Army, the New Model, formation of, 545; attempt of Parliament to disband, 553; choice of Agitators in, 554; gains possession of the king's person, 555; the heads of the proposals presented in the name of, _ib._; drives out the eleven members, _ib._; turns against the king, 556, 557; expels members by Pride's Purge, _ib._; its inability to reconstruct society after the king's execution, 560; overthrows Richard Cromwell, restores and expels the Rump, 575; brings back the Rump, _ib._; receives Charles II. on Blackheath, 578; paid off, 584 Army, the Royal, beginning of, 584 Army plot, the, 531 Articles, the ten, 395; the six, 399; the forty-two, 420; the thirty-nine, _ib._; declaration of Charles I., prefixed to, 512 Arundel Castle taken and lost by Hopton, 542 Ashley, Lord, _see_ Shaftesbury, Earl of Aske heads the Pilgrimage of Grace, 397 Assembly of divines, proposal to refer church questions to, 534; meeting of, 540; declares for Presbyterianism, 543 Association, the, in defence of Elizabeth, 456 Attainder, Bill of, against Thomas Cromwell, 401; nature of a, _ib._, note i.; against Strafford, 531 Auldearn, battle of, 547 Babington plots the murder of Elizabeth, 457 Bacon, Francis (Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Alban), scientific aspirations of, 474; advises Elizabeth as to the treatment of the Catholics, 475; his conduct to Essex, 478; gives political advice to James I., 486; his jest on Montague's promotion, 494; attacked about monopolies, 495; disgrace of, 496 Bagenal defeated by Hugh O'Neill, 475 Ballard takes part in Babington's plot, 457 Barbadoes, prisoners sent to, 564; dissenters sent to, 588 Barebone's Parliament, the, origin of the name of, 566; dissolution of, 567 Baronets, origin of the order of, 494 Barrow, Henry, a separatist, hanged, 470 Barrow, Isaac, addresses his sermons to the understanding, 598 Basing House taken by Cromwell, 549 Bastwick sentenced by the Star Chamber, 521 Bate's case, 484 Baxter, imprisoned by Jeffreys, 635 Beaton, Cardinal, burns Wishart, 412; is murdered, 414 Bedingfield, Sir Henry, takes charge of Elizabeth, 423 Benevolences raised by James I., 497 Berwick, Treaty of, 526 Bible, the, Henry VIII. authorises the translation of, 396 Bishops, nominated by _congé d'élire_, 391; first Bill for removing from the House of Lords, 533; impeachment of the twelve, 535; excluded from the House of Lords, 536 Bishops' War, the first, 526; the second, 529 Blackwater, the, defeat of Bagenal on, 475 Blake, defends Taunton, 548; appointed to command the fleet, 565; sent to the Mediterranean, 571; destroys Spanish ships at Santa Cruz, 573; death of, _ib._ Bloody Assizes, the, 637 Bocher, Joan, burnt, 419 Bohemia, outbreak of the Thirty Year War in, 490