Authors: Antonia Fraser
Ashmole, Elias,
(i)
Atkins, Sir Edward,
(i)
Atkins, Robert,
(i)
Aubigny, Charles Stuart, 10th Seigneur of,
(i)
Audley End,
(i)
Austen, Jane, quoted,
(i)
Babington Plot,
(i)
n
Bampfylde, Colonel Joseph,
(i)
Banister, John,
(i)
Bank of England,
(i)
Barnstaple,
(i)
Barrillon, Paul,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
; and C’s last days,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
n
Bath, Sir John Grenville, Earl of,
(i)
,
(ii)
Baxter, Richard,
(i)
Baypole, John,
(i)
Beauchamp, Lord,
(i)
Beaufort, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of,
(i)
,
(ii)
Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th Earl of,
(i)
Bedloe, ‘Captain’ William,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Behn, Aphra,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; quoted,
(v)
Belasyse, John, Baron,
(i)
; accused in Popish Plot,
(ii)
Belasyse, Susan, Lady,
(i)
Bell, W. G.,
(i)
n
Bellings, Richard,
(i)
Bennet, Henry,
see
Arlington, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of
Bentinck, William (later 1st Earl of Portland),
(i)
Bentley Hall (Staffs),
(i)
Berkeley, Sir Charles,
(i)
Berkeley, Sir John (later Baron),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Berkenhead, Isaac,
(i)
Berkenhead, Sir John,
(i)
Berkshire, Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of: as C’s governor,
(i)
; accompanies C to Scilly Isles,
(ii)
Berkshire, Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of,
(i)
Berwick,
(i)
Bezan
(yacht),
(i)
Bishops’ War, First,
(i)
Bishops’ War, Second,
(i)
Blague, Colonel,
(i)
Blow, John,
(i)
Boddington, George,
(i)
Boleyn, Anne,
(i)
Bombay: in Catharine’s dowry,
(i)
; handed over to East India Company,
(ii)
Booth, Sir George,
(i)
Bordeaux, Antoine de,
(i)
Borkum,
(i)
Boscobel,
(i)
,
(ii)
; C’s hiding place,
(iii)
; Royal Oak,
(iv)
Boscobel
(Blount),
(i)
Bossuet, Abbé,
(i)
Boswell, Sir William,
(i)
Bradshaw, John,
(i)
Bramber, C’s last night in England at (1651),
(i)
Breda: C at,
(i)
,
(ii)
; his meeting with Covenanters at,
(iii)
Breda, Declaration of (1660),
(i)
; and religious toleration,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Breda, Peace of (1667),
(i)
,
(ii)
Bridewell,
(i)
Bridport,
(i)
Brief Account of His Majestie’s Escape from Worcester, A
(Huddleston),
(i)
n
Briefe Relation, A
,
(i)
Brighthelmstone (Brighton),
(i)
Bristol, 2nd Earl of (formerly George Digby, q.v.),
(i)
,
(ii)
; his Catholicism,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; command of regiment,
(v)
; report on Princesses of Parma,
(vi)
Broadwindsor,
(i)
Brodie, Alexander,
(i)
Bruce, Thomas, Lord (later 2nd Earl of Ailesbury),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
; and C’s last days,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
Bruges: C at (1656–8),
(i)
; King’s Regiment of Guards founded in,
(ii)
Brussels: C in (1656),
(i)
,
(ii)
, (1660),
(iii)
Buccleuch, dukedom of,
(i)
Buckhurst, Charles Sackville, Lord (later Earl of Dorset): among ‘the Wits’,
(i)
,
(ii)
; early lover of Nell Gwynn,
(iii)
; quoted,
(iv)
,
(v)
Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Buckingham, Katherine Manners, Duchess of,
(i)
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
; as C’s childhood companion,
(vii)
,
(viii)
; in exile with C,
(ix)
,
(x)
; courtships,
(xi)
; dispute over army command,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
n; after Worcester,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
; return to England and marriage,
(xvi)
; supports Restoration,
(xvii)
; and Royal Society,
(xviii)
; and Irish Cattle Bill,
(xix)
; favours Dutch War,
(xx)
; intrigue against Clarendon,
(xxi)
,
(xxii)
; in Cabal,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
; engineers C’s estrangement from James,
(xxviii)
; advocates divorce or kidnapping of Catharine,
(xxix)
,
(xxx)
; continues intrigues,
(xxxi)
,
(xxxii)
; pro-French,
(xxxiii)
,
(xxxiv)
; and Treaty of Dover,
(xxxv)
,
(xxxvi)
; debauchery,
(xxxvii)
; among ‘the Wits’,
(xxxviii)
,
(xxxix)
; and Dutch War,
(xl)
; alliance with Louise de Kéroüalle,
(xli)
; dismissed,
(xlii)
; ‘Country’ opposition,
(xliii)
,
(xliv)
; seeks dissolution of Parliament,
(xlv)
; imprisoned in Tower,
(xlvi)
,
(xlvii)
,
(xlviii)
; release,
(xlix)
; further intrigues,
(l)
; comparison of Shaftesbury to Will-o’ the-Wisp,
(li)
; on Monmouth,
(lii)
; death,
(liii)
Buckingham, Mary Fairfax, Duchess of,
(i)
,
(ii)
Bulstrode, Sir Richard,
(i)
Burford, Charles Beauclerk, Earl of (later Duke of St Albans),
(i)
; C’s concern for,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Burnet, Bishop,
(i)
,
(ii)
n,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
; on C’s ‘excessive’ civility,
(vi)
; on Montrose,
(vii)
; on C’s alleged conversion to Catholicism,
(viii)
; on Arlington,
(ix)
; criticism of C’s naval expertise,
(x)
;on C’s religious faith,
(xi)
; on Danby’s imprisonment,
(xii)
; on Exclusion,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
; on ‘indecent courting and magnifying’ of James,
(xv)
; on withering of Protestant succession,
(xvi)
; also cited and quoted,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
,
(xxii)
,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
,
(xxviii)
Butler, Samuel,
(i)
Byron, John, 1st Baron,
(i)
Byron, Eleanor Needham, Lady,
(i)
Cabal,
(i)
,
(ii)
; and Treaty of Dover,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; disintegration,
(v)
Calais,
(i)
Calisto
(masque),
(i)
Cambridge, Dukes of (infant sons of James II),
(i)
,
(ii)
Cambridge University,
(i)
Cameron, Richard,
(i)
Campbell, Lady Anne, projected marriage to C,
(i)
,
(ii)
Capel, Sir Arthur Capel, 1st Baron: in C’s Council of Advisers,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; execution,
(v)
,
(vi)
Caracciolo, Battistello,
(i)
Carisbrooke Castle: Charles I in custody at,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; Princess Elizabeth’s death at,
(iv)
Carissimi, Giacomo,
(i)
Carlingford, 1st Earl (formerly Theobald Taaffe, q.v.),
(i)
,
(ii)
Carlisle,
(i)
Carlos II of Spain,
(i)
Carlos (Carlis), Major William, at Boscobel with C,
(i)
,
(ii)
Carlyle, Thomas, denunciation of Restoration settlement,
(i)
Carteret, Charlotte,
(i)
n
Carteret, Sir George,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Carteret, Marguerite, C’s love affair with,
(i)
Carver (mate of
Surprise
),
(i)
Cassilis, John Kennedy, 6th Earl of,
(i)
Castelmelhor, Count of,
(i)
Castlemaine, Countess of,
see
Villiers, Barbara
Catharine
(yacht),
(i)
Catharine of Braganza, Queen,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
; choice of as C’s bride,
(viii)
; marriage negotiations,
(ix)
; dowry,
(x)
,
(xi)
; arrival in England,
(xii)
; her Catholicism,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
; wedding,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
; character,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
; appearance,
(xxi)
; and ‘Bedchamber Crisis’,
(xxii)
,
(xxiii)
; severe illness,
(xxiv)
; ‘barrenness’,
(xxv)
,
(xxvi)
; gynaecological history,
(xxvii)
; possibility of divorce,
(xxviii)
,
(xxix)
,
(xxx)
,
(xxxi)
,
(xxxii)
; fishing,
(xxxiii)
; visit to fair,
(xxxiv)
; visit to Nore,
(xxxv)
; as Britannia,
(xxxvi)
; rural pursuits at Windsor,
(xxxvii)
; musical tastes,
(xxxviii)
; C’s increased esteem for,
(xxxix)
,
(xl)
; accused in Popish Plot,
(xli)
; C’s championship of,
(xlii)
,
(xliii)
,
(xliv)
,
(xlv)
; at Oxford Parliament,
(xlvi)
; popularity,
(xlvii)
; economies,
(xlviii)
; and C’s last days,
(xlix)
,
(l)
,
(li)
; and his reception of Catholic priest,
(lii)
; widowhood,
(liii)
,
(liv)
Cavalier Soldier’s Vade-Mecum
,
(i)
,
(ii)
Chacon, Augustin, Colonel,
(i)
,
(ii)
Chandaman, Dr C. D.,
(i)
Character of King Charles II
(Halifax),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Character of a Trimmer
(Halifax),
(i)
,
(ii)
Charenton,
(i)
Charing Cross, Charles I’s statue at,
(i)
n,
(ii)
Charles I: and birth of C,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; religious faith,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
; heredity,
(xiii)
; appearance,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
; high moral tone of Court,
(xvii)
; challenges to his royal prerogative,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
; inability to understand the Scots,
(xxii)
,
(xxiii)
; and appointments to C’s household,
(xxiv)
; takes C more into own company,
(xxv)
,
(xxvi)
; betrayal of Strafford,
(xxvii)
; departure from London and preparations for war,
(xxviii)
; declaration of war,
(xxix)
; his Oxford Parliament,
(xxx)
,
(xxxi)
; sends C away from Oxford,
(xxxii)
,
(xxxiii)
; secret negotiations with Irish,
(xxxiv)
,
(xxxv)
,
(xxxvi)
; and choice of C’s country of refuge,
(xxxvii)
,
(xxxviii)
,
(xxxix)
; urges religious constancy on C,
(xl)
,
(xli)
,
(xlii)
,
(xliii)
; leaves Oxford,
(xliv)
,
(xlv)
; quasi-captivity with Scots,
(xlvi)
,
(xlvii)
,
(xlviii)
; nominal prisoner on Isle of Wight,
(xlix)
,
(l)
,
(li)
,
(lii)
; secret negotiations with Scots,
(liii)
,
(liv)
; and restoration of monarchy,
(lv)
,
(lvi)
; abortive negotiations with Parliament,
(lvii)
; letters to C,
(lviii)
,
(lix)
; removal to Windsor,
(lx)
; trial,
(lxi)
,
(lxii)
; last interview with children,
(lxiii)
; insistence on true succession,
(lxiv)
; last letter to C,
(lxv)
,
(lxvi)
; execution,
(lxvii)
;
Eikon Basilike
,
(lxviii)
; memorials to,
(lxix)
; tomb,
(lxx)
; artistic taste,
(lxxi)
; C’s happy relations with,
(lxxii)