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Packer, Colonel, committed to Gatehouse, 63.

Padavin, —, Venetian dragoman, 234.
-, sent to thank Winchelsea, 21; Venetian present consigned to Winchelsea by, 165.
-, speaks to Winchelsea about English ships serving Turks, 225; takes excuses to Winchelsea, 240.
-, sent to congratulate Winchelsea on arrival, 253; sent to pay respects, 260.

Padua [Prov. Padova, Italy], earl of Arundel ill at, 18.

palaces, the royal, almost all in ruin, 85.

Palatine of the Rhine, the Elector. See Charles Louis.

Palatine princes. See Edward, Prince Palatine; Rupert.

-, Princess. See Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia.

Panegioti, Panagiotti, imperial dragoman, Reninger ordered to take his life, 50; working to get Spanish minister admitted, 103.

papal nuncios. See under ambassadors.

Parada, dragoman, takes paper against Winchelsea to Ballarino, 253; deposition of, 279.

Paris, France, 212.
-, despatches dated at, 93, 98, 101, 105, 108, 122, 124, 127, 131, 134, 137, 146, 153, 182, 184, 189, 194, 197, 201, 211, 213, 216, 218, 222, 225, 228, 230, 234, 241–3, 245, 247, 250, 252, 255–7, 259–62, 263–70, 272–4, 276–8, 282–5, 287, 289.
-, news from, 168, 212.
-, Strozzi going to, 3, 8; Jermyn returns to. 72; Gabbiano leaves for, 112.
-, Durazzo busy about liveries at, 7; Durazzo ordered to remain at, 38; Rangoni reaches London from, 107.
-, Estrades going to, 58; Jermin starting for, 135, 152.
-, Fuentes has permission to proceed to, 95; but only on conditions, 104.
-, reports in of purchase of Dunkirk, 130; Charles does not want remittances from, 203.
-, completion of Dutch negotiations at announced prematurely, 133.
-, Queen Henrietta leaving, 162.
-, treatment of Genoese ambassadors at, 182; Lord Holles going to, 214, 256; Vivonne returning to, 220.
-, Battailler sent to, 192; he returns from, 195; ratification of Dunkirk treaty sent to, 208.
-, king returning to, 218–9.
-, Muscovite ambassadors going to, 230; Lord Mandevil at, 249; Lady Holles goes to, 258; Holles arrives at, 260.
-, Teviot expected at, 272; Sehested at, 276; Portuguese ambassador coming to, 277.
-, silver from treasure fleet diverted from to London, 274.

parliament:
-, confusion in, after Cromwell's death, 83.
-, Guasconi fought against, 182.
-, pamphlet stating that is sole authority to be reverenced, 288.
-, danger to king from, 291.

-, the convention, regicides condemned to death by, 83.

-, the long:

violent rule of, 83; money of, recalled, 111; covenant taken with, burned, 133.

queen of Bohemia did not ask or receive appanage from, 244.

Killigrew dismissed from Venice to please, 207n; Charles betrayed by, 291.

-, restoration.

1661:

king writes letter urging progress with bill of Indemnity, ll; still sitting to pass more bills, 119.

not favourable to Portuguese match, 14; considers question of general toleration, 18; deals with revenue, disbanding of troops and naval expenditure, 20.

king's speech to, 19; expected adjournment, 20; king attends, session supposed over, 25; adjourned, 29, 34.

king's dependence on, for money, 24; jest about, king's reply, 32.

scandalous libel against proceedings dealt with, 26; passed act for purging corporations, 64.

opinion asked about removing troops from Scotland, king acts without waiting for reply, 26; king attends in state and gives assent to acts, 32.

has recourse to benevolence to meet deficit, 32, 34, 85.

reassembling, 68; hoped will provide money, 68–9; reopened, bishops sit for first time, 74.

king recommends supply and quiet of kingdom to, 74; votes king 1,200,000l., 75, 81.

votes 60,000l. for relief of royalists, 75; continuing same matters, 78; busy with its bills, 81.

regicides summoned to appear before, 75; asks for recall of Lambert, Vane etc., 76.

wants to purge Council of Presbyterians, 76; Hyde unable to attend, 91.

gives king control of militia, 84; obsequiousness to king, 85; rising until after Epiphany, 91; apparent harmony of deceptive, 291.

question of new army to go before, 91; prevented king fulfilling promises about Dunkirk, 293.

1662:

sittings resumed, business of, 106; discussing bill to regulate pawns, 111..

regicides sentenced again by, 107; disposessed Irish land-owners weary of waiting for fulfilment of promise of, 128.

taxes imposed by do not produce results expected, 111; turbulent spirits in, 133.

king notes scant progress made by, 119; devotes attention to matters recommended by king, discusses hearth tax, 120; working hard to dispatch business in hand, 124.

London merchants petition against Portuguese Jews, 123.

meetings adjourned, to be resumed after holidays, 129, 131; sitting without intermission, 133.

has covenant burned, 133; has Vane and Lambert brought back to England, 154.

king urges to dispatch business, that he may meet queen, 141; king winds up session of, 144; king may recall to repeal hearth tax, 180.

Dunkirk incorporated by and cannot be alienated without, 179, 192; method of evading this, 194.

charges against Clarendon to be laid before, 206.

1663:

king promises satisfaction for tender consciences from, 229; to judge fitness of persons for benefices, 232.

matters to be discussed in arranged, dated fixed, 231; reassembles, king's speech to, 232.

answer to king's proposals for toleration, 234–6; question of toleration debated in, 237.

king lays case of Irish officer before, 236.

chancellor goes to and addresses, 238; Hyde back at work in, 239.

measures of against Catholics, 238–9; discussing question of religion, 241.

supposed use of troops because of trouble with, 240; supposed strained relations with king, 241.

Clarendon appeals to in vain on behalf of Catholics, 241; king disposed to give satisfaction to, upon religion, 242; resolutions of, on religion, submitted to king, 243; ready to repay what king received from Catholics, 244.

names of priests in prison to be sent to, 244; commotion caused by decrees against Catholics, 245; considering more restrictions, 249.

begins review of finances, at king's request, 244; discussing finance and trade, 246.

resumes sittings, 246; king sends for, 251; and points out need of money to put down malcontents, 252.

Spanish money to foster divisions in, 248; king wanting to get rid of, 249; Caracena tried to keep up faction in, 250.

discussing king's control of military, 249; repeals hearth tax, 259.

decides to exclude from all charges those who served against monarchy, 249; chief justice to decide if shall take up charges against Clarendon, 256.

decides to grant subsidy, 252; king gets vote of money from, 255; decides to increase royal revenues, 256.

king decides on adjournment of, 255–6; discussions on cutting down expenses, 261.

declares charges against Clarendon do not amount to treason, 259; Bristol means to take seat in and pursue charges, 273, 276.

approaching session, 285, 288.

-, See also Commons, House of; Lords, House of.

-, of Ireland. See under Ireland.

-, of Scotland. See under Scotland.

Parma, Italy, princess of, Batteville complains of being deceived about marriage with, 25; Batteville author of negotiations about, 87.

Pasini, —, acted for service of Venetian letters at Brussels, 175.

Paul, Polo, Chevalier, joins with English against Algiers, 35.

Pauluzzi, Lorenzo, served ambassadors extraordinary as secretary, 90.

pawnbrokers, bill to limit extortions of, 111.

peers, See nobles.

pelicans. Muscovite present of, to king, 226; presented by Charles to Louis, 250.

Pera of Constantinople:
-, despatches dated at, 5, 13, 23, 39, 46, 50–1, 70, 78, 96, 98, 103, 110, 112, 116, 127, 132, 165, 194, 225, 234, 240, 275.
-, letter dated at, 282.
-, attack on Venetian embassy at, 274–5; depositions about, 279–80.

Persia, custom for merchants to defray ministers from, 167.

Pesche, Thomas, captain of the Joanna, alleged connivance with corsairs, 9.

Peterborough, bishop of. See Laney, Benjamin.

-, diocese of, left vacant, 233.

-, earl of. See Mordaunt, Henry.

Petkum, Petkun, Simon de, Danish resident in England:
-, asks favour for Kuffler, 142; informed of concession, 153, 162.
-, statement about Sehested, 162; will not visit Hanse ambassadors without orders, 217.

Philip IV, king of Spain, the Catholic King, 202.
-, popes have to obey, because of Naples, 293.
-, letters from, for Batteville, 1; letter of, for Charles, 95, 99; letters for sent through Giavarina, 154.
-, Batteville's paper on marriage offers to Charles in name of, 2; has letters from Charles with assurances of friendship, 21, 43.
-, orders English merchants to be well treated, 15; desire for friendly relations with England, 34.
-, keeps large garrison at Furnes, 16; fear of Tangier being handed over to, 47.
-, Batteville believed to have acted by order of, about coaches, 57, 66; report of coaches affair reaches, 62; French protest to, 67; French profess desire to maintain treaty with, 176.
-, will be asked to remove Batteville, 73; Batteville awaiting orders from, to leave, 76; recalled Batteville to please Louis, 81, 104; orders of sent to Batteville, 92, 95; French suspicions of, 104; Batteville represented to impropriety of sending another ambassador, 118.
-, troops brought from Flanders by order of, 108; Castelhaven served with distinction, 127.
-, not to England's advantage to allow to conquer Portugal, 114; failed in plan to deprive English of Tangier, 118.
-, may be forced to adjustment with Portugal, 114; merchants desire good understanding with, 120.
-, prospect of rupture with, over Portugal, 150, 158; Portuguese may take refuge in England from severity of, 169.
-, will have to put up with affronts of Dunkirk garrison, 159.
-, French fear of successes in Portugal, 176; France cannot help Portugal without infringing peace with, 178.
-, marquise de Montbason professes to have authority to treat for, 177; Medina informs about, 196; O'Moledy in England for, 207, 214.
-, French under treaty to deliver Dunkirk to, in exchange for places in Artois, 179.
-, reported order against English ships, 195; injured by English in W. Indies, 248, 251.
-, Clarendon tries to render Bennet suspect of correspondence with, 203; complaints of ingratitude of Charles to, 204; interests in England suffer from lack of a minister, 209; punctilio over, 214.
-, trying to introduce embassy at Porte, 234; O'Moledy made secretary of war to, 255.
-, money of lying at Antwerp, 247; negotiations to buy Jamaica and Tangier, 259.
-, England and France aiming to take advantage of difficulties of, 252; French say will be forced to make peace, 254; stirred by contrary motives, 265.
-, should give up Portugal war and turn arms to where more needed, 271.
-, orders preparation of house for English ambassador, 271.

Philip, duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV, Monsieur, sends to congratulate Charles on marriage, 152; accompanies Queen Henrietta towards England, 166.

pirates, ships fitted out against, 242.

-, See also corsairs.

Piron, Antonio, dragoman of England, Winchelsea writes to, 70; may be sent to Adrianople, 260; comes to Adrianople with money, 266, 274; mentioned human figures at Venetian embassy, 275; talk about affair of Bailo Capello, 279.

-, Demetrio, goldsmith, 274.

Pisani, Michiel, Proveditore of Cephalonia, despatch to the Senate, 233.

Pizoni, Thomaso, secretary of Senate, 182.

plague:
-, at Constantinople, Winchelsea's daughter dies of, 22; abated there, 77.
-, Spaniards try to injure Tangier by alarm of, 199, 202, 221; Tangier really free from, 202; no report of, 210; suspected at Amsterdam and Hamburg, 270.
-, suspected from Dutch ship, at Hull, 285.

plot, conspiracy:
-, discovered in Monk's army, officers arrested, 63; thwarted by energy of government, 64; Clarendon speaks to Commons on dangers from, 91.
-, Batteville accused of fomenting, 73.
-, various, contrived by Presbyterians disclosed, 187.
-, by trained bands, to kill king, 209; Lauderdale and Bennet appointed to inquire into, 211; arrests and information, 213–4; trial and sentences, 223.
-, king not anxious to learn more of, revelations offered, 232.
-, news of, in Ireland, 249.
-, among fanatics, in north of England, 269, 274.

Plymouth, Pleimuth, co. Devon:
-, Charles to meet bride at, 7; ships from Ostend driven to, 110.
-, succour for Portugal sails from, 152, 169; squadron sails from, for Tangier, 246.
-, Peterborough lands at, 157; O'Moledy sails from, 243n.
-, ship from Virginia reaches, 238.
-, French troops not allowed to land at, 248.

-, governor of. See Grenville, John, earl of Bath.

Plymouth, royal navy, attempt of Turks to requisition, 44; ship that took Winchelsea to Constantinople, 56–7, 234n.

Poland:
-, situation in render France watchful, 5; fears of troops of, of foreign ruler, 294.
-, victory of army over Russians, 74.
-, Turks keep Black Sea closed to prevent intercourse with, 257.

-, king of. See John Casimir II; Wladislaus IV.

-, queen of. See Gonzaga, Maria.

Polaroon, island of, East Indies, handed over by treaty, 190.

Pölnitz, Gerhard Bernard von, freiherr von Assbach, envoy of Brandenburg in England, did not visit Mello till after marriage announced, 202.

Polo. See Paul, Chevalier,

pope, hearth tax, revival of tax paid to, 120.

-, See also Alexander VII; Julius II.

Porte. See Turkey.

Porto. See Oporto.

portrait:
-, of Infanta of Portugal, prints sold in London, 18.
-, of Charles, presented to Venetian ambassadors, 90.
-, -, presented to Fanshawe, 267.
-, caricaturing Charles, published in Amsterdam, 288.

Portsmouth, co. Hants, 152.
-, ten ships for Algiers ready at, 47; troops for Tangier marched to, 64; troops assembled at, 79.
-, York goes to, to inspect ships and troops, 64; York goes to, to meet queen, 141.
-, Peterborough starts for, 78; preparations at, for queen, 124, 132, 135; king going to, 132–3, 144, 146; people flocking to, 137; queen lands at, 143.
-, king's marriage celebrated at, 150; king goes to, to see new fort and invention, 262.
-, troops from Dunkirk sent to, 192.

Portugal, 58, 74, 81.
-, 1661:
-,-, in no condition to fulfil promises about marriage, 1, 6, 14; defeat would change English attitude to, 6.
-,-, Batteville complains of purchase of horses for, 1; has no advantage in a levy, 250.
-,-, Hyde bought by gold of, 2, 87; impolicy of marriage if Spain should reduce, 292; pope will not recognise independence, 293.
-,-, Spanish fears increased by alliance with England and peace with Dutch, 4; unlikely to have made alliance solely for marriage, 6; Dutch peace with practically concluded, 8, 22; peace confirmed, 30; peace increases English suspicion of, 33.
-,-, will not tolerate prejudice to Catholic faith, 14; people object to giving up fortresses to heretics, 43.
-,-, fleet bound for, 18, 37; to fetch bride, 41; Montagu to go to, 47.
-,-, lack of money in may upset English match, 21; delay in ratifying treaty causes suspicion, 33, 40, 42–3, 47.
-,-, English naval help will relieve, 21; English help for will render war long and costly, 22.
-,-, liberal promises to Dutch, may cause clash with English, 30, 33; Gamarra says peace with Dutch will cause rupture with English, 41; promise same things to Dutch as to English, 79.
-,-, places of in Guinea ceded to English, 43; promises delivery of Tangier, 55; reluctance to give up Tangier, 71.
-,-, Dutch propose to publish alliance with, 43; ratification of treaty with Dutch, 79.
-,-, Spanish hopes of break down of treaty with England, 43; news from with satisfaction about treaty, 52.
-,-, proposed embassy from at Porte, 50, 78; Turks ready to receive, 77; difficulties over, 80.
-,-, absence of news from, 53, 60.
-,-, reported difficulty about letters of exchange, 60; English doubtful about promises of, 92.
-, 1662:
-,-, squadron to take over possessions of, in E. Indies, 92, 150; fleet sails to, 106, 108; fleet reaches, 114.
-,-, English succour for, 93; decision to send force to help, 114, 118; auxiliaries to be paid by, 122.
-,-, dilatoriness in fulfilling promises, 95.
-,-, Fanshawe reports misery in, 97; Fanshawe returning to, 114; anxiety about lack of news from, 132.
-,-, Turks ready to receive minister of, 102; Winchelsea treating for, 107; nothing more said about, 165.
-,-, Spanish troops from Flanders to serve against, 108; comforted by disaster to, 111.
-,-, English help will make reduction difficult for Spain, 114; Spaniards persist in expecting risings in, 117; war with chief preoccupation of Spain, 139.
-,-, most of inhabitants of Tangier migrate to, 119; garrison and many of people evacuate Tangier, 129.
-,-, privateers with commissions from, 122; English ship with munitions for taken by Spanish privateers, 140.
-,-, expecting English troops in Galicia, 125; succour for not ready, 136; succour for on the way, 141, 152.
-,-, Turkish attack on Austrians would provide diversion for, 132.
-,-, no news of queen leaving, 137; Mello talks of returning to, 169; Jesuits brought by queen from, 171.
-,-, war with likely to lead to rupture with England, 139, 163, 173; difficulties of Spain in waging war with, 140; Spaniards learn of English help for, 154, 159; talk of consignment of fortresses to English, 159.
-,-, privateers with letters of marque from, 153, 163; letters revoked, 167.
-,-, Spanish successes against cause apprehension, 155, 164; if continue England will prove asylum for Portuguese, 169; queen's attendants return to, 183.
-,-, Clarendon committed king to chiefly for sake of Tangier, 164; affairs in very critical state, 169, 179.
-,-, French treating with England for upholding, 176; can be supplied by English ships, 177.
-,-, proposal for accommodation with through Burgundian lady, 177.
-,-, French want Charles to assist, 179; money sent for, 181, 185; Estrades treating about support, for, 189, 192; French to pay cost of English troops for, 190.
-,-, Spaniards suspect secret negotiations to help, 189, 204; powers do not want Spain aggrandised by reducing, 207.
-,-, frequent desertions from foreign troops serving in, 195; bad treatment of English in, 214.
-,-, treaty made with Dutch, 203, 207; French want included in quadruple alliance, 208; French consider support a national interest, 225.
-,-, Spanish armies withdrawn from attacking, 204.
-,-, Inchiquin tells queen of state of affairs in, 215; mission of Fanshawe to, 267, 271.
-, 1663:
-,-, mission of Colbert Taron to, 225, 227, 242, 248.
-,-, Spanish remonstrance at embarcation of troops for, 240, 242; Fuentes tries to stop going, 245; succour leaves England for, 248–9, 272; effective English help for, 251.
-,-, silence in Spain about peace with, 246; English frigate from Cadiz joins fleet of, 256.
-,-, Tangier useful to prevent naval attack by Spain on, 247; O'Moledy says English do not think much of, 251.
-,-, English frigates to take French troops to, 248; proposed Anglo-French cooperation for, 250; arrangement between Louis and Charles for helping, 254; Charles making new levy for, 268.
-,-, negotiations for minister of, at Porte, 251, 254, 257–8, 265; Turks asked to allow levies for, 258; Turks ready to receive minister of, 270.
-,-, Medina admits difficulty of conquering, 262; French ready to do everything for, 268; Spain has no apparatus for campaign against, 271.
-,-, death of Queen Catherine would be blow to, 267–8; English require Spain to give up war of, 271.
-,-, Dutch fear privateering from, as reprisals, 267; depredations on Dutch shipping, 283.
-,-, Medina's opinion about conquest of, 273.
-, 1664:
-,-, Holles going to see Turenne about, 281; affair of minister from being pressed at French Court, 284.
-,-, importance of Brazil, voyage to, 283.
-,-, question of adjustment with Spain, 284; Spanish negotiations with reserved for Fanshawe's arrival, 285.

-, infanta of. See Catherine of Braganza.

-, king of. See Alfonso VI.

-, merchants of. See merchants, Portuguese.

-, queen mother of. See Louisa.

-, ships of. See ships, Portuguese.

postmaster general. See Bishop, Col. Henry.

-, in Germany. See Thurn and Taxis, Lamoral Claude Francis, baron,

posts, set up between Dublin and Edinburgh, 229.

potash, dispute over ownership of, at Porte, 252–3.

Prague [Czeko Slovakia], Nani left with emperor for, 224.

preachers, ministers, exiled from Scotland, 165; extension of time allowed to, 233.

Presbyterians:
-, Prynne belongs to, 26; studying to make fresh trouble, 52; believe doing God service, 63.
-, proposal to purge Privy Council of, 76; majority of Commons dislike, 125.
-, most numerous of the sects, very wealthy, 86; Clarendon supports party because strong, 125.
-, Clarendon proposes clause in Uniformity bill to advantage of, 124; Act of Uniformity causes great stir among, 158.
-, mortified by burning of covenant papers, 133; try hard to stir up trouble in England and Scotland, 161; only waiting for opportunity, 180.
-, disturbances made by, over Act of Uniformity, 185, 187; opposition to uniformity, 200.
-, ministers petition to be continued in station, 187; three leading called upon to take oath, 229.
-, measures to repress in Scotland, 188, 221, 231, 233; some ministers submit to bishops, 244.
-, possibly at bottom of plot to kill king, 212.
-, king appeals to parliament for, 232; king able to soothe and win regard of, 236; efforts made to smoothe matters for, 239.
-, danger to throne from, 291.

prices:
-, exorbitant rise of, in England, 19, 111, 120, 123.
-, very high, tariff to limit, on king's route, 141.

priests:
-, not to be allowed to give occasion for scandal, 228; proposed restrictions on, 239.
-, proclamation banishing, 243; names of those in prison to be sent to parliament, 244.

printing, bill for regulating unlicensed and disorderly, 32; royal assent to, 147.

Privy Council. See Council.

proclamations:
-, no fairs or markets to be held in churchyards, 64.
-, to stop luxury and display, 79.
-, banishing ex-rebels and disbanded officers from London, 79, 161.
-, for recalling and recoining commonwealth money, 111.
-, for observance of statute of Winchester, to stop robberies, 115.
-, against admitting Dutch prizes into ports, 167.
-, recalling sailors in foreign service, 167, 170; not to extend to Venice, 175, 186.
-, making Tangier a free port, 219, 220.
-, of peace with Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, 233.
-, banishing priests, 243.
-, for discovery and apprehension of Bristol, 263.

Protestants. See Church of England.

Prozorovsky, Peter, Muscovite ambassador:
-, arrival, York House prepared for, 217; public entry, 219; falls ill, 221; not fully recovered, 226.
-, to negotiate about trade, 221; first audience, delivers present, 226.
-, treating for money and officers, 229, 230; to remain for renewal of treaties, 230.

Prynne, William, admonished for libel, submits, 26.

Pyrenees, treaty of, Spanish efforts for Charles at, 14.