ruled the violent and inhuman Jefferies, who was now chief-juftice, easily prevailed on partial jury to bring him in guilty, and his execution followed foon after. One can fcarce contemplate the tranfactions of this reign without horror. Such a picture of factious guilt on each fide, a court at once immersed in fenfuality and blood, a people armed against each other with the most deadly animofity, and no fingle party to be found with sense enough to ftem the general torrent of rancour and factious fufpicion. Hambden was tried foon after; and as there was nothing to affect his life, he was fined forty thousand pounds. Holloway, a merchant of Bristol, who had fled to the West-Indies, was brought over, condemned, and executed. Sir Thomas Armstrong alfo, who had fled to Holland, was brought over, and shared the fame fate. Lord Effex, who had been imprisoned in the Tower, was found in an apartment with his throat cut; but whether he was guilty of fuicide, or whether the bigotry of the times might not have induced fome affaffin to commit the crime, cannot now be known. This was the last blood that was shed for an imputation of plots or confpiracies, which continued during the greateft part of this reign. Nevertheless the cruelty, and the gloomy fufpicion of the duke of York, who, fince the diffolution of the laft parliament, daily came into power, was dreadful to the nation. Titus Oates was fined an hundred thousand pounds, for calling him a popish traitor, and he was imprifoned till he could pay it, which he was utterly incapable of. A like illegal fentence was paffed upon Dutton Colt for the fame offence. Sir Samuel Barnardiston was fined ten thousand pounds, for having, in fome private letters, reflected on the government. Of all those who were concerned in the late confpiracy, scarce one escaped the severity of the court, except the duke of Monmouth, and he was the most culpable of any. Atthis period, the government of Charles was as abfolute as that of any monarch in Europe; but to please his fubjects by an act of popularity, he judged it proper to marry the lady Anne, his niece, to prince George, brother to the king of Denmark. This was the laft tranfaction of this extraordinary reign. The king was feized with a fudden fit, which resembled an apoplexy; and though he was recovered from it by bleeding, yet he languished only for a few days, and then expired, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. During his illGg3 nefs nefs, fome clergymen of the church of Eng- INDE X. A ABHORRERS, who, 432-many of them com- Agitators of the army, what, 290 Anjou, duke of, pays his addreffes to queen Elizabeth, Antinomians, what, 337 Arlington, lord, minister to Charles II. 396 Armada, the invincible, account of, 132-fhattered by a Arundel, Humphry, heads the infurgents in Devonshire, fir Thomas, executed for treafon, 28 B BABINGTON, Anthony, joins in a confpiracy for 115 Bacon, lord keeper, prefides in a public difputation, 74 Ballard, John, refolves to deftroy Elizabeth, 112-gains Gg 4 Bare- Barebone's parliament, what, 337 Barnwell, joins in a confpiracy to destroy Elizabeth, 113. Bedloe, William, account of his plot, 417 Benevolence, what, 195 Blake, admiral of the fleet, fome account of, 332-his in- Bonner, bishop, fent to the Tower, 12-reinftated by Bothwell, earl of, becomes the favourite of Mary queen Buckingham, duke of, one of Charles II. minifters, his Burton, a clergyman, punished by the court of Star- C ABAL of Wallingford, what, 355 CABA under Charles II. what, 395 Calais, town of, its fortifications, 65-taken by the French Capel, lord, condemned and executed, 318 Carre, Robert, becomes the favourite of James I. 173- marries the countefs of Effex, 175-caufes Sir Tho- Cavaliers, who, 251 Cecil, fir William, principal counsellor to queen Eliza- - |