Revolution, Puritan, Cromwell’s attempt to check it, 119;
Presbyterian support of, 132;
Cromwell’s attitude toward it, 142, 179;
impermanent effects of, 188.
_See also American Revolution; French Revolution, etc._
Rhode Island, 165
Ribble, river, 125, 127
Richelieu, 17
Ritual, Cromwell’s suppression of, at Ely, 78
Rochelle, Charles I.’s expedition against, 26, 27
Roman Catholicism identified with Spain in English opinion, 14;
liberality of, in France, 17;
Cromwell’s intolerance of, 77;
demanded for State religion by Irish, 147
Roman Catholics, intolerance of, 104;
Irish revolt supported by, 147;
position of, under the Protectorate, 197
Rome, 12
Root and Branch party, the, 56
Ross, capture of, by Cromwell, 158
“Roundhead,” term of reproach in Parliamentary army, 75
Roundhead army, 64;
its foot, 73;
at Marston Moor, 88
Royal Martyr, the, churches dedicated to, 138
Royalist Delinquents, 184
Royalist Protestants in Ireland, 149, 152
Royalists, at Nottingham, 57, 58;
strength of, 61;
driven out of Cornwall, 63;
military leaders of, 68;
natural taste for war, 69;
estates fined by Cromwell, 79;
at Grantham, 80;
defeated by Cromwell at Nottingham and Burleigh, 81;
stand at Gainsborough, 82;
defeated at Winceby, 83;
forces in Civil Wars unestimated, 86;
at Marston Moor, 86 _et seq._;
Copredy Bridge, 91;
hope of, in Scotland, 94;
outnumbered at Naseby, 95 _et seq._;
end of, in Scotland, 98;
surrender in 1646, 98;
union with Catholics and Presbyterians against Parliament, 120;
united in Ireland, 146;
in Irish wars, 149 _et seq._;
opposed to the Commonwealth, 164;
dissensions in Scotland, 166;
Scottish reverses, 174;
their end in England, 178;
position under the Protectorate, 199, 213, 216;
penances done by, on anniversary of regicide, 240
Royalists in American Revolution, 217
Rump, the, 177, 181;
dissolution, 185, 187
Rump Parliament, 185, 187, 188
Rupert, Prince, Royalist leader, military training, 68;
at Powick, 71;
his charge at Edgehill, 72;
at Grantham, 80;
dubs Cromwell Old Ironsides, 80;
his brilliant tactics, 84;
marches to relieve York, 85, 86;
against Cromwell at Marston Moor, 87, 88, 91;
his activity, 94, 95;
at Naseby, 96, 97;
in Parliament, 108;
his buccaneering cruise, 130
Russia, 9;
majority rule unnatural to, 25;
Charles X.’s policy toward, 226;
under Peter the Great, 237
Russians, the, under Ivan the Terrible, 210
Sabbath, observance of, under the Protectorate, 213
Sailors, fame of English, in seventeenth century, 14;
the Dutch as, 182
St. Bartholomew, Massacre of, 39
St. Fagan’s, Welsh defeat at, 121
St. Ives, Cromwell’s farm at, 45
St. John, Oliver, Cromwell’s cousin by marriage, 45, 46.
St. Peter’s, Drogheda, 154
San Domingo, English expedition against, 229
Santa Cruz, Blake’s victory over the Spanish there, 228
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