Privy Council 1, 27, 28, 57, 63;
attendance lists 1; consolidation of
power 27, 31; Elizabethan 31–5;
members 31; range of business 32; royal
attendance 32; Scotland 81, 85–6;
stabilising function 32; texts 32–5,
85–6; and Wales 8–3
Privy Seal office 28
purgatory, doctrine of 114–15
Puritanism 42, 130, 132, 133
Pym, John 135, 140
Quakers 156
rebellions: Cranmer’s answers to 107,
110–16; economic and social causes
106–7; Ireland 65–6, 69, 70, 80, 83–5,
136, 139; religious demands 110–16;
western England 106–7
recusancy laws 64, 130, 131, 132–3, 156
recusants 48, 64, 126, 130; see also Roman
Catholicism
Reformation 64, 96; Court of
Augmentations 27; Henrician
Reformation (1529–36) 64, 96–106;
monasteries, dissolution of the 97,
103–6
Reformation Parliament 97, 100–3
Regnans in excelsis (papal bull, 1570) 65
relics 103
Restoration (1660) 63, 64, 149–54;
Declaration of Breda (text) 149–51;
England’s Joy (text) 151–4
Richard III 5, 91
Richard, Lewis 15
Ridley, Nicholas 118, 120–4
rioting 43–5, 57, 73, 86
Rochester, earl of 22, 24
Roman Catholicism: extinction of papal
authority in England 101–3; fear and
hatred of 63, 64, 65–8, 70, 111,
113–14, 115, 130, 131, 136, 137, 154;
and the Gunpowder Plot 130–1;
Marian period 118; recusancy laws 64,
130, 131, 132–3, 156; Tory allegiances
74
royal service 28; personal ties and
patronage 28, 29, see also central
government
Saint Bennet’s of Holme (abbey) 42
Sancroft, Archbishop William 158
Schwartz, Martin 94, 95, 96
Scotland 80, 81; Anglo-Scottish Union
(1707) 63, 81, 162–71; ecclesiastical
rights 81, 85; government 27; judicial
authority 40; Parliament 63, 162;
patriotism 162, 167–71; Privy Council
81, 85–6; succession question 162; text
85–6
Second Civil War (1648) 143
Seymour, Lord Henry 126
sheriffs 53
Simnel, Lambert 91–6
Six Articles 111
Slawata, William 10
Southampton 54–7
Spanish Armada (1588) 124–9
Star Chamber 40; abolition 42;
membership 41; popularity 41; powers
41–2; royal attendance 41; texts 41–5
Statue of Labourers 57, 59
status and hierarchy 1
Stephen, King 106
Stoke, Battle of (1487) 91, 95
Stowell, Sir John 153–4
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of
135
Stuart, James Francis Edward (‘Old
Pretender’) 162
Sunderland, Charles Spencer, 3rd earl of
22, 23, 24–5
Symonds (Simons), Richard 91, 92, 96
tax rebellions 6
taxation 8, 35, 64, 163–4, 166
three Estates 140, 141–3
Tories 22, 64, 73–8, 154
torture 32
trade 54; A Letter Concerning Trade (text)
162, 163–7; and Anglo-Scottish union
162, 163–7; colonial trade 165–6; corn
trade 33–4; corporate privileges 54;
wool trade 106
transportation 49
Treasury 27; texts 36–9
Tyler, Wat 143
Tyrone, Hugh O’Neill, 2nd earl of 83, 84,
85
tythingmen 53
Urswick, Christopher 94
vagrancy 60, 61, 106
179
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