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