Carr, Robert, Viscount Rochester and Earl of Somerset— friendship with Overbury, 178 makes conquest of Countess of Essex, 179 marries her after her divorce, 180 refuses to plead guilty to charge of murdering Overbury, 180-81 condemned and pardoned, 180 in possession of some secret, 180-81 Was he guilty? 180 means devised to silence him, 181 Carter, William, drawn and hanged for printing a book, 162-63 Catur, William, slain in single combat, 115 Caursins, rivals of the Jews as money-lenders, 94 “Celtic fringe,” 100 _note_ Chains and manacles, ordered to be brought to Tower, 99 Challoner, Dr. Richard, historian, quoted, 52, 167, 176, 177, 182, 185 Charing Cross— Station on site of Hungerford House, 125 gallows set up at, 152 and _note_ Pillory at, 202 Charles I.— and Henrietta Maria, 65-6 executions under, 76-7 conflict with Parliament as to execution of priests, 184, 204 Charles II.— his court almost pure compared with that of James I., 178 proclamations, 194-5 supposed design to assassinate, 200 unjustly blamed for Popish Plot executions, 204-5 and Rye House Plot, 205 Charterhouse— of London, 49, 133 Prior of, 134 of Beauvale, 134 of Axholmes, 134 Priors of Beauvale and Axholme, 134 execution of the three Priors, 134-36 three Monks of London House executed, 136 Horne, William, a lay brother of, executed, 147 Chaucer— his Prioress, 7 her story, 91 Chauncy, Maurice, his account of the martyrdom of the Carthusians, 133-36 Chelsea, gallows at, 15 Chidley, Samuel, 79 writes against “over-much justice,” 186-87 Children burnt or hanged, 78, 246, 257-58 Chiltern Hundreds— origin of stewardship of, 8-9 forests, 11 “Christ’s poor,” 141 become “paupers,” 142 Church, no church that erreth not, 158 _note_ Churches robbed, 118 Ciltria, _see_ Chiltern Clergy, benefit of— right to claim barred by bigamy, 127 could be claimed by murderer till 1531, 129 what it was, 129, 130-31 extended in 1351-52 to all clerks, 129, 130 constantly narrowed, 131 in 1726, 131 abolished in 1827, 131 Clitherow, Margaret, manner of her death, 39 Cobbett, William— on “Histories of England,” 4 on “rooks and daws,” 5 on Waverley Abbey, 15 _note_ Cobham, Dame Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, 113-15 her penance, 114-15 Cock tavern in Cheapside, murder of landlord, 105, 111 Coin— debased state of, 214 men in royal dockyards paid in clipped money, 215 Coining— became a common offence, 214, 219, 220 legislation as to coin, 214-15 in Newgate prison, 221