by Jordan, Don
Sealed Knot and, 89–90, 95;
Cromwell assassination plots and, 91;
negotiations for Spanish fleet and, 107, 108;
on John Bradshaw, 111;
on situation after Cromwell’s death, 113;
‘masked royalists’ concept, 114;
on army crisis (April 1659), 116;
on Monck, 152–3;
Goffe/Whalley escape and, 167;
on welcome for returning king, 178–9;
on bloodlust for vengeance, 189;
opposes extreme vengeance proposals, 193, 204;
ambiguity of deadline proclamation and, 195;
daughter Anne marries Duke of York, 210–11, 247;
as commissioner at trial of regicides, 213;
Harry Marten and, 237;
king’s presence at executions and, 240;
Dutch authorities and, 243, 265;
on Ludlow, 248;
gushing praise of king, 248–9;
hunt for regicides in Europe and, 264, 265, 270, 272, 277;
on Sir Harry Vane, 292;
Clarendon Code, 296
Indemnity, Act of see Bill of General Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion (May-August 1660)
Ingoldsby, Richard, 52, 111, 116, 117, 172–3, 323;
pursuit of Lambert, 158, 159–60, 172–3, 184
Ireland, 43–4, 71, 188;
Ludlow and, 8, 14, 120, 136–7, 146;
Catholicism in, 71, 99, 104, 268, 305;
Connaught mass migration programme, 99;
Cromwellian police state, 99, 104, 268;
coup in (December 1659), 132, 136–7, 146;
first arrests of regicides, 145, 146–7;
royalist control of (February 1660), 145–7;
Irish assassins in pay of Charles II, 266, 298, 299–301, 305–6, 312;
sack of Drogheda, 268;
Dublin plot (1663), 297
Ireton, Henry, 9, 19, 24, 48, 110, 241, 325, 326;
hardening of attitude towards king, 21, 23, 25–6;
Pride’s Purge (6 December 1648) and, 27, 28;
posthumous attainder of, 174, 206–7;
disinterment and dismemberment, 245, 251, 252
Isle of Man, 203–4
Isle of Wight, 18, 20, 25, 26, 99
James, Duke of York (future king James II): at Edgehill, 11, 12–13;
escape to Europe, 32;
Ascham as tutor of, 79;
royalist uprising (August 1659), 120–1;
property of regicides and, 162, 174–5;
Parliament gifts money to, 166;
arrival in England (May 1660), 176, 177;
Council of Foreign Plantations and, 202–3;
attends Lords’ death list discussions, 203, 210;
marriage to Anne Hyde, 210–11, 247;
Venner’s uprising and, 250;
Royal Africa Company and, 276;
dispatches ships for Vane and Lambert, 281;
great fire (1666) and, 313;
becomes king (February 1685), 321;
Catholicism of, 321;
death of in exile (1701), 323
James I, King, 31, 110, 244
Jefferson, Thomas, 327
Jersey, 14, 83–4, 323
Johnston, Archibald, Lord Wariston, 122, 194, 284–5, 286–7
Johnston, Robert, 285, 286, 308
Jones, John, 181, 182, 207, 220, 226, 257
Jones, Theophilus, 162
Jones, Thomas, 257, 258, 259
Jones, William, 168
Joyce, George: seizure of Charles I from Holmby House (June 1647), 19, 186–7, 196, 224, 267, 313, 319, 320;
as suspect in hunt for executioners, 186, 187;
exile in Europe, 187, 266–7, 313, 319, 320;
attempted capture of in Holland, 320–1, 322
Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw), 214
Julian calendar, 156*
junta, military (Committee of Safety) (October-December 1659), 122, 123–4, 129–33, 136, 190, 191
justice and legal system: independence of judiciary under Cromwell, 39;
defendant’s right to silence, 40, 40*, 326–7;
The Instrument of Government and, 89;
courts of assize, 97*;
weakening of rules of evidence for regicides’ trial, 172, 209, 215, 231;
Okey/Barkstead/Corbet trial and, 278;
legacy of regicides, 325, 326–7;
rule of law, 325, 326;
freedom of speech, 326;
‘cab rank’ rule for barristers, 327
Juxon, Dr, Bishop of London, 51, 57, 58, 61, 65, 68
Keeble, N.H., 112–13
Kelland, Thomas, 256, 257–9
Kelsey, Sean, 23*
Kelsey, Thomas, 314
Kelying, John, 4
Kicke, Abraham, 272, 274, 275, 276–7, 278
Killing No Murder pamphlet (1657), 105–7
Kingdom’s Intelligencer, 176
Kirk, Thomas, 256, 257–9
Lacey, Andrew, 68
Lambert, John: constitutional monarchy proposals, 19, 325;
attempt to save Commonwealth, 87*, 157–60, 228, 269;
The Instrument of Government (December 1653) and, 88, 326;
victory at Selby (11 April 1644), 90;
refusal to support Cromwell as king, 105;
in final Protectorate Parliament, 114;
army crisis (April 1659) and, 116, 117;
conflict with Haselrig, 120, 122, 123;
royalist uprising (August 1659) and, 120, 121–2, 127;
Rump Parliament (May-October 1659) and, 120, 122, 123;
Committee of Safety and, 122, 129, 133;
leads army north to stop Monck, 129–30, 131, 134;
Monck and, 129–30, 142, 158, 159, 160;
disintegration of army of, 130, 134;
army waits in Newcastle (November-December 1659), 130–1;
removed from London by Rump, 143;
imprisoned in Tower (March 1660), 149;
escape from Tower, 157;
widespread distrust of, 158–9;
defeat at Daventry, 159–60, 161, 172–3, 183–4, 269;
Prince of Wales and daughter of, 164–5;
seizure of property of, 175;
placed on partial exemption list, 189;
placed on death list, 203, 204, 205;
king remits execution of, 205, 281;
Parliament’s desire for head of, 280–1;
imprisonment on Guernsey, 281;
trial of, 282–4;
pardoned and returned to Guernsey, 284
Laud, Archbishop, 76, 137
Lausanne, 169, 291, 293–4, 302, 303
Lawson, John, 140, 153
Leete, William, 202, 258, 259, 260
legal and justice system see justice and legal system
Leiden (Holland), 77, 169
Lennox, Duke of, 29
Lenthall, Sir John, 171
Lenthall, William, 129, 166, 189, 225–6
Leslie, David, 85
Levellers, 20, 39–40, 80, 88, 93, 100, 269
Lilburne, John (‘Freeborn John’), 39–40, 80
Lilburne, Robert, 218, 237, 238, 239
Lilly, William, 186, 187, 319
Lindsey, Earl of, 65, 213
Lisle, Alice, 303, 305, 321–2
Lisle, John, 38, 40, 98, 181, 182, 199, 207;
murder of, 15, 303–5, 306;
exile in Switzerland, 289, 291, 294, 302, 303–5
Livesey, Sir Michael, 207, 322
Locke, John, 24
Loughborough, Lord, 90, 91
Louis XIV, King of France, 287, 298, 301, 317, 318
Love, Nicholas, 38, 52, 207, 289, 293*, 322
Ludlow, Edmund: A Voyce from the Watchtower (memoirs), 4–5, 14–17, 296, 317;
radical politics of, 5, 16, 21, 88, 326;
exile at Lake Geneva, 7–8, 11, 14–17, 294–301, 302–3, 313, 322, 323–4;
Ireland and, 8, 14, 120, 136–7, 14
6;
military career, 8, 11, 13, 14, 21–2, 116, 120, 123, 136–7, 145–6;
political career after civil wars, 8, 88, 114, 116, 118, 123, 136–7, 140, 145–6, 148, 156–7;
political career during civil wars, 8, 14, 22, 25, 27;
remains in England (April-August 1660), 9–10, 156–7, 158–9, 162, 170, 178, 181, 189, 194, 196, 205;
escape to Europe, 10–11, 205–6, 255;
exile in Geneva, 11, 206, 289–91;
republicanism and, 14, 123, 136, 149, 153–5, 190, 296–7;
Lisle’s death and, 15, 303, 305;
Monck and, 15, 129, 140, 141, 142, 148, 178, 181;
on Charles II, 16–17, 190;
trial of Charles I and, 38;
boycotts Cromwell’s funeral, 111;
army coup (October 1659) and, 123, 136;
treason charges laid by Irish enemies, 136–7, 142, 146;
contemplates republican uprising (February-March 1660), 149, 153–5;
contests April 1660 election, 156–7;
distrust of Lambert, 158–9;
Coote seizes property of, 162;
escapes inclusion on death list, 181;
deadline proclamation and, 196;
on Lords’ death list discussions, 203;
placed on death list, 207;
on trial of the regicides, 214, 216, 217, 239;
as Stuarts’ ‘bogey man’, 248, 285, 290, 292, 297, 311, 313;
on Barkstead, 267–8;
in Lausanne, 291, 293–4;
on Sir Harry Vane, 291–2;
Sidney’s invasion plans and, 296–7, 313, 314–15, 316, 317;
Riordane raid and, 297–301;
French overtures to, 316–17;
brief return to England, 324;
death of (1692), 324
Ludlow, Elizabeth, 10, 15, 194, 205, 286, 289, 297, 324
Mabbott, Gilbert, 41
Magna Carta, 31, 46, 47, 326
Man, William, 134
Manchester, Earl of, 147, 164, 213, 214, 230, 290
Mantegna, Andrea, The Triumphs of Caesar, 19
Marshall, Alan, 286
Marshalsea prison, 267, 270
Marston Moor, Battle of (2 July 1644), 18, 295
Marten, Harry, 38, 52, 73*, 196, 239, 274, 280, 323, 326;
trial of, 218–19, 237–8, 239
Marvell, Andrew, 192, 261
Mary (sister of Charles II), 32, 63, 247, 263
Masson, David, 118, 156, 170, 177, 192
Mazarin, Cardinal, 128
McIntosh, A.W., 52
Mercurius Aulicus (Court Mercury), 71
Mercurius Britannicus (parliamentary paper), 71
Mercurius Politicus (republican news sheet), 93, 105, 290
Mercurius Publicus (royalist paper), 175, 198, 207, 208, 252, 278
Meyne, Simon, 237, 239
Mildmay, Sir Henry, 38, 184, 280, 302
Milford (New England), 261, 306, 307
Millington, Gilbert, 38, 212–13, 218, 237, 238, 239
Milton, John, 68–9, 82, 118, 169–70, 176, 192, 220, 264, 323;
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 69–70, 79;
Eikonoklastes (The Iconbreaker), 79;
The Ready and Easy Way to Establishing a Free Commonwealth, 149–50;
Brief Notes upon a late sermon, 156;
Eikon Basilike (‘The King’s Image’), 192;
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio (in defence of the people of England), 192
Monck, George: background of, 5, 124;
opinions on motives of, 5, 126, 129, 134, 135–6;
Ludlow and, 15, 129, 140, 141, 142, 148, 178, 181;
royalist cause and, 15, 126–8, 129, 133, 138–44, 147–8, 150–1, 165, 166;
commands English army in Scotland, 100, 124–8, 129–31;
Cromwell and, 124;
royalist wife of, 124, 126–7, 141, 144;
approaches from Prince of Wales (1658-9), 124–6;
Booth uprising and, 125, 127–8;
purges army of ‘oppositionists’, 129, 130–1, 135, 138, 140, 152, 201;
Lambert and, 129–30, 142, 158, 159, 160;
opposes junta after October 1659 coup, 129–31;
preparations for invasion of England, 129–31;
delaying tactics in Scotland, 130–1;
Rump Parliament and, 131, 135, 136, 138–42, 143, 144, 147, 148;
Scot and, 131, 138, 139, 141, 143, 148;
invades England (January 1660), 133–6;
election of ‘free’ Parliament and, 134, 142, 144, 148;
oath abjuring the Stuarts and, 138, 139, 143;
purges in London regiments, 138, 140, 152;
march to London (January 1660), 138–40;
dispersal of suspect regiments, 140, 159;
arrival in London, 140–1;
letter to Rump demanding elections (11 February 1660), 142;
greeted as hero in London (11 February 1660), 142–3;
secluded Members and, 143–4, 147;
appointed Lord General, 147;
protestations of loyalty to Commonwealth, 148, 153;
republican proposal to offer crown to, 149;
Milton’s letter to, 150;
negotiations with Prince of Wales (March 1660), 150–2;
pledges loyalty to Prince of Wales, 151;
Okey as opponent of, 152–3, 269;
bans political meetings in army, 153;
subjugates army to Parliament, 153;
saves Haselrig, 154, 205;
regicide manhunt and, 162, 171;
the Restoration and, 162–3, 165, 166;
Charles II demands crackdown from, 167;
Declaration of Breda endorsed by army, 168;
death list and, 171, 200, 205;
greets Charles II at Dover, 176;
orders Cook’s return to England, 182;
animosity towards Whitelocke, 190, 191;
‘gloating’ over surrendered fugitives, 196;
roistering and ceremonial (June 1660), 197–8;
as judge at trial of regicides, 209, 213, 214, 219, 230, 290;
intercedes to save life of Fleetwood, 219;
‘White Plot’ and, 248;
Venner’s uprising and, 250;
intervenes against Argyll, 254;
death of (1670), 323
Monck, Nicholas, 126, 127, 150
Monmouth rebellion (1685), 321–2
Monson, Lord, 196, 280
Montague, Edward, 149
Montrose, Marquis of, 76, 78
Mordaunt, John, 116, 135
Morley, Herbert, 138, 153
Morrice, Sir William, 150, 151, 192, 197, 260
Murray, Alexander, 286–7
Nalson, John, 41
Napper, Thomas, 191
Naseby, Battle of (14 June 1645), 18, 71, 74, 90, 114
navy, 80, 95, 130, 132, 152, 153, 168, 176, 312–13
Nedham, Marchamont, 40
Netherlands: Prince of Wales as exile in, 2, 32, 56, 63, 66, 71, 75, 78, 152, 263;
royalist exiles in, 66, 75–8, 100, 262, 263;
assassination of Dorislaus in, 77–8, 80, 81, 263, 288;
Spanish Netherlands, 78, 112, 152, 178, 182, 195;
regicides’ escapes to, 168–9, 182, 187, 215, 243–4;
Eighty Years’ War with Spain, 169, 265, 312*;
as republican country, 243–4, 265, 312;
royalist agents in, 243–4, 252, 265–6, 270, 315;
Downing as royalist envoy to, 261, 264–72, 290;
Downing as Commonwealth emissary to, 262–3;
regicides’ exiles in, 265–7, 269, 270–1, 272, 274–8, 313, 315–16, 319–20, 322;
Anglo-Dutch War (1665), 266, 312;
Anglo-Dutch Treaty, 270, 275;
failed abduction of Dendy in, 270–1;
captures of regicides in, 274–8, 309, 313, 320;
Anglo-Dutch tensions (1663–4), 302;
English regiments
in Dutch army, 312;
Sidney’s invasion plans and, 312–13, 314–16;
attempted capture of Joyce in, 320–1, 322
New Amsterdam, 256, 259, 306–7
New Haven colony, 257–9, 261
New Model Army: Fairfax as commander, 3, 21–2, 24, 25, 37, 59, 64, 230;
Cromwell and, 8, 14, 21, 24–5, 84, 85–6, 105, 108, 113, 160, 269;
in Ireland, 8, 120, 136;
Pride’s Purge (military coup of 6 December 1648), 8, 27–9, 37, 72, 110, 134, 137, 212, 224;
trial of Charles I and, 8, 35, 37, 38, 111, 146, 184, 230;
capture of king at Newport (Isle of Wight), 18, 23–4, 26–7;
seizure of Charles I at Holmby House, 19, 186–7, 196, 224, 267, 319, 320;
attitude towards Charles I, 21–2, 23–6, 59;
moves king to Windsor (December 1648), 23, 29–32, 33;
petitions to Parliament (October-November 1648), 23, 24, 25–6;
remonstrance (November 1648), 24, 37;
military occupation of London, 26, 27;
Lisle and, 40;
as de facto power during republic, 80, 83;
Lambert attempts to save Commonwealth, 87*, 157–60, 228, 269;
military rule during Penruddock uprising, 97;
Protectorate and, 99, 105, 108, 113–18;
Leveller mutinies (1649), 100;
Monck commands in Scotland, 100, 124–8, 129–31;
republicanism and, 115–18, 119–20, 122, 123–4, 126, 152–5, 201;
coup (April 1659), 116–18;
recall of Rump Parliament (May 1659), 118;
conflict with Rump (July-October 1659), 120, 122, 123–4;
Committee of Safety (1659), 122, 123, 129–30, 137, 190, 191;
coup (October 1659), 122, 123–4, 129;
Monck’s purges of ‘oppositionists’, 129, 130–1, 135, 138, 140, 152, 201;
Lambert leads army north, 129–30, 131, 134;
London’s antagonism towards, 132, 140, 268–9;
Monck invades England (January 1660), 133–6;
garrisons declare for Parliament (January 1660), 134;
Monck’s purges in London regiments, 138, 140, 152;
Monck’s dispersal of suspect regiments, 140, 159;
Rump and London regiments, 140–2;
continued hatred of Stuarts within, 152;
Militia Bill (March 1660) and, 152;
Okey as opponent of Monck, 152–3, 269;
Monck bans political meetings, 153;
Monck subjugates to Parliament, 153;
end of (April 1660), 160;
trial of the regicides and, 228–32
Newburgh, Lord and Lady, 30–1, 222
Newcastle, Earl of, 11–12, 147, 164, 306
Newgate Prison, 216, 233–4, 236, 239, 250
Newport treaty (December 1648), 22–3, 24, 25, 27–9, 49, 147, 164, 165, 230
Nicholas, Richard, 307, 308
Nicholas, Sir Edward, 75, 112, 128, 137, 252, 309