NITHISDALE.

rentage, 233; her journey to Lon-
don, 234; endeavours to present a
petition to George I., 235; her
mode of taking advantage of the
passing of an address in favour of
the prisoners, 237; her power over
the minds of others, 238; enlists
aid in her scheme for releasing her
husband, 238; her account of the
manner in which the escape was
effected, 239-243; returns to her
lodging, and visits the Duchess of
Montrose, 243; joins the Earl,
244; goes to Scotland to secure
the family papers, 245; returns to
London, and rejoins her husband at
Rome, 246; her death, 247; her
picture by Kneller, 247.
NITHISDALE, Earl of, a leader among
the Jacobites, taken at Preston, and
sent to the Tower, 233; believes
in the efficacy of a petition to the
King, 234; account of his escape
from the Tower, 239-243; his
place of concealment, and removal
to the house of the Venetian am-
bassador, 244; escapes to Calais,
245; dies at Rome, 246; locality
in the Tower from which he es-
caped, 247.

NORFOLK, Hugh le Bigod, Earl of,
his reply to Henry III., 293.
NORFOLK, Thomas, Duke of, his
grave, 30.

NORTHAMPTON, Lord, his extraordi-

nary speech on Garnet's trial, 147.
NORTHUMBERLAND, Duke of, Dudley
Earl of Warwick, created, 80.
NORTHUMBERLAND, Earl of, a com-
panion of Raleigh in the Tower,
182.

0.

O'CONNOR, Mr. Arthur; his trial
and acquittal for high treason at

PAGEANTS.

Maidstone, 266, 267; attempts to
escape arrest on another charge,
267; narrative of the events which
led to his first arrest, 269; his im-
prisonment in the Tower, 270.
OLDCORN, the Jesuit, arrested at
Hendlip, 146; tortured, 148;
executed, 149.

ORDNANCE in the Tower: gun cast
by Solyman the Magnificent, 287;
skill of the Turks in casting large
cannon, 288; supposed presence of
gold in the gun-metal disproved,
289; guns cast from cannon
captured at Cherbourg, 289;
specimens of ornamental casting,
290; revolver of the reign of
James I., 290; store of rifles,
290.

ORMOND, Duke of, Blood's outrage
upon, 218.

ORMONDE, Earl of, relieves Dublin,

52.

OSSORY, Lord, his threat to the Duke
of Buckingham in presence of the
King, 218.

OVERBURY, Sir Thomas, his advice
to Carr, Lord Rochester, 170;
committed to the Tower, 170;
murdered by poison, 171; inquiry
into his death, 171.

OWEN, arrested at Hendlip, 145;
commits suicide in the Tower,
146.

OWEN, Sir John, saved by the inter-
cession of Ireton, 209.

OXFORD, Tiptoft, Earl of, made
keeper of the lions, 310.

PAGET.

PAGET, Sir William; his letter of
advice to Protector Somerset, 78,
79.

PALACE of the Tower, site of, 8;
destroyed by Oliver Cromwell, 8.
PALE, Lords of the, constant dis-
turbances fomented by, 48.
PARROTT, accomplice of Blood in the
attempt to steal the regalia, 215;
captured and examined before the
King, 216; released without trial,
217.

PARSONS, Father, publishes an account

of Arabella Stuart's connexion with
the Crown, 152.

PEEL, General, saves St. John's
Chapel from desecration, 21.
PEPYS, his visit to St. Peter's Chapel,
30.

PERCY, Thomas, his share in the
Gunpowder Plot, 132; hires
Ferris's house, 134; killed at
Holbeach, 143.

PETER MARTYR, assists the English
Prelates in completing the Liturgy,
78.

PIERCY, a chemist, his association
with Raleigh in the Tower, 182.
PINKIE, battle of, 71, 74.

PITT, Mr., his opinion as to the
military character of the office of
Constable, 299.

POPHAM, Chief-Justice, his conduct
on Raleigh's trial, 178.
POYNINGS, Sir E., defeats and
captures the Earl of Kildare, 48.

PRINCE CONSORT, his judicious
recommendation, 19.

PYм, Mr., impeaches the Earl of
Strafford, 200.

RALEIGH.

R.

REFORMATION, English, promoted
by Protector Somerset, 69, 74,
75.

RACK, the, its use illegal, 194; re-
presentation of, on a suit of armour,
285.

RALEIGH, Sir Walter, his career
under Elizabeth, 175; his intrigue,
and committal to the Tower, 176;
his release and marriage, 176; his
first expedition to Guiana, 176;
his statesmanship, 177; James
prejudiced against him, 177; ac-
cused of high treason, and convicted,
178; his preparations for death, and
letter to his wife, 179; accused of
atheism, 180; writes his History
of the World,' 181; his advice on
naval preparation, 182; his com-
panions in the Tower, 182; his
health suffers from his long con-
finement, 183; his correspondence
with Prince Henry, 184; brings
before James a scheme for an ex-
pedition to Guiana, 184: gains his
consent by bribing the uncles of
Buckingham, 185; his protest for
the satisfaction of Gondomar, 186;
receives the King's commission,
and sails, 186; reaches Guiana, and
finds his schemes betrayed, 187;
sends a detachment to penetrate to
the mine, 187; reproaches Keymis
with neglect of his instructions,
188; returns to England, and is
sent to the Tower, 188; pleads the
royal commission as a virtual par-
don, 189; his appeal to the judges,
189; last interview with his wife,
190; his last hours, 190; his ad-
dress from the scaffold, 191; the
execution, 192; his grave, 30.
RALEIGH, the younger, son of Sir

REBEL.

Walter, slain in a collision with the
Spaniards at Guiana, 187.

REBEL Lords of 1745, execution of,
226.

REBELLION in Richard II.'s reign, 33.
RECORD OFFICE, erection of, 21.
REMPSTON, Sir Thomas, fate of, 296.
REPAIRS, difficulties in procuring
their execution, 16.

RESTORATIONS, obstacles in the way
of, 16.

REVOLVER of the reign of James I.,
290.

RICHARD II., his residence in the
Tower, 33; attempts to pacify the
mob, 33; his spirited behaviour,
34; seeks refuge from the Duke of
Gloucester, 34; besieged and forced
to submit, 35; his revenge for the
murder of Sir Simon Burley, 35;
made prisoner and lodged in the
Tower, removed to Pomfret and
murdered, 36; his funeral, 37; his
parting with his Queen described
by Shakespeare, 37, 40.

RICHARD III., suspected of murder-

ing Henry VI.. 10; causes the body
to be removed to Windsor, II;
procures the murder of his nephews,

4I.

RIFLES, store of, in the Tower, 290.
ROCHESTER, Carr, Lord: see SOMER-

SET.

ROCHFORD, Lord, his trial and execu-
tion, 56, 57.

RODNEY, assists in the escape of W.
Seymour, 159; sent to the Gate-
house, 164.

ROOKWOOD, Ambrose, joins in the
Gunpowder Plot, 136; taken pri-
soner, 143; executed, 144.
ROPE of silk, privilege of being

SEYMOUR.

hanged with, first instance of its
being claimed-not an empty dis-
tinction, 104.

RUSSELL, Earl, his allusion to the
mysterious death of the Earl of
Essex, 222.

S.

SALT Tower, restored, 8.
SALVIN, Mr., his restoration of the
Beauchamp Tower, 5; of the Salt
Tower, 8; general principle intro-
duced by, 19; restores St. John's
Chapel, 21.

SANCROFT, Archbishop,

convenes

meeting of six Bishops at Lambeth
Palace to consider James 11.'s
Declaration of Independence;"
his care to avoid publicity of their
Petition to the King defeated, 226;
committed to the Tower with the
rest, 227; trial and acquittal, 230,
231.

SCOTLAND, invasion of under Pro-
tector Somerset, 70.

SEYMOUR, Lady Jane, employed by
Lord Hertford to forward his suit
with Lady Catherine Grey, 116;
engages a minister for the mar-
riage, 117; her advice to Lady
Catherine, 119; her death, 119.
SEYMOUR, Lord; his marriage with
Catherine Parr, 76; chief abettor
of faction against Protector Somer-
set, 76; his trial and execution,
77.

SEYMOUR, Thomas, Lord Admiral,
his grave, 30.

SHAKESPEARE.

collier, puts in near Harwich, and
reaches Ostend, 160; his neglect
of Arabella, 166; desires to be
buried by her side, 167.
SHAKESPEARE, many of his scenes
laid in the Tower, 6; referred to,

7, 10, 25, 37, 304.
SHREWSBURY, Countess of, sent to
the Tower, 164; examined before
the Council, refuses to answer,
165; some indulgences allowed
her, 167; charged with contempt
towards the King, and menaced
with the Star Chamber, 167; pro-
bably saved by the insanity of
Arabella Stuart, 168.

SIX Articles, the, 61; repeal of
under Protector Somerset, 74.
SKEFFINGTON, Sir W., commands
the troops in Ireland, 51; takes
Maynooth Castle by storm, 53.
SMETON, his confession, 56; his

execution, 57.

SMITHERS, a police officer, stabbed

by Thistlewood, 279.

SOLYMAN the Magnificent, curious
gun cast by, 287.

SOMERSET, Carr, Earl of, procures

the committal of Overbury, 170;
decline of his favour, 171; com-
mitted to the Tower, 171; his trial
and pardon, 174; his opposition to
Raleigh's release, 184.

SOMERSET, Duchess of, her warnings
to Lord Hertford, 115; her letters
to Sir William Cecil, 116.
SOMERSET, Protector, see HERTFORD,
Earl of.

SOMERS, Mr., his defence of the

Seven Bishops, 230, 231.

ST. Lo, Mrs., her advice to Lady
Catherine Grey, 120.

ST. THOMAS'S TOWER, 9.

STEELE, Sir Richard, his efforts in
behalf of the Jacobite prisoners,

249.
STOURTON, Lord, his umbrage against
Mr. Hartgill, 99; attacks Mr.
Hartgill's house-his party re-
pulsed, 100; arrested, imprisoned,
bound over to keep the peace, 100;
continues his annoyances, sum-
moned before the Council, 100;
treacherous attack on the younger
Hartgill, 101; committed to the
Fleet, fined, and again released,
Ior; invites the Hartgills to receive
their fine, 101; seizes and binds
them, 102; causes them to be mur-
dered in his presence, 102; buries
the bodies, 103; lodged in the Tower
and arraigned, 103; his Romish
zeal, 104; hanged at Salisbury with
a rope of silk, 104; his agents in the
murder hanged, and suspended in
chains, 104.

STRAFFORD, Wentworth, Earl of, his
attachment to Charles I., 198; his
government of Ireland, 198; raises
an army for Charles, denounced as
an apostate, 199; impeached and
taken into custody, 200; his trial,
charges against him, unjust treat-
ment, 201; the impeachment
abandoned, and Bill of Attainder in-
troduced, 202; his defence, 203;
the attainder passed, 203; his exe-
cution, 205.

STRICKLAND.

STRICKLAND, Miss, on the fate of
Matilda FitzWalter, 26; her re-
searches into the circumstances of
the murder of the princes, 47.
STUART, Arabella, her connection

with the Blood Royal, 152; her
suitors, her treatment by Eliza-
beth, 153; present at Cobham's
trial, 153; James's meanness to-
wards her, 153; her marriage
with W. Seymour, 154; perse-
secuted by the King, 154; her
appeal against her treatment, 155 ;
her escape from Highgate, 156;
arrives at Black wall and proceeds
down the Thames, 157; received
on board a French ship, 158;
proclamation for her apprehension,
161; arrested in the Channel and
sent to the Tower, 163; examined
before the Council, 165: her in-
sanity and death, 168; buried in
Westminster Abbey, 169.

STUKELY, Sir Lewis, arrests Ra-
leigh, on his return from Guiana,
188.

SUFFOLK, Lord, inspects the pre-
mises below the Parliament House,
140.

SURREY, Earl of, supersedes the

Earl of Kildare, 49.

SUSSEX, Earl of, conveys the Princess
Elizabeth to the Tower, 87; his
advice in Council on her behalf,
89.

T.

THISTLEWOOD, his career, 272; his
scheme for overthrowing the Go-
vernment, 273; his plot betrayed,
275; escapes from Cato-street,
279; arrested and tried, 280;
executed, 281; his project to

VISIT.

attack the house of the Spanish
Ambassador, 282.

THROGMORTON, Elizabeth, sent to
the Tower for her intrigue with
Raleigh, 176; her marriage, 176;
her fruitless appeal to James I.,
181; her last interview with her
husband, 190.

TIDD, one of the Cato-street gang,
his behaviour at his execution, 281.
TORTURE, instance of the indiffer-
ence to the sufferings of the victim
produced by the practice of, 286.
TOWES, Mr., visited by the ghost of
Sir G. Villiers, 196; instance of
his second-sight, 197.
TRAITORS' GATE, 9.

TRESHAM, Francis, his share in
Essex's insurrection, 133; joins in
the Gunpowder Plot, 136; sup-
posed author of the warning letter
to Lord Monteagle, 138; his arrest
and death, 143.

TRESHAM, Sir Thomas, proclaims
James I., 133.

TURNER, Mrs., her trial, 171; exe-
cuted, 172.

TYRRELL, Sir James, undertakes the
murder of the princes, 41; his
reward and confession, 47; be-
headed by Henry VII., 47.

V.

VANE, the younger, his evidence on
Strafford's trial, 201.

VIENNE, John de, imprisoned in the
Tower, 295.
VILLIERS, Sir G., story of his ghost,
published by Aubrey, 195-197.

VISIT to the Tower, Hentzner's ac-
count of a, 306-308.