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