SHE

Shetland, proposed cession of, i. 163
Shrewsbury, occupied by the king, i. 30;
Rupert passes through, 372; surprised
by Mitton, ii. 132

Shropshire, Gerard collects troops in, ii.
286

Shuckburgh, Richard, joins the king

before the battle of Edgehill, i. 48
Sidney, Algernon, elected as a recruiter,
ii. 449; tells Cromwell that the king
cannot be legally tried, iii. 569
Simpson, Sidrach, one of the five Dissent-
ing Brethren, i. 306

Sinclair, Lord, 1615 (John Sinclair), joins
in an overture to the king, ii. 255
Skippon, Philip, his conduct at the first
battle of Newbury, i. 253; stationed
at Newport Pagnell, 293; makes terms
for the surrender of Essex's infantry,
468; takes part in the flank march at
Newbury, 501; named by the Commons
major-general of the New Model, ii.
64; persuades Essex's soldiers to enlist
in the New Model Army, 146; draws
up a plan of battle, 199; marshals the
army at Naseby, 209; is wounded, 213;
summoned to take his place in the
army, iii. 44; appointed to command
in Ireland, 46; accepts the command
in Ireland, 59; sent as a commissioner
to quiet the army, 62; offers terms to
the army, 108; placed in command of
the trained bands of London and its
suburbs, 361,362; holds London against
Norwich, 393; conflict between the
Houses on an order given to, 424;
pleads for peace with the king, 467
Skipton Castle, Langdale expects the
governor to betray, iii. 434
Sleaford, taken by the royalists, i. 374
Sligo, stormed, ii. 396; capture of a copy
of Glamorgan's treaty near, 408
Smith, John, Captain, recovers the stan-
dard at Edgehill, i. 57; is knighted, 58;
see Smith, Sir John

Smith, Sir John, killed at Cheriton, i.
384

Smithfield, riot in, iii. 29

Solemn Engagement of the Army, a,
subscribed by the soldiers, iii. 100;
Cromwell's part in, 101

Solemn Engagement of the City, the,
signed, iii. 165; denounced by Parlia
ment, 166

Solemn League and Covenant, the, see
Covenant

Somerset House, devastation in the
queen's chapel at, i. 118

Somerset, promises help to the Prince of
Wales, ii. 135

Sourton Down, Hopton driven back from,

i. 152

South-Eastern Association, the, formation

of, i. 243

Southampton, Earl of, 1624 (Thomas
Wriothesley), a moderate royalist, i. 7;

STE

671

sent to Westminster to negotiate, 124;
sent again to negotiate, ii. 40; takes
part in the Treaty of Uxbridge, 66;
sent by the king to Rainsborough, 470;
attends a council at Hampton Court,
iii. 206; said to have been asked to
carry on a negotiation between the
Independents and the king, 338;
attends the king's funeral, 598; tells
a story about Cromwell's visit to the
king's body, 604

Southwark, the City urged to submit to
Fairfax by a deputation from, iii. 175;
regiments admitted into, 176; secured
against the Kentish insurgents, 383
Southwell, arrival of Charles at, ii. 477
Sovereignty of the People, Ireton's doc-
trine on, iii. 496

Spain, loses Mardyk and Dunkirk, ii.
556-58; separate peace between the
Dutch Republic and, iii. 415

Spalding, occupied by Cromwell, i. 224
Speakers, the two, take refuge with the
army, iii. 169

Spencer, Lord, 1636 (Henry Spencer), a
moderate royalist, i. 7; sent to nego-
tiate at Westminster, 19; is dissatisfied
with the king, 29; see Sunderland,
Earl of

Spottiswoode, Sir Robert, executed, ii.

391

Stafford, held for the king, i. 112

Staffordshire, royalist feeling in, iii. 333
Stage plays, ordinance against, i. 17;
revival of the ordinance against, 307;
savage ordinance against, 308
Stainmoor Pass, defended by Lambert,
iii. 416

Stamford, Cromwell clears away the
royalists from, i. 221; abandoned by
Cromwell, 224

Stamford, Earl of, 1628 (Henry Grey),
evacuates Hereford and falls back on
Gloucester, i. 88; sent to command in
the West, 98; retreats before Hopton,
99; takes up a position at Stratton,
158; defeat and flight of, 161; gives up
his opposition to the vote of No Ad-
dresses, iii. 290

Stapleton, Sir Philip, his conduct at
Edgehill, i. 52; sent to Westminster
by Essex, 152; defeated by Hurry,
182; his conduct at the first battle
of Newbury, 253; gives an account
of Essex's progress in Cornwall, 458;
takes part in a conference on impeach-
ing Cromwell, ii. 26; one of the leaders
of the Presbyterians, iii. 29; drags
Major Tulidah out of a committee-
room, 75; wishes Charles to be removed
from the army, 120; flight and death
of, 181
Stawell, Sir Edward, his conduct at
Cheriton, i. 382

Stewart of Ardvoirlich, James, murders
Lord Kilpont, ii. 90

STI

Stirling of Keir, Sir George, liberation

of, ii. 329

Stirling, Sir George Monro at, iii. 488;
surrender of Monro at, 489; Cromwell
requires the execution of the compact
made at, 491

Stockport, plundered by Rupert, i. 429
Stokesay, royalists defeated at, ii. 224
Stow-on-the-Wold, arrival of Essex at, i.
240; council of war held by Essex and
Waller at, 415; Charles holds a council
of war at, ii. 166; Astley's defeat at,
452

Stradling, Sir Edward, defeated by
Laugharne, ii. 260

Stratford-on-Avon, taken by the royal-
ists, i. 112; regained by Lord Brooke,
113; meeting of Rupert and the
queen at, 193

Stratton, battle of, i. 159-161; Hopton's
retreat to, ii. 436

Strickland, Walter, sent ambassador to

the Netherlands, i. 42; returns to the
Netherlands, iii. 298

Strode, William, moves the expulsion of
Culpepper, i. 16; carries to the Lords
a message asking that the ordinance
for Laud's attainder may pass, ii. 44
Stuart, Lord Bernard, is unable to take
out his patent as Earl of Lichfield, ii.
286; see Lichfield, Earl of

Stuart, Lord John, killed at Cheriton, i.
384

Sudeley Castle, Charles's quarters at, i.
244; taken by Waller, 415
Suffolk, Earl of, 1640 (James Howard),
impeached, iii. 191

Suffolk, petition for the establishment of
Presbyterianism from, iii. 29; Fairfax
supported by the trained bands of, 402;
part taken in the siege of Colchester
by the trained bands of, 453
Sunderland, Earl of, 1643

(Henry

Spencer), killed at Newbury, i. 256;
see Spencer, Lord

Sunderland, success of the Scots near, i.
374
Supernumeraries, the, order for the dis-

bandment of, iii. 280; difficulties in
the disbandment of, 325
Supreme Council of the confederate
Catholics, nominated at Kilkenny, i.
130; modified, 136; refuses Ormond's
terms, 259; is favourable to an under-
standing with the king, 260; refuses
Antrim's request for aid for the king,
391; demands made at Oxford by the
agents of, 392; offers an army to Or-
mond, ii. 112; repeats the offer, 403;
assures Glamorgan that he shall take
an army to England, ib.; offers of
Glamorgan to, 406; offers 3,000 men
to Glamorgan, 408; agrees to relieve
Chester, 417; enters into an agree-
ment with Rinuccini and Glamorgan,
420; expects conjunction with

TAV

Ormond, 423; agrees to a treaty of
peace with Ormond, 424; counter-
mands the expedition to England,
426; betakes itself to Limerick, 534;
disputes with Rinuccini on giving
money to Clanricarde, 535; urges
Ormond to publish the peace, 536;
attempts to satisfy the nuncio, 542;
calls in Ormond, 543; Rinuccini ar-
rests the leaders of, 544; the clergy
choose successors of the arrested
members of, ib.; causes of the weak-
ness of, 547; condemns the peace
with Ormond, iii. 346; sends for
O'Neill after the battle of Dungan
Hill, 351; return to power of the
members expelled by Rinuccini from,
354; sends commissioners to France
and Rome, 355; invites the Prince of
Wales to Ireland, ib.; negotiation of
its commissioners with the queen,
413; agrees to a cessation with Inchi-
quin, 414

Surrey, scenes of violence at the pre-
sentation of a petition from, iii. 375;
popularity of the petitioners from, 376
Sutherland, Earl of, 1615 (John Gordon),
supports the Covenanters, ii. 182
Swanley, Captain, drowns Irish soldiers,
i. 396

Sweden, goes to war with Denmark, i.
318; makes peace with Denmark, ii.
275

TAAFFE, Viscount, 1642 (Theobald Taafe),
sent by Charles to Kilkenny, i. 173;
proposes to bring Irish soldiers to
England, 292; defeated by Inchiquin,
iii. 354; sides with the Supreme
Council, 414

Tadcaster, Lord Fairfax defeated at, i.
82; junction of the Fairfaxes with the
Scots at, 397

Talbot, Sir Robert, urges Preston to
support the peace with Ormond, ii.
547

Tamworth, held for the king, i. 112
Tate, Zouch, chairman of a committee
appointed to investigate Cromwell's
charge against Manchester, ii. 20;
makes his report, 28; moves the Self-
denying Ordinance, 29

Taunton, surrenders to Hopton, i. 195;
being recovered by Parliament, is
besieged by the royalists, ii. 34;
relieved a first time by Holborn, 38;
Goring resolves to besiege, 136;
Holborn's retreat from, 137; approach
of Grenvile to, 154; beginning of the
second siege of, 163; end of the second
siege of, 165; third siege of, 229; end
of the third siege of, 234; attempt of
Goring to surprise, 237

Tavistock, occupied by Hopton, i. 81;
arrival of Essex at, 457; arrival of the

673

TAX

king at, 484; the Prince of Wales at,

ii. 428
Taxation, parliamentary, imposed on
London under the name of a contribu-
tion, i. 33; Pym proposes a general,
74; assessed in London and West-
minster, 75; denounced by the king,
ib.; ordinance for imposing, on the
whole country, 84; Gerard urges the
Commons to begin the levy of, 105;
orders given for a general assessment
for the levy of, 111; imposed in the
form of excise, 208; imposed in the
form of assessments for the army, 151
Taxation, royal, raised without a par-
liamentary grant, i. 75; system of, ii.
154

Taylor, Jeremy, publishes The Liberty
of Prophesying, iii. 136; nature of
his ideas on toleration, 137; Charles
dissatisfied with the arguments of, 138
Taylor, John, offers on the part of Spain
to cede Dunkirk, Ostend, and Nieuport
to England, ii. 557

Temple, Sir John, arrested, i. 260
Tenby Castle, occupied by Poyer, iii.
358; surrender of, 394
Tew, Nicholas, supports a

Lilburnian

petition, iii. 74; imprisoned, ib.; the
Commons approve of the imprison-
ment of, 75

Tewkesbury, occupied by Essex, i. 244;
taken by Massey, 415
Thame, occupied by Essex, i. 175
Thames Ditton, conference of Berkeley,
Ashburnham, and Legge at, i. 243
Thionville, captured by the French, i.
319

Thornhagh, Francis, Colonel, killed in
the pursuit of the Scots, iii. 444
Tichborne, Sir Henry, succeeds Parsons
as lord justice, i. 145; joins Michael
Jones, iii. 349; dismissed, 350

Tickhill Castle, taken by John Lilburne,

TUL

Torrington, success of Sir John Digby
at, i. 243; battle of, ii. 435
Torture, Colonel Reade subjected to, i.
130
Towcester, fortified by the royalists, i.

286; royalist garrison withdrawn from,
323

Tower of London, the, entrusted to
the lord mayor and sheriffs, i. 212;
Fairfax appointed constable of, iii.
176; increase of the garrison of, 341;
Fairfax's soldiers to be removed from,
373; Fairfax's soldiers ejected from,
and a citizen garrison admitted to, 378
Trained bands, the, inadequacy of, for
permanent service, i. 295

Traquair, Earl of, 1633 (John Stuart)
accompanies Hamilton to York, i. 146;
offers to help Montrose, ii. 334; is
believed to have betrayed Montrose,
335; visits Charles at Carisbrooke,
iii. 270

Treaty of Newport, the, agreement
between the Houses on the locality of,
iii. 425; opening of, 472; question of
church government discussed in, 475;
Charles spins out time in, 479; futility
of, after the rejection of the king's
offer on limited episcopacy, 482; Parlia-
ment insists on the king's accepting
the whole of its demands in, 508;
recall of the commissioners employed
in, 511

Treaty of Oxford, the, propositions pre-
pared for, i. 91, 97; presentation to th
king of the propositions for, 103; the
Houses agree on the mode of conduct-
ing, 107; progress of, 110, 115; Charles's
final terms in, 125; end of, 126
Treaty of Uxbridge, the, peace proposi-
tions leading to, ii. 13; Charles's re-
ception of the propositions leading to,
24; the opening of negotiations
ordered for, 40; feeling of the Inde-
pendents towards, 65; the Scots prin-
cipally concerned in, 66; conditions of,
68; three propositions to be presented
to the king at, 69; opening of, ib.;
discussions at, 69-73; attempt to find
a compromise at, 75; end of, 76
Trevor, Sir Thomas, his fine employed to
pay the army, i. 286

Trim, relieved by Lisle, i. 134; opening
of negotiations at, 142; besieged by
Preston, 349

Triploe Heath, rendezvous on, iii. 108
Tromp, Marten Harpurson, Admiral,
threatens Batten, i. 109; blockades
Dunkirk, ii. 556; reported to intend to
convoy Rupert to sea, iii. 506
Truro, retreat of the Prince of Wales to,
ii. 436

Tulidah, Major, imprisoned, iii. 75
Tullibardine, Earl of, 1643 (James Mur-
ray), opposed to Montrose at Kilsyth.
ii. 269

X X

TUR

Turenne, Viscount of (Henri de la
Tour d'Auvergne), contends against
Mercy on the Upper Rhine, ii. 121;
takes part in the victory of Nördlingen,
275; gains a victory at Zusmarshausen,
iii. 414

Turner, Sir James, suppresses resistance
to Hamilton's levies by quartering
soldiers on the householders of Glas-
gow, iii. 405; recommends Hamilton
to march through Yorkshire, 436
Turnham Green, the royal army checked
at, i. 67, 68

Twiss, William, signs a declaration in
favour of toleration, i. 314

VANE, Sir Henry, the elder, becomes a
member of the Committee of Both
Kingdoms, i. 360

Vane, Sir Henry, the younger, asks the
Commons to refuse to negotiate with
the king, i. 91; sent as a commissioner
to Scotland, 208; suggests an amend-
ment to the covenant, 270; listens to
Charles's offer of liberty of conscience,
322; his saying on liberty of conscience,
340; joins in proposing the appoint-
ment of the Committee of Both King-
doms, 358; one of the leaders of the
war party, 385; resistance of the Com-
mons to, 387; sent to York, 430; secret
mission of, to suggest the deposition
of the king, 431; possibly thinks of
placing the Elector Palatine on the
throne, 480; said to be for liberty of
all religions, 483; seconds the motion
for a self-denying ordinance, ii. 30; acts
as teller for the appointment of Fair-
fax to command the New Model, 63;
takes little part in the discussions at
Uxbridge, 66; receives an offer from
Charles through Ashburnham, 442;
absents himself from the House, iii.
57; opposes Marten's motion for a
vote of No Addresses, 201; threatens
the House of Commons with the inter-
vention of the army, 269; dissatisfied
with Cromwell's proposal to place the
Prince of Wales on the throne, 295;
urges the Commons to come to an un-
derstanding with the City, 361: sup.

WAL

ports the retention of King, Lords, and
Commons, 362; differs in opinion from
Cromwell, 465; pleads with Charles
for toleration, 475; attacks Charles's
final answer from Newport, 531; ob-
jects to putting the king to death,
557

Vaughan, Sir William, defeated by Crom-
well, ii. 158; proposed relief of Chester
by, 338; defeated near Denbigh, 360
Vavasour, Sir Charles, defeated in
Munster, i. 259; joins the king's army,
405

Vavasour, Sir William, sent by the king
to negotiate with the Independents, ii.
379; informs the king of an alleged
plot to deliver him up, 380; arrested
and banished, 381

Venice, the Republic of, Henrietta
Maria asks for a loan of money from,
iii. 483

Vermuyden, Colonel, sent to reinforce
Leven, ii. 169; joins Fairfax, 199
Verney, Edmund, character of, i. 5;
expounds his royalist principles, 6
Verney, Lady, sent to England to plead
for the removal of her husband's se
questration, iii. 309; her efforts on her
husband's behalf, 311

Verney, Sir Edmund, political opinions
of, i. 4; death of, 56

Verney, Sir Ralph, refuses the covenant,
ii. 150; exile and poverty of, iii. 15;
expelled the House, 23; his estate se-
questered, ab.; regains his estate,
318

Verneys, the, family history of, iii. 15, 309
Villiers, Lord Francis, joins Holland's
rising, iii. 408; killed, 410, 411
Vines, Richard, preaches the sermon at
the funeral of Essex, ii. 531
Violet, Thomas, joins in a plot for
gaining the City for the king, i. 316
Vote of No Addresses, the, proposed by
Marten in the House of Commons,
and rejected, iii. 201; supported by
Rainsborough, 238; carried in the
Commons, 288; order to draw up a
declaration in justification of, 289;
passed by the Lords under military
pressure, 290; declaration in support
of, 298, 299; repealed, 467; its repeal
revoked, 543

WADDING, Father Luke, writes that the
pope has promised money for Ireland,
ii. 123

Wages, fixed by the justices, iii. 5
Wakefield, captured by the royalists,
and re-occupied by Sir T. Fairfax, i.
101; taken again and lost by Fairfax,
163

Wales, North, royalist rising expected
in, iii. 333; Sir John Owen's rising in,
393