ABDICATION, forced, of Mary, 40.
ABJURATION of HENRI IV., 310-323.
Aguilar, Don Juan d', sent with Spanish troops
to assist the Irish, 384.

Alais, Huguenot cruelties in, 37.
Albert, the Archduke, his education and charac-
ter, 354; sends an expedition to capture
Calais, 354; which is successful, 355.
Alcaçer, battle of, 187.

Aldegonde, the Sieur Marnix de Ste., draws up
the document called the Compromise, 28;
overtures for peace made through him, 161;
sent on a marriage mission for the Prince of
Orange, 162; his gallant defence of Antwerp,
251.

Alençon, the Duke of, the hope of the

Huguenots, 137; his connection with "Les
Politiques," 138; his treachery, 138; escapes
from the Court, and joins the Huguenots,
165; is made Duke of Anjou, and receives
Touraine and Poitou as his appanage, 168;
becomes the hope of the family, 170. See
Anjou, Duke of.

Allen, Cardinal, 262, 264.

Allen, Dr. William, of Douay, 146.

Alva, the Duke of, his meeting with Catherine

de' Medici at Bayonne, 2; and with an
envoy of the Queen of Scots, 2; THE MIS-
SION OF, 56-65; his personal appearance
and character, 56. 57; is selected by Philip II.
to extirpate heresy in the Netherlands, 56,
57; proceeds to Tirlemont, where he is met
by Egmont, 59; and thence to Brussels, 59;
causes the arrest of Counts Egmont and
Hoorn, 59; presides at their execution, 64;
gains the battle of Gröningen, 64; con-
fiscates English merchandise, 65; out-generals
William the Silent. 94; regulates the finances
of the Netherlands, 95; is shocked on
hearing of the massacre of St. Bartholomew,
119; is recalled by Philip, 155.
Amiens, massacre of Huguenots at, 38.
Amoureux, La Guerre des, 201.
Anabaptists, discovery of a congregation of, at
Aldgate, 149; some exiled and two burnt, 149.
Anastro, Gaspar d', suborns his servant to
assassinate the Prince of Orange, 204.
Angers, massacre of the Huguenots at, 116.

Angoulême, Duke d', 111.

Anjou, Henri, Duke of, at Bayonne, 2; his
hatred of the Huguenots, 35; is made lieu-
tenant-general, 37; commands the royal
army, 67; promoter of a brutal state of war-
fare, 69; at the command of his mother, 70;
negotiations for marrying him to Queen
Elizabeth, 73, 83, 89; deeply implicated in
the massacre of St. Bartholomew, 102; in-
trigues for the throne of Poland, 132, 133;
he is elected to the throne of Poland, 127,
133, 134; his journey to Poland, 134, 135;
incident in the Castle of Heidelberg, 135; his
reception in Poland, 136; his correspondence
with the Princess of Condé, 135; receives
the news of his brother's death, 140; is
jealously watched by the Poles lest he
should leave, 140; his flight from Poland,
pursued by the Poles, 140, 141; at Vienna,
141; and Venice, 142; his reception in Italy,
142; arrives in France, 142; his despair on
hearing of the death of the Princess of Condé,
142; joins the order of the Flagellants, 143;
and takes part in a procession, 143; he is
crowned at Rheims, 144; and married to
Louise de Vaudémont, 144. See Henri III.
Anjou, Duke of, offers himself as the Protector
of Flanders, 179; presents himself at Green-
wich to Elizabeth as her suitor. 200; his
reception, 200; arrives in the Netherlands at
the head of a body of volunteers, 201; visits
Elizabeth again, 201; who receives him as
her suitor and arranges the marriage cere-
monial, 201, 202; it is postponed, and he
returns to Flushing, 202; he is made Duke
of Brabant and Governor of the Netherlands
amid great rejoicing, 202, 203; discovery of
a plot to remove him, 204, 205; the plot of
Salsedo to poison him, 204; his own plot for
restoring the Netherlands to the Pope, 205,
206; he is defeated in his attack on Antwerp,
206; and baffled on all hands, 206, 207; his
chagrin at having failed, 207; his death, 207;
and character, 207, 208.

Anne of Denmark, is married to James VI.,
326, 327; her arrival in Edinburgh, reception,
and coronation, 348; she is rebuked by th
General Assembly, 365; resents the law

402

committed the custody of the heir to the
Mar family, 365; incident in her acquaint-
ance with the Ruthven family, 365
Anne of Egmont, 161.

Anne of Saxony, account of, 161.
Antwerp, attack on the churches in, 30; Anjou's
attack on, 205-207; defeated with great
slaughter, 205, 206; besieged by Parma,
250, 251; surrenders to him, 252; pageants
prepared at, for the reception of the Arch-
duke Ernest, 349.

Arbalête, Charlotte d', escapes from

the

massacre of St. Bartholomew, 115, 116.
Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney's, 254, 256.
Argyle, Earl of, presides at the trial of Both-
well, 17; promises to assist him in obtaining
the hand of the queen, 17; is sent against
Huntly, 364.

Argyle, Jean, Countess of, 5, 14.
ARMADA, THE SPANISH, 258-272; disinclina-
tion in England to believe in, 263; prepara-
tions for defence, 263; extent of the Armada,
264; puts to sea, but is forced to return, 264,
265; arrival of the, in the Channel, 266; is
attacked by English ships, 266, 267; it puts
into Calais, 267; is attacked by fireships,
268; and beaten by the English off Grave-
lines, 269; it is dispersed, wrecked, destroyed,
269, 270; destruction of the second, 358.
Arques, the battle of, 300, 301.

Arran, Earl of, plot for the destruction of, 196,

271.

Assassination of Rizzio, 5, 6; of Darnley, 14,
15; of the Regent Moray, 77, 78; of
Lennox, 81; of Coligny, 111; of Escovedo,
179; of the Prince of Orange, 203, 208, 209;
of the Duke of Guise, 287, 288; of the
Cardinal of Guise, 289; of Henri III., 295,
296.

Assembly, rebukes by the General, 364, 365.
Aumale, Duke d', death of, 126.

Aumale, skirmish at, 318.

Aumont, Marshal d', his confession to Henri
IV., 321.

Auxerre, massacre of Huguenots at, 38.
Avila, Don Sancho d', commands at the battle
of Mook, 156, 157:

Azores, expedition of Essex and Raleigh to the,
357, 358.

"Band" for the removal and destruction of
Lennox and Arran, 196.

Banner, the, of the Chalice and the Five
Wounds, 75; setting up of the, 76.
Barnard Castle, capture of, 66.

Barnwell, a participant in the Babington plot,
222 et seq.

Barricades, first use of, in Paris, 246.

Barrière, a wheelwright of Orleans, attempts to
kill Henri IV., and is executed, 335.
Bathory, Stephen, chosen King of Poland,
144.

BAYONNE, THE COMPACT OF, i-10; meeting
of Catherine de' Medici with the Spanish
Court at, 2.

Beale, Stephen, 326.
Beatoun, Bishop, 16.

Beauchamp, Lord, thought of as heir to the
throne, 387, 399.

Beggars of the Sea, exploits of the, 95, 96.
Behm, the murderer of Coligny, 111.
Bellenden, Patrick, 6.

Bellièvre, sent by Henri III. to intercede for
Mary, 232.

Bergen, Bothwell is taken to, 22.

Berghen, Count, imprisoned at Madrid, 31, 32.
Berlaymont, Baron de, 23; originates the
epithet, "Les Gueux," 29; member of the
Council of Troubles, 60.

Berwick, North, the witches' midnight sabbath
in the church of, 329.

Biron, Marshal, 247, 248, 297; his death, 319.
Biron, Duke of, treason of, 373; sent on a
mission to Elizabeth, 394, 395; his renewed
treason, 395; his trial, 396; and execution,
397; comparison with Essex. 397.

Bishoprics, new, established by Philip II. in
the Netherlands, 23, 24; Presbyterians fill
the, in Scotland, 91.

Black Castle, 19.

Blockade of Paris, 305-307.

Blois, meeting of the States-General at, in
1576, 171; in 1588, 283; murders at, 286.
Blood Council, the, 60.

Blount, Sir Christopher, 274, 382, 388, 389,
393.

Boiset, Admiral, assists in the relief of Leyden,
159, 160; is killed in an attempt to relieve
Ziericksee, 162.

Book of Discipline, the Puritan, 277 et seq.
Borderers, the, attack Stirling, and capture
Lennox and Morton, 81; assist James against
Bothwell, 333;

Borthwick Castle, 18.

Bothwell, the Earl of, marriage of, with Lady
Jean Gordon, 4; is wounded in a Border raid,
9; is visited by Mary at Hermitage Castle,
9; plots the death of Darnley, 10; prepares
the powder and fires the train, 14; he is
accused and defies his accusers, 15; is tried
and acquitted, 16, 17; is made governer of
Edinburgh Castle, 16; obtains a bond from
Argyle and others promising to assist him
in marrying the Queen, 17; is married to
her, 18; his treatment of her, 18; he pro-
ceeds to Borthwick Castle, 18; at Mussel-
burgh, 19; challenges his accusers to single
combat, 20; Mary forbids it, 20; he parts

with her for ever, 20; flies to Orkney, 21;
is taken to Denmark, where he dies, 22.
Bothwell, Francis Stewart, Earl of, cousin of
James, 326, 327, 329; he is accused of com.
passing the king's death by means of witch-
craft, 329; twice attacks the king with armed
retainers, 330; is proclaimed a traitor at the
Market Cross, 332; again attacks him in
Holyrood, 333; engages in another plot, is
defeated, flies to France, where he dies in
poverty, 333; his grandson is introduced by
Scott into Old Mortality, 333.
Bothwell, Lady, sues for a divorce, 17.
Bouillon, Duke of, sent to England to form a
Protestant League, 355; his treasonous in-
trigue with the Duke of Biron, 395.

Bourbon, Cardinal Charles de, his claims to the
throne of France, 238; the League compel
Henri III. to acknowledge him as heir, 240;
attends the meeting of the States-General at
Blois, 284; is threatened by Henri III., 288;
and imprisoned, 288, 292; the League pro-
claim him king at Paris as Charles X., 299;
he is taken to Fontenoy, 299; his death, 305.
Bourbon, Charlotte de, account of, 162.
Bourges, Archbishop of, takes part in the
conferences at S. Denis, 321, 322.
Bourges, massacre of Huguenots at, 38.
Bowes, Sir Robert, his mission to Scotland,

Brittany, Anne of, 12.

Brownists, number of in England in Elizabeth's
time, 281.

Brussels, arrival of Alva at, 59; execution of
Counts Egmont and Hoorn in the great
square of, 63; pageants prepared at for the
reception of the Archduke Ernest, 349.
Buchanan, George, his work entitled Detection,
53; is made governor of James VI., 81;
his harsh treatment of the king, 127; his
death, 197.

Bull issued excommunicating Elizabeth, 78; it
is fastened to the door of the Bishop of
London's palace, 78, 79; the gentleman who
did it is condemned and executed, 79.
Burgh, Lord, defeated and slain by the Irish
rebels, 378.

Burghley, Elizabeth's minister, 8, 17; opposed

to Mary's being seen by Elizabeth, 48:
created Baron, 84; how he obtains know-
ledge of a Spanish plot to aid Mary, 86, 87;
resolute for Mary's death, 232 et seq.; banishes
Harrison, 233; sends off the warrant for
Mary's execution, 233; opposes Leicester's
being made lieutenant-general of the king-
dom, 270; his failing health and Elizabeth's
regard for him, 359; his death and character,

359.

Burton ale, letters conveyed in barrels of, 221.

CADIZ, Drake's attack on, 259; capture of by
Essex and Raleigh, 356; it is plundered and
burned, 357.

Calais, the Spanish Armada at, 267; Elizabeth
requires the restoration of, 319; capture of,

by the Spaniards, 354, 355; chagrin of Eliza-
beth and Henri IV. at the loss of, 355.

Calder, Captain, shoots the Regent Lennox, 81.
Calembourg, Count, insults the Archbishop of
Cambray, 25, 26.

Calvinist ministers, the preaching of the, in the
Netherlands incites the populace to attack
the Roman Catholic churches, 30, 31.
Cambray, the bishopric of, 23; incident at a
dinner given at, to Count Egmont, 25. 26.
Campian, Edmund, his abilities, sufferings,
and execution, 194, 195.

Canons of the Council of Trent to be published
in France, 334.

Carberry Hill, Mary's army at, 19.
Carew, Sir George, his Irish policy, 384,
Carey, Sir Robert, 236.

Carlisle, Mary at, 47-49; Scrope at, 79.
Carlos, Don, son of Philip II., becomes insane,
57; attacks his attendants and attempts the
life of the Duke of Alva, 57; is imprisoned,
58; his suspicious death, 58; conjectures as
to the cause of it, 58; Schiller's drama of,
59.

Cartwright, Thomas, becomes the leader of the
Puritans, 84; and originates the first dissent,
84 85; his extreme views, 147; is called
before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 280;
and committed to the Fleet, 280; he is re-
leased through Whitgift, 280.

Casimir, Johann, leads a body of Landsknechts
to assist the Huguenots, 37.
CASKET LETTERS, THE, 48-55.

Castile, the Constable of, defeated by Henri IV.
at Fontaine Françoise, 341.

Castelnau, Mauvissière de, French ambassador
to Elizabeth, his adventure at Smithfield,
199.

Cathay, Frobisher's voyage for the discovery
of, 182, 183.

Caudebec, siege of, by the Leaguers, 318.
Caumont, escape of a lad so named, 115.
Cavagne, case of, the Huguenot, 123, 124.
Cawood, Margaret, 14.

Cecil, Sir Robert, 347, 350, 364, 382, 384, 398.
Charles I., birth of, 370.

his

Charles IX. presides at a meeting of Notables
at Moulins, 34; refuses to make a new
Constable, 36; his regard for Mary Queen of
Scots, 41; marries Elizabeth, daughter of
Maximilian II., 73; his reason for consenting
to the marriage of his sister with Henri of
Navarre, 98; promises assistance to the
Netherlanders, 101; receives Coligny warmly,
103; surrenders himself entirely to
mother's counsels, 104; visits Coligny, 108;
is coerced by his mother into consenting to
the massacre of the Huguenots, 109; his
hesitancy and perturbation the night before
the massacre, IIO; his conduct during,
the massacre, 111-117; exultation at the
result, 123; his fiendish triumph at the
execution of two Huguenots, 124; his state

of mind, 134; and body, 137; his last days
and death, 138. 139.

Charles, the Archduke, proposed marriage of
Elizabeth with, 33..

Chartres, besieged by the Huguenots, 37;
coronation of Henr. IV. at, 337.

Chastel, Jean du, attempts to assassinate
Henri IV., 341.

Château Thierry, death of Anjou at, 207.
Chateauneuf, M. de, 221.

Chatelherault, Duke of, 53, 78, 80.

Chatillon, Cardinal Ode de, 67; death of. 74.
Childerly. Dr., a muscular Chiistian, 281.
Christianity, a specimen of muscular, 280, 281.
Christine of Lorraine, marriage of, 285.
Churches of the Low Countries, splendour and
beauty of the, 29; they are attacked and
sacked by the populace, 30, 31.
Clement, Jacques, murders Henri III., 295,
296.
Clement VIII., election of, 309; his churlish
reception of the Duke of Nevers, who repre-
sents Henri IV., 335, 336; takes an oath
never to absolve Henri, 336; Cardinal d'Ossat
arranges terms of reconciliation for Henri,
341; and Clement pronounces his absolution,
341, 342.

Clermont, royalist cruelties at, 38.

Clifford, George, Earl of Cumberland, his
bravery and enterprise on land and at sea,
344-346; his exploits in his great ship on
the Spanish Main, 358.

Coligny, the Prince de, is reconciled with the
Guises, 34 at the battle of St. Denis, 36;
signs a treaty of peace at Longjumeau, 38;
interview with Condé, 66; takes refuge in
La Rochelle, 67; at the battle of Jarnac,
68; at Moncontour, 70, 71; at Nismes, 72:
second marriage of, 73, 74; his reception by
Charles at Blois, 97, 98; at Paris, 103; is
warned, 106; wounded, 107; visited by the
king. 108; is murdered, 111; barbarous
treatment of his body. 123.
Comedians, a troop of Venetian. 172.
Compact of the Roman Catholic powers at
Bayonne, 3; weak point in the, 3.
Compromise, the, signing of, 28.

Concini, Concino, an Italian adventurer. 371,
372.

Condé, the Prince of, requests the Constable's
sword, 35; is alarmed at the language of the
Duke of Anjou, 35; resolves to begin a fresh
civil war, 35; battle of St. Denis, 36; is
defeated, 36; obtains the services of a body
of Landsknechts, 36; signs a treaty of peace
at Longjumeau, 38; interview with de
Coligny, 66; he takes refuge with his family
in La Rochelle, 67 ; commands the Huguenot
army, 67; charges at the battle of Jarnac,
and is captured and killed, 68; his character
69.

his

Condé, Prince of, abjures the Reformed faith,
123; his remorse, 137; abjures the Roman
Catholic faith, 137; at Coutras, 241;
death-thought to be by poison. 242.
Condé, the Princess of, death of, 142.
Conspiracy, the first Gowrie, 196, 197; the
second, 366-369.

Coutras, the battle of.

240, 241.

Couzain, Les Tables de, condemned by the
Huguenot synod of Rochelle. 72.
Coventry, Mary carried off to, 76.
Cracow, the Palatine of, 134, 136; the recep-
ti n of Henri by the city of, 136.

Craig, the Scottish minister, preaches against
Rizzio, 4; refuses to fly after the murder. 7;
refuses to publish the banns for Bothwell's
marriage, 18; assists at the marriage, 18.
Craigmillar Castle, 9, 10, 13; James VI. at,
326.

Crawford of Jordanhill, Thomas, 13; he sur-
prises and seizes Dumbarton Castle, 80, 81.
Crichton, the Jesuit, 216, 217.

Crillon, commander of the guard, insults Frère
Joyeuse, 249.

CRIMSON OF FOTHERINGHAY, THE, 229-237-
Crossing Solway," Mr. Palgrave's poem on,

DACRE, Leonard, raises the standard of revolt
in favour of Mary, 79; is defeated and
escapes abroad, 80.

Dale, Dr., sent as commissioner to Parma,
265.

Dalgleish, George, his seizure with Mary's
letters, 21; his execut.on, 44.

Darnville, a leader of the Huguenots, 145-
Dance, the witches', performed before the
Scottish Council. 330.

Darnley, Henry, intrigues for the Scottish
crown matrimonial, 3; his hatred of Rizzio
for opposing him, 4; enters into a compact
with certain noblemen for his slaughter, 4:
is present at his death, 5, 6; is gained over
to aid Mary to escape from the conspirators,
7; persuades her he knew nothing of the plot
to murder Rizzio, 7; the confederates publish
the bond, and his guilt is made apparent, 7;
he is shunned by all. 7. 9; refuses to attend
the baptism of his child, 9; his intrigues
with Rome and Roman Catholics, 9 is
attacked with small-pox. 10; recovers, and
on Mary's invitation takes up his abode in
the Kirk of Field. 13; his last interview with
her, 14; his death, and the supposed cause,
14, 15; his burial, 15.

David, a lawyer, draws up a statement for the
League, 171.

Davison, secretary to Elizabeth, 233; punished