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Oliver Cromwell

Chapter 9: INDEX
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The book offers a compact political and military biography that situates its subject within the era's upheavals. It follows his emergence from local prominence to national leadership during parliamentary struggles, recounts his campaigns and decisive battles, his role in the king's trial and execution, and the subsequent Irish and Scottish campaigns. It analyzes the transition from commonwealth to protectorate, examines administrative reforms and the exercise of personal authority, and sketches family and succession issues that followed his death. Throughout, the author interweaves portraiture, contemporary documents, and assessments of character, ideology, and legacy.

INDEX

  • Abolition, in United States, 193
  • Abolitionists, 103, 192
  • Adamses, the, 36
  • Agathokles, 210
  • Ale-houses, suppressed under Protectorate, 213, 214
  • Alva, 156
  • America, Protestants and Catholics in, 12;
    • freedom from militarism in eighteenth century, 19;
    • power of compromise after Revolution, 100;
    • true greatness of, 179;
    • city government in, 214;
    • Cromwell’s descendants in, 239
  • American Civil War, compared with English Civil Wars, 5, 6, 61, 62;
    • citizen soldiers in, 64;
    • West Point in, 67;
    • cavalry in, 70;
    • compromises after, 102;
    • generosity of victors, 216
  • American Revolution, War of the, comparisons with English Revolution of 1688, 6;
    • with English Civil Wars, 61;
    • its citizen soldiers, 64;
    • regular soldiery, 91;
    • compromises after, 100;
    • Washington, 101;
    • events preceding, 114;
    • Continental Congress in, 177;
    • clemency following, 217
  • Americans, majority rule natural to, 25;
    • regicide sentimentalists among, 138;
    • religious toleration, 161;
    • character of, in eighteenth century, 190
  • Anabaptists, 77, 103, 143, 213, 220
  • Anglican Church, its Presbyterian trend under Elizabeth, 23;
    • its influence on Charles I.’s Third Parliament, 29
  • Antichrist, 226
  • Appomattox, Sheridan at, 171
  • Argyle, joins Whigamore raid, 130;
    • ally of Cromwell, 131
  • Armenian massacres, 228
  • Arminianism, in Holland, 12
  • Arminius, 12
  • Army, the Cavalier, 64
  • Army, American Continental, 102
  • Army, the English, in Civil Wars, composition of, 60;
    • first raised by nobles, 63;
    • reorganization of Parliamentary forces, 94;
    • character in Charles I.’s time, 107;
    • dissensions, 108, 111 et seq.;
    • its strength against the Parliament, 116;
    • its struggles with the King and Parliament, 117 et seq.;
    • its spirit, 121;
    • odds against it in Second Civil War, 124;
    • Charles I.’s negotiations with, 134;
    • march into London, 136;
    • revolt suppressed by Cromwell, 144;
    • its distinctive character, 145;
    • its influence in Long Parliament, 177 et seq.;
    • offset by navy, 184;
    • rejects Parliamentary measures, 185;
    • supports Cromwell, 189;
    • attitude under Protectorate, 199;
    • protests against Cromwell’s accepting Kingship, 215;
    • serves under Turenne, 229;
    • revolts against Richard Cromwell, 232
  • Army, the Scottish, gives up Charles I., 117
  • Artillery, chief means of assault in Cromwell’s time, 59
  • Assembly, formed under Protectorate, 189, 191 et seq.
  • Associations, of counties, 63;
    • assessed for Parliamentarians, 79.
    • See also Eastern Association
  • Astley, Sir Jacob, quoted, 99
  • Aston, Sir Arthur, at Drogheda, 153, 154
  • Atlantic Ocean, the, 179
  • Australasia, 238;
    • English expansion there, 238
  • Australia, Cromwell’s descendants in, 239
  • Australians, in South Africa, 67
  • Balgony, Lord, at Marston Moor, 88
  • Baltic Sea, the, 226
  • Baptists, the, origin under James I., 23;
    • tolerated by Cromwell, 78;
    • army sentiment toward, 108;
    • Parliamentary hatred of, 116;
    • under the Protectorate, 200
  • Barbadoes, Irish sent as slaves there, 153
  • Barbon, “Praise-God,” 191
  • “Barebones” Parliament, formation of, 191, 193 et seq.;
    • attacks Courts of Chancery, 200, 212
  • Basing House, capture of, 98
  • Baxter, 74
  • Beard, Thomas, Cromwell’s tutor, 44
  • Bedford, Earl of, 45
  • Bench and bar, courage in, 181
  • Berwick, seized by Royalists, 121
  • Bishops, the, attitude of, toward Thirty Years’ War, 30;
    • Parliamentary resolutions against, 31;
    • army sentiment toward, 108
  • Bishops’ Wars, the cause of, 40;
    • Scotch share in, 124
  • Blake, Admiral, in Parliament, 116;
    • defeats Prince Rupert, 130;
    • his great fame, 182, 183, 184;
    • his indifference toward Cromwell, 201;
    • his victory at Santa Cruz, 228
  • Boers, as soldiers, 67;
    • belated Cromwellians, 144;
    • compared with Covenanters, 165
  • Border, the, in Civil Wars, 55, 84, 130, 131, 174
  • Boston, U. S. A., regicide sentimentalism in, 138
  • Boston Harbor, tea thrown overboard in, 35
  • Bouchier, Elizabeth, wife of Oliver Cromwell, 43
  • Brandenburgers, 226
  • Breast-pieces, 60
  • Bristol, capture of, 98;
    • Cromwell’s letter from, 105, 106
  • British Islands, the Commonwealth in, 177
  • Buchanan, President, his views on secession, 164
  • Buckingham, Duke of, his corrupt ministry, 26;
    • his assassination, 28
  • Buff coats, uniform of Parliamentarians, 60, 64;
    • worn by Royalists at Winchester, 83
  • Buisson, de, quoted, 225
  • Bunyan, John, 69, 232, note
  • Bureau of Intelligence, Chief of.
    • See Scout-master
  • Burleigh House, taken by Parliamentarians, 81
  • Byzantine Emperors, 172
  • Cadiz, Charles I.’s expedition against, 26
  • Calvin, his zeal for righteousness, 7
  • Calvinism, in Holland, 12;
    • its influence in England, 29;
    • in Scotland, 165
  • Calvinists, their intolerance of Roman Catholics, 13
  • Cambridge, University of, Cromwell’s residence there, 42, 43;
    • its plate seized by Cromwellians, 70
  • Canadians, in South Africa, 67
  • Cannon, Cromwell’s lack of, at Pembroke, 22
  • Captain-General, Cromwell’s office of, 163, 189
  • Carbines, 60;
    • discarded by Cromwellians, 79
  • Carlyle, taken by Royalists, 121
  • Carlyle, Thomas, his opinion of Cromwell, 1, 2;
    • of Puritanism, 2;
    • on regicide, 140
  • Carnworth, Earl of, 96
  • Casques, 64
  • Catholic Church, its recognition in Ireland demanded by the Pope, 148;
    • modern greatness of, 238
  • Catholics, aimed at by Third Parliament, 31;
    • unite with Royalists and Presbyterians in Ireland, 120, 122;
    • character of, in Ireland, 146;
    • aid of, for Charles II., 147;
    • dissensions in Ireland, 146–149;
    • Cromwellian hatred of, 152, 161;
    • persecutions of, 217, 218;
    • Mazarin’s plea for them in England, 220;
    • as landholders in Ireland, 223;
    • their share in British expansion to-day, 239.
    • See also Roman Catholics
  • Cavaliers, dress of, 64;
    • at Grantham, 79, 80;
    • at Marston Moor, 88;
    • at Naseby, 96;
    • rising against army, 120;
    • support Charles I. in the North, 121;
    • Cromwell’s opinion of, 123;
    • allegiance to Charles II. in Scotland, 172;
    • at Stirling, 174;
    • at Worcester, 175
  • Cavalry, its superiority to infantry, 59, 60;
    • among the Royalists, 70;
    • horse the true weapon of, 79;
    • at Gainsborough, 82;
    • Scotch at Marston Moor, 87, 88;
    • Naseby, 96;
    • Ironsides spirit in, 107;
    • Hamilton’s, 122;
    • at Preston, 127
  • Cavendish, Lord, at Gainsborough, 81, 82
  • Celtic, 16, 224
  • Celts, the, 16, 146, 224
  • Censorship of press, established under Protectorate, 216
  • Charles I., his ignoble peace, 19;
    • his private character, 25;
    • helplessness of English arms under his rule, 26;
    • his Third Parliament, 27;
    • yields to Petition of Right, 28;
    • his dissolution of his Third Parliament, 31;
    • rejects Petition of Right, 32;
    • embarks on Bishops’ Wars, 40;
    • his attitude toward the Long Parliament, 51;
    • betrays Strafford, 52;
    • makes terms with the Scotch, 55;
    • imprisons Puritan leaders, 57;
    • his adherents in the Commons, 61;
    • marches on London, 71;
    • turn of tide in his favor, 79;
    • makes overtures to the Irish, 84;
    • defeats Waller at Copredy Bridge, 91;
    • his army at Newbury, 92;
    • at Naseby, 95–97;
    • surrenders to Scotch army, 98;
    • English servility toward him, 101;
    • his treachery, 104;
    • supported by Presbyterians, 109;
    • “the man of blood,” 114;
    • his non-acceptance of his defeat, 115;
    • negotiates with the army and Parliament, 117 et seq.;
    • Cromwell attempts terms with him, 119;
    • Yorkshire support for, 121;
    • Scotch attitude toward him, 123;
    • his tenacity, 132;
    • negotiations with the army, 134;
    • he rejects Fairfax’s proposals, 135;
    • his trial for treason, 136;
    • beheaded, 137;
    • his character, 137–140;
    • his policy in Ireland, 146;
    • Catholic allegiance to him, 147;
    • his imprisonment, 148;
    • effect of his execution on Ireland, 150;
    • his death due to Parliamentarians, 178;
    • his execution, 217;
    • anniversary of his death observed, 240
  • Charles II., the fleet loyal to him, 130;
    • proclaimed King at Cork, 150;
    • the Scotch declare for him, 162;
    • lands in Scotland, 165 et seq.;
    • supported by Scotch Cavaliers, 172;
    • crosses into England, 174;
    • his escape from Worcester, 175;
    • his exile, 178;
    • influences for his restoration, 209;
    • England in his time, 225;
    • his re-establishment, 232;
    • his mistresses, 240
  • Charles X., of Sweden, 226
  • Chester, seized by Royalists, 121;
    • negotiations there, 148
  • Christianity, heterodoxy in Parliamentary, 108
  • Church and State, Puritan theories of, 114;
    • reform in, 195
  • Churchmen, arbitrary power of, 161
  • Civil War.
    • See American Civil War
  • Civil War, First English, the fiery ordeal of, 20;
    • begun by Charles, 57;
    • its chief leaders cavalrymen, 60;
    • its blunders contrasted with American Civil War, 62;
    • English soldiery in, 91;
    • its slow progress, 94;
    • type of its generals, 95;
    • practically ends at Naseby, 97;
    • its effects on Cromwell, 104;
    • Irish share in, 122;
    • exchange of prisoners, 128
  • Civil War, Second English, its beginning, 121;
    • ended at Preston, 130;
    • results, 131;
    • Carlyle’s opinion of, 235
  • Clergy, 78, 92;
    • threatened by Protectorate Assembly, 193
  • Clonmel, capture of, 162
  • Clubmen, peasant organization, 62
  • Cock-fighting, suppressed under Protectorate, 213
  • Colchester, seized by Royalists, 121;
    • capitulation of, 130
  • Colonial policy, Spain’s, 224
  • Colonial possessions, Spanish, 227;
  • Commercial policy, Cromwell’s, in war against Spain, 226
  • Committee of Both Kingdoms, the, 85, 92
  • Committee of Correspondence, in American Revolution, 114
  • Committee of the Eastern Association, 85
  • Common law, the, under the Protectorate, 200
  • Commons, House of, declares against tonnage and poundage, 31;
    • triennial meetings, 54;
    • favored by London, 57;
    • its adherents of the King, 61;
    • Cromwell’s share in, 93;
    • the Independents, 116;
    • defies the army, 118, 135;
    • disregards Lords in the King’s trial, 136;
    • Parliamentarian leaders, 185;
    • Republicans, 204;
    • agreement with Cromwell, 205.
    • See also Parliament; Long Parliament, etc.
  • Commonwealth, established, 6;
    • reorganizes its forces, 93;
    • its supremacy, 139;
    • its character, 141;
    • European attitude against it, 143;
    • Cromwell its main support, 163;
    • authority, 177;
    • its religionist enemies, 198;
    • civil rights under it, 217
  • Commonwealth Mercury, The, 232, note
  • Compromise, Parliamentary incapacity for, 101;
    • after American Civil War, 102
  • Confederacy, the, of American Southern States, 72, 92
  • Confederates in Ireland, 150
  • Congregationalists, origin under Elizabeth, 23;
    • identified with Independent party, 49;
    • tolerated by Cromwell, 78;
    • in Parliament, 108;
    • Parliamentarian hatred of, 116;
    • under the Protectorate, 200
  • Congress, the American Continental, compared with Cromwellian Parliaments, 102, 103, 114, 177
  • Connaught, 223
  • Conquest, the [Norman], 232
  • Constitution, the American, 189, 193, 196, 198
  • Constitution, English, 135;
    • under the Assembly, 195, 198;
    • under the Protectorate, 205
  • “Constitution-mongers,” Carlyle’s sneer at, 5
  • Continent, the, character of its armies, 60;
    • Cromwell’s interest in its politics, 225;
    • the power of France on, 229
  • Continental Army, the American, 102
  • Convention, Constitutional, in U. S., 189;
    • in English Assembly, 192–195
  • Coote, holds Derry for Parliamentarians, 150
  • Copredy Bridge, Battle of, 91
  • Cork, Charles II. proclaimed King there, 150;
    • Cromwell’s letter from there, 160
  • Cornwall, neutrality of, 63
  • Cotton, John, Cromwell’s letter to, 179
  • Council of Officers, in English Assembly, 195, 197 et seq.
  • Council, the, in Parliamentary army, 114
  • Council of State, the, 189, 195
  • Court, purity of Cromwellian, 229;
    • disgracefulness under Restoration, 230
  • Courts of Chancery, English, 181, 192, 200
  • Covenant, National, of Scotland, the, 39;
    • taken by Parliamentarians, 78;
    • by English troopers, 84;
    • Hamiltonian devotion to, 123;
    • taken by Ulster Scotch, 148;
    • Fairfax declines campaign against, 163;
    • oath taken by Charles II., 165;
    • Cromwell’s exposition of, 172 et seq.
  • Covenanters, the Scotch, defeated by Cromwell, 75;
    • intolerance of sectaries, 116;
    • treatment of Charles II., 165;
    • oppose Puritans at Dunbar, 170;
    • persecuted by Episcopalians, 217
  • Creed, in United States, 2, 9;
  • Cromwell, Bridget, daughter of Oliver, married to Ireton, 105
  • Cromwell, Elizabeth Steward, mother of Oliver, 42, 233
  • Cromwell, Henry, son of Oliver, 232
  • Cromwell, Oliver, his fame, 1;
    • forces which produced him, 7;
    • youth and early manhood, 14;
    • seat in Long Parliament, 41;
    • parentage and birth, 42;
    • his marriage, 43;
    • his Puritanism, 43;
    • hatred of Church of Rome, 44, 56;
    • removes to Ely, 45;
    • supports Petition of Rights, 45;
    • his indifference to political theory, 46;
    • his piety, 47;
    • his religion, 48;
    • personality, 50;
    • impatience of system, 53;
    • his suspicion of the Episcopacy, 56;
    • captain in 67th Regiment, 58;
    • his kinsmen at the battle of Nottingham, 58;
    • his troops, 65;
    • his military genius, 68;
    • his troop of horse, 70, 72, 73–75;
    • promoted to a colonelcy, 74;
    • his letters, 76;
    • his tolerant spirit, 77;
    • bearing toward Episcopalians, 78;
    • as cavalry commander, 79;
    • dubbed Ironsides by Rupert, 81;
    • his relief of Gainsborough, 82;
    • at Winceby, 83;
    • his generalship, 84;
    • member of Committee of Both Kingdoms, 85;
    • at Marston Moor, 87–90;
    • his training of troops, 91;
    • distrusted by Presbyterians, 92;
    • the real head of the army, 94;
    • Montrose not comparable with him, 95;
    • at Naseby, 96 et seq.;
    • takes Winchester, 98;
    • his rule after First Civil War, 99;
    • compared with William III., 101 et seq.;
    • his uncompromising spirit, 102;
    • his children’s marriages, 104;
    • his religious spirit, 105;
    • his letters and speeches, 105, 106;
    • on reconstruction, 109 et seq.;
    • not extreme against Charles, 114;
    • efforts toward agreement with King and Parliament, 118;
    • favors army against Parliamentarians, 119;
    • at Pembroke, 121;
    • his view of the Scotch, 123;
    • his reception at Edinburgh, 131;
    • his position at close of Civil Wars, 132;
    • motives for joining Independents, 133–135;
    • favors the regicide, 137, 139–140;
    • his ambition, 142;
    • his army, 145;
    • his Irish campaign, 151 et seq.;
    • his cruelty at Drogheda, 155;
    • Wexford, 158;
    • contradictions of his character, 159 et seq.;
    • letter to John Cotton, 160;
    • excellent conduct of Irish campaign, 162;
    • summoned from Ireland by Parliament, 163;
    • advances on and retreats from Edinburgh, 167 et seq.;
    • at Dunbar, 170–172;
    • his dispute with the Kirk party, 172 et seq.;
    • his clemency, 174;
    • attacks Charles II. at Worcester, 175;
    • champions Independents, 179;
    • policy toward Parliamentarians, 180 et seq.;
    • his views on Dutch War, 184;
    • defeats non-reëlection bill, 186;
    • his statesmanship, 188 et seq.;
    • his sermon to the Assembly, 191 et seq.;
    • despotism, 195;
    • first Protector, 197, 199;
    • his peace with the Dutch, 201;
    • his conflict with Parliament, 202 et seq.;
    • his government a tyranny, 210 et seq.;
    • suppresses the ale-houses, 213, 214;
    • declines the Kingship, 215;
    • his views on liberty, 219;
    • interferes in Continental affairs, 225 et seq.;
    • revenges Vaudois massacres, 227, 228;
    • contests Spain on the sea, 228;
    • his court, 229;
    • last illness, 230, 231;
    • death, 232;
    • desecration of his remains by Restorationists, 233;
    • compared with William III., 235;
    • political ideals, 236 et seq.;
    • cruelty of his Irish policy, 237;
    • posthumous reputation, 239
  • Cromwell, Richard, son of Oliver, as Protector, 232
  • Cromwell, Robert, father of Oliver, 42; his death, 43
  • “Crummle, the curse o’,” 225.
    • See Cromwell, Oliver, and Ireland
  • Cuirassiers, use in Parliamentary army, 60;
    • at Winceby, 83;
    • the Scotch at Marston Moor, 88
  • Czars, the, 9
  • Danes, the, Charles X.’s war against, 226
  • Dean, Colonel, at Preston, 126;
    • in Dutch War, 183;
    • his rule in Scotland, 221
  • Death penalty, a cause of sentimentalism, 137, 138;
    • its justice on tyrants, 234, 235
  • Declaration, Cromwell’s, in Ireland, 159, 161
  • Democracy, Cromwell’s bearing toward, 211
  • Derry, siege of, 150;
    • supports Parliamentarians, 152
  • De Ruyter, 182
  • Despotism, under republics, 22;
    • under the Stuarts, 28;
    • under Cromwell, 213;
    • a subject of doctrinaire notions, 236
  • Discipline, a military necessity, 91;
    • a source of soldiers’ ties, 107;
    • rigidly enforced by Cromwell, 152
  • Dissenters, persecuted under Elizabeth, 23;
    • aimed at by Third Parliament, 31;
    • position under the Protectorate, 200
  • Dragoons, 60, 79;
    • Royalists at Winceby, 83
  • Drake, 14, 18
  • Dreyfus case, the, 22
  • Drilling, excellence of Cromwell’s troops at Winceby, 83
  • Drogheda, siege of, 41, 48, 150;
    • Parliamentarian atrocities there, 153 et seq., 160
  • Dublin, Puritan rule there, 146, 147;
    • surrendered to Parliamentarians, 149;
    • Supreme Council of, 150;
    • siege of, 151;
    • Cromwell’s troops there, 152
  • Duke, Basil, 70
  • Dunbar, Leslie engages the English there, 169 et seq., 172, 173;
    • fate of Scotch prisoners captured there, 174;
    • anniversary of, 198, 231
  • Dundalk, surrender of, 150;
    • garrisoned by Cromwell, 157
  • Dunkirk, ceded to English, 229, 230
  • Dutch, the, their sailors in wars with Spain, 14;
    • oppressions under Spain, 36;
    • Parliamentarian war with, 181 et seq.;
    • commercial supremacy, 184;
    • religious toleration, 200;
    • peace with England, 201;
    • war with Charles X., 226
  • Eastern Association, the, 63;
    • the Ironsides in, 81;
    • committee of, 85;
    • its infantry at Marston Moor, 86–89;
    • its training, 91;
    • the pattern for the New Model, 93.
    • See also Associations
  • Edgehill, battle of, 71–73;
    • Charles I.’s standard-bearer there, 154
  • Edinburgh, Laud’s attempt to introduce the Prayer-Book there, 39;
    • Cromwell’s reception there, 131;
    • besieged by Cromwell, 167;
    • surrendered to Cromwell, 174
  • Edinburgh, Governor of, 172
  • Eglinton, Earl of, at Marston Moor, 88
  • Eliot, Sir John, character of, 27;
    • his leadership in Parliament, 30, 31;
    • his imprisonment, 32;
    • death, 33;
    • Charles I.’s vengeance on, 137
  • Elizabeth, Queen, her absolutism, 8;
    • her bearing toward Anglican Church, 9;
    • yields to the monopolies, 10;
    • her veiled despotism, 22;
    • persecutes Dissenters, 23;
    • her war with Spain on the sea, 58;
    • compared with Cromwell, 212;
    • Puritan persecutions in her reign, 217
  • Ely, home of Cromwell’s mother, 42, 45
  • Ely Cathedral, Cromwell’s interference there, 78
  • England, champion of religious liberty, 15, 21;
    • overlordship in Ireland, 15, 16;
    • peace under James I., 19;
    • rural and agricultural population, 58;
    • military experience, 59;
    • political incapacity in Cromwell’s time, 111;
    • relation with Scotland in Second Civil War, 123;
    • pitted against Scotland under the Commonwealth, 164;
    • law of, 181;
    • her carrying trade in Dutch War, 183;
    • her commercial greed, 184;
    • self-government, 192;
    • political freedom, 197;
    • Parliamentarian supremacy in, 198;
    • representative government, 206;
    • condition under the Protectorate, 211 et seq., 216, 221 et seq., 225;
    • her Irish policy, 227;
    • foreign fame, 230;
    • condition after Cromwell, 231 et seq.;
    • Cromwell’s descendants in, 239
  • England’s Freedom and Soldiers’ Rights, cry of, 119
  • English, the, as sailors in the Spanish wars, 14;
    • their excellence as military material, 58;
    • love of sports, 59;
    • serve as troops in Ireland, 84;
    • at Marston Moor, 86;
    • character of, in seventeenth century, 100 et seq.;
    • in India, 151;
    • their treatment of the Irish, 162;
    • capacity for self-government, 190, 220;
    • immigrants into Ireland, 223;
    • in West Indies, 229;
    • expansion of, 238
  • English Presbyterians, for the King against the army, 120
  • Episcopacy rejected by the Scotch, 38–40;
    • abolition of, demanded by Long Parliament, 56;
    • under Cromwell’s government, 218
  • Episcopalian Royalists, 177
  • Episcopalians, 78;
    • clergy hated by Presbyterians, 92;
    • their intolerance, 104;
    • Parliament deserted by them, 108;
    • with the Royalists in Ireland, 122, 132, 146;
    • under the Protectorate, 197;
    • the Prayer-Book denied them by the Commonwealth, 217
  • Erse, 224
  • Essex, Earl of, leader of Parliamentary forces, 57;
    • his Guards, 63, 64;
    • at Northampton, 69;
    • his blunders, 91;
    • compared with McClellan, 92
  • Essex, Fairfax in, 121
  • Europe, armed against French Revolutionists, 120;
    • effect of regicide on, 138;
    • Dutch position in, 182, 184;
    • religious tolerance, 200;
    • liberty, 219;
    • struggles of Spain and France, 226, 227;
    • Turks in, 228;
    • profligacy in seventeenth century, 230
  • Evolution, of English political freedom, 197
  • Executive, English and American, compared, 198
  • Expansion, English, 237–239
  • Extremists, in English Parliament, 113, 206
  • Fairfax, Sir Thomas, his friendship with Cromwell, 79;
    • at Winceby, 83;
    • at York, 85;
    • Marston Moor, 86, 87;
    • in command of Parliamentarians, 93;
    • at Naseby, 96, 97;
    • captures Bristol, 98;
    • returned to Parliament, 116;
    • approves Cromwell’s joining army party, 119;
    • his march into Kent, 121;
    • takes Colchester, 130;
    • Cromwell’s letter to, 131;
    • counsels moderation toward the King, 135;
    • declines campaign against Covenanters, 163;
    • his indecision, 164 et seq.
  • Falkland, Lord, 57
  • Fanaticism, consequent on English Revolution, 143
  • Fifth Monarchy, 103;
  • Flag, English, Dutch salute insisted on, 183
  • Flanders, English victories in, 230
  • Fleet, English, supports Parliamentarians, 122;
    • deserts to Royalists, 130;
    • its share in Dutch wars, 183;
    • supports Cromwell, 189;
    • under the Protectorate, 199
  • Foot, in seventeenth-century warfare, 59;
    • Parliamentarians’, at Gainsborough, 82;
    • Scots’, at Marston Moor, 88.
    • See also Infantry
  • Forrest, General, his inferiority to Grant, 68;
    • compared with Montrose, 94
  • Fortescue, Sir Faithful, deserts Parliamentarians at Edgehill, 71
  • Four Fundamentals, the, 205
  • France, serfs of, 59;
    • Prince Rupert in, 130;
    • Royalist refugees in, 149;
    • Protestants, 162;
    • in wars with Spain, 226, 227;
    • convention with England, 229
  • Franchise, the, redistribution of, under the Protectorate, 197
  • Frederick the Great, 145
  • Free State, the, 141.
    • See also Commonwealth
  • French, character of the, in eighteenth century, 100, 190
  • French Revolution, the, 120
  • Frobisher, 14
  • Gainsborough, siege of, 81
  • Galley slaves, English prisoners as, 129
  • Garrison, American Abolitionist, 103
  • Geddes, Jenny, at Edinburgh, 39
  • Geneva, 12
  • Gentiles, 220
  • Gentlemen, Cromwell’s opinion of, 76
  • Gentry, English, 59;
    • against Charles I., 61;
    • support of the King in Wales, 121
  • George III., his Government rejected by American Continental Congress, 36
  • George IV., 238
  • Germany, English adventurers in, 58;
    • serfs of, 59
  • Germans, the, Charles X.’s aggressions against, 226
  • Gladstone, early writings of, 49
  • Golden Rule, the, 47
  • Good government, Cromwell’s notion of, 204
  • Gordon, piety of, compared with Cromwell’s, 105
  • Goring, General, at Marston Moor, 87, 88, 89;
    • defeated by Fairfax, 98
  • Government, its development in Great Britain, 198;
    • Cromwell’s practice of, 211
  • Grand Remonstrance, the, against Charles I., 56, 57
  • Grant, General, his volunteer soldiery, 65;
    • his development of troops, 91;
    • his superiority to Forrest, 95;
    • his political supporters, 103;
    • his soldiers, 145;
    • his generosity, 216
  • Grantham, Cromwell at, 79
  • Great Britain, Charles II. declared King of, by the Scotch, 143;
    • government of, 198;
    • expansion of, 238
  • Greeks, the, under Agathokles, 210
  • Greene, General, 91
  • Guards, of Lord Essex, buff coats adopted by them as uniform, 64;
    • of Charles I., 64
  • Gunpowder, its use in Cromwellian times, 59
  • Gunpowder Plot, the, 44
  • Gustaphus Adolphus, his campaign against Spain, 14;
  • Hamilton, Duke of, 120;
    • his campaigns in Second Civil War, 122–124;
    • at Preston, 127;
    • beheading of, 128;
    • Kirk attitude toward him, 166
  • Hampden, John, Carlyle’s opinion of, 3;
    • originality of type of, 5;
    • his tolerance, 5;
    • refuses to pay Ship Money, 35, 45;
    • his relations with Cromwell, 46;
    • his Puritanism defined, 50;
    • compared with Cromwell, 53;
    • his imprisonment, 57;
    • a cousin of Cromwell, 58;
    • uniform of his regiment, 64;
    • at Edgehill, 72;
    • Cromwell’s opinion of his troops, 73;
    • his death, 80;
    • in Parliament, 177
  • Hapsburg, House of, in Spain and Austria, 17
  • Harrison, English Republican general, 136;
    • his devotion to Cromwell, 186;
    • calls musketeers into Parliament, 187;
    • his fanaticism, 199
  • Hawkins, Admiral, in Spanish wars, 14, 18
  • Hein, Piet, Dutch admiral in Spanish wars, 210
  • Helmets, carried by Cromwellian cavalry, 60
  • Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I., 25
  • Henry, Patrick, compared with Pym, 36
  • Henry VIII., King of England, his bearing toward the Reformation, 7;
    • his dealings with lower classes, 8;
    • with the Anglican Church, 9;
    • his career impossible under a Long Parliament, 11;
    • his oppressions, 22
  • High Court of Justice, Charles I. tried by, 136
  • Highlanders, the Scotch, in the Civil Wars, 95;
    • their chiefs at Stirling, 174;
    • at Worcester, 175
  • Highlands, the, General Monk in, 201
  • Hofer’s Tyrolese, 67
  • Holland, her stand against Spain, 15;
    • her colonial empire, 17;
    • House of Orange in, 135;
    • effect of regicide on, 138;
    • alliance with, desired by Cromwell, 184
  • Horse (cavalry), of the Parliamentarians, 57;
    • at Edgehill, 71;
    • Winceby, 83;
    • of the Parliamentarians at Marston Moor, 87, 88;
    • manœuvres with, at Marston Moor, 89;
    • use of, at Naseby, 96;
    • in retreat at Preston, 127, 128;
    • service at Dunbar, 170 et seq.
  • Horse-racing, suppressed under the Protectorate, 213
  • Howard, English admiral, 14
  • Huguenots, Charles I.’s feeble move against them, 26;
    • persecuted in France, 227
  • Hume, his opinion of Cromwell’s speeches, 203
  • Huntingdon, birthplace of Cromwell, 41, 42, 44, 45
  • Immigration of the English and Scotch into Ireland, 223
  • Inchiquin, Lord, Parliamentarian leader in Ireland, 148, 149;
    • captures Drogheda, 150
  • Independent Movement, the so-called, under Elizabeth, 23
  • Independents, English political party, 49;
    • Cromwell at head of, 49;
    • bearing toward the Presbyterians, 80;
    • real source of their power the Ironsides, 81;
    • hated by the Presbyterians, 92;
    • their strength in the army, 94;
    • their spirit commended by Cromwell, 106;
    • their proposed reconciliation with Parliamentarians, 115;
    • Charles I.’s designs on them, 116;
    • they take refuge in the army, 118;
    • conquerors of the Royalists, 120;
    • their prompt action in Second Civil War, 121;
    • their political isolation, 133;
    • rupture with Irish Presbyterians, 150;
    • their strength in the Commonwealth, 164;
    • in Parliament, 177 et seq.;
    • support of Cromwell in the Rump Parliament, 189;
    • under the Protectorate, 199, 220
  • Indian Mutiny, compared with state of Ireland under Cromwell, 151
  • Infantry, Parliamentarians’, at Nottingham, 57;
    • use of, in Cromwell’s time, 59, 60;
    • in action at Marston Moor, 87;
    • at Naseby, 96;
    • its importance at Preston, 127;
    • at Dunbar, 170;
    • Spanish, defeated by British in the Netherlands, 229
  • Inquisition, the, in Spain, 14;
    • the handmaid of tyranny, 17;
    • religious aspects of, 48
  • Instrument of Government, the, 195 et seq.;
    • recognized by Parliament, 204
  • Insurgents, the Irish, 147 et seq.
  • Ireland, England’s treatment of, 15, 16;
    • priesthood loyal to its peasantry, 17;
    • Protestantism in, 17;
    • its prosperity under Strafford, 36;
    • revolts against Charles I.’s government, 56;
    • English troops in, 84;
    • unites against the Parliament, 120;
    • complex political conditions, 122;
    • its loyalty, 143;
    • invaded by Cromwell, 144 et seq.;
    • Cromwellian atrocities, 156;
    • subjugation by Parliamentarians, 178;
    • discontent under the Protectorate, 221;
    • under Richard Cromwell’s rule, 232;
    • its misery under English reigns, 238
  • Ireton, Henry, character of, 6;
    • captain of troop in Sixty-seventh Regiment, 58;
    • at Naseby, 96, 97;
    • marriage with Bridget Cromwell, 105;
    • his leadership of the army, 116;
    • approves Cromwell’s joining the army party, 119;
    • remonstrates against the King, 135;
    • counsels mercy toward Charles I., 136;
    • desecration of his remains, 233
  • Irish, the, Charles I.’s overtures to, 84;
    • Puritan cruelty toward, 129;
    • Catholics’ treaty with Charles II., 148;
    • troops at Dundalk, 157;
    • English treatment of, 162, 227, 238
  • Ironsides, the, real power of the Independents, 80;
    • in action at Marston Moor, 87, 89;
    • membership in Eastern Association, 93;
    • type of, 95;
    • their army spirit, 107;
    • support the army party, 120;
    • at Preston, 126;
    • as volunteers, 144;
    • veterans in Ireland, 152
  • “Irreconcilables,” 198
  • Issues, political, not always sharply drawn, 180
  • Ivan the Terrible, 210
  • Jackson, Andrew, his backwoodsmen, 67
  • Jackson, “Stonewall,” resemblance to Cromwell and Ireton, 6;
    • his piety, 105;
    • his strategy compared with Cromwell’s, 171
  • Jamaica, taken by the English, 229
  • James I., his ignoble peace, 21;
    • his belief in despotism, 22;
    • his weak policy toward Parliament, 23;
    • absolutism in Church and State, 25;
    • his policy in Ireland, 146
  • James II., compared with James I., 101, 234
  • Jehovah, invoked in massacres, 160
  • Jews, massacres of, compared with Puritans’, 160;
    • their settlement in London, 220
  • Johnston, American general, development of his troops compared with Cromwell’s, 91
  • Jones, Colonel, Puritan leader, defeats Preston near Dublin, 149;
    • makes terms with Irish Papal party, 150;
    • routs Ormond at Dublin, 151
  • Joyce, Cornet, 117
  • Judges, under the Protectorate, 199
  • Kent, Fairfax in, 121
  • Kentucky, neutrality of, in American Civil War, 62
  • Kerne, the, in Ireland, 16;
    • Queen Mary’s expulsion of the, 16
  • Kilkenny, Cromwell’s manifesto there, 162
  • King Jesus, cry of, 112, 143
  • Kings, their divine right, 21;
    • English belief in, 100;
    • office of, abolished by the Commonwealth, 141;
    • arbitrary power of, 161
  • Kingship, offered to Cromwell, 215
  • Kirk party; in Scotland, 130, 131;
    • Cromwell’s dispute with, 172,173
  • Kirk, the, in Scotland, 166, 167;
    • its leaders urge Leslie on at Edinburgh, 169, 172;
    • its forces broken, 174
  • Knox, John, his influence on Scotch Calvinism, 18
  • Laissez-faire economists, 183
  • Lambert, Puritan general, sent to the North, 121;
    • in action at Preston, 124–128
  • Lancashire, Presbyterian rising there, 121
  • Lancers, 60;
    • the Scots’, at Marston Moor, 87;
    • at Dunbar, 170
  • Landed proprietors, interests of, threatened under the Protectorate, 193;
    • English, in Ireland, 223, 224
  • Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, Cromwell’s foe at Naseby, 121;
    • his command at Preston, 124–126
  • Laud, his hostility to Protestants, 30;
    • his ecclesiastical absolutism, 33;
    • becomes archbishop, 34;
    • his “thorough” policy, 35;
    • attempts to introduce ceremonials at Edinburgh, 38;
    • supports Charles I. against Short Parliament, 41;
    • imprisoned by the Parliamentarians, 52;
    • his execution, 80;
    • his intolerance compared with Presbyterians’, 109
  • Laws, English, considered by Parliamentarians, 181
  • Lawyers, Cromwell’s dislike of, 181, 193
  • Lee, American Confederate general, his volunteer soldiery, 65;
    • development of his troops, 91;
    • his generalship compared with Cromwell’s, 95
  • Legislative power under the Protectorate, 197
  • Lenthall, Speaker of House of Commons, 180
  • Leslie, David, Scottish leader, his service under Gustaphus Adolphus, 167;
    • his defence of Edinburgh, 167 et seq.;
    • operations at Dunbar, 169–172
  • Levellers, the, English Parliamentary party, distrusted by Cromwell, 112;
    • their agitation, 119;
    • their threatening attitude toward Cromwell, 143;
    • against the Commonwealth, 164;
    • suppressed under the Protectorate, 213
  • Leven, Earl of, Scottish leader, besieges York, 85;
    • at Marston Moor, 86
  • Liberty, political and religious, under the Stuarts, 24;
    • Cromwell’s views on, 79, 107;
    • under the Protectorate, 197
  • Lieutenant-general, Cromwell’s rank of, 144
  • Life Guards, Charles I.’s, 64
  • Lincoln, American President, his candidacy in 1864, 103;
    • his first election, 193;
    • compared with Cromwell, 207–208
  • London, its sympathy with the Commons, 57;
    • unification of the Parliamentary troops there, 64;
    • its troops at Copredy Bridge, 91;
    • Presbyterians of, 109;
    • its mobs in the army party, 118;
    • Presbyterian commotions there, 121;
    • the army’s march into, 136;
    • Cromwell’s return to, 163, 180;
    • Jewish settlement in, 220
  • Long Parliament, spirit of the, 5;
    • men of, 11;
    • its grievances compared with American Continental Congress’s, 36;
    • meets at Westminster, 41;
    • Cromwell’s issue with army party against it, 119;
    • the remnant of, 177;
    • its dissolution, 187, 188, 201, 204, 206;
    • comparison with the Protectorate, 216.
    • See also Parliament, Rump, etc.
  • Lord Protector, position of, 197;
    • Cromwell as, 212
  • Lords, House of, in Charles I.’s trial for treason, 136;
    • abolished under the Commonwealth, 141
  • Louis XIV., 162
  • Louis XV., 162
  • Lower classes in England, their discontent under the Tudors, 10;
    • incapacity for political combination, 10
  • Lucas, Sir Charles, repulsed by Scotch at Marston Moor, 88, 89
  • Luther, his zeal for righteousness, 7
  • Lutherans, intolerant spirit of, 13
  • Lynch law, occasional need of, 54
  • Macaulay, Lord, his opinion of Cromwell, 1
  • McClellan, American general, compared with Essex, 92;
    • attitude of Abolitionists toward, 103;
    • Democratic support of, 208
  • Major-generals, government of, under the Protectorate, 213, 215
  • Manchester, Earl of, Parliamentary leader, 58;
    • commands Eastern Association, 85;
    • at Marston Moor, 86;
    • denounced by Cromwell in Parliament, 93;
    • Cromwell’s speech to, 110
  • Marlborough, Duke of, 145
  • Marriage, civil, proposed under the Protectorate, 193
  • Marston Moor, Battle of, 86–90, 94, 95, 96;
    • Scotch share in, 124;
    • David Leslie at, 167
  • Mary, Queen, her expulsion of the Irish kerne, 16;
    • her treatment of Protestants, 217;
    • Irish policy, 238
  • Maryland, 165
  • Mass, the, denied to Irish by Cromwell, 158;
    • prohibited under the Protectorate, 198
  • Maurice of Orange, 14
  • Mazarin, French Cardinal, 17;
    • Cromwell’s reply to, 220;
    • co-operates with Cromwell, 228
  • Middle classes in England, powerful under the Tudors, 10;
    • strength among Parliamentarians, 69
  • Midianitish woman, the, 160
  • Militarism, English avoidance of, under James I., 19
  • Military rule, Cromwell’s, 213
  • Military service, not differentiated on land and sea in seventeenth century, 184
  • Military type, the, in Cromwellian army, 107;
    • influenced by religious zeal, 191
  • Militia, compared with regular soldiery, 66;
    • at Copredy Bridge, 91;
    • levy system of, 93
  • Mill Mount, 154
  • Milton, his contempt of political dreamers, 21;
    • his Puritanism, 50;
    • his political ideas, 111;
    • approves Cromwell’s joining with army party, 119;
    • his views on the regicide, 139;
    • supports the Protectorate, 209;
    • sonnet on the Vaudois, 227;
    • his greatness, 232, note
  • Ministers, their position under the Protectorate, 200
  • Moderate party, the, in the Long Parliament, 55
  • Monarchy, Cromwell’s dread of, 195, 211
  • Monasteries, Cromwell’s ancestors benefited by their spoliation, 44
  • Monk, General George, 84;
    • at Dundalk, 150;
    • as naval commander, 183, 201;
    • his rule in Scotland, 221;
    • supports Charles II., 233
  • Monopolies, under Elizabeth, 10
  • Montrose, Earl of, not a professional soldier, 69;
    • his victories in Scotland, 94, 95;
    • defeated at Philiphaugh, 98;
    • aided by Irish troops, 147;
    • his death, 166
  • Moors, defeated by Blake at Tunis, 228
  • Morgan, American Confederate commander, his cavalry, 70
  • Mountain, the, see French Revolution, 120
  • Munro, commands Hamiltonian cavalry, 122;
    • at Ulster, 123;
    • moves toward Preston, 124;
    • retreats across the border, 130;
    • bearing toward Charles II., 148, 150
  • Munster, Royalist Protestants in, 149
  • Muscovites, 210
  • Musketeers, clumsiness of their weapons, 59;
    • tactical uses of, 60;
    • at Winwick Church, 128;
    • their appearance in the House of Commons, 187
  • Nantes, Edict of, 39
  • Napoleon, 99;
    • his unscrupulousness, 104, 190
  • Naseby, Battle of, 95;
    • Sir Marmaduke Langdale at, 121
  • Navigation Acts, 182, 183
  • Navy, the English, its growth, 182, 184;
    • in Dutch wars, 201.
    • See also Fleet
  • Netherlands, the, British adventurers in, 58;
    • oppressions there compared with the Irish, 146, 156;
    • English and Spanish in, 229
  • Neutrality, in English Civil Wars, 63;
    • in Kentucky, 62
  • Newburn, Battle of, 41
  • Newbury, Battle of, 92
  • Newcastle, Cromwell’s letter to the Commandant there, 174
  • Newcastle, Lord, besieges Gainsborough, 81, 82;
    • his defence of York, 85;
    • at Marston Moor, 87–89
  • New England, 179
  • New Model, the, in Cromwellian army, 63, 93, 95;
    • strained relations with Independents, 106;
    • attempted disbandment of, 117;
    • results in Independents’ army, 120;
    • its veterans in Ireland, 152
  • New World, the, America’s position in, 179
  • New York, regicide sentimentalism in, 138
  • North America, 193, 238
  • North of England, the, Royalist rising in, 121
  • Northampton, Essex assembles troops there, 69
  • Northumbrian Regiment, Newcastle’s, 89
  • Nottingham Castle, scene of beginning of Civil Wars, 57;
    • Royalists there, 69;
    • held by Cromwell, 81
  • Offence, the best defence of nations, 164
  • Old-English Catholics, in Ireland, 146
  • “Old Noll,” 221
  • Old Testament, the, Puritanism in, 160
  • O’Neil, Irish Catholic leader, 149, 150;
    • joins Ormond, 151;
    • his troops in Ireland, 159
  • Orange, House of, 135
  • Ormond, Earl of, leader of loyal Irish, 146–148;
    • surrenders Dublin, 149;
    • heads moderate Irish Catholics, 150;
    • his supporters in Ireland, 151;
    • his troops at Drogheda, 153;
    • in Ireland, 159
  • “Ossawatomie Brown,” 145
  • Pale, the, in Ireland, 146, 147
  • Papacy, the, Henry VIII.’s attitude toward, 7;
    • “papacy or prelacy,” 197
  • Papal nuncio, in Ireland, 148
  • Parliament, Pym’s view of government by, 5;
    • growing powers under Elizabeth and James, 22;
    • Charles I.’s third, 27;
    • its struggles with the King, 29;
    • Covenant taken by, 78;
    • Cromwell’s speech against the generals as members in, 93;
    • Cromwell’s attitude toward, 101;
    • factions after First Civil War, 106, 108 et seq.;
    • army majority in, 116;
    • negotiations with King and army, 117;
    • Irish coalition against, 120;
    • makes Blake admiral, 130;
    • Cromwell’s dealings with, after Second Civil War, 131;
    • plans of union with King against army, 134;
    • Irish support of, 143;
    • aided by Coote in Ireland, 150;
    • summons Cromwell from Ireland, 162;
    • heirship to royal powers, 178;
    • conflict with army after Scotch wars, 178 et seq.;
    • law reform, 181;
    • Dutch Wars, 181;
    • non-reëlection bill, 185–187;
    • its rule distasteful to Cromwell, 195;
    • under the Protectorate, 198;
    • representation under the Protectorate, 201 et seq.;
    • dissolution of the Rump, 209;
    • Second, under the Protectorate, 215;
    • summoned by Richard Cromwell, 232;
    • Cromwell’s speech to Second Protectorate Parliament, 236.
    • See also Barebones; Commons; Rump; Long Parliament, etc.
  • Parliamentarians, military forces of, 57;
    • strength of, 61;
    • in Cornwall and Yorkshire, 63;
    • military leaders, 68;
    • resources, 69;
    • weakness of their cavalry, 73;
    • operations at Gainsborough, 81;
    • aided by the Scotch, 84;
    • at York, 85;
    • at Marston Moor, 88;
    • at Copredy Bridge, 91;
    • leader, removed by Cromwell, 93;
    • reorganization of army, 94;
    • reverses after Marston Moor, 95;
    • outnumber Royalists at Naseby, 95 et seq.;
    • dissensions of, after First Civil War, 99 et seq.;
    • opposition to Moderate Irish party, 152
  • Peace, slothfulness of, under James I., 21;
    • desire for, by mercantile communities, 182
  • Peasantry, in England, 61
  • Pembroke (Ireland), capture of, by Royalists, 121
  • Penal laws, English enforcement of, in Ireland, 162
  • Penances, observed by Royalists on anniversaries of Charles I.’s death, 240
  • Penn, at San Domingo, 229
  • Peter the Great, 237
  • Peters, Hugh, chaplain to Cromwell, 71
  • Petition of Right, becomes law, 28;
    • disregarded by the King, 32;
    • supported by Cromwell, 45
  • Philadelphia, church to Royal Martyr there, 138
  • Philip of Spain, bigotry of, 15;
    • merciless to persons of his own faith in other nationalities, 16, 156
  • Philiphaugh, Battle of, 98
  • Philippines, the, American volunteers in, 67
  • Phillips, Wendell, American Abolitionist, 103
  • Phineas, 160
  • Pikemen, their function in seventeenth-century war, 59;
    • tactical position of, 60;
    • at Winwick Church, 128
  • Pistols, use of, by seventeenth-century cavalry, 60
  • Plantations, English, in Ireland, 16, 146
  • Platform, American Republicans’ in 1860, 193
  • Plundering, suppressed by Cromwell, 75;
    • punishments for, at Winchester, 98;
    • Cromwell’s suppression of, in Scotland, 131, 153
  • Policy, necessity of adjusting a nation’s foreign and domestic, 20;
    • Cromwell actuated by, 93
  • Politics, as influenced by religious feeling, 19
  • Pope, the, Cromwell’s view of, 173
  • Portuguese, the, 16
  • Prayer-Book, the, Laud’s attempted introduction of, at Edinburgh, 39;
    • prohibited under the Protectorate, 198;
    • denied to Episcopalians under the Commonwealth, 217
  • Preachers, arrest of, under the Protectorate, 199
  • Presbyterian Church, in Scotland, 18
  • Presbyterian English, natural allies of Scotch, 55
  • Presbyterian ministers, in Scotland, 130
  • Presbyterian Royalists, against the army, 120;
    • in Parliament, 177
  • Presbyterianism, its growth in the Anglican Church under James I., 23;
    • sympathy with Scottish revolt, 40;
    • orthodoxy of, 80
  • Presbyterians, in Parliamentarian army, 76;
    • in Civil Wars, 92;
    • generals in House of Commons, 93, 94;
    • intolerance of, 104;
    • faith of, 106;
    • ascendancy of, in Parliament, 108;
    • their intolerance compared with Laud’s, 109;
    • feared by Puritans, 111;
    • efforts at reconciliation with Parliamentarians, 115;
    • take issue with the King against the army, 116, 120;
    • commotion of, in London, 121;
    • at Ulster, 122;
    • cruel treatment of, as Puritan prisoners, 126;
    • in Parliament after Second Civil War, 131 et seq.;
    • in touch with Ulster Irish, 146;
    • rupture with Independents, 150;
    • stand against Cromwell, 164;
    • position under the Protectorate, 200, 220
  • “Presbyter but Priest writ large,” 111
  • Presidency, the American, Lincoln’s candidacy for, 103
  • Preston, Battle of, 124 et seq.;
    • Second Civil War ended by, 130
  • Preston, Irish leader, 149
  • Pride, Colonel, Parliamentary leader, 76;
    • at Preston, 126;
    • at Winwick Church, 128;
    • in the Commons, 136
  • Pride’s Purge, 136
  • Priests, loyalty of, to peasants in Ireland, 17;
    • Milton’s view of, 111;
    • slaughter of, at Drogheda, 154;
    • persecuted in Ireland, 223
  • Prisoners, cruel treatment of, by Puritans, 129, 155, 174
  • Property, threatened under the Protectorate, 203
  • Protective tariffs, 183
  • Protector, the, office of, 197 et seq.
  • Protectorate, the, 197 et seq.;
    • rule of, in Ireland, 221–225
  • Protectorate Parliament, dismissed by Cromwell, 210, 212, 213
  • Protestantism, height of, in England, 9;
    • European sects, 11;
    • modern individual results of, 12;
    • the creed of liberty, 17
  • Protestants in Ireland, Parliament recognized by, 148;
    • Royalist, in Ireland, 150, 152;
    • war of Protestant powers, 184;
    • position of, under Queen Mary, 217;
    • in Ireland under the Protectorate, 224;
    • among the Swiss, 228;
    • influence of, in Ireland, 238, 239
  • Psalm-singing, by Puritans, at Winceby, 83;
    • at Marston Moor, 87;
    • Basing House, 98;
    • Dunbar, 171
  • Public opinion, Cromwell influenced by, 211
  • Puritanism, Carlyle’s opinion of, 3;
    • beginning of the modern epoch, 4;
    • growth under James I., 23;
    • not widespread under Charles I., 29;
    • character of, in Scotland, 38;
    • characteristics of, 160 et seq.;
    • apologists for, 218 et seq.
  • Puritans, sympathy of, with Scottish revolt, 40;
    • their suspicions of the Episcopacy, 56;
    • psalm-singing at Winceby, 83;
    • forces of, in army, 85;
    • at Marston Moor, 87;
    • phraseology of, in Cromwell’s time, 106;
    • Presbyterians feared by, 111;
    • hatred of Charles I., 114;
    • desire for vengeance on the King, 121;
    • opposed by the Irish, 122;
    • at Winwick Church, 128;
    • cruel treatment of prisoners, 129;
    • justice of their punishment of the King, 139;
    • disavow Irish alliance, 151;
    • cruelties at Drogheda, 154 et seq.;
    • toleration, 165;
    • opposed to Covenanters at Dunbar, 170;
    • in New England, 179;
    • passion for religious regulation, 214;
    • lack of generosity to foes, 216;
    • rule of, in Ireland, 224;
    • great names among, 232;
    • attitude toward Ireland, 238;
    • true greatness of, 239
  • Pym, Carlyle’s opinion of, 3;
    • original type of, 5;
    • tolerance of, 5;
    • leadership in Parliament, 30;
    • first modern “leader,” 31;
    • speech on imprisonment of Strafford, 51, 52;
    • imprisonment of, 57;
    • death, 80;
    • his Parliament, 177
  • Quakers, 143
  • Reed, Speaker, quoted, 235
  • Reform, attempted by Parliament, 181;
    • by Rump Parliament, 185;
    • in the Assembly, 193;
    • practicability necessary in, 194
  • Reformation, the, in England, 7;
    • European results of, 8;
    • in Scotland, 8
  • Reformed Church, influence of, in European politics, 7
  • Reformers, contradictions of, 13;
    • fanaticism of, under the Protectorate, 199
  • Regicides, the, 139
  • Regulars (soldiery), advantages of, 65, 69;
    • discipline of, 91;
    • Ironsides as regulars, 145;
    • ordinary type of, 145
  • Religious liberty, under the Protectorate, 197;
    • Cromwell’s view of, 220;
    • incompleteness of, in Ireland, 223
  • Republican Convention (U. S.), 1860, 193
  • Republicanism in Parliamentary army, 108; Cromwell’s, 131
  • Republicans in England, not extremists, 112;
    • after the Revolution, 142;
    • under the Protectorate, 202;
    • in the Commons, 204;
    • in Second Protectorate Parliament, 215
  • Republicans (U. S.), after Civil War, 103
  • Republics, in South America, 193
  • Restoration, the, 214, 232;
    • disgraceful effects of, 233
  • Revolution of 1688, 6, 100;
    • compared with Civil Wars, 234, 235
  • Revolution, Puritan, Cromwell’s attempt to check it, 119;
    • Presbyterian support of, 132;
    • Cromwell’s attitude toward it, 142, 179;
    • impermanent effects of, 188.
    • See also American Revolution; French Revolution, etc.
  • Rhode Island, 165
  • Ribble, river, 125, 127
  • Richelieu, 17
  • Ritual, Cromwell’s suppression of, at Ely, 78
  • Rochelle, Charles I.’s expedition against, 26, 27
  • Roman Catholicism identified with Spain in English opinion, 14;
    • liberality of, in France, 17;
    • Cromwell’s intolerance of, 77;
    • demanded for State religion by Irish, 147
  • Roman Catholics, intolerance of, 104;
    • Irish revolt supported by, 147;
    • position of, under the Protectorate, 197
  • Rome, 12
  • Root and Branch party, the, 56
  • Ross, capture of, by Cromwell, 158
  • “Roundhead,” term of reproach in Parliamentary army, 75
  • Roundhead army, 64;
    • its foot, 73;
    • at Marston Moor, 88
  • Royal Martyr, the, churches dedicated to, 138
  • Royalist Delinquents, 184
  • Royalist Protestants in Ireland, 149, 152
  • Royalists, at Nottingham, 57, 58;
    • strength of, 61;
    • driven out of Cornwall, 63;
    • military leaders of, 68;
    • natural taste for war, 69;
    • estates fined by Cromwell, 79;
    • at Grantham, 80;
    • defeated by Cromwell at Nottingham and Burleigh, 81;
    • stand at Gainsborough, 82;
    • defeated at Winceby, 83;
    • forces in Civil Wars unestimated, 86;
    • at Marston Moor, 86 et seq.;
    • Copredy Bridge, 91;
    • hope of, in Scotland, 94;
    • outnumbered at Naseby, 95 et seq.;
    • end of, in Scotland, 98;
    • surrender in 1646, 98;
    • union with Catholics and Presbyterians against Parliament, 120;
    • united in Ireland, 146;
    • in Irish wars, 149 et seq.;
    • opposed to the Commonwealth, 164;
    • dissensions in Scotland, 166;
    • Scottish reverses, 174;
    • their end in England, 178;
    • position under the Protectorate, 199, 213, 216;
    • penances done by, on anniversary of regicide, 240
  • Royalists in American Revolution, 217
  • Rump, the, 177, 181;
  • Rump Parliament, 185, 187, 188
  • Rupert, Prince, Royalist leader, military training, 68;
    • at Powick, 71;
    • his charge at Edgehill, 72;
    • at Grantham, 80;
    • dubs Cromwell Old Ironsides, 80;
    • his brilliant tactics, 84;
    • marches to relieve York, 85, 86;
    • against Cromwell at Marston Moor, 87, 88, 91;
    • his activity, 94, 95;
    • at Naseby, 96, 97;
    • in Parliament, 108;
    • his buccaneering cruise, 130
  • Russia, 9;
    • majority rule unnatural to, 25;
    • Charles X.’s policy toward, 226;
    • under Peter the Great, 237
  • Russians, the, under Ivan the Terrible, 210
  • Sabbath, observance of, under the Protectorate, 213
  • Sailors, fame of English, in seventeenth century, 14;
    • the Dutch as, 182
  • St. Bartholomew, Massacre of, 39
  • St. Fagan’s, Welsh defeat at, 121
  • St. Ives, Cromwell’s farm at, 45
  • St. John, Oliver, Cromwell’s cousin by marriage, 45, 46.
  • St. Peter’s, Drogheda, 154
  • San Domingo, English expedition against, 229
  • Santa Cruz, Blake’s victory over the Spanish there, 228
  • Savoy, Duke of, his persecutions of the Vaudois, 227, 228
  • Scotch, defeat Charles I.’s forces in Bishops’ Wars, 41;
    • adventurers in the Netherlands, 58;
    • relations with Parliamentarians, 78;
    • they aid the Parliamentarians, 84;
    • besiege York, 85;
    • at Marston Moor, 86, 87;
    • their military qualities, 94;
    • Charles I.’s surrender to, 98;
    • relations with Charles I. in Parliament, 116;
    • declare for King against army, 120;
    • they aid the cavaliers, 121;
    • in Second Civil War, 122;
    • Presbyterians at Ulster, 122;
    • union with Royalists, 124;
    • at Preston, 125–128;
    • Puritan treatment of, 129;
    • support Parliament after Second Civil War, 131;
    • in touch with Ulster, 146;
    • share in Irish war, 147;
    • at Trim, 157;
    • declare for Charles II., 162, 164;
    • losses at Dunbar, 171;
    • assemble at Stirling, 174, 220;
    • immigrants into Ireland, 223;
    • their share in British expansion, 238
  • Scotch Highlanders, military type of, in Civil Wars, 95
  • Scotch Presbyterians, support Charles II., 150
  • Scotland, character of, 18;
    • Episcopacy rejected there, 38, 40;
    • demands indemnity after Bishops’ Wars, 41;
    • its claims paid by the Long Parliament, 54;
    • makes terms with Charles I., 55;
    • brawls in, 58;
    • league with Parliamentarians, 80;
    • Royalist hope of, 94;
    • end of Royalist party there, 98;
    • complex political conditions, 122, 123;
    • Royalists and Covenanters, 165, 166;
    • subdued by Parliamentarians, 178;
    • definitive union with England, 201;
    • rule under the Protectorate, 220, 221
  • Scout-master, 84
  • Sea-power, Spanish, in sixteenth century, 227
  • Secession, right of, in American States, 62
  • Sectaries, Parliamentarian intolerance of, 116;
    • hatred of the Kirk for, 169
  • Self-denying Ordinance, the, 93, 94
  • Self-government, qualities of, 235
  • “Serving men and tapsters,” 73
  • Severn, river, 71
  • Seymour, American Vice-President, 103
  • Sheridan, American cavalry commander, 70;
    • compared with Cromwell in pursuit, 171
  • Ship Money, 34;
    • payment of, refused by Hampden, 35, 45;
    • declared illegal by Long Parliament, 54
  • Short Parliament, hostility of, to Charles I., 41.
    • See also Parliament
  • Sixty-seventh Regiment, Cromwell’s captaincy in, 58
  • Skippon, Parliamentarian major-general, wounded at Naseby, 97
  • Slavery, prisoners of Puritans sold into, 129, 153;
    • in the United States, 193
  • Sligo, captured, 148
  • Smithfield, 39
  • Soldiers, citizen and regular types compared, 64–69;
    • veterans at Marston Moor, 87;
    • pay neglected by Parliament, 116;
    • Scotch at Preston, 128;
    • their ready changes of allegiance, 129;
    • religion not always a cause of efficiency among them, 166
  • South Africa, volunteers in, 67
  • South American republics, 193
  • Southerners, in the United States, 102
  • Spain, feared by England in sixteenth century, 14;
    • supremacy of, 14;
    • her barbarities compared with those of Turkey, 15;
    • natural foe of France, 17;
    • sea-power crushed by the Dutch admirals, 18;
    • oppressions of the Dutch, 36, 146;
    • her cruelties, 162;
    • her colonial policy, 224;
    • Cromwell’s interference with, 226;
    • war with France, 226, 227;
    • defeated by England in the Netherlands, 229
  • Spaniards, English victories over them on the sea, 182;
    • their cruelty, 218
  • Speaker of the House, Cromwell’s letter to, 105
  • Speeches, character of Cromwell’s, 202, 205
  • Star Chamber, the, 28;
    • its subserviency to the King, 32;
    • Cromwell’s hatred of, 53;
    • abolished by Long Parliament, 54
  • States rights, doctrine of, in the United States, 62;
    • in English counties, 63
  • Steward.
    • See Cromwell, Elizabeth S.
  • Stirling, assembling of Scotch forces there, 174
  • Strafford, Lord, minister of Charles I., his jealousy of Buckingham, 27;
    • his abetting of the King, 33;
    • raised to the Peerage, 34;
    • his rule in Ireland, 35, 36;
    • returns from Ireland, 41;
    • his impeachment and defence, 51;
    • death, 53;
    • the King’s treachery to him, 137
  • Strategy, lack of, in 1643, 79;
    • Cromwell’s principles of, 168;
    • “Stonewall” Jackson’s and Cromwell’s compared, 171
  • Stuart, American Confederate cavalry commander, 70
  • Stuart, House of the, 139;
    • its weakness against the Commonwealth, 139;
    • re-establishment of, 233
  • Stuarts, the English Kings, 7;
    • England under their rule, 8;
    • their supposed spiritual supremacy, 9;
    • their ignorance of their people, 11;
    • weakness of their domestic and foreign policy, 20;
    • their belief in the divine right of kings, 21;
    • reactionary type of, 24;
    • their power curtailed by Petition of Right, 28;
    • Charles I. the type of, 134;
    • their bearing in exile, 199;
    • comparisons with Cromwell, 211;
    • their Restoration, 214;
    • taxation during their reigns, 216, 225
  • Suffrage, manhood, advocated by the Levellers, 112;
    • under the Protectorate, 201
  • Sunday, observance of, 214
  • Supreme Council of Dublin, the, 150
  • Sweden, champion of the Reformation, 26
  • Swiss mercenaries, hired by Cromwell, 228
  • Swords, use of, by cavalry, 60
  • Syracusans, the, oppressions of, 210
  • Tactics, shock and fire compared, 59;
    • at Marston Moor, 86;
    • Scots’, at Preston, 125
  • Tartar yoke in Russia, the, 210
  • Taxation, in England, by Parliament, 184;
    • under the Protectorate, 216;
    • under the Commonwealth, 217
  • Ten Commandments, the, 46
  • Thirty Years’ War, the, France’s share in, 17;
    • in Germany, 26;
    • its height at death of Gustaphus, 39;
    • its influence on Cromwell, 44;
    • soldiery in, 65;
    • Cromwell’s inclination to take part in it, 118
  • Thornhaugh, Colonel, Parliamentary leader of horse, 128
  • Tilly, 129, 156
  • Timoleon, 208
  • Tithes, 193
  • Tolerance, in the modern world, 12;
    • falseness of, in seventeenth century, 19.
    • See also Catholics; Cromwell; Puritans, etc.
  • Tonnage and poundage, 29;
    • declaration against its pay without Parliamentary consent, 31;
    • declared illegal by Long Parliament, 54
  • Tories, in America, 217
  • Tower of London, the, Eliot’s imprisonment there, 32;
    • Laud’s, 52
  • Trade, in Europe, in the seventeenth century, 182
  • Trim (Ireland), captured by Parliamentarians, 157
  • Tromp, the elder, in the Spanish wars, 18, 182
  • Tudors, English sovereigns, unarmed despots, 10, 11;
    • their relations with English commercial classes, 10;
    • with middle class, 10
  • Tunis, Blake at, 228
  • Turenne, regular soldiers under, 145;
    • service of British troops under, 229
  • Turks, cruelty of, 218, 228
  • Tyranny, English intolerance of, 11;
    • Cromwell’s tyranny defined, 210 et seq., 216;
    • Charles I.’s, 234
  • Ulster, Scotch Presbyterians at, 122;
    • Irish rising there, 146;
    • captured by Parliamentarians, 150;
    • massacres by Cromwellians there, 151, 157;
    • under the Protectorate, 223
  • Ultramontanes, the, 148, 150
  • Uniforms, variety of, in Parliamentary army, 64;
    • origin of present English, 229
  • Union, War of the, in the United States, 193;
    • its salutary effects, 208.
    • See also American Civil War
  • Unitarians, 78
  • United States, the, religious tolerance of, compared with Cromwell’s England’s, 49;
    • political theorists, 113;
    • Abolitionists, 192;
    • Constitution of, 196;
    • government of, 198;
    • practical good sense of, 219
  • Valley Campaigns, Stonewall Jackson’s, 171
  • Vane, Sir Harry, 185, 187
  • Van Heemskirk, his prowess against Spain, 18
  • Vaudois, the, persecutions of, 220, 227
  • Venables, at San Domingo, 229
  • Venetian government, Puritans’ prisoners sold to, 129
  • Verdelin, Regiment of, 225
  • Verney, 154
  • Veto, the Protector’s, 197
  • Victoria, Queen, 135
  • Virginia, Puritans’ prisoners there, 129
  • Volunteers (soldiery), in American Civil War, 65;
    • compared with regulars, 66–69;
    • Ironsides as, 144;
    • rawness of, 167
  • Wales, Royalist rising there in Second Civil War, 121;
    • Cromwell’s administration there, 216
  • Wallenstein, 129, 156
  • Waller, Parliamentary general, at Copredy Bridge, 91
  • War-ships, Dutch, 182
  • Washington, compared with Pym and Hampden, 5, 36;
    • his superiority over Cromwell, 53;
    • his regular soldiery, 91;
    • character of, 101;
    • disinclination to dictatorship, 102;
    • his lofty plane, 103;
    • his judicious government, 110;
    • his statesmanship, 188, 190;
    • his influence on the United States Constitution, 196;
    • his forbearance, 207
  • Waterloo, Battle of, compared with Marston Moor, 90
  • Wayne, American Revolutionary general, 91
  • Wellington, 145
  • Welsh War, 121, 122
  • Wentworth, Sir Thomas, 27;
    • character of, 33.
    • See also Strafford
  • West Indies, English rule in, 229
  • Westminster, Long Parliament meets there, 41;
    • Cromwell installed there, 199
  • Westminster Hall, Cromwell’s head exposed there by Restorationists, 233
  • West Point, advantages of its training, 67
  • Wexford, Cromwellian atrocities there, 155;
  • Whigamore Raid, the, in Scotland, 130
  • Whitehall, Palace of, 42, 57;
    • Charles I. beheaded there, 137
  • Whitewarts, the, at Marston Moor, 89
  • William the Conqueror, his Lords, 108
  • William III., English King, 100;
    • his ability, 101;
    • the real successor of Cromwell, 234, 235
  • Williams, original name of the Cromwells, 42
  • Willoughby, Lord, Parliamentary general, at Gainsborough, 81, 82;
    • Cromwell’s charges against, 85
  • Wilson, American cavalryman, 70
  • Winceby, Battle of, 83
  • Winchester, occupied by Cromwell, 98
  • Winchester, Marquis of, Royalist leader, 98
  • Winwick Church, the Scotch at, 128
  • Worcester, Battle of, 175, 177, 180;
    • anniversary of, 231
  • “Word of the Lord, the,” 46, 47
  • Yeomanry, in England, 59, 61
  • York, the siege of, 85;
    • fall of, 90
  • Yorkshire, neutrality of, 63;
    • its troops at Marston Moor, 86 et seq.;
    • rising for Charles I. there, 121;
    • troops in Second Civil War, 124;
    • at Preston, 127