Cleves and Juliers, Duchy of, disputed succession in, ii. 93; resolution of James to intervene in, 96; capture of Juliers in, 100; renewal of the dispute in, 262; at- tempt to settle the dispute in, 307 Clifton, Richard, sermons preached at Bab- worth by, iv. 147; is deprived of his rec- tory, 148; becomes pastor of the Scrooby congregation, 149; refuses to leave Am- sterdam, 151
Clontarf, Coote sent to punish wreckers at, x. 114; is burnt by Coote, 115 Cloth, manufacture of, attempt to prevent Dutch rivalry with, ii. 385 Clotworthy, Sir John, recounts the grie- vances of Ireland, ix. 231; repeats a story which he had heard from Sir Robert King, 234; tel's the House that Suckling was to raise three regiments of foot and a troop of horse, 351; is a member of the committee for investigating the Army Plot, 358
Coal-shippers, monopoly granted to the corporation of, viii. 283
Coat-and-conduct money, attack on in the Short Parliament, ix. 112; enforcement of the payment of, 130; unpopularity of, 140; refusal of the City to pay, 154; prosecution of the Lord Mayor and sheriffs for neglect in the collection of, 169
Cobham, Lord, 1597-1604, d. 1619 (Henry Brooke), suspicions of his connection with Watson's plot, i. 116; his intrigues with Aremberg, 119; writes to the com- missioners for the examination of Ra- leigh, 134; writes a letter to Raleigh, 135; is convicted of treason, 18; is re- prieved and sent to the Tower, 139; death of, iii. 154
Cockaine, Alderman William, attempts to exclude the Dutch from the cloth manu- facture, ii. 386
Coinage, debasement of the Irish, i. 365; proposal to debase the English, rejected by Charles, vi. 138; project to debase, in order to provide means for war with Scotland, ix. 171; plans for carrying out the debasement of, 174
Coke, Clement, assists his father in an attack on Oatlands, ii. 92; declares it to be better to die by an enemy than to suffer at home, vi. 76; explains his words, 79; declares Weston to be an enemy of the commonwealth, vii. 73 Coke, Frances, Sir John Villiers offers marriage to, iii. 87; signs a contract of marriage with the Earl of Oxford, and is sent to Oatlands, 90; is carried off by her father, 92; marriage of, 98. See Purbeck, Lady
Coke, Sir Edward (Attorney-General 1594, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1606, Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1613 1616, d. 1633), his conduct at Ra- leigh's trial, i. 123; opposes the Bill for free trade, 190; appears against the Gunpowder Plotters, 258; finds a treatise
on Equivocation in Tresham's cham- bers, 267; his speech at Garnet's trial, 277; prosecutes Northumberland, 283; becomes Justice of the Common Pleas, 299; is in favour of the naturalisation of the Post-nati, 334; his conduct on the Bench, ii. 35; leads the attack on Ban- croft's Articuli Cleri, 36; has an alter cation with the King, 38; his opinion on Fuller's case, 40; provokes James, 41; is said to have instigated the attack on Cowell's Interpreter, 66; declares that the King cannot create an offence by proclamation, 104; disputes with Abbot on the question of prohibitions, 122; ob- jects to the procedure in the case of Legate and Wightman, 129; Bacon ad- vises the appointment as Chief Justice of the King's Bench of, 207; becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench and a Privy Councillor, 208; persuades the judges not to give an opinion to the Lords on the question of impositions, 241; objects to the demand for a Benevo lence being issued under the Great Seal, 261; argues in favour of the legality of the Benevolence, 266; resists the separate consultation of the judges, 277; gives his opinion in Peacham's case, 278; argues against the deputation from the Irish Catholics, 297; his opinion on Owen's case, 304; is directed to inquire into the murder of Overbury, 332; asks that per- sons of higher rank may be associated with him, 334; presides at Weston's trial, 338; states his belief that Prince Henry had been poisoned, 345; is eager to discover the negotiation between Somerset and Sarmiento, 346; his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament, 365; view taken of the constitutional position of the judges by, iii. 1; brings the Bench into collision with the Crown, 5; is for- bidden by James to give judgment on the writ de rege inconsulto till he has spoken to him, 9; complains of the in- terference of Chancery, 10; instigates the preferment of indictments of præ- munire, 11; is angry with the grand jury which returns an ignoramus, 12; is ordered not to proceed with the case of commendams till he has spoken with the King, 14; writes a letter in the names of the judges refusing to obey the com- mand, 15; protests against the command, 17; asserts his independence, 19; is sus pended, 23; is called on to revise his reports, and dismissed, 25; his behaviour after his disgrace, 84; quarrels with his wife, ib.; consents to the marriage of his daughter to Sir John Villiers, 88; in- forms the King of his consent, 89; carries off his daughter from Oatlands, 92; is Summoned before the Council, ib.; is favourably received by the King, 95; is restored to the Council table, 98; is disappointed at not receiving higher promotion, 99; is appointed a commis
sioner to examine Raleigh, 141; becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury, 189; wishes to impose a larger fine on Suffolk, 210; acknowledges the legality of the patent for inns, iv. 4; political principles of, 40; effect on the Commons of his attack upon the monopolies, 41; asks the Commons to punish Michell, 42; brings in a report against Mompesson, 43; acknowledges that the House has no jurisdiction, 44; brings in a Bill against monopolies, 54; objects to the King's proposed tribunal for the trial of Bacon, 69; complains of Bacon as a corrupt judge, 78; declares that the House of Commons is a court of record, 122; supports the jurisdiction of the Commons over Floyd, 123; repeats the prayer for the Royal family, 130; is irri- tated by the affair of Lepton and Gold- smith, 240; makes a violent attack on Spain, 241; proposes that the Commons shall set down their privileges in writing, 260; is sent to the Tower, 267; is liberated, 350; proposal to send him to Ireland, v. 182; deciares that Bucking- ham has deserved well of his country, 188; declares that England was never so prosperous as when she was at war with Spain, 194; explains to the Com- mons the value of the subsidies proposed, 200; carries up the impeachment of Middlesex, 230; is content that there shall be no committee of grievances in the first Parliament of Charles, 342; argues that Montague's writings can be properly considered by the Commons, 362; asks for an account of the subsidies of the last Parliament, 397; wishes that nothing may be printed without the approval of Convocation, 399; declares that the Commons ought not to discuss doctrine, 400; comments on the embar- rassments of the Treasury, 411; sug- gests a Benevolence, 427; is made sheriff to prevent his appearance in Parliament, vi. 33; is of opinion that the rights of the subject must be vindicated, 231; brings in a Bill against prolonged detention in prison, 232; wishes sub- sidies to be granted with a declaration of the illegality of the forced loan, 237 states that when the King is spoken of as imprisoning anyone, it is meant that his command is signified by the judges, 240; quotes the language of Festus to Agrippa, 241; is temporarily disconcerted by Shilton's quotation from Anderson's reports, 243; declares the quotation from Anderson to be apocryphal, 244; adduces the evidence of a copy in Anderson's own hand, 245; proposes a petition against military outrages, 253; asks that the dates for the payment of the subsidies may be fixed, 255: criticises the Lords' propositions on imprisonment, 261; supports the Bill of Liberties, 265; wishes the King
to ratify the Bill to be presented to him in the form of a promise, 269; replies to Sir J. Coke's proposal that the King shall be petitioned, 273; proposes a Petition of Right, 274; asserts that the phrase 'sovereign power' is rot known to the law, 281; cannot speak for weeping, 304; names Buckingham as the cause of all their miseries, 305; death of, vii. 359; seizure of the papers of, 360
Coke, Sir John, is a leading member of the Navy Commission, iii. 203; orders Pennington to abstain from meddling in the French civil wars, v. 329; is selected by Buckingham to be his mouthpiece in the House of Commons, 370; lays an estimate before the House, and asks for an additional grant, 371; fails to persuade the House, 372; writes to Pennington that he will not have to fight against the French Protestants, 378; orders Pennington not to give up his ships to the French, 379; approves of the protest of Pennington's captains, 382; recommends that Pennington shall spin out time, 383; gives a full explana- tion of the King's military and naval expenditure, 405; protests against Eliot's attack on the Commissioners of the Navy, 414; becomes Secretary of State, vi. 9; urges on the sale of French prize goods, 42; suggests an early grant of supply, 60; again urges the Commons to take supply into consideration, 80; Buckingham is angry with, 201; acknow- ledges that the law had been broken, 237; alleges the discovery of a party of Jesuits at Clerkenwell as a reason why the Commons should vote supply, 239: persuades the House to allow supply to be discussed in a Grand Committee, ib. ; argues in favour of attacking the enemy, 246; announces to Charles that five subsidies have been voted in committee, and reports Buckingham's sayings to the Commons, 252; supports Sir E. Coke's proposal for fixing the dates of the payment of the subsidies, 255: informs the Commons that it has been noticed that they are press ng on power itself, 255; informs the House that, whatever law is made, it will be his duty as a Privy Councillor to commit without showing cause, 267; denies that the laws had been violated, 269; asks that the King's answer to the Re- monstrance may be debated in the House, 272; objects to Pym's language, 273 asks the Commons to petition against a repetition of the forced loan, ib.; goes to Portsmouth to hurry on reinforcements for Denbigh, 293; in- forms Buckingham of the slowness with which the fleet for the relief of Rochelle is being fitted out, 344; proposes to bring in a Bill for granting tonnage and poundage, vii. 34; protests against the
Commons considering the report of the committee on religion, 37; declares the King's resolution to protect the Custom House officers, 64; writes to forbid Charles Lewis to go to the Palatinate, 351; reads to the Council an exposition of the dangers of the kingdom, and calls on Charles to recover the sovereignty of the seas, 357; becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury, 379; urges on Lindsey the necessity of supporting the King's claim to the sovereignty of the seas, 385; his speech at the introduction into Oxford of the Caroline statutes, viii. 147; votes against war with Scotland, 350; is threatened with dismissal, ix. 85; ceases to be Secretary, 87; exposes the Queen's misrepresentation about the marriage treaty, 88
Colchester, Official's court of the arch- deaconry of, ix. 80
Coldstream, the Scottish army crosses the Tweed at, ix. 189
College of Physicians, the, reports on the causes of the plague, viii. 289 Coloma, Don Carlos, succeeds Gondomar
as Spanish ambassador in England, iv. 335 asks that Spanish ships may be sheltered in English ports, 376; is pre- sent when James swears to the public articles of the marriage treaty, v. 68; ssents to the agreement of Salisbury, 99; presents a plan for the pacification of Germany, 131; accepts James's de- claration that he can grant no further concessions to the Catholics, 100; slips a paper into James's hand, 207; protests against the levy of soldiers in aid of the Dutch, 244; begs that three Dunkirk privateers in the Downs may receive the benefit of neutrality, 245; obtains per- mission for Rubens to visit England, vii. 102; is named ambassador to Eng- land, 105; is received at Whitehall, 170; swears to the treaty of Madrid, 176; takes leave of Charles, 177; Massinger's allusions to, 201
Colvill, William, is entrusted with letters from the Covenanters to foreign princes, ix. 91; is sent to France with a second letter, 92
Commendams, case of, iii. 13 Commerce, movement in favour of break- ing up the companies engaged in, i. 188; Act for throwing open, with France, Spain, and Portugal, 348; interference with the course of, between England and Holland, ii. 385; stoppage of, after the dissolution of 1629, vii. 82 Commissions of array, issued for the army against Scotland, ix. 162; issued for an army against the Parliamentary Militia, x. 202; order given to put in execution,
Committee of defence, the, is ordered to direct the attention of the Lords to the state of the fortresses, and to consider the command of the trained bands, x. 2; recommends the appointment of an authority to put the kingdom in a state of defence, 3
Committee of Eight. See Committee of the Privy Council for Scottish affairs Committee of Estates, the, appointed by the Scottish Parliament, ix. 152; decides that half its members shall accompany Leslie's army, 182; examines Montrose, 396; imprisons Montrose and his con. federates, 397 Committee of Safety, the, is composed of Lords and Commoners, x. 209 Committee of the Privy Council for foreign affairs, appointment of, v. 323; proposed admission of Scots to, ix. 91
Committee of the Privy Council for Scot- tish affairs, divided state of opinion in, viii. 350; recommends Charles to select a force of 30,000 from the trained bands, 383 is consulted on the war with Scot- land after the dissolution of the Short Parliament, ix. 120
Committee of the Privy Council for Spanish affairs is consulted on the mar riage treaty, iii. 58; listens to Buck- ingham's account of his proceedings in Spain, v. 143; questions about the treaties proposed to, 176; refuses to vote for war, 177; gives a temporising answer, 179; recommends the imprison- ment of Loudoun and Dunfermline, ix. 74; after hearing Traquair's report, dis- cusses the mode of coercing Scotland, 75; debate on the mode of carrying on war with Scotland in, 120 Common Council, the. See London, City of
Common Prayer, the Book of, supporters and assailants of, ix. 274; proposal to make alterations in, and counter-propo- sal of Culpepper to punish those who vilify, x. 14
Commons, the House of, its increased powers under Henry VIII., i. 6; asks for further changes in the Church, 31; opposes Elizabeth on the subject of Church reform, 32: composition of, 160; official members elected to, 163: debates on Sherley's case of privilege in, 167; on Goodwin's case, ib.; on pur- veyance and wardship, 171; on the Court of Wards, 174; on the union with Scotland, 176; objects to the title of King of Great Britain, 177; is dissatis- fied with the Hampton Court settle- ment, 178; its ecclesiastical policy, 179; apology of, 180; omits to grant sub- sidies, 186; opposes the monopoly of the trading companies, 188; passes a Bill for opening trade, 189; is scolded by the King at the prorogation, 190; causes of the misunderstanding between the King and, 193; rejects a proposal for
inflicting extraordinary punishment on the Gunpowder Plotters, 286; questions the right of Convocation to legislate, 291; grants a supply, 297, 298; draws up a petition of grievances, 299; dis- cusses the proposed commercial union with Scotland, 329; considers the ques- tion of naturalisation, 331; agrees to pass Bills for the abolition of hostile laws and extradition of criminals, 337; insists on freedom for all persons to trade with France, Spain, and Portugal, 348; case of the Trial' brought before, 349; forwards to the Lords the complaints of the merchants trading with Spain, 351; Salisbury seeks to influence elections to, ii. 63; takes into consideration the support of the Crown, 64; listens to Salisbury's demands, 65; condemns Cowell's Interpreter, 66; demands the commutation of feudal tenures, 68; proposes to enter into the Great Con tract, 69; is forbidden by the King to question his right to impositions, 70; receives permission to discuss the impo- sitions, 72; petition against recusants from, 73; debate on impositions in, 75; is almost unanimous against the King's claim to impositions, 81; draws up a petition of grievances, and grants a sub- sidy, 82; agrees to the Great Contract, 83; is dissatisfied with the King's answer to its grievances, 85; breaks off the Great Contract, 107; refuses to grant supply till the rumours about Undertakers have been inquired into, 236; receives the communion at St. Margaret's, and takes up the Bill on Impositions, 237; inquires into monopo- lies, ib.; gives up the inquiry about the Undertakers, and discusses the imposi- tions, 238; asks for a conference on impositions, 241; is indignant at Bishop Neile's attack, 243; is not contented with Neile's excuse, 246; review of the conduct of, in the Addled Parliament, 248; imprisonment of members of, 249; does not revive the quarrel about impo- sitions in 1621, iv. 27; Protestant feel- ing of, 28; objects to receive the com- munion in Westminster Abbey, 30; receives the report of the Council of War, 31; grants two subsidies, 32; complains of Gondomar's permission to export ordnance, 33; expels Shepherd, 34; is displeased with James's refusal to persecute the Catholics, 34; foreign policy of, 35 inquiry into the mono- polies, 39; violent proceedings against Michell in, 42; attack on Mompesson in, 43; its jurisdiction questioned, ib.; de- mands inquiry into the conduct of the referees, 48; brings charges against the referees, 50; sends charges against Mompesson to the Lords, 54; orders Phelips to lay before the Peers the evidence against Bacon, 66; resists James's proposal for a new tribunal to
inquire into Bacon's case, 71; sends up the Wharton case to the Lords, 78; is summoned to the Lords' bar to hear the sentence on Bacon, 103; hears th Lords' sentence on Michell, 108; charge Sir J. Bennett with corruption, it.; re- fuses to grant a further supply, and condemns the patent for alehouses, 110; abandons the charges against the referees, 111; violent language directed against Floyd in, 120; sentences Floyd, 121; its jurisdiction over Floyd ques- tioned by the King, ib.; refers Floyd's case to the King, 123; votes certain patents to be grievances, and passes a Monopoly Bill, 125; is ordered to adjourn, 126; dissatisfaction in, 127; Perrot's motion for a declaration about the Palatinate in, 128; makes a declara- tion for the defence of the Palatinate, 129; adjournment of, 130; reassembles, 232; its attention called to the imprison- ment of Sandys, 233: considers a de- mand for money for the defence of the Palatinate, 234; resolves to vote supply, 241; draws up a petition on religion, 246; is ordered by the King not 10 meddle with his son's marriage, 250; prepares an explanatory petition, 251; sends a deputation to the King, 252; James's attack on the privileges of, 254; debate on the King's answer in, 255; precedents on liberty of speech in, 256; is unanimous in defence of its privileges, 257; protestation on behalf of the privi leges of, 261: last sitting of, in the ses sion of 1621, 264; character of the elec- tions to, in 1621, v. 181; 1efers Eliot's motion on liberty of speech to a com- mittee, 188; exculpates Buckingham, ib.; debate on the Spanish treaties in, 189; popularity of a war with Spain, and un- popularity of a war in Germany in, 191; draws up a petition for war with Spain, 192; discusses the King's speech on a war in Germany, 194; votes an address calling for war with Spain, 196; is dissatisfied with James's answer, 197; disapproves of a French marriage and of a Conti- nental war, 199; votes three subsidies and three fifteenths, 200; conditional nature of the grant made by, 202; refuses to inquire into the insults offered to the Spanish Embassy, 203; sends to the Lords a petition against recusants, 222; is satisfied with James's answer to the petition against recusants, 226; im- peaches Midd'esex, 230; agrees to a modification of the Monopoly Bill, 233; presents its grievances to James, 234; is dissatisfied at the close of the session of 1624. 235; growth of the influence of, ib.; full attendance in, at the opening of the session of 1625, 337; is asked for supplies by Charles, on the ground that it has brought him into war, 338; rejects Mallory's motion for an adjournment, 341; goes into committee on religion,
342 prepares a petition on religion, re- questing the enforcement of the law against the Catholics, and a conciliatory treatment of the silenced ministers, 344; the grant of one subsidy and one fif- teenth proposed in, 345; two subsidies voted by, 347; its want of confidence in Charles, ib.; considers Wentworth's dis- puted election, 349; refers Montague's New Gag for an old Goose to Abbot, 353 ; inquires what steps Abbot has taken, 354 refers the New Gag and Appello Cæsarem to a committee, 55; report of its committee on Montague's books, 360; commits Montague to custody, 364; de- bate on tonnage and poundage in, ib; passes a Bill granting tonnage and pound- age for one year, 365; estimate of ex- penditure laid by Coke before, 371; de- clines to grant an additional supply, 372; is adjourned to Oxford, 373; re-assembles at Oxford, 397; prepares a petition against the grant of pardons to Catholic priests, 399; discusses Montague's case, ib. ; ques- tion of ministerial responsibility raised in, 400; is summoned before the King in Christchurch Hall, 403; is puzzled by the confused way in which the Kings demands are made, 406; the King's ministers inefficiently represented in, 407; Whistler's suggestion to consult the Lords on the proposed supply allowed to drop in, ib.; debate on foreign policy in, b.; is summoned to Christchurch Hall to hear a communication from Bucking- ham, 418; discusses the King's demand of an immediate supply, 423; hears of the delivery of Pennington's ships to the French, 428; complaints of neglect to stop piracy, ib.; adopts a protestation of loyalty, 431; last proceedings of, in the first Parliament of Charles, 432; its want of confidence in Buckingham justi- fied, 433; conservatism of, 434; pro- nounces against Montague, vi. 65; wishes to learn the advice given by the Council of War, 73: persists in requiring an answer, 74; difficulties of its position, 76; directs the King's Counsel to bring in a tonnage and poundage Bill, 77; loyal declaration of, 78; adopts Eliot's pro- posal to pass a resolution for the grant of subsidies, but not to convert it into a Bill, 81; informed by Coventry that they have liberty of counsel, not of control, 82; is told by Charles that Parliaments are to continue or not, according to their fruits, 83; resolves to draw up a remon- strance, ib.; determines to go on with the Remonstrance in spite of Buckingham's vindication of his conduct, 84; presents the Remonstrance to Charles, 85; orders a committee to consider the causes of evil, ib.; votes the charges against Bucking. ham upon common fame, 86; impeaches Buckingham, 98; demands the imprison- ment of Buckingham, 108; refuses to pro- ceed with business till Eliot and Digges
are liberated, 109: prepares a petition in vindication of its privileges, 110; is informed that Digges is released, and that Eliot is imprisoned on account of actions done out of the House, 112; suspends its sittings, 113; is informed that Eliot is liberated, ib.; clears Eliot, 114; declares tonnage and poundage il- legal without consent of Parliament, 115; demands an account of Buckingham's election as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, but is ordered by the King to desist from further inquiry, 116; draws up a Remonstrance, 118; question of responsibility raised by its demand to the King to remove Buckingham from his presence, 119; end of the sittings of, 121; resolution of the leaders of, not to proceed against Buckingham in 1628, 230; Coke's Bill against prolonged detention in prison brought into, 232; debate on a proposal to grant supply in, 233; refuses to vote supply in consequence of the dis- covery of a party of Jesuits at Clerken well, 239; goes into a Grand Committee on Supply, 240; want of support for the King in, ib.; passes a resolution against taxa- tion without a Parliamentary grant, 241; enters on a debate on the King's claim to imprison without showing cause, ib. ; dis- cussion on the genuineness of a copy of Anderson's reports in, 244; resolutions on imprisonment adopted by, 245; debate on the grant of supply in, 246; passes resolutions on confinement and billet- ing, 247; postpones the consideration of military grievances for that of civil ones, 250; passes in committee a resolution for five subsidies, ib.; Bill for securing the liberties of the subject proposed by Wentworth in, 251; debate on military outrages in, 253; sits, by the King's orders, on Good Friday, 254; debate on martial law in, ib.; asks the Peers to hear them before deciding on the resolutions on the liberties of the subject, 256; again refuses to discuss supply, 257; is informed by the Lord Keeper that Charles expects it to be content with his promise to ob serve the law, 263; resolves that a Bill founded on its resolutions shall be brought in, 264; debate in, on the Bill of Liberties, 265; is informed by Sir J. Coke that, whatever law might be made, it would be the duty of a Privy Coun- cillor to commit without showing cause, 267; directs the preparation of a Remon- strance, 269; orders the presentation of the Remonstrance, 270; end of Went- worth's leadership of, ib.; discusses the King's offer to confirm Magra Carta and six other statutes, 272; orders a Petition of Right to be prepared, and the resolu- tions for five subsidies to be reported, 275; sends up the Pet tion to the Lords, 276; refuses to accept the King's offer to declare the cause as soon as convenient, 277; rejects the Lords' clause in amend
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