the Lords, 503; sentenced to fine and imprisonment by the Lords, 504; his influence with the army, iii. 50; holds that Parliament has no legal existence, 196; is visited by Cromwell and offers to leave England if the Commons will adopt his view on the Lords' jurisdic- tion, 197; denounces Cromwell, 198; liberation and re-arrest of, 291; peti- tion for the release of, 427; set at liberty in order that he may attack Cromwell, 428; attacks Huntington, 429; makes overtures to Cromwell, 430; writes part of the petition of the London Levellers, 471; in com- munication with Ireton, 500; objects to the king's execution, without security against the army, ib.; fails to agree with Ireton, 527; proposes to Harrison the appointment of a com- mittee to draw up a new Agreement of the People, 528; believes Ireton to have promised that the decision of the committee shall be final, 529; forms a committee, 534; disappointed that the draft of his committee is discussed in the Council of Officers, 546; withdraws from the discussion, 567 Lilburne, Robert, Colonel, takes part in the officers' petition on service in Ire- land, iii. 38; summoned by the House of Commons, 43; prevents Kempson from taking his men to Ireland, 49; mutiny in the regiment of, 254 Lilburnian party, the petition presented by, iii. 72; second and third petitions of, 75; fourth petition of, 95; name of Levellers given to, 116; see Levellers,
Limerick, Ormond's herald attacked at,
Lincoln, Earl of, 1619 (Theophilus Clin- ton), impeached, iii. 191
Lincoln, the Hothams offer to betray,
i. 165; the queen expects to gain, 188; failure of a plot for the betrayal of, 191, 192; abandoned by Willoughby, 224; taken by Manchester, 284; given up to the royalists, 374; stormed by Manchester, 406; Manchester es- tablishes himself at, 473
Lincolnshire, added to the Eastern Association, i. 280; pacified by Man- chester, 288; defeat of royalist in- surgents in, iii. 394
Lindsay, Earl of, see Crawford and Lindsay, Earl of
Lindsey, first Earl of, 1626 (Robert Bertie),
commander-in-chief of the king's army, 1. 3; refuses to act as general at Edge- hill, 50; death of, 57 Lindsey, second Earl of, 1642 (Montague Bertie), sent to negotiate with Rains- borough, ii. 470; urges Charles to escape from Newport, iii. 524 Lingen, Sir Henry, said to have risen
in Herefordshire, iii. 447; routed in Montgomeryshire, 449; resolution of the Houses for the banishment of, 510 Linlithgow, prisoners killed at, ii. 337 Linton, Lord (John Stewart), sent to join Montrose, ii. 334; recalled, 335 Liskeard, arrival of Charles at, i. 460 Lisle, John, in the chair of a committee of privileges, ii. 27; makes his report, 62
Lisle, Sir George, takes part in the battle of Cheriton, i. 378; joins the royalists in Essex, iii. 396; condemned to be shot, 459; execution of, 460
Lisle, Viscount (Philip Sidney), heads an expedition in Ireland, i. 134; allied with Parsons, 141; appointed parlia- mentary lord-lieutenant of Ireland, iii. 46; recall of, ib.; Monk serves under, 353
Liverpool, taken by Rupert, i. 430; taken by Meldrum, 519; ii. 33
Livesey, Sir Michael, ordered to suppress Holland's rising, iii. 407; pursues Holland, 410
Lobsters, the, Hazlerigg's cavalry nick- named, i. 199; defeated on Round- way Down, 203
Local feeling, strength of, i. 79; the Cornish, 86; parliamentary armies divided by, 156; its effect on the king's army after the victory of Roundway Down, 228; danger of relying on, 400; weakens the king's army after the taking of Leicester, ii. 197
London, City of, provides money for the parliamentary army, i. 33; offers the service of its trained bands, 44; hope- fulness of the royalists in, ib.; is fortified after Edgehill, 60; asked by Parliament for support, 63; Pym's application to, 65; sends its trained bands to Turnham Green, 66; protests against an accommodation, 73; raises a loan, 75; royalists in, 86; peace riots in, 86, 87; raises a fresh loan, III; orders given for the fortification of, 114; royalist party in, 168; secret royalist association in, 171; authorised to command its own forces, 209; sends troops into Kent, 211; asks that Waller may command a new army, ib.; intrusted with the guard of the Tower, 212; anti-royalist feeling in, ib.; is irritated by the intention of the Houses to negotiate after Roundway Down, 216; petitions against peace propositions, 217; a forced loan of fifty subsidies imposed on, 237; pre- parations for the relief of Gloucester in, 238; finds money for the Scots, 280; asks for the recall of its trained bands, 295; Brooke's plot for winning for the king, 316; dinner given to the Houses by, 320; offers men and money
towards the army, 470; the army enters, 531; seizure by Fairfax of money in, 542
London, Committee of the Militia of the City of, placed in command of forces raised for the defence of the City, i 209; demands that the suburban militia shall be subjected to, ii. 448; a new one authorised by ordinance, and chosen by the City, iii. 67; newly constituted by the Presbyterians, 68; committee of safety appointed to con- fer with, 113; orders the trained bands to resist the army, 114; restoration of the old, 165; restoration of the new, 167; repeal of ordinance restoring the new, 184; again proposed to be nomi- nated by the City, 372; passing of an ordinance nominating according to the choice of the City, 378
to Essex, 400; offers five regiments after Essex's surrender, 490; petition of the clergy of, against toleration, ii. 12; petition for the execution of Laud and Wren in, 44; asked for a loan to pay the first expenses of the New Model Army, 141; entertains the two Houses at a banquet, 221; entry of the prisoners from Naseby into, 222; religion of the citizens of, 370; petitions against toleration, 393; supports the terms offered to the king by the Scots, 448; proposal to put the suburban militia under the authorities of, ib.; its petition on excommunication, 451; military importance of, 452; is recon- ciled with the House of Commons, 456; election of elders in, 505; asks for the disbandment of the army, 572; distrusts Charles, iii. 28; petitions for the disbandment of the army, 35; asks for a new militia committee of its own choosing, 67; urged by Massey to rise against the army, 98; asks that the army may be disbanded, and that the City may be permitted to raise cavalry, 107; letter of twelve officers to, 109; want of martial enthusiasm in, 113; temporises with the army, 114; sends a deputation to the army, 115; men under arms in, 127; signature of The Solemn Engagement of the City in, 165; prepares to resist the army, 168; Massey named commander of the forces of, 170; danger of anarchy in, 174; yields to Fairfax, 175; passage of the army through, 177; difficulty of raising the assessment for the army in, 195; the election of Lord Mayor Warner secured by military interven- tion in, 205; Hewson ordered to enforce payment of the assessments in, 255; riot on Christmas Day in, 282; opinion favourable to Chartism, 336; riot in, 340; attack on Westminster made by a mob from, 340; riot suppressed by soldiers in, 341; removal of posts and chains from the streets of, 342; con- ciliated by Cromwell and Vane, 361; posts and chains restored to, 362; Cromwell anxious to spare, 368; offered permission to nominate its own militia committee and the lieutenant of the Tower, 372, 373; hesitation in, 374; receives coolly the news of the victory at St. Fagans, 375; distrusts Charles, 377; welcomes the concessions made by Parliament, 378; presses for a personal treaty with the king, 391; apprehension lest Holland shall receive aid from, 411; prisoners rescued in the streets of, 412; listing of royalist forces in, 424; effect of the prince's seizure of merchantmen upon, 426; talk of raising an army for the Prince of Wales in, 452; is more conciliatory |
London, Common Council of the City of, petitions for the return of the king, i. 90; sends agents to Oxford, 94; Charles's answer to, 95; rejects Charles's terms, 96; asks for the formation of an as- sociation, 115; orders the destruction of Cheapside Cross, 154; makes sug- gestions as to the management of the war, 199; transmits to Parliament petitions against liberty of conscience, 373; draws up a temporising answer to the letter of twelve officers, iii. 114; objects to a new war, 121; urges the House of Commons to give way to the army, 128; petitions for the restoration of the new militia committee, 166; announces to Fairfax its readiness to yield, 175; offers to live and die with Parliament, and asks for the resump- tion of negotiations with the king, 378; asks that the king may be brought to the City of London, 408 London, Common Hall of the City of, Charles's answer to the peace proposals read to, i. 95; Brooke's plot described to, 320 London, Trained Bands of, appear on Turnham Green, i. 66; their conduct on the march to Gloucester, 240; their conduct at Newbury, 250; welcomed on their return, 278; dislike of permanent service amongst, 284; offer to retake Reading, 285; recover Newport Pag- nell, 285, 286; mutiny of, 294; their recall demanded, 295; desert Waller, 401; are unfit for permanent service, 453; Waller complains of the desertion of, 455; hang back when summoned to resist the army, iii. 114 Lords, House of, the peace party in, i. 61; prepares propositions for peace, 86; completes the propositions, 91; votes for a cessation of arms, 105; alienated from the king, 115; continued hopes of the peace party in, 109; re- fuses to reopen negotiations, 193
prepares peace propositions, 214; large concessions offered by, 215; persists in supporting the propositions, 216; threatened by a mob, 217; deserted by seven peers, 234; amends the covenant, 275; takes the covenant, 287; proposal to proceed with the queen's impeachment in, 317; resists the scheme of the Commons for the Com- mittee of Both Kingdoms, 358, 359; its attitude towards a proposed Dutch mediation, 387; proposes to open a negotiation, 401; in conflict with the Commons, 403; attempts to reverse a decision of the Committee of Both Kingdoms, 417; asks the Assembly to settle church government, ii. 12; supports Manchester against Cromwell, 22; inclined to peace, 40; Laud at the bar of, 41; resents the pressure of the Commons to pass the ordinance for Laud's attainder, 44; attempt of the Commons to intimidate, 60; states its objections to the Self-denying Ordi- nance, 61; throws out the Self-denying Ordinance, 62; concurs with the Scots on the preliminaries of the Treaty of Uxbridge, 68; passes the New Model Ordinance with provisoes, 74; objects to some of the officers named by the Commons, 141; rules that the vote of a Catholic peer is inadmissible, 142; gives way about the officers, and is thanked by the Commons, ib.; post- pones consideration of the appoint- ment of Cromwell as lieutenant- general, 201; confirms Cromwell's appointment, 219; suggests the open- ing of negotiations, 223; revives Crom- well's Accommodation Order, 372; passes an ordinance establishing Presbyterianism, 449; refuses to con- cur with the Commons in placing the king in Warwick Castle, 480; Presby- terian majority in, 481; votes that the king is to be disposed of by the House, 527; refuses to disband Mas- sey's regiments, 530; orders that Fairfax's soldiers shall take the covenant, and votes that the king shall come to London, 573; votes for discontinuing the pay of the army, and forbids Fairfax to quarter in the Eastern Association, iii. 32; adopts a declaration against the army petition, 43; invites the king to Oatlands, 72;
ks the Commons to open negotiations with the king, 120; yields to the army, 128; gives way to the London mob, 166; secession of the Independents from, 167; return of the seceding mem- bers to, 176; Independent majority in, 177; proposes a scheme for the settlement of religion, 211; Cromwell's attitude towards, 236; takes offence at a letter from the Scottish commis-
sioners, 240; sends to the Commons four propositions to be turned into bills, 264; refuses to appoint Rains- borough vice-admiral, 280; objects to the vote of No Addresses, 289; passes the vote under pressure from the army, 290, liberates the seven impeached peers, 292; concurs in the declaration that the government by king, lords, and commons is to be maintained, 371; supports a request for bringing the king to London, 409; refuses to call the Scots enemies, 420; supports the Scots, 421; agrees to fix the place of the treaty with the king in the Isle of Wight, 425; proposes to ban- ish Hamilton, 507; thinly attended after Pride's purge, 555; opposition to the king's trial in, 560; appoints a committee to draw up an ordinance against a king's levying war against Parliament in the future, 565; the Commons break off communications with, 566
Lords Justices in Ireland (Borlase and Parsons), prohibit intercourse with the Catholics, i. 131; give an account of their ill-success, 132, 133; Charles's displeasure with, 137; disapprove of the king's commission to treat with the Catholics, 140; show favour to Lisle, 141; urge the continuance of the war, 143; (Borlase and Tich- borne) are unable to supply Ormond,
Lorraine, Duke of (Charles III.), forces proposed to be sent by, ii. 110; Hen- rietta Maria requests the aid of, 124; promises to bring 10,000 men to Eng- land, 125; the Dutch refuse passage to, 159; Henrietta Maria asks for a loan of troops from, iii. 483 Lostwithiel, arrival of Essex at, i. 460 Lothian, Earl of, 1631 (William Kerr), imprisoned at Bristol, i. 349; joins in an overture to the king, ii. 255; his language to the king at Southwell, 478; returns to England as a com- missioner to protest against the king's trial, iii. 578
Loudoun, Earl of, 1633 (John Campbell), a Scottish commissioner in England, i. 145; becomes a member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms, 360; takes part in a conference on im- peaching Cromwell, ii. 26; takes part in the Treaty of Uxbridge, 66; defends Presbyterianism from political motives, ib.; supports the demand on the City for a loan for the New Model Army, 141; asks the English Parliament for aid against Montrose, 318; denounces the English leaders, ib.; has a con- ference with Montreuil, 445; confers with Dunfermline and Balcarres, 462; Charles asks for an interview with,
482; sent to England, iii. 193; arrives in England, 208; passes over to the Argyle party, 331; openly acknowledges his change of opinion, 488 Loughborough, Lord, 1643 (Henry Has- tings), joins the royalists in Essex, iii. 397; resolution of the Houses for the banishment of, 510
Louis XIII., death of, i. 318 Louis XIV., accession of, i. 318
Love, Nicholas, makes light of the appointment of a committee to con- sider how to proceed against the king, iii. 554
Lovelace, Lord, 1634 (John Lovelace), deserts to the king, i. 234; takes a message from Charles to Vane, 322 Lucas, Lord, 1644 (John Lucas), situation
of the house of, iii. 396; storming of the house of, 454; see Lucas, Sir John
Lucas, Sir Charles, attacks the Scots at Marston Moor, i. 444; rouses the Essex trained bands, iii. 395; holds a com- mission from the Prince of Wales, 396; persuades the royalists to march to Colchester, 397; directs the defence of Colchester, 399; draws up the royalist army before Colchester, 400; drives Barkstead out of Colchester, 401; vigorous defence made by, 453; con- demned to be shot, 459; execution of, 460; his alleged breach of parole dis- cussed, 462, n.
Lucas, Sir John, his house sacked, i. 11; see Lucas, Lord Ludlow, Edmund, Colonel, takes War-
dour Castle, 243; elected as a re- cruiter, ii. 449; his account of Crom- well's dinner-party, iii. 295; Cromwell throws a cushion at the head of, 296; visits Fairfax at Colchester, 470; urges Ireton to break off the treaty of Newport, 471; sits as one of the king's judges, 565 Ludlow, Rupert at, ii. 139.
Lumsdaine, Major General, conduct of, at Marston Moor, i. 445.
Lyme, holds out for the Parliament, i. 243; besieged by Maurice, 405; Essex resolves to relieve, 417; progress of the siege of, 419; raising of the siege,
Lynn, siege of, i. 280; royalist attempt to recover, ii. 56; forces from Lorraine and Liége to land at, 110; Charles proposes to take refuge in, 464; pro- posed seizure of, 564
Lyttelton, Lord, 1640 (Lord Keeper), death of, ii. 285
MACDONALD, Alaster, lands at Ardnamur- chan and ravages the country, ii. 82; his wanderings in the Highlands, 83; is summoned to Athol by Montrose, 85; is saved by the arrival of Montrose,
86; his conduct in the battle of Aber- deen, 96; goes into the West, 99; re- joins Montrose, 100; his conduct at Inverlochy, 104; rejoins Montrose be- fore the battle of Auldearn, 181; his position at Auldearn, 184; his conduct in the battle, 186; sent to gather forces in the Highlands, 248; rejoins Montrose, 263; his charge at Kilsyth, 270; disperses the levies of Cassilis and Eglinton, 328; deserts Montrose, 329; refuses to obey the king's com- mand to disband his forces, 513; re- mains in arms after Montrose's depar- ture, 525; driven out of Kintyre, iii. 123; returns to Ireland, 124; his men fight at Dungan Hill, 350; killed, 354 Macdonalds, the, hold back from joining Alaster Macdonald, ii. 83; their rela- tions with the Mackenzies, ib.; join with Montrose to ravage the lands of the Campbells, roo; join Montrose before Kilsyth, 263
Macdonell, see Macdonald Mackenzies, the, their feud with the Macdonalds of Glengarry, ii. 83; join Hurry against Montrose, 182 Mackworth, Sir Francis, reproved by Goring, 234
Macmahon, Hugh, escape, recapture, and execution of, ii. 106
Maguire, Lord, 1633 (Connor Maguire),
escape and recapture of, ii. 106; trial and execution of, 107
Maidstone, defeat of the Kentish insur- gents at, iii. 389
Maitland, Lord (John Maitland), arrives in England as a commissioner from Scotland, i. 275; becomes a member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms, 360; succeeds to his father's title, ii. 66; see Lauderdale, Earl of
Malling, position of Fairfax at, iii. 387 Malmesbury, reduced by Waller, i. 120; taken by Massey, 410
Manchester, Earl of, 1642 (Edward Mon- tague), accompanies Pym to the City, i. 74; supports Pym's secret negotia- tions with the queen, 155; presides over a court-martial on the Waller conspirators, 185; appointed to the command of the army of the Eastern Association, 225; besieges Lynn, 280; joins Fairfax and Cromwell before Winceby fight, 282; takes Lincoln, 284; pacifies Lincolnshire, 288; ordered to purify the University of Cambridge, 354; Willoughby of Par- ham's jealousy of, 357; becomes a member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms, 360; composition of the army of, 362; ordered to join Essex at Aylesbury, 398; remains to watch Rupert, 402; storms the close of Lincoln and advances into York- shire, 406; refuses to consent to the
deposition of the king, 432; com- mands on the right at Marston Moor, 440; asks for a settlement of church government and peace, 451; marches into Lincolnshire, 453; ill-feel- ing between Cromwell and, 471; poli- tical and religious opinions of, 472; reluctant to engage in hazardous operations, 473; receives recruits, 474; remonstrates with Cromwell, 475; re- fuses to attack Rupert in Cheshire, 477; marches to support Essex, 478; vacillation of, 479; assures Cromwell of his readiness to push on, 482; ordered to join Waller, 484; movements of, 488; hesitates to fight, 489; urged to advance, 493; refuses to advance into the West, 494; is joined by Waller, 497; joined by Essex, 498; false attack by, 501; inactivity of, 504; his attack on Shaw House repulsed, 506; blamed for permitting the king's escape, 507; holds back from pursuing the king, 508; is eager for peace, 509; advances slowly in pursuit, 510; de- clares it to be useless to defeat the king, 515; is ordered to conform to the advice of the council of war, 516; a typical Presbyterian, ii. 1; defends himself against Cromwell's charge, 21; makes a counter-charge against Cromwell, 22; his accusation criticised by Cromwell, 27; the Commons make a show of reviving Cromwell's charge against, 60; officers' petition for the continuance in command of, 62; report of Lisle's committee in favour of in- vestigating the charges relating to, 63; resigns his command, 145; takes part in proposing to send terms to the king, iii. 26; takes refuge with the army, 169; returns to the chair of the House of Lords, 177; opposes the ordinance for the king's trial, 560 Manchester, holds out against the Earl of Derby, i. 38
Manhood suffrage, discussion in the Council of the Army on, iii. 225 Mansfield, arrival of the Scottish army at, ii. 221
Mardyk, gained by France, ii. 556 Marlborough, stormed and plundered by the royalists, i. 76 Marshall, Stephen, accompanies
English commissioners to Scotland, i. 268; preaches at Pym's funeral, 300; signs a declaration in favour of tolera- tion, 314
Marston Moor, the parliamentary army marches from York to, 436; move- ments of the army at, 437; arrival of the royalists at, 438; battle of, 442 Marten, Henry, blames the inactivity of Essex, i. 84; takes part in stripping the queen's chapel, 118; speaks against the continuance of the Treaty of Ox-
ford, 126; quarrels with Northumber- land, 153; wishes Parliament to de- clare itself sovereign, 154; expelled the House, and imprisoned, 238; re-elected, 449; wishes Charles to be prepared for Heaven, iii. 28; jests about the king's evil, 57; is chairman of a com- mittee on Lilburne's imprisonment, 197; is a leader of the republican fraction of the Independents, 200; talks of killing Cromwell, 207; asks for toleration for Catholics, 212; talks of impeaching Cromwell, 252; again suspects Cromwell, 295; offers to support the Scots, 327; proposes to dethrone the king, 337; talks of restoring Charles, if it is necessary to have a king, 338; seizes horses in Berkshire, and goes into the North, 535; takes part in Lilburne's committee on The Agreement of the People, 535; returns to Westminster after Pride's Purge, 540; sits as one of the king's judges, 565; declares the authority by which the High Court of Justice sits, 570; story of his inking Cromwell's face, 591
Martial law, the Lords refuse to renew
the ordinance for, ii. 47; re-establish- ment of, 48
Marvell, Andrew, his idea that Cromwell brought about the king's flight from Hampton Court examined, iii. 248, n.; his lines on Charles's execution, 599 Massey, Edward, Colonel, governor of Gloucester, i. 232; probable treachery of, 233; gains successes round Glou- cester, 406; takes Malmesbury, 410; takes Tewkesbury, 415; urges the Herefordshire countrymen to take part with Parliament, ii. 139; storms Eves- ham, 190; his force inadequate to secure Taunton, 229; surprises Goring, 237; the Independents anxious to dis- band the two regiments of, 529; dis- bandment of the troops of, 530; appointed to command under Skippon in Ireland, iii. 47; sent as commissioner to Saffron Walden, ib.; urges the City to rise against the army, 98; suggested for the command of the London forces, 168; placed on the Committee of Safety, 170; named commander of the forces of the City, ib.; escapes to Holland, 182; proposal to place the London forces under, 452; arrested, 543; escapes, 544 Mauchlin, Middleton suppresses resist- ance to Hamilton's levies at, iii. 405 Maurice, Prince, checks Waller, i. 121; accompanies Hertford, 162; joins Hopton at Chard, 195; leaves Hopton after the battle of Lansdown, 202; takes part in the battle of Roundway Down, 203; his successes in Dorset- shire, 226; opposes the civilians at
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