CÆSAR, tribute to, misapplication of that precept by our reformers,
iv. 74.
CAMDEN, Mr. his opinion of the Irish rebellion in the reign of
Elizabeth, iii. 232. n.
CANON LAW, introduction of, discountenanced by our Kings, iii. 355,
358.
retained in the church after the Reformation, iv. 67.
its doctrine convenient for the maintenance of absolute supremacy,
69.
CAPET, HUGH, the nobles had become independent on his accession, iii.
321.
CERVANTES, his ridicule destroyed the remains of Spanish prowess, iii.
199.
keenly satirizes the Grecian epics, iv. 272.
CHACE, the favourite passion of our home-bred gentry, iv. 116.
CHALLENGE, accepted, through deference to the opinion of the ladies,
iv. 168.
CHARLEMAGNE, a subject to the writers of romance, iv. 241.
CHARLES I. arguments of the lawyers in his time, for divine right, iv.
78. n.
CHARLES II. how far his court benefited by foreign travel, iv. 100.
his restoration introduced the French manners and prejudices among
us, 311.
CHARMS, in romance, often metaphorical, iv. 268.
CHARTERS, GREAT, by some considered as usurpations on the Prince, iii.
298.
CHAUCER, has left an unfinished story on the Gothic model, iv. 294.
his Rime of Sir Topaz a banter on books of romances, 335.
compared with the work of Cervantes, 336.
his tale of Cambuscan a proof that he did not intend to ridicule the
marvellous, 342.
CHIVALRY, its tendency to refine the manners, iii. 189.
its ill effects, 192. n.
contributed to the revival of letters, 195.
had its origin in a barbarous age, iv. 238.
sprung out of the feudal constitution, 242.
its characteristics accounted for, 245.
passion for arms, _ib._
romantic ideas of justice, 246.
courtesy and gallantry, 247.
love of God and of the Ladies, 250.
its genuine character displayed in the Crusades, 252, 254.
two distinct periods in deducing its rise and progress, 258.
agreement between heroic and Gothic manners, 262.
their differences noted, 272.
custom which prevailed at festivals, 297.
women-warriors, 317.
Greek fire, 320.
CHURCH, its revenues dilapidated by queen Elizabeth, iii. 273.
more immediately subjected to the feudal system than the civil
power, iii. 326.
struggles between the ecclesiastics and the monarchs, thence
arising, 331.
distinction between ecclesiastical and temporal courts by William
I. 352.
canon law discountenanced by our Kings, 359.
CICERO, introduced the writing of Dialogue among the Romans, iii. 20.
his remark on the advantage of applying it to real personages, 26.
his rule respecting the appropriate style and expression, 36.
character of his dialogue defined, 40.
CITIZENS _and_ BURGESSES, whence originating, iii. 338.
CLARENDON, Lord, his character of Lord Falkland, iii. 67. n.
of Waller, 69. n.
his eulogium on Ben Jonson and Cowley, 140. n.
CLERGY, justified in attending the courts of princes, iii. 145.
in the reign of the Conqueror, turned common lawyers, 352.
the Imperial law their favourite study, 361.
opposed by the barons, 363.
supported by the judges and great officers of the realm, 366.
at the Reformation propagated the doctrine of passive obedience,
iv. 57.
and of divine right, 62.
apology for them, 63, 64.
COMBAT, a mode of deciding questions of right and property, iii. 200.
COMNENA, MANUEL, a crusade in his time attended by women-warriors, iv.
317.
CONSTITUTION, English, enquiry into, iii. 284.
hath at all times been free, 286.
many have but crude notions of it, 297.
summary of erroneous doctrines respecting it, 298.
question proposed, 305.
its origin in the Saxon institutions, 309.
æra of the Conquest, 310.
contest for liberty throughout the Norman and Plantagenet lines,
313.
council of the Kingdom originally consisting of such as held _in
capite_ of the crown, by barony, or knight’s service, 334.
origin of knights of shires, 337.
of citizens and burgesses, 338.
formation of a House of Commons, 340, 346.
its freedom shewn in the perpetual opposition of the people to the
civil and canon laws, 349 _to_ 358.
proofs of it, 363, 367.
Imperial law still prevails in certain of our Courts, and in the
Universities, 375.
fate and fortunes of the Civil law down to the present time, 378.
contrasted with the free principles of the English law, 384 _to_
386.
increase of prerogative under the Tudor line, 392. iv. 16.
state of the nation at the accession of Henry VII. 24, 27.
Henry VIII. 28.
Rupture with the Court of Rome, 29.
high prerogative, 37.
Commons house rising in importance, 39.
causes of the increase of Royal authority, 40.
translation of the Pope’s supremacy to the king, 41.
use made of the title, Supreme head of the Church, 49.
high commission court and star-chamber, 50.
dispensing power, 52.
instances of its exercise, 53, 54.
passive obedience, 57.
why inculcated by the clergy, 58.
doctrine of divine right whence originating, 62.
growth of Puritanism, 63.
Canon laws retained after the yoke of Rome was thrown off, 67.
influence of the crown, after the Reformation, required to be
limited by another change in the government, 71.
translation of the supremacy no argument against the freedom of
the constitution, 73.
causes concurring with the Reformation to favour liberty, in the
time of Charles I. 76, 77.
issue of the conflict between prerogative and liberty, 79, 80.
what is meant by the free constitution of the English monarchy,
81. n.
COURT, but two sorts of men that should live in one, iii. 124.
the clergy justified in attending, 145.
COWLEY, Mr. his motives for retiring from the world, iii. 101.
expatiates on the benefit of solitude, 104.
grounds of his apology for seclusion, 110.
his early habits, 112.
his residence at Oxford, and friendship with Lord Falkland, 116.
his peculiar disposition, 120.
his invective against courts, 124.
his pursuits in retirement, 127.
uses of applying experiment and observation to natural science, 129.
his cynical severity against courts, 135.
eulogium on him by Lord Clarendon, 140. n.
remonstrance of his friend on his seclusion, 147.
his reply in the words of Spenser, 148.
his resolution unshaken, 150.
his purposed apology to Lord St. Alban’s begun in his Essays, 152.
his poem, called “The Complaint,” 157.
CRAIG, his opinion of the feudal law, iii. 328.
CRITICISM, bad, arises from abuse of terms, iv. 324.
CROMWELL, his design for setting up a Protestant Council, iv. 14.
CRUSADES, state of things when they were set on foot, iv. 252.
considered as the origin of knight errantry, 255.
domestic disorders resulting from them, 277.
vast armies which were sent out, 318.
CUTTER OF COLEMAN STREET, origin and purpose of that comedy, iii. 122.
n.