160; account of his forcing the
Duchess of Cleveland into his
wife's household, iii. 15, et seq.;
his grief at the Queen's illness,
27, 28; interview with Henry
Cromwell, ii. 367; is concerned
at the illness of that person, 368;
rebuked by Killegrew for neglect-
ing his affairs, iii. 336, 337; sup-
posed marriage with Lucy Walters,
119, 120, 121, 363; noticed. i.
392; ii. 37, 316, 386; iii. 49,
119, 120, 127, 128, 130, 282.
Cherbury, Edward, Lord Herbert of,
his ingenious defence of James I.,
i. 51; intrigue with Anne of Den-
mark, 112; his autobiography,
299, 300; presents himself at the
court of Queen Elizabeth, 300;
invested with the Order of the
Bath, 301, 302; instances of his
chivalrous spirit, 302, 303, 304;
his quarrel with the Constable de
Luines, 304, 305; person, 306;
his poetry, 307; character, 299,
308; his work De Veritate, 308;
last illness, 309; death, ib. ;
notice of, i. 332; ii. 71.
Chesterfield, Philip, second Earl of,

iii. 31, 275, 276, 277, 278.
Chesterfield, Elizabeth Butler, Coun-

tess of, account of her, iii. 275;
the Duke of York falls in love
with her, 276, 277, 278; her
husband removes her into Derby-
shire, 278, 279; supposed to have
been poisoned by him, 279, 280.
Chiffinch, William, account of, iii.
345, 346.

Chiffinch, Thomas, account of, iii.
345, 346.

Christenings, royal, of James I., i.

5; of Henry Prince of Wales, 119.
Christina, Queen of Sweden, Oliver
Cromwell's admiration of her cha-
racter, ii. 286.
Churchill, Lord, afterwards Duke of
Marlborough, commands the royal
forces against the Duke of Mon-
mouth, iii. 141; his intrigue with

the Duchess of Cleveland, 193.
See Marlborough.
Churchill, Arabella, account of, iii.
510; she becomes the mistress of
James II., 511; her children by
the King, ib.; she marries Colonel
Charles Godfrey, 512; her death,

ib.

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of,
his harsh conduct to Catherine of
Braganza, iii. 17, et seq,; sup-
ports the project of her marriage
with Charles from interested mo-
tives, 25, 26; ridiculed by the
Duke of Buckingham and the
courtiers, 79; by the Duchess
of Cleveland, 190; opposes his
daughter's marriage with the
Duke of York, iii. 473; noticed,
iii. 86.

Claypole, John, marries a daughter
of Oliver Cromwell, ii. 373; ac-
count of, ib.

Claypole, Mrs. See Cromwell.
Cleveland, Charles Fitzroy, Duke of,
See Southampton.
Cleveland, Barbara Villiers, Duchess
of, jealous of the beauty of the
Duke of Monmouth, iii. 114; ac-
count of her, 182; joins the exiled
court of Charles II., 183; be-
comes the mistress of Charles, ib.;
separated from her husband, 184;
portraits of her, 186; her extra-
vagance and addiction to play, ii.
494; iii. 187; imperiousness and
influence over the King, 188, 189,
190; her insolence to Lord Claren-
don, 190; quarrels with Charles,
87, 190, 191; her numerous
lovers, 191, 192, 193, 194; re-
tires to France, 195; married to
Beau Fielding, who ill-treats her,
196; death, ib. ; noticed, ii. 469,
509, 521; iii. 15, 25, 389.
Commons, House of, styled by James
I. the five hundred kings, i. 67.
Compton, Sir William, marries the
Countess of Buckingham, i. 179;
fights a remarkable duel, ib.

Coningsby, Juliana, accompanies
Charles II. in his wanderings
after the battle of Worcester, ii.
435; has a pension conferred on
her, 451.
Coningsmark, Count, causes Mr.
Thynne to be murdered in Pall
Mall, iii. 356; arrested, 358;
tried and acquitted, 359.
Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, marries
the widow of the Duke of Mon-
moutb, iii. 152; character and
account of, ib. note.
Cottington, Francis, Lord, i. 328,
331, 340.

Coventry, Sir John, has his nose
split by the Duke of Monmouth,
iii. 115.

Craigengelt, George, one of the

Gowrie conspirators, i. 26.
Cranstoun, Thomas, one of the
Gowrie conspirators, i. 26.
Crofts, Lord, ii. 463.
Cromwell, Oliver, incites Cornet
Joyce to carry of King Charles I.
from Holdenby, i. 412, 413; per-
sonal treaty with the King, 417 ;
intercepts a letter from Charles to
his Queen, 418; induces the King
to fly from Hampton Court, 422,
423; character, ii. 235; birth and
education, 237, 238; character
and anecdotes of his boyhood, 239,
240; predictions of his future
greatness, 241; respectability of
his family, 241, 242; his relation-
ship to Charles I., 246; refutation
of his being a brewer, 238, 246,
247; his early misdemeanours
and profligacy, 246, 247; resi-
dence at the University and the
Inns at Court, 248; marriage,
248, 250; reformation in his con-
duct, 247; he takes a farm at St.
Ives, 250; removes to Cambridge,
251; suppositions of his poverty,
ib.; proposes to emigrate to
America, 252; Hampden's fore-
sight of his future greatness, 253;
personal appearance, 255, 256,

et seq.; caricatured, 256, 257,
260; he takes up arms against
Charles I., 257, 258; his regi-
ment of Ironsides, 260; narrow
escape at the battle of Naseby,
261; accused of cowardice, 263;
commands the parliamentary
forces in Ireland, 264; his cruel-
ties, 266, et seq.; attacked by a
severe illness, ib.; change in his
manners after the battle of Wor-
cester, 267; he exerts himself to
ensure the execution of Charles I.,
268, et seq.; forces Ingoldesby to
sign the King's death-warrant,
269; his behaviour during the
last scenes of the King's life, 270;
his love of buffoonery, 273, et
seq. 373, 391; familiarity with
the private soldiers, 274; he is
thrown from his coach-box in
Hyde Park, 276, 278, 279; in-
stalled in the Protectorship, 277,
278; his unpopularity, 279; he
takes possession of the royal
palaces, 280; endeavours to make
himself King, 284, et seq.; his
second installation as Protector,
284, 285; appearance and economy
of his court, 284, 285, 288, 289; its
decorum, 286; Cromwell's tastes
and amusements, 289; his admi-
ration of female beauty, 290, 291;
his powers of ingratiating himself
with others, 292, 296; his literary
attainments, 293, 294; religious
principles, 295, 296; believed by
the Jews to be the Messiah, 297;
subserviency to him of foreign
nations, 297, 298; his address in
obtaining secret intelligence, 299,
et seq.; remarks on his position
at the close of his career, 309;
distress of his mind at this period,
309, et seq., 319; plots and at-
tempts to assassinate him, 312;
his last sickness, 320, et seq.;
the fearful tempest which preceded
his dissolution, 325; his death,
327; he lies in stäte at Somerset

House, 328; funeral, 329, 330;
exposure of his body at Tyburn,
332; supposed to have been sub-
stituted for that of King Charles
I., 333, 334; descendants of the
Protector, 335; his son Richard's
eulogium on him, 349; noticed,
i. 414, 415 ii. 380, 381, 387,
457; iii. 75.
Cromwell, Richard, character, ii.
345, 347, 357; birth and educa-
tion, 345; his opposition to the
measures of his father, 346;
marriage, ib.; his initiation into
public life, 348; is acknowledged
Protector, ib. ; his religious
principles, 349, 360; summary
of events during his protector-
ship, 350; he resigns it, 351; in
danger of being arrested for debt,
353, 355; attempts made to res-
tore him to power, 353; accident
which befell him while hawking,
354; he quits England, 355,
356; returns under a feigned name
and lives in retirement, 356;
anecdotes of him, 357, 358, 359;
his death, 360; personal appear-
ance, ib.; noticed, ii. 391.
Cromwell, Henry, son of Oliver;
resemblance to his father, ii.
362; his military services, ib. ;
character, 363, 364, 369; mar-
riage, 363; his government as
Lord Deputy of Ireland, 364;
recalled from that country, 365;
lives in retirement, 366; visited
by Charles II., 367; his last
illness, 368; the King interests
himself in his sufferings, ib. ;
death and burial, 369.
Cromwell, Sir Oliver, i. 135.
Cromwell, Elizabeth, mother of the

Protector Oliver, ii. 308, 309.
Cromwell, Elizabeth, wife of the
Protector Oliver, abuse heaped
on her by the cavaliers, ii. 337,
339, 340; account of her family,
337; her want of beauty, 338;
character, 338, 339; she quits

England at the Restoration, 343,
344; death and burial, 344.
Cromwell, Bridget, Mrs. Ireton,
her sanctity and republican prin-
ciples, ii. 371; marriage, ib.;
death, 372.
Cromwell, Elizabeth, Mrs. Claypole,
character, ii. 373, 375; mar-
riage, 373, 374; her royalist
principles, 373, 375; her father,
Oliver Cromwell's, attachment to
her, 373, 376; she reproaches
him with his crimes in her last
illness, 309, 377; her death,
319, 377, 378, note; grief of the
Protector, 319, 377.

Cromwell, Mary, Countess of Fal-
conberg, character, ii. 370, 383
marriage, 379, 380; personal
appearance, 382; grief at the
death of the Protector, 383, 384;
death, 384.

Cromwell, Frances, Mrs. Rich, cha-
racter and person, ii. 386;
Charles II., a suitor for her hand,
ib.; the Duke d'Enghien another
suitor, 388; the Protector wishes
to marry her to the Duke of
Buckingham, 389; her affair with
one of the Protector's chaplains,
ib.; married to Robert Rich,
grandson of the Earl of Warwick,
391; her second marriage to Sir
John Russell, 392; death, ib.
Craven, William, Earl of, the sup-
posed husband of the Queen of
Bohemia, i. 155, 156; she be-
queathes him her pictures and
books, 157; his birth and fa-
mily, 158; humane conduct
during the plague, ib.; ii. 55;
his exertions at fires, i. 159;
character, 155, 156, 158, 159;
anecdotes respecting him, 159,
160; death, 160.

D.

Dalziel, General, his rebuke to
Mary of Modena, iii. 488.

Davies, Eleanor, Lady, her remark-
able prophecies, i. 264; ii. 102,
104, 150; account of her, 104,
note.

Davis, Mary, a beautiful actress,
account of her, iii. 388; becomes
the mistress of Charles II., 388,
390.

Denham, Sir John, account of, iii.
307, 308, 309; anecdotes of,
307, 308; marriage, 310, 311
his madness, 311, 312; believed
to have poisoned his wife, 312;
death, 313.

Denham, Lady, introduced at court,
iii. 306; the King and the Duke
of York pay their addresses to
her, 307; married to Sir John
Denham, the poet, ib.; confers
her favours on the Duke of York,
310, 311; believed to have been
poisoned by her husband, 312, 313.
Denmark, Christian, King of, visit
to his brother-in-law, James I.,
i. 44, 47, note; addicted to
drinking, 44, 47; wanders about
the streets of London in disguise,
44, note; insults the Countess of
Nottingham, 48.

Countess of, natural daughter of
Charles II., iii. 171.
Digby, Sir Kenelm, character, ii.
190, 197, 211; account of his
family, 191; education, ib.; his
autobiography, 192; marriage,
[see next article, ] his great
strength, 197; defeats the French
and Venetians at Scanderoon, 203,
204; his questionable character
for veracity, 205, 206, 207; ac-
cused of having poisoned his wife.
209; his eccentricity, 210; quar-
rels with the Pope, 211; in
favour with Oliver Cromwell,
211, 296; his literary and

scientific pursuits, 212; inter-
view with Des Cartes, 213;
death, 214.

Digby, Venetia, account of, ii. 193;
her beauty, 192, 194, 200, 201;
her doubtful purity, 194, 195,
199, 200; marriage with Sir
Kenelm Digby, 203; portraits of
her, 207; singular expedients
adopted by Sir Kenelm to pre-
serve her beauty, 208; death
and burial, 209.

Dorchester, Catherine Sedley, Coun-
tess of, mistress of James II.,
iii. 425, 504; dismissed from
court, 426, 505; returns, 427,
505; her want of beauty, 505
wit, 506, 507, 508; death, 509;
noticed, iii. 331, 486.

Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of,
his character and literary accom-
plishments, i. 185, 186; reforms
his conduct, 187; his sudden
death, 188.

Dorset, Edward Sackville, Earl of,
account of, ii. 402.

Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of,
iii. 245, 246, 251, 252; his wild
frolics, 246, 247; volunteers in
the naval war against the Dutch,
247; is twice married, 249;
patronises literary talent, 250;
assists the Princess Anne in her
flight from court, 251; received
into favour by King William III.,
252; death and burial, 253; his
wit, i. 160; iii. 250, 253;
noticed, iii. 283, 506, 507.
Dorset, Anne, Countess of Dorset,
Pembroke, and Montgomery, i.
272; spirited letter to Sir Joseph
Williamson, ib.

Dorset, Elizabeth Bagot, Countess
of Falmouth, an account of her,
iii. 281; her person and character,
281, 282; married to the Earl of
Falmouth, 282; to the Earl of
Dorset, 249, 283; her death, 283.
Dover, Henry Jermyn, Lord, sup-
posed to be married to the Princess