also his _Verses to the Duchess_ on the Duke's victory of June 3, 1665. He ceased to be High Admiral on the passing of the Test Act, 1673. Page 256, l. 6. Sir William Coventry (1628-86), secretary to James, 1660-7. 'He was the man of the finest parts and the best temper that belonged to the court:' see his character by Burnet, ed. Airy, vol. i, pp. 478-9. ll. 13 ff. Compare Pepys's _Diary_, November 20, 1661, June 27 and July 2, 1662, June 2, 1663, July 21, 1666, &c. 76. Burnet's History of His Own Time. Vol. ii. (p. 292-3.) INDEX. Abbott, George, Archbishop of Canterbury Achitophel. See Shaftesbury. Aires, or Ayres, Captain. Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, first Earl of. Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of. Arminius. Army, The New Model. Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of: character by Clarendon; by Sir Edward Walker; his art collections. Ascham, Roger. Ashley, Lord. See Shaftesbury. Aubrey, John: description of Hobbes; of Milton; his manuscripts; quoted. _Aulicus Coquinariæ_. Bacon, Sir Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans: character by Jonson; by Arthur Wilson; by Fuller; by Rawley; his relations with Hobbes; Essays quoted by Baxter; _Advancement of Learning_; _Henry VII_; _Apophthegms_. Baker, Sir Richard. Balfour, Sir William. Bankes, Anne, wife of Edmund Waller. Bate, or Bates, George: _Elenchus Motuum_. Baxter, Richard: character of Cromwell; _Reliquiæ Baxterianæ_; letter to Lauderdale. Bedford, Francis Russell, fourth Earl of. Bee, Cornelius, bookseller. Bendish, Bridget. Bendish, Henry. Bentivoglio, Cardinal Guido. Berry, James. Bible. Boileau. Bolton, Edmund: _Hypercritica_. Bradshaw, John: Milton's praise of. Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of: character by Clarendon. Bristol, John Digby, first Earl of. Bristol, second Earl of. See Digby, George. Brooke, Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron. Brooke, Robert Greville, second Baron. Buckingham, George Villiers, first Duke of: character by Clarendon; by Sir Henry Wotton; Clarendon's early account. Buckingham, George Villiers, second Duke of: character by Burnet; by Dryden (Zimri); other characters. Buckingham, or Buckinghamshire, John Sheffield, Duke of: 'Character of Charles II'. Burleigh, William Cecil, Baron. Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury: characters of Charles II; Clarendon; Lauderdale; Shaftesbury; Buckingham; Halifax; seventeenth-century divines; James II; account of Vane; Waller; Sir Philip Warwick; his characters; revision of his characters; _History of His Own Time_; _Memoirs of Dukes of Hamilton_; _Life of Hale_; _Life of Rochester_; relations with Lauderdale; with English divines. Burton, John. Bushell, Thomas. Butler, Samuel: character of Shaftesbury; of Buckingham. Byron, John, first Baron Byron.