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abdication
Abell, Thomas
- Invicta Veritas
absolutism
- French –
Addison, Joseph
Admiralty: Board Room
Agincourt
Albert, Prince
Alfred the Great, King
Aliens Act (1705)
Amalia, Princess Dowager
America
- British colony
- Declaration of Independence
- War of Independence
Amicable Grant
Anglo-Dutch alliance
Anglo-Dutch War
Anglo-Saxons –
Anglo-Scottish wars
Anne, Queen
- accession to throne
- death
- friendship with Sarah Churchill
- heir to throne
- ill health
- popularity
- as Princess Anne
- succession issue
- war against France –
Anne Boleyn –
Anne, Duchess of York
Appeal from the Country to the City, An
Armada, Spanish
army
- see also New Model Army
Arthur, King –
Arthur, Prince of Wales
Assertio Septum Sacramentorum (Henry VIII)
Attainder, Act of

Bank of Amsterdam
Bank of England
Banqueting House, Whitehall
Barry, Charles
Baxter, Richard
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond ––
Beckford, William
Berwick-on-Tweed
Bible
- Great Bible
- King James Bible
- Tyndale’s translation

Binnenhof Palace, The Hague

Blackheath, Battle of

Blenheim, Battle of

Blenheim Palace

Boleyn, Anne, see Anne Boleyn

Bond of Association (1584)

Boston Tea Party

Bosworth Field, Battle of –

Bourbon, Duc de

Breda, Declaration of

Brighton Pavilion

British Commonwealth

British Empire xxix

American colonies

Buchanan, George

Buckingham Palace

Burghley, Lord, see Cecil, William

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Burnet, Gilbert

Byng, Admiral George

Caerleon, Dr Lewis

Canterbury Cathedral

Carlos II, King of Spain

Caroline of Ansbach

Caroline of Brunswick

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Braganza

Catholic Church

and Act of Settlement
Army and
and Bill of Rights
Charles II and
Elizabeth and
French
Henry VIII and –
under James I
James II and
Mary I and –
Mary Queen of Scots and
suppressed in England
Wolsey and

Cavalier Parliament

Cecil, William, Lord Burghley

Protestantism
and Royal Supremacy
and succession to Elizabeth

Charles I, King

and Church
in Civil War
coronation
despotism
governs by royal decree
Grand Remonstrance
and Parliament
popular support
portraits and statues
pro-war sentiments
revenue-gathering schemes
and Royal Supremacy
and Scotland
trial and execution

Charles II, King

assassination plot
coronation
death
defeated by Cromwell
Dutch wars
in exile
foreign policy
illegitimate children
and Parliament
and Popish Plot
and religion
restoration
Scottish support for
succession
Touching for King’s Evil

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor –

Charlie, Bonnie Prince, see Stuart, Prince Charles Edward

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Charlotte, Princess

Chatham dockyard

Child, Sir Josiah: Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money

Church of England

bishops
break with Rome –

under Elizabeth
heresy laws
James II and
privileged status
Protestant fundamentalism versus Catholic opulence
reforms of Edward VI
returns to Rome
ritual and ceremony
under William and Mary
see also Royal Supremacy

Churchill, John, see Marlborough, Duke of

Churchill, Winston

Second

Clarence, George, Duke of –

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

Clement VII, Pope

Clive, Lord Robert

Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount

Coleman, Edward

Common Prayer, Books

Commonwealth of England

Conservative Party

see also Tory Party

constitutional monarchy

Continental Congress

Convention Parliament

Cornwall, rebellion

Cornwallis, Lord Charles

Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop
of Canterbury

Book of Common Prayer of
and Edward

Cranmer, Thomas – cont.

facilitates Henry’s divorce
Royal Supremacy created by
tried and executed by Mary

Cromwell, Oliver

and Charles I
and Charles II
conflict with Parliament
death
as Lord Protector
military commander
offered crown by parliament
portraits
religious views
succession issue

Cromwell, Richard

Crown Imperial, see Imperial Crown

Cruikshank, George

Culloden, Battle of

Cumberland, William, Duke of

Dakar
Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord
Days of May
Declaration of Indulgence
despotism
Dettingen, Battle of
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of
Diana, Princess of Wales
Disraeli, Benjamin
Doncaster
Dover, Treaty of
Drake, Sir Francis
Dunbar, Battle of
Dunstable Priory
Dutch East Indies
Dutch Republic, see Netherlands

Edgehill, Battle of

Edward III, King

Edward IV, King ––

Edward V, King –

Edward VI, King –

absolutism
birth
clash with Mary
coronation –
death
as God’s Vice-regent
heir to throne
Protestantism
succession issue

Edward VII, King

as Prince of Wales

Edward VIII, King

Edward the Confessor, King

Elizabeth I, Queen ––

death
defence of the realm
heir to throne
imprisoned by Mary I
and Mary Queen of Scots –
portraits
as Protestantism
religious moderate
and Royal Supremacy
succession issue –
at Tilbury

Elizabeth II, Queen

Elizabeth of York

Epiphany, Feast of

Esher, Reginald Brett, Viscount –

Exclusion Crisis

‘Family of Henry VIII’ (painting)
Faversham
Fawkes, Guy
Field of Cloth of Gold
Fontenoy, Battle of
Fortescue, Sir John –
- The Governance of England
Fotheringhay castle
Foxe, John: Book of Martyrs
Framlingham castle
France
- absolutism –
- and America
- Anne’s war against –
- Charles I’s war with
- Days of July
- financial system
- Fronde
- George I’s war with
- Henry VII and
- Henry VIII’s wars with –
- of Louis XIV
- Napoleonic
- Protestant persecutions
- regency
- Revolution
- revolutionary wars
- Seven Years War
- War of the Spanish Succession
- Wars of Religion
- William III’s war against
Francis I, King of France
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
Fronde

Georg August, Elector of Hanover, see George II

Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, see George I

arrival in England
coronation
death
as German
modest monarchy of
quarrel with Prince of Wales
and succession to Anne
unpopularity

George II, King

as British king
coronation
death
as Hanoverian Prince
military leader
and Pitt
popularity
as Prince of Wales

George III, King

accession
and American colonies
as British king
clash with Pitt
death

George III, King – cont.

Golden Jubilee
madness and regency
modest lifestyle
resolved to abdicate

George IV, King

accession to throne
attempts to divorce Caroline
Brighton Pavilion of
building projects
coronation
death
debts
disastrous marriage
as Prince of Wales
as Prince Regent
unpopularity

George, Prince of Denmark

Glorious Revolution

Godfrey, Sir Edmund

Grand Remonstrance

Great Exhibition (1851)

Great Fire of London

Gresham, Sir Thomas

Grey, Lady Jane

Grey, Charles Grey, Earl

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Guildhall, City of London

Hampden, Richard

conference

Handel, George Frideric

Hanover, House of

Henrietta Maria, Queen

Henrietta Maria, Duchess of Orleans

Henry V, King –

Henry VI, King –

Henry VII, King ––

birth
death
exile in Brittany
as Henry Tudor
Imperial Crown commissioned by –
kingship of –
marries Elizabeth of York
rebellion against
relations with son
war with France –
wins English throne –

Henry VIII, King –

absolutism
birth and childhood
and Catholic Church –
coronation
death
declares himself ‘Emperor’
dissolution of monasteries
divorce –
excommunicated
fails to father heir

- marriages
- and Parliament
- as peace broker of Europe
- portraits
- rebellions against
- relations with father
- religious moderate
- succession issue
- as Supreme Head of Church –
- vision of kingship ––
- wars with France –

Holbein, Hans xxvi

Holy Roman Empire

Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Hyde, Anne, see Anne, Duchess of York

Imperial Crown
- commissioned by Henry VII –
- described –
- destroyed
imperial monarchy
India
Indulgence, Declaration of
Industrial Revolution
Ireland

James I of England and VI of Scotland, King –

childhood –
claim to English throne
death
financial difficulties
as King of Great Britain
as peacemaker king
proclaimed King of England
Protestantism
religious settlement of
and Royal Supremacy
Scottish coronation
The Trew Law of Free Monarchies
vision of monarchy

accession to throne
and Anglican Church
army of
assassination plot
birth of son and heir
Catholicism
coronation
death
dispensing power assumed by
as Duke of York
Exclusion Crisis
exile
invades Ireland
as Lord Admiral
marriage
and Monmouth’s rebellion
revenues
sense of divine purpose
succession issue
Touching for King’s Evil
and William’s invasion

Jefferson, Thomas

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster

Julius II, Pope

Kensington Palace
Kent, William
Keppel, Arnold Joost van
King’s Evil, Touching for
Kingston, Sir Anthony

La Chaise, François d’Aix
La Hogue, Battle of
Lancaster, House of –
La Rochefoucauld, Duc de
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury
Lavenham, Suffolk
law xxviii
- judiciary
- as source of royal revenue
Lee, Richard Henry
Lee family, of Virginia
Lehzen, Baroness
Leicester House Set
Leopold, Holy Roman Emperor
Lexington
Liberal Party
- see also Whig Party
liberty –
- of worship
limited monarchy –
Locke, John
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
London
Long Parliament
Lords of the Articles
Lorraine, Claude
Louis XIV, King of France
- and Charles II
- death
- and exiled Stuarts
- invades Germany
- revokes Edict of Nantes
- war against England
Louis XVI, King of France
Louis Philippe, King of France
Louvois, François, Marquis de
Lowestoft, Battle of
Ludlow
Luther, Martin
Lutheranism
Lyme Regis

Magdalen College, Oxford

Maitland, Sir William

Malplaquet, Battle of

Manchester, Edward Montagu, Earl of

Marie-Antoinette, Queen

Marie Louise Victoria, Duchess of Kent

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of

and Blenheim Palace
dismissed
joins William
military victories

Marlborough, Sarah , Duchess of

Mary I (Mary Tudor), Queen –

birth
as Bloody Mary
Catholicism
clash with Edward VI
death
heir to throne

- marriage to Philip II –
- phantom pregnancy –

Mary II (Mary Stuart), Queen

death
as heir to throne
inauguration
marries William
rules jointly with William

Mary, Queen of Scots –

Catholicism
claim to English throne –
in England
imprisonment and execution

Mary, Princess Royal

Masham, Abigail

Maundy Thursday

Mauritshuis, The Hague

Medway, Battle of the

Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount

absolute ––
child monarchs
constitutional
despotic
dispensing powers
divine nature of
elective
family monarchy
female monarchs
free
as guarantor of rights
as guarantor of stability
hereditary
imperial
limited xxix–
loss of divinity
modern
and Parliament
popular
Presbyterian view of
regicide
revenues –
ritual and ceremony
spiritual authority ;
see also Royal Supremacy
subjects’ attitude towards
warrior kings –
Whig and Tory views of

monasteries, dissolution of

Monck, Gen. George

Monmouth, James, Duke of

Montcalm, General Louis

Monument, City of London

More, Sir Thomas –

Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor

Nantes, Edict of

Naseby, Battle of

Nayler, Sir George: The Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth

Anglo-Dutch alliance

Newton, Sir Isaac

Norfolk, Duke of

Oates, Titus
Old Pretender, see Stuart, Prince James Francis
Opdam, Admiral
Orange, House of
Ornaments Rubric
Osborne House, Isle of Wight
Oudenarde, Battle of
Oxford

excommunication of monarchs
Henry VIII and
papal authority
Regnans in Excelsis Bull

Parliament xxviii

Pavia, Battle of

Peel, Sir Robert

Pembroke Castle

Peterloo Massacre

Philip II, King of England and
Spain –

Philip V, King of Spain

Philippe, Duke of Orleans

Pilgrimage of Grace

Pitt, Thomas ‘Diamond’

Pitt, William Sr

Pitt, William, the Younger

Pius V, Pope: Regnans in Excelsis Bull

A Shorte Treatise of Politike Power

Pope, Alexander

Poussin, Nicholas

General Assembly
view of monarchy

Pride, Col. Thomas

Princes in the Tower –

private secretary

Scottish

under Edward VI
Elizabeth and
French
Henry VIII and
radical
restored by William III
suppressed by Mary I
see also Reformation

Pugin, Augustine

Quebec

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Ramillies, Battle of

American
anti-Reformation
Catholic
Cornish
Jacobite
Pilgrimage of Grace
against Mary Queen of Scots
Monmouth’s Revolt
Scottish
Wyatt rebellion

Reformation xxviii

Remonstrance of the Army

Restoration Settlement

Richard III, King –

as Duke of Gloucester –

Richard, Duke of York

Richmond, Surrey

Rights, Bill of

Easter
Feast of Epiphany
Maundy Thursday
Touching for King’s Evil

see also papacy

- Royal Charles

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich

Royal Society for the

Encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures and Commerce

Royal Supremacy

abolished
Act of Royal Supremacy (1534)
and Bill of Rights
challenged by Protestants
Charles I and
Charles II and
Cranmer’s creation
Edward VI and
Elizabeth and
Henry VIII and –
James I and
Mary I and

Rump Parliament

Ruyter, Admiral Michiel de

St Bartholomew Eve Massacre

St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh

St James’s Palace

St Margaret’s, Westminster

St Paul’s Cathedral –

Sancroft, William, Archbishop of Canterbury

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, House of

and Aliens Act
Bonnie Prince Charlie in
Covenanters
George IV visits
and Hanoverian succession
Jacobite rebellion
James VI of –
independence
invasions of England
Parliament
Privy Council
supports Charles II
union with England –
war with England
see also Presbyterians

Scott, Sir Walter

Kenilworth

Second Civil War

Security, Act of

Sedbar, Adam, Abbot of Jervaulx

Sedgmoor, Battle of

Settlement, Act of

Seven Years War

Seymour, Jane, see Jane Seymour

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of

Shakespeare, William

Sherrifmuir, battle of

Short Parliament

Somerset House treaty

Sophia, Electress of Hanover

South Sea Bubble

- Armada
- Henry VIII’s alliance with

war with England

Spanish Succession, War of

Spurs, Battle of the

Stirling Castle

Stratford Hall, Virginia

Stuart, House of

Stuart, Prince Charles Edward (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

Stuart, Prince James Francis (Old Pretender)

Catholicism
claim to English throne
claims Scottish throne
legitimacy questioned
Tory support for

Act of Succession
Edward VI’s ‘Device’ for

Suffolk, Duke of

taxation –
- of American colonies
- Amicable Grant
- Cromwell and
- decimation
- extra-parliamentary
- Free Gift
- indirect
- Parliament and
- ship money
Taylor, Sir Herbert
Test Act
Tewkesbury, Battle of
Tewkesbury Abbey
Thornhill, James
Tilbury
Torbay
Tory Party
- anti-Exclusionist
- Charles II’s supporters
- and electoral reform
- George I and
- impeachment of ministers
- James II and
- Parliaments
- under Peel
- supports for Old Pretender
- and Test Act
- Victoria and
- view of monarchy
- William III and
- William IV and
- Tower of London
- Princes in the Tower –
- prisoners
Triennial Act (1694)
Tudor, Edmund, Earl of Richmond
Tudor dynasty
Tyndale, William
- Obedience of the Christian Man

Uniformity, Act of (1549)
Union, Act of (1707)
United Kingdom
universities
Utrecht, Peace of

Vanbrugh, Sir John

Van Dyck, Sir Anthony xxvi

Vauban, Sébastian de

Victoria, Queen

accession
and Albert
Jubilees
and Parliament
widowhood

Congress of

Villiers, Elizabeth

Walpole, Horace

Walpole, Sir Robert

Warbeck, Perkin

Warham, William, Archbishop of
Canterbury

Wars of the Roses ––

Washington, George

Waterloo, Battle of

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

Westminster Abbey

Westminster Hall

Westminster, Palace of

and electoral reform
as Exclusionists
George I and
radicals
Victoria and
view of monarchy
William III and
William IV and

Whitehall Palace

Whitgift, William, Archbishop of Canterbury

William I, the Conqueror

William III (William of Orange), King

army commander
birth and childhood
Calvinism
and Church ritual
court of
death
homosexuality
inauguration
invasion of England
joint rule with Mary
marries Mary
and Parliament
as Prince of Orange
reclusive tendencies
revenues
struggle against Catholic France
unpopularity
view of kingship
war against France

William IV, King

coronation
death
as Duke of Clarence
lack of pretention
and parliamentary reform

William II, Prince of Orange

William, Duke of Gloucester

William and Mary College, Williamsburg

William the Silent

Williamsburg, Virginia

Wiltshire, Earl of

Windsor, House of

Wolfe, General James

Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal Archbishop of York

condemnation of Luther
death
diplomatic skills
and Henry VIII’s divorce –
rise to power

Woodstock, Oxfordshire

Woodville, Elizabeth –––

Worcester, Battle of

Wren, Sir Christopher

Württemberg, King of

Wyatt, Sir Thomas

York, House of –
York Place
Yorktown, Battle of