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A.

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.

B.

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.

C.

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.

His

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.

216.

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.

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.

E.

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.

F.

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.

G.

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,

i. 352.

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.

H.

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.

I.

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.

J.

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-

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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.

Ar-

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.

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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.

L.

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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