Elizabeth, Queen, her absolutism, 8; her bearing toward Anglican Church, 9; yields to the monopolies, 10; her veiled despotism, 22; persecutes Dissenters, 23; her war with Spain on the sea, 58; compared with Cromwell, 212; Puritan persecutions in her reign, 217 Ely, home of Cromwell’s mother, 42, 45 Ely Cathedral, Cromwell’s interference there, 78 England, champion of religious liberty, 15, 21; overlordship in Ireland, 15, 16; peace under James I., 19; rural and agricultural population, 58; military experience, 59; political incapacity in Cromwell’s time, 111; relation with Scotland in Second Civil War, 123; pitted against Scotland under the Commonwealth, 164; law of, 181; her carrying trade in Dutch War, 183; her commercial greed, 184; self-government, 192; political freedom, 197; Parliamentarian supremacy in, 198; representative government, 206; condition under the Protectorate, 211 _et seq._, 216, 221 _et seq._, 225; her Irish policy, 227; foreign fame, 230; condition after Cromwell, 231 _et seq._; Cromwell’s descendants in, 239 England’s Freedom and Soldiers’ Rights, cry of, 119 English, the, as sailors in the Spanish wars, 14; their excellence as military material, 58; love of sports, 59; serve as troops in Ireland, 84; at Marston Moor, 86; character of, in seventeenth century, 100 _et seq._; in India, 151; their treatment of the Irish, 162; capacity for self-government, 190, 220; immigrants into Ireland, 223; in West Indies, 229; expansion of, 238 English Presbyterians, for the King against the army, 120 Episcopacy rejected by the Scotch, 38–40; abolition of, demanded by Long Parliament, 56; under Cromwell’s government, 218 Episcopalian Royalists, 177 Episcopalians, 78; clergy hated by Presbyterians, 92; their intolerance, 104; Parliament deserted by them, 108; with the Royalists in Ireland, 122, 132, 146; under the Protectorate, 197; the Prayer-Book denied them by the Commonwealth, 217 Erse, 224 Essex, Earl of, leader of Parliamentary forces, 57; his Guards, 63, 64; at Northampton, 69; his blunders, 91; compared with McClellan, 92 Essex, Fairfax in, 121 Europe, armed against French Revolutionists, 120; effect of regicide on, 138; Dutch position in, 182, 184; religious tolerance, 200; liberty, 219; struggles of Spain and France, 226, 227; Turks in, 228; profligacy in seventeenth century, 230 Evolution, of English political freedom, 197 Executive, English and American, compared, 198 Expansion, English, 237–239 Extremists, in English Parliament, 113, 206