Plymouth, Charles Fitz-Charles, Earl of, a natural son of King Charles II., account of, iii. 168. Porter, Endymion, i. 331, 334. Portsmouth, Louise de Quéroualle, Duchess of, accompanies the Duchess of Orleans to England, iii. 197; becomes the mistress of Charles II., 198; her political intrigues, ib.; honours conferred on her, 199; her rapacity, 199, 200; person, 200, 201, 203; believed to have been married to Charles, 202; her influence | over him, 203; infidelity to him, ib.; she retires to France and dies, 205, 206; noticed, ii. 503, 509, 510, 517, 518, 521; iii. 25, 382, 383, 384.
Price, Henrietta Maria, a maid of honour to Queen Catherine, iii. 403; account of, 403, 404; no- ticed, iii. 234, 289, 290. Progers, Edward, account of, iii. 348, 349; noticed, iii. 399. Pym, John, his enmity to the Earl of Strafford, ii. 127, 130.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, Anne of Den- mark's interposition to save his life, i. 114, 115; held in great esteem by Henry Prince of Wales, 127, 128; sends a cordial to the Prince when he was dying, 137.
Ramsey, John, a page, kills the
Earl of Gowrie, i. 26; created Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness, 25, note; notices of, i. 270.
Rayner, Sir William, i. 179. Rich, Henry. See Holland. Rich, Robert, marries the youngest daughter of Oliver Cromwell, ii. 390, 391; dies, 392. Rich, Frances. See Cromwell. Richelieu, Cardinal, ii. 100, 135.
Richmond, Lodowick Stuart, Duke of, character, i. 171; singular circumstances attending his death, 172; parliament prorogued out of respect to his memory, ib.; his habit of making love in dis- guise, 175; notices of, i. 83. Richmond, James, Duke of, iii. 176.
Richmond, Charles Lennox, Duke of, natural son of King Charles II. account of, iii. 167; noticed, iii. 201.
Richmond, Frances Howard, Duchess of, character, i. 173; account of, ib.; vanity, 174, 175, 176; affected sanctity, 175; death, 176; noticed, ii. 398. Richmond, Mary Villiers, Duchess of, daughter of the celebrated favourite, George Duke of Buck- ingham, iii. 173; weaned with- out the King's consent, ib. ; married to Charles Lord Herbert, 174; to the Duke of Richmond, 176; to Thomas Howard, 177; her narrow escape from being killed, 175, 176; sides with Nell Gwynn in her quarrels with the Duchess of Portsmouth, 178; lampooned by Lord Rochester, ib.; death, ib.; noticed, i. 461; ii. 86; iii. 52.
Richmond, Frances Stewart, Duchess of, her family and education, iii. 219, 220; Charles II. falls in love with her, 220, 223, 224; description of her person, 220, 221; her frivolous tastes, 221; her different lovers, 222, 223; elopes with the Duke of Rich- mond, 226; rage and disappoint- ment of Charles, ib. ; returns to court, 228; believed to have conferred her favours on the King, ib.; death, 229; character, 219, 221, 230.
Richmond, Anne Brudenell, Duchess of, iii. 168.
Richmond, Palace of, Queen Eliza-
beth dies there, i. 36; residence of Henry Prince of Wales, 131, 134.
Robarts, John Lord, iii. 301, 302. Robarts, Isabella, Lady, account of, iii. 301; the Duke of York falls in love with her, 302; her hus- band removes her from court, ib. Roberts, Jane, becomes the mistress
of Charles II., iii. 390; dies penitent, 390, 391. Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, birth and education, iii. 254, 255; admitted to the private parties of Charles II., 256; ac- quires a reputation for courage in the Dutch war, 257; forfeits it by his subsequent conduct, ib. ; his wild frolics, 258; is frequently dismissed the Court, ib.; practises in the character of a fortune- teller, 233, 234, 258, 404; his exceeding libertinism, 258, 259; specimens of his correspondence, 259, 262, 263, 266; his abduc- tion of Elizabeth Mallet, 260; sent to the Tower, 261; mar- ried, ib.; his neglect of his wife,
of the Duc de Sully, 34; he sur- renders Bristol to the Parliament, 35; deprived of his commissions by Charles I., 36; his quarrel with the Earl of Southampton, ib.; distinguishes himself in naval warfare, 37; his scientific inventions, 37, 38; adopts the fashionable vices of the court of Charles II., 38, 39; his natural children, 39; death and burial, 40. Russell, William, Lord, iii. 133, 199, 439.
Ruthven, Alexander, brother of John, Earl of Gowrie, his con- spiracy against James I., i. 21, et seq.; his death, 25; sup- posed lover of Anne of Denmark, 29, 110, 111; treatment of his remains, 30.
Ruthven, Patrick, i. 30. Ruthven, William, i. 30. Ruthven, Lady Beatrice, i. 111. Rye-House Plot, iii. 127, 132.
ib.; his health impaired by the St. Albans, Charles Beauclerk, profligacy of his life, 264; impressed with a sense of religion, 264, et seq.; his last illness, 267; death and burial, 269, 270; his children, 271; noticed, iii. 316, 372.
Duke of, a natural son of Charles
II., account of, iii. 164, 165. St. Albans, Diana de Vere, Duchess of, iii. 166.
Rochester, Elizabeth Mallet, Countess of, her abduction by her future husband, iii. 260; character, 261.
Rodney, Sir George, falls in love
with the Duchess of Richmond, i. 173; his extraordinary suicide, 174. Rosse, Lady, her conspiracy against the Countess of Exeter, i. 73; confesses her guilt, 75. Rupert, Prince, his courage and military capacity, iii. 32, 33, 36; his attachment to England, 33; proposed marriage with the heiress
St. Albans, Henry Jermyn, Earl of, his intrigue with Henrietta Maria, ii. 24; their reputed marriage, 25; his ill-treatment of her, 26; noticed, ii. 28. St. Evremond, M. de, ii. 470; iii. 214, 215, 217.
St. James's, palace of, Henry Prince of Wales holds his court there, i, 128; Charles I. confined there, 446; his projected escape from, 447; the Earl of Holland im- prisoned there, ii. 168; escape of the Duke of York from, iii. 409; inhabited by James II., 429. St. James's Park, notices of, i. 462; ii. 470; iii. 378, 379, 429.
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, entertains the Kings of England and Denmark at Theobalds, i. 46; prediction of his end, 136; genius as a statesman, 189, 192; person, 190; character, ib.; gal- lantry, 191; his love of women, ib.; knowledge of the character of James I., ib.; his last illness, 194, et seq.; death, 196; fu- neral, 197; noticed, i. 33. Sandwich, Earl of, ii. 465; iii. 4. Sanquhar, Robert Crighton, Lord,
executed for assassinating a fenc- ing master, i. 66, note. Saville, Sir Henry, iii. 245, 259. Sedan-chairs, their first introduc-
tion into England, ii. 69, note. Sedley, Sir Charles, character, iii. 325; birth and education, 326; his first appearance at court, ib.; poetical genius, 326, 327; his wild frolics, 246, 328; reforms his conduct, 330; promotes the revolution, 331; his death and natural children, 331, 332; his wit, 327, 331. Sedley, Catherine, Countess of Dor- chester. See Dorchester. Sedley, Elizabeth, iii. 325. Seymour, Sir William. See Hertford. Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, ii. 475, 522; iii. 98, 99.
Shepherd, Sir Fleetwood, iii. 327, and note. Shrewsbury, Francis, eleventh Earl of, killed in a duel by the Duke of Buckingham, ii. 94. Shrewsbury, Anna Maria, Countess
of, her disgraceful intrigue with the Duke of Buckingham, iii. 94, 95, 96, 97; has a pension conferred on her by the French King, 96; noticed, iii. 274, 339, 340.
Sidney, Sir Philip, i. 254, 255. Sidney, Henry, iii. 478, and note. Simson, Agnes, a reputed witch, i. 16.
Slingsby, Sir Guildford, secretary to the Earl of Strafford, ii. 141. Soissons, Count, his pretensions to the hand of Henrietta Maria, ii. 5. Somerset, Charles, Duke of, refuses to assist at the audience of the Pope's nuncio, iii. 422, 423. Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, liber- ality of King James to him, i. 54; advancement at court, 198, 199; created Earl of Somerset, 200, 201; friendship with Sir Thomas Overbury, 201, 202; conduct as a favourite, ib.; intrigue with the Countess of Essex, 202; pro- cures Sir Thomas Overbury to be poisoned, 205; his subsequent remorse, 209; declines in the royal favour, 209, 210; sent to the Tower, 211, 212; suspected to have tampered with the life of Prince Henry, 137, 214, 215; his conduct in confinement, 213, 216, 218; trial and sentence, 223, 224; reprieved, 224; re- ceives a full pardon, 225; his last interview with the King, 226; redeeming trait in his cha- racter, 227; person, 228; death and burial, ib.; noticed, i. 53, 252; ii. 65.
Somerset, Frances Howard, Coun- tess of, her merciless disposition, i. 229, 242; her marriage with the Earl of Essex, 230; clan- destine meetings with the Earl of Somerset, 231; her expedients to procure a divorce from Essex, 204, 232, 239, et seq.; trial for divorce, 239, 240; marriage of the Countess with Somerset, 204, 240, 241; her share in the murder of Overbury, 209, 213, 242; trial and sentence, 243; reprieve, 243; death, 244; no- ticed, i. 129. Somerset-House, the residence of Anne of Denmark, i. 116; of Henrietta Maria, ii. 32; Oliver
Cromwell lies in state there, ii. | 328, 329. Southampton and Cleveland, Charles Fitzroy, Duke of, natural son of Charles II., account of, iii. 160. Southampton, Mary, Duchess of, iii. 160.
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, fourth Earl of, iii. 36.
Southesk, Robert Carnegie, Earl of, iii. 295.
Southesk, Anne, Countess of, ac- count of her, iii. 265; her in- trigue with James, Duke of York, ib.; her family afflictions and death, 296.
Spain, Mary, Infanta of, project of marrying her to Prince Charles, i. 325; the prince beholds her for the first time, 337, 338; per- son, 339; admired by Charles, 340, 341; declines his presents before marriage, 341; her at- tachment to the Prince, 353, 357, 358; styled Princess of England, 359, 360; her marriage with the Emperor Ferdinand III., ib. Stair, Lord, ii. 495. Stanley, Venetia. See Digby. Stillingfleet, ii. 495, 496. Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, character, ii. 123, 124; ac- count of, 124; his first and second marriage, 124, 125: at- tachment to his children, 125; his opposition to the court, 127; he is reconciled and raised to the peerage, 127, 128; his third marriage, 128; his unpopularity, 128, 137; he is impeached by the House of Commons, 131; his trial in Westminster Hall, 132, 133; defence, 134; conduct of Charles in consenting to his exe- cution, 137, et seq.; attempts to escape from the Tower, 138; he is executed, 141, 142, 143; his friendship with Archbishop Laud, 156; eir last meeting in the Tower. 157.
Strangeways, Colonel Giles, assists Charles II. after his flight from Worcester, ii. 434.
Stuart, Lady Arabella, the Earl of Gowry her supposed lover, i. 22; character, 161, 168; affinity to the throne, 30, 162; importance in the political intrigues of the period, 162, 163; marriage with Sir William Seymour, 164, 165; placed in confinement by James I., 165; escape, 165, 166; she is overtaken and sent to the Tower, 167; death, ib.; suspected to have been poisoned, 168; burial, 169.
Stuarts, remarks on their hereditary misfortunes, i. 2.
Suckling, Sir J., character of, ii. 215; parentage and education, 215, 216; costliness of his enter- tainments, 216, 217; his addic- tion to gambling, 217; the god- dess of his poetry, 218; his doubtful courage, 219, 226; ac- count of one of his frolics, 222; his merit as a poet, 224; he attempts the release of the Earl of Strafford from the Tower, 228; circumstances of his death, ib. Suffolk, Thomas Howard, Earl of, i. 230.
Sussex, Anne, Countess of, natural daughter of Charles II., account of, ii. 170. Syndercome, attempts the life of Oliver Cromwell, ii. 314.
Temple, Miss. See Littleton. Tennis, game of, i. 126, 132, 135. Theobalds, palace of, James I. dies there. i. 84; built by the Earl of Salisbury, 192; transferred to James I., ib. ; the Kings of Eng- land and Denmark entertained there, 46; noticed, i. 40. Thynne, Thomas, account of, iii.
355; married to Lady Elizabeth Percy, 356; assassinated by order of Count Coningsmark, 357, et seq.
Titus, Colonel Silas, his pamphlet of 66 Killing no Murder," ii. 317; his ridicule of Lord Clarendon, iii. 79.
Trent, Charles II. concealed there after his flight from Worcester, ii. 431, 432, 437, 440, 441, 451. Turner, Mrs., her share in the mur- der of Sir Thomas Overbury, i. 231; executed, 212, 237; agent of the Countess of Essex, 232, 233, 235; account of her, 236. Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Duke of, account of him, iii. 237; and note; noticed, iii. 238, 239, 240, 241. Tyrconnel, Frances Jennings, Du- chess of, character and person, iii. 231, 232; Charles II. and the Duke of York become her lovers, 232, 233; her frolic in the cha- racter of an orange-girl, 233, et seq.; her numerous lovers, 237; marries Sir George Hamilton, 239; and afterwards, the Duke of Tyrconnel, 240; apocryphal story of her distress, 241; death, 242; her epitaph in the Scots College at Paris, 243.
Usher, Archbishop, witnesses the execution of Charles I., i. 470; Oliver Cromwell's regard for him, ii. 296; Cromwell defrays the ex- penses of his funeral, ib. note.
Vernon, Sir Thomas, iii. 402. Villiers, Lord Francis, birth, iii. 66; distinguishes himself in the royal cause, 67; his melancholy death, 67, 68.
Villiers, Sir George, story of his ap- parition, ii. 107: noticed, i. 178, 179. Vossius, Isaac, ii. 498.
Waller, Edmund, the poet, his mo- ther's relationship to Oliver Crom- well, ii. 271: his Ode to the Pro- tector, 293; witty saying to Charles II., ib.; prophesies the fall of James II., iii. 439; his speech to that monarch, 440. Walters, Lucy, mistress of Charles II., supposed to be married to him, iii. 119, 368; account of, 362, 364; influence over the King, 363, 365; sent to the Tower by Cromwell, 367; death, 369; noticed, iii. 113. Walters, Mary, a natural daughter of Charles II., account of, iii. 172. Warmestré, Miss. See Kirk. Wells, Winifred, a beauty at the court of Charles II., particulars respecting her, iii. 399. Wentworth, Lady Henrietta, mis- tress of the Duke of Monmouth, iii. 134; his affection for her, 151, 154, 155, 156; account of, 151. Wharton, Sir George, his quarrel with the Earl of Pembroke, i. 260, 262.
White, Jeremiah, chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, ii. 380, 389, 390. Whitegrave, Thomas, a Roman Ca- tholic gentleman, assists Charles II. after his escape from Worces- ter, ii. 421, 422; his narrative of the event, 422, 423; has a pen- sion conferred on him, 426, 451. Whiteladies, Charles II. secreted there, ii. 413, 415, 451. Wightman, Edward, burnt for he- resy, i. 89.
William III. King of England. See Orange.
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