Bruce, Andrew, Bishop of Du keld, 290 Bruges, surrenders to Marlborough, 416; the French at, 420; 421 sq. Brun, St, 629
Brunswick, Congress of, 610 Brunswick-Lüneburg, 581; and Mecklen- burg-Güstrow, 663
Dukes of, 37; 43; join Quadruple Alliance, 109; 161; 569; 571
House of, and France, 655; 662 Christian William, Duke of, 655 (Hanover), Ernest Augustus, Duke of. See Hanover
Frederick Augustus, Prince of, 662 George Lewis, Duke of. See George I, King of England
(Celle), George William, Duke of, 55; 244; 403
(Hanover), John Frederick, Duke of, 651; 744
Maximilian William, Prince of, 662 Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Antony Ulric, Duke of, 403; 744
Princess Sophia Charlotte of, 538 Rudolf Augustus, Duke of, 55; 403 Brussels, the Duke of York at, 225; 420;
Buat, Henri de Fleury de Coulan, Sieur de, execution of, 152
Buchholtz, Colonel, expedition of to Lake Yamuish, 544
Buckingham, George Villiers, second Duke
of, 95; 126; and the French alliance, 191; 198; 200 sq.; and the Treaty of Dover, 203 sqq.; 207 sqq.; 216; sent to the Tower, 218
Buczácz, Treaty of, 353
Buda, taken by Imperialists, 52, 366; 339;
345; Turkish army at, 346; 363
Buen Ayre, the Dutch in, 687
Bürgi, Jobst, mathematician, 709
Bulavin, Kondraty, leader of Cossack re- volt, 597
Bulgaria, Black, 479
Bunyan, John, 136; 207; 335
Burghstead, John, regicide, 149 Burgos, depopulation of, 376
Burgsdorf, Conrad von, Brandenburg statesman, 642
Burgundy, Estates of, 4; 13
Louis, Duke of, 28; 30 sq.; 88; 421;
Maria Adelaide, Duchess of, 30 sq. Burke, Edmund, and the Act of Settle- ment, 275; 702; 705
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 136;
and Queen Mary, 167; 213; 235; 255; 258; 271; and Latitudinarianism, 752 Burntisland, bombarded by the Dutch, 188 Busher, Leonard, and religious toleration, 326
Butler, James, Duke of Ormond. See Ormond
Cabal Ministry, 198; 201; 210; 214 Cabot, Sebastian, and the Muscovy Com- pany, 513
Cadalso, José de, Spanish poet, 69 Cadiz, English fleet at, 61, 262; 379; 411 8q.
Cadogan, William, first Earl Cadogan, 421; 422; 458 sq. Caermarthen, Marquis of. See Leeds, Duke of
Caesalpinus, Andreas, and the circulation of the blood, 725 sq.; 734 sqq.; 738 Cairncross, Alexander, Archbishop of Glas- gow, 290
Calais, James II at, 262
Calcutta, establishment of, 699 Calixtus, George, Protestant theologian, 648; 744
Camarão, South American Indian, 674 Cambray, 36; 39; taken by the French, 44; 45; 422; 430 Cambridge, Milton at, 116; University of, 237 sq.; 245
Platonists, 327; 332; 749 sqq. Duke of, 474
Camerarius, Rudolf Jacob, botanist, 736 Cameron, Richard, covenanter, 286 sq.;
Camisards, the, 26
Camoens, Luis de, the Lusiad of, 695 Campbell. See Argyll
Campeachy Bay, the English in, 687 Campredon, N. de, French ambassador in Russia, 551
Canada, France and, 13; 442; 684 sq.; 688 Canales, Marquez de, 390
Canary Islands, exports from, 677 Candia, 36; the Turks in, 40, 342 sq.; 348 sq.
Canea, taken by the Turks, 342 Cantemir, Demetrius, Hospodar of Mol- davia, 604
Cape Breton Island, France and, 443 of Good Hope, Dutch occupation of, 693 sqq. Capel, Arthur, Earl of Essex. See Essex Sir Henry, Lord Capel, 321 Caprara, Aeneas Sylvius, Count von, cap- tures Neuhäusel, 366; 369
Albert, Count, mission of to the Porte, 358 sq.
Caracas, Dutch trade with, 688 Caracena, Count, Spanish commander, 34 Caraffa, Antonio, Austrian field-marshal, 367
Carbery, Richard Vaughan, second Earl of, 748
Cardan, Jerome, physician, 716 Carelia, ceded to Sweden, 503; 614
Samuel, 126; 133; 136 Thomas, Earl of Ossory. See Ossory Carew, Thomas, poet, 745
Cargill, Donald, covenanter, 286 sq. Caribbean Sea, Spanish possessions in, 680; 688; 691
Carlingford, Theobald Taaffe, first Earl of, 109
Carlisle, Charles Howard, Earl of, 213 Carlowitz, General von, at Moscow, 587 Treaty of, 33; 61; 364; 371; 388 Carlsbad, Peter the Great at, 607 Carolina, 101; foundation of, 685 Caron, François, director-general of French commerce in India, 703
Carpi, French defeated at, 402
Girolamo da, 724
Carrickfergus, taken by Schomberg, 312; 313
Carrick-on-Suir, William III at, 315 Carstares, William, and the establishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland, 293 Cartagena, 684; sack of, 691 Carteret, Sir George, 113
Cartets, Viscomte de, and Labadie, 756 Cartwright, Thomas, Bishop of Chester, 234
Thomas, puritan, 326
Cary, Lucius, Viscount Falkland. See Falkland
Casale, seized by the French, 48; 357 Casimir III, King of Poland, 632
IV, King of Poland, 624; 634
V, King of Poland. See John II Casimir, Henry, Stadholder of Friesland. See Nassau-Dietz
Caspian Sea, Russia and, 520 sq., 544 sq. Cassano, Prince Eugene repulsed at, 414 Cassard, Jacques, in the West Indies, 679 Cassegrain, N., 721
Cassel, William of Orange defeated at, 44; 45; Charles XII at, 610; 743
Castel-Melhor, Louis Souza Vasconcellos, Count of, Portuguese statesman, 34 Castel-Rodrigo, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, 152 sq.
Castile, Council of, and the succession, 392; 428
Castlemaine, Barbara, Countess of, 111
Roger Palmer, Earl of, 235 Castro Vireyna, silver mines at, 682 Catalans, Philip V and the, 445 sq.; 452 Catalonia, the French in, 61, 416; restored
to Spain, 63; 375; 428; 451; and Philip V, 404, 436; the Allies in, 419; 426; 434; 440
Catania, naval battle of, 44
Catharine I, Empress of Russia, 547 sq.; accession of, 549; 550 sq.; illness and death of, 551 sq.
II, Empress of Russia, 479; 505 Ivanovna, Tsarevna, 611
of Braganza, Queen of England, marriage of, 105; 106; 212 sq.; Titus Oates and, 225; 698
Catinat de la Fauconnerie, Nicolas de, Marshal of France, 60 sqq.; 401 sq.;
Cats, Jacob, Grand Pensionary of Holland, 139
Caucasus, Russian influence in, 545 Caulet, Étienne-François de, Bishop of Pamiers, 84 sq.
Caumartin, François Lefèvre de, Bishop of Amiens, 756
Cavalier, Jean, Camisard leader, 26 Cavalieri, Bonaventura, mathematician, 711 Cavendish, Lord. See Devonshire, Duke of Caya river, defeat of the Allies on, 426 Cayenne, French colony of, 448; 678 Centurione, Paolo, Genoese traveller, 512 Cerkova, Charles XII at, 600
Cesi, Prince Federigo, and the Accademia dei Lincei, 740
Cevennes, Protestant rising in the, 26 Ceylon, and French colonisation, 13; the Dutch in, 107, 696; 146; 695 Châlons, House of, 669
Chamberlain, Hugh, and a national bank, 266; 271
Chamberlayne, William, poet, 136 Chamillart, Michel de, French financier, 28 sq.; 417; 424
Champagne, customs of, 13
Champlain, Samuel de, founder of Quebec, 684
Chancellor, Richard, in Russia, 512 sq. Chandernagore, factory at, 703 Charenton, Synod of, 743
Charlemont, captured, 314
Charleroi, 43; restored to Spain, 45; 160; taken by the French, 199; 450; 457 sq. Charles the Great, Emperor, 617
IV, Emperor, 621; 633
V, Emperor, 34; 627
VI, Emperor (Archduke of Austria), and the Spanish Succession, 384, 388, 390 sqq., 401; 412; and Spain, 416 sq., 419 sq.; 456 sq.; 429; leaves Spain, 432; and the peace negotiations, ib.; elected Emperor, 434; and the Peace of Utrecht, 434, 438 sqq., 450 sq.; and the Peace of Rastatt, 435 sq., 452 sqq.; and the Catalans, 445 sq.; and the Peace of Baden, 454 sq.; and the Tsarevich, 539; and Peter the Great, 542; 543; 704; 744
VII, Emperor. See Bavaria, Charles Albert, Elector of
I, King of England, 92; and Ireland, 103; 105; 216; and Scotland, 279 sq., 283 sq., 291; and the Puritans, 325; 326; 746
II, King of England, policy of (1667-85), Chap. IX; and the govern- ment of Scotland, Chap. X (2); in Holland, 148; lands at Dover, 280; and Portugal, 34, 105, 107, 148; and Louis XIV, 37, 40, 42, 44 sqq., 105 sq., 109, 154; and the United Provinces, 37, 43 sqq., 107, 178 sq.; the restoration and policy of, 92 sq.; 94; 96; 98; and religious toleration, 99 sqq., 329, 333 sq.;
and Clarendon, 101 sq., 114; and Spain, 104 sq.; marriage of, 105; and the Prince of Orange, 107, 158, 163; and the Dutch war, 108 sq.; financial diffi- culties of, 110 sqq.; and the peace ne- gotiations, 112 sq.; and the army, 113, 265; and the Parliament, 114 sq.; 124; Dryden and, 134 sqq.; and the Bishop of Münster, 150, 182; and the Triple Alliance, 154, 191; and the Treaty of Dover, 154, 156; 177; and the fleet, 178, 187 sq.; declares war against the Dutch (1665), 180; 187; 190; declares war against the Dutch (1672), 191; 197; and Ireland, 301 sqq., 310; re- ligion of, 331; 359; and Dunkirk, 442; 650; and Brazil, 675; and colonial affairs, 690; and the East India Com- pany, 697; and Hobbes, 751; death of, 230, 288
Charles VIII, King of France, 483
II, King of Spain, character and rule of, 34 sq.; marriages of, ib.; 45; 49; 62; and William of Orange, 244; 338; 349; accession of, 373; adminis- tration under, 374 sqq.; 377; infirmity of, 379 sq.; 381; 383; and the succes- sion, 384 sq., 391 sq.; death of, 393; will of, 392 sqq., 401; 395; 459; 523; 591; and the League of Augsburg, 655; 659; 664
IX, King of Sweden, 578
X Gustavus, King of Sweden, and the Baltic struggle, 146 sq.; and Den- mark, 344, 562; and Poland, 344, 349, 505; 558; and the succession, 563; and the Hetman Chmielnicki, 599; 643; death of, 147, 344
XI, King of Sweden, 49; 527; 563; government of, 567; 568; and the war of Scania, 569 sq.; and the peace treaties of 1679, 571; character of, 572; and his advisers, 573 sq.; and the "Reduction" of 1680, 574 sq.; domestic policy of, 577 sq.; and Gottorp, ib.; 580; and Charles XII, 584 sq.; and Patkul, 586; and the League of Augsburg, 655; death of, 576, 579, 584
XII, King of Sweden, 417; 527; 572; 576; 579; and Denmark, 580 sqq.; in- vades Norway, 583; character and train- ing of, 584 sq.; coronation of, 585; 586; and the Duke of Gottorp, 580, 587; and the great Northern War, 587 sqq.; at Narva, 588 sq.; and Augustus II, 589, 592; invades Poland, 592; and Stanis- laus Leszczynski, 593; treaty of, with Augustus II, 595; and the Russian peace overtures, 596; enters Grodno, 597; at Holowczyn, 598; and Mazepa, 599 sq.; in the Ukraine, 600; defeated at Poltawa, 601; in Turkey, 602 sqq.; at Bender, 606; rejects the neutrality compact, 607; 680; and the "Stettin Sequestration,' 609; at Stralsund, 610 sq.; and the
third anti-Swedish league, 611; in Scania, 612; and the peace negotiations with Russia, 613 sq.; 659; and Frederick I of Prussia, 666 sq.; death of, 583, 614 Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 488 Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia (Prince of Piedmont), 432 Charlotte, Tsaritsa, 538 Charnock, Job, founder of Calcutta, 699 Charterhouse, James II and the, 335 Châteauneuf, Pierre-Antoine de Castag nères, Marquis de, French Minister at the Hague, 610 Chatham, 169; the Dutch attack on, 150 sq., 154, 188
Cherkasky, Alexander, Prince, 544 Alexis, Prince, 557
Chernaya Napa, Swedish reverse at, 598 Chernigoff, annexed by Ivan the Great, 479 sq.; 504
Chester, James II and Tyrconnel at, 307; William III sails from, 313 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of, 70
Cheynell Francis, and Chillingworth, 746 Chiabrera, Gabriello, Italian poet, 69 Chiari, Imperial army at, 402 Chicheley, Sir John, Rear-admiral, 196 Chichester, William Chillingworth at, 746 Chigi, Fabio. See Alexander VII, Pope Child, Sir Francis, banker, 266
Sir John, Governor of Bombay, 698 sq. Sir Josia, chairman of the East India Company, 699 sqq.
Chili, the Spaniards in, 683 Chillingworth, William, 326; 332; 745 sqq. China, route to, 512; Russia and, 544 Chinsura, capitulation of, 697 Chios, attacked by the Venetians, 365 Chmielnicki, Bogdan, Hetman of Little
Russia, 504 sq.; 599 Chrétien, Michael, and Gallicanism, 76 Christian Brothers, the, 79
IV, King of Denmark, 561
V, King of Denmark, 44; 561; war of, with Sweden, 568, 570; and the Treaty of Fontainebleau, 571; 578 sq.
first bishop of Prussia, 629 Christiania, occupied by the Swedes, 583 Christiansborg, Slave Coast station, 691 Christina, Queen of Sweden, abdication of, 146; 564; 744; and the Great Elector, 639, 641 Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough. See Marlborough
Ciampini, Giovanni Giustino, founder of the Accademia fisico-matematica, 704 sq. Cibber, Colley, dramatist, 129 Cistercian Order, in Brandenburg, 619 Ciudad Rodrigo, captured, 416 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, first Earl of, 93 sq.; and the religious settlement, 96; 97; 100; charged with high treason, 101; and Parliament, 102; opposes acts
against Irish trade, 104; foreign policy of, ib.; and the marriage of Charles II, 105; 106; and the Dutch war, 108; 113; the fall of, 114; exile of, 115; 136; 198; policy of, 199; 201 sq.; 231; Scottish Privy Councillor, 280; 305; 333; 745 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, third Earl of. See Cornbury, Viscount
Henry Hyde, second Earl of, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 234, 306; 247; and the Revolution settlement, 249 sq.; 255 sq. Claudia Felicitas, Empress, 211 Clement IX (Giulio Rospigliosi), Pope, and Charles II, of England, 202, and Jan- senism, 84, 89 sq.; 202; 420; and the Peace of Baden, 454 sq.; and the Prus- sian monarchy, 665 sq.; 743 Clermont, county of, ceded to France, 33 Clermont-en-Auvergne, royal commission
Coeverden, Dutch success at, 160 Coke, Sir Edward, Lord Coke, 252 Colbert, Charles, Marquis de Croissy, French ambassador in England, 203 sq.; 209; 211
Jean-Baptiste, Marquis de Seignelay, French statesman, 1; 4 sq.; and Fouquet, 6; character and aims of, 6 sqq.; and taxation reforms, 8 sq.; industrial and commercial projects of, 10 sqq.; and the war with Holland, 10; and the French colonies, 13, 684; and the internal cus- toms of France, 13; and the improve- ment of canals and roads, 14; and the French navy, 14; creates five new Acade- mies, 15; and the administration of justice, 16; rivalry of, with Louvois, 16 sq.; 22; 25; and the municipalities, 27; 39; and the dispute with the Papacy, 85; 200; and the African trade, 692; and India, 702; and the Académie des Sciences, 741; death of, 17, 28
Jean-Baptiste (the younger). See Seignelay, Marquis de Colchester, the plague in, 110 Coldstream Guards, 113
Coleman, Edward, and the Popish Plot,
Coleraine, fugitives in, 307 sq.; 309 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 122 Coligny, Jean de, French general, 347 College, Stephen, conviction of, 228 Collier, Jeremy, 128; 130
Collins, Samuel, physician to the Tsar Alexis, 513
Colmar, victory of Turenne at, 44 Cologne, treaty of, with Louis XIV, 42; peace conference at, 43; election of arch- bishop of, 54 sq., 63; war of, with the United Provinces, 157 sq.; 161; 435 Joseph Clement, Elector of, 53 sqq.; 404; 455
Maximilian Henry, Elector of, 54 Colombus, Realdus, 725
Colson, John, mathematician, 718 Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa, 691
Compton, Henry, Bishop of London, 233 sq.; 242; 255; suspended, 335 Condé, taken by the French, 44; 45; 457 sq. Henri-Jules de Bourbon, Prince de (Duc d'Enghien), 349
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de, at Seneff, 44, 161; 45; in Franche Comté, 200, 373; 256; 340; and the Polish crown, 349 sq.; 411; 650
Congreve, William, dramatist, 128; 130; 132 sq.; the Incognita of, 136
Coningsby, Thomas, Earl Coningsby, Irish Lord Justice, 220
Conseil d'Etat, 3
des Dépêches, 3
des Finances, 3 Privé, 3
Constance, Lake of, 408
Constantine I (the Great), Emperor of Rome, 484
VIII, Emperor of Rome, 483
IX Monomakhos, Emperor of Rome, 483 sq.
Palaiologos, Emperor of Rome, 482 Constantinople, anarchy in, 367; 368; 515 Treaty of (1724), 545
Conti, François-Louis de Bourbon, Prince of, 370; 449
Cooper, Anthony Ashley. See Shaftesbury, first Earl of
Copenhagen, besieged by the Swedes, 147; 558; the coup d'état at, 559 sq.; 561; 581; the plague at, 582; 583; 610 sq.; Peter the Great at, 612
Treaty of (1727), 551 Copernicus, Nicolaus, 708; 713 Corbet, John, puritan author, 331
Miles, regicide, 149
Corinth, occupied by the Venetians, 365 Cork, 308; taken by Marlborough, 316 Cornbury, Edward Hyde, Viscount (after-
wards third Earl of Clarendon), 255 Corneille, Pierre, 66 sqq.; 125 Corocoro, silver mines at, 682
Coromandel, the Great Elector and, 646; the Dutch in, 695, 697 Corzana, Count, Imperial plenipotentiary at Utrecht, 439
Cotes, Roger, mathematician, 720 Courland, 494; 555; Charles XII in, 592; 594; Swedish occupation of, 666; Prus- sia and, 667
Anne, Duchess of. See Anne, Em- press of Russia
Frederick William, Duke of, 550 Courtray, Spain and, 45, 63; 199; 416 Coventry, Henry, envoy to Sweden, 109; and the Treaty of Breda, 112
Sir William, Secretary to the Duke of York, 113; 183; 210; 216 Cowley, Abraham, 129; 132; and the Philosophical College, 740; 745 Cowper, William, first Earl Cowper, 446; 465; 469
Cracow, 480; the Swedes in, 505; 592 Cradock, Francis, and the scheme for a national bank, 266
Crawford, William Lindsay, eighteenth Earl of, 292
Cremona, raid on, by Prince Eugene, 403 Créquy de Blanchefort, François, Marshal of France, 44
Croft, Herbert, Bishop of Hereford, 331; 334
Cromwell, Oliver, and Portugal, 105, 107; and Mazarin, 106; and the Dutch Re- public, 138, 140 sqq., and Nieuwpoort, 146; 178; 266; and Ireland, 315; and the religious sects, 327 sq.; 333; and Spain, 372, 375, 378; 386; the Elector Frederick William and, 648; 680; 697 Cronsbruch, Caspar Florenz, Baron von, at Utrecht, 439
Crowne, John, dramatist, 126 sq.; 132; 136 Croy, Prince Carl Eugene de, 369; 589 Crynssen, Abraham, captures Tobago, 152 Cuba, a Spanish possession, 687 Cudworth, Ralph, Cambridge Platonist, 750 sq.; 753
Culloden, battle of, 326 Culmbach, 622
Culmland, the, and Poland, 629; and the German Order, 630; 634 Culverwell, Nathanael, Cambridge Pla- tonist, 752
Cumana, Dutch trade with, 688
Cumberland, Richard, Bishop of Peter- borough, 753
Cüstrin, the Great Elector at, 639 Curaçoa, contraband trade at, 684; 687 Cyprus, 342
Daghestan, Russia and, 545
Dahlberg, Erik, Swedish general, 569; 587
Dalmatia, Venetian conquests in, 366, 371 Dalrymple. See Stair
Dalziel, Sir Thomas, at Rullion Green, 284; 288
Danby, Earl of. See Leeds, Duke of Danckelmann, Eberhard von, Prussian statesman, 647; 658; 662 sq.
Nicolas von, Brandenburg Minister at Vienna, 663
Dangerfield, Thomas, perjurer, 231 Danzig, besieged by the Swedes, 146; 611; Brandenburg and, 620; 629; the Ger man Order and, 631; 634; and Poland, 636; 638
Treaty of, 611 Darien Expedition, the, 296 Dartmouth, George Legge, Lord 262 Daun, Wirich Philipp Lorenz, Count, cap- tures Naples, 419; 425
Dauphiné, invaded by the Duke of Savoy,60 D'Avenant, Sir William, dramatist, 125 sq.; 136; 745
Day, Francis, builder of Fort St George, 698 Deane, Sir Anthony, Commissioner of the English navy, 170 sq.; 177 Deccan, Aurangzeb and the, 699 Defoe, Daniel, 396; 467; 468 sq. Delamere, Henry Booth, Lord, supports the Prince of Orange, 246 Delhi, the interregnum at, 697; 701 Demoivre, Abraham, mathematician, 716 Denain, battle of, 433 sq. Dendermonde, captured by Marlborough, 416; 457; 459
Denia, capture of, 426 Denmark, 1660-75, Chap. XVIII (1) ; 1679–
1720, Chap. XVIII (3); and France, 33, 41, 49, 54, 56; and the United Provinces, 37, 142, 161, 164; and Sweden, 40, 45, 53, 562, 568 sq., 571, 614 sq.; at war with Sweden, 146 sq., 344, 403, 569; joins the Emperor's coalition, 43; 58; and the Anglo-Dutch war, 109; joins the Quadruple Alliance, ib.; treaty of, with England, 269; and Russia, 482; and Livonia, 493 sq.; and Schleswig, 550; joins the Hanoverian Alliance, 551, 586; and the great Northern War, 587 sq.; and the anti-Swedish leagues, 602, 608, 610 sq., 651; invaded by the Swedes, 609; and Saxony, ib.; 612; and Coromandel, 646; and the Peace of Nymegen, 652; 666 Deptford, Peter the Great at, 523 Derbent, Peter the Great at, 544; 545 Derby, Duke of Devonshire in arms at, 246 Dernei, Anton, printer, 531
Derry, revolt of, 307; 308; siege of, 309,
Desalliers, French Minister in Transylvania,
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