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Albemarle, earl of, in favour with
king William, ii. 224, 241,
302, 303, 306, 316. his loss
at Denain, 610, 611.
Albert, duke, i. 12.
Albeville, marquis de, his charac-

ter, i. 707. king James's envoy
to the States, 709, 710, 720.
his memorial about Bantam,
728. he discovers king James's
designs too soon, 734, 768.
ii. 694.

Alcantara taken, ii. 444.
Aldrich, Dr. i. 674.
Alexander VIII. pope, his death,
ii. 72.

Almanara, battle of, ii. 555.
Almanza, battle of, ii. 475.
Almirante of Castile, ii. 351,

352.

Altieri, cardinal, i. 394.
Ambrun, siege of, ii. 100.
Amsterdam, errors of, i. 330, 331.
love for the duke of Marlbo-
rough, ii. 416.

Ancram, earl of, i. 19, 357, 360.
Anglesey, earl of, manages the
English interest in Ireland, i.
176, 225, 429, votes against
lord Stafford, 492, 571. op-
poses Monmouth's attainder,
641.

Anjou, duke of, offered to Spain,

ii. 123. declared king of Spain
in 1700, 251, 252, 257. own-
ed by the States, 257. and by
king William, 268. See Philip
king of Spain.

Annandale, earl of, in a plot, ii.
62. discovers it to queen Mary,
63, 359. opposes the union,
460. is zealous for the pro-
testant succession, 426, 519.
Anne, queen, (see Denmark,)

proclaimed, ii. 309. her speech
to the council, 309, 310. and
to parliament, 310. pursues
king William's alliances, ibid.
311. her ministry, 312, 313,

314. the princess Sophia pray-
ed for, 312, 315. proclaims
war with France, ibid. false
reports of designs to set her
aside, 315, 317. takes the
Scotch coronation oath, 319,
320. her arms successful, 333.
creates five new peers, 344,
345. her reception of king
Charles of Spain, 354. a plot
against her discovered, [357,]
[358.] she revives the order of
the Thistle, [359.] jealousies
of her ministry, 362. she grants
the first-fruits and tenths to
the poor clergy, 369, 370, 371.
Maclean's discoveries of the
plot, 371, 372, 375, 376. she
passes the Scotch act for a dif-
ferent successor than that of
England, 399. her reasons,
ibid. comes to hear the de-
bates in the house of lords,
405. changes the Scotch mi-
nistry, 426. public credit high,
438. assists Savoy, 445. ap-
points commissioners to treat
of an union with Scotland,
470. her private favour to
Harley, 487. some promotions
in the church, 487, 488, 492,
493. turns Harley out unwill-
ingly, 496. calls the pretend-
ed prince of Wales the pre-
tender, 503. her tender care
of prince George, 515. she
takes in more whigs, 516.
appoints plenipotentiaries to
treat of peace, 528, 530,
531. books wrote against her
title, 538. secretly favours Dr.
Sacheverell, 543, 545. her
speech at the end of that ses-
sion, 546. negociations for
peace, 549, 550, 551. changes
her ministry, 552, 553. dis-
solves the parliament, 553-
her speech, 557, 558, 559,
560, 561, 562. sends earl

Rivers to Hanover, 581. her speech, 583. creates duke Hamilton duke of Brandon, 586. turns out the duke of Marlborough, 588. makes twelve new peers, 589. her message to the lords to adjourn, disputed, but obeyed, ibid. her message about the peace, 590. orders the duke of Marlborough to be sued for money received by her warrant, 593. does not confirm the convocation's censure of Whiston, 603. orders the duke of Ormond not to act offensively, 606. lays the plan of peace before both houses, 608, 609. Dunkirk put into her hands to be demolished, 609, 610. is possessed in a precarious manner, 615. she ratifies the treaties of peace and commerce, 618. her answer to the commons' address, 623. a debt of five hundred thousand pounds on the civil list paid off, 628. her speech, 630. reflections upon it, 631. her manners, 661. Annesley, Mr. i. 85. made earl of Anglesey, 97. See Anglesey, earl of.

Anspach, princess of, ii. 480. Antrim, earl of, i. 37, 40, 41. Appeal, debate on the word, i. 370.

Arco, general, ii. 382.

Argile, earl of, i. 26. his character, 28. his cruelty, 39. heads the Whiggamore insurrection, 43, 53. refuses king Charles the first's offers, 57. submits to Monk, 58. one of the Scotch commissioners, 61. charged as accessary to the king's murder, 106. sent to the Tower, 122, 123. tries to escape, 124. his execution, and speech there, 125.

Argile, earl of, his son, (see lord Lorn,) against violent proceedings, i. 211. raises fifteen hundred men, 234, 245, 299, 362, 419. the duke of York tries to gain him, 512. his answer, 513. offers to explain the test act, 516, 519. is imprisoned, 520. condemned, 521. but escapes, 522. cabals with Monmouth, 539, 540, 541, 584. and invades Scotland, 619, 629, 631. is defeated, taken, and executed, 632. Argile, earl of, sent to tender the crown of Scotland in 1689,

ii. 24, 62. made a duke, 290. Argile, duke of, his son, commissioner of parliament, ii. [359,] 404, 426. his instructions debated, 426, 446, 563. is sent to command in Spain, 574. Argiles seize Kentire from the Macdonalds, i. 37.

Arianism, revival of, attempted by Whiston, ii. 571. Arlington, earl of, i. 99, 248, 265, 266. suspected of having received a bribe from France, 303. knight of the garter, 307, 324, 325. in the interests of France, 327,334,337, 346. advises the king to yield to the house of commons, 349. his management of the king on this affair, 350. loses the duke of York, 352, 362. attacked by the commons, 365. his defence, 366. lord chamberlain, 366, 367, 368. sent to Holland to the prince of Orange, 377, 378, 379, 593. Armada, Spanish, curious anecdote as to its delay, i. 313. Armagh, primate of, i. 654. Arminius, i. 316.

Armstrong, sir Thomas, with the duke of Monmouth, i. 537,

547. seized at Leyden, sent
over, and executed, 577, 578,
579, 599.
Army, Scotch, defeated by Crom-
well, i. 54. attempts to raise a
new army in Scotland, 55. a
body of Highlanders stand for
the king, 58. their chief of-
ficers, 58, 59, 60. send over
messages to the king, ibid.
are dispersed, 61. the English
army how managed at the re-
storation, 86. disbanded, 161.
army on free quarters in the
west of Scotland, 418. the
army at Hounslow-heath, 703.
king James's army desert to
the prince of Orange, 790.
parties engage in Dorsetshire
and at Reading, 798.
Army, standing, odious to Eng-
lish ears, ii. 85, 206. rea-
sons for and against one, ibid.
reduced to seven thousand
men, and how modelled, 221,
263.

Arnot, Rachel, i. 18.
Arragon, kingdom of, declares

for king Charles III. ii. 449.
reduced by the duke of Or-
leans, 475, 555, 556.
Arran, lord, i. 481, 507, 631,
751.

Articles, bishop Burnet's Exposi-

tion, ii. 227, 284.
Arundel, lord, i. 395, 43o, 492.
Asgill, ii. 248.

Ashby, i. 467. ii. 93, 94.
Ashley Cowper, i. 85. See Shaftes-
bury, earl of.

Ashton, seized with lord Pres-
ton, ii. 69. executed, 70. his
paper to the sheriff, ibid.
Assiento, meaning of, ii. 608.
Astrology, instance of its sup-
posed truth, i. 318.
Athlone, the siege of, ii. 79.
Athlone, earl of, (see Ginkle,) ii.

220, 239, 300, 323. his con-

duct in Flanders extolled, 324,
325, 326.

Athol, marquis of, i. 245, 299,
338, 340, 376, 400. sends
Highlanders in the west to
live on free quarter, 418, 419,
420, 433, 439.

Athol, marquis of, ii. [358,] [359.]

made a duke, 372, 398. op-
poses the union, 460.
Atterbury, Dr. i. 674. ii. 249,
280, 281, 569, 573, 602, 603.
is made bishop of Rochester,
629, 630.
Aubigny, lord, in the secret of
king Charles II.'s religion, i.
74, 136. marries him to queen
Catherine, 174. seconds the
motion for a general toleration,
193, 197, 615.
Augustus, king of Poland, ii. 196,

197, 199. (see elector of Sax-
ony.) his conduct in Poland,
222. his alliances against Swe-
den, 230. his designs on Po-
land, 231. the war there, 243,
244, 256, 322, 329. he is de-
posed, 357, 358. Stanislaus
chosen and crowned in his
room, 394, 424. he defeats a
body of Swedes, ibid. resigns
the throne, 473. the war con-
tinues, 514. he resumes the
crown on the king of Sweden's
defeat, 534.

Aumont, duke de, ambassador
from France, ii. 613.
Austria, Charles archduke of, ii.
232. a treaty with Portugal in
his favour. See Charles III.
king of Spain.
Auverquerque, general, his emi-
nent service in Flanders, ii.
78, 303, 381, 382.

Azuph taken by the Muscovites,
ii. 178.

Bacon, sir Francis, an erroneous

maxim of his relative to Scot-
land, i. 280, 382.

Baden, Lewis prince of, beats

the Turks, ii. 82, 83. comes to England, 125, 128. besieges Landau, 323. and takes it, 327. repulses Villars at Stolhoffen, 348, 349, 350, 382. takes Landau a second time, 385,386. disappoints the duke of Marlborough after measures concerted, 414. his death, 472. Baillie cited before the council

in Scotland and fined, i. 400, 433. confers with Monmouth's party at London, 540. seized and examined before the king, 548. imprisoned and cruelly used, 550, 569. further proceedings against him, 585, 586. his execution, 587. Baillie, Mr. of Jerviswood, ii. 720.

Balmerinoch, lord, i. 8. his trial,

22, 23, 24. condemned, but pardoned, 25. Bamfield, colonel, i. 618. Banautine, bishop, i. 26. Bank of England, when erected,

ii. 124. its good consequences, 125. opposed, 144. enlarged in 1709, 524. against a change of ministry in 1710, 552, 553. Bank, land, ii. 170, 171. failed totally, 175, 176. Bantry bay, sea-fight there, ii.

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Bareith, marquis of, ii. 99, 472.
Bargeny, lord, i. 515.
Barillon, i. 408, 410, 604, 660,
707, 768.

Barlow, bishop, replies to bishop
Gunning, i. 436.
Barnevelt, i. 13, 15, 315. exe-
cuted, 316.

Barrier treaty, ii. 595.
Bates, Dr. i. 226, 259.
Bates, a friend of lord Carmar-
then's, negociates a bribe with
the East India company, ii.
146.

Bath, earl of, i. 607. his prac

tices on Cornish elections, 625. offers to join the prince of Orange, 788. makes Plymouth declare for him, 793. a holder of first-fruits, ii. 713. Bavaria, elector of, i. 13. Spanish Flanders put into his hand, ii. 85. his son proposed as successor to the Spanish monarchy, 223, 263. he is gained by France, 289, 323, 327. distresses the empire, 327, 347, 348, 349, 356, 381. his troops routed at Schellemberg, 382, 383. he is beaten at Hocksted, 384, 385. loses all his territories, 385. his conduct in Flanders, 413, 414. his share at the battle of Ramellies, 450, 453. commands on the Rhine, 509. his attempt on Brussels, 510. is restored to his dominions, 616. Baxter, captain, ii. 694. Baxter, Mr. manager at the Savoy conference, i. 180. he refuses the bishopric of Hereford, 185. at a treaty for comprehension, 259. returns the pension sent him from the court, 308.

Bayly, a minister, i. 34. Beach, William, letter from, ii. 710.

Beachy in Sussex, a sea-fight
near it, ii. 52, 53.
Beaufort, duke of, i. 484. 591.
ii. 612.

Beaumont, colonel, refuses Irish
recruits, i. 767.
Beddingfield, i. 425.
Bedford, earl of, i. 312.
Bedlow, his evidence in the
popish plot, i. 431, 432, 435,
436, 443, 446, 448, 449, 450,
464, 465, 467, 468, 488.
Belcarras, earl of, i. 58, 59, 60.
Belhaven, lord, i. 20.
Belisarius, parallel between his

case and the duke of Marl-
borough, ii. 588.
Bellarmine, cardinal, i. 8. ii. 673.
Bellasis, lord, i. 43°, 432.
Bellasis, lady, her contract with

the duke of York, i. 353, 751.
Bellefonds, mareschal, i. 303. his
character, 564.

Bennet, secretary of state, i. 99,
193, 198, 225. See Arling-
ton, earl of.

Benthink, envoy from the States

to Brandenburgh, i. 757. his
secrecy in the expedition to
England, 781, 799, 818. made
earl of Portland, ii. 5.
Berkeley, Mrs., bishop Burnet's
wife, ii. 719.

Berkley, Charles, made earl of
Falmouth, i. 99. his character,
ibid.

Berkley, lord lieutenant of Ire-

land, i. 267, 348, 618.
Berkley, lord, ii. 553.
Berkley, sir George, ii. 165. has

king James's commission to
attack the prince of Orange in
his winter quarters, 165, 167.
escapes, 168.

Berkshire, earl of, i. 148.
Berry, duke of, ii. 600.
Berry, i, 445. executed, 446, 447.
Berwick, duke of, his character,

i. 749. ii. 165, 166, 373, 376,

39°, 444, 445, 448, 475, 531.
Bethel, sheriff, i. 480.
Beveridge, Dr. ii. 318. is made
bishop of St. Asaph, 406, 464.
Beuning, Van, i. 479.

Bezons, mareschal, ii. 531, 533,

534.
Bierly, ii. 366.

Binks, Dr. his 30th of Jan. ser-
mon, ii. 316.

Binnius' collection of councils,
ii. 675.

Birch, colonel, his character, i.
388, 442.

Bishops, English, their conduct
at the revolution, ii. 6, 7.
they engage in a correspond-
ence with St. Germains, 69,
71. their sees are filled up, 75.
the character of the new bi-
shops, 76, 118, 126. divided
as to the point of the duke of
Norfolk's divorce, 127, 281,
282, 283, 284, 285.
Bishops, Scotch, their errors, i.
JO, 26. men sought out to be
bishops, 132, 133, 134. are
consecrated, 139. come to
Scotland, 142. are introduced to
the parliament, 143. prejudices
against them, 158, 217. their
severity to prisoners, 236, 237.
are against a comprehension,
273. are offended at the act
of supremacy, 284, 285. their
conduct at the revolution, ii.
23. is the cause of abolishing
episcopacy, ibid.
Bishops, their right of voting in

capital cases discussed, i. 460.
advice to, by the author, ii.
642, 643, 644, 645, 646.
Blackelow, i. 194.
Blackhall, Dr. bishop of Exeter,
ii. 487.

Blair, i. 34.

Blair, of Virginia, ii. 119.
Blake, admiral, his spirited and
judicious conduct, i. 80.

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