by Uglow, Jenny
Anna Maria Brudenell, Countess of Shrewsbury, engraving after a painting by Lely
King of Spades from The English Counties, by Robert Morden, 1676
Margaret Cavendish, frontispiece to Plays, Never before Printed, 1668
The Peace of Breda medal, Jan Roettier, 1667, British Museum
The Dutch raid on the Medway, William Schellinks, 1667, National Maritime Museum
Unknown artist, Andrew Marvell, National Portrait Gallery
Clarendon House, contemporary engraving
Jacob de Later, mezzotint, William III
Studio of John Greenhill, Anthony Ashley Cooper, later Earl of Shaftesbury, Private Collection
Francis Barlow, The Last Horse Race, 1684, engraved 1687
Moll Davis, engraved after a contemporary miniature by E. Bocquet, 1808
James, Duke of Monmouth
Nell Gwyn, Simon Verelst, c. 1670
John Riley, Sir William Coventry
Robert Nanteuil, Louis XIV, c. 1670, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Romeyn de Hooghe, Louis XIV chasing Charles with gold, British Library
A political pack, produced c. 1690
Playing card of the Popish Plot, c. 1678, Gentleman’s Magazine, 1833
James II and Mary of Modena leave Whitehall in 1688
Frontispiece, The Compleate Gamster
From Boscobel to Whitehall
Index
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Académie des Sciences
Act of Oblivion and Indemnity (1660)
Act of Uniformity (1662)
The Adventures of Five Hours (Tuke and Calderón)
Africa
agriculture
Ailesbury, Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of (1668)
Albemarle, Duke of see Monck, George, Duke of Albemarle
alchemy
Alexis, Tsar of Russia
Algiers
Allen, Sir Thomas
Allestree, Richard
Allin, Sir Thomas
Amalia von Solms, Dowager Princess of Orange
ambassadors; see also individual ambassadors by name
America see North American colonies; South American colonies
Amsterdam
Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of
Anne, Queen
Anne of Austria, Regent of France
Annesley, Arthur, Earl of Anglesey see Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of
Annus Mirabilis (pamphlets); see also Dryden
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquess of
Arlington, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of: portrait, plate 19;; Keeper of King’s Privy Purse; made Secretary of State; and spy network; made Baron Arlington; rivalry with Buckingham; Clarendon’s fall; Cabal; Treaty of Dover
Arlington, Isabella, Countess of
Armstrong, Sir Thomas
Arran, Richard Butler, Earl of
Arundell, Henry, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour, Lord
Ashley, Lord see Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley, 1st Earl of
Ashmole, Elias
astronomy
Aubrey, John
Audley End
Avebury
Backwell, Edward
Bacon, Sir Francis
Badminton
Baillie, Robert
Baltimore, Lord
Bank of England
bankers
Barbados
Barbon, Nicholas
Barlow, Francis: artworks by
Barrow, Isaac
Bath
Bath, Earl of see Grenville, John (later Earl of Bath)
Batten, Sir William
Bawdy House riots
Baxter, Richard:
Bayley, Charles
Beauclerk, Charles, Duke of St Albans (son of CII and Nell Gwyn) see St Albans, Charles Beauclerk, Duke of
Beaufort, Henry Somerset, Lord Herbert, Marquess of Worcester, 1st Duke of
Beaumont, Francis
Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th Earl of
Behn, Aphra
Belasyse, Sir Henry
Belasyse, John, Baron
Belling, Sir Richard
Bennet, Henry, 1st Earl of Arlington see Arlington, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of
Bentham, James
Bergen, attack on (1665)
Berkeley, Charles, Earl of Falmouth:; Keeper of the Privy Purse; Earl of Falmouth; death
Berkeley, John, 1st Baron of Stratton
Berkeley, Mary (née Bagot)
Berkeley, Sir William
Berkshire, Thomas Howard, Earl of
Betterton, Thomas
Birkenhead, Sir John
Blackborne, Robert
Blagge, Margaret
Bland, John
Blood, Thomas
Blount, Thomas
Bludworth, Sir Thomas
Blundell, William
Bocquet, E.: engravings by
Bombay
booksellers and publishers; see also printing and the press
Booth, Sir George
Bourbon, Henri de, duc de Verneuil see Verneuil, Henri de Bourbon, duc de
Boyle, Elizabeth (née Killigrew), Countess of Shannon
Boyle, Francis, 1st Viscount of Shannon
Boyle, Richard, 1st Earl of Cork
Boyle, Richard, 1st Earl of Burlington and 2nd Earl of Cork see Burlington, Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, 1st Earl of
Boyle, Richard, Lord Burlington
Boyle, Robert: portrait;; The Sceptical Chymist
Boyle, Roger see Orrery, Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, 1st Earl of
Bradshawe, John
Breda, Declaration of (1660)
Breda, Treaty of (1667); medal
Brewster, Ann
Brewster, Thomas
Bridgeman, Sir Orlando
Bridgewater, Earl of
Bristol
Bristol, Anne Russell, Countess of
Bristol, George Digby, 2nd Earl of: portrait;; and Clarendon
British army: New Model Army; foundation of Coldstreamers, Royal Dragoons, Royal East Kent Regiment (‘Buffs’) and Royal Horse Guards (‘Blues’)
Brooke, John
Brooks, Nathan
Brouncker, Henry
Brouncker, William, 2nd Viscount
Brown, John
Bruce, Alexander, 2nd Earl of Kincardine
Buat, Sieur de
Buckhurst, Charles Sackville, Lord (later Earl of Dorset): portrait;; and Nell Gwyn; The Comical Revenge
Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of: portrait, plate 11;; and northern rebels; verse; and parliamentary factions; and Clarendon’s impeachment; Cabal; and negotiations with France; religious toleration; and Monmouth; as dramatist
Buckingham, Mary Fairfax, Duchess of
Bunyan, John
Burlington, Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, 1st Earl of
Burlington, Lord see Boyle, Richard, Lord Burlington
Burnet, Alexander, Archbishop of Glasgow
Burnet, Gilbert, later Bishop of Salisbury (historian):
Busby, John
Butler, Charlotte
Butler, James see Ormond, James Butler, Earl, Marquess and 1st Duke of
Butler, Richard see Arran, Richard Butler, Earl of
Butler, Samuel
Butler, Thomas, Earl of Ossory see Ossory, Thomas Butler, Earl of
Byron, Eleanor, Lady
Cabal
Calamy, Edmund
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Calvert, Elizabeth
Calvert, Giles
Cambridge: Pembroke College
Cambridge, James, Duke of
Canary Patent
Canterbury
Capel, Sir
Arthur, 1st Baron
Capel, Theodosia
card games (ombre) (basset)
Caribbean see West Indies
Carlisle, Charles Howard, Earl of
Carrickfergus
Carte, Thomas
Carteret, Sir George
Castlemaine, Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Countess of (later Duchess of Cleveland): portraits, plate 13;; and Frances Stuart; Catholicism; and Clarendon’s dismissal; satires attacking; made Duchess of Cleveland; children with CII.
Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of:
Catherine of Braganza, Queen: portraits, plate 14;; marriage to CII; rivalry with Castlemaine; Catholicism; court life; childbirth problems; and Frances Stuart; later life and death
Catholicism:.; Ireland;; anti-catholic feeling; Treaty of Dover; York’s inclination to; second Declaration of Indulgence; Test Acts and succession issue; CII’s deathbed conversion; Irish support for James II
cattle farming
Cavendish, Margaret see Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of
censorship
ceremonial
The Change of Crownes (Howard)
chapmen
Charles I, King: portrait, plate 1; and Van Dyck’s painting of his children; and Newmarket; sends family into exile during Civil War; relationship with Scots; consequences of single-mindedness; execution, treatment of regicides and associates; CII reassembles his artworks
Charles II, King
GENERAL: appearance; and astrology; building works; character; charm; and clocks; clothes; courteousness; cynicism; dining out; education; paintings; friends; generosity; and honour; and horse racing; his household; and hunting; literary representations; management of relationships and rivalries; models for behaviour; monarchy style; and music; ‘Old Rowley’ nickname; and parks; as performer; relationship with Arlington; with his children; with Minette; with mother; with parliament; religious beliefs; ruthlessness; and sailing; and science; sense of humour; and tennis; and the theatre; travels within his kingdom; and women
LIFE:
Pre-1660: childhood; Civil War and exile; failed invasion from Scotland leads to Worcester and escape; mistresses
1660–63: events leading up to Restoration; voyage home; arrival in England; reconciliation and revenge; propaganda; forms government; constitutional issues; financial problems; breaks up New Model Army; early religious policies; land ownership; petitions; affair with Castlemaine; Gloucester’s death; York marries Anne Hyde; treatment of regicides; ceremony and coronation; and Whitehall; reclaims CI’s artworks; receives ambassadors; marriage; relationship with Castlemaine continues; progress from Hampton Court to Whitehall; and religious settlement; advances Arlington’s career; sale of Dunkirk; Declaration to Tender Consciences; reaction to northern uprising; and Royal Society, involvement with Royal Society; receives envoys from Tsar Alexis; Christmas celebrations (1662); and Monmouth marriage; and Frances Stuart; economies; journey to Bath and Oxford; Catherine’s illness; relationship with Castlemaine; and courtiers; and theatre
1664–66: encouragement of trade; generosity to Jews; encouragement of financiers and bankers; and East India Company; Hudson’s Bay Company; Royal Africa Company; and Dutch rivalry; preparation of fleet; passion for navy; appeals to parliament for funds for war against Dutch; declares war on Holland; and Second Anglo-Dutch War; and plague; grief at Lowestoft deaths; relationships with Louis XIV; appeals for war funds; declares war on France; Second Anglo-Dutch War and Four Days Battle; arguments with Castlemaine; and Fire of London; restoring order; and rebuilding plans; criticism of court; Persian style of clothing
1667–69: resists Irish Cattle Bill; and Poll Tax Bill; disputes with Buckingham; rebuilding of London; and Frances Stuart marriage; reduces naval actions; makes treaty with French and negotiates with Dutch; and Medway attack; fall of Clarendon; Treasury reforms; and Buckingham; fails to negotiate treaty with France; triple alliance with Holland and Sweden; and Buckingham; religious reforms defeated; Bawdy House riots; restlessness; quarrels with Castlemaine; affair with Moll Davis;; reconciled with Frances Stuart; rumours will legitimise Monmouth; and Nell Gwyn act; and Coventry; rift with York; dismissal of Ormond; Lauderdale and Scotland; negotiates Treaty of Dover; offers to become Catholic; coach overturns; concerns about succession; grant for foreign policy;
1670 and later: Dover negotiations continue; Minette visits; Treaty of Dover, Treaty of London bluff; affair with Kéroualle; Minette’s death; achievements of first decade; last years of reign; succession question; and Popish plot; Exclusion Crisis; Rye House Plot; final days and death; deathbed conversion
PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: arrival at Banqueting House; at banquet given by Dutch; in Boscobel Oak; from Boscobel to Whitehall; on slipware charger; by Cooper, plate 18; Cooper’s profile for coinage; at coronation; escape after Worcester; by Faithorne xii; frontispiece to The Courtier’s Calling; Hollar frontispiece; by Lely, plate 2; with Louis XIV; on playing card; receives Prince de Ligne; touching for the King’s Evil; by van Dyck, plate 1
Chatham
Chatillon, Isabelle-Angelique de Montmorency, duchesse de (‘Bablon’)
Chatsworth
Chaumont, Countess of
The Cheats (Wilson)
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of
Chesterfield, Elizabeth Butler, Countess of
Chiffinch, Barbara
Chiffinch, Thomas
Chiffinch, William
Child, Sir Francis
Child, Sir Josiah
Churchill, Arabella
Churchill, John (later 1st Duke of Marlborough)
Churchill, Sir Winston
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of: portraits, plate 10;; in first exile of CII; and CII’s restoration; appointed Lord Chancellor; and religious policies; relationship with Castlemaine; scandal of daughter’s marriage to York; made Earl of Clarendon; and regicides issue; and CII’s marriage; and religious settlement; hostility to Castlemaine; and fall from favour; Bristol accusations; and northern uprising; and Dutch war; Clarendon House;; Fire of London; and Buckingham; Canary Patent; fall and exile; and Richmond marriage; death.
Clarendon, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of
Clarendon, Frances, Countess of
Clarendon Code
Clarke, Dr
Cleveland, Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Southampton, 1st Duke of (son of CII and Castlemaine)
Cleveland, John
Clifford, Thomas, Lord:
cloth industry
clothes
Cocke, Captain George
coinage
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
Colbert de Croissy, Charles:
Colchester
Coleman, Mrs
Collier, Jeremy
Collins, Joan
colonies and colonialism: British attitude; trade legislation; and Treaty of Breda; see also Africa; North American colonies; South American colonies; West Indies
comets
Cominges, comte de:
Committee for Foreign Affairs
Commonwealth see Interregnum
The Compleate Gamester (attrib. Cotton)
Conventicle Act (1664); (1670)
Convention Parliament
Conway, Anne (née Finch), Viscountess
Cotton, Charles
Cooke, Henry
Cooke, John
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Lord Ashley and 1st Earl of Shaftesbury see Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley, 1st Earl of
Cooper, Samuel: portraits by: Arlington, plate 19; CII, plate 18; Frances Stuart; Hobbes; Minette, plate 5; Monck, plate 9; Monmouth, plate 22; Sheldon
Copley, Sir Godfrey
Corey, Katherine
Cornbury, Lord see Clarendon, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of
Corneille, Pierre
Cornwallis, Lord
Corporation Act (1661)
Cosin, John, Bishop of Durham
Cotton, Charles
Council of Foreign Plantations
&nb
sp; Council of Trade
countryside:; woodland; see also agriculture; cattle farming
court see royal court
The Courtier’s Calling
Courtin, Honoré
Coventry, Henry
Coventry, Sir William: portrait;; and Dutch War; and Clarendon; fall of
Cowley, Abraham
Craven, William, Earl of
Creighton, Richard
Critz, Emanuel de
Croft, Herbert, Bishop of Hereford
Crofts, William, Lord
Cromwell, Oliver: engraving of;
Cromwell, Richard
Crowther, Dr Joseph
Da Silva, Duarte
Dalkeith, Lady
Danby, Thomas Osborne, Viscount Latimer, 1st Earl of (later Duke of Leeds):, created Earl of Danby, later career
Dancer, John
Danckerts, Hendrick: painting by, plate 15
Daniel, Lieutenant John
Darby, Joan
Davenant, Sir William; The Rivals
Davenport, Elizabeth
Davenport, Hester
Davis, Mary (‘Moll’)
De Vere, Aubrey, Earl of Oxford see Oxford, Aubrey de Vere, Earl of
Declaration to Tender Consciences (1662)
Declarations of Indulgence
Dee, John
Denham, Sir John
Denham, Lady Margaret
Denmark
Derby, Earl of
Derwentwater, Mary Tudor, Countess of (daughter of CII and Moll Davis)
Descartes, René
Digby, George, 2nd Earl of Bristol see Bristol, George Digby, 2nd Earl of
Digby, Sir Kenelm
The Dippers Dipt (Featley)
dissenters see nonconformists
divorce
Dolman, Thomas
Dorchester, Marquess of
Douglas, Archibald
Dover, plate 29
Dover, Simon
Dover, Treaty of (1670)
Downes, John
Downing, Sir George; negotiations with Dutch
Dryden, John
GENERAL:; critical views; as dramatist;
WORKS: Absalom and Achitophel; Annus Mirabilis; Astraea Redux; The Committee; The Conquest of Granada; Essay on Dramatic Poesie; An Evening’s Love; The Indian Emperour; The Indian Queen; poem to Castlemaine; The Rival Ladies; Secret Love; Sir Martin Mar-All; Tyrannick Love; The Wild Gallant
duelling
Duke’s Company
Dunbar, Battle of (1650)
Duncombe, Sir John
Dunkirk
Duppa, Dr Brian
Dutch East India Company
Dutch Republic, see United Provinces