L

L.B., 83.

Lacon, Mr., of Shropshire, 237.

La Fontaine, Mons. De, letters from, 237, 368, 387, 389.

a malicious woman, proceeding against, 237, 389.

son-in-law of, robbed of a jewel, 387.

Laing, Robert, servant of Archibald Douglas, 135, 352, 353, 354.

Lainett, Monsieur, 5.

Lake :

Sir Francis, 189.

Thomas, Clerk of the Signet, 209.

— letter from, 177.

Laleham, letters dated at, 30, 400.

Lambert, Sir Oliver, Sergeant-Major-General of the Army in Ireland, 147, 175, 310, 330.

executing the place of marshal in Ireland, 408.

Lambeth, articles examined at, with regard to Cambridge University, 435.

La Motte, Guille de, letter from, 404.

a letter of, referred to, 412.

Lancaster :

country of, levies in, 69.

— appointment of preacher in, 92, 199.

— Roman Catholics in, 18, 92.

— Recusants in ill-treatment by, 398.

— Sheriff of, 69.

— Sheriff and Justices of, letter from, 68.

Duchy of, persons named for Chancellorship, &c., of, 198, 246.

— charge of the receiver of, 207.

Duke of House of Portugal and the title of, 203.

Lancerote, in the Canaries, 116.

Lane :

Sir Rafe, Muster Master in Ireland, 148.

Robert, letter from, 378.

Theodosia, letter from, 196.

Sir William, receiver of the revenues in the Marches of Wales, illness of, 196.

William, letter from, 363.

Lanfranchi, Carlo, letters from, 83, 138, 148, 159.

Langforde, Roger, letter from, 248.

Langley, George, letter from, 426.

Langstoke in Hampshire, 128.

Lanherne, 275 (2).

La Plata, 315.

Lappia [Lapland], 349.

Large, Mr., 232.

Larkinge, William, 155.

Larmynatus, Francis, of Metz, a Frenchman in the service of the Master of Montrose, 319.

examination of, 320.

Lascelles, Sir Thomas, letter from, 419.

letter in favour of, 420.

Lasonbie, a gentleman named, 239.

Latham, Captain, Jo., 147.

Launceston, mentioned, 225.

Launde (Lawnd), letters dated at, 116, 335.

Laurentin (Laurenti), Luys or Louis de, intercepted letter from, 205, 212.

Lawarr, Lord, 175.

Lawler, a popish priest in Ireland, 375.

Laws, Abram, the Courier, 164.

Lawson :

Mr., of Little Osworth in the bishopric of Durham, 239.

Wilfrid, 397.

Layton, letter dated at, 389.

Layton, Thomas, letter from, 224.

Lea, Captain Thomas, 146, 272, 330.

letters from, 412, 414.

Leake, Mr., lay brother at Rome, 200.

Leatt, Nicholas, letter signed by, 103.

Ledgent, servant to Lord Cobham, at sea, 113, 114.

Lee :

Sir Henry, 50, 234, (2).

— letters from, 196, 303, 344.

Richard, letter from, 116.

— recommended for embassy to Russia, 344, 430.

Leech, John, letter signed by, 369.

Leeds, 66.

Leeman, Michael, letter from, 24.

Leget, Legat, Captain, brought intercepted letters, 322, 328.

Leghorn, English ships arrested at, 79, 80.

English ships going to, demands made on, 102.

Le Grand, Mr., 297.

Leicester, Leycester, Lecester :

Captain Geo., letter from, 67.

Earl of. See Dudley.

Mr., 138.

Leigh, Leighe :

Captain, 145, 331.

Sir John, 145, 331.

Leighton, 393.

Leighton, Sir Thomas, Governor of Guernsey, 302, 416, 424.

letters from, 20, 248, 324, 372, 373.

his sending of intelligence approved of, 372.

Leinster and Munster, Essex's journey towards, 161, 185.

companies of foot and horse in, 146, 350.

number of rebel forces in, 185.

reduction of, desirable, 266.

Leith (Liethe), 86.

letters dated at, 166 (2), 186.

Leix (Lease), in Ireland, the country of, 20.

the rebels of, 414.

Lello, Henry, letters from, 204, 219.

Lennox, Earl of, land of, 12.

Leonard, William, letter from, 219.

L'Escurt, 169.

Le Sieur, Stephen, 89.

letters from, 59, 71, 242.

Leslie, Laslie :

Geordie, letter from, 346.

Harry, a Scot, of the French King's Guard, 382.

Lewis, Isle of, 34.

Levantiscoes at the Grove, 152.

Leversage, William, letter from, 393.

Leveson (Lewson), Sir Richard, Admiral of the Narrow Seas, 60, 114, 417.

sent over to Calais Road, 327.

ships under, to keep the Narrow Seas, 328, 329.

ships to be under command of, 335.

Levies of soldiers. See Army and Ireland.

Lewkenors, William, letter from, 157.

Leycester. See Leicester.

Leyden, siege of, 26.

Licence to transport Irish yarn, 244.

Lichfield, 97, 113.

Liddesdale men, Scottish pledges, 17.

“Lidforde Law,” explained, 203.

Liege, 242.

Lights, a dispute about, 109.

Lilie, Lillie, Edmund, deputy of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, 167, 168.

letter from, 173.

Lima, plan for the attack of, 318.

Limberie, one, sent to the coast of Brittany, 307.

Limerick, Limbrick, 122, 321.

straits of garrison of, 354.

letters dated at, 351, 354.

cessing of Lord Thomond's footmen in, a controversy concerning, 354.

the key of all that part of Ireland, 354.

Dean of, 418.

Kings of, 354.

Lincoll, William, 278, 279.

Lincoln, co. of Sheriff of, 302.

Lincoln, Earl of. See Clinton.

Lincoln, William, merchant, Waterford, 121.

Lindsay, Walter, or Sir Walter, 54, 88.

Lindsell, Augustin, of Clare Hall, letter signed by, 419.

Linewraye, Mr. or J., 159, 431.

Linford :

Martin, parson of St. Peter's of Bedford, 48.

Robert, master of St. John's of Bedford, 48.

Linley, Mr., 158.

Linlithgow, 370.

Lisbon (Lishbourne), 249, 391.

English prisoners in, discharged, 7.

ships detained at, etc., 16.

Venetian merchants at, 11.

forces in garrison in, 16.

Englishmen imprisoned at, 57.

ship from, seized, 102.

great pestilence at, 201, 273.

ships bound for, 403.

Liskeard, 57.

Lisle :

Lord, the title of, 188.

Walter, Commissary of the Musters in Ireland, 148.

Lismore, 366.

Lister, Captain, 146.

Litchfield, Mr., 240.

Littlecote (Lytlecott), letters dated at, 130, 288, 305, 327.

Littleton, Sir Edward, 114.

Liverpool, embarkation of troops at, 97, 113.

vessels in river of, 86.

Locke, Lok :

Mr., 123.

Henry, letters from, 139, 247 (2), 296, 305.

— letter from, referred to, 302.

Locon, Sir Francis, 439.

Loftus :

Adam, Archbishop of Dublin, letter from, 418.

Adam, Judge Marshal of the Army in Ireland, 147.

Captain Tho., 145, 331.

London, City of :

the Chamber of, 425.

Church of the Strangers in, 127.

grocers and tradesmen of, grown skilful and insolent, 136.

men and ships raised by, for defence, 259, 280.

Lord Mayor of, suggested as a proper person to keep money for the Crown, 58.

— letter to, 322.

— joined with the Earl of Cumberland in care of all martial causes, 322.

mustering and training of the soldiers of, 317, 322.

population of, 281.

prisons, a round of, 411.

alarming rumours spread about in, 282, 283.

Recorder of, 191, 221.

a remembrance for, 311.

Seminary priests exceedingly swarm about, 319.

a tale shaped in London forge, 406.

London places, streets, houses, &c. :

Augustine Friars in Broad Street, 150.

Birchin Lane, 52.

Bishopgate Street, letter dated at, 72.

Blackfriars, 187.

— letters dated at, 120, 160, 208, 231, 288, 362, 365, 368, 383, 416.

Broad Street, letter dated in, 22.

Brydwell, letter dated at, 210.

Chanon Row, letter dated at, 321.

Cheapside, 144, 346, 399.

Counter, the, letter dated at, 405.

Crutched Friars, letter dated at, 39.

Doctor's Commons, letters dated at, 296, 335, 399, 412.

Ely House, letter dated at, 224.

Fetter Lane, Saracen's Head in, letter dated at, 129.

Fleet, the, letter dated at, 421.

Fleet Street, letters dated in, 257, 259.

—a resident in, 417.

Garnett's Buildings, in Shere lane, near Temple Bar, letter dated at, 20.

Gatehouse Prison, letter dated at, 148.

Gray's Inn, letters dated at, 209, 395, 398, 406.

Hatton House, letters dated at, 109, 227.

Holborn, 214.

— letter dated at, 201.

Lambeth, letters dated at, 85, 152.

Marshalsea Prison. See Marshalsea.

Minories, letters dated at, 56, 204, 419.

Moor Lane, letter dated at, 345.

Newgate, prisoners in, letter from, 422.

Palace of, letter dated at, 9.

Royal Exchange, 11.

Sackville House, letter dated at, 250.

St. Bartholomew's, letter dated at, 379.

St. Botolph's, Billingsgate, constable of, 107.

St. Clement's Church by Temple Bar, 107.

St. Clement's Danes parish, a letter found by two bricklayers in, 260.

St. Giles, 214.

St. Giles in the Fields, letters dated at, 99, 260.

St. James's Fields, 214.

St. John's Street, letter dated in, 183.

St. Mary Axe, 52.

the Savoy, 163.

—, letters dated at, 180, 387, 398.

Serjeant's Inn, letters dated at, 73, 75, 213.

Shoe Lane, a resident in, 417.

Smithfield, letter dated at, 401.

Strand, the, letter dated at, 283.

— The Swan in, 398.

— The White Hart in, letter dated at, 83.

the “Stroen,” 52.

the Tower, letters dated at, 118, 233, 237, 282, 386, 387, 402, 418.

Warwick Lane, letter dated in, 226.

Whitefriars, letter dated at, 76.

Wood Street, 346.

— the Counter in, 411.

York House, letters dated at, 14, 346 (2), 350, 362, 363, 370, 372, 373.

London, Patrick, 268.

Longridge Chapel, a payment to be made at, 133.

Looe, 103.

Scottish ship brought into port of, with wheat, &c., 92.

Lopes, governor of Carpen, 21.

Lorraine, 243.

House of, medium of alliance between the King of Scotland and France, 55.

Prince of, marriage of, 6.

Lough Foyle, landing of Tyrone's army in, a scheme to disconcert, 99.

should be forestalled, 101.

impossibility of planting a garrison at, 265.

Louth, the mill of, 403.

Love, William, heard to speak undutifully of the State, 218.

Lovelace, Sir Ric., 145, 331.

Lovell, Sir Robt., 146.

Low Country Commander, Earl of Essex offended with, 162.

Low Countries, the campaign in the, 198, 242.

English troops in, withdrawn for service in Ireland, 13, 21, 22, 23, 27, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44, 59, 65.

English regiments serving in, the breaking and cashiering of the commanders of the companies, 64, 67, 70, 78.

English troops sent to, under Sir Thomas Knollys's command, 123.

intelligence from, 169.

taxes levied for the carrying on of the war, 81.

war material in the, 205.

Lowe :

Mr. Alderman, 138.

Richard, 413.

Lowestoft, Spanish ships said to have been descried off, 217.

Lowther, letter dated at, 12.

Lowther :

Richard, 74.

— letter from, 12.

William, 12.

Lucas :

Mr., chaplain to the Earl of Essex, 47.

Sir Thomas, of Ipswich, 176.

Ludlow, Edmund, of Deverell, 168.

Lugo, town in Spain, 170, 171.

Luke, Mr., 312.

Lumley :

Elizabeth Lady, 386.

John de, Lord Lumley, 34.

— letter to, 413.

— letters from, 226, 386, 405.

— smallpox in the house of, 405.

Lundy Island, 111.

Lunne, Richard, petition, 436.

Luthar, Gieffrey, letter from, 290.

Lutley, —, having the office of enrolling the king's assurances, 75.

Luycke, country of, “road” made into, 356.

Lyddell, Thomas, letter from, 34.

Lyene, Mrs., 52.

Lyeth, the service of, 165.

Lylly, John 237.

Lyly, Mr., 186.

Lymm, Logh, the winning of, 423.

Lyncoll, William, 278, 279.

Lyndley, Henry, letter from, 211.

Lynley :

Christopher, Prebendary of York, 397.

Captain, 393.

Sir Henry, 393.

Lynn or Lyme, 132.

Lynne, John, from Truro, brought up to London, to answer matters informed against him, 225, 228, 244.

conditions of his discharge, &c., 294.

Lyons, 157.

Lyster :

— escaped from the Marshalsea, 9.

John, letter signed by, 388.

Lytton, Roland, letter from, 130.