war, 150; luck, 153; Flemish, 159; | Newfoundland fisheries, 125; Dutch
Middleton, pirate, affidavit of, 300 et Orange, Prince of (William the Silent),
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.
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;
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.
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
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
Utrecht, Peace of, 323; fruits of, 327.
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