Fairfax, Sir Thomas, his friendship with Cromwell, 79;
at Winceby, 83;
at York, 85;
Marston Moor, 86, 87;
in command of Parliamentarians, 93;
at Naseby, 96, 97;
captures Bristol, 98;
returned to Parliament, 116;
approves Cromwell’s joining army party, 119;
his march into Kent, 121;
takes Colchester, 130;
Cromwell’s letter to, 131;
counsels moderation toward the King, 135;
declines campaign against Covenanters, 163;
his indecision, 164 _et seq._
Falkland, Lord, 57
Fanaticism, consequent on English Revolution, 143
Fifth Monarchy, 103;
principles of, 112, 113
Flag, English, Dutch salute insisted on, 183
Flanders, English victories in, 230
Fleet, English, supports Parliamentarians, 122;
deserts to Royalists, 130;
its share in Dutch wars, 183;
supports Cromwell, 189;
under the Protectorate, 199
Foot, in seventeenth-century warfare, 59;
Parliamentarians’, at Gainsborough, 82;
Scots’, at Marston Moor, 88.
_See also Infantry_
Forrest, General, his inferiority to Grant, 68;
compared with Montrose, 94
Fortescue, Sir Faithful, deserts Parliamentarians at Edgehill, 71
Four Fundamentals, the, 205
France, serfs of, 59;
Prince Rupert in, 130;
Royalist refugees in, 149;
Protestants, 162;
in wars with Spain, 226, 227;
convention with England, 229
Franchise, the, redistribution of, under the Protectorate, 197
Frederick the Great, 145
Free State, the, 141.
_See also Commonwealth_
French, character of the, in eighteenth century, 100, 190
French Revolution, the, 120
Frobisher, 14
Gainsborough, siege of, 81
Galley slaves, English prisoners as, 129
Garrison, American Abolitionist, 103
Geddes, Jenny, at Edinburgh, 39
Geneva, 12
Gentiles, 220
Gentlemen, Cromwell’s opinion of, 76
Gentry, English, 59;
against Charles I., 61;
support of the King in Wales, 121
George III., his Government rejected by American Continental Congress,
36
George IV., 238
Germany, English adventurers in, 58;
serfs of, 59
Germans, the, Charles X.’s aggressions against, 226
Gladstone, early writings of, 49
Golden Rule, the, 47
Good government, Cromwell’s notion of, 204
Gordon, piety of, compared with Cromwell’s, 105
Goring, General, at Marston Moor, 87, 88, 89;
defeated by Fairfax, 98
Government, its development in Great Britain, 198;
Cromwell’s practice of, 211
Grand Remonstrance, the, against Charles I., 56, 57
Grant, General, his volunteer soldiery, 65;
his development of troops, 91;
his superiority to Forrest, 95;
his political supporters, 103;
his soldiers, 145;
his generosity, 216
Grantham, Cromwell at, 79
Great Britain, Charles II. declared King of, by the Scotch, 143;
government of, 198;
expansion of, 238
Greeks, the, under Agathokles, 210
Greene, General, 91
Guards, of Lord Essex, buff coats adopted by them as uniform, 64;
of Charles I., 64
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