Blazing Star

by Larman, Alexander;

Ashburnham, John ​99

  Aubrey, John ​167, 349

  B

  Balfour, Andrew: accompanies Rochester on European Grand Tour ​40–6; background 40; Letters to a Friend 40–1; relationship with Rochester 40; view of France 43–4

  Ballers ​116, 117, 129, 138, 204

  Barrow, Isaac ​90, 186, 298

  Barry, Elizabeth ​159–61, 168; acting career 159, 160, 172, 208, 235, 277; background 159; death 277; ending of affair with Rochester 256, 276–7; gives birth to daughter 255, 256; love affair and relationship with Rochester 160–1, 162, 170, 172, 202–3, 208, 220–1, 234, 236, 238–9, 242, 244, 252, 255, 256; Rochester’s letters to 202, 208, 220, 221, 234, 236, 244, 252, 256–7, 276; and seizure of daughter by Rochester 276–7; tutoring of by Rochester story 159–60; unfaithfulness to Rochester 220

  Baxter, Craig ​361

  Baynton, Henry ​341

  Bedloe, William ​273

  Behn, Aphra ​234; Abedelazer 234; ‘The Disappointment’ 235; eulogy to Rochester 336–7; relationship with Rochester 235; The Rover 235

  Belasyse, John ​19

  Belle Fasse, Jean-Baptiste de ​283–5, 308, 309, 323–4, 331

  Bennet, Henry ​120–1

  Bentley, Richard ​333

  Bergen, Battle of (1665) ​84

  Berry, Phineas ​32

  Betterton, Thomas ​159

  Black Death ​82

  Blandford, Walter ​30

  Blenheim Palace ​347

  Blount, Charles ​274, 274–5, 327; correspondence with Rochester 304–5; An Historical Relation 274–5

  Boileau, Nicolas ​43, 172, 351

  Book of Common Prayer ​89, 94

  Book of Isaiah ​324–5

  Booth, Sir George ​51–2, 53

  Boscobel House ​3

  Bowman, Thomas ​336

  Boyle, Robert 184, ​188–9

  Boyle, Roger ​160, 176

  Brand, Russell ​x

  Breda, Declaration of (1660) ​54

  Bridges, George ​221–2, 237

  Bridgman, Orlando ​57

  British Tract Society ​356

  Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre ​360

  Browne, Thomas ​188

  bubonic plague ​81–2, 90

  Buckhurst, Lord Charles ​73, 91, 95, 118, 124–5, 162

  Buckingham, Duke of (George Villiers) ​1, 2, 77, 91, 109–14, 138, 157–8, 161–2, 203; background 110; Cabal Ministry of 181; character 111; and Charles II 240, 275; death 347; dislike of Clarendon 110–11; as poet and playwright 112–13; power of 111; relationship with Rochester 111, 138, 240, 252; release from Tower by Charles 243, 244

  buggery ​169–70

  Bulkeley, Henry ​221

  Burford Grammar School ​22

  Burnet, Gilbert ​23, 32, 64, 84, 87, 111–12, 118–19, 126, 186, 257, 297–304, 306; contempt for Charles II ​339; A History of My Own Time 334, 339–40; History of the Reformation of the Church of England 298, 339; The Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester 36, 58, 299, 339; relationship and conversations with Rochester 297–304, 306; and Rochester’s deathbed conversion 320, 323–6

  Byron, Lord ​354–6; Don Juan 215, 355–6; ‘She walks in beauty’ lyric 356

  C

  Cambridge University ​29

  Cartland, Barbara: A Serpent of Satan ​360–1

  Cary, John ​14, 28, 146, 306, 319

  Castlemaine, Barbara (Villiers) ​63–4, 68, 70, 78, 87, 88, 118, 140; mocking of in Signior Dildo 163

  Catherine of Braganza, Queen ​61–2, 64–5, 271, 273

  Catholicism/Catholics ​45, 168, 171, 189; and Charles II ​270, 343; see also anti-Catholicism; Popish Plot

  Catullus ​18

  Cavalier poets ​95

  Cave, Nick: ‘There She Goes My Beautiful World’ ​363

  Cavendish, William ​122

  Chambers, Robert ​354

  Character of a Quack-Doctor, The ​230–1

  Charles I, King ​2, 8, 9; trial and execution 11–12, 56–7

  Charles II, King ​xi, 42, 73–4, 342–4; achievements of reign 343; affair with Nell Gwyn 87–8, 118, 241–2, 343–4; affair with Villiers/Castle-maine 63–5, 88–9, 118; attempt to regain throne and treaty with Scottish Covenanters 13; attitude towards bad behaviour at court 262; banishes Rochester from court and forgiveness of 166–7, 171–2, 207, 219; and Catholicism 270, 343; challenges to regal authority 240, 241; character and attributes 5, 65–6, 68, 343; and Clarendon 65; clothes and dress style 66–7; collector of astronomical items 206–7; court of, see separate entry for Court of King Charles II; criticism of 181, 206; death and funeral 342, 343, 344; and death of Henry Wilmot 24; and death of sister (Henrietta) 126; decline in popularity 88–9; destruction of sundial by Rochester 206–7, 292, 298; and Disaffected Persons Bill (1675) 203, 206; and Dryden 293; escape from Worcester after defeat by Cromwell and life on the run 1–4, 12–13, 55–6; escape to France (1651) 4–5, 52; finances 60; and foreign affairs 61–2; and French-Anglo relations 125; granting of pension to Rochester 38, 60; healing power assumption 151–2; ill-health 165, 282; illegitimate children 6, 62; love of food and drink 69; marriage to Catherine of Braganza and treatment of 61–2, 65; mistresses and sex life 6, 62–5, 68–9, 119–20, 125, 165, 210, 219–20, 343–4; ‘Old Rowley’ nickname 69; and Popish Plot 269–72, 307; reign of 148, 342–3; relationship with Henry Wilmot 2–3, 5, 6; relationship with Rochester 4, 38, 81, 82, 86, 119–20, 166–7, 213–14, 239, 318, 343; religious reform 89; response to personal comments made about 165–6; restoration of and entering London (1660) 31, 32, 51–7; revenge taken against those who wronged him 54, 57–9; rewarding of supporters 59–61; Rochester’s satire on and reaction to 163–5, 166–7, 210, 262; satires on 148–9; and Second Anglo-Dutch War 83, 88, 108; sets up new court at Oxford during plague outbreak in London 82; treatment of wife 65; Whig party opposition to 162

  Church of England: re-establishment of under Charles II ​89

  Cibber, Colley ​159

  Civil Wars ​10, 11, 14

  Clarendon, 1st Earl of (Edward Hyde) ​55, 58, 59, 197, 341; and Anglo-Dutch Wars 88, 108; association with Rochester 38; and Charles II ​65, 108; death 109; dislike of Buckingham 110–11; downfall and sent into exile 108–9, 341; on Rochester’s father 5–6, 7–8

  Clifford, Sir Thomas ​84, 92

  Coleman, Edward ​270, 273

  Coleridge, Samuel ​356

  College, Stephen ​272, 273

  comet (1664) ​46–7

  Committee for Compounding ​14

  Commonwealth ​1–2, 5, 13, 14–15, 18, 19, 51, 66

  Convention Parliament ​53

  Conversion of the Earl of Rochester, The (religious tract) ​356

  Conway, Edward ​306

  Cooke, Charles ​353

  Cooke, Sarah ​94

  Cooper, Anthony Ashley ​see Shaftesbury, Earl of

  Country Wife, The (play) ​201

  Court of King Charles II ​66–9; banquets 69; criticism of -licentious atmos-phere and decadence of 88–9, 94; etiquette and manners at 68; fashion 66–8; masquerades 118–19; moves to Oxford during plague outbreak in London 82; return to London 90; typical day of a man or woman at 70–1

  Coventry, Sir William ​280

  Cromwell, Oliver ​xi, 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 14, 29, 52 death 27–8; declares himself Lord Protector 18, 27; destruction of Anglican Church 14; and execution of Charles II ​11, 12; exhumation of remains and hanging of 59; interest in music 15–16; and Oxford University 29; regime under 14–16; Royalist rebellion against 19–21; tolerance of the Jews 15; turning country into police state 18–19

  Cromwell, Richard ​28, 33, 51

  Crowne, John ​176

  D

  Danby, Earl of ​270, 277–8, 279

  Davenant, Lady ​159

  Davenant, William ​69, 159

  Davenport, Jack ​362

  Davis, Richard ​336

  de la Rochefoucauld, Franço
is 43

  de Saint-Évremond, Charles 106

  Declaration of Indulgence (1672) 148

  Defoe, Daniel ​350

  Depp, Johnny ​361–2

  Derby, Alfred Thomas: The Death of Rochester ​356–7

  Derby, Earl of ​1

  Descartes, René ​188

  Dexter, Colin ​xiii

  Disaffected Persons Bill (1675) ​203, 206

  Ditchley Park ​6, 7, 9, 13–14, 80, 101, 145, 158; demolishment of 347

  Donne, John ​183, 305; ‘The Apparition’ 144; ‘The Flea’ 81

  Dorchester, Marquess of ​110

  Dorset Garden Theatre ​159, 208, 234, 276, 339

  Douglas, James ​see Arran, Earl of

  Dover, Treaty of (1670) ​125

  Downs, Billy ​222–3

  Drury Lane theatre ​139, 148, 172, 201, 232

  Dryden, John ​96, 107, 133–4, 150, 157–8; ‘An Essay upon Satire’ 286–9, 291, 292; attack on by Rochester in ‘An Allusion to Horace’ 214–15; Aureng-Zebe 214; brutal attack on and linking of Rochester’s name with 291–3; and Burnet 301; The Conquest of Granada 133, 134–5, 214, 274; The Indian Emperor 176, 214; Marriage-à-la-Mode 134, 157; patronage of Mulgrave 214; portrait of 107; relationship with Rochester ix, 134, 157, 214–16, 291–2; stolidity of 133

  Dugdale, Stephen ​272

  Dunbar, Battle of (1650) ​13

  Dunbar, Viscount (Robert Constable) ​158

  E

  Eliot, T.S. ​358

  Etherege, George ​160, 201, 217–18, 221, 222, 247; The Comical Revenge 217; The Man of Mode xi, 217–18, 359

  Evelyn, John ​14, 56, 58, 126

  Exclusion Crisis ​275, 279, 285

  F

  Fairfax, Thomas ​8, 20

  Fane, Francis ​204, 257; Love in the Dark 204

  Fanshaw, Will ​204, 253, 257, 261, 264, 315–16, 317, 321, 323

  fashion, court ​66–8

  Fell, John (Bishop of Oxford) ​323

  Fielding, Henry: ​Shamela 351; Tom Jones 351

  Fifth Monarchist group ​57

  Fire of London (1666) ​93–4

  FitzRoy, Charles ​65

  FitzRoy, Charlotte ​62

  Five Mile Act (1665) ​89

  Fletcher, Jon ​97, 265

  Florence (Italy) ​45

  Foster, Elizabeth ​142

  Fourcade, Florence ​152

  France: relations with England ​61, 125; rule of by Louis XIV 41–2; visited by Rochester on Grand Tour 41–4, 46

  Frazier, Cary ​244

  G

  Gadbury, John ​6–7

  Galileo ​188

  George I, King ​350

  Giffard, Francis ​17, 22, 27, 32, 39, 187

  Godfrey, Sir Edmund Berry ​270, 291

  Gosse, Edmund ​357

  Gramont, Philibert, Comte de ​160, 171, 349–50

  Great Fire of London (1666) ​93–4, 105, 272

  Green Ribbon Club ​275

  Greene, Graham ​107; Lord Rochester’s Monkey ​358

  Greer, Germaine ​361

  Grey, Edward ​19

  Guy, Henry ​213

  Gwyn, Nell ​63, 87–8, 118, 148, 165, 220, 241–3, 262, 343–4

  H

  Halifax, Marquess of (George Savile) ​77

  Hall, Reverend Francis ​206–7

  Hamilton, Anthony ​349, 349–50; Memoirs of the Comte de Gramont 350

  Harrison, Major-General Thomas ​57

  Hart, Charles ​88

  Hawksmoor, Nicholas ​343

  Hawley, Sir Francis ​78, 80–1, 95, 101, 105

  Hayward, John ​224, 358

  Hazlitt, William ​x, 354

  Hearne, Thomas ​31–2

  Henrietta (Charles II’s sister) ​42–3, 46, 125–6

  Henrietta Maria (Charles II’s mother) ​4, 6, 8

  Herbert, William ​see Pembroke, 6th Earl of

  Herrick, Robert ​95

  Hewit, Beau ​218

  Hill, Henry ​149

  Hinde, Captain ​3

  Hobbes, Thomas ​11, 110, 182, 188, 197, 343; The Elements of Law 16; Leviathan 11, 16, 182, 189

  Holland ​61, 88 see also Anglo-Dutch Wars

  Hollander, Tom ​362

  Holmes, Sir Robert ​60

  homosexuality: and Venice ​45; at Wadham College ​31, 36

  Hoole, Charles: A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching School ​22–3

  Hopkins, John ​89

  Hopkins, Matthew ​10–11, 168

  Howard, Sir Robert ​151, 217

  Hoyle, John ​235

  Hume, David ​352

  Hunt, Thomas ​21

  Huysmans, Jacob ​62, 70, 106

  Hyde, Edward ​see Clarendon, 1st Earl of

  Hyde, Laurence ​341, 362

  I

  Ingoldsby, Richard ​33, 35, 53

  Ireland ​2, 52, 61. 242

  Irving, Henry ​242

  Italy: visiting of by Rochester during Grand Tour ​44–7

  J

  James, Duke of York ​see York, Duke of

  Jeffreys, Stephen: The Libertine ​361, 362

  jewellery ​67

  Jews: tolerance of under Cromwell ​15

  Johnson, Samuel ​x; Lives of the English Poets ​53, 360

  Johnston, Sir Archibald ​58

  Jonson, Ben ​95

  Jowett, Benjamin ​357

  Joyce, George ​8

  Joyce, James ​358

  Julian, ‘Captain’ Robert ​96

  Juvenal ​284

  K

  Kérouaille, Louise de ​125, 148, 165, 210–13, 219, 292, 343

  Killigrew, Elizabeth ​62

  Killigrew, Thomas ​60, 62, 120, 253

  Kirkby, Christopher ​270

  Knight, Mary ​163

  Kox, Hans: Rochester’s Second Bottle ​363

  Kynaston, Ned ​362

  L

  Lamb, Jeremy: So Idle A Rogue ​362

  Lambert, General John ​51, 53

  lampooning ​204

  Lauderdale, Earl of (John Maitland) ​260, 297

  Leavis, F.R. ​349

  Lee, Edward ​255

  Lee, Sir Francis Henry ​6, 316

  Lee, Nathaniel ​23; The Princess of Cleve 339

  Legge, Henry ​61

  Lely, Peter ​64, 70, 251

  Libertine, The (film) ​ix, xii, 361–3

  Libertine, The (play) ​361

  Lichfield, Earl of, Edward ​332

  Lilburne, Sir Robert ​20

  Lisburne, Viscount (John Vaughan) ​341

  Lisle, John ​58

  Locke, John ​188, 343

  London: bubonic plague ​82, 90, 93; entering of by Charles II (1660) 56–7; Great Fire of (1666) 93–4, 105, 272; overcrowding 93; prostitutes 72, 116

  Louis XIV, King of France ​41–2, 61, 121, 206, 277

  Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth ​see Kérouaille, Louise de

  Love, Harold ​361

  Lovelace, Richard ​95

  M

  Maastricht ​161

  MacMillan, James, ....as others see us.... ​363

  Magalotti, Lorenzo ​45

  Magdalen College (Oxford) ​31

  Maitland, John ​see Lauderdale, Earl of

  make-up ​67–8

  Malet, Elizabeth ​see Wilmot, Elizabeth

  Malkovich, John ​361–2

  Manley, Mary ​64

  Manning, Henry ​22

  marriage ​79

  Marston, John ​36

  Marston Moor, Battle of: (1644) ​20

  Marvell, Andrew ​58, 115, 173, 183, 222, 349

  Mary of Modena (Duchess of York) ​162

  Mary, Princess Royal ​37–8

  Massinger, Philip: The Guardian ​34

  Mauleverer, Richard ​21

  Mazarin, Cardinal ​41

  Mazarin, Duchess of (Hortense Mancini) ​219–20

  M
eres, Sir Thomas ​191

  Mill, John Stuart ​191

  Milton, John ​58, 188; Lycidas 184; Paradise Lost 115, 168, 181

  Ministry of Pleasure, The (play) ​361

  Mohun, Charles ​307

  Molière 42, 43; L’École des femmes ​42

  Monck, George ​see Albemarle, Duke of

  monkeys ​107

  Monmouth, Duke of ​279, 282, 285

  Montaigne, Michel de ​43

  Montagu, Edward ​55, 56, 78, 82, 84–5, 91–2, 94

  Montagu, Ralph ​121, 126

  Moore, Thomas ​353–4

  Mordaunt, John ​53

  Morice, William ​58

  Morton, Samantha ​362

  Muddiman, John ​138, 139, 142

  Mulgrave, Earl of (John Sheffield) ​123–4, 192, 204, 252; aborted duel with Rochester ​123–4, 126, 192, 288; attack on by Rochester in ‘My Lord All-Pride’ ​280–2, 286; background ​123; ‘An Essay upon Satire’ ​286–8; mocking of by Rochester in ‘An Epistolary Essay from MG to OB upon their Mutual Poems’ ​290; relationship with Rochester ​280

  Mustapha (play) ​160

  N

  New College (Oxford) ​31

  New Model Army ​8, 10, 28

  Newton, Isaac ​188

  Nézel, Théodore ​360

  Nonconformists ​89

  Northumberland, Lady (Elizabeth Percy) ​139

  Nyman, Michael ​362, 363

  O

  Oates, Titus ​269–73, 278, 284, 286, 342; see also Popish Plot

  Oblivion and Indemnity, Act of (1660) ​57

  Oldham, John ​351

  Order of the Garter ​56

  Ostend, Battle of (1666) ​92

  Otway, Thomas ​159, 205, 342; Alcibiades 208; The Orphan ​277

  Ovid: Amores ​136

  Oxford University ​28–31

  P

  Padua University ​40, 46

  Page, Damaris ​116

  Paisible, James ​253

  Palmer, Roger ​63, 64

  Paris: visiting of by Rochester during Grand Tour ​41–2

  Parliamentarians ​8–9, 10, 11, 54

  Parsons, Robert ​314–15, 319, 332, 334; sermon at Rochester’s funeral 224–6

  Pawlet, Miss ​306–7

  pederasty ​35–6

  Pembroke, 6th Earl of (William Herbert) ​78, 291

  Penruddock Rising (1655) ​21

  Pepys, Samuel ​2, 4, 56, 60, 99, 169, 338; diary of 55, 64, 66, 69, 73, 80, 82, 116, 119; pet monkey 107; view of Rochester 120, 158

  Percy, Elizabeth ​163

  Philip IV, King of Spain ​61

  Philippe, Duke of Orléans ​42–3, 125–6

  Pierce, Thomas ​322–3