Quo warranto, writs of,624,625Raleigh, Sir Walter, takes part in the capture of Cadiz,464;sentenced to death and imprisonment,481;loses Sherborne,486;voyage to Guiana and execution of,499;his colony in Virginia,ib.Ré, Buckingham's expedition to,506Reading taken by Essex,538Reading, the abbot of, executed,400Recusancy laws, the, penalties inflicted by,454Regicides, the, execution of,582Reims, College at,453Relics, destruction of,398Renascence, the, character of,366;its influence on England,367;immorality of,374,375Requesens, governor of the Netherlands,449Ruyter, De, captures English forts in Guinea,589Revenue of the crown fixed after the Restoration,582Revolution of 1688-9,646-648Ridley made Bishop of London,416;burnt,425Ridolfi plot, the,444Rinuccini, Archbishop, arrives in Ireland,550;leaves Ireland,562Ripon, treaty of,529Rising in the North, the,441Rizzio, David, murder of,439Roads, improvement in,633Rochelle, Buckingham lends ships to fight against the Huguenots of,504;siege of,506;expedition to the relief of,510Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of, advises against the summoning of Parliament,626;dismissal of,640Rogers, John, burnt,424Rome taken by the Duke of Bourbon,374Root and Branch Bill, the,533Roundway Down, battle of,538Rowton Heath, battle of,549Royal Society, the, foundation of,598Rump, the name given to the remnant of the Long Parliament,565;dissolved by Cromwell,566;brought back, expelled and brought back again,575;final dissolution of,576Rupert, Prince, commands the cavalry at Edgehill,537;storms Bristol,538;is defeated at Marston Moor,543;takes part in the battle of Naseby,548;surrenders Bristol,549;holds a command in the battle off the North Foreland,592;defeated off the Texel,608Russell, William Russell, Lord, supports the Exclusion Bill,617;refuses to take part in acts of violence,624;trial of,625;execution of,626Rye House Plot, the,625Sa, Dom Pantaleon, execution of,569St. Andrews captured by the French and recaptured,413St. Bartholomew, massacre of,449St. Bartholomew's day, ejection of the Presbyterian clergy on,585St. Paul's, Old, burnt,592Salisbury, Penruddock captures the judges at,571Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, as Sir Robert Cecil, secretary to Elizabeth and James I.,480,481;becomes Earl of Salisbury and Lord Treasurer,484;orders the levy of new impositions,ib.;death of,486Salisbury, Countess of, executed,401San Domingo, Penn and Venables attack,572Santa Cruz, Blake destroys Spanish ships at,573Savoy Conference, the,585Savoy, Duke of, persecutes the Vaudois,572Scotland, power of the nobles in,404;Hertford's invasion of,409;Protestant missionaries in,412;Somerset's invasion of,413;the Reformation in,432;the intervention of Elizabeth in,433;Presbyterianism in,434;Mary lands in,435;Mary's government of,437-440;civil war in,443;projected union with,482;Episcopacy and Presbyterianism in,524;introduction of a new prayer book in,525;national covenant signed in,ib.;first Bishops' war with,526;episcopacy abolished by the Assembly and Parliament of,527;the second Bishops war with,529;visit of Charles I. to,532;solemn league and covenant with,540;sends an army into England,542;its army recalled,553;proposal of a new invasion of England by,554;engagement signed with Charles I. by Commissioners of,556;Charles II. and Cromwell in,563;Restoration settlement of,595;Lauderdale's influence in,602;Lauderdale's management of,619;Covenanters in,ib.;rising of the Covenanters in,620;under James II.,639Scottish army, the, encamps on Dunse Law,526;routs the English at Newburn,529;invades England,542;besieges York,ib.;takes part in the battle of Marston Moor,543;receives Charles I. at Southwell, and conveys him to Newcastle,551;negotiation for the abandonment of Charles I. by,553;returns to Scotland,553;is defeated at Dunbar,563;and at Worcester,564Second Civil War, the,556,557Sedgemoor, battle of,637Selby taken by the Fairfaxes,542Selden, John, takes part in drawing up the Petition of Right,508Self-denying Ordinance, the,545Seminary priests, the,453;Act of Parliament against,456Separatists, the, principles of,470;settlement of, in Leyden and New England,469;receive the name of Independents,543;seeIndependentsSettlement, Irish Act of,595Seven Bishops, the, petition presented by,642;trial of,643Seymour, Jane,seeJane SeymourSeymour of Sudley, Lord, execution of,415Seymour, William, heir of the Suffolk line,480Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, early life of,602;policy of,603;supports the Declaration of Indulgence,605;becomes Earl of Shaftesbury and Chancellor,ib.;his invective against the Dutch,606;dismissal of,608;leads the opposition,ib.;supports toleration for Dissenters only,610;declares the present Parliament to be dissolved,612;encourages belief in the Popish Plot,616;his position similar to that of Pym,618;supports the Exclusion Bill,ib.;indicts the Duke of York as a recusant,621;supported by the third Short Parliament,ib.;the Grand Jury throw out a Bill against,622;Dryden's satire on,623;proposes to attack the king's guards,624;exile and death of,ib.Shakspere, William, teaching of,474Sharp, Archbishop, murder of,620Sherborne taken by Fairfax,548Sherfield, Henry, fined by the Star Chamber,515Ship-money, levy of,523;resisted by Hampden,524Ships, comparison between English and Spanish,459Shrines, destruction of,398Sidney, Algernon, execution of,626Sidney, Sir Philip, death of,457Sinclair, Oliver, killed at Solway Moss,405Skeffington, Lord Deputy, takes Maynooth,402Slave trade, the, carried on by Elizabethan sailors,447Smerwick, slaughter at,453Solemn league and covenant, the,540Solway Moss, defeat of the Scots at,405;Charles I. urged by the Scots to take,551Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of, invades Scotland as Earl of Hertford,406;becomes Duke of Somerset and Protector,412;defeats the Scots at Pinkie Cleugh,413;possession of Church property by,415;expelled from the Protectorate,416;execution of,418Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, favourite of James I.,486;disgrace of,488Somerset House, building of,435Southwell, Charles I. surrenders to the Scots at,551Southwold Bay, battle in,605Spain, resources of,426;maritime power of,447;authority of, in the West Indies challenged by English sailors,ib.;navy of,459;English attacks on,464;sends an expedition to Kinsale,478;its alliance sought by James I.,486;attack of Raleigh on the colonies of,489;sends troops to occupy the Palatinate,490;protest of the Commons against an alliance with,496;visit of Prince Charles to,497;eagerness in England for war with,500;money voted for war with,501;expedition against Cadiz in,503;Charles I. makes peace with,514;Cromwell makes war on,571;question of the succession to,592Spenser, Edmund, hisFaerie Queen,473Spinola, Ambrogio, invades the Palatinate,490Spurs, battle of the,364Stadholder, office of,449;abolition of the office of,565Stainer, Admiral, captures a Spanish fleet,572Star Chamber, Court of, its sentences in the reign of Charles I.,514,519,521;abolition of,531Stillingfleet aims at comprehension,598Stop of the Exchequer, the,604Stow-on-the-Wold, surrender of the last Royalist army at,550Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, execution of,621Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, as Sir Thomas Wentworth, his policy contrasted with that of Eliot,508;brings in a bill to secure the liberty of the subject,ib.;becomes Lord Wentworth and President of the Council of the North,514;becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland,527;created Earl of Strafford, and advises the summoning of the Short Parliament,528;does not advise the prolongation of the second Bishops war,529;collects an Irish army,ib.;is impeached,530;Bill of Attainder against,ib.;execution of,531Stratton, battle of,538Strickland moves for an amendment of the Prayer Book,445Strode, William, one of the five members,535Submission of the clergy, the,386Succession, Act of,392Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, marries Mary, sister of Henry VIII.,364Suffolk, Thomas Howard, Earl of,486Suffolk line, its title to the succession,410;Elizabeth's feeling towards,435;William Seymour, the heir of,480Supremacy, Act of,393;Elizabethan Act of,429Supreme head of the Church of England, title of, conferred by Convocation on Henry VIII.,386;abandoned by Elizabeth,429Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, execution of,411Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of, minister of Henry VIII.,363Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of, the commander at Flodden,seeNorfolk, Duke ofSussex, Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of, Lord Deputy of Ireland,452Sweden takes part in the Triple Alliance,599Tangier acquired by Charles II.,587Taunton, siege of,548Taylor, Rowland, burnt,424Temple, Sir William, negotiates the Triple Alliance,599;advises the reform of the Privy Council,617;failure of his scheme,620Terouenne,364Test Act, the, passed,607;a second,616;violated by James II.,638Texel, the, Rupert defeated off,608Thirty Years' War, the, beginning of,490;end of,564Thomas of Canterbury, St., destruction of the shrine of,398Throgmorton's conspiracy,456Tippermuir, battle of,547Tithes, proposal of the Barebone's Parliament to abolish,567Toleration, Cromwell's advocacy of,543;Charles II. proposes to adopt,583;Charles II. issues a declaration in favour of,587;tendency of science to promote,598Tonnage and Poundage, nature of,509;claimed by Charles I. in spite of the Petition of Right,510;Act preventing the king from levying,531Torbay, arrival of William III. in,644Tory party, the, origin of the name of,620;reaction in favour of,622;elects officers in the city,623;gains a majority in the Common Council,624Tournai,364Treasons, Act creating new,392Trent, the Council of,436Triennial Act of Charles I., the,530;repealed,588Triers, Commission of,569Trimmer, origin of the name of,618Triple Alliance, the,599Tulchan bishops, the,524Tunis, Blake sent against,571Turnham Green, the militia of the city resist Charles I. at,537Tuscany, Duke of, Blake sent against,571Tyndale, William, translates the New Testament,396Tyrconnel, Earl of,seeO'DonnellTyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Earl of, Lord Deputy in Ireland,640Tyrone, Earl of,seeO'Neill, HughUlster, plantation of,484;insurrection and massacre in,534Undertakers, the,487Uniformity, Elizabethan Act of,429;Restoration Act of,585Universities consulted on the divorce of Henry VIII.,385Utopia,367Utrecht, union of,450Valentine takes part in holding down the Speaker,514Vandevelde paints marine subjects,631Van Dyck, portraits by,631Vane, Sir Henry, the younger, produces evidence against Strafford,530;negotiates the Solemn League and Covenant,540;brings in a Reform bill,566Vaudois, the, Cromwell intervenes in favour of,572Venice, League of Cambrai formed against,363Venner's plot,584Vere, Sir Horace, defends the Palatinate,490Verrio paints ceilings,631Vestments, ecclesiastical, Hooper's rejection of,417;Puritan resistance to the use of,444;Whitgift's opinion on the propriety of,468Virginia, colonisation of,489Vote of No Addresses,556Walker, Obadiah, Roman Catholic Master of University College,639Waller, Sir William, defeated at Lansdown and Roundway Down,538;takes Arundel Castle and defeats Hopton at Cheriton,542;fights at Cropredy Bridge,544;resigns his command,545Walsingham, Sir Francis, Secretary to Elizabeth,457Warwick, Earl of,seeNorthumberland, Duke ofWentworth, Sir Thomas,seeStrafford, Earl of Wentworth, Thomas Wentworth, Lord, governor of Calais,427Wesley, Samuel, sermon by,642West Indies, the, conflicts between English and Spanish sailors in,447Weston, Lord,seePortland, Earl ofWestphalia, Peace of,564Westmorland, Charles Neville, Earl of, takes part in the rising of the North,441Westward Ho!447Wexford, slaughter at,563Whig party, the, origin of the name of,620;has a hold on the city of London,622'Whip with six strings, the,'400Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, opinions of,468;the High Commission Court under,470;compared with Hooker,472Wilkins, Bishop, aims at comprehension,598William I., Prince of Orange, Stadholder of the Dutch republic,449;Jaureguy's attempt to murder,454;murdered by Gerard,456William II., Prince of Orange, death of,565William III., Prince of Orange, defends the Dutch republic,605;is offered the hand of Mary, daughter of the Duke of York,608;at the head of a continental alliance,609;marriage of,613;invited to England,644;lands at Brixham and marches on London,645;arrives at Whitehall,646;the crown offered to,647Williams, John, Archbishop of York, impeachment of,535Winceby, fight at,542Winchester taken by Cromwell,549Winnington Bridge, Booth defeated at,575Wishart, George, burnt,413Witt, John de, Pensionary of Holland,589;negotiates the Triple Alliance,599;murder of,605Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, rise of,363;magnificence of,364;supports a policy of peace,365,366;comes into the House of Commons,371;becomes unpopular on account of the Amicable Loan,372;secures his position by an alliance with France,374;aspires to the papacy,375;is named legatea latere,ib.;his views on Church reform,376;founds two colleges,377;fails to persuade Henry VIII. to abandon Anne Boleyn,380;is appointed legate to try Henry's divorce,382;fall of,383;death of,384Worcester, battle of,564Wren, Sir Christopher, buildings by,632Wriothesley, Lord Chancellor, excluded from the Council,412Wyatt, Sir Thomas, rebellion and execution of,423York, Charles I. at,537;siege of,542York, James, Duke of,seeJames II.Zutphen, death of Sir Philip Sidney at,457Zwingli, teaching of,390Zwinglianism, spread of, in England,399;Cranmer's attitude towards,416
Quo warranto, writs of,624,625
Raleigh, Sir Walter, takes part in the capture of Cadiz,464;sentenced to death and imprisonment,481;loses Sherborne,486;voyage to Guiana and execution of,499;his colony in Virginia,ib.Ré, Buckingham's expedition to,506Reading taken by Essex,538Reading, the abbot of, executed,400Recusancy laws, the, penalties inflicted by,454Regicides, the, execution of,582Reims, College at,453Relics, destruction of,398Renascence, the, character of,366;its influence on England,367;immorality of,374,375Requesens, governor of the Netherlands,449Ruyter, De, captures English forts in Guinea,589Revenue of the crown fixed after the Restoration,582Revolution of 1688-9,646-648Ridley made Bishop of London,416;burnt,425Ridolfi plot, the,444Rinuccini, Archbishop, arrives in Ireland,550;leaves Ireland,562Ripon, treaty of,529Rising in the North, the,441Rizzio, David, murder of,439Roads, improvement in,633Rochelle, Buckingham lends ships to fight against the Huguenots of,504;siege of,506;expedition to the relief of,510Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of, advises against the summoning of Parliament,626;dismissal of,640Rogers, John, burnt,424Rome taken by the Duke of Bourbon,374Root and Branch Bill, the,533Roundway Down, battle of,538Rowton Heath, battle of,549Royal Society, the, foundation of,598Rump, the name given to the remnant of the Long Parliament,565;dissolved by Cromwell,566;brought back, expelled and brought back again,575;final dissolution of,576Rupert, Prince, commands the cavalry at Edgehill,537;storms Bristol,538;is defeated at Marston Moor,543;takes part in the battle of Naseby,548;surrenders Bristol,549;holds a command in the battle off the North Foreland,592;defeated off the Texel,608Russell, William Russell, Lord, supports the Exclusion Bill,617;refuses to take part in acts of violence,624;trial of,625;execution of,626Rye House Plot, the,625
Sa, Dom Pantaleon, execution of,569St. Andrews captured by the French and recaptured,413St. Bartholomew, massacre of,449St. Bartholomew's day, ejection of the Presbyterian clergy on,585St. Paul's, Old, burnt,592Salisbury, Penruddock captures the judges at,571Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, as Sir Robert Cecil, secretary to Elizabeth and James I.,480,481;becomes Earl of Salisbury and Lord Treasurer,484;orders the levy of new impositions,ib.;death of,486Salisbury, Countess of, executed,401San Domingo, Penn and Venables attack,572Santa Cruz, Blake destroys Spanish ships at,573Savoy Conference, the,585Savoy, Duke of, persecutes the Vaudois,572Scotland, power of the nobles in,404;Hertford's invasion of,409;Protestant missionaries in,412;Somerset's invasion of,413;the Reformation in,432;the intervention of Elizabeth in,433;Presbyterianism in,434;Mary lands in,435;Mary's government of,437-440;civil war in,443;projected union with,482;Episcopacy and Presbyterianism in,524;introduction of a new prayer book in,525;national covenant signed in,ib.;first Bishops' war with,526;episcopacy abolished by the Assembly and Parliament of,527;the second Bishops war with,529;visit of Charles I. to,532;solemn league and covenant with,540;sends an army into England,542;its army recalled,553;proposal of a new invasion of England by,554;engagement signed with Charles I. by Commissioners of,556;Charles II. and Cromwell in,563;Restoration settlement of,595;Lauderdale's influence in,602;Lauderdale's management of,619;Covenanters in,ib.;rising of the Covenanters in,620;under James II.,639Scottish army, the, encamps on Dunse Law,526;routs the English at Newburn,529;invades England,542;besieges York,ib.;takes part in the battle of Marston Moor,543;receives Charles I. at Southwell, and conveys him to Newcastle,551;negotiation for the abandonment of Charles I. by,553;returns to Scotland,553;is defeated at Dunbar,563;and at Worcester,564Second Civil War, the,556,557Sedgemoor, battle of,637Selby taken by the Fairfaxes,542Selden, John, takes part in drawing up the Petition of Right,508Self-denying Ordinance, the,545Seminary priests, the,453;Act of Parliament against,456Separatists, the, principles of,470;settlement of, in Leyden and New England,469;receive the name of Independents,543;seeIndependentsSettlement, Irish Act of,595Seven Bishops, the, petition presented by,642;trial of,643Seymour, Jane,seeJane SeymourSeymour of Sudley, Lord, execution of,415Seymour, William, heir of the Suffolk line,480Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, early life of,602;policy of,603;supports the Declaration of Indulgence,605;becomes Earl of Shaftesbury and Chancellor,ib.;his invective against the Dutch,606;dismissal of,608;leads the opposition,ib.;supports toleration for Dissenters only,610;declares the present Parliament to be dissolved,612;encourages belief in the Popish Plot,616;his position similar to that of Pym,618;supports the Exclusion Bill,ib.;indicts the Duke of York as a recusant,621;supported by the third Short Parliament,ib.;the Grand Jury throw out a Bill against,622;Dryden's satire on,623;proposes to attack the king's guards,624;exile and death of,ib.Shakspere, William, teaching of,474Sharp, Archbishop, murder of,620Sherborne taken by Fairfax,548Sherfield, Henry, fined by the Star Chamber,515Ship-money, levy of,523;resisted by Hampden,524Ships, comparison between English and Spanish,459Shrines, destruction of,398Sidney, Algernon, execution of,626Sidney, Sir Philip, death of,457Sinclair, Oliver, killed at Solway Moss,405Skeffington, Lord Deputy, takes Maynooth,402Slave trade, the, carried on by Elizabethan sailors,447Smerwick, slaughter at,453Solemn league and covenant, the,540Solway Moss, defeat of the Scots at,405;Charles I. urged by the Scots to take,551Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of, invades Scotland as Earl of Hertford,406;becomes Duke of Somerset and Protector,412;defeats the Scots at Pinkie Cleugh,413;possession of Church property by,415;expelled from the Protectorate,416;execution of,418Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, favourite of James I.,486;disgrace of,488Somerset House, building of,435Southwell, Charles I. surrenders to the Scots at,551Southwold Bay, battle in,605Spain, resources of,426;maritime power of,447;authority of, in the West Indies challenged by English sailors,ib.;navy of,459;English attacks on,464;sends an expedition to Kinsale,478;its alliance sought by James I.,486;attack of Raleigh on the colonies of,489;sends troops to occupy the Palatinate,490;protest of the Commons against an alliance with,496;visit of Prince Charles to,497;eagerness in England for war with,500;money voted for war with,501;expedition against Cadiz in,503;Charles I. makes peace with,514;Cromwell makes war on,571;question of the succession to,592Spenser, Edmund, hisFaerie Queen,473Spinola, Ambrogio, invades the Palatinate,490Spurs, battle of the,364Stadholder, office of,449;abolition of the office of,565Stainer, Admiral, captures a Spanish fleet,572Star Chamber, Court of, its sentences in the reign of Charles I.,514,519,521;abolition of,531Stillingfleet aims at comprehension,598Stop of the Exchequer, the,604Stow-on-the-Wold, surrender of the last Royalist army at,550Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, execution of,621Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, as Sir Thomas Wentworth, his policy contrasted with that of Eliot,508;brings in a bill to secure the liberty of the subject,ib.;becomes Lord Wentworth and President of the Council of the North,514;becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland,527;created Earl of Strafford, and advises the summoning of the Short Parliament,528;does not advise the prolongation of the second Bishops war,529;collects an Irish army,ib.;is impeached,530;Bill of Attainder against,ib.;execution of,531Stratton, battle of,538Strickland moves for an amendment of the Prayer Book,445Strode, William, one of the five members,535Submission of the clergy, the,386Succession, Act of,392Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, marries Mary, sister of Henry VIII.,364Suffolk, Thomas Howard, Earl of,486Suffolk line, its title to the succession,410;Elizabeth's feeling towards,435;William Seymour, the heir of,480Supremacy, Act of,393;Elizabethan Act of,429Supreme head of the Church of England, title of, conferred by Convocation on Henry VIII.,386;abandoned by Elizabeth,429Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, execution of,411Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of, minister of Henry VIII.,363Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of, the commander at Flodden,seeNorfolk, Duke ofSussex, Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of, Lord Deputy of Ireland,452Sweden takes part in the Triple Alliance,599
Tangier acquired by Charles II.,587Taunton, siege of,548Taylor, Rowland, burnt,424Temple, Sir William, negotiates the Triple Alliance,599;advises the reform of the Privy Council,617;failure of his scheme,620Terouenne,364Test Act, the, passed,607;a second,616;violated by James II.,638Texel, the, Rupert defeated off,608Thirty Years' War, the, beginning of,490;end of,564Thomas of Canterbury, St., destruction of the shrine of,398Throgmorton's conspiracy,456Tippermuir, battle of,547Tithes, proposal of the Barebone's Parliament to abolish,567Toleration, Cromwell's advocacy of,543;Charles II. proposes to adopt,583;Charles II. issues a declaration in favour of,587;tendency of science to promote,598Tonnage and Poundage, nature of,509;claimed by Charles I. in spite of the Petition of Right,510;Act preventing the king from levying,531Torbay, arrival of William III. in,644Tory party, the, origin of the name of,620;reaction in favour of,622;elects officers in the city,623;gains a majority in the Common Council,624Tournai,364Treasons, Act creating new,392Trent, the Council of,436Triennial Act of Charles I., the,530;repealed,588Triers, Commission of,569Trimmer, origin of the name of,618Triple Alliance, the,599Tulchan bishops, the,524Tunis, Blake sent against,571Turnham Green, the militia of the city resist Charles I. at,537Tuscany, Duke of, Blake sent against,571Tyndale, William, translates the New Testament,396Tyrconnel, Earl of,seeO'DonnellTyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Earl of, Lord Deputy in Ireland,640Tyrone, Earl of,seeO'Neill, Hugh
Ulster, plantation of,484;insurrection and massacre in,534Undertakers, the,487Uniformity, Elizabethan Act of,429;Restoration Act of,585Universities consulted on the divorce of Henry VIII.,385Utopia,367Utrecht, union of,450
Valentine takes part in holding down the Speaker,514Vandevelde paints marine subjects,631Van Dyck, portraits by,631Vane, Sir Henry, the younger, produces evidence against Strafford,530;negotiates the Solemn League and Covenant,540;brings in a Reform bill,566Vaudois, the, Cromwell intervenes in favour of,572Venice, League of Cambrai formed against,363Venner's plot,584Vere, Sir Horace, defends the Palatinate,490Verrio paints ceilings,631Vestments, ecclesiastical, Hooper's rejection of,417;Puritan resistance to the use of,444;Whitgift's opinion on the propriety of,468Virginia, colonisation of,489Vote of No Addresses,556
Walker, Obadiah, Roman Catholic Master of University College,639Waller, Sir William, defeated at Lansdown and Roundway Down,538;takes Arundel Castle and defeats Hopton at Cheriton,542;fights at Cropredy Bridge,544;resigns his command,545Walsingham, Sir Francis, Secretary to Elizabeth,457Warwick, Earl of,seeNorthumberland, Duke ofWentworth, Sir Thomas,seeStrafford, Earl of Wentworth, Thomas Wentworth, Lord, governor of Calais,427Wesley, Samuel, sermon by,642West Indies, the, conflicts between English and Spanish sailors in,447Weston, Lord,seePortland, Earl ofWestphalia, Peace of,564Westmorland, Charles Neville, Earl of, takes part in the rising of the North,441Westward Ho!447Wexford, slaughter at,563Whig party, the, origin of the name of,620;has a hold on the city of London,622'Whip with six strings, the,'400Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, opinions of,468;the High Commission Court under,470;compared with Hooker,472Wilkins, Bishop, aims at comprehension,598William I., Prince of Orange, Stadholder of the Dutch republic,449;Jaureguy's attempt to murder,454;murdered by Gerard,456William II., Prince of Orange, death of,565William III., Prince of Orange, defends the Dutch republic,605;is offered the hand of Mary, daughter of the Duke of York,608;at the head of a continental alliance,609;marriage of,613;invited to England,644;lands at Brixham and marches on London,645;arrives at Whitehall,646;the crown offered to,647Williams, John, Archbishop of York, impeachment of,535Winceby, fight at,542Winchester taken by Cromwell,549Winnington Bridge, Booth defeated at,575Wishart, George, burnt,413Witt, John de, Pensionary of Holland,589;negotiates the Triple Alliance,599;murder of,605Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, rise of,363;magnificence of,364;supports a policy of peace,365,366;comes into the House of Commons,371;becomes unpopular on account of the Amicable Loan,372;secures his position by an alliance with France,374;aspires to the papacy,375;is named legatea latere,ib.;his views on Church reform,376;founds two colleges,377;fails to persuade Henry VIII. to abandon Anne Boleyn,380;is appointed legate to try Henry's divorce,382;fall of,383;death of,384Worcester, battle of,564Wren, Sir Christopher, buildings by,632Wriothesley, Lord Chancellor, excluded from the Council,412Wyatt, Sir Thomas, rebellion and execution of,423
York, Charles I. at,537;siege of,542York, James, Duke of,seeJames II.
Zutphen, death of Sir Philip Sidney at,457Zwingli, teaching of,390Zwinglianism, spread of, in England,399;Cranmer's attitude towards,416