Hull 69
Hunger Hill 119
Huntbach, John 120, 123, 124
Huntly, Lewis Gordon, 3rd Marquess of 61
Hutchinson, Colonel John 68–9, 252
Hutchinson, Lucy 68
Hyde, Edward 204
Hyde, Sir Edward: character and description 5; relationship with Charles 5; supports Royalist cause 5; questions instructions to take Charles to the Continent 8, 13; on George Carteret 11; considered pious and priggish 13; distrust of Jermyn and his allies 13; fatalistic speech 20; reunited with Charles at The Hague 20; on the Earl of Northumberland 33; against treaty with Scotland 55; learns of Charles’s landing in Scotland 58; ally of Earl of Southampton 227; scoffs at Wilmot’s comfortable escape from England 243–4; advises Charles against Scottish adventure 245; congratulates Charles on his arrival in France 245; joins royal council in Paris 245; realises futility of Charles’s return to England 248; as most important and trusted adviser to Charles 263; disapproves of Charles’s behaviour 264; given the title of Earl of Clarendon 264; as Lord Proprietor of land in America 264; crosses swords with Barbara Castlemaine 265; removes himself to France 265–6; The History of the Rebellion 14, 266
Hyde, Frederick 220
Hyde, Sir Henry 220
Hyde, Katherine 219, 220–1, 222
Hyde, Lawrence 208, 214, 216, 223
Hyde, Sir Lawrence (d.1641) 220
Hyde family 220
Ingoldsby, Col Richard 85, 88
Inverkeithing, battle of (1650) 62, 63, 77
Inverlochy, battle of (1645) 49
Ireland 52, 59, 175, 188, 190, 246
Irish and Scottish Committee 141
Isle of Man 75, 246
Isle of Wight 51, 231; Carisbrooke Castle 31
Isles of Scilly 8, 9, 25, 63, 180, 246
Jaffray, Alexander 56
James I 104
James, Duke of Monmouth: birth and parentage 18–19; kidnapped by Charles 247; relationship with his father and James 275
James, Duke of York (later James II): asks Pepys to let him read about his brother’s escape xviii; escapes to the Netherlands dressed as a woman 16, 33–7; joins his siblings at Syon House 29; taken to St James’s Palace 32; character and description 33; takes heed of his father’s instructions 33–4; learns of his brother’s defeat at Worcester 92, 93; reunited with Charles in France 237; accession to the throne 253; remains with his terminally brother 270–1, 275; informed that Charles was a Catholic at heart 273; brings Huddleston to his brother’s bedside 274
Jefferson, Thomas xxi
Jermyn, Henry, 1st Earl of St Albans 13–14, 238
Jersey, C.I. 10–13, 198, 206, 208, 246; Elizabeth Castle 10; Mont Orgueil 10; St Aubin’s 10
Jesuits 125, 126
John and Sara (ship) 190
Jones, David 137
Jones, Inigo 221
Jones, Colonel John 244
Jones, Rhys 200
Jordan, Robert 245–6
Josselin, Rev Ralph 69, 244
Kemble, Thomas 190
Kérouaille, Louise de, Duchess of Portsmouth 268, 272, 273, 275
Key, Capt Lt John 185
Killigrew, Charles 269
Killigrew, Thomas 70
King, Sir Edmund 269–70 and note
King’s Horse Guards 3
King’s Lynn 69
Kinver 104
Kirton, Edward 173
Lambert, Maj Gen John 62, 76–7, 78, 80, 83, 84, 88
Lane, Jane 194; given pass to travel to Bristol 135; accompanies Charles on his journey from Bentley 164–7, 168–9, 173; sends Charles boiled walnuts to rub on his face 164; expected to attend her cousin Ellen Norton 172; leaves Charles at Trent 174; escapes to France disguised as a peasant woman 240; rewarded by Charles after the Restoration 256–8; marries Sir Clement Fisher 258; death of 258
Lane, Colonel John 134–6, 145, 146; asked to return horses to Wilmot at Moseley 156; collects Charles from Moseley Hall 159–60; takes Charles to Bentley 164–5; rewarded by Charles after the Restoration 256–7
Langport, Somerset 76
Langstone Harbour 214
Lascelles, Henry 165, 167, 170, 174, 258
Lauderdale, John Maitland, 1st Earl of 106, 206, 265
Leicester, Dorothy Percy, Countess of 30
Leicester, Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of 30
Lenthall, William 37
Leslie, Lt Gen David: defeats Montrose at Philiphaugh 49, 66; defeated at Dunbar and Inverkeithing 60, 62; brutality and ruthlessness of 66; character and description of 66, 67; serves under Cromwell at Marston Moor 66–7; opposes invasion of England by Charles 67, 77–8, 89; refuses to fight at Worcester 89–90, 106; low morale of his forces 110; captured and imprisoned in Chester 184–5; suspected of abandoning his men after Worcester 184; believed to have acted treacherously 260; imprisoned in the Tower 260; rewarded by Charles after the Restoration 260–1; granted the title of 1st Baron Newark 261
Levellers 40–1, 81, 242
Leven, Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of 60
Leyland, John 174–5
Lichfield 169
Lilburne, Colonel Robert 81, 97, 164
Limbry, Stephen 176, 177, 194, 195–7, 201
Lingua Testium: wherein Monarchy is Proved 242
Littleton, Stephen 121
Liverpool 190
Lockier, Richard 41
London 72, 94, 96, 102; St James’s Palace 27, 28, 32, 37, 193; Danvers House, Chelsea 28–9; St Paul’s Cathedral 41; Three Cranes inn, the Vintry 116–17; Tower of London 127, 209, 241, 242, 247, 260; Charing Cross 180, 193; Whitehall 180; Blackwall 186; Greenwich 186; Hampstead Heath 186; Kingsland (now Dalston) 186; Tothill Fields 186, 187–8; Hyde Park Corner 193; Knightsbridge 193; Haberdashers’ Hall 209; Westminster 254; St James’s Park 268
London, Henry Compton, Bishop of 272
Long, Sir Robert 19
Long Marston 165, 167–8
Lords Proprietor 264 and note
Lorraine, Charles IV, Duke of 46
Loudon, John Campbell, 1st Earl of 244
Louis XIII 45
Louis XIV 45, 58, 268
Louvre group 14
Lowestoft 69
Luke, Katherine de 250
Lyme Regis 174–7, 194, 198, 200–1
Lyson, Thomas 79
MacColla, Alasdair 49
MacKinnon, Clan 65
MacLeod, Neil 57
MacNeil’s Foot 65
Mackworth, Colonel Humphrey 74
Macy, Captain 196, 198, 201, 202
Madeley 113–14
Magny-en-Vexin 237
Maine 190
Mainwaring, George 143
The Man in the Moon 56
Mançell, Francis 215–17, 222, 228, 259
Manual of Controversies 157
Marston Moor, battle of (1644) 66, 76, 251–2
Martin, Bartholomew 107, 109
Martin, Edward 107
Mary, Queen 266
Mary, Princess of Orange 16, 31; marriage to William of Orange 27–8; welcomes her brother James at The Hague 37; swoons with shock on hearing of her brother’s defeat 93; Jane Lane given position in her household 256
Massachusetts 72, 190
Massey, Maj Gen Edward 83–4, 103, 241
Maurice, Prince 16, 175
Mayerne, Theodore de 23–4
Mazarin, Cardinal Jules Raymond 45–6
Medway, River 58
Mercurius Politicus 42, 72, 75, 93, 164, 179, 185, 239
Mere, George inn at 219
Middleburg 37
Middleton, Lt Gen John: excommunicated and forced to wear sackcloth and ashes 61, 261; as loyal Royalist 61; successful army career 61; wounded at Worcester 88; captured and imprisoned in Chester 184–5; created Earl of Middleton 261; escapes from the Tower and joins Charles in exile 261; rewarded by Charles after the Restoration 261
Mildmay, Sir Anthony 31
Milnes, Lieutenant Robert 185
Milton, John 42
, 43, 73
Modena, Francesco I d’Este, Duke of 45
Monck, Lt Gen George 82–3, 190–1
Montgomery, Maj Gen Robert 88
Montrose, James, 1st Marquess of 49, 54–5, 56–8, 66, 262
Morley, Colonel Herbert 225
Morosini, Michiel 69–70, 94
Morpeth 188
Moseley Hall, Staffordshire 123–5, 129, 143–9, 150–60, 241, 256
Mosstroopers 59
Motteville, Madame de 18
Murray, Anne 35–6
Nantwich 71
Naseby, battle of (1645) 7, 44, 49, 76, 123
Naseby (ship, later Royal Charles) xvi
National League and Covenant 47, 51–3, 59
Nedham, Marchamont 42, 43, 72, 179
Netherlands 16, 17–18, 28, 31, 52, 54, 55, 93
New England 243
New Hampshire 190
New Haven, Connecticut 72
New Model Army 6, 20, 52, 60, 62, 70, 73, 76, 77, 83, 87, 104, 171, 178, 185, 198
Newcastle 48
Newport, Shropshire 81, 181, 184
Nicholas, Sir Edward 14, 70, 92, 93
Northcot 121
Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of 29, 32–3, 37
Northumberland, Anne Cecil, Countess of 29
Northwich 71
Norton, Ellen 168–9, 170, 172
Norton, George 168–9, 258
Oak Apple Day (29 May) 251, 255
Oatlands Palace, Surrey 27
Orange, Frederick Henry, Prince of 32
Order of the Oak Tree 251, 255
Orléans, Gaston, Duke of 45, 237
Ormonde, James Butler, 1st Marquess of 52, 55, 238
Outer Hebrides 65
Owen, Nicholas ‘Little John’ 125–8 and note
Oxford 4, 29, 73, 192; New College 73
Packington Hall, Warwickshire 166
Paget, William, 5th Baron 165
Paling, Thomas 155–6
Paris 55, 93, 233, 237–8, 261
Parker, Richard 70
Parliament 8–9, 11, 48, 51, 61, 71, 74, 175, 179, 238, 243, 247
Paterick, George 250
Pattingham 119
Paul VI, Pope 128n
Pendeford Mill 148
Penderel, Anne ‘Nan’ 114
Penderel, George 107–8, 111, 114, 149, 241
Penderel, Humphrey: provides Charles with rustic headgear 109; scouts for news to warn Charles of any danger 111; accompanies Charles to Hobbal Grange 114; interrogated on whereabouts of Charles 139–40; lends Charles his mill horse 147; comment on slowness of horse carrying the weight of three kingdoms 148, 254; bids Charles farewell at Moseley Hall 149; complains about his pension 255; serves Queen Catherine as footman 255
Penderel, Jane 108, 114
Penderel, Joan 81, 108, 136–7, 139, 254–5
Penderel, John 241; guides and assists Wilmot and his servant Robert Swan 117; helps Wilmot find sanctuary at Moseley Hall 119–25; takes messages between Moseley, Whiteladies and Boscobel 143–7; accompanies Charles to Moseley Hall 148–9, 151; notices troop of Parliamentary cavalry passing through Moseley village 157; discusses arrangements for Charles’s journey with Jane Lane 164; bids farewell to Charles 165
Penderel, Mary 114
Penderel, Richard ‘Trusty Richard’ 241; introduced to Charles 108; cuts Charles’s hair 109; leads Charles out of Whiteladies by a secret door 111, 129; discusses Charles’s escape to London 112, 113–14; accompanies Charles to Hobbal Grange 114; remains to serve and protect Charles 117; cross-country trek with Charles towards Wales 129–31; chased by angry miller 130–1; takes refuge in Wolfe’s home 131–3; agrees to return home 133; returns to Boscobel House 136; supplies Charles with wine at Boscobel 139; buys provisions for Charles 143; accompanies Charles to Moseley Hall 148, 151; rewarded by Charles at Restoration 254; death and burial 254
Penderel, Thomas 107n
Penderel, William 241, 254; tends to Derby and Roscarrock’s wounds 81, 108; lends Charles clothes 109; scouts for news to warn Charles of any danger 111; remains to serve and protect Charles 117; informs Charles that Careless also hiding at Boscobel 137; keeps watch below the Boscobel oak 139; shaves and trims Charles’s hair 139; clandestinely kills a sheep for Charles to eat 142
Penruddock, Colonel John 251
Penshurst Place, Kent 30
Pepys, Samuel: fellow passenger with Charles aboard the Royal Charles xvi; resolves to trace history of Charles’s time on the run xvi–xviii; witnesses beheading of King Charles I xvii; on Christabella Wyndham 6; on George Carteret 11; shoots arrow at Kingsland 186; told of Charles’s reception in Rouen 232–3; notes that Humphrey Penderel is footman for Queen Catherine 255; witnesses death of Thomas Harrison 262; reckons Frances Stuart the most beautiful woman he had ever seen 264–5; death of xviii–xix
Perry Wood 178
Perth 62
Peter, Hugh 193
Peters, Harry 194–5, 200–1, 204, 219, 221, 222
Petre, John 165, 167
Petre, Withy Lane 165, 167
Philiphaugh, battle of (1645) 49, 66
Philips, Christopher 219
Phillips, Colonel Robert: testimony of Charles’s escape from England xix; allowed to return home after Worcester 204; promises to do all he can to help Charles 204–5; attempts to find a ship for Charles 205–6; recommends Lawrence Hyde as an ally 208; sent to inform Charles of new plan 217; stays with Katherine Hyde at Heale House 220, 222; spends day with Charles at Stonehenge 221–2; transmits plan to Dr Henchman in Salisbury 222; accompanies Charles to Brighton 223–7; dispatched to London to arrange finance 227; arrested and committed to the Tower 258; rewarded by Charles after the Restoration 258–9
Phoenix (ship) 8
Pilsdon House, Dorset 201
Pitscottie, Colonel Colin 87
Plucknell, Thomas 197
Plymouth 245
Poole 217, 222, 231, 232
Pope, John 169–71
Popish Plot (1678) 256
Powick Bridge 85, 118
Presbyterians, Presbyterianism 23, 44, 48, 76
Preston, battle of (1648) 20, 51, 61, 76, 261
Preston, Sir John 155–6
Preston family 155–6
Pride, Colonel Thomas 87
priest holes 125–9, 142–3, 150, 152, 154, 222
priest-catchers 158–9
printing 42; see also named news-sheets
printing presses 242–3
Privy Council 14
Purefoy, Colonel William 242
Puritans, Puritanism 23, 44, 71, 175
Quarles, John 30–1; Regale lectum miseriae 31
Quinton 166
Racton 208, 210–11
Raleigh, Sir Walter 10
Redbridge 206, 208
regicides 39–40, 72, 81, 93, 95, 186, 198, 241, 252, 261
Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de 238
Reymes, Bullen 171
Reynolds, Francis 155–6, 159, 256
Richmond Island, New England 245–6
Richmond, James Stewart, 1st Duke of 265
Rider, Margaret 169
Rishton, William 215
Roch Castle 247
Rochester, 1st Earl of see Wilmot, Lord Henry
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of 253 and note, 267
Roman Catholics 44, 46, 75, 104–5, 121, 125, 157, 175
Roscarrock, Col Edward 81, 106
Rotterdam 18
Rouen 227, 231, 232–3, 262
Rowe, Owen 72
Rowley Regis 166
Royal Charles (ship) 58
Royal Escape (ship, formerly Surprise) 259–60
Royal Horse Guards 259
Royal Oak pubs xxi
Royal Seal 41
Royalists 14, 23; in exile 18; disbelief and despair at capture of the king 21; use Elizabeth’s death for propaganda purposes 31–2; and question of manpower to challenge Parliament 43; in Ireland 52; disabling of 73; defeated
at Worcester 80–91, 93; vigorously hunted and killed after Worcester 178–93, 191–2; horses and weapons taken and given to captors 191; celebrate deliverance of Charles 243–6
Rupert, Prince 19, 66, 85
St-Germain-en-Laye 14, 52
St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly 8–9
Salisbury 204, 208, 221, 222, 251; Coventry Arms inn 204; Cathedral Close 205
Salisbury Plain 221
Salmon, Lt Col Edward 69
Sandbourne, John 233
Scarburgh, Dr Charles 275
Scone 62
Scotland: Church and religion in 46–51; and the Covenanters 47–53; and the National Covenant 47, 52–3; collision between king and Kirk 48–51; civil war in 49; Prince Charles proclaimed king following execution of his father 51–3; Charles capitulates to demands from 55–6; fails to evict Cromwell 59–62; Scots totally routed 246
Scots Foot 71
Scots prisoners: rely on kindness of people for their food 186–7; sent to Tothill Fields in London 186; separated from English counterparts 186; forced to live in the open 187–8; given basic diet 187; herded through Westminster 187; cruel treatment of each other 188–9; deaths amongst 188, 190; suffer from dysentery and other ills 188; transported to Ireland as forced labourers 188, 190; prevented from to returning to Scotland 189; sent to drain malaria-infested fens of East Anglia 189–90; two thousand transported to the New World and the West Indies 190
Severn, River 114, 130, 132
Seymour, Henry 55
Sherborne, Dorset 171
Shoreham 216, 217, 222, 227, 230–1, 258
Shores, John 119
Shrewsbury 74, 190
Sidney, Algernon 17
Sidney, Colonel Robert 18–19
Skye, Isle of 65
Sluys 252
Smart, Thomas 121
Smith, Gaius 227, 229
Snead, Richard 81
Solemn League and Covenant (1643) 48–9, 51
Southall (priest-catcher) 158–9
Southampton 205, 208
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of 226–7
Spelsbury church, Oxfordshire 252
spies, agents and informants 42, 63, 65, 83, 103, 179, 247, 251
Spring Coppice 111, 119
Stafford 190
Stamford, Henry Grey, Earl of 241
Stirling 62
Stirling Castle 64
Stone, Captain Henry 129, 135, 166, 240
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