 14.

Fell, bishop, I. 339. II. 478. a
friend to English liberties, III.
143.

Fenwich, sir John, IV. 327. con-

demned, 329, 330. had little
reason to depend on king Wil-
liam's mercy, and why, 331,
333. his reasons against mak-
ing a full discovery, 342. loses
his life by trick and intrigue,
343. MS. proceedings in the
lords against him, 348. peti-
tions, 349. executed, 351,352,
403. counsel against him, V.

224.

Ferguson changes sides, V. 125.
Ferdinand, king of Spain, takes

possession of Navarre, II. 26.
Feversham, earl of, III. 345. sent
to protect king James, 353-
imprisoned, but soon set at
liberty, 354.
Fielding, II. 269.
Fielding, Mrs., VI. 43.
Filmer, sir Robert, on govern-

ment, IV. 289. V. 438.
Finch, Heneage, his report of a
conference with the lords, II.
108. made earl of Aylesford,
408. IV. 488, 551. VI. 79,

90.

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