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North Foreland, battle off, 591

Northumberland, Thomas Percy, Earl of, takes part in the rising of the North, 441

Nymwegen, peace of, 615

Oates, Titus, tells the story of the Popish Plot, 615

O'Donnell, Rory, flight of, 484

O'Neill, Hugh, defeats Bagenal at the Blackwater, 475; submission of, 478; flight of, 484

O'Neill, Shan, defeat of, 452

Orleans, Henrietta, Duchess of, negotiates the Treaty of Dover, 600

Overbury, Sir Thomas, poisoned, 488

Painting, mainly in the hands of foreigners, during the Stuart period, 631

Palatinate, the, Spinola's invasion of, 490; Imperialist invasion of 496; loss of, 497; failure of the negotiation to induce the king of Spain to obtain the restitution of, 500; attempt to send Mansfeld to recover, 501

Papacy, the, immorality of, 375; legislation against the payment of annates and Peter's pence to, 388, 390

Papal jurisdiction in England, abolition of, 389, 391

Parker, Matthew, becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, 429; character and position of, 430

Parker, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, a secret Roman Catholic, 639; intrusive President of Magdalen College, 641

Parma, Alexander Farnese, Prince of, governor of the Spanish Netherlands, 450; gains ground in the Netherlands, 454-456; takes Antwerp, 456; takes Zutphen, 457; hopes to transport an army to England, 459; blockaded by the Dutch, 462; sent to aid the League, 464

Parris, Van, burnt, 419

Parsons, Robert, lands in England, 453; escapes, 454

Parsons, Sir William, one of the Lords Justices in Ireland, 533

Parties, Parliamentary, formation of, 532; development of, 610, 628

Paulet, Sir Amias, refuses to put Mary Stuart to death, 457

Pavia, battle of, 372

Penn and Venables, expedition of, to the West Indies, 571

Pennsylvania, colonisation of, 629

Penruddock captures the judges at Salisbury, 571

Penry, John, hanged, 472

Pepys pities dissenters, 588

Perth, the five articles of, 525

Peter Martyr teaches in England, 416

Peter's Pence, abolition of, 391

Petition of Right, the, 508

Petitioners, party name of, 620

Philiphaugh, battle of, 549

Philip's Norton, Monmouth at, 637

Pilgrim Father, the, 489

Pilgrimage of Grace, the, 396, 397

Pinkie Cleugh, battle of, 413

Plague, the, devastations of, 590

Plymouth held by a Parliamentary garrison, 538

Ponet made Bishop of Winchester, 416

Popish Plot, the, 615

Portland, Richard Weston, Earl of, as Lord Weston, becomes Lord Treasurer, 514; made Earl of Portland and dies, 521

Powick Bridge, skirmish at, 537

Presbyterian party, the, in a majority in the House of Commons, 546; attempts to disband the army, 553; negotiates with the Scots for a fresh invasion of England, 554; generally accepts the Prayer Book, 586

Preston, Cromwell's victory at, 557

Prichard, Lord Mayor, 624

Pride's Purge, 557

Privilege of Parliament, Strickland's case of, 445; Eliot's vindication of the, 512

Privy Council, the, Temple's scheme for reforming, 617

Prophesyings, the, 450

Protectorate, establishment of the, 568

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