God's Fury, England's Fire_ A New History of the English Civil Wars - Michael J. Braddick [473]
Colepeper, Sir John 119, 126, 147, 189, 193, 228, 329, 467
Comenius (Jan Komensky) 157, 454, 455
Commissions of Array (royalist) 210, 211, 212, 214, 215, 216, 219–20, 232
Commissions of the Peace 212, 213–14
See also legal system
Committee for the Army (Commons) 350
Committee of Both Houses for the Advance of Money 254
Committee of Both Kingdoms 324, 327, 336, 346, 374, 378, 473
powers transferred to, from Committee of Safety 324; taken back 496, 501, 524
Scottish influence 349, 524
Committee for the Fens (Commons) 234
Committee for Irish Affairs 473, 493
Committee for Plundered Ministers 276
Committee for Privilege (Commons) 61, 118
Committee of Religion 277
Committee of Safety 181, 194, 198–9, 251, 271
function 271
powers transferred to Committee of Both Kingdoms 324; taken back 496, 501, 524; known as Derby House Committee 524, 535, 542
Common Council of the City of London 178, 179–80, 181, 254, 263–4, 275
elections to 178, 179, 566
New Model Army and 501–2
as Presbyterian 481
Commons, House of 224
on Arminianism 71
clerk of 119
defence of the kingdom, committee on 182–3
function 513
influence/importance, increase in 183
Large Petition to, 1647 487–8, 489, 493, 503
in Long Parliament 118–19, 125, 126, 130, 131–2, 160, 171, 182–3, 186, 234–5, 248; New Model Army demand purge of eleven corrupt members, 1647 497, 498, 501–3;
impeachment articles issued 498–9;
members readmitted 554; as legislating independently 549, 586; indictment against C 568
Lords, relations with 131, 183, 186, 192–3, 248
membership 90; See also individual members
Prayer Book, refusal to defend 186
in Short Parliament 91, 92
See also Parliament; Lords, House of
commonwealth concept 60–61
communications 59, 251, 266
Compton, Henry 265
Con, George 73
Confederated Catholics (Ireland) 304–5, 306, 309, 470, 472
C, petition to, 1642 305
Glamorgan and 348, 469
in Irish rebellion 469–71, 486, 530
Kilkenny assembly 304, 305
Netherlands, commercial treaty with, 1648 563
royalists, aid to 469–70
Rinuccini (Papal Nuncio) and 470, 503
Supreme Council 470
Congregationalism 311, 341, 343
conscience, freedom of 106–7, 109, 440, 442, 514
See also individual freedom
constitutional change 225–6, 257–9, 557
concerns over 228, 258
deposition of the king 257, 451, 474
New Model Army debates on see Putney debates
popular demand for 148–9, 188–9, 257–8
Convocations of the clergy 95, 97, 119
Conyers, Sir John 186
Cook, John 571, 576
corantos (news pamphlets) 51
Corbett, John 66
Corbett, Miles 381
Corfe Castle 289
Cornish Trained Bands 267
Cornwall 153, 214, 216, 221, 230, 319, 245, 405, 462, 532, 542
atrocities by Cornish people 332
Essex in, 1644 331–2
ethnic stereotype of Cornish people 319
royalist supporters 222, 223, 252, 319, 384
royalist troops 251, 331–2
Cory, John 404
Cottingham, Sir Francis, Chancellor of the Exchequer 278
Council of the North 84
the court 52–3, 182, 185
Catholics/Catholic practices 73, 94, 103, 120, 142, 148–9, 348
entertainment 63; masques 278, 388, 527, 580
influence of 52, 53
Covenant 34, 36, 104, 143, 154
acceptance of/support for 36, 37
contents/purpose 34–6
King’s Covenant as alternative 38
See also Solemn League and Covenant
Covenant with God (proposed) 268
Covenanter army
England (north), invasion of 3–6;
Newcastle, occupation of 4, 5–6, 112;
in second campaign 104–5, 106;
English troops, clashes with 4, 39, 87–8, 104–5
funding 311; under treaty of Ripon 106, 113
in Ireland 305–6
Montrose’s victories against 386
parliamentarians, support for 294, 296, 304, 309–13, 314, 322, 324, 325–6, 335–6
return to Scotland 473–4
at Tippermuir, 1644 335
See also Engagers
Covenanters
beliefs/goals xxiii, xxiv, 3, 5, 15, 309–10
C and 38; his negotiations for alliance with 471, 472, 473, 509, 518, 520–25, 527, 536; the Engagement, 1647 522–5, 529
C’s opinion of xxiv, 36, 89, 90–91; his proclamation condemning 5, 6, 108
C’s surrender to, Southwell, May 1646 388, 465
Civil War and 250; pressure on alliance 455; after C’s surrender 471