Commercial policy, Cromwell’s, in war against Spain, 226 Committee of Both Kingdoms, the, 85, 92 Committee of Correspondence, in American Revolution, 114 Committee of the Eastern Association, 85 Common law, the, under the Protectorate, 200 Commons, House of, declares against tonnage and poundage, 31; triennial meetings, 54; favored by London, 57; its adherents of the King, 61; Cromwell’s share in, 93; the Independents, 116; defies the army, 118, 135; disregards Lords in the King’s trial, 136; Parliamentarian leaders, 185; Republicans, 204; agreement with Cromwell, 205. _See also Parliament; Long Parliament, etc._ Commonwealth, established, 6; reorganizes its forces, 93; its supremacy, 139; its character, 141; European attitude against it, 143; Cromwell its main support, 163; authority, 177; its religionist enemies, 198; civil rights under it, 217 _Commonwealth Mercury, The_, 232, note Compromise, Parliamentary incapacity for, 101; after American Civil War, 102 Confederacy, the, of American Southern States, 72, 92 Confederates in Ireland, 150 Congregationalists, origin under Elizabeth, 23; identified with Independent party, 49; tolerated by Cromwell, 78; in Parliament, 108; Parliamentarian hatred of, 116; under the Protectorate, 200 Congress, the American Continental, compared with Cromwellian Parliaments, 102, 103, 114, 177 Connaught, 223 Conquest, the [Norman], 232 Constitution, the American, 189, 193, 196, 198 Constitution, English, 135; under the Assembly, 195, 198; under the Protectorate, 205 “Constitution-mongers,” Carlyle’s sneer at, 5 Continent, the, character of its armies, 60; Cromwell’s interest in its politics, 225; the power of France on, 229 Continental Army, the American, 102 Convention, Constitutional, in U. S., 189; in English Assembly, 192–195 Coote, holds Derry for Parliamentarians, 150 Copredy Bridge, Battle of, 91 Cork, Charles II. proclaimed King there, 150; Cromwell’s letter from there, 160 Cornwall, neutrality of, 63 Cotton, John, Cromwell’s letter to, 179 Council of Officers, in English Assembly, 195, 197 _et seq._ Council, the, in Parliamentary army, 114 Council of State, the, 189, 195 Court, purity of Cromwellian, 229; disgracefulness under Restoration, 230 Courts of Chancery, English, 181, 192, 200 Covenant, National, of Scotland, the, 39; taken by Parliamentarians, 78; by English troopers, 84; Hamiltonian devotion to, 123; taken by Ulster Scotch, 148; Fairfax declines campaign against, 163; oath taken by Charles II., 165; Cromwell’s exposition of, 172 _et seq._ Covenanters, the Scotch, defeated by Cromwell, 75; intolerance of sectaries, 116; treatment of Charles II., 165; oppose Puritans at Dunbar, 170; persecuted by Episcopalians, 217 Creed, in United States, 2, 9; in Ireland, 224, 239