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by Geoffrey Smith


  Russell, John, member of the Sealed Knot, 180, 217, 222

  Russell, William, 5th Earl of Bedford, 40

  safe houses, for agents and correspondence, 195–6, 213, 242

  St. Germain, palace, queen’s household at, 73, 75, 81, 92, 96, 121, 132, 169

  St. Malo, 230

  Scariffhollis, battle of, 140

  Scilly Islands, 86, 92, 97, 158

  Scot, Thomas, 7, 166, 173, 229

  Scriven, Richard, 181, 189

  Sealed Knot, 173

  membership of, 180, 188

  failure to control conspiracies, 181–3, 187

  reputation for caution and ineffectiveness, 187, 188, 189, 206, 208, 216, 229

  re-established, 211, 226

  networks of agents, 240–41

  rewards for members of, 247

  Seton, Charles, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, 151, 156, 165, 166

  Seymour, Henry, Lord Beauchamp, 142, 144, 180

  Seymour, Henry

  background and character of, 5, 6, 40, 133, 136

  carries invitation to single combat from Earl of Hertford to Earl of Bedford, 40

  invites Earl of Warwick to ‘return to his allegiance’, 109

  groom of bedchamber to Prince Charles, 86, 96, 133

  delivers prince’s final letters to Charles I, 117–18

  undertakes dangerous mission from Jersey to Ireland, 133–4, 139

  accompanies Charles II to Scotland, attends him on the Start, and banished, 149, 155, 156

  arrested but released and banished while on money collecting mission to England, 170–71

  returns to England, arrested again and imprisoned, 199, 202

  released from prison but withdraws from active service on the ‘king’s business’, 212

  rewards, 247

  Seymour, John, 143, 151, 152, 153, 154, 212, 224

  Seymour, William, 1st Marquess of Hertford, 40, 57, 94, 135, 240, 243

  Sherburn in Elmet, battle of, 57, 72, 78

  Ship Tavern plot, 182

  Shrewsbury

  plans to capture, 181, 227, 242

  failure to capture, 228, 229

  Shropshire, 89, 181, 189

  Skelton, Sir John, 224, 249

  Slingsby, Sir Henry, 203, 210

  trial and execution of, 218, 221, 246

  Smith, Paul, captain, 175, 186, 209

  Solemn League and Covenant, the, 59, 72, 145

  Somerset, Edward, Lord Herbert, 1st Earl of Glamorgan, 76, 77, 78, 79, 97

  Souldier’s Catechisme, the, 45

  Souza, Antony de, Portuguese ambassador, 73

  Spottiswoode, Sir Robert, 75

  Stanhope, Catherine, Mme. de Heenvliet, (later) Countess of Chesterfield

  in Mary of Orange’s household at The Hague, 161, 185

  friendship with O’Neill, 161, 185, 196

  marriage to O’Neill, 251

  Stanley, James, 7th Earl of Derby, 143, 152, 153, 170

  Stapley, John, 211, 212

  Start, the, 148, 149, 222

  Stephens, Sir John

  as loyal and trusted follower of Ormond, 70, 110, 187, 188, 210, 240

  mission to England 1654, 187–8

  with Ormond in London 1658, 215–17

  arrested at Dover and imprisoned, 233

  sends news to Ormond of Monck’s forcing Rump to dissolve itself, 133

  rewards, 233, 249

  Stevenson, David, 60

  Stone, Sir Robert, 192

  Strachan, captain, 175, 209, 238

  Strickland, Walter, 81

  Stuart, Catherine, (neé Howard), Lady d’Aubigny, Viscountess Newburgh

  character, 114

  distributes royal commission to London plotters, 49, 51, 55, 114

  plans last minute rescue of Charles I, 116

  exile and death, 121, 245

  Suckling, Sir John, background, 13, 16

  and army plots, 21, 22, 26

  flight into exile, 27

  death, 30, 35

  Supreme Council, of Confederation of Kilkenny, 657, 68, 77, 97

  Swordsmen, 138, 182

  see also factions

  Taaffe, Theobald, Lord, (later) 1st Earl of Carlingford

  character, 161

  approaches to Duke of Lorraine, 168–9

  retains favour of Charles II, 161, 178

  Talbot, Richard, colonel, 196

  Thirty Years War, 11, 32, 71, 159, 167, 187

  Thurloe, John

  reputation as spymaster, 7

  appointed Postmaster General and Secretary of State, 173

  relies on spies and informers, 174

  receives intelligence reports from

  Bampfield, 176–7, 179, 205, 223

  Manning, 183, 184, 189, 191, 195, 196, 199

  Corker, 205–6, 210, 216–17

  other spies and informers, 190, 192, 208, 209

  Lockhart, 205

  Monck, 209

  his scathing opinion of Gerard plotters, 182

  employs royalists as double agents, 202–3, 204

  especially Willys, 205, 216–17, 228

  irritated at intransigence of Cavaliers, 209, 212, 218, 242–3, 244

  fails to capture Ormond in London 1658, 215

  fears consequences of death of Protector, 224

  disapproves of Halsall’s release, 227

  replaced by Scot 1659, 229

  replaced as Postmaster General by O’Neill, 251

  Titus, Silius (Silas)

  background, 102, 102n, 246

  in attendance on Charles I at Carisbrooke, 114, 115, 121

  friend of Massey, 121, 225, 240

  goes into exile, 121

  joins court on Jersey, 132

  accompanies Charles II to Scotland, 144

  appointed to the bedchamber, 150, 151

  accompanies Bampfield to Paris on mission for Argyll, 150–51

  in contact with Presbyterian plotters in London, 151, 153, 153n, 154

  returns into exile, 167

  not employed in Penruddock’s rising, 198

  resumes involvement in conspiracy in Mordaunt’s Great Trust, 225

  accompanies Charles II to Calais and warns king not to go to England, 228, 230

  returns to England with Massey, 233, 234

  rewards, 247

  Tompkins, Nathaniel, 49, 50, 51, 53

  execution of, 51, 51n, 55

  Touchet, James, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, 68, 97

  Tower of London

  O’Neill’s escape from, 1, 34–5

  plans to rescue Strafford from, 20, 23, 25–6, 29

  imprisonment of royalist agents in, 30–31, 93, 125, 134, 157, 158, 171, 199, 202, 204, 212, 222

  imprisonment of Bampfield in, 250

  Treason Acts, 119, 124

  Trelawney, Jonathan, 143, 164

  and involvement in Penruddock’s rising, 191–2, 193, 196

  renews involvement in conspiracy, 212, 224, 246

  rewards, 248

  Trevor, Arthur, Ormond’s intelligence agent in Oxford, 63, 79

  Turner, Sir James, 222

  Tweeddale, Earl of, see Hay, John

  Tynemouth, plans to capture, 181, 189, 210

  Ulster, Irish army of

  negotiations by O’Neill with, 79, 97–8, 110–11, 127–8, 130

  destroyed at Scarrifhollis, 139–40

  Underdown, David, 135, 182, 188, 189, 193n

  United Provinces, 174, 184, 187, 223

  Urry, Sir John, 39n

  Uvedale, Sir Walter, 20

  Van Dyck, Sir Anthony, 12, 21, 31

  Vane, Sir Henry, 11

  Venice, Venetian republic, 2, 3, 138, 157, 159

  Verney, Sir Edmund, 13

  Vienna, 74

  Villiers, Edward, colonel, member of Sealed Knot, 173, 180, 188, 189, 225, 234

  Villiers, William, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

  accompanies Charles II to Scotland

  escapes from Worcester and joins court in Paris,
158, 161, 196

  patron of Pauldens, 162, 162n, 250

  Wagstaffe, Sir Joseph, 191, 193, 196

  Waller, Edmund, and ‘Waller’s plot’, 48, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53

  confession, 52, 53

  Waller, Sir William, 38, 70, 216, 225

  Wallingford, 90, 91

  Walsingham, Sir Francis, 7, 8, 9, 55, 185, 241

  Walter, Lucy, 208

  Walters, John, 203

  Walters, Robert, major, 164, 189, 193, 195, 196, 210, 229

  Washington, Henry, colonel, 82, 89

  Waterford, 65, 68, 78, 97, 134

  Wentworth, Thomas, Viscount, 1st Earl of Strafford

  and Bishops’ Wars, 15

  distrusts O’Neill, 16–17

  arrest and trial of, 19, 20, 22, 24

  plans to rescue, 20, 23, 25, 26, 29

  execution of, 27

  Wentworth, Thomas, Lord, 156, 158, 178, 217n

  West Country, Prince of Wales in, 4, 72

  royalist army in, 40, 42

  organisation of conspiracy in, 136, 142–3, 151, 152, 153, 211, 212, 224, 229

  see also Western Association

  Western Association, the ‘Gentlemen of the West’, 142, 143, 151, 191, 224, 240

  Western Isles, 2, 60, 67, 69, 96, 187

  Weston, John

  Weston, Jerome, 2nd Earl of Portland, 42

  Wheeler, Mrs, laundress at Carisbrooke, 112, 116, 120, 154

  Whetstone, Sir Thomas, 237

  Whitley, Sir Roger, colonel, 137–8, 164, 182, 228, 248

  Whorwood, Jane, 112–13, 154

  Wicquefort, Abraham de, 108

  William II, Prince of Orange

  marriage, 60

  supports Charles II’s Scottish expedition, 147, 152

  death of, 153, 159, 238

  Williamson, Sir Joseph, 8

  Willoughby, Francis, Lord, of Parham

  leader of conservative Presbyterians, 94, 108

  drawn into conspiracy, 188, 193, 198, 216

  arrest of, 229

  Willys, Sir Richard, member of Sealed Knot, 180

  treachery of, 205, 206, 211, 215, 216, 222

  revelation of his treachery, 228–9

  personal tragedy of, 206, 250

  Wilmot, Henry, Lord, 1st Earl of Rochester

  background and character, 15–16

  captured at Newburn, 18–19

  and army plots, 21, 23, 25, 2t

  accompanies Charles II to Scotland, 144

  escapes from Worcester, 158

  returns to England as a leader of Penruddock’s rising, 189–94

  detained but escapes, 195, 196

  commands Guards regiment in Flanders, 210

  illness and death, 210

  Wilson, Thomas, lieutenant governor of Dover Castle, 192, 193

  Windebank, Sir Francis, 15, 17, 18

  Windsor Castle, 44, 116, 117, 120

  Winnington Bridge, battle of, 228, 230

  Wood, Anthony á, 90, 113

  Wood, Sir Henry, 75, 170

  Worcester, 81, 89, 90

  Worcester, battle of, 156, 157, 162, 164, 170, 242

  Yarmouth, 217, 218

  York

  English army based in and around, 13, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 34

  Cochrane’s arrival in, 65–6

  plans to seize, 193, 210

  death of Carnaby in, 250

 

 

 


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