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A remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history.
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INDEX
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Abbott, John, 442
Abercrombie, Jeremiah, 303, 305
Aberdeen, 86; battle of (1644), 397
Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 268, 416
Aborigines (Australian), 515
Adwalton Moor, battle of (1643), 208, 296
Ady, Thomas, 377–8
Agreement of the People, An, 458, 486, 488, 490–1, 496–9
A Ha Christmas (pamphlet), 240
Aldberry, Thomas, 173
Aldermaston, 263
‘Alice, Captain’, 514
Alkin, Elizabeth (‘Parliament Joan’), 410–11, 507
American Revolution, 38
Amnion, Major, 302
Anabaptists (sect), 381
Andrewes, Lancelot, 235
Anglican Church: inclination to popery, 9; practices under Laud, 26–8; calendar reformed, 233–4, 238–9; attendance at Christmas, 236; reduced to simplicity, 408
Anne of Denmark, Queen of James 1,11, 31–2, 50, 55, 68
anorexia, 471
Antrim, Randal Macdonnell, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl of, 82
Archer, John, 122
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess and 8th Earl of: as Covenanter, 82; pursues Montrose, 397; and Scots in Second Civil War, 533, 540; condemns The Engagement, 540
Arminians, 26,100,136
Army Council: formed, 455
Arnold, Richard, 499, 501
artillery, 419
Arundel Castle, 358
Arundel, Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of, 122
Ash, Simeon, 187, 299, 330
Astell, Mary, 119
Astley, Sir Jacob, Baron, 178, 253, 296, 371, 426, 429
Aston, Sir Arthur, 563–4
Aston, John, 146
Aston, Margaret, 198
Atkins, Dr Henry, 11,13
Atkyns, Richard, 222–32, 296, 567
atrocities, 288–98, 336, 398, 400, 418, 430, 535, 546
Aubigny, Katherine d’, Lady, 287, 403
Aubrey, John: records recollections, 2; on school beatings, 18; on Henry Marten, 95; and battle of Edgehill, 183; on Falkland’s death at Newbury, 254–5; on life in Oxford, 270; Anthony à Wood disparages, 278; on Milton’s mother, 306; on Alexander Gill, 308; on Milton at Cambridge, 309; on April Fool’s Day, 521
Audley family, 135
Audley, Captain Lewis, 492
Auldearn, battle of (1645), 398
Axtell, Colonel Daniel, 555
Ayle, Captain Edmund, 96
Bacon, Lloyd, 163
Balfour, Sir William, 363
Ball, Lawrence, 267–8
Ballam (schoolteacher), 150
Ballard, Colonel Thomas, 412
Bampfield, Colonel Joseph, 445–9
Banbury, 293, 369; Cross, 197
Bankes, Anthony, 25
Banqueting House, Whitehall, 247, 339
baptism, 5
Baptists: in New Model Army, 420; meeting places, 433
Barberini, Cardinal Francesco de, 60
Barebone, Praise-God, 565
Barefoot (Dorchester barber), 138
Bartas, Guillaume du, 55
Barthomley, Cheshire: massacre (1643), 288–90, 564
Basing House: siege of, 209, 357, 407; unemployed actors in, 282
Bass, Edward, 570
Bassano family, 528
Bassompierre, Francois de, 58, 63
Bastwick, John, 98, 200, 213, 481–2
Bath, John Grenville, 1st Earl of (and Viscount Lansdowne), 34, 141, 174, 231, 404, 566
Baxter, Richard: on Cromwell’s character, 22; on rebellion in Ulster, 110, 114; on rumoured Catholic plot, 113; justifies Parliamentarianism, 173–4; on iconoclasm, 204; on soldiers and army, 417–18; bullets stopped by pocket Bible, 422; as chaplain in New Model Army, 424, 429; and Whalley’s cavalry, 427; hatred of Independents, 466
Beale, Thomas, 108
Beard, Thomas: The Theater of Gods Judgements, 19
Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th Earl of, 104, 280
Beevers, Thomas, 248
Bennett, Robert, 538
Berkeley Castle, 344
Berkeley, Sir John, 438, 456, 460–1
Berkshire, Bridget, Countess of, 530
Bernard, Richard: A Guide to Grand Jurymen, 383
Berry, Dorothy, 512
Berwick-upon-Tweed, 85, 533, 540
Bethell, Sir Hugh, 331
Bevis of Hampden (drama), 514
Binyon, Laurence, 340
bishops: abolition proposed, 121–2, 130
Bishops’ Wars, 85, 89
Blackheath, 534
Blackwell, John, 202
Blagrave, George, 411
Blake, Colonel Robert, 437–9
Blechly (Brilliana Harley’s servant), 145
Body, William, 159
Bolton, Lancashire, 291, 294, 327–8
Bolton, John, 570
Bolton, William, 295
Bond, Dennis, 102
Book of Sports, 214
books and pamphlets: production increases, 285
bookshops, 409
Bosville, Major, 544
Boswell (Royalist spy), 455
Bowle, John, 422
Brabazon, Wallop, 154
Braddock Down, battle of (1643), 208, 228
Bradshaw, John, 552–6
Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire: Harley: at, 143, 146–7, 149; threatened by Royalists, 153–4, 215; besieged (1643–4), 216–18, 220; razed and not rebuilt, 221–2, 348
Brandford, Clara, Lady, 274
bread, 341–2
Brentford: engagement at (1642), 190–3, 290
Brereton, William, 141, 220
Bridge of Dee, battle of (1639), 86
Bridgewater, John Egerton, 1st Earl of, 102
Bridgewater, Somerset: siege (1645), 422; loses suburbs, 441
Bristol: Parliamentarianism, 209; Royalists capture and plunder, 252, 285; Fanshawes in, 403–4
Browne, Nicholas, 173, 416
Browne, Sir Thomas: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 442; Religio Medici, 208
Buchanan, George, 13
Buckingham, Catherine, Duchess of, 24’
Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of: rivalry with Charles, 15; assassinated, 16, 48; Prynne on, 30; attends Lucy Hay’s wedding, 54; as supposed lover of Lucy Hay, 62; Henrietta Maria detests, 63; Bevil Grenville opposes, 156; Sir Bernard Grenvill supports, 157; Laud dreams of, 212; given Rubens crucifixion picture, 244; Rubens dislikes, 246; death predicted by Lady Eleanor Davies, 530
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of, 536
Bullock, John, 411
Bulstrode, Sir William, 100
Bunyan, John: childhood, 10; Pilgrim’s Progress, 300
Burford, 502–3
Burly, Captain Barnabe, 544
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 21
Burroughs, Jeremiah, 46—7
Burrow Hill, near Daventry, Northamptonshire, 426
Burrow Hills, Essex, 513
Burt, Jeffrey, 441
Burt, Joan, 441
Burton, Henry: released from prison, 98; and Robert Harley, 146, 150; ears cropped, 200; urges destruction of Cheapside Cross, 213; Lilburne distributes pamphlet, 481–2
Burton, Thomas, 124
Bury St Edmunds, 239
Butler, Colonel, 365
Butler, Samuel, 194; Hudibras, 385
Byron, (Sir) John, 1st Baron, 178, 289, 329, 332, 418
Byron, Sir Nicholas, 253–5, 327
Calvert, Sir George, 244
Calvin, Jean, 145, 149, 400
Calvinism: Laud opposes, 26; doctrines and practices, 100, 144, 146; and Scots
Covenanters, 453
Cambridge: Milton attends university, 308–13; Queen’s College, 480
Camby, Colonel, 334
Cameron clan, 397
‘camp fever’, 414
Campbell clan: Protestantism, 73; Montrose harasses, 397–8
Campion, Edmund, 213, 307
Campion, Thomas, 53
Canterbury: glorycloth burnt, 301
Canterbury His Change o...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Maps
- An Epistle to the Gentle Reader
- I The Last Cavalier?
- II The Meek-Eyed Peace
- III Two Women: Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hay
- IV The Bishops’ Wars, the Three Kingdoms, and Montrose
- V Pym against the Papists
- VI Stand Up, Shout Mars
- VII The Valley of Decision
- VIII Bright-Harnessed Angels: Edgehill
- IX Down with Bishops and Bells: Iconoclasm
- X The Death of Dreams
- XI The War over Christmas
- XII The Queen’s Tale: Henrietta Maria
- XIII Newbury Fight
- XIV Two Capitals: Oxford and London
- XV The Bitterness of War
- XVI Two Marriages
- XVII The Power of Heaven: Marston Moor and Cromwell
- XVIII The Cookery Writers’ Tales: General Hunger, Hannah Wolley, Kenelm Digby and the Deer of Corse Lawn
- XIX Twenty Thousand Cornish Boys: The Battle of Lostwithiel
- XX The Nation’s Nightmares
- XXI Th’ Easy Earth That Covers Her: The Children’s Tales
- XXII God with Us! Montrose’s Campaign
- XXIII New Professions: Parliament Joan and Richard Wiseman
- XXIV The World is Turned Upside Down: The New Model Army and Naseby Fight
- XXV Ashes: The Siege of Taunton and the Clubmen
- XXVI The Birds in the Greenwoods are Mated Together: Anne Halkett and the Escape of James II
- XXVII Nor Iron Bars a Cage: The Capture of Charles I
- XXVIII A New Heaven and a New Earth: Anna Trapnel and the Levellers
- XXIX Stand Up Now, Stand Up Now: Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers
- XXX The Second Civil War
- XXXI To Carisbrooke’s Narrow Case: Charles I in Captivity
- XXXII Oh, He is Gone, and Now hath Left Us Here: The Trial and Execution of Charles I
- XXXIII Into Another Mould? The Aftermath
- FURTHER READING
- INDEX
- P.S. Ideas, interviews & features…
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Praise
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher