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Middleton, pirate, affidavit of, 300 et Orange, Prince of (William the Silent),

seq., 306.

Militia of London, muskets of, 115;
Committee of the, 107. See Train
Bands.

Mint, money deposited at, 169; estab-
lished at Antwerp, 248-50; failure
of, 252; Sir Isaac Newton made
warden of, 268.

Monk, General, 128. See Albemarle.
Montague, Charles, 234; and recoin-
age, 268-71; and exchequer bills,
270; schemes of, 315; retirement,
315.

Moreton, parish of, 165; rector of,

195; village and church of, 197-8.
Mytton, Richard, married to Sara
Houblon, 328; 'Squire,' 328;
Esther, 331.

NAMES, biblical, common, 99.
Namur, siege of, 251.

National Debt, origin of, 238; Hamil
ton on the, 240; Scotland's share
in, 316.

Navigation Act, 123, 130, 138, 323.
Navy, English, in 1588, 59; prick-
ing' for the, 137; administration of
the, 154-5; interests of merchants
in the, 156; Pepys's good work for,
156-7, 206-7; victualling of, 236.

Office, accusations against, 153;
officials of, 154, 156; commissioners
of the, 157.
Netherlands, democratic, 10; ener-
getic population of, 12; merchants
of the, 12; Motley on, 12; religious
reform in, 35; people of, 38; influx
from, 49; Queen Elizabeth and war
in, 54-6.

first success, 54; watched by re-
fugees, 64; death of, 65.
Overstone, Lord (Mr. Jones Loyd),
inspires Bank Act of Peel, 283.

PALMERSTON, first Viscount, Henry
Temple, 180, 334-5; letter of, 335-6;
pictures of, 337 note.

- Viscountess. See Houblon, Anne.
Parliament, 101; the Short, 102; the
Long, 103; ordinance of, 107; of
Edinburgh, 110; quarrel with the
King, 118; Rump detested, 127;
Free, 128; and the Navy Office,
153; the Cavalier, 155; rule of,
204; new, 232; funds for war,
261.

Pater Bursae Londinensis, 158 et seq.;
James, Houblon so called by Pepys,
95; epitaph of, 96 note; last ten
years of, 158-65.

Paterson, William. See Bank of
England.

Parting of the Ways, 332 et seq.
Penn, Sir William, 153.
Pennant, Thomas, his Some Account
of London, 166; on James, Houb-
lon's epitaph, 166; his Houblon
ancestors, 329.

Pepys, Samuel, first reference to
Houbions in diary of, 135; Clerk
of the Acts of the Navy, 136 re-
lations with the merchants, 137,
141, 205; account of the Plague,
138-9; regard for the Houblons,
141, 142; fees, 142; describes Great
Fire, 144; on rebuilding, 146; a
supper, 150; the simple Princes,'
152; fears of, 154; James, Houblon's

epitaph by, 166; hoarded wealth,
169; and 'ingenious men,' 200-1;
manuscripts of, 202-3; assistance
afforded him by James Houblon,
203, 206; enthusiasm for reform,
203, 206; Secretary to the Ad-
miralty, 203; work at Trinity House,
204; help from James, Houblon re
matters abroad, 206; naval reforms,
207; a Dutch book, 208; im-
prisoned in Tower, 208; home with
W. Hewer, 209; presents his portrait
to James, Houblon, 209; letter after
being 'cast away,' 210; reinstated
by King, 210; President Royal
Society, 210; help of James, Houb-
lon, 211; letter from Sir Robert
Robinson, 212-13; character of, 214;
wonderful Journal, 215; library,
215-16; Collection of Heads, 216;
'Mr. Secretary,' 217; 'Marine In-
telligence,' by James, Houblon, 221-
225 note; supposed sympathy with
'Popery,' 311; sent to Tower, 311;
bailed by his friends, 311 note; ‘a
man I love mightily,' 312; memorial
rings and portraits, 316; days of
his secretaryship, 319; his portraits
of the Houblons, 337.

Pepysian Library, Magdalen, Oxford,
215-16.

Persecution, 35 et seq.; religious, 9;
the Alva, 31, 36, 97; privileges of
bourgeoisie, re, 37; reasons for, 40;
o artisans, 48; fear of, in seventeenth
century, 51-2; watched in England,
54; deepens a religious faith, 159.
Peterhouse, the Fellow of, 185 et seq.

Cambridge, Jacob, Houblon sent
to, 187; elected a Fellow, 187-8;
plate of, 191-2; 'worthiest library,'
193; ritual of, 194.

Petty, Sir William, dined with James2
Houblon, 201; views on banks, 239.
Philip 11. of Spain, a loan to, 32-4;
passion of his life, 35; power and
success, 55.
Picardian jurisdiction, French and
Belgic provinces comprised in, I

list of, in the, 86; transition of
individuals in, 86.

Picardy, the gentilshommes of, 2;
enterprise of younger sons of, I;
the Des Houbelons of, I; a youth
of, 7; Houbelon and Hope arms
in, 7; migration from, ro; patois
of, 11; Houbelons, two branches
of, 109.

Pictures, panel, of North Italy, 29-30;
the family, 177. See Portraits.
Pieces of eight: Portuguese coin,
170; exchange in, 171.

Piracy, reasons for frequency of, 212;
terrors of, 290; difficult to abandon,
292; acts of, 299; of Captain Every,
303, 308; the subject of, 305.
Pirate ship, prizes of a, 133; equip-
ment of, 134; a famous, 300; a
known, 305.

Pirate states, punitive expedition
against, 291 note.

Pirates of Barbary States, risks from,
132, 289-90; crews sold by, 290;
'Sallee,' 285; 'Sally,' 287; of Algiers,
292; squadron despatched to sup-
press, 305-6; expedition of Kidd
against, 308-9.

Plague, outbreaks of, 25; ravages of,
65; Pierre, Houbelon dies of, 73;
terror of, 73-4; his wife also, 75;
raging in 1603, 77; James Houb-
lon's wife dies of, 121-2; heroism of
people during, 122; outbreak in
1665, 135; spread of, 138; Pepys's
account of, 138-9; subsidence of,
140.

Plants, patronymics owing origin to,
85.

Plomb de Commerce of Lille, 17, 82.
'Pope of Rome,' 69.
Popery, popular fear of, 231, 319;
Rome and, 339.
Population, surplus of medieval towns,
26.

Portland, Earl of, sent from Flanders,
271; dines with Sir John Houblon,
273; takes money to William III.,
273; arrives at Whitehall, 312.

55;

Portraits, family, at Hallingbury, 209;
at Langley, 336; list of, by Lord
Palmerston, 337 note; divided, 337.
See Pictures.
Portugal, union with Spain,
monopoly of trade with, 132; mer-
chantmen to sail for, 285; snuff, 325.
merchants, Sir John Houblon,
chairman of company of, 286; re-
quest convoys, 286; reasons of the,
287.

Privateers, damage by French, 287,
290.

Protector, the, difficulty of govern-
ment, 127; policy re Navy, 129.
See Cromwell.

Protestants, not eligible for bour-
geoisie, 37; early, mostly artisans,
37; sufferings of, 55.
Pym on the plague, 77.

RALEIGH, Sir Walter, 79-80.
Refugees, protestant, writers on, 37;
49-51; money contributions of, 64;
fasts of, 64-5; well-born, 88-9; to
America, 93; prejudice against, 94;
spelling of the names of, 95; sacri-
fices of, 159; catechising children
of, 186.

Registers of Protestant Churches, 10,
97 note.

Revolution, of 1688, 220; 228; 231;

312; 341; the industrial, 340.
Roman Catholics, intrigues of, 213.
Church, dogmas of, 9; lost
supremacy of, 57.
Rome, dread of, 161.

Ronsard, sixteenth-century poet, 2.
Royal Society, early days of, 200; 202.
Russell, Admiral, 234; French fears
of, 246-7.

Ruyter, Admiral de, 151, 153.

hostility to Treaty of Union in,
316.

Scottish Presbyterian party, 114, 117.
Scots, the Queen of, 77; the, marched,
109.

Seigneur,' 'Nulle terre sans, 2.
Settle, City poet, 258, 327.
Shaftesbury, Lord, trial of, 1681, 227-8.
Shopkeepers, nation of, 344.
Shrewsbury, Duke of, correspondence
of, relating to Sir John Houblon,
237, 244, 253, 271-2, 274.
Sloane, Dr., 194.

Smiles, on Huguenots, 49.
Somers, Lord (Sir John), Lord Keeper,
seals Bank Charter, 243; inter-
vention of, 245, 253; accusations
against, 309.

South Sea Company, officers of, 335.
Spain, trade with, 126; treasure-ships
of, 127.

Spéculateurs, merchant, 31. See Mer-
chants.

St. Bartholomew, massacre of, 55, 65.
Stow, Strype's Survey of, 63; historian,
90; on merchants, 95 ; train bands,
IOI; houses, 148; on Mr. Houblon,
158-9.

Strafford, Lord, 102, 103.
'Strangers,' work of the, 49; 're-
turns' of, 61; love for 'home,' 63;
'searches' for, 68; loan from Mer-
chant, 75, 76; value of, 92; jealousy
of, 164; Strype on the, 49. See
also Merchant Strangers.

Subsidies, Queen Elizabeth's, 63; Lay,
65; exemption from, 65-6, 79.

TALLIES, representing investment,
239.

Tangiers, trade with, 132; part of
dowry, 134; 'Adventure' to, 140,
143.

Ryswick, Peace of, 276, 282, 290, 312-3. Tankard, presented to Sir John Houb-

lon, 277-8. See Houblon, Sir John.

SAYETTEURS, fabrics of, 29; gild of, 28. Temple, Henry, Viscount Palmerston.
See Palmerston.

Scawen, Sir William, 248, 281.
Scotland, alliance with France, 1;

James v. of, 2; campaign in, 115;

Sir John, 334.

Thought, change of, in seventeenth

century, 218; speculative, 320; | VON HOBLYN, Jehan des Houbelon,
sceptical, 340.
Threadneedle Street, French Church Von Ranke, History of, 229.

in, 98; registers of, 81; Sir John
Houblon's houses in, 260; pur-
chased for site of Bank of England,
329-30.

Tory party, share in Revolution, 231;
reduction of forces by, 312; jealousy
of London of, 237.
Toulon, siege of, 351, 353.
Tract, 'a remarkable,' 321-4.
Trade, of the Houbelons, 16, 17, 26-7,
31; of the Provinces, 23; in Eng-
land, 49, 53, 55-6; Spanish, 57;
flagging, 123; the fishing, 124-5 ;
linen, 130; with France, 131;
Portugal, 132-4, 170, 287; sus-
pended by plague, 138; embarrass-
ments to, 150; East Indian, 153,
181-3; regulation of, 203; paper
on, 221-5; of O'Porto, 286; West
Indian, 287; Board of, 284, 285;
monopoly of Eastern, 307; Free,
321, 324; pamphlet on East Indian,
321 et seq. See Free Trade.
Train Bands, City, 99, 101, 105. See
Militia.

Trinity House, its scope, 204.
Trott, governor of Bahamas, 300, 301-
303; defence of, 304; deposed, 306.
Trust, formation of a family, 338.

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William and Mary, pledges of Pro-
testantism, 220; 232.

III., statesmanship of, 228; 241;
244-5; at Namur, 251; on a 'pro-
gress,' 255; persons suspected by,
264; plot against, 265; 'extremity'
for money, 271; thanks to the Bank
of, 274; 282; welt-politik of, 312;
return home, 312-13; treatment of,
by Tories, 318; death, 318.
Williamson, Sir Joseph, 131, 147, 291

note.

Woodward, Dr., loses 'Mr. Houblon's
Narrative,' 194.

Woolchurch, St. Mary, 103; burnt,
149; site of Mansion House, 149.

UNIVERSITIES, traditions of the, 187- Woolnoth, St. Mary, 149; James 1

Houblon buried in, 165; his epitaph

188, 194-5.

Utrecht, Peace of, 323; fruits of, 327.

in, 166.

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