Index

Since there are references to John Milton and the New Model Army on nearly every other page, I have not indexed the latter, and of Milton I have indexed only works referred to in the text.

Abbott, George, Archbishop of Canterbury, 161, 174, 218

Abel, 109–10, 163

Adam, 38, 46, 84, 109–10, 184, 216, 227, 229–32, 237–40, 302, 313, 315

Adams, John, 206

Agitators, the, 20, 24, 37, 41, 133, 214, 221, 285–8

Agrarian law, an, 198–200, chapter 6 (4), passim

Agreement of the People, the, 30–2, 71n., 81, 89, 144, 189, 208, 257

Aldam, Thomas, 166

Alehouses, 207, 274

All Hallows the Great, London, 54–6

American Revolution, the, 20, 206

Ames, William, Puritan, 179, 213

Ames, William, Quaker, 130, 166

Anabaptists, 36, 78, 81, 84, 107, 123, 130–1, 135–6, 147, 209, 219, 252, 257

Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 179

Anointing, the, 88, 110–12, chapter 10 (1), passim

Antichrist, antichristianism, 22–4, 42, 46, 51, 62, 79, 85, 88, 91–2, 94, 98, 103, 106, 111, 114–15, 122–4, 139, 145, 149, 156, 170n., 172, 176–7, 180, 204, 251, 255, 268, 271, 298

Antinomianism, antinomians, 108, 209

Antony, Cornwall, 69

Apostasy, the, 46, 84–5, 88–9, 92, 94, 100, 107, 122–4, 153, 180, 182, 255, 263, 272–3, chapter 10 (1), passim, 317

Apostles, the, 22, 46, 71, 84, 90, 99, 122, 182, 204, 255, 263, 266–7, 273, 298–9

Aquinas, Thomas, 264

Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of, 37

Arianism, Arians, 91–2, 176, 219, 259–61, 263n., 264

Aristotle, 218, 238, 258, 264, 267

Arminianism, Arminians, 177, 255, 306, 322; see also Laudians

Artisans, 29, 56, 58, 61–2

Ascham, Antony, 106

Ashley-Cooper, Anthony, later Earl of Shaftesbury, 19, 197, 203, 205, 224–5, 273, 276n.

Ashmole, Elias, 220

Askew, Anne, 156

Aspinwall, William, 52–3, 56, 58, 61, 63, 67

Astrologers, Society of, 304

Attaway, Mrs, 90n., 302

Aubrey, John, 191, 223n., 253, 269n.

Audland, John, 149, 166

‘Avarice and ambition’, 79, 82–3, 262, 281–3, 301n., 314, 324

Axholme, Isle of, 31

Axtell, Colonel Daniel, 69–70, 72–3

Babylon, 52, 58, 61–3, 65, 88, 92–5, 97, 111, 123, 153, 172, 180, 184, 187–8, 229

Babylon, the Whore of, 52, 156, 247

Bacon, Sir Francis, Viscount St Albans, 21–2, 25, 201, 239n., 269

Baillie, Robert, 51

Ballot, secret, 198–200

Baptists, 30, 55–6, 90, 95, 161, 230, 291, 303, 305, 320

Barbados, 46, 142

Barbour, Hugh, 160n., 166

Barclay, Robert, 164–6, 294

Barkstead, Colonel John, 69–70, 75

Barlow, Thomas, later Bishop of Lincoln, 268

Barrow, Henry, 76

Bauthumley, Jacob, 48n.

Baxter, Richard, 26–7, 45, 60, 68, 73, 85, 138, 144, 174, 190, 205, chapter 7, passim 222, 251, 254–6, 269, 283, 289–90, 318, 322

Baxter, Mrs Margaret, 307

Baynes, Captain Adam, 195n.

Beale, John, 275, 281

Beast, the; see Antichrist

Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 16

Bedford, 291

Bedfordshire, 33, 97

Behmenists; see Boehme, Jacob

Behn, Aphra, 262

Benlowes, Edward, 97n., 273

Bennett, Joan, 313

Bennett, Colonel Robert, 190

Berkeley, George, Lord, 179

Berkenhead, Sir John, 191n.

Berkshire, 220

Bermuda, 303

Bethel, Slingsby, 271

Béza, Theodore, 269

Bible, the, 22, 38, 43, 45, 51, 67, 82, 90–2, 97, 109, 112, 114, 124, 141, 153–4, 163, 184, 203, 208, 239, 255, 261–3, 266–7, 269, 281, 291–3, 298, 312, 314–15, 323

Bidle, John, 173, 269n.

Bishop, George, 20, 129, 133–4, 136, 144, 164–5, 167, 299, 307, 320

Bishops, episcopacy, 84, 98, 109–10, 123, 129, 140, 150, 156, 170n., 177, 192, 218–19, 254, 261–2, 266, 275, 300, 317, 322

Blacklock, Samuel, 300

Blake, Robert, Admiral, 161, 244, 248

Blake, William, 328

Blok, Alexander, 16

Blount, Charles, 263, 275

Blunt, Richard, 300

Bodleian Library, the, Oxford, 252, 268

Boehme, Jacob, Behmenists, 97, 214, chapter 8 (1), passim, 310

Bolshevism, 116

Bond, the Rev. Sampson, 303

Booth, Sir George, later Lord Delamere, Booth’s Rising, 1659, 135, 209–10, 257, 283–4, 287–8

Bordeaux, 32

Border, Daniel, 39

Bossy, John, 26

Boyle, the Hon. Robert, 52, 264–7, 287, 306n., 308, 325

Bradfield, Berkshire, 220–2

Bradshaw, John, 70

Bradshaw, William, 298

Bradstreet, Mrs Anne, 307

Brasenose College, Oxford, 84

Bridewell, London, 108

Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, 118

Brightman, Thomas, 180

Bristol, 96, 98n., 134, 141, 160, 275, 278

Broghill, Roger Boyle, later Earl of Orrery, 19, 81, 179, 216, 223

Bromley, Thomas, 222

Brooke, Robert Greville, Lord, 213

Brooks, Thomas, 70

Browne, Sir Thomas, 97

Brownism, 181

Bucer, Martin, 312

Buckingham, George Villiers, first Duke of, 280, 282

Buckingham, George Villiers, second Duke of, 33, 178n., 203, 270, 306n.

Buckinghamshire, 31

Bunyan, John, 19, 22, 138, 144, 178, 234, 241–2, 263, 290–1, 307, 309, 316–17, 327

Burford, 18, 138, 173, 208

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 73

Burrough, Edward, 40, 118n., 123, chapter 5, passim, 190–1, 221n., 254, 278, 290, 299, 303–4, 307, 320, 325n.

Burton, Henry, 76

Butler, Samuel, 34, 83n., 131n., 196n., 264n., 283n.

Byllynge, Edward, 21, 129, 131, 134, 136–7, 144, 145n., 147n., 157, 162, 166–7, 183n., 289

Cabal, the, 270, 274

Cain, 109–10, 163

Calamy, Edmund, 51, 70, 189

Calvin, John, 204, 303

Calvinism, Calvinists, 118, 121, 170, 172, 176, 178–9, 251, 269–70, 306

Cambridge, University of, 20, 145, 156, 210, 258n., 296, 308

Camm, John, 130, 166

Campanella, Tommaso, 267–8

Canaan, 75, 105, 112, 301–2

Canne, John, 53–4, 61–2, chapter 3 (2), passim

Capp, B. S., 51–2, 59, 61, 67n.

Cardiff, 84

Carew, John, 55, 67, 69, 299, 304–6

Carew, Sir Richard, 69

Cary, Mary, 21, 53

Casaubon, Isaac, 266

Catholicism, catholics, Roman, 20, 62, 65, 90, 96, 121, 145, 156, 175, 178, 204, 213, 219, 248, 251, 260–1, 269–74, 325

Cavaliers; see Royalists

Cecil, Sir Robert, 282

Censorship, 21–2, 66, 167–9, 294

Certificate from Northamptonshire, A, 201

Chaderton, William, 298n.

Chamberlayne, Edward, 275

Chamberlen, Peter, 61, 287

Chaos (1659), 205

Charles I, King of England, 16, 18, 24–6, 31, 35–7, 53–4, 62–3, 69–70, 72n., 74–7, 81–2, 85–7, 101–5, 111, 118, 132–4, 140, 146, 156, 171–2, 194–6, 207, 210–13, 215, 219, 223, 244, 250, 252, 279, 285, 318, 320–2, 325–6

Charles II, King of England, 19, 33–6, 41, 65, 74, 80–2, 110, 114–15, 137, 145, 151–3, 161–2, 164, 191, 202–3, 205, 208, 210–11, 216, 223–4, 226, 248–51, 259, 266, 270–4, 276, 283, 294, 297, 299, 317–18, 323, 325

Chekhov, Anton, 16

Chelmsford, 305

Cheshire, 33, 135

Cheynell, Francis, 88, 91

Chidley, Samuel, 305

Chinese Revolution, the, 16, 288

Christ Church, Oxford, 173, 212, 252, 268

Christ’s College, Cambridge, 179, 308

Church of England, the, 112, 175, 218–19, 251, 265–7, 269, 291, 297

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 203

Civil War, the, 23, 89, 98, 107, 116, 132, 150, 192, 194, 207, 242, 249n., 269, 305, 319

Civil War, the second, 186, 207

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 85, 197, 216, 266, 283

Clarendon Code, the, 293

Clarkson, Lawrence, chapter 2 (3), passim, 92, 99, 190, 193, 197n., 299, 302

Clement, Gregory, 69–70, 73

Cobham, Cobham Heath, 37, 40, 193, 278, 292n.

Coggeshall, 170

Coke, Roger, 191n.

Cole, Alan, 127, 135–6, 143, 151, 169

Collier, Thomas, 53, 103–4, 131, 141, 303

Collins, John, 136

Commons, House of, the, 29, 37, 51, 73, 97–8, 101–2, 113, 170, 182, 197–8, 244, 294, 304, 319

Commonwealth, the English, 31–3, 39, 54, 76–7, 81, 87, 92, 95, 115, 117, 146, 161, 173, 177n., 188, 191–2, 195–7, 207, 223, 225, 243, 245, 257, 270, 279, 281–3, 287, 320–1

Communism, chapter 2 (2), passim, 43, 306

Conant, John, 173

Congleton, Cheshire, 210

Constable, Sir William, 99

Constantine, Emperor, 68, 89, 96, 216, 257, 260, 267, 272–3, 276, 297–300

Cony’s Case, 322

Cook, John, 53, chapter 3 (2), passim, 281, 289, 320

Coppe, Abiezer, 32, chapter 2 (3), passim, 93, 97, 108, 128, 133, 139, 154, 221, 265, 290, 299, 303, 305

Coppin, Richard, 43, 45–6, 221, 281, 306

Coppinger, Edmund, 76

Copyhold, copyholders, 29, 323

Corbet, Miles, 69, 75

Cornwall, 69

Coster, Robert, 193

‘County community’, the, 25–6

Covell, Captain Christopher, 41n.

Covell, William, 40–1, 193

Covenant, the Scottish National, 79

Covenant, the Solemn League and, 79, 81, 209, 214

Cowley, Abraham, 240

Crisp, Stephen, 291

Crisp, Tobias, 86, 303, 305

Cromwell, Henry, 279

Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector, 18–19, 21, chapters 2 and 3 (1), passim, 70, 76, 81, 87, 95–6, 105–8, 113, 117, 133, 140n., 144, 146–7, 151n., 156–7, 160–1, 168, chapter 6 (1–3), passim, 193, 208, 210, 220–1, 223, 226, chapter 8 (2), passim, 262, 266, 268–9, 271, chapter 9 (1–2), passim, 293, 294n., 299, 304, 314, 320–1, 323–5

Cromwell, Richard, Lord Protector, 41n., 146, 174, 179, 195n., 201, 203, 215–16, 252–3, 268, 284

Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 282

Crook, John, 307

Culpeper, Nicholas, 315n.

Danby, Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of, 224

Dante Alighieri, 272

D’Aubigné, Agrippa, 116

Davies, Lady Eleanor, 26

Davies, Godfrey, 286

Davies, Sir John, 201

Dee, John, 239n., 276n.

Defoe, Daniel, 37, 206n., 282n.

Deism, 275

Dell, William, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 19, 86, 171n., 281, 303–4

Denmark, 62

Denne, Henry, 20, 303

Derbyshire, 155

Desborough, Major-General John, 178

Descartes, René, 264

Deusbury, William, 130, 138, 166, 307

Diggers, the, the True Levellers, 18, 22, 29, 34, chapter 2 (2), passim, 50, 130–1, 155, 192–3, 275, 278–9, 292, 322

Discipline, 90, 98, chapter 7, passim, 299

Dissenting Academies, 296

Divorce, 262, 316

Donatists, the, 260

Dormer, Sir Robert, 170

Dort, Synod of, the, 175

Dover, Secret Treaty of, 273

Downing, George, 69

Dryden, John, 19, 67, 205, 223–7, 243, 248, 309–10, 325

Du Bartas, Guillaume, 240, 241n.

Dublin, 135

Du Moulin, Peter, 273

Dunbar, Battle of, 54, 56, 138

Dunkirk, 143, 151, 321

Dury, John, 44–5, 52, 106

Dutch, the; see Netherlands, the

Earls Colne, Essex, 207

Eden, Garden of, 38, 124, 302

Edinburgh, 78, 82

Edmundson, William, 130

Edwards, Thomas, 84–5, 91, 214, 304

Egypt, Egyptians, 55, 107, 112, 122, 124, 149, 225, 256, 259, 301–2

Ejectors, the, 214, 218

Elijah, 122

Elites, parish, 207–8

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 195, 266–7, 269, 271, 279, 298, 303

Ellwood, Thomas, 118n., 128, 143, 168

Elmbridge Hundred, Surrey, 40

Ely, Isle of, 84, 99, 106

Empson, Sir William, 306

Enclosure, 29, 275

Enfield, Enfield Chase, 40–2, 193

Engagement, the, 31–2, 207, 209–10, 214

Engagement controversy, the, 106, 116, 193

English Revolution, the, 22–3, 27–8, 58, 61–2, 85–6, 92, 96, 109, 113–17, 124–5, 148, 150, 171–2, 181–2, chapter 6 (3), passim, 191, 193, 249–51, 254–5, 279–80, 287–8, 296, 299, 307, 310, 313, 317, 319–26

Enlightenment, the, 263, 275

Episcopacy; see Bishops

Epping Forest, 41–2

Erbery, Dorcas, 89, 95–6

Erbery, Mary, 96n.

Erbery, William, 18–19, 46, 53, 76, chapter 4 (1), passim, 99, 101, 116, 118, 120–3, 128, 149, 153, 218, 231–2, 237, 239–40, 263, 273, 281, 287, 290, 292–3, 298–300, 303, 305, 320–1, 327

Erdman, David, 328

Esau, 163

Essex, 97, 207

Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of, 99, 280

Essex, Robert Devereux, third Earl of, 51

Evans, Arise, 83n., 136, 286

Eve, 38, 109, 184, 227, 231, 302

Evelyn, John, 68, 318

Everard, Robert, 20, 214, 221

Everard, William, 193, 221

Everlasting Gospel, the, 65, 145, 156, 303

Exclusion Crisis, the, 191

‘F., I., ’, 43

Fairfax, Sir Thomas, Lord, 104, 281

Fall of Man, the, 18, 38, 46, 65, 109, chapter 8 (1), passim, 281, 306, 310

Familists, Family of Love, the, 53, 130–1, 204n., 221–2, 255, 296, 301, 303

Farmer, Ralph, 131, 138

Farnham, Essex, 97

Farnsworth, Richard, 166

Fathers, the early Christian, 260–1, 298

Feake, Christopher, chapter 3 (1), passim, 78n., 97n., 304, 316n., 321

Fell, Margaret, 21, 142, 149, 156, 161–2

Ferguson, Robert, 211

Feudal tenures, 196, 323, 326

Fielding, Henry, 42

Fifth Monarchism, Fifth Monarchists, 18, 41–2, 49, chapter 3 (1), passim, 81, 83n., 94, 96, 132, 135, 143, 152, 162, 164, 166, 173, 181–2, 186–7, 190, 192–3, 230, 245, 247, 257, 279, 281, 287–9, 292, 322, 324

Finch, Sir Henry, 180

Firth, Sir C. H., 188

Fisher, Samuel, 92, 134, 145n., 151, 161, 166, 263, 299, 305

Flanders, 279

Fleetwood, Major-General Charles, 81n., 178, 279, 284, 286, 307

Fletcher, Anthony, 319

Fletcher, Phineas, 241n.

Flood, the, 110, 245, 315

Foster, George, 43

Fox, George, 53, 68, 115, 120, 128, chapter 5, passim, 186, 267, 278, 290, 294, 299, 302–3, 305, 307

Fox, George, the Younger, 130–1, 133, 135–7, 166, 169

Foxe, John, 68, 96, 145, 297, 303

France, the French, 32, 66, 82, 95, 116, 146, 157, 182, 199, 206, 219, 225, 244, 251, 271–4, 320

Franchise, the, 29–30, 35, 133

Franklin, Benjamin, 282n.

Free State of Noland, The, 205

French Revolution, the, 16, 20, 206, 288, 328

Fry, John, 281

Fuller, Thomas, 58, 284, 297, 324n.

Furley, Benjamin, 42

G., R.; see Goodgroom, Richard

Gardiner, S. R., 27

Garment, Joshua, 320

Germany, 66, 157

Gibbon, Edward, 263

Gilbert, Thomas, 220

Glamorganshire, 84

Glanvill, Joseph, 97, 276

Gloucester, Bishop of, 252

Gloucestershire, 135, 252

Glynne, John, Chief Justice, 156

Godefroy, Jacques, 273

Good Old Cause, the, 54, 57, 59–60, 72, 77, 126, chapter 5 (1), passim, 150–1, 160, 174, 193–4, 242, 249–51, 254, 256, 276, 289, 293, 311, 314, 326

Goodgroom, Richard, 192–3, 201, 320, 325

Goodman, Godfrey, Bishop of Gloucester, 201

Goodwin, John, 86, 118, 281

Goodwin, Thomas, 18, 52, 86, 176, chapter 6 (2), passim, 190, 254, 269, 276, 288, 299, 306–7, 312, 319–20, 324

Gordon, the Rev. Alexander, 129

Gordon, Thomas, 294

Gorky, Maxim, 16

‘Gothic balance’, the, 23, 193–6

Greatrakes, Valentine, 266–7, 305

Great Yarmouth, 69

Green Ribbon Club, the, 191

Greenwood, John, 76

Grindal, Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, 215, 218–19

Grindletonians, the, 130

Guizot, François, 27

Guthrie, James, 74

Gwyn, Nell, 219

Hacker, Colonel Francis, 69, 73

Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 205

Hall, John, 289

Hall, Joseph, Bishop of Worcester, 174

Ham, 110, 324

Hamburg, 82

Hammond, Colonel Robin, 185

Hampden, John, 213, 322

Harrington, James, 18, 23, 25–7, 33–4, 60, 65, 71, 78, 85, chapter 6 (4), passim, 244, 249–51, 253n., 256, 258, 261, 264–5, 270n., 276, 279–80, 284, 287, 289, 293, 319, chapter 10 (5), passim

Harringtonians, the, 18–19, 34–5, 42, chapter 6 (4), passim, 276–7, chapter 10 (5), passim

Harris, Elizabeth, 167n.

Harrison, Major-General Thomas, 55, 58, 67, chapter 3 (2), passim, 303, 305–7, 319

Hartlib, Samuel, 286–7

Haslerig, Sir Arthur, 81, 323

Havely, Cicely, 244n.

Hay, Andrew, 308

Heinemann, Margot, 25

Hell, 38, 124, 183, 209–10, 228–9, 233n., 239–40, 275

Henry VII, King of England, 23

Henry VIII, King of England, 192, 267, 280

Henry, Philip, chapter 7, passim, 290, 318, 320

Heydon, John, 306n.

Heywood, Oliver, 218

Higginson, Francis, 131

High Commission, the, 84, 293

Hirst, Derek, 25, 27

Hobbes, Thomas, 22, 25, 85, 116, 193, 201, 205, 250n., 253, 255n., 263–5, 268, 269n., 275–7, 289, 293, 321

Hobson, Paul, 304

Holland; see Netherlands, the

Holies, Denzil, 205

Hollis, Thomas, 42

Hollister, Denis, 134

Hooker, Edward, 222n.

Hooker, Thomas, 23

Horsley, Gloucestershire, 252

Hotham, Durant, 296

Howard, Luke, 138

Howard, William, later Lord Howard of Escrick, 19, 35–6, 68

Howard family, the, 282

Howgil, Francis, 130, 133, 149–50, 166, 169, 278, 287, 305

Hubberthorne, Richard, 130–2, 134, 136, 138, 150, 161, 166

Hull, 54n.

Hunton, Philip, 205

Hus, Jan, 303

Hussites, the, 175n.

Hutchinson, Mrs Anne, 23

Hutchinson, Mrs Lucy, 21, 205

Hutchinson, Colonel Thomas, 21, 83, 203, 300

Hyde, Edward; see Clarendon, Earl of

Indemnity, 30

Indemnity and Oblivion, Act of, 1661, the, 269

Independency, Independents, 30, 52, 55, 75, 90, 118, 123, 135, 147, 166, 170–1, 179, 204n., 209–10, 212, 230, 252–4, 291, 322

Indulgence, Declarations of, the, 212, 249–51, 270, 272–3, 276, 299, 325

Industrial Revolution, the, 325

Instrument of Government, the, 256

Ireland, 19, 30, 62, 76, 95, 133, 143, 174n., 185–7, 199, 219, 250n., 257, 279, 288, 321, 324

Ireton, Commissary-General Henry, 101n., 117, 184, 202

Iscariot; see Judas

Islam, 264, 299

Israel, Israelites, the, 79n., 112, 124, 256, 301–2, 311, 313

Italy, 244, 271

Jackson, Hamlet, 298

Jacob, 163

Jacob, J. R., 20, 259, 263–4, 274–7

Jamaica, 265, 266n., 274

James VI, King of Scotland and James I, King of England, 98n., 268

James, Duke of York, James II, King of England, 33, 205, 211, 224, 273, 288

Japhet, 110, 324

Jerusalem, the new Jerusalem, 38, 43, 85, 91–2, 122, 141, 224, 229

Jessey, Henry, 56, 67

Jesuits, the, 103, 145, 225, 268

Jewell, John, Bishop of Salisbury, 174, 219n., 269, 297

Jews, the, Jewish church, Judaizing, 90, 96, 122, 172, 226, 245, 249, 254, 259–61, 301

Joachim of Fiore, 89

Johnson, Samuel, 326

Johnston of Wariston; see Wariston

Jones, Colonel John, 69, 72–3, 76–7, 289

Jones, Walter, 298

Josselin, Ralph, chapter 7, passim, 244, 262–3, 295

Joyce, Cornet George, later Colonel, 41, 161, 285

Judas Iscariot, 22, 94

Judgement, the Day of, 46, 53

Judson, Margaret, 293

Justin Martyr, 300n.

Kendal, 135, 143

Kidderminster, 213–14, 216

‘King’s Evil’, the, 266–7

Knox, John, 298n.

Koran, the, 261, 263

Laclos, Choderlos de, 16

Lambert, Major-General John, 136, 138, 191, 193, 323

Lamont, W. M., 215

Lancashire, 33, 47, 209, 211

Latitudinarians, the, 264–6, 268–9, 318, 325

Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, Laudians, the, 26, 161, 170, 175, 177, 180, 218–19, 251, 260, 293, 321–2

Law reform, 29–30, 35, 53, 61, 64–5, 87, 139, 144, 154–5

Lead, Mrs Jane, 222, 303

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 280

Leigh, Richard, 251

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 47n., 116, 291

L’Estrange, Sir Robert, 74–5, 222, 224

Levellers, the, levelling, 17–18, chapter 2 (1), passim, 41–3, 50, 55, 60, 64–5, 75, 78, 96–7, 99, 101, 103, 109–10, 125, 128, 130–2, 137–8, 144, 155, 166, 173, 180, 182, 189–90, 195, 201–2, 205, 208, 214, 257, 267, 274–5, 279, 281, 285, 289, 292, 303, 322

Levellers, the True; see Diggers, the

Levine, David, 189

Lilburne, Lieut.-Colonel John, 31–2, 37, 75, 131, 138, 161, 166, 189, 279, 287, 315n.

Lincolnshire, 252

Lincoln’s Inn, 222, 294

Llangyfelach, Glamorganshire, 42

Lloyd, David, 267

Lloyd, William, Bishop of Worcester, 68

Locke, John, 42, 201, 205, 223, 263, 276, 293, 294n.

Lollards, the, 23, 131, 145, 175n., 296–7, 303

London, 18, 29, 31, 33–4, 58, 62, 66, 70, 84, 97, 101, 118, 135, 143, 174, 180, 194–5, 198, 201, 220, 249, 258, 268, 278–9, 283, 285–7, 324–5

London, Fire of, 1666, 222

Lords, House of, the, 29, 113, 129, 157, 195–7, 201, 304, 321; see also Other House, the

Lot, decision, by, 83, 200

Love, Christopher, 32, 84, 133, 214

Lovelace, John, Lord, 176

Low, Anthony, 317

Lucifer, 228–30

Ludlow, Edmund, 66, 72–3, 76–8, 83, 168, 188, 193, 200, 213, 252, 254, 279, 281, 289, 302–3, 319

Lurting, Thomas, 161

Lutaud, Olivier, 293

Luther, Martin, 303, 315n.

McGregor, Frank, 142

Machiavelli, Niccolo, 200–1

MacKeon, Michael, 248–9

Macpherson, C. B., 198

Magdalen College, Oxford, 179

Magic, 238–9

Magna Carta, 34, 144

Mahomet, Mahometanism, 189–90, chapter 8 (3), passim, 281

Major-Generals, the, 110, 188, 282, 284, 322

Manning, Brian, 25, 27

Marlowe, Christopher, 240–1

Marshall, Stephen, 51–2, 171

Marten, Henry, 71, 194, 205

Martindale, Adam, chapter 7, passim, 283

Martyrs, the Marian, 74, 145, 268, 273, 327

Marvell, Andrew, 18, 23, 48, 78, 105–6, 128, 178, 190, 191n., 193–4, 205, 226n., chapter 8 (2), passim, 260n., 265–6, 269–70, 273–4, 299n., 314, 320, 324–6

Mary I, Queen of England, 268

Mary of Modena, Queen of England, 273

Mary Queen of Scots, 98n.

Mary, the Virgin, 260

May, Thomas, 23, 201

Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal, 204

Mede, Joseph, 122n., 180, 208n.

Medley, William, 63, 68

Middleton, Thomas, 25

Militia, the, 107, 257–8, 283–8, 324

Millennium, the, millenarians, millenarianism, 48, chapter 3 (1), passim, 131, 148, 168, 181–2, 186, 193, 199, 208, chapter 8 (2), passim, 254, 293, 324–5

Milner, Andrew, 318n.

Milton, John, passim

Milton, works referred to: Comus, 118; Of Reformation, 272–3, 300; Reason of Church Government, 300; Areopagitica, 288, 300; Tetrachordon, 300; Eikonoklastes, 300; Sonnet to Oliver Cromwell, 173, 243, 281; Sonnet to Fairfax, 281; Sonnet to Sir Henry Vane, 173, 281; First and Second Defences of the People of England, 190, 312, 315–16; Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, 258, 281–2; Paradise Lost, 97, 122, 203, 227–8, 238n., 241, 301–2, 309–13, 315, 318; Paradise Regained, 237n., 302, 310, 313–16; Samson Agonistes, 258, 267, 309, chapter 10 (4), passim; Of True Religion, 219; Of Christian Doctrine, 276, 301, 309, 313, 315–18

Milton, Katherine; see Woodcock, Katherine

Monck, George, Duke of Albemarle, 79–80, 174, 223, 242, 279, 285

Monmouth, James, Duke of, 205, 225, 312

Monmouth’s rebellion, 1685, 162–3

Mordaunt, John, Lord, 81n., 283–6

More, Henry, 138

Morgan, Sir Henry, 294–5

Morrill, John, 25–6, 293

Mortalism, mortalists, 33n., 46, 240, 275

Morton, A. L., 303

Morton, Thomas, Bishop of Durham, 174

Moscow, 219

Moses, Mosaic law, 39, 55, 122, 189–90, 281, 288

Moyle, Walter, 206

Muggleton, Lodowick, chapter 2 (3), passim, 119, 121, 128, 162, 167–8, 302–3, 308

Muggletonians, the, chapter 2 (3), passim, 117, 129, 162, 165, 167, 266n., 296, 299–300

Munster, 76

Müntzer, Thomas, 97n.

Musselburgh, Declaration of, 1650, 54–5, 63, 105–6

Nag’s Head Tavern, London, 286

Namier, Sir Lewis, 27

Naseby, Battle of, 56

Navigation Act, the, of 1651, 270, 321, 323, 326

Navy, Navy Office, the, 129, 134, 157, 248, 282

Nayler, James, 89, 96, 108, 121, chapter 5, passim, 184, 188–9, 278, 285

Nedham, Marchamont, 20, 44, 106, 116, 173, 179, 258–9

Netherlands, the, 23, 37, 54, 58–9, 62, 67–8, 82, 94, 146, 157, 209, 258, 270–3, 296, 321, 324–5

Neville, Henry, 71, 78, chapter 6 (4), passim, 275–6, 285, 293–4

Newcastle-under-Lyme, 69

Newcome, Henry, 75n., 190, chapter 7, passim, 283, 291, 308

New England, 21, 23, 63, 65, 95

New Jersey, 166

Newton, Sir Isaac, 68, 263, 276

Newtonianism, Newtonians, 325, 328

Niclaes, Hendrik, 301

Nimrod, 97

Nineteen Propositions, the, of 1642, 322

Noah, 110, 245, 315

Norfolk, 56

Norman Yoke, the, 22, 41, 61, 204, 256

North of England, the, 91, 95, 143, 154, 279

Northern Plot, the, of 1663, 66, 203

Northumberland, John Dudley, Duke of, 280

Novatians, the, 260

Nye, Philip, 173, 180

Occasional Conformity, 183, chapter 7, passim

Okey, Colonel John, 69–72, 192, 202, 307

Oldenburg, Henry, 52, 74, 263–4, 266, 281

Oldham, John, 224

Orrery, Earl of; see Broghill, Roger Boyle, Lord

Osborne, Francis, 189–90, 196, 205, 263

Other House, the, 174, 201; see also House of Lords, the

Overton, Richard, 30, 32, 34, 42, 128

Overton, Colonel Robert, 54n., 58, 67, 192

Owen, John, 18 chapter 6 (1), passim, 178–83, 190–1, 193, 214, 218, 251, 254–5, 265, 268–9, 281, 299, 302–3, 319, 325n.

Oxford, University of, 84–5, 97, 145, 156, 173, 178–9, 205, 253–4, 256, 258n., 266, 268, 277, 296

Palmer, Herbert, 51

Panama, 294–5

Paradise, 46, 184, 227, 229, 231, 234–5, 238–40, 261, 302

Pareus, David, 122n.

Paris, 74

Parker, Henry, 201

Parker, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, 78, 249–50, 260n., 270

Parker, W. R., 318

Parliament, Parliaments, 22–3, 30, 36, 59, 89, 101–2, 107, 124–5, 140, 196–7, 209, 258, 273, 279

Parliamentarians, 51, 100, 109, 113, 218, 283

Parliamentary Cause, the, 51, 69, 84, 117, 126, 158n., 184, 211, 213, 218, 249–50, 252, 320

Parliament, the Short, of 1640, 118

Parliament, the Long, 1640–60, 18, 23–4, 31, 46, 54, 69–71, 77, 86–7, 101–2, 104–6, 112, 116, 118, 149–50, 194, 207, 223, 271, 285, 305, 319–21; see also Rump, the

Parliament, Barebone’s, 1653, 18, 53, 55, 63n., 64, 94, 106, 139, chapter 6 (3), passim, 271, 279, 290

Parliament of 1654, the, 156, 187

Parliament of 1656, the, 131, 142, 150, 188, 196, 215, 284–5

Parliament of 1659, the, 144, 155–6, 215

Parliament, the Convention, 1660, 110, 196, 284

Parliament, the Cavalier, 1661–79, 164, 251, 265, 273–4

Parnell, James, 166

Partney, Lincolnshire, 252

Partridge, John, 37n.

Pascal, Blaise, 49, 88n.

Paul, St, 259, 299

‘Peace principle’, the, chapter 5, passim

Pearson, Anthony, 20, 120–1, 133–5, 145n., 147n., 165

Pell, John, 59

Pembroke College, Oxford, 97

Pembroke, Philip Herbert, fifth Earl of, 222–3, 227

Pendarves, John, 67

Penington, Isaac, senior, Lord Mayor of London, 118, 198

Penington, Isaac, junior, son of the above, 18–19, 53, 113n., chapter 4 (3), passim, 135–6, 153, 162, 166, 168, 254, 292, 299, 302–3, 307, 319

Penn, William, 118, 128, 154–5, 166, 168, 205, 273

Pennsylvania, 166

Pennyman, John, 167–8, 292

‘People, the’, 26, 104–5, chapter 6 (4), passim, 256–8, chapter 9, passim, 322

Pepys, Samuel, 33, 191, 200, 243, 282, 284, 318, 324

Perkin, H. J., 196

Perkins, William, 85, 179, 213, 218, 269

Perrot, John, 21, 142, 153, 162, 165–7, 292

Peter, Hugh, 53, 65, 69, 73, 76n., 199–200, 244, 281, 287

Peter, St, 259

Petition and Advice, the Humble, 188–9, 256

Petition of Right, the, 256

Petty, Maximilian, 191, 202

Petty, Sir William, 191n., 268

Peyton, Sir Edward, 244

Philadelphians, the, 222, 303

Philip IV, King of Spain, 204

Philistines, the, 149, 258, 311, 313, 317

Phillips, Edward, 19

Phillips, John, 19

Physicians, College of, 265

Pilate, Pontius, 22

Pinnell, Henry, 101

Plato, 218

Plattes, Gabriel, 198

Plockhoy, Peter Cornelius, 42

Plundered Ministers, Committee for, 96, 220

Plymouth, 70

Pocock, J. G. A., 108, 192n., 200, 203, 284

Pococke, Edward, 178

Polygamy, 203, 221, 240, 262–3, 274, 276

Pope, the, 22, 91, 151, 161, 177, 204, 267, 273

Pordage, John, chapter 8 (1), passim, 303

Pordage, Samuel, 18–19, chapter 8 (1), passim, 266, 309, 312

Portsmouth, Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of, 225

Powell, Vavasor, chapter 3 (1), passim, 301n., 308

Presbyterianism, Presbyterians, 32, 51–2, 81, 84–5, 90, 96, 98, 123, 133, 143, 147, 156, 170, 173, 177, 181, 207, chapter 7, passim, 252–4, 256–7, 264–5, 268, 272n., 283, 291

Preston, John, 85, 179, 210, 218

Pride, Colonel Thomas, 286

Pride’s Purge, 31, 36, 102, 133, 207, 209

Prince, Thomas, 30

Propagation of the Gospel in Wales, Commission for the, Propagators, 54, 90–1

Prophets, the French, 37

Protectorate, the, 18, 55–6, 59, 95–6, 106–7, 113, 207, 216, 218, 246, 279, 287, 290, 323

Prynne, William, 51, 76, 214

Purefoy, William, 252

Purefoy family, 252

Purnell, Robert, 52–3, 130n., 281, 287, 320

Putney Debates, the, 1647, 20, 99, 129n., 133, 184, 189, 202, 302

Pym, John, 188, 213

Pyott, Edward, 129, 156

Quakers, 18, 20–1, 32, 39–42, 49, 61, 66, 68, 81, 95–6, 113n., 117–18, 120–1, 127–8, chapter 5, passim, 174–5, 182, 190, 193, 208–9, 214, 230, 247, 255, 257–8, 263, 266, 273, chapter 9, passim, 299, 302, 316n., 327

Quarles, Francis, 201, 240

Raab, Felix, 195, 293

Racovian Cathechism, the, 173

Radzinowicz, Lady M. A., 309–10, 314

Rainborough, Colonel Thomas, 202

Ralegh, Sir Walter, 25, 201, 239n.

Ranelagh, Katherine Boyle, Lady, 52

Ranters, 18, chapter 2 (3), passim, 88, 92–3, 101, 119–21, 128, 130, 141–3, 153, 165, 167–8, 188, 221, 230, 241, 247, 275, 278–9, 292, 294, 296, 300, 305, 308, 320, 322

Ray, John, 20

Reading, 220, 222

Reay, Barry, 134, 147n., 162, 169

‘Recruiter’ MPs, 69, 76

Reeve, Edward, 304

Reeve, John, chapter 2 (3), passim, 95, 108–9, 121, 128, 161, 167–8, 190, 300, 303, 308, 319–20

Reformation, the protestant, 89, 175, 302–3, 310

Regicide, regicides, 18, 55, chapter 3 (2), passim, 111, 115, 118, 126, 150, 152, 184, 191, 207, 219, 282–3, 305–7

Remonstrance, the Army, of 16 November 1648, 101–4, 112n., 116

Restoration, the, 1660, 16, 18, 23, 36, 66–8, 77, 109, 116, 118, 137, 151–2, 160–2, chapter 5 (5), passim, 178, 182, 191, 196, 201, chapter 7, passim, 242, chapters 9 and 10, passim

Revard, Stella, 313–14

Revelation of St John the Divine, The, 24, 82, 90, 122, 154, 179–80, 303

‘Revisionists’, the, 22–3, 25, 27

Revolution, the English; see English Revolution, the

Revolution of 1688, the, 211, 321–6

Reynolds, John, 224

Rich, Colonel Nathaniel, 286–7

Rich, Robert, 142, 162, 166

Rights, Bill of, 1689, 288

Robins, John, 45n., 121

Rochester, 43

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 19, 50, 263

Rogers, John, 24n., chapter 3 (1), passim, 97, 190, 200, 265, 304

Rome, 58, 62, 66, 85, 122–3, 151, 180, 219, 244–5, 247, 257, 259, 314

Ross, Alexander, 261n.

Rota Club, the, 33, 191, 200, 202–3

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 16

Royalists, the, 17–18, 81, 100–1, 107, 113–16, 126, 150, 156, 158, 178, 197, 305, 311, 323

Royal Society of London, the, 175, 177, 191, 199, 258, 264–70, 275, 325

Rumbold, Richard, 37

Rumbold, William, 283

Rump, of the Long Parliament, the, 18, 31, 44–5, 54–5, 60, 71n., 73, 106, 116, 132–4, 139, 147–8, 150–1, 159, 171, 185, 191, 203, 210, 257, 279, 282, 284–6

Rupert, Prince, 97

Russell, Conrad, 25, 27

Russell, William, Lord, 36

Russian Revolution, the, 16, 288

Rust, George, 307–8

Rye House, Rye House Plot, 1683, 37, 211

Sabbath, Sabbatarianism, 22, 39, 90, 210, 293

Sadler, John, 20, 53, 308–9

St Anne’s, Blackfriars, 54n.

St George’s Hill, Surrey, 22, 37

St Margaret’s, Westminster, 97

St Thomas Apostle’s, London, 55n.

Saints, the rule of the, 26, chapter 3, passim, 88–9, 92, 96, 107–8, 126, 149, 159, 195, 217, 221, 309, 315, 318–19

Salmon, Joseph, 21, 46

Saltmarsh, John, 299, 302–3

Salway, Richard, 81

Samson, 46, 82, 86n., 234; see also Milton, John, Samson Agonistes

Satan, the Serpent, 38, 100, 141, 143, 145, 179, 228–30, 232–3, 237, 240–1, 302, 305, 309–10, 313, 316, 318

Saunders, Colonel Thomas, 202

Saye and Sele, William Fiennes, Viscount, 197n., 205

Scotland, 19, 24, 37, 51, 63, 76, 80–3, 105–6, 123, 163, 199, 219, 252, 257, 296, 321

Scott, Thomas, pamphleteer, 24

Scott, Thomas, MP and regicide, chapter 3 (2), passim, 289

Scroope, Colonel Adrian, 69–70

Second Coming, the, 38, 46, chapter 3 (1), passim, 88, 259–60, 279

Sedgwick, William, 18–19, 46, 53, 74, 86, 95, chapter 4 (2), passim, 121, 128, 153, 242, 265, 281, 283, 289–90, 294, 299, 301, 304, 314, 320–1, 323–5

Seekers, chapter 4, passim, 130, 143, 300

Selden, John, 201, 260n.

Seneca, 223

Serpent, the; see Satan

Settle, Elkanah, 224

Sexby, Colonel Edward, 32–3, 161, 302

Shakespeare, William, 25

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 312, 328

Shem, 110, 324

Shropshire, 212

Sibbes, Richard, 86, 179, 213, 218

Sidney, Algernon, 19–20, 36, 42, 71, 203, 205

Simmonds, Martha, 142, 292n.

Simpson, John, 55, 60n., 67

Sin, the Man of; see Antichrist

Sindercombe, Miles, 33, 36

Sion; see Zion

Sion College, 96

Skinner, Cyriack, 191

Skippon, Major-General Philip, 84

Socinianism, Socinians, 91, 173, 176, 178, 183, 208, 255, 268–9

Socinus, Faustus, 173

Sodom, 107, 229

Somerset, 252, 274

Sonship of all believers, the, 39, 44, 46–7, 71, 88n., 96, 240, 305–6, 318–19

South, Robert, 70, 268, 294

Spain, 32, 66, 70, 94, 146, 154n., 157, 182, 204, 219, 267, 320–1

Sparrow, John, 227

Spelman, Sir Henry, 201

Spence, J. D., 16

Spenser, Edmund, 22, 240, 241n., 272n.

Spittlehouse, John, 55–6, 58, 61–2, 67, 281, 289

Sports, Declaration of, the, 84

Sprat, Thomas, later Bishop of

Rochester, 223, 264, 273

Sprigge, Joshua, 86

Sprigge, William, 205–6

Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich, 47n., 116

Star Chamber, 75

Steele, Sir Richard, 205

Stendhal (Beyle, Marie Henri), 16

Stephen, St, 122

Stephens, Nathaniel, 20

Sterry, Peter, 86

Story-Wilkinson separation, the, 165–6

Stubbe, Henry, senior, 252

Stubbe, Henry, junior, son of the above, 15, 18–20, 60n., 71–2, 92, 97, 177–8, 191, 192n., 193, 201–3, 205, 218, 242, 251, chapter 8 (3), passim, 284, 289, 293–4, 299, 305, 318, 320, 324–5

Stubbs, John, 130

Suffolk, 185

Swansea, 42

Swarthmoor, 154

Sylvester, Joshua, 240, 241n.

Sylvester, Matthew, 213, 214n.

Tany, Thomas (Theareaujohn), 221

Tasso, Torquato, 240

Tawney, R. H., 27, 201

Taylor, Edward, 21

Temple, Sir William, 205

Thomas, K. V., 310

Thomas, P. W., 25

Thomason, George, 253n.

Thurloe, John, 32–3, 64

Tillinghast, John, 53, 56–8, 61, 67, 181n., 320

Tithes, 24, 30, 41, 61, 64, 87, 90, 96, 106, 108, 131, 156, 208, 210, 214, 217–18, 220, 255, 306, 327

Toland, John, 77n., 168, 192, 205, 263, 275

Toleration, religious, 23, 30, 35, 64, 95, 98, 111, 114, 125, 127, 145, 177, 182, chapter 6 (3), passim, 208, 210, 212, 214, 251, 255–6, 258, 260, 262, 265–6, 272, 274, 276, 279, 290

Traherne, Thomas, 21, 120, 273, 282, 307, 309, 316

Trapnell, Anna, 21

Trapp, John, 30–1

Traskites, 298

Trenchard, John, 294

Trevor-Roper, H. R., Lord Dacre, 326

Triers, the, 214, 218

Trinity, Trinitarianism, anti-Trinitarianism, 91–2, 96, 188, 209, 221, 240, 259–61, 263–4, 268–9, 275–6

Trinity College, Cambridge, 20

Trotsky, L. D., 47n.

Turks, the, 96, 157, 262–3

Twisse, William, 51

Tyburn, 73

Tyndale, William, 316

Underbarrow, Westmorland, 143

Uniformity, Act of, 1662, 222

Urania, 228

Ussher, James, Archbishop of Armagh, 174, 218–19

Vane, Sir Henry, 18, 20, 60, 71–2, 81, 147, 173, 191, 193, 205, chapter 8 (3), passim, 281–2, 289, 293, 302, 323

Vanists, 214

Venice, 94, 204–5

Venner, Thomas, Venner’s rising, 18, chapter 3 (1), passim, 78, 131n., 208, 254, 283, 303, 306

Villemain, A. F., 42

Waldensians, the, 23, 301, 303

Wales, 54–5, 84, 90–2, 95

Wall, Moses, 53, 280–1, 327–8

Waller, Edmund, 61, 198n.

Wallingford House, 174, 179

Wallis, John, 252–4, 264, 268

Walwyn, William, 30, 32–3, 92, 97, 128, 265, 299–300

Ward, the Rev. John, 191

Wards, Court of, the, 134

Wariston, Sir Archibald Johnston, Lord, chapter 3 (3), passim, 73–4, 99, 135, 200, 280–1, 286, 293, 307–8

Warr, John, 303

Warren, Albertus, 192n., 276, 325

Warwick, 252n.

Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of, 170

Warwickshire, 252n.

Watson, Thomas, 75

Webster, Charles, 264

Webster, John, 19, 89n., 90n., 91, 93, 95, 97, 239n., 265

Wentworth, Peter, 269

Wentworth, Sir Thomas, Earl of Strafford, 282

Western Design, the, 106, 279

West Indies, 31, 62, 166, 262, 279, 294; see also Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica.

Westminster, 97

Westminster Assembly of Divines, the, 24n., 179

Wharton, Philip, Lord, 179, 185

Whigs, the, 20, 168, 191, 205

Whitaker, William, 219n., 269, 298

Whitchurch, Cheshire, 212

Whitehall, 139

Whitehead, George, 166, 304

Whitehead, John, Quaker, 130, 141

Whitehead, John, Baptist, 308

Whitelocke, Bulstrode, 308

Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, 174, 219n., 269

Wight, Isle of, 36

Wilderness, the, chapter 4 (1), passim, 107, 122–3, 153, 254, 292, chapter 10 (1), passim

Wildman, John, 30–4, 36, 50, 133, 178n., 191–3, 200, 202–3

Wilkins, John, later Bishop of Chester, 253–4, 264

Wilkinson, Henry, 51

William of Orange, later William III, King of England, 33, 325

Williams, Roger, 183, 290, 298, 300, 302, 304

Willis, Thomas, 178

Willoughby, Francis, Lord, 179

Wilson, Sir Thomas, 201

Winstanley, Gerrard, 16, 22, 32, chapter 2 (2), passim, 47, 50, 61, 85–8, 91n., 92, 97n., 101n., 128, 131, 134, 140–1, 144, 146n., 153–5, 159, 163, 180n., 193, 198, 199n., 201, 239n., 257n., 267, 278, 280–1, 290, 292–4, 300, 302–6, 319

Winthrop, John, 23

Wither, George, 66, 83n., 128, 131, 147n., 183n., 190, 208n., 216n., 258n., 281, 299–300, 303–4, 306, 308, 312

Witnesses, the Two Last, 26, 48, 122

Wood, Anthony, 178

Woodcock, Francis, 24, 26

Woodcock, Katherine, later Milton, 135

Woodcock, William, 135

Woolrych, Austin, 39, 63n., 181n., 186, 258

Worcester, Battle of, 54, 56, 61n., 171, 185–6

Worcestershire, 36

Worcestershire Association, 214–15, 217–18

Wordsworth, William, 328

Wrexham, 212

Wrighter, Clement, 92

Wrightson, Keith, 25, 27, 189

Wyclif, John, 23, 145, 175n., 297, 303

York, 286

Yorkshire, 69–70

Yorkshire, West Riding of, the, 97, 138

Zion, 86, 123, 229