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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