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correspondence 467; capture of 349, 379, 380–83, 525; See also individual correspondents

as a man of blood 517–18, 549, 556

personal appearance 26

political style 24, 26, 30

portraits/images of 24, 25, 26, 474, 526, 580, 587, 588; parliamentary action against 587

public support for xxvi, 38, 160, 161, 175–6, 177, 188, 474–5, 476, 495, 553, 557

religious beliefs 22, 23, 24; declaration on, 1641, 176–7

speech to Parliament, 1641 273

statement of intentions, 1642 217–18, 515

Charles I: surrender/imprisonment, 1646–8, xxi, xxii, xxiv

surrender to Covenanters at Southwell, May 1646 388, 465; taken to Newcastle 465, 525; peace proposals sent to see Newcastle Propositions; Covenanters cede control of him to Parliament, 1646 473–4; taken to Holmby 473–4, 476, 480, 525; his reception 476; taken by Joyce to Newmarket 493–5; his reception 495; moved to Hampton Court 509, 525; plan for flight to Scotland 520; escape from Hampton Court 518–19, 525; on Isle of Wight 521, 525; imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle 521, 525–8, 526; letter to House of Lords offering compromise settlement see Hampton Court proposals; escape attempts 525–6, 532, 535, 555, 559; the Engagement with Scotland, 1647 522–5, 527, 529, 536; moved to Hurst Castle 560, 575

Charles I: trial/execution, 1648 xxiv, xxv, 222, 555–81, 570, 578

Clarendon on 575–7

Cromwell on 568

events leading to 353, 555–70; New Model Army and 374, 560–62, 564–5; C’s rejection of further peace proposals 564; attempts to avoid/delay 564–8; charges brought 449, 556, 557, 571–2, 573; indictments 568; justification for 556–7, 558–9; legitimacy of 569, 572; legislation enabling 562, 568–9; High Court of Justice established 568–9; Act to set up the court passed by Commons 569; as a public trial 569–70, 576; trial commissioners 569, 570, 573–4, 577; President 571; contempt clause foreclosed 572–3

C’s behaviour during 572, 573–4, 576–7; treatment during 575–6; guilty verdict 573–4; death warrant 574–5; C’s speech from the scaffold 577; executioners identity unknown 577, 580; burial 580;

effects of 563–4, 580–81, 585–93; public response 577–80, 586–7

as martyrdom: C presented as a martyr 526–7, 576–7, 580–81, 581, 586–7; C’s view of himself as martyred 449, 474

Elizabeth Poole’s prophecy on 567

Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles II) xxv-xxvi, 141, 187, 470, 474

in Bristol, 1645 374

at Edgehill 246

in exile 588; in France 537

in Isles of Scilly, 1646 388, 537

as King 592

in Second Civil War 543, 545, 552, 563

Charles Louis, Prince, Elector Palatine 190

Charlton, Stephen 247–8

Cheapside Cross, London 145, 146, 263, 325

demolition of 262–4, 262, 274, 275, 280, 281, 314, 315

Chelmsford 495, 541

Cheshire 133, 144, 152, 375, 397, 406

militia 211, 214

parliamentarians in 232, 265, 346

royalists in 221, 232, 265, 346

Chester 224, 346, 386, 394

siege of, 1645 374, 375, 386, 387, 388

Chichester 265, 396

Chidley, Katherine 344, 410, 445

Chinese language 453

Cholmley, Sir Hugh 264

allegiance, change in 297–9, 300

Sir John Hotham and 298; and his son 299

Christ Church, Newgate 340, 445, 493

Christmas 256

celebration of 18, 280, 379, 531;

prohibition of 482, 496, 531

Chudleigh, James 287, 300–301

church ales 279

Church of England

bishops see bishops

C and 19, 22, 24

churchwardens 72, 74, 81

clergymen see clergymen

Convocations 95, 97, 119

Directory of Worship see Directory of Worship

dissent within 102, 108, 263

discipline in 48, 151

form of worship 20–21, 22, 27, 54, 71–3, 76, 102, 194–5, 147; attacks on 147, 154, 201–2; innovations in prohibited 151

institutional structure 20

local/lay influences on 73–6, 81

mandatory church attendance 3–4

parochial appointments 73

Prayer Book see Prayer Book Puritans and 21, 48–9

Reformation and 19–20

Royal Supremacy over 19, 24, 49, 54, 95

Thirty-Nine Articles 163, 164, 309, 311

tradition, defence of 20–21, 22

under Elizabeth I 19–20, 21

visitations 72, 74

Church of Ireland 127, 163, 164–5,

church lands 26–7, 477

relinquishing of, under Newcastle Propositions 466, 521

church union