ADOLPHUS of Nassau, ii. 57. Albemarle, the Duke of, i. 209. Albyville, Marquis d', ii. 114. Alsop, a preacher, i. 320. Amelia of Solms, ii. 62. Andrew Fletcher, ii. 97. Anne, Princess of Denmark, i. 213. Her incredulity of the birth of the Prince of Wales, ii. 38. Her letter to her sister respecting the character of Lady Sun- derland, 126, Her letter to the Queen, 225. Desertion of, ib.
Argyle, the Duke of, i. 364. ii. 98. Arran, Lord, his speech on the resolution having passed for vesting the Prince of Orange with the administration of Scotland, ii. 286.
Astry, Sir Samuel, ii. 23.
Athol, the Marquis of, i. 259. ii. 286. Augsburg, league of, ii. 92. 107. Austria invaded by the Turks, ii. 81.
Baptists, their sufferings during the reign of Charles II., 1. 316. Barclay, the celebrated Quaker, his apo- logy for the Quakers, i. 318. 370. Barillon, i. 215. Remonstrates with James II. on the renewal of the treaty between England and Holland, ii. 104. Ordered by the Prince of Orange to quit the kingdom in forty-eight hours, 283.
Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, i. 324. Baxter, Richard, a celebrated divine of the Presbyterian persuasion, i. 311. His sufferings, ibid. Behn, Mrs., i. 350. Bellasis, Lord, i. 257.
Bennet, Thomas, Master of the Charter House, i. 288. Bentinck, Lord, ii. 100. Berry, Sir John, ii. 292. Berwick, the Duke of, i. 278. Bonrepaux, the special envoy of Louis XIV. to James II., ii. 115. Fails in his intrigue to convert Prince George
and the Princess Anne to the Roman Catholic religion, 121. Mission of, 158. Bossuet, his book on the Variations of the Protestant Churches, i. 353. Brandenburg, the Elector of, ii. 74. Death of, 146.
Brandon, Lord, trial and acquittal of, on a charge of high treason, i. 205. Bruce, deprived of his bishopric of Dun- keld by James II, for his parliamen- tary conduct, i. 266. Bude de Verace, ii. 158. Bunyan, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, i. 312.
Burnet, Bishop, his Letter to the Dis- senters, i. 322. His conversations with the Prince and Princess of Orange, ii. 111. His "Enquiry by Authority," 295. Instructed to collect evidence in support of the case against the pre- tended Prince of Wales, 299. Burrington, Major, ii. 207. Bury, Sir John, ii. 183. Butler, Sir Nicholas, i. 367.
Cameron, sir Ewen, ii. 46. Campbell, Mr. Charles, i. 259. Cardross, Lord, ii. 287. Carlingford, Lord, i, 235. Cartwright, Dean of Ripon, raised to the Bishopric of Chester, i. 234. Catherine Sedley, her character, i. 219. Created Countess of Dorchester by James II., 219. Ordered to retire from court, 221. Conduct of the Queen, 253.
Castlemain, Earl of, sent by James II. as his ambassador to Rome, i. 236. violent conduct at the papal court, 237. Labours to reconcile the Pope to Louis XIV., and to procure his interposition for the preservation of the general peace, 238. Admitted into the Privy Council, 239. Receives the formal for- giveness of the Pope for his indiscreet zeal in promoting the wishes of his so- vereign, ibid.
Chamberlain, Dr., ii. 38. Charles II., i. 299. Retrospect of the
intrigues of, ii. 68. Perfidy of, 85. | Danby, Lord, ii. 131. His Letter to the Death of, 93. Charles V., Emperor, ii. 57. Charlton, Sir Job. i. 223.
Chetwood, Protestant,chaplain to James II., named by him Bishop of Bristol, ii.
Church of England, resistance of, against the Declaration of James II., i. 303. Churchill, Lady, i. 243. Churchill, Lord, i. 243. His letter to the Prince of Orange, ii. 129. His se- cond letter to the Prince of Orange, 153. Desertion of, 218. Clarendon, Lord, his administration in Ireland, i. 275. Incurs the displeasure of the Queen by his supposed civilities to Lady Dorchester, during her resi- dence in Ireland, i. 277. His cha- racter, ii. 232.
Clarges, Sir Thomas, i. 208.
Clement, Prince of Bavaria, ii. 156. Coke, Sir Edward, i. 225. Compton, Bishop of London, i. 213. Removed from the Privy Council, 222. His answer to Lord Sunderland on his communicating to him the King's com- mands to suspend Sharpe from preach- ing, 232. Sentence of suspension pro- nounced against him, 234. His letter to the Prince of Orange, ii. 152. Conrad Van Benningen, ii. 83. Convention, meeting and proceedings of, ii. 300. Settlement of the crown; form of the oath of allegiance, 327. Cooke, Mr. John, i. 211. Corker, an English Benedictine, received by James II., as envoy from the Eléctor of Cologne, i. 350. Cornish, Mr., an eminent merchant, charged with a share in the Rye House Plot, his trial and execution, i. 200, Cornwall, Captain, ii. 186. Court parties, i. 367. Crew, Bishop of Durham, i. 324. Culpepper, Colonel, ii. 131.
D'Adda, Mosignor, a Lombard prelate, i. 215. Assumes the character of his ho- liness's minister, 235. Instructed by the Pope to complain of the conduct of Lord Castlemain at the papal court, 238. Publicly received as apostolic nuncio from the Pope, 326. Declines a public audience with the Princess Anne, 327. His answer to Lord Sun- derland on his communicating to him his opinions on the various expedients by which the jealousies of the Noncon- formists might be satisfied, 341.
Prince of Orange, 163. Daniel De Foe, i. 197.
Dartmouth, Lord, i. 244. Arrives from the Nore off Harwich with the English fleet; his letters to King James, ii. 199. Conduct of, 200. Upon the flight of King James, submits himself and the fleet to the Prince of Orange, 292, His letter to the Prince of Orange, ib. D'Avaux, ii. 97. Presents to the States a memorial, notifying that his Christian Majesty would regard any acts of hos- tility against England as an infraction of the peace, '161. Presents a second memorial, 165.
De Groot, the Dutch ambassador at Paris, ii. 69.
Delamere, Lord, i. 205. Trial and ac- quittal of, 206.
De Witt, John, administration of, ii. 62. Murder of, 63.
De Witt, Cornelius, murder of, ii. 63. Devonshire, Lord, i. 212. Dolben, Mr., ii. 304. Dover, Lord, i. 257. Dryden, John, i. 244. His poem in com- memoration of the birth of the Prince of Wales, ii. 37.
Dyckvelt, the Dutch envoy, i. 322. His mission and intrigues, ii. 122.
Elizabeth, Queen, i. 306. Ellwood, Thomas, i. 309. England, state of, ii. 89. Relation of Holland with, 104. State of affairs in, at the commencement of the year 1688, 134.
English laws, doctrine of obedience, ii. 48. Right of resistance, 49. Estrées, Cardinal d', ii. 107. Europe, state of, ii. 80.
Evertzen, the Dutch vice-amiral, ii. 191 Exeter, association of, ii. 209.
Fagel, minister of the Prince of Orange, ii. 83. His correspondence with Stuart, 133. Falkland, Lord, i. 179. Farmer, Antony, i. 292. Fénélon, ii. 120.
Ferdinand of Bavaria, ii. 156. Fergusson and Hooke, two Presbyterian clergymen in Monmouth's army, i. 197. Feversham, Lord, his character, his law- less violence after the victory of Sedge- moor, i. 185. His letter to the Prince
of Orange, ii. 247. Imprisoned at Windsor Castle by the Prince of Orange, 260.
Finch, Sir Heneage, i. 209. 300. Fitten, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, i. 279. Fountainhall, Lord, i. 263. Fowler, Dr. Edward, Bishop of Glou- cester, ii. 7.
Fox, George, the founder of the sect commonly called Quakers, i. 309. Francis, Alban, a Benedictine monk, recommended by the King to be ad- mitted a Master of Arts in Exeter College, Cambridge, i. 291. Frederic William of Brandenburg, called the Grand Elector, ii. 74. Furstenburg, Cardinal Prince, ii. 156. Made Elector of Cologne, ibid.
Gaunt, Mrs., trial of, i. 200. (Execution of, 201.
George, Prince of Denmark, husband of the Princess Anne, i. 243. Desertion of, ii. 220.
Giffard, Dr., i. 255. Glanville, Sergeant, i. 225.
Glasgow, the Archbishop of, i. 263. De- prived of his bishopric by James II. for some supposed countenance of an obnoxious preacher, 267.
Glen, a bookseller in Edinburgh, i. 260. Godolphin, Lord, i. 183. His character, ibid.
Gourville, his opinion of the King's mea- sures for the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic religion in England,
Grafton, the Duke of, alleged attempt to assassinate him, ii. 267. Grey, Lord, i. 205. Grey de Werk, i. 343.
Guadagnaga, the Spanish governor at Brussels, ii. 161. Guildford, Lord Keeper, i. 181. Gustavus Adolphus, ii. 80.
Hale, Sir Matthew, i. 311. Hales, Sir Edward, Lieutenant of the Tower, ii. 18. Chosen by James II. as the companion of his flight, 254. Seized at Feversham as a suspected papist, ibid.
Halifax, Lord, his letter to a Dissenter,
i. 322. His coalition with Lord Not-
tingham, 359. Publishes his tract entitled "The Anatomy of an Equi- valent," 361. Intrigues of, ii. 234.
Hamilton, Duke of, i. 261. ii. 286. Hampden, Mr., i. 203.
Heinsius, Pensionary of Delft, ii. 83. Henry Frederick, Prince of Orange, ii. 60. Domestic administration of, ibid. Final recognition of Dutch indepen- dence by the Treaty of Munster, ib. Herbert, Sir Edward, i. 224. 241. Herbert, Admiral, i. 305. His letter to
the Prince of Orange, ii. 151. Ap- pointed to the command of the Dutch navy, ii. 174.
Hesse, the Landgrave of, ii. 164. Holland, relations of with England, ii. 56. Deliverance of, in 1672, ii. 75. Holt, Sir John, dismissed from the Re- cordership of London, i. 240. Hough, Mr., i. 293. Howard, Sir Robert, ii. 395. Hume, Sir Patrick, ii. 287. Humières, Maréchal d', ii. 185.
Independents, or Congregationalists, i. 315. Their opinions and doctrines, ibid.
Innocent XI., Pope, i. 215. 377. Com- bines secretly with the Prince of Orange against the King of France, ii. 107.
Ireland, review of the state of affairs in, i. 270. Irish alarm, ii. 249.
James II., General state of affairs at the accession of, i. 175. His character, 176. His alliance with Louis XIV., 177. His conduct during the trial and execution of Mrs. Lisle and others, 192. His correspondence with Jeffreys, 194. His public acts and personal demeanour during the judi- cial severities of Jeffreys, 199. De- termines to dismiss the Marquis of Halifax from office, 206. His speech at the opening of parliament, 208. His answer to the address of the Committee of the House of Commons, 211. Re- ceives the general thanks of the House of Lords for his speech, 212. Pro. rogues parliament, 213. His plans for the abrogation of the Test and Habeas Corpus Acts, 215. His amour with Catherine Sedley, 219. Attempts to support the dispensing power by a judgment in a court of law, 222. Places the military and civil authority in the hands of his devoted adherents, 229. Nominates Catholics to stations of high
trust, and endeavours to reduce the Church of England to implicit obe- dience, by virtue of his ecclesiastical supremacy, 229. Establishes a Court of Commissioners to try ecclesiastical causes, 231. Proposes to the Prince of Orange to appoint a Catholic noble- man of Ireland to the command of the British regiments, 235. Renews that open intercourse with the See of Rome which was prohibited by the unre- pealed laws passed in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, 235. Sends the Earl of Castlemain as his ambas- sador to Rome, 236. Professes the most unbounded devotion to the Holy. See; his letter to his Holiness, 238. His attempts to convert the army, 239. Attempts to convert the Princess Anne, 242. His attempts to convert Lord Rochester, 253. His letter to the Parliament of Scotland, 262. His let- ters to the Privy Council of Scotland, 268. Rupture with the Protestant Tories, 284. Advancement of the Roman Catholic Church, 285. Mea- sures of his domestic policy, 286. Is- sues his letter mandatory, commanding the fellows of Magdalen College to elect Antony Farmer, a recent con- vert to the Church of Rome, to the presidency of their college, 292. Issues "A Declaration for Liberty of Con- science," 298. Attempts to conciliate the Nonconformists, 306. Orders an enquiry into the suits against Dis- senters in Ecclesiastical Courts, 321. Dismisses the Duke of Somerset from his household, for refusing to act as public introducer to D'Adda, the papal nuncio, 327. Final breach between the Crown and the Church, 329. Makes preparations for a new parliament, 332. His official letters to the Lords Lieutenant, 334. Notifies in the Lon- don Gazette his resolution to maintain the liberty of conscience, and to use his utmost endeavours to make it pass into a law, 336. Patronage of the Crown, 337. Measures of the Court, 339. Tries the efficacy of a progress through a part of his kingdom, to conciliate the nobility by personal intercourse, and to gratify the people by royal visits to their remote abodes, 346. His answer to Barillon, 351. Imitates the policy of Louis XIV. in establishing a fund for rewarding converts to his religion, ibid. Solicits pecuniary aid from the Pope, ibid. Fluctuating counsels of the Court, 359. Internal affairs of the kingdom, 360. His designs against the Church of England, 362. Enact-
ments of the bill for liberty of con- science, 363. Republishes his Decla- ration for Liberty of Conscience, ii. 2. His answer to the petition of the seven Bishops against the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, 10. His con- duct during the examination of the seven Bishops before the Privy Council, 16. His observations on hearing of their acquittal, 32. His last attempt to gain the Dissenters, 41. His pro- ceedings respecting the army, 42. State of affairs throughout the British kingdoms, 44. Commands his minis- ters to signify to the magistrates of Amsterdam, that their support of the Stadtholder would be acceptable to him, 102. Continues his entreaties to Louis XIV. to aid him in his designs against the Protestants, ibid. Renews the treaty with the States, 104. Arti- fices of, 105. His answer to Barillon on his remonstrating against the re- newal of the treaty between England and Holland, ibid. His negociations with the Prince of Orange, 114. Hi. supposed secret treaty with France, 115. Denies the existence of any new alliance, actual or prospective, with France, 116. The question of the Protestant succession, 118. Receives M. Dyckvelt, the envoy of the Prince of Orange, with marked expressions of personal civility and public friendship, 123. Attempts the religious conversion of the Princess of Orange by a pole- mical correspondence, 135. His letter to the Prince of Orange; recalls the troops from Holland, 141. Declares his conviction that the naval prepara- tions in Holland were designed against England, 157. Instructs D'Albyville to demand an explanation from the States of Holland, 160. Declares, on the word of a prince, that he would maintain peace with the States, unless they were the aggressors, 162. His last letter to the Prince of Orange, 165. His readiness to go to the utmost length, short of actual war, with the Dutch, 169. Proposes to equip a fleet of thirty ships of war, ibid. His dis- simulation in his transactions with Louis XIV., 170. Rejects the offer of a French squadron, 173. His measures of defence, political and military, 175. Commands the Bishops to publish" An Abhorrence" of the designs of the Prince of Orange, 193. His letter to Lord Dartmouth, 199. Issues a pro- clamation, denouncing the Prince of Orange as an unnatural and unchris- tian invader, 203. Summonses a coun-
cil of general officers and colonels, 213. Resolves once more to place himself the head of the army, ibid. His answer to the petition of the Lords spiritual and temporal for the calling of a free parliament, 215. Arrives at the head quarters of his army at Salisbury, 216. His retreat, 219. Assembles all the Lords spiritual and temporal, 230. Treats with the Prince of Orange, 231. Makes preparations for his escape from the kingdom, 236. Orders the Prince of Wales to be brought back from Portsmouth to London, 238. Re- solves on sending the Queen and the Prince of Wales to France, and follow- ing them in twenty hours, 239. Sum- mons a council of the Peers, 245. First flight of, 246. Seized at Feversham as a suspected Papist, 254. Addresses a note to Lord Winchelsea, 255. Is released, 258. Leaves Feversham for London, and sends forward Lord Fe- versham with credential letters to the Prince of Orange, proposing an inter- view with him in London, ibid. rives at Whitehall, 259. Receives a letter from the Prince of Orange, 260. Offers to place himself in the hands of the Aldermen and Common Council, 261. His second and final departure from Whitehall, 265. His arrival in Rochester, 272. Withdraws himself secretly; lands in France at Amble- teuse, 276. His reception in France by Louis XIV., ibid. Narrative of his flight from England, ibid. His letter from St. Germains to the Lords and Commons, 300. Jane, Dr., i. 255.
Jeffreys, Sir George, i. 184. His cha- racter, ibid. Begins his circuit at Winchester by the trial of Mrs. Lisle, 189. His conduct during the trial, 191. Further specimens of his pro- ceedings during this circuit, 193. His correspondence with the King and Lord Sunderland, 194. Returns to Court; promoted to the office of Lord Chancellor, 198. Rapacity of, 201. Anecdote of, 202. Recommends mo- derate councils to the King, ii. 14. His conduct during the examination of the Bishops before the Privy Coun- cil, 16. Sends a secret message to the Bishops during their confinement in the Tower, 18. Seized in the disguise of a saillor at Wapping, and com- mitted to the Tower, where he soon closed his horrid life by drunkenness, or by a chronic disorder, 249. Jenkins, William, i. 199. Execution of, ibid.
Ken, Bishop, i. 186. His letter of expos- tulation to the King on the proceedings of Jeffreys, 198. His answer to the accusation of James II., ii. 11. Kennet, Bishop, ii. 159. Kiffin, the pastor of the chief congrega- gation of the Baptists, i. 320. A few fragments of his life, illustrative of the character of the calamitous times in which he lived, 321.
Kirke, Colonel, his conduct after the victory of Sedgemoor, i, 187. Ordered to come to court to give information on the state of the West, 188.
Lamplugh, Dr., ii. 206. Langley, Sir Robert, ii. 32. Lauzun, Duc de, selected by James II. to conduct the escape of the Queen and the Prince of Wales, 242. Leopold I., Emperor, ii. 74. His cruel persecution of the Hungarian Protes- tants, 81.
L'Estrange, Sir Roger, i. 204. Leyburn, Dr., i. 336. Lichfield, Lord, ii. 43. Lisle, Mrs. Alicia, her trial, i. 189. Execution of, 192.
Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph, presents a petition to the King against the Decla- ration for Liberty of Conscience, ii. 10. Summoned before the Privy Council to answer a charge of misdemeanour, 16. Committed to the Tower, 17. Brought before the court of King's Bench by a writ of habeas corpus, 21. Proceedings against him, 22. En- larged on his undertaking to appear on his trial when called upon, 23. trial, 24. Reflections on his trial, 34. Publishes a book, entitled "God's Way of Disposing of Kingdoms," 328. Lobb, one of the most able of the Inde- pendent divines, and warm supporter of the measures of James II., i. 320. Locke, Mr. i. 319.
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