Blake, Admiral, in Parliament, 116;
defeats Prince Rupert, 130;
his great fame, 182, 183, 184;
his indifference toward Cromwell, 201;
his victory at Santa Cruz, 228
Boers, as soldiers, 67;
belated Cromwellians, 144;
compared with Covenanters, 165
Border, the, in Civil Wars, 55, 84, 130, 131, 174
Boston, U. S. A., regicide sentimentalism in, 138
Boston Harbor, tea thrown overboard in, 35
Bouchier, Elizabeth, wife of Oliver Cromwell, 43
Brandenburgers, 226
Breast-pieces, 60
Bristol, capture of, 98;
Cromwell’s letter from, 105, 106
British Islands, the Commonwealth in, 177
Buchanan, President, his views on secession, 164
Buckingham, Duke of, his corrupt ministry, 26;
his assassination, 28
Buff coats, uniform of Parliamentarians, 60, 64;
worn by Royalists at Winchester, 83
Buisson, de, quoted, 225
Bunyan, John, 69, 232, note
Bureau of Intelligence, Chief of.
_See Scout-master_
Burleigh House, taken by Parliamentarians, 81
Byzantine Emperors, 172
Cadiz, Charles I.’s expedition against, 26
Calvin, his zeal for righteousness, 7
Calvinism, in Holland, 12;
its influence in England, 29;
in Scotland, 165
Calvinists, their intolerance of Roman Catholics, 13
Cambridge, University of, Cromwell’s residence there, 42, 43;
its plate seized by Cromwellians, 70
Canadians, in South Africa, 67
Cannon, Cromwell’s lack of, at Pembroke, 22
Captain-General, Cromwell’s office of, 163, 189
Carbines, 60;
discarded by Cromwellians, 79
Carlyle, taken by Royalists, 121
Carlyle, Thomas, his opinion of Cromwell, 1, 2;
of Puritanism, 2;
on regicide, 140
Carnworth, Earl of, 96
Casques, 64
Catholic Church, its recognition in Ireland demanded by the Pope, 148;
modern greatness of, 238
Catholics, aimed at by Third Parliament, 31;
unite with Royalists and Presbyterians in Ireland, 120, 122;
character of, in Ireland, 146;
aid of, for Charles II., 147;
dissensions in Ireland, 146–149;
Cromwellian hatred of, 152, 161;
persecutions of, 217, 218;
Mazarin’s plea for them in England, 220;
as landholders in Ireland, 223;
their share in British expansion to-day, 239.
_See also Roman Catholics_
Cavaliers, dress of, 64;
at Grantham, 79, 80;
at Marston Moor, 88;
at Naseby, 96;
rising against army, 120;
support Charles I. in the North, 121;
Cromwell’s opinion of, 123;
allegiance to Charles II. in Scotland, 172;
at Stirling, 174;
at Worcester, 175
Cavalry, its superiority to infantry, 59, 60;
among the Royalists, 70;
horse the true weapon of, 79;
at Gainsborough, 82;
Scotch at Marston Moor, 87, 88;
Naseby, 96;
Ironsides spirit in, 107;
Hamilton’s, 122;
at Preston, 127
Cavendish, Lord, at Gainsborough, 81, 82
Celtic, 16, 224
Celts, the, 16, 146, 224
Censorship of press, established under Protectorate, 216
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