His trial and execution, 455, 436, and n.
His character, ib. His works, and par-
ticularly of Eikoon Basilikè, 458, 459.
Books published for and against his
death, 461. Who were the authors of
his death, 164, &c.

Charles II. his letter about the mar-
quis of Antrim, ii. 435. Scots treaty
with him in Holland, iv. 12. Condi-
tions of it, 19. He arrives in Scotland,
ib. Is crowned there, 36. His oath,
ib. He signs the covenant and a decla-
ration, 37. Remarks, 38. He marches
to England with the Scots army, 47.
Preparations of the parliament against
him, 48. Marches his army to Wor-
cester, ib. Is defeated by Cromwell,
49. Escapes into France, ib. Neglects
the Presbyterians, and turns his eyes
towards the Papists, 50. Plots in his fa-
vour, 82. 86. 170. Address of the Ana-
baptists to him, 179. The truth of which
is questioned, ib. He abjures the Pro-
testant religion at the Pyrenees, 211.
Proofs of his being a Papist before, 212.
But he denies it to foreign Protestants,
213. His letter to the Rev. Mr. Caw-
ton, ib. French ministers employed to
write that he is a Protestant, 214. Ex-
tract from his letter to the house of
commons, 215. Steps towards his resto-
ration, 224. Terms on which the Scots and
English Presbyterians would restore him,
226. Remarks, 227. Monk corresponds
with him, 228. His declaration from
Breda, 229. He is invited home without
any terms, 230. Owing in part to lord
Clarendon, 231. A deputation of lords
and commons, with some ministers, wait
on him at Breda, ib. The bishops send
to him with instructions, 232. He lands,
and rides through the city to Whitehall,
236. His views, 248. Abstract of his
declaration concerning ecclesiastical af-
fairs, 260. Opinion of some churchmen
concerning it, 267. Acceptable to most
of the Presbyterians, ib. Rejected by
the house of commons, 269. Remarks,
ib. His marriage, 287. Made a premu-
nire to call him Papist, &c. 290. His
speech to his parliament, 289. His pre-
tended zeal for the hierarchy, 315. His
concern for the Papists, 316. His decla-
ration concerning indulgence, 351. His
speech to parliament in support of it,
353. He moves for a general toleration,
378. His management with the dissent-
ers, 387. His design of governing ab-
solutely, 402. His new declaration of
indulgence, 407. He gives it up, 418.
Is displeased with his parliament, 425.
And publishes a severe order against
the dissenters, 426. His arbitrary go-
vernment, and declaration about parlia-

ments, 469. His order for persecuting
the dissenters, 593. His death and cha-
racter, 501, and n.

Charnock, Mr. Stephen, his death
and character, iv. 464, 465, n.

Charke, Mr. expelled the university
for preaching against the hierarchy, i.
230.

Charters taken away, iv. 477. Re-
marks, ib.

Chauncey, Rev. Mr. his sufferings, ii.
181. His recantation, 237. Repents of
it, and retires to New-England, ib. Some
account of him, 286, and n. Of his
works, 287, n.

Chauntries, &c. given to the king, i.
18, 41.

Chear, Mr. Abraham, memoirs of, v.
196.

Cheney's Collectiones Theologicæ li-
censed, while Twisse's Answer to Arini-
nius was suppressed, ii. 149.

Cheynel, Dr. his behaviour at Mr.
Chillingworth's interment, iii. 83, and n.
Some farther account of him, 395. His
death, iv. 370. Dr. Johnson's account
of, ib. n.

Chillingworth, Mr. his observations on
the Bible, i. 197. iii. 82. His death and
character, 81.

Christmas, order for laying aside the
observation of it, iii. 140. Remarks,
141. Ordinance for abolishing it, &c.
355.

Church, the Puritans' opinion con-
cerning it, ii. 55. King James declares
against the service of the church of Eng-
land, when in Scotland, 2. What the
Puritans wanted to have reformed in it,
4. 14, 15, &c. Conformity to it enfor-
ced, 20. Its canons, 29. Lawfulness of
separation from it argued, 44. Persons
obliged under a penalty to come to it,
47. Second separation from it, 54.
Laud's scheme for governing it, 178, and

n.

Its splendour, 194. 249. Its ap-
proaches towards Popery, 260. Design
of uniting it to the church of Rome, ib.
Its service neglected, 339. Condition of
it at the beginning of the civil war, 503.
Church ales, 214. Church-government,
oath to prevent alterations in it, 302.
Several schemes of it, 397, &c. Church
livings, what the Puritans would have
reformed concerning them, 5. Church-
ornaments, ministers suffer for preaching
against them, 201. Churchwardens' oath,
246. Proclamation for repairing churches,
193. Its discipline and hierarchy dis-
solved, iii. 79. 94. 306. Of the conse-
cration of them, 164-166. Of church-
music, 173, 174. Questions respect-
ing the divine right of church-govern-
ment, 253. Sentiments of the assembly

of divines upon it, 278. And of the
London ministers, 279. Whether the
church of Rome is a true church, 192.
Laud's design of reconciling the church
of England to it, 193.

Church of England becomes indepen-
dent of the pope and foreign jurisdic-
tion, i. 13. By what authority and in
what way reformed, 34. Reformation of
its offices, 43. Of its doctrine, 62, Far-
ther reform of its public offices, 63. A
more complete reform designed by Ed-
ward VI. 67. Reconciled to Rome in
Queen Mary's reign, 81. Reformed
again under Elizabeth, 118, &c. The
mischiefs occasioned by the act of uni-
formity, 119. 134. The first separation
of the Nonconformists from it, 188. Some
of her ministers disguised Papists, 244.
Statute to oblige persons to attend
church, 300. A survey of its ministers,
382. A most severe act to punish those
who refused to go to it, 426. Another
act of the same kind that does not pass,
464. Its low condition, iv. 50. 178. 208.
Restored, 240. 245. It applies to the
dissenters for assistance in James's reign,
v. 37. 58, 59. Remarks, 37.60.

Church-lands alienated, i. 65. Re-
stored by queen Mary, 81.

Churchwardens, conclusions of the
Puritans concerning them, i. 278.

Civil magistrate, Puritans' opinion
concerning him, ii. 59. Civil liberties of
England destroyed, 267. Whether reli-
gion may be reformed without the civil
magistrate, iii. 287, &c.

Civil war, preparations for it, ii. 486.
It opens, 500. Authors of it, 516.
Grounds and reasons on which it pro-
ceeded, 522. Miseries and desolation of
that between the king and parliament,
iii. 90, &c. Conclusion of the first, 273.
Views of the parties, 331. The second
civil war, 406. Remarks on the couse-
quent confusion, 412..

Clapham, Enoch, some account of a
small piece he published in 1608, on the
different sects of religion at that period,
v. 115.

Clarendon, lord, his history quoted, i.
preface viii. His account of the Papists,
ii. 265. His representation of the times,
267. Remarks upon it, 268. His high
principles, and attachment to the bi-
shops, iv. 248. His speech to the par-
liament, 289. Promotes the act of uni-
formity, 332. His speech against the
Nonconformists, 365. His fall, 375. Vin-
dicated, ib. n. His character, &c.; 376,
377, and ns.

Clarke, Mr. Matthew, some account of

him, p. xx. of Neal's life prefixed to vol.
i. n.

Clarke, Rev. Hugh, his death and cha-
racter, ii. 235.

Clarke, the name adopted by Richard
Cromwell for some years, during his re-
sidence near Romsey, iv. 235. n.

Clarke, Mr. Samuel, his death, &c.
iv. 478, and n.

Clarkson, Mr. his recantation, iii. 136,
and n.

Clarkson, Mr. David, his death and
character, v. 44, and n.

Classes, &c. conclusions of the Pari-
tans concerning them, i. 279. Their pro-
ceedings in them, 393.

Clayton, Dr. some account of him, iii.

387.

Clergy, their rights surrendered into
the pope's hands, i. 1. Their tyranny
and cruelties, 5-7, and n. 13. 15.
110. Brought under the statute of pre-
munire, and on what conditions par-
doned by Henry VIII. 9, 10. Their
submission, 13. A stop put to their
cruelties for a time, by the rupture be-
tween the king and the pope, 16. The
king's injunctions to them, 22. The ma-
jority of them for Popery, 41. Yet.com-
ply with the new service-book, 47.
Their marriages legitimated, 64. Are for
restoring Popery in queen Mary's reign,
75. Numbers ejected for being married,
&c. 77. Many for the reformation that
recanted under queen Mary, and after-
ward turn again, 91. In convocation
they were against the reformation in the
beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign,
121. The inconsiderable number that
quitted their livings on that account,
133. The sad state of those that remain-
ed in the church, 142. 145. 382. 391.
Hardships of the country clergy, 353.
Selden's character of them, ii. 128.
Their pride and ambition, 250. Their
approach towards Popery, 261. Canon
concerning their conversation, 304. Pro-
ceedings against the clergy for malig-
nancy, &c. iii. 27. Quality of those
ejected, 31. Sequestration of their es-
tates, 32. Their hardships, 34. Quality
of those who succeeded them, 35, 36.
Their hardships from the solemn league
and covenant, 68. Numbers ejected,
112. Compared with the ejected minis-
ters at the restoration, 113. Hardships
on both sides, 115. Laud charged with
attempting to set up an independent
power in them, 157. Parliament's care
for a regular clergy, 232. Bill for pu-
nishing scandalous clergymen, 11.-See
Committee and Scandalous. Sufferings

of the episcopal clergy, iii. 21, 22. How
far they contributed to the king's death,
463. Their forwardness, iv. 232. Se-
questered clergy restored, 239. Act for
it, 271. Their behaviour and character,
347.348.379. Clergymen belonging to
cathedrals whose offices were abo-
lished, provision for their maintenance,

28.

Clerk-ales, ii. 214.

Clubmen, their rise, iii. 90.

Coale, Josiah, his death, &c. v. 245.
Colchester, siege of, iii. 407.

College, Stephen, executed, iv. 471.
Collins, Mr. Anthony, publishes
Priestcraft in Perfection, and other'
works, which excite controversy, i. 148, n.

Collins, Dr. some account of, iii. 99.
Collins, Mr. John, his death and cha-
racter, v. 45.

Colman, Mr. his death and character,
iii. 316.

Comber, Dr. some account of him, iii.

100.

Commentary on the Ephesians, and
Dioclesian's trial, two treatises by Mr.
Baynes, a divine of uncommon learning,
ii. 94.

Commentaries on the Colossians and
St. Peter, published by Mr. Byfield, a
divine of great piety, capacity, and
learning, ii. 119.

Commissioners, ecclesiastical.
High-commission.

See

Commitments illegal, charged upon
archbishop Laud, iii. 154.

Committee of accommodation, ii. 395.
The sub-committee, 396. Their names,
ib. Their propositions and queries, 397.
They break up, 402. Remarks, ib.
Committee for preaching ministers, and
for scandalous ones, 418, and n. One for
scandalous ministers, iii. 23. Their pro-
ceedings, 24, &c. One for plundered
ministers, 27. Their proceedings, ib.
United with that for scandalous minis-
ters, 28. Censures on their proceedings,
ib. and 29. Country committees, 30.
Their instructions, ib. Their proceed-
ings, 31, &c. Committee to examine
clergymen, 80. Their method of exami-
nation, ib. Committee of sequestrations,
95. Another for scandalous ministers,
with the earl of Manchester's warrant to
them, 107. His instructions to them,
108. His letter to them, 109. Their me-
thod of proceeding, 110. Remarks, 111.
Committee of accommodation between
the Presbyterians and Independents,
255, &c. Committee of safety, iv. 200.
Common Prayer-book, revised, i. 63.
Established by act of parliament, 64.

[See service-book.] Puritans' objections
to it, ii. 48. Queries concerning it, 398.

Commonwealth government set up,
iv. 1. Remarks; an anecdote on their
motto; opposed by the levellers, 2, and
n. And by the Scots, 3. Scotland united
to it, 51. Their power and wise con-
duct, 57. Farther account of their cha-
racter, 61.

Communion-tables placed instead of
altars, reasons for it, i. 53. 131. Refor-
mation in the communion-service, 43. 63.
Canon about them, ii. 35. Turned into
altars, 221. Arguments for and against
it, 222. Votes about them, 419.

Commutation of penance, ii. 304. iii.

156.

Comprehension attempted between
the Presbyterians and Independents, in
vain, iii. 255. Presbyterians' address for
it, iv. 250. Their proposals towards it,
251. They are disappointed, 254, &c.
Another project for it, 381. Abstract of
the proposals, 382. Quashed by the bi-
shops, 385. Farther fruitless attempts
for it, 425. Attempt in parliament for it,
460, &c. v. 78. Remarks, 84.

Compton, bishop, his character and
conduct, v. 26 and 27, ns. Suspended,
&c. 27, and n.

Concealments, commission of, i. 307.
Conference at Lambeth, i. 343. Heads
of it, 344. Issue of it, 345.

Conferences, the two between the
Romish priests and Protestant divines,
p. xxvi life of Neal, prefixed to vol. i. n.
Conferences of the Puritans, vindicated
by them, i. 415.

Confession of faith of the authors of
the Admonition to Parliament, i. 234, n.
Assembly of divines' proceeding upon a
confession of faith, iii. 319. Presented
to parliament, who debate on it, ibid.
Articles of discipline rejected, but the
whole received by the Scots, 320. Cen-
sures upon it, 321.

Confession of faith, Baptists'; when
published, v. 124. Its design, ibid. Of
Dr. John Rippon's, and other editions,
190, 191.

Confirmation, what the Puritans dis-
liked in it, i. 194.

Conformity, terms of, disliked by
many,
and remarks thereon, i. 134. The
queen requires full conformity, 299.
Severe act to enforce it, 300. 426. Pro-
clamation for enforcing it, ii. 20. Ban-
croft's letter about pressing it, 38. Low
terms of under the commonwealth, iv. 55.
Terms of it by the act of uniformity, 329.
Higher than before the civil wars, 330.
Conformists, difference between the

old ones and many of the present, i. 160.
No difference in points of doctrine be-
tween the Puritans and Conformists, 196.
Editor's note of elucidation, ibid.

Congé d'elire, bishops appointed to
be chosen by, i. 12. 108. 113.

Connecticut colony founded, ii. 285.
Constitution given up and destroyed,
iv. 493. Anecdote, ibid. n.

Conventicle-act, iv. 357. Sad, conse-
quences of it to ministers and people,
358. The act revived, 391. Additional
clauses, 392. Remarks, 394.

Convention-parliament, their senti-
ments as to the authors of the king's
death, iii. 467. Convention in 1660, iv.
229. Invite the king home without terms,
230. Are turned into a parliament, 236.
Avow the justice of the civil war, ibid.
Give up every thing the court desire,
237. Remarks, ib. Are dissolved, ib.
Their acts, 271. Convention in 1688. v.
69. Offer the crown to the prince and
princess of Orange, 70. Turned into a
parliament, 74. Their proceedings, 76,
&c.

Convocations, how held formerly, and
their power, i. 2. Restrained by Henry
VIII. 13. Original of them, 68. They
have all their powers from the king, 114.
In queen Mary's reign subscribe to
transubstantiation, 75. In the beginning
of queen Elizabeth's reign against the
reformation, 121. They next agree upon
the thirty-nine articles, 147. But are
divided about the ceremonies, 149.
Another increases the hardships of the
Puritans, 220. Defends pluralities and
nonresidence, 363. Continues sitting
after the parliament, 385. Address the
queen against the bill to prevent plurali-
ties, 398. Make some regulations in spi-
ritual courts, 464. Proceedings of the
convocation of 1603, ii. 25, &c.

Their

book of canons, 29. Denounce excom-
munication on all who reflect on them,
or question their authority, 33. Pro-
ceedings of that of 1640, 297, &c. Con-
tinued after the dissolution of the parlia-
ment, 298. Remarks upon it, ib. Their
book of canons, 300. Objections of the
commons to them, 324, 325. The last
in Charles's time, 321. They disperse,
323. Of the sitting of the convocation
after the parliament, iii. 159. Meeting
of convocation, iv. 305. Ordered to re-
view the liturgy, 306. Alterations they
made in it, 307, &c. Proceedings of the
convocation in king William's reign, v.
83. Their disaffection, ibid.

Cooke, Mr. secretary, ii. 167.
Copes, of their use, iii. 174. 176.
Coppe, Rev. Mr. his sufferings, v. 134.

Copping, Mr. the Brownist, executed,
i. 314.

Corbet, Mr. Edward, his death, &c.
iv. 168.

Corbet, Mr. John, his death, character,
and works, iv. 465, 466.

Cornish, Rev. Mr. suspended for
preaching on the evening of the Lord's
day, and Mr. Devenish of Bridgwater,
ii. 249.

Cornish, Mr. alderman, executed, v. 9.
Cornwall, petition of the inhabitants
of, to the parliament, for better ministers,
i. 294.

Cornwell, Francis, his history, publi-
cations, &c. v. 193, 194, &c.

Coronation-oath, alterations in it, ob-
jected to Laud, iii. 156. The king's
scruples about it, with regard to the
church, 284, 285. 288. 432.

Corporation-act, iv. 292. Remarks,

293.

Cosins, Rev. Dr. his book favouring
Popery, ii. 262. Censured in parliament,
336, and ns. Some account of him, iii.
99. His behaviour at the Savoy-confer-
ence, iv. 302. Remarkable passage in his
will, 348.

Cotton, Rev. Mr. removes to New-
England, ii. 228.

Čovenant. See Solemn League.
Covenant or vow to stand by the par-
liament, iii. 19.

Coverdale, Miles, assists in translating
the Bible, i. 18. Made coadjutor, and
then bishop of Exeter, 61. Retires out
of the kingdom, 74. His sufferings and
death, 152. Much followed by the Puri-
tans, 187.

Council-table, its arbitrary proceed-
ings, ii. 136. Council of officers and agi-
tators, iii. 334. Council of state, a new
one, iv. 53. Dismissed by Cromwell, 61.
Country clergy, their hardships, i.

353.

Countryman's catechism,
church's plea for tithes, iv. 55.

or the

Court of Charles II. their views with
respect to a comprehension or toleration,
iv. 248. 346. Their behaviour, 269.
Their licentiousness, 388. Their proceed-
ings to establish arbitrary power, 430. A
bill in the house of lords for that purpose,
ib. It is dropped, 431. Secret History
of this Court and Reign, a work quoted
in vol. ii. 19, n. 25, n. 130, n. and in many
other parts of these volumes.

Coward, William, esq. institutes the
lectures in Berry-street, p. xxiii of life of
Neal, prefixed to vol. i.

Cowel, Dr. his extravagant positions
concerning the prerogative, ii. 67.

Cox, Dr. brings in king Edward's ser-

vice-book at Frankfort, i. 97. Which
breaks up the old congregation, ibid.

Cox, Mr. B. his sufferings, v. 133.
Cox, Mr. Benjamin, some particulars
of, v. 196.

Cranford, Mr. James, his death, iv.

168.

Cranmer, archbishop, gives sentence
of divorce for Henry VIII. i. 12. Pro-
motes the reformation, 15. Reviews and
corrects Tyndal's Bible, 19. Appointed
to dispute against Lambert the martyr,
25. His power declines, 32. His judg-
ment concerning the episcopal jurisdic-
tion, 41. His persecuting principles, 48.
Causes Joan of Kent and George Van
Paris to be burnt as heretics, 49, 50. He
is zealous for the habits, 58. But relaxes
his opinion about them, 59. His senti-
ments about discipline, 68. Not satisfied
with the liturgy, though twice reformed,
ib. He is sent to the Tower, 73. Tried
for high-treason, 75. Declared a heretic,
79. Degraded, and recants, 86. Re-
tracts his recantation, and is burnt, 87.
Was utterly against the Popish habits at
last, 157. Cranmer's Bible, ii. 81.

Creed-church, manner of its consecra-
tion by Laud, ii. 190.

Crisp, Dr. of London, his death and
character, iii. 16.

Crofton, Mr. his sufferings, iv. 271.
Cromwell, lord, a friend to the refor
mation, i. 15. Made visitor-general of
the monasteries, 16. Arrested, and be-
headed without trial, 28. Cause of his
fall discussed, ibid. and n.

Cromwell, Oliver, designs to go to
New-England, ii. 287. 440. 492. 507.
His character, iii. 228. His bravery
and conduct in the battle of Naseby,
230. He and Ireton confer with the king
about his restoration, 345. Reasons of
his deserting him, 346. His speech in
parliament, 354. He reduces the Welsh,
407. Defeats the Scots under duke
Hamilton, 410. Returns to London, 447.
His speech on the motion for trying the
king, 448. Reduces Ireland, iv. 4. His
rapid success, 5. He and his army petition
for a toleration, 8. Marches against the
Scots, 19. Defeats them at Dunbar, 21.
Invites the Scots ministers to return to
their churches, ibid. His letter to the
governor of Edinburgh-castle, 22. Minis-
ters' reply, and his answer, ib. Reply to
the governor's complaint, 23. Extracts of
more letters, 24. Remarks, ib. Chosen
chancellor of Oxford, 25. His letter to
the university thereon, ib. Progress of
his army in Scotland, 46. Defeats the
king at Worcester, 49. His letter to the
parliament, ib. He and his army quarrel

His

with parliament, 58. Remarks, ib. Ad-
vises about a new form of government,
59. His ambitious designs, ib. Forcibly
dissolves the long-parliament, 60. Dis-
misses the council of state, 61. Remarks,
ib. He and his council of officers assume
the government, 63. His form of sum-
ions for a new parliament, 64. His first
(called the little) parliament, 65. De-
clared protector by the council, 68. His
instalment and oath, 69, 70. Remarks,
71. Mr. Baxter's testimony to his govern-
ment, 73. His first council, ib. State of
the nation at his assuming the protector-
ship, 77. His grandeur, and wise manage-
ment, 78. Gives peace to the Dutch, ib.
High reputation among foreign nations,
ib. French ambassador's speech to him,
79. His domestic enemies, ibid.
management of the cavaliers, presbyte-
rians, and republicans, 79, 80. His
friends, 81. Remarks, ib. Incorporates
Scotland and Ireland with England, ib.
Royalists' plot against him, 82. Executes
the Portuguese ambassador's brother, 85.
Calls a new parliament, goes in state,
and his speech, ib. Second speech; ap-
points a recognition of the government,
84, 85. He dissolves them, 86. Plots
against him, 87. His vigilance, ibid. Se-
verity to the royalists, by decimation,
88. For universal liberty of conscience,
91. His speech to parliament for that
purpose, 92. Bates's testimony to it, ib.
Is for encouraging learning, 110. Ap-
points new visitors for the universities,
ib. His zeal for the Protestant religion,
112. His letter to the prince of Tarente,
ib. Appoints major-generals, 119. Enters
into an alliance with France, ib. Sends
Blake to the Mediterranean, 120. Pub-
lishes a severe ordinance against the old
sequestered clergy, 124. But is willing
to dispense with it, 125. Reasons of the
severities against the Papists, ib. Is for
encouraging the Jews, 126. Assists the
Protestants in the valleys, 128. His letter
to the duke of Savoy, 129. Calls a new
parliament, 134. Assists the Protestants
at Nismes, 146. His letter to cardinal
Mazarine, ib. Debates about giving him
the title of king, 150. His reasons for
declining it, 152. Remarks, ib. His title
of protector confirmed, 153. His second
instalment, 156. His grandeur, and wise
adminstration, 157. His treaty with
France, 158. Constitutes an upper house
of parliament, 160. His speech at their
dissolution, 161, 162. Purges the army,
163. And projects a union of the whole
reformed interest, ib. Resigns his chan-
cellorship of Oxford, 165. Appoints his
son Henry lord-lieutenant of Ireland, ib.