Constantinople captured by the Turks, iii. 189; English exiles at, i. 167 "Constitutional Clubs," viii. 95, 100 Constitutions of Clarendon, i. 235 Contades, General, vii. 264 Continental System, viii. 175, 176; its results, 177 Contract, the Great, v. 179 Convention of 1660, vi. 152; declares itself a Parliament, 194; of 1689, vii. 44-47; becomes a Parliament, 60; the Constituent, vi. 94-98; the French, viii. 101; Scottish, of 1659, vi. 150; of 1689, vii. 51. _See_ Parliament Convocation, provincial, of the clergy, ii. 158; its legislative power taken away, iii. 301, 307; of 1413, iii. 20; of 1512, Colet's address to, 202, 203; of 1531, 296, 297; of 1532, 301; of 1533, 303; of 1604, its canons, v. 156; of 1689, vii. 63; of Perth, ii. 171 Conway, castle built at, ii. 121; captured by Owen Glyndwr, iii. 10; recovered by Percy, 11 Cook, Captain, vii. 278 Cooper, Anthony Ashley, vi. 95; his early life, 215, 216; attacks Cromwell's memory, 148; advises the return of excluded members of the Rump, 151; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 194. _See_ Ashley Cope, Sir John, vii. 228 Copenhagen, battle of, viii. 163; bombardment of, 180 Copper, export of, from Cornwall, iv. 279 Copy-holders, i. 323 Corfe, Eadward the Martyr slain at, i. 139 Cormac's _Glossary_, i. 8 Cornwal, John, ii. 357 Cornwall conquered by Ecgberht, i. 102; Royalist rising in, vi. 5, 6; tin-mines in, i. 30; ii. 107; export of tin from, iv. 279; of copper, _ib._; West Welsh of, become vassals of Æthelstan, i. 120 Cornwall, Henry, Earl of, i. 345 Cornwall, Richard, Earl of. _See_ Richard Cornwallis, Charles, second earl and first marquis, captures Charlestown, viii. 32; surrenders at York Town, _ib._; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 130, 138; victories in India, 131 Coronation-stone, the Scottish, ii. 162 Coroners, i. 264; ii. 149 Corresponding Society, viii. 106 Cortes, Hernan, iv. 329 Corunna, Drake's descent on, iv. 355; siege of, 367, 368; battle of, viii. 187 Cotentin, the, conquered by William Longsword, i. 155; ceded to Robert by Henry I., 201 Cotton, Bartholomew de, i. 274 Cotton, manufacture of, viii. 53, 59, 193