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72. Proceedings against him, 76. Suspended from his spiritual func
tions, 76. His education of the Princess Mary, 136. His communica-
tions with Dykvelt, 197. Joins in the consultations of the bishops, 270.
Joins the revolutionary conspiracy, 317. Signs the invitation to the Prince
of Orange, 317. His suspension removed, 362. Questioned by James; his
equivocation, 371. Takes part in the conference of the bishops with
James, 383. Assists the flight of the Princess Anne, 404. Waits on Wil-
liam at St. James's, 455. Supports the Comprehension Bill, iii. 72. As-
sists at the coronation of William and Mary, 93. His claims for the pri-
macy, 385.
His discontent at being passed over, 386. Accompanies Wil-
liam to Holland, iv. 1. His jealousy of Tillotson, 29. Preaches at St.
Paul's on the Thanksgiving Day, 644.

Condé, the Prince of; his opinion of William of Orange, ii. 131.
Conduit Street, i. 279.

Coningsby, Thomas, Paymaster-General under William III., iii. 489. One
of the Lords Justices for Ireland, 496. Orders the execution of Gafney,
iv. 56. Signs the Treaty of Limerick, 84. Becomes unpopular with the
Englishry, 290. His recall, 290. Prior's ballad against, 290.
Consistory Courts, ii. 270.

Constantinople, English ambassador at, in the reign of Charles II., i. 239.
Conti, Armand, Prince of, at the battle of Steinkirk, iv. 224.
Conventicle Act, The, ii. 166.

Convention, The, summoned by the Prince of Orange in 1688, ii. 463. Elec-
tion of Members, 471. Meets, 483. Debates on the state of the nation,
471-488. The Commons declare the throne vacant, 488. The Lords dis-
cuss the question of a regency, 490. The Lords negative the clause de-
claring the throne vacant, 540. Dispute between the Houses, 500, 501.
The Lords yield, 506. Reforms suggested by the Commons Committee,
507. Adopts the Declaration of Right, 510. Declares William and Mary
King and Queen; settles the succession, 511. Its adherence to ancient
forms and principles, 513, 514. Question of its conversion into a Parlia-
ment, iii. 21. Bill to that effect passed by the Lords, 25. By the Com-
mons, 25. See Parliament of 1689.

Convention, Scotch, iii. 196, 197. Letter of William III. to, 208. Its meet-
ing, 214. Elects the Duke of Hamilton president, 216. Appoints a Cum-
mittee of Elections; summons Edinburgh Castle to surrender, 217. Let-
ter of James II. to, 219. William's letter read, 220. James's letter read;
its effect, 220. Agitation in, on the flight of Dundee, 222. Its measures
of defence; letter to William, 223. Appoints a committee to prepare a
plan of government, 224. Declares the deposition of James, 226. Pro-
claims William and Mary; adopts the Claim of Right, 227. Its declara-
tion against Episcopacy, 229. Recognizes the legality of torture, 230.
Revises the coronation oath, 230. Converted into a Parliament, 275. See
Parliament, Scotch.

Convocation, subjection of, to royal authority, i. 44. William III. requested
by Parliament to summon Convocation, iii. 89. Constitution of, 383.
Convocation of 1689; its temper, iii. 384. Exasperated by the proceedings
in Scotland, 383. Meets, 387. The Houses differ on the Address, 389.
Waste of time by the Lower House, 390. Jealousies in, 390, note. Pro-
rogued, 391.

Conyngham, Sir Albert, leader of Enniskillen Dragoons, iii. 495.

Cook, Sir Thomas, Chairman of the East India Company, iv. 341. His
accounts of his expenditure, 441. Sent to the Tower, 442. Obtains a
Bill of Indemnity, 443.

Cook, a nonjuring clergyman, assists in the absolution of Friend and Par
kyns at Tyburn, iv. 542.

Cooper, Bishop, his answer to Martin Marprelate, i. 59, note.

Cork James at 135 Taken by Marlborough, 538.

Cornbury, Edward, Viscount, deserts to William, ii. 389. His signature
forged by Robert Young, iv. 198.

Cornish, Henry; his trial and execution, i. 521. His attainder reversed, iii.
302.

Cornwall, tin and copper in, i. 246. Feeling on the imprisonment of Bishop
Trelawney, ii. 287. Levies in, in expectation of a French landing, iii. 517.
Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, made First Lord of the Admiralty, iv. 148.
Coronation oath, iii. 92.

Corporation Act, Bill for the repeal of, iii. 86.

Corporation Bill, The, iii. 413.

Cosino, Grand. Duke; his travels, i. 255, note; 274, note. His praise of
English inns, 301, note.

Cotton manufacture, i. 265.

Country gentlemen, i. 248. Their rudeness of manners, 250, 251. Their
loyalty and attachment to the Church, 252.

"Country Party," The, i. 158. Opposes the Cabal, 171. Difficulties of,
177. Its dealings with France, 178. The new Country Party, ii. 16.
Covenanters, Scotch, i. 145. Persecution of, 391. Summary executions of,
391-394. Their hatred of the observance of festivals, iii. 198. Dissatis-
fied with the Convention, 232. Their scruples about taking arms for
William III. 271–273.

Covent Garden, i. 278, 279.

Coventry, riots at, ii. 78.

Coventry, Sir John, Charles II.'s revenge on, i. 159.

Cowley, Abraham, i. 313. His Ode to the Royal Society, 319.

Cowper, William, supports the attainder of Fenwick, iv. 593. Opposes the
Bill for regulating Elections, 614. His popular qualities; member for
Hertford, v. 181. His defence of Lord Somers, 196.

Cowper, Spencer, brother of the preceding, attachment of a young Quaker
lady to, v. 182. Accused of murdering her, 183. His acquittal; grand-
father of William Cowper, the poet, 184.

Cowper, William, a celebrated anatomist, v. 183.

Craggs, James; his early career; becomes an army clothier; sent to the
Tower for refusing to produce his books, iv. 438.

Cranburne, Charles, purveyor of arms to Jacobite conspirators, iv. 523.
Executed, 544.

Crane, bearer of James II.'s letter to the Scotch Convention, iii. 220.

Cranmer, Archbishop; his character, i. 40. His opinions of royal supre
macy, 43.

Craven, William, Earl of, ii. 452.

Crawford, Earl of, President of the Scotch Parliament, iii. 234. Presides
at the torture of Neville Payne, 554.

Crecy, French negotiator at Ryswick, iv. 628.

Cresset, John; his pamphlet against stage-coaches, i. 297, note.

Crewe, Nathaniel, Bishop of Durham; Ecclesiastical Commissioner, ii. 74.
Takes part in a Popish procession, 212. Resumes his seat in the Lords
under William III. 506.

His Pro-
His

Croese, Gerard; his account of William Penn, i. 398, note, 400, note.
Cromwell, Oliver; at Marston Moor, i. 91. At Naseby, 92. Character of
his army, 93. Suppresses an insurrection in Wales, 96. Leaves Charles I.
to his fate, 98. Combination of parties against him; his conquest of
land, 101. Of Scotland, 101. His design on the crown, 103.
tectorate; his House of Commons, 105. His Upper House, 105.
energy, 106. His toleration, 107. His foreign policy, 107. His death,
108. Treatment of his remains, 121. Honor paid to his memory, 149.
His death ascribed to poison, 346. Prosperity of Scotland under, iii. 202,
note. Reference to, on the question of oaths, 353, 354.

Cromwell, Richard, his accession and character, i. 108, 109. Calls a Par-
liament; unpopular with the army. 110. His fall, 111.
"Cromwellians" in Ireland. i. 146.

Crone, a Jacobite emissary; arrested, iii. 468. His trial, 469. Conviction,
476. Saves his life by giving information, 477.

Cross, Godfrey, executed for giving information to Tourville, iii. 570, 571.
Crown lands, proposed resumption of, v. 26.

Crusades, productive of good, i. 6.

Cudworth, Ralph, i. 258.

Cumberland, wild state of, in 1685, i. 222.

Cumberland, Richard, Bishop of Peterborough, iv. 35.

Cunningham, commands the succors sent to Londonderry, iii. 149. De-
ceived by Lundy; effects nothing, 149. Sent to prison, 178.

Currency, debased state of (1695), iv. 495-498. General suffering caused
thereby, 498. Literary allusions to, 499, note. Ineffective legislation on
the subject, 502. Consultations for the restoration of, 504. Pamphlets
on, 504. Parliamentary proceedings, 509. The Recoinage Bill, 512.
Efforts for its restoration, 514. And their success, 516.
Customs, produce of, i. 223. Of Liverpool, 268.
Cutlery, i. 267.

Of London, 272.

Cutts, John, at the battle of the Boyne, iii. 495. Serves in the Brest expe-
dition, iv. 408. His gallantry in the siege of Namur, 471, 472. Present
at the interview between William and Pendergrass, 530. His exertions
during the fire at Whitehall, v. 53.

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Dalrymple, Sir James, of Stair; his life and character, iii. 209-211. Presi-
dent of the Court of Session, 234.
Dalrymple, Sir John (Master of Stair); agent of William III. at Edinburgh,
iii. 210. Appointed Lord Advocate, 234. Opposes Montgomery in the
Scotch Parliament, 545. Appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, iv.
150. His hatred to the Macdonalds of Glencoe, 161. His probable motives;
his policy towards the Highlanders, 162, 163. Obtains William's signature
for the extirpation of the Macdonalds of Glencoe, 164. His arrangements,
165, 166.
His disappointment at the incompleteness of the massacre, 174.
Accompanies William to Holland, 300. Dislike and jealousy of him, 574.
Proved to be the cause of the Glencoe massacre, 460. Address of Scotch
Parliament to the King regarding him, 460, 461. Dismissed by William,
464.

Dalrymples, the, disliked by the Scotch aristocracy, iii. 276.

Daly, an Irish judge, iii. 103. His censure of the proceedings of the Jacobite
Irish Parliament; summoned to the bar of the House; discharged, 163.
Danby, Earl of. See Leeds, Duke of.

Danby, Earl of, son of the above. See Caermarthen.

Danes; their struggle with the Saxons, i. 8.
army at the Boyne, iii. 495.

Dangerfield, a witness in the Popish plot, i. 201.

Danish troops in William's

His trial, 383. His death

from flogging, 383. His narrative published by Williams, ii. 266. See
Williams.

Danvers, an English refugee in Holland, i. 413. A follower of Monmouth,
427. His cowardly conduct, 413.

Darcy, Colonel John, ii. 20.

Dare, Thomas, a follower of Monmouth, i. 451. His quarrel with Fletcher of
Saltoun; is slain, 454.

Darien, Scottish colonization of, proposed by William Paterson, v. 159-161.
The Company, 161. Number of small shareholders, 163. The violation
of the rights of Spain overlooked, 164. Impolicy of the scheme, 165.
Certain hostility of other powers, 166. Unfavorable opinions in England,
167, 168. The scheme persisted in, 170. Departure of the expedition;
Arrival at the Isthmus, 171. Establishment of the colony; dealings with
the native chieftains, 172. Internal government; Hostility of the neigh-

boring settlements, 173. Rumors of disaster reach London, 174. Strange
inattention to considerations of climate, 176. Mortality among the set-
tlers; disastrous night; a remnant arrives at New York, 177. Arrival of
the second expedition at Darien, 178. Internal quarrels, 179. Besieged by
a Spanish force; capitulate, 180.
Dartmouth, George Legge, Lord; receives Monmouth into his custody, i. 488.
The commander of James II.'s fleet, ii. 360. Detained in the Thames by
wind; driven into Portsmouth by weather, 362-377. Refuses to send the
Prince of Wales to France, 411-412. Removed from the command of the
fleet, 463. Takes the oath of allegiance to William III., iii. 26. Takes
part in Jacobite plots, 57. Furnishes Preston with information for Saint
Germains, 464. Informed against by Preston, iv. 16, 18. Dies in the
Tower, 18.

Davenant, Charles; his calculations of agricultural produce, i. 245. Of min-
eral produce, 247, note. His estimate of clerical incomes, 253.

Davenant, a French partisan; found at supper with the French ambassador;
pretends that the meeting was accidental, v. 230. Loses his seat in Par-
liament, 233.

Declaration of Indulgence. See Indulgence.

Declaration of Right, ii. 510, 511.

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Defoe, Daniel, his True-born Englishınan," iii. 47, note.

Delamere, Henry Booth, Lord. See Warrington, Earl of.

De la Rue; his share in the assassination plot, iv. 523. Informs against his
confederates, 530. His evidence, 535.

Dval, Sir Ralph, destroys French ships at Cherburg, iv. 191. Placed over
the nav 297. His mismanagement in the matter of the Smyrna fleet,
332.

Delegates, Court of, ii. 70.

Delft, residence of the French envoys during the negotiations at Ryswick,
iv. 628.

Denmark; its jealousy of England and Holland, iv. 206.
Derby, i. 264.

Derby, James, Earl of, ii. 252.

Derby, William, Earl of (grandson of the above), ii. 252.
Derbyshire, roads in, i. 292.

De Ruyter, i. 149.

De Vere, Captain; his reply to Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury, v. 13.
Devonshire, wages in, 325. Muster of, in expectation of a French landing
after the battle of Beachy Head, iii. 524.

Devonshire, William Cavendish, Earl of, ii. 24. His quarrel with Colepepper,
193. Fined exorbitantly; imprisoned, 194. Released, 195. Joins the
revolutionary conspiracy; signs the invitation to William of Orange, 315.
Heads the rising in Derbyshire, 398. Meeting of peers at his house, 498.
Appointed Lord Steward, iii. 18. Made a Kight of the Garter, 95. Inquiry
into his case, 304. One of the Council of Nine, 473. Accompanies Wil-
liam to Holland, iv. 1. Involved in Preston's confession, 16. William's
magnanimity to him, 17. Raised to the dukedom, 405. Appointed one
of the Lords Justices, 450. Transmits Fenwick's confession to William,
571. His part in the debate on Fenwick's attainder, 604. At the death
bed of William III., v. 238.

Devonshire, Countess Dowager of, ii. 195.

De Witt, John, Grand Pensionary of Holland, i. 157. Murdered, 170.
Dieppe, Bombardment of, iv. 411.

Digby, Edward; his letters from the Tower, ii. 5, 6.

Dispensing power, i. 22, 23. Questions as to the extent of, 172. James II.'s
claim to, ii. 63. Recognized by the Court of King's Bench, 66. James's
exercise of, 67.

Dissent, secret (time of Charles I.), i. 69.

"Dissenter, Letter to a," ii. 170.

Dockwray, William; his penny post, i. 302.

Dowdwell, Henry; his Jacobitism; included in the Act of Attainder, iii. 172.

A nonjuror, 365. His strange theories, 365.

Dolben, Gilbert, ii. 486.

Domains, royal, i. 23; v. 25.

Donelagh, Captain, a Jacobite agent, iv. 569.
Donore, James II.'s head-quarters at, iii. 493.

Dorsetshire, Jeffreys at, i. 501.

Dorchester, Countess of (Catharine Sedley), ii. 53. Her power over James
II., 54. Retires to Ireland, 56. Returns to London, 116. Her letter to
James, iii. 574.

Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, ii. 249. Dismissed from the Lord-Lieu-
tenancy of Sussex, 252. Assists the flight of the Princes Anne, 404. Ap-
pointed Lord Chamberlain, iii. 18. His conduct towards Dryden, 19.
One of the Council of Nine, 473. Accompanies William III. to Holland,
iv. 1. Involved in Preston's confession, 16. William's magnanimity to
him, 17. Appointed one of the Lords Justices, 450. His part in the
debate on Fenwick's attainder, 605. Resigns the office of Chamberlain,
620.

Dort, Synod of, 59, 61.

Douglas, Andrew; his part in the relief of Londonderry, iii. 186.

Douglas, James, commands the Scotch foot-guards at the battle of the
Boyne, iii. 494, 498. Falls at Steinkirk, iv. 226.

Dover, treaty of, i. 163.

Dover, Henry Jermyn, Lord, ii. 36. Made Privy Councillor, 66. His ad-
vice to James II., 39. At the Board of Treasury, 124. Lord-Lieutenant
of Cambridgeshire, 255. Sent to Portsmouth to aid the Prince of Wales's
escape, 410. Attends James to Ireland, iii. 132. Makes his submission to
William III., 565.

Drama, the, under Charles II., i. 313, 315, 316.

Drogheda, iii. 492. Surrenders to William III., 505.

Dromore, skirmish at, iii. 129.

Drumlanrig, Earl of, deserts James II., ii. 403.

Drummond, Captain; his part in the massacre of Glencoe, iv. 168. De-
nounced by the Scotch Parliament, 461.

Drummond, General, a Scotch Privy Councillor, ii. 92. Resists the meas-
ures of James II., 95.

His

Dryden, John; his sneers at the militia, i. 227, note. His testimony to Arch-
bishop Tillotson, 259, note. At Will's Coffee House, 288. His Fables;
price of the copyright, 315. His Absalom and Achitophel, 317.
Annus Mirabilis, 319. Converted to Popery, ii. 154. His Hind and
Panther, 155-157. Literary attacks on, ib. Regrets James II.'s violent
measures, 245. Dismissed from the laureateship, iii. 19. His dedication
to Halifax, 519. His Aurungzebe, iv. 105. His translation of Virgil;
price of the copyright, 420. His complaints of bad money sent by Ton-
son, 421.

Duart, Maclean of, iii. 262.

Dublin, James II.'s entry into, iii. 137. Its appearance in 1689, 137. Fac
tions in the Court at, ib. Irish Parliament at, 138. James II.'s Court at,
459. Excitement in, on the news of William III.'s landing, 488. Return
of James's army after the battle of the Boyne, 506. Evacuated by the
Jacobite troops, 508. William's entry into, 509.

Dudley, Guilford, i. 494.

Dugdale, a witness against Lord Stafford, i. 202. Against College, 205
His death, 378.

Du Guay Trouin, a French privateer, iv. 234.

Dunbarton's regiment, 476-480.

Dumblane, Peregrine Osborne, Lord. See Caermarthen.

Dumont, an accomplice in the plot for assassinating William, iv. 228. Be-
trays Grandval, 229.

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