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INDEX TO

Digby, Earl of; supports the Trien-nial Bill, 98.

Diplomacy; its extent and annualcost, at the death of Charles II.,303. See Government.

Dissenters; persecuted and impri-soned, 115. See Independents;Presbyterians; Puritans.

Divine Right; theories concerningthe doctrine of, 69. *10. Instancesof its nonobservance, 71. Publicespousal of Us principles at Ox-ford, 266.

Dockwray, William, 380.

Dover, Treaty of, 206.

Drama, the, and the Stage; theircharacter on the downfall of Pu-ritanism, 395. Pecuniary successof stage writers, 396. Failure ofDryden as a dramatist, 397. SeeLiterature.

Dryden, John; his encomium onTillotson, 327. His supremacy atWill’s Coffee House, 368. No-tices of, 394. 396. 397. 398. 401.

Dunkirk; captured by Cromwell,136. Popular indignation pro-duced by its sale to Lewis XIV.,187.

Durfey, 394.

Dutch. See Holland.

Ecclesiastic Architecture of Eng-land; its rise, 19.

Education, female; its low stand-ard in the 17th century as com-pared with later times, 387. 388.

Elections in 1679, and tactics pur-sued thereat, 233. Second elec-tion of 1679, 245. Of 1681, 256.See Parliament; Tories; Whigs.

Eliot, Sir John; bis imprisonmentand death, 84.

Elizabeth, Queen; disclaims thesacerdotal character, 55. No sys-tematic opposition offered to hergovernment, 60. 61. Venerationof the Nonconformists for her

memory, 61. State of the countryon her death, 62. Effects of theconspiracies of her reign uponpopular feeling, 227.

England; effects of its separationfrom Normandy, 15. Developmentof its national character, laws,language, and literature, 16. 17.Its continental conquests, 18. Itspolity often misrepresented, 24—27. Advantages of its insular po-sition, 42. 276. 285. Diminutionof her importance after the ac-cession of James I., 68. Its po-sition under Charles II., 226. Ge-neral view of its slate in 1685,275—420. See Court; London;Population; Society; Towns.

Englishman; a term of contemptamong the Normans, 16.

Episcopacy; its failure in Scotland,96. See Church.

Essex, Earl of; his failure, as Ge-neral of the parliamentary army,113. Removed from his com-mand, 116.

Essex,ArthurCapel,Earl of; calledto the councils of Charles II.,239. His retirement, and junctionwith the opposition, 250. His sui-cide, 264.

Elherege and Wycherley; tendencyof their writings, 178. See Drama.

European politics; state of, in thereign of Charles II., 194. 195. SeeFrance; Spain; Holland.

Evelyn, 403. See Science.

Excise. See Revenue.

Exchequer: shut by the Cabal; itsdisastrous consequences,212.284.

Exclusion Bill; firmness of theCommons in demanding it, 244.Public outcry upon the subject,245. Violence of the factions towhich it gave rise, 252. Passedby the Commons, 254; and re-jected by the Lords, 255.

Exeter, 333.