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CONTENTS
ROBERT CECIL, EARL OF SALISBURY.
A. D.
1563.
1586.
1588.
1591.
1590.
1592.
Page
Preliminary Remarks
. 1
Birth and Education
In Parliament
Accompanies Lord Derby to Flanders
His Letters His Letters from Flanders His Letters to Michael Hickes He goes on board the Fleet He marries :
And loses his Wife
Destined for Office
Essex and Ralegh
Contest about a Successor to Walsingham
Cecil assists his Father as Secretary, and is knighted and
sworn of the Council
Essex discontented with him
Ralegh
Cecil's Speeches in Parliament Supply; Bacon's Conduct, and Ralegh's Episcopal Courts Bill; Archbishop Whitgift
The Hermit's Oration at Theobalds
Letter from Archbishop Loftus
Bore Pies
Bacon; his Defence of Cecil against Persons
Contest about Law Promotions ; Bacon's Discontent
Reconciliation
Revived Jealousy of Essex
Essex's Cadiz Expedition
Cecil Secretary of State
Disputes about the Expedition Cecil, Essex, and Ralegh
Essex and Cecil reconciled
Cecil's Mission to France
1593.
1594.
1593
1596.
1597.
1598.
Peace of Vervins Peace o Y
Debate in the Council on Peace and War
New Treaty with the States
Death of Burleigh
Cecil enforces the Neutrality of France
1599. Negotiation at Boulogne
Cecil sole Secretary and Master of the Wards
Essex, Lord Deputy of Ireland
1600. Essex's Discontent; he returns from Ireland, and is ac- cused - -
-
His Sentence
His Outbreak and Trial
Cecil's Conduct
Estrangement between Cecil and Ralegh
Parliament; Monopolies
Supply; Navy; Cecil and Ralegh
Question of the Succession ; Correspondence with Scotland 77
Proceedings of the Catholics
1603. Accession of James
Cecil's Letter to Harrington
Ralegh not in favour
Foreign Affairs; Sully's Mission
Cecil in the King's Favour
The Ralegh Plot and Trial
. 108
1604. Peace with Spain
. 117
First Parliament of James's Government unpopular
Cecil's Correspondence with Archbishop Hutton
• 128
His Quarrel with Hertford
- 131
Second Session of Parliament; Powder Plot .
- 132
Entertainment at Theobalds
. 135
Foreign Affairs
136
1608. Death and Will of Lord Treasurer Buckhurst
Cecil succeeds
- 154
Levy of Customs by Prerogative
. 156
1610. Parliament; Disagreement between King and Commons 161
Irish Affairs; Baronets
. 170
1611. Arabella Stuart; Vorstius
1609, Foreign Affairs; Cleves and Juliers
- 173
1612. Illness, Death, and Character of Salisbury
. 177
APPENDIX A. Letters from Cecil to Michael Hicks
- 184
B. The Letter to Squire, Lord Essex's Servant - 188
C. Characters of Cecil
• 191
D. State and Dignity of a Secretary's Place · 196
- 172
THOMAS OSBORNE, EARL OF DANBY.
- 206
- 211
Osborne's Family and Education
. 198
1661. Member for York in the Long Parliament
. 199
His Cavalier Principles; Burnet's Story of him
1665. Opposes the Extension of the non-resisting Test - 199
1667. Engaged in the Proceedings against Clarendon
- 200
A Commissioner of Accounts
- 204
1670., Treasurer of the Navy
1671. A Privy Counsellor
• 206
1673. Tenth Session of the Long Parliament ; opposes the Go-
vernment on the dispensing Power exercised in favour
of Dissenters
- 205
Test Act passed
Osborne's Speech on the Dissenters' Relief Bill
206
On the Money Bill - - -
Osborne made Lord High Treasurer
And Earl of Danby
- 207
Eleventh Session
- 208
Commons refuse to give Supplies for the Dutch War - 209
Parliament prorogued
- 209
Shaftesbury quits the Administration
1674. Twelfth Session ; Buckingham and Arlington attacked - 210
Anti-popish Measures proposed
Habeas Corpus Bill
Peace with Holland; Prorogation
Temple sent to Holland
- 212
Danby pays part of the Bankers' Debt
Buckingham dismissed; Arlington remains
Danby unacquainted with the King's Transactions with
France
- 213
Discussions concerning a General Peace; Danby and Sir
William Temple
Arlington's Mission to the Prince of Orange
Danby in favour with the King and the Prince of Orange 214
Scheme of religious Comprehension
Meeting at Lambeth, and Measures in favour of the
Church
- 216
Conciliation of the Cavaliers
. 216
1675. Thirteenth Session; Speeches of the King and the Lord
Keeper Finch
- 218
Conduct of the House of Commons
- 219
Parliamentary Opposition
• 219
Articles of Impeachment against Danby dropped
. 220
Alleged Bribery
- 294
Recall of the Troops from Flanders
- 296
Non-resisting Test
- 228
Prorogation ; Supply
. 233
- 214
.
1676.
1677.
242
- 253
1678.
Fourteenth Session (October); King's Speech
Hostile Proceedings of the Commons
- 234
Prorogation for Fifteen Months
235
Danby's Administration; Finance
- 235
Charles's secret Treaty with France
- 237
Danby becomes acquainted with it
Sancroft made Archbishop
- 243 Fifteenth Session; Committal of Four Lords; scanty Sup
plies, and special Appropriation
Addresses on Foreign Affairs
- 247
The King adjourns the Parliament
250
Danby's anti-popish Measures
He is a Party to the Negotiation for Money from Louis . 253
Who makes Offers to him through Montagu
Danby impedes the Negotiation for Money
- 259
His Correspondence with the Prince of Orange
- 260
Overtures towards the Match with the Princess Mary - 260
Mission of Lord Duras to Paris
r Correspondence with Montagu : Offers to Danby 263
His Answer, and his Views of Peace and War
Ruvigni's Intrigues with Russel and others
State of Parties at the Re-assembly of Parliament in Janu-
ary; King's Speech
269
Proceedings of the Two Houses
- 271
Parliament adjourned
Intrigues of Opposition Leaders
Consistency of Danby
- 274
His further Correspondence with the Prince
Who at last consents to reduced Terms of Peace
. 277
Danby authorizes an Application to Louis for Money - 277
Parliament meets (April 29.)
. 279
Commons' hostile Votes
Charles prorogues Parliament, and makes a new Treaty,
of which Danby was conusant
• 280
Sixteenth Session (May 23.)
- 280
Commons vote to go to War, or disband the Army - 282
King's Speech for a permanent Revenue
- 283
Fresh Difficulties about the Peace
- 285
Temple's Treaty of July 26.
- 287
Lawrence Hyde again sent to Holland
But the States make a separate Peace
- 288
Popish Plot
- 289
Seventeenth Session (October 21.)
Militia Bill rejected
- 292
Test Act passed : . .
Montagu's Accusation of Danby
- 298
Danby impeached
Parliament prorogued and dissolved (Jan. 1679) - 303