Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century
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Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century
Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714
Irenæus.
_Irenicum_, Stillingfleet's.
Islip, Simon, Archbishop of Canterbury.
James I:
character by Arthur Wilson;
by Sir Anthony Weldon;
'the wisest foole in Christendome'.
James II:
characters by Burnet;
his journal;
High Admiral.
Jermyn, Henry, Baron Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans.
Johnson, Samuel:
quoted;
_Lives of the Poets_.
Jonson, Ben:
character by Clarendon;
by James Howell;
his character of Bacon,
and description.
Jotham. See Halifax.
Juxon, William, Archbishop of Canterbury: character by Sir Philip Warwick.
Killigrew, Henry.
Killigrew, Thomas, the elder.
Kimbolton, Baron. See Manchester, Earl of.
King, James, General.
Knolles, Richard: _History of The Turkes_.
Knott, Edward: 'the learned Jesuit'.
La Bruyère.
_Lachrymæ Musarum_.
Lake, Sir Thomas.
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury:
character by Clarendon;
by Fuller;
by Sir Philip Warwick;
speech on scaffold.
Lauderdale, John Maitland, Earl of:
character by Clarendon;
character by Burnet;
his library.
Lawes, Henry, musician.
Leicester, Robert Sidney, Earl of.
Levett, Mr., Page of Bedchamber to Charles I.
Lewgar, John.
Lilburne, John.
Lincoln, Bishop of. _See_ Williams, John.
Livy.
Lloyd, William, Bishop of Worcester: character by Burnet.
Lucan.
Lugar. See Lewgar.
Macaulay, Lord,
Machiavelli,
Maidston, John: character of Cromwell,
Manchester, Edward Montagu, second Earl of, Baron Montagu of Kimbolton,
Viscount Mandeville:
character by Clarendon,
by Warwick,
by Burnet,
Manchester, Henry Montagu, first Earl of,
Mandeville, Viscount. See Manchester, Earl of.
Mansell, Sir Robert,
Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of,
_Martyrdom of King Charles_,
Maurice, Prince.
Maynard, Sir John,
_Mercurius Academicus_,
Middlesex, Lionel Cranfield, Earl of,
Middleton, John, Earl of Middleton,
Millington, Edward, bookseller and auctioneer,
Milton, John:
described by Aubrey,
note by Edward Phillips,
notes by Jonathan Richardson,
his sonnet to Fairfax,
to Vane,
to Henry Lawes,
his Latin character of Fairfax,
_Eikonoklastes_,
_Defensio Secunda_,
his daughters,
ignored by Clarendon,
Milward, Richard,
Molière,
Montaigne,
Montgomery, Earl of. See Pembroke, fourth Earl of.
Montpensier, Mlle de,
More, Henry, the Cambridge Platonist: character by Burnet,
More, Sir Thomas,
Morley, George, Bishop of Worcester,
'My part lies therein-a',
Naunton, Sir Robert,
Needham, Marchamont,
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Marquis of, afterwards Duke of:
character by Clarendon,
character by Warwick,
Life by the Duchess,
his books on horsemanship,
Clarendon's opinion of his military capacity,
Nicholas, Sir Edward,
North, Francis. See Guilford, Lord Keeper.
North, Roger:
character of Sir Edmund Saunders,
his _Lives of the Norths_,
North, Sir Thomas,
Northampton, Spencer Compton, second Earl of: character by Clarendon,
Northumberland, Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of,
Nott. See Knott.
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