Liberty, political and religious, under the Stuarts, 24;
Cromwell’s views on, 79, 107;
under the Protectorate, 197
Lieutenant-general, Cromwell’s rank of, 144
Life Guards, Charles I.’s, 64
Lincoln, American President, his candidacy in 1864, 103;
his first election, 193;
compared with Cromwell, 207–208
London, its sympathy with the Commons, 57;
unification of the Parliamentary troops there, 64;
its troops at Copredy Bridge, 91;
Presbyterians of, 109;
its mobs in the army party, 118;
Presbyterian commotions there, 121;
the army’s march into, 136;
Cromwell’s return to, 163, 180;
Jewish settlement in, 220
Long Parliament, spirit of the, 5;
men of, 11;
its grievances compared with American Continental Congress’s, 36;
meets at Westminster, 41;
Cromwell’s issue with army party against it, 119;
the remnant of, 177;
its dissolution, 187, 188, 201, 204, 206;
comparison with the Protectorate, 216.
_See also Parliament, Rump, etc._
Lord Protector, position of, 197;
Cromwell as, 212
Lords, House of, in Charles I.’s trial for treason, 136;
abolished under the Commonwealth, 141
Louis XIV., 162
Louis XV., 162
Lower classes in England, their discontent under the Tudors, 10;
incapacity for political combination, 10
Lucas, Sir Charles, repulsed by Scotch at Marston Moor, 88, 89
Luther, his zeal for righteousness, 7
Lutherans, intolerant spirit of, 13
Lynch law, occasional need of, 54
Macaulay, Lord, his opinion of Cromwell, 1
McClellan, American general, compared with Essex, 92;
attitude of Abolitionists toward, 103;
Democratic support of, 208
Major-generals, government of, under the Protectorate, 213, 215
Manchester, Earl of, Parliamentary leader, 58;
commands Eastern Association, 85;
at Marston Moor, 86;
denounced by Cromwell in Parliament, 93;
Cromwell’s speech to, 110
Marlborough, Duke of, 145
Marriage, civil, proposed under the Protectorate, 193
Marston Moor, Battle of, 86–90, 94, 95, 96;
Scotch share in, 124;
David Leslie at, 167
Mary, Queen, her expulsion of the Irish kerne, 16;
her treatment of Protestants, 217;
Irish policy, 238
Maryland, 165
Mass, the, denied to Irish by Cromwell, 158;
prohibited under the Protectorate, 198
Maurice of Orange, 14
Mazarin, French Cardinal, 17;
Cromwell’s reply to, 220;
co-operates with Cromwell, 228
Middle classes in England, powerful under the Tudors, 10;
strength among Parliamentarians, 69
Midianitish woman, the, 160
Militarism, English avoidance of, under James I., 19
Military rule, Cromwell’s, 213
Military service, not differentiated on land and sea in seventeenth
century, 184
Military type, the, in Cromwellian army, 107;
influenced by religious zeal, 191
Militia, compared with regular soldiery, 66;
at Copredy Bridge, 91;
levy system of, 93
Mill Mount, 154
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