God's Fury, England's Fire_ A New History of the English Civil Wars - Michael J. Braddick [469]
recreation days 482–3, 496, 497
as soldiers in civil war 249, 406–7
Arabic language 453
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 8th Earl 104, 141, 308, 309, 471, 492, 529
Montrose’s campaign against 335–6, 348, 353, 374–5, 386–7
plot against 159–60
Scottish hostility towards 307, 308
aristocracy see nobility
Arminianism 19, 22, 45, 47, 48, 54, 55–6, 73
Denzil Holles on 253
House of Commons on 71
arms industry 397–9, 403, 455–6
See also weapons/ordnance
army plots 136, 141, 142, 148
arsenals see weapons/ordnance
Arthur, John 389
Arundel/Arundel Castle 265, 301, 322
Arundel, Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl 116, 136
Ashburnham, John 228, 284
C and 467; escape with him to Isle of Wight 520–21
Assessment Ordinances 253, 273
implementation of 281, 321–2, 323, 394, 396
Astley, Sir Jacob 99, 224, 266, 466–7
at Edgehill 244
military experience 242, 244, 466–7
at Stow-on-the-Wold 388, 467
Aston, John 11
Aston, Sir Thomas 147
astrological almanacs 366–7, 368–9
astrology 363–9, 367, 453–5
hororary questions 365
judicial 363–4, 365, 368–9
as quackery 366
See also prophecies/prophetic pamphlets
atrocities 395–6
against women camp followers 317, 378, 387, 434
by Cornish civilians 332
by Irish papists 196–200
by Irish royalist troops, in England 317–18; against them 318–19; in Scotland 387
by royalist troops 285–7, 317, 318–19, 325–6
by parliamentary troops 282–3, 318, 387, 395–6; after Naseby 378, 379, 434
in Scotland 335, 375, 387
Attaway, Mrs (London preacher) 344
Audley, Lady 103
Auldearn, battle of, 1645 375
Axtell, Daniel 576
Bacon, Francis: New Atlantis 156
Bacon, Thomas 86
Baconian science 454, 455, 463
Bagot, Henry 219
Baillie, Robert 131, 143, 144, 312, 346, 375
Baillie, William 545
Balmerino, James Elphinstone, 2nd Lord 27, 28
Bampfield, John 117–18
Baptists 340, 341, 344, 345, 566
Barbados 588
Barkley, William 458
Basing House 393
siege of, 1644 333, 334
siege of, 1645 387; lifted by Cromwell’s troops 387–8, 393, 450, 527
symbolic significance 387
Bastwick, John 77, 120, 441, 442–3
Bateman, Thomas 399
Bath 288, 385
Bath, Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of 231–2
Batten, Vice Admiral Sir William 372, 540, 543
Baxter, Richard 257
Beard, Thomas 230
Beaumont, Captain 345
Beaumont, Richard 116
Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th Earl 92, 105, 126, 137
in Long Parliament 125, 126–7, 131, 139, 148
death 126
Bedford, William Russell, 5th Earl 216
Bedfordshire 99, 172, 254
Bell, Moses 583
Benbrigge, John: Gods Fury, Englands Fire xxii–xxiii, 452
Bensted, Thomas 95
Beoley House 318
Berkeley, Sir John 301, 509, 520–21
Berkeley, Sir William 222
Berkenhead, Sir John 282
Berkshire 172, 327, 395, 413, 414
Berwick 37, 59, 88, 172
Scottish occupation, 1648 537
Bethell, Major Christopher 384
Beza, Theodorus 7, 11, 14
Bible, importance of 3, 7–8, 9, 227, 451
Birch, Captain 217
Birmingham 266, 286, 398
Bishop, Captain 517
Bishop, Lady 301
Bishop, George 195
bishops 22, 48, 73, 76, 93, 121, 127
abolition of 477
defence of 152, 225
opposition to 121, 127, 128–9, 130, 131, 146–7, 337, 348, 448
‘parliamentary’ 16
Protestant view of 21, 107–8
regulation of 127, 131
in Scottish Reformed Church 12, 14, 15, 16, 17–18, 23–4, 28, 29, 88, 448
Sequestration Ordinance against 270
treason charges against 179
Bishops Exclusion Bill 1642 186, 193
Bishops Wars see Prayer Book rebellion
Black Acts 1583 15
Black Oath (Ulster) 135, 164–5
blasphemy 491
ordinance against, 1677 477
body politic concept 207–8
Boggis, John 344
Bolingbroke, Oliver St John, 1st Earl 105
Bolton 318
book burning 277–9, 293, 341, 459, 460
of Large Petition 488, 493
mutilation of authors and 278, 279
of Scottish books 278, 460
Book of Common Order 17
Book of Declarations (New Model Army) 492, 510–11, 519, 584
Book of Sports
burning of 277, 280, 281, 296, 460
opposition to 279–80, 482
Booker, John 366, 367
books/reading 450–51, 584–5
accuracy/truthfulness of 582–3
chapbooks 50
language, use of 449, 450–51, 453, 591
See also individual books/titles;