1590. Death of Sir Francis Walsingham. 1592. Visit of Elizabeth to the University of Oxford, 22nd-28th September. 1593. Execution of John Penry (Mar-prelate) for libel. 1594. Execution of the Jew, Roderigo Lopez, for conspiracy. 1595. Hutton, Archbishop of York; Matthew, Bishop of Durham. 1596. Cadiz captured by the Earl of Essex. Bilson, Bishop of Worcester. 1597. Bancroft, Bishop of London; Bilson, Bishop of Winchester. 1598. Death of Lord Burghley, 4th August. Death of Philip II. of Spain, 13th September. 1601. Execution of the Earl of Essex, 25th February. Parliament protested against monopolies. 1602. Proclamation against Jesuits and Romish priests. 1603. Death of Elizabeth, 24th March. Union of the two kingdoms under James I. Plot against James I.; imprisonment of Raleigh. 1604. Hampton Court Conference, 14th-18th January. Death of Archbishop Whitgift, 29th February; Bancroft succeeds him. 1605. Gunpowder Plot, November. 1606. Execution of Faux, 30th January; of Garnet, 3rd May. 1610. Death of Archbishop Bancroft, 2nd November; Abbot succeeds him. 1611. Authorised Version published. Laud elected President of St. John's College, Oxford, 10th May. Baronets created, 22nd May. 1613. Murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 13th September. 1615. Disgrace of the Earl of Somerset. 1616. Death of Shakespeare, 23rd April. Dismissal of Sir Edward Coke. 1617. Visit of James I. to Scotland, Laud attending him. 1618. Book of Sports published, 24th May. Execution of Sir W. Raleigh, 29th October. 1620. The Pilgrim Fathers. 1621. Impeachments of Mompesson and Mitchell. Impeachment of Lord Chancellor Bacon. Laud, Bishop of St. David's, 18th November. Protestation of privileges by the Commons, 18th December. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 173 1622. Conference between Laud and Fisher, the Jesuit, 24th May. Laud "became C. to my Lord of Buckingham," 15th June. 1623. Prince Charles and Buckingham start for Spain, 17th February; return, 5th October. Legat burned at Smithfield, Wrightman at Norwich, for heresy. 1624. Laud's "Conference with Fisher the Jesuit, printed, came forth," 16th April. Impeachment of Lord Treasurer Cranfield (Middlesex), 13th Act against monopolies. 1625. Death of James I., 27th March. 1626. Impeachment of Buckingham. Laud, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Death of Bishop Andrewes, 25th September. 1627. Enforced loan; arbitrary imprisonment; martial law; etc. 1628. Petition of Right. Laud, Bishop of London. Assassination of Buckingham, 23rd August. Mountague, Bishop of Chichester, 24th August. 1629. Eliot, Holles, and Valentine imprisoned. 1630. Laud elected Chancellor of Oxford, 12th April. Leighton (Sion's Plea against Prelacy) mutilated and imprisoned. 1633. Prynne (Histriomastix) and Bastwick (Elenchus Papismi) mutilated and imprisoned. Charles I. crowned at Holyrood, 18th June. Death of Archbishop Abbot, 4th August; Laud succeeds him. 1634. First writ of ship-money issued, 20th October. 1635. Controversy about altars. 1636. Bishop Juxon made Lord Treasurer. 1637. Hampden prosecuted for refusing ship-money. Prynne, Bastwick, and Burton mutilated and imprisoned for life. 1638. Lilburne whipped and imprisoned; Hampden condemned. 1639. First Bishops' War and Pacification of Berwick. 1640. The Short Parliament. The Canons and the Et caetera Oath. The Long Parliament. Imprisonment of Dean Cosin. Impeachment of Strafford; sent to the Tower, 25th November. Root and Branch Petition presented, 11th December. 1641. Execution of Strafford, 12th May. Impeachments of Laud, Finch, and others. Massacre of Protestants in Ireland, 23rd October. Grand Remonstrance. Twelve bishops sent to the Tower, 30th December. 1642. Attempted arrest of Pym, Hampden, Holles, Haslerig, and Strode, 4th January. Bishops expelled from the House of Lords, 14th February. 1643. Solemn League and Covenant imposed on England and Wales, 25th September. Deaths of Hampden, Falkland, and Pym. 1644. Trial of Archbishop Laud, March–October. Parliament ordered Christmas Day to be kept as a fast. 1645. Execution of Laud, 10th January. Prayer Book forbidden and Directory imposed, 17th April. Decisive Battle of Naseby, 14th June. 1647. The King a prisoner. 1648. Second Civil War. Pride's Purge, 6th and 7th December. 1649. Impeachment of the King before a Committee of the Rump Parliament, 20th January. Execution of the King, 30th January. INDEX Abbot, Archbishop, 99. Bedford, Earl of, 136. Berwick, 46. Berwick, Pacification of, 120. Altars, moved by Laud, 112, Bilson, Bishop, 61. Bishops, Elizabethan, 33. Bishops and Divine Right, 48, 78. War, First, 120; Second, 127. Book of Common Prayer, 4, 29, Books of devotion, 117. Brome, Alexander, 156. Buckingham, Duke of, 62, 65, 87. Bull, Regnans in excelsis, 10. Cadiz, expedition to, 96. Calvinism, 29, 33. in the House, 103, 104. Bancroft, Bishop, 37, 54, 74, 75. Camden, 13. Ballard, John, 24. Baronets instituted, 62. Basilikon Doron, 55. Campian (Campion), the Jesuit, 13. Chillingworth, William, 117, Church, Dean, 12, 38. Clergy, English, 33, 59, 79, 98, Cleveland, John, 129, 137. Commission, Court of High, 19, Counter-Reformation, 5. 76, Earle's Micro-cosmographie, 76. Eikonoklastes, 133, 151. with James I., 51, 77, 81. dislike of Puritanism, 29, 34. tolerant policy, 17, 29, 34. Elizabeth, daughter of James I., Elizabethan Bishops, 33. 145. Episcopacy, 54, 141, 148. Falkland, Viscount, 136, 139, |