His only remaining descendants, 166.
Success of his arms abroad, 169. Plots
against him, 170. His sickness, 180. His
last prayer, 181. His death, burial, and
character, 181, 182. As a soldier and
statesman, 183. His public, religious,
and moral character, 184, 185. His en-
thusiasm, 186. Objections against him
considered, ib. In regard to his dissimu-
lation, ambition, &c. 187. Sum of his
character, 188. Poems on, ib. His body
taken up after the Restoration, 273.

Cromwell, Henry, appointed by his
father lord-lieutenant of Ireland, iv. 165.
Some account of him and his family,
166. His letters to his brother, 193.
His letter to Fleetwood, 194. Others,
196. 275.

Cromwell, Richard, chosen chancellor
of Oxford, iv. 165. Proclaimed pro-
tector, 190. Calls a parliament, 191.
Obliged by the army to dissolve them,
192. Deposed by the army, ib. Quietly
resigns the protectorship, 197, and n.
Resigns his chancellorship, and ab-
sconds, 234. His character, 235. Death
and character of his wife, 437, n.

Crosby's History of English Baptists,
quoted by the editor, i. 16, n. and in a
variety of other places in the course of
the work. See an account of this work,
editor's advertisement to vol. iii.

Cross in baptism, objections of the
Puritans against it, i. 193. Bishop
Rudd's moderating speech about it, ii.
26. Puritans' objections, 48. 51.

Cross of the, in baptism, a learned
treatise, by Mr. R. Parker; conse-
quences to the author, ii. 65.

Cross, Dr. some account of him, iii.
397.

Crosses, several pulled down, iii. 39.
Pamphlet on it, ib. n.

Crowder, Mr. his hard treatment, ii.

197.

Crowly, Mr. his sufferings, i. 181.
Cudworth, Dr. some account of him,
iii. 101, 102, n.

Daillé, of Paris, his letter on the king's
constancy in religion, iv. 215.

ib.

De L'Angle on the same,
Damplin, a Papist, hanged, i. 28.
Danger of the church, cry of, iv.
434.

Dangerfield's plot, iv. 573. Proceed-
ings against him in James's reign, v. 4.
D'Anvers, an eminent minister and
writer, an account of, v. 200.

Darrel, Mr. his sufferings for pretend-
ing to cast out unclean spirits, i. 459.
His protestation, ib.

Davenant, bishop, censured, ii. 187.
Death and character, 427. His benefac-

tions to Queen's-college, Cambridge,
ib. n.

Davenport, Rev. Mr. removes to
New-England, ii. 229.

Davenport, Christopher, some account
of the work he wrote under the title of
Franciscus de Clara, and of himself, ii.
263, and n.

Day, bishop, deprived, i. 55. Resto-
red, 73.

Deacons, conclusions of the Puritans
concerning them, i. 279.

Dead bodies of considerable persons
in Cromwell's and parliament times dug
up, iv. 318.

Dead, praying for them, i. 37.

Deans and chapters, &c. bill for abo,
lishing them, ii. 390. Dr. Hackett's de-
fence of them, 391. Several speeches
against them, 393, &c. Origin of them,
ib. Resolutions of the commons against
them, 395.

Declaration of faith, by the reformers
in prison, i. 79. Of articles of religion,
set forth by the bishops, 127.

Declaration of the Doings of those
Mnisters, &c. a work published in 1566,
to justify those who refused the gar-
ments; an abstract from it, an account
of the answers it produced, and the mi-
nisters' reply, i. 183-185.

Declaration to encourage sports on the
Lord's day,a curious one issued by James
1. an extract and account of, ii. 105.

Deering, Mr. articles of his examina-
tion, i. 250. Deprived and restored,
251. Deprived again, 252. His death
and character, 283.

Deering, sir Edw. his speech against
the hierarchy, ii. 389.

Defence of the ministers' reasons for
refusal of subscription to the Book of
Common Prayer, against the cavils of F.
Hutton, B. D. Dr. Covel, and Dr.
Sparkes, a work published in 1607; an
extract from it, ii. 54.

Defender of the faith, the origin of
that title, i. 7.

Defenders in Bohemia, some account
of, ii. 107.

Delaune, Mr. his sufferings, iv. 485
-487, and notes.

Delegates, rise of the court of, i. 14.
Delinquents, ordinance for seizing
their estates, iii. 32.

Dell, William, a Baptist minister,
some account of, v. 191.

Demonstration of Discipline, a book
so called; proceedings against the sup-
posed author, i. 408, &c.

Denne, Mr. Henry, his disputation in
prison with Dr. Featly, iii. 268, n. His
sufferings, v. 134. His death and charac-
ter, iv. 322, n.

Derby, earl of, defeated, iv. 48.
Descent of Christ into hell, contro-
versy about it, i. 457.

Design of this work, i. preface, p. i.
xiv, xv.

Detestation of the Errors of the Times;
a book published by the assembly of di-
vines about 1645, against the sectarians,
iii. 310.

Devon and Cornwall ministers' pro-
testation of their loyalty, ii. 62.

De Wits murdered, iv. 413.
Dewsbury, William, his death and
character, v. 275.

Digby, lord, his speech against the
bishops and new canons, ii. 318. An-
other for reforming the hierarchy, 367.
Another against the earl of Strafford,
378.

Diodati of Geneva, his temperate an-
swer to the letter of the assembly of di-
vines, iii. 76, n.

Dippers Dipt, by Dr. Featley; a cele-
brated piece against the Baptists, iii.
268, n.

Directory for public worship esta-
blished, iii. 127. Preface to it, ib. Its
variations from the Book of Common
Prayer, 129. Success of it, 131. Ordi-
nance for enforcing the use of it, ib. Re-
marks, ib. The king forbids the use of
it, 132. University of Oxford's objec-
tions, 371. The king's objection to it,
436. See Appendix, No. VIII.

Directory for ordination of ministers,
iii. 232. See Appendix, No. IX.

Disciplina Ecclesiæ; a book in high
esteem, written by Mr. Travers, pub-
lished in English by Mr. Cartwright, i.

358.

Discipline of the church, reformers'
opinion of, i 29, n. 68, 69. Puritans' ob-
jections, and complaints of the want of
it, 192. The commons address the queen
to reform it, 219. Rules for it, agreed
upon by the ministers, &c. of Northamp-
ton, 221. Associations of the Puritans
for restoring it, 277. Their book of dis-
cipline, 358. Another treatise, called
the Abstract, 359. Bill to reform it, ib.
Form of subcription to the book of dis-
cipline, 387. Persons who subscribed it,
ib. What the Puritans wanted reformed
in it, ii. 5. Innovations in it. 397. Bi-
shop Williams's scheme of it, 400.

Disney, Dr. his life of Jortin quoted,
iii. 419, n.

Dispensing power, arguments for and
against it, iv. 416. The commons vote
against it, 417. The dissenters renounce
it, 418, and v. 33. Exercised by James
II. 15. Declared legal by the judges,
ib. and 16.

Disputation at Oxford between the

reformers and Papists, i. 78. Another
appointed by queen Elizabeth, 117.

Dissenters, Protestant, friends to their
country, i. preface ix. Grievances on
them, ib. See more under Nonconform-
ists. Bill for their ease, iv. 419. It mis-
carries, 420. Severity of the court
against them revived, 426. Their suffer-
ings, 426, 427. Bill for easing them
withdrawn by the clerk, 462. Proceed-
ings thereon in the next parliament, 467.
Their persecution revived by order of
king and council, 471. Treatises in
favour of them, 472. Their farther suf-
ferings, 474. Their persecution com-
pared with the reformers in Mary's reign,
497. Persecution revived in James's
reign, v. 3. Some turn from the church
to them, 10. Progress of the persecution
against them, ib. Their methods to con-
ceal their meetings, 11. Reasons for
their not writing against Popery, 13.
Have liberty by means of the dispensing
power, 15. Are caressed by the court,
16. The end of their prosecution by the
penal laws, 17. Computation of suffer-
ers, and estimation of damages, 19, 20, n.
Reasons of their numbers not decreas-
ing, 20. Commission of inquiry into
their losses by the church-party, 22.
They are courted by the king and
church, 29. Admitted to serve offices,
32. But will not generally acknowledge
the dispensing power, 33, and n. Ad-
dresses of some of them, 34, 35, and ns.
Are jealous of the king's conduct, 36.
The church applies to them for assist-
ance, with assurances of favour in better
times, 37. Prince of Orange's advice to
them, ib. Remarks, ib. Letter to them,
38. Reasons for their not being for abro-
gating the penal laws at this crisis, 41.
Are courted by the bishops in their dis-
tress, with fair promises, 58, 59. Re-
marks, 60. Conduct of the tories towards
them since the Revolution, 88.

Distractions in the state, ii. 425.
Divine Beginning and Institution of
Christ's true,visible,and material Church;
a small treatise,by Mr. Jacob, 1610. Ex-
plication and confirmation of ditto, an-
other treatise, ii. 92. Other works of his ib.

Divisions between the first reform-
ers that fled to Frankfort and Geneva,
i. preface vi.

Doctrinal Puritans, i. preface vii, and

453.

Doctrine of the church, reformers'
opinions on, i. 29, n. Doctrines reform-
ed, 62. Reformation of it desired in the
conference at Hampton-court, ii. 13.
Innovations in it, 397.

Dod, Mr. his death and character, iii.
270. Of his sayings, ib. n.

Dorislaus, Dr. circumstances of his
murder, iv. 3. Anecdotes of him, ib. n.
Dorset, Devon, Somerset, and Hamp-
shire, ravaged by the king's troops, iii.

91.

Downer, Ann, a woman of eminent
strength of piety and intellect, v. 278.

Downing, Dr. and Mr. Marshall, de-
fended against a charge of Dr. Grey, iii.

3, n.

Downing, Dr. his death and charac-
ter, iii. 142.

Drelincourt, his letter on the king's
constancy in religion, iv. 214.

Drop of Honey, &c. a popular little
tract, v. 201.

Dublin university founded, ii. 88.

Du Moulin, Dr. Lewis, some account
of him, iii. 397. His sentiments about the
authors of the king's death, 465.

Dunbar, battle of, iv. 21.

Dunkirk delivered to the English, iv.
169. A story of Cromwell, in relation to
it, ib. Sold to the French by Charles II.
and lord Clarendon's hand in it, 322,
323, n.

Dury, Mr. writes against the Jews, iv.
126.

Dutch and French churches, their ad-
dress to James I. and his answer, ii. 4.
Address to the bishop of London, and
his answer, 34, 35. Laud obliges them
to conformity, 232. His injunctions to
them, 233. They are broken up, 234.
See German and Dutch church. Dis-
turbed by archbishop Laud, iii. 194.

Dutch war, under the long parliament,
iv. 57. Cromwell puts an end to it, 78.
In Charles II. 360. The second, 406.
Ended, 427. Overrun by the French,

413.

Duppa, Dr. an account of, iv. 243,
and n. His charities, ib. n.

Dyke, Mr. suspended, i. 348. His pa-
rishioners and the lord-treasurer intercede
for him, but in vain, 349.

Earle, Dr. J. an account of, p. xxv of
life of Neal, prefixed to vol. i. n.

Eaton, Rev. John, his death and cha-
racter, ii. 428. Of his work entitled
The Honeycomb of Free Justification,
ib.

Ecclesiastical courts, their power ex-
tended by Laud, ii. 244. Held in the
bishops' own names, 245. Ecclesiastical
commission erected, v. 23. To prepare
materials for a bill of comprehension, 78.
Names of commissioners, 79. Their
powers, ib. Dispute about the legality
of their commission, 80. Reasons against
alterations in the liturgy, ib. And for
them, ib. Proceedings, 81. Ecclesiastical
laws; see Canons.

Ecclesiastical historians, remarks
preface, xv.

Edge-hill fight, ii. 502.

Edmund's, St. church in Salisbury,
some particulars relating to it, and to its
painted windows, ii. 202, 203.

Edinburgh-castle surrendered, iv. 24.

Edward VI. born, i. 24. Succeeds his
father, 37. The regency appointed dur-
ing his minority, ib. The reformation ad-
vances, ib. His injunctions about reli-
gion, &c. 39, n. His first service-book,
44. Prohibits all preaching, and why,
42. Insurrections in his reign, and on
what account, 47. Severities on account
of religion in his time, 48, 49. His re-
luctance to sign the warrant for Joan
Boucher's execution for heresy, 49. An
instance of his piety, 56. His letter to
the archbishop to dispense with the ha-
bits in Hooper's consecration, 58. His
patent for establishing the German church
in London, 60. His book of articles, 62.
His second service-book, 63, 64. Ap-
points a royal visitation about the church
plate, &c. 64. How far the reformation
proceeded, and the king's desire of pro-
ceeding farther, 66, 67. He laments that
he could not restore the primitive disci-
pline, 67. His death and character, 68,
69. Remarks on the sentiments of the
reformers in this reign, 69. By his will
appoints lady Jane Grey his successor,
71. His laws about religion repealed, 75.
But revived by queen Elizabeth, 108.
His service-book re-established, with al-
terations, 118, 119.

Edwards, Dr. some account of him, iii.

391.

Edwards's Antapologia, against the
Independents, iii. 120. His Gangræna,
310. Remarks upon it, 312.

Ejected ministers, their sufferings, iv.
340. Names of those who survived the
Revolution, v. 89. See Ministers.

Eikoon Basilikè, a spurious book, iii.

459.

Elders, Puritans' opinion concerning
them, ii. 57.

Elector palatine takes the covenant,
and sits in the assembly of divines, iii.
66. 137. His answer to the committee of
lords and commons, 138.

Elenchus Religionis Papisticæ, with
an appendix by Dr. Bastwick; this work
denies the divine right of the order of
bishops, &c. ii. 228. Other works as-
cribed to him, 252. Extract from the
Elenchus of Dr. George Bates, an emi-
nent royalist, 513.

Elizabeth, queen, on her accession
wishes to restore king Edward's liturgy,
i. preface, vii. Objected to by many, but
enforced by her, and subscription urged

by the bishops to the liturgy, ceremo-
nies, and discipline, of the church, vii.
Erects a court of high-commission, viii.
Carries her prerogative as high as
Charles I. ib. İllegitimated by her father,
19. Her danger and sufferings in her
sister's reign, 101. Her accession to the
crown, 104. State of the nation and of
religion at that time, 105. She forbids
all preaching for a time, ib. The su-
premacy restored to her by parliament,
108. She appoints ecclesiastical com-
missioners, 110. Is afraid of reforming
too far, 118. 146. Her injunctions about
religion, 127. She retains images, and
several Popish ceremonies in her chapel,
132. Assists the confederate Protestants
in Scotland, 139. The pope writes to
her, 142. She is averse to the married
clergy, 146. Her supremacy confirmed,
ib. She writes to the archbishops to en-
force the act of uniformity, 154. Refuses
to ratify the bishops' advertisements,
156. 168. 173. She visits the university
of Cambridge, 179. A remarkable in-
stance of her stretching the prerogative,
197. Her dangerous sickness, and the
hazard of the reformation at that time,
204. She assists the confederate Pro-
testants of France and Holland, 205.
Rebellion of her Popish subjects, 206.
She is excommunicated by the pope, ib.
Proceedings of her parliament there-
upon, 207. She is very arbitrary with
her parliament, 215. 220. 229. And
stops their attempts for a farther refor-
mation, 239. Her. inveteracy against
the Puritans, and attempt to suppress
them, 246. 250. She was favourable to
the Papists, 271. Persécutes the Ana-
baptists, 273. Her reasons for putting
down the religious exercises of the clergy,
284, n. 288. Her letter to the bishop of
London for that purpose, 284, n. Grin-
dal's honest advice to her, 287. For
which she sequesters and confines him,
288. Her designed marriage with the
duke of Anjou, 296. She forbids a fast
appointed by the commons, 297. And
the private fastings of the clergy, ib.
She requires full conformity, 298. Con-
tinues to assist foreign Protestants, 307.
Grants a commission of concealments, ib.
But revokes it, 308. Grants a new ec-
clesiastical commission, 330. Again stops
the parliament's proceedings for a far-
ther reformn, 366. A plot of the Papists
against her life, 369. Rejects the bill for
the better observation of the sabbath,
371. Stops other bills for reform, 385.
Another plot of the Papists against her,
386. Puritans petition her, but in vain,
390. Her conduct in the Spanish inva-
sion, 398. She again stops the proceed-

ings of parliament, 399. Prohibits the
books against the church, 404. Her arbi-
trary messages to the parliament, 423.
425. She repents of putting Barrowe
and Greenwood, two Brownists, to death,
437. Dislikes the predestinarian con-
troversy, 455. She again stops the par-
liament's proceedings, 461. 464. Her
death and character, 471. The editor's
supplemental reflections on her reign,
473-479.

Elizabeth, princess, married to the
elector palatine, ii. 86.

Elliot, sir John, his speech in parlia-
ment, ii. 167. He dies in prison, 171.
Of his portrait, ib. n.

Elliot, Rev. Mr. removes to New-
England, ii. 197.

Elliston, Mr. his sufferings, i. 353.
Engagement, a new oath established
to the commonwealth, iv. 2. Enforced,
8. To be taken by the whole nation, ib.
Refused by the Presbyterians, 9. Cava-
liers and sectarians take it, ib. Reasons
for and against it, 10. Tendered to the
universities, 25.

England's Complaint, &c. a pamphlet
against the canons, ii. 305.

English Pope, a work printed in 1643.
A smart quotation from it, ii. 262.

English Puritanism, a treatise by Mr.
Bradshaw, abstract from it, ii. 55.

Enthusiasm, rise of it in the army,
iii. 229. A farther account of it, 313.

Episcopacy, rise of the controversy
about its divine right, i. 395. The con-
troversy carried on, 446. Restored in
Scotland, ii. 75, &c. Pamphlets for and
against, 344. Bishop Hall's defence of
it, and answer by Smectymnuus, 345.
Remarks, 351. Bill for its abolition,
498. Remarks, 500. Debated in the
treaty of Uxbridge, iii. 216. Between
the king and Mr. Henderson, 284. Abo-
lished by parliament, 306. Debated in
the treaty of Newport, 426. Remarks,
432. Archbishop Usher's sentiments
about it, 441. State of, before the Re-
storation, iv. 208. Restored in Scotland,
against the king's mind, 311, 312. Re-
stored in Ireland, 314. Abolished in
Scotland, v. 85. Which excites disaffec-
tion to the government, and to the Eng-
lish dissenters, 86. Cromwell tolerates
episcopalians, iv. 72.

Erastians, their opinion of church-go-
vernment, iii. 116. Their chief patrons
in the assembly of divines, and in the
parliament, 117. Their objections to
the divine right of presbytery, 236.
Their conduct, 240. Their opinion
about suspension and excommunication,
242.

Erasmus's Paraphrase on the Gospels

in English, ordered to be set up in
churches, i. 127.

Erastus's famous book De Excom-
municatione, anecdote of it, i.' 465, n.
His principles, ii. author's preface, ix.

Erudition of a Christian Man, a re-
markable book, called the King's Book,
an account of, i. 29, and n. Remarks
upon it, 31.

Essex, earl of, his character, ii. 314.
Character of his party, 315. Arrives in
London after the battle of Edge-hill, iii.
1. Is defeated in Cornwall, 89. He is
removed, 228. His death and character,
315.

Essex, petitions for their deprived mi-
nisters, i. 328, 349. Names of those that
were suspended, 345, n.

Et cetera oath, ii. 302. Objections
against it, 325.

Evans, Dr. John, some account of, p.
xxi of memoirs of Neal prefixed to vol.
i. n.

Evans, Catherine, &c. travels and
history of, v. 234.

Ewins, Mr. some particulars of him,
v. 199, and n.

Exchequer shut up, iv. 405.`
Exclusion bill brought in, iv. 452.
Brought in again, 458. 467.

Excommunication, Puritans' notion of
it, i. 427, and n. Terrible consequences of
it in spiritual courts, ii. 32. Canon about
it, 304. Opinions of the Presbyterians,
Independents, and Erastians, on it, iii.
242. Ordinance for it, 244.

Executions for Treason, a book so
called, quoted, i. 88.

Exercises, religious. See Prophesy-
ings.

Exeter besieged by a Popish faction,
in Edward VI.'s time, i. 48. The inha-
bitants relieved by lord Russel, ib. It
surrenders to the parliament-army, and
the princess Henrietta, the king's
daughter, made prisoner there, but
escapes to France, iii. 272.

Exhortation to the Governors, &c. a
book published by Mr. Penry in 1588,
i. 438.

Exhortation to the taking of the solemn
league and covenant, iii. 63. Answered,

They return home on queen Elizabeth's
accession, and with what temper, 105.
Their good resolutions, 107.-See Re-
formers.

Factories, English, in Holland, regu-
lations of them projected by Laud, ii.

205.

Fagius comes to England, i. 42. His
bones dug up and burnt by the Papists,

89.

Fairfax, general, his character, iii. 228.
King's clergy's petition to him, 358.
Counter-petition of the Presbyterian
clergy to him, 359. He suppresses the
cavaliers in Kent and Essex, 407.

Faith, the first reformers' opinion about
it, i. 29, n.

Falkland, lord, his speech for reform-
ing the hierarchy, ii. 365. Against the
earl of Strafford, 379.

False news, proclamation against
spreading, iv. 414.

Family of love, an enthusiastic sect, i.

273.

Farmer, Richard, some account of, v.
198.

Fast, voted by the commons, i. 297.
Forbid by the queen, ib. Parliament's
monthly one, iii. 37. The king's in op-
position, 38. Parliament's kept on Christ-
mas-day, 140. Occasional fasts, 38.

Fastings of the clergy put down, i. 297.
Feasts of dedication, ii. 214. iii. 164.
Their rise, 168.

Featley, Dr. expelled the assembly of
divines, and taken into custody as a spy,
iii. 79. His death, 267. An account of
his book against the Baptists, 268, n.
His challenge in defence of the church of
England, 268. His character, and last
prayer, 269.

Fell, Dr. vice-chancellor of Oxford,
treats the parliament's visiters with con-
tempt, iii. 374, 375. Is deprived of his
vice-chancellorship, and taken into cus-
tody, 377. Some farther account of him,
388. His death, &c. v. 47, 48.

Fell, Mrs. M. persecuted, v. 224.
Fellows, form of inducting the new
ones at Cambridge, iii. 106.

Felton, stabs the duke of Buckingham,
ii. 163.

Fenner, Mr. defends the Puritans, i.
389, 390.

Feoffees, censured in the star-cham-
ber, ii. 201.

Ferrars, bishop, burnt, i. 84. He was
against the Popish garments, 157.

Field, Mr. suspended, i. 328.

Field and Wilcox imprisoned for the
admonition to the parliament, i. 231.
Their apology, 232. Their supplication,
235. Their confession of faith, and pre-