1670 William
Congreve
born (d.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08
1571 Plowden's Law Reports.
• 1581 Lambarde's Eirenarcha.
1585 Dyer's Law Reports.
1594 John Cosin born (d. 1672).
1600-15 Coke's Law Reports.
1609 Benjamin Whichcote born (d.
1683).
1610 Hardy's Mariamne.
1610 D'Urfé's Astrée.
1611 Robert Leighton born (d. 1684).
1612 Samuel Butler born (d. 1680).
1612 Thomas Killigrew born (d.
1683).
1614 Napier of Merchiston discovers
logarithms.
1614 Henry More born (d. 1687).
1616 Joseph Beaumont born (d.
1699).
1617 Ralph Cudworth born (d. 1688).
1620 John Evelyn born (d. 1706).
1624 George Fox born (d. 1691).
1627 (? ) John Wilson born (d. 1696).
1628 Harvey's Exercitatio.
1628-44 Coke's Institutes.
1630 Isaac Barrow born (d. 1677).
1630 Sir Richard Bulstrode born
(d. 1711).
1630 John Tillotson born (d. 1694).
1631 Richard Cumberland, bp of
Peterborough, born (d. 1718).
1631 John Dryden born (d. 1700).
1632 Samuel Pepys born (d. 1703).
1633 (? ) Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl
of Roscommon, born (d. 1685).
1634 Sir George Etherege born
(d. 1691).
1634 Sir John Reresby born (d. 1689).
1634 Académie française founded.
1635 Edward Stillingfleet born (d.
1699).
1636 Joseph Glanvill born (d. 1680).
1636 Selden's Mare Clausum.
1636 Corneille's Cid.
1638 Charles Sackville, 6th earl of
Dorset, born (d. 1706).
1638 Corneillo's Cid acted in Eng-
lish.
1639 () Sir Charles Sedley born
(d. 1701).
1640 Mrs Aphra Behn born (d.
1689).
1640 William Wycherley born (d.
1716).
1641 Thomas Rymer born (d. 1713).
1641 Evelyn's Diary begins (ptd
1818).
1641 Shelton's Tachygraphy.
1642 Closing of theatres.
1642 (? ) Thomas Shadwell born (d.
1692).
1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715).
1644 William Penn born (d. 1718).
1646 (? ) Anthony Hamilton born (d.
1720).
1647 John Wilmot, 2nd earl of
Rochester, born (d. 1680).
1647 Henry More's Philosophicall
Poems.
1647 Selden's Fleta.
1648 Robert Barclay born (d. 1690).
1648 Elkanah Settle born (d. 1724).
1648 John Sheffield, 3rd earl of
Mulgrave, 1st duke of Bucking-
hamshire and Normanby, born
(d. 1721).
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Table of Principal Dates
485
1648 Death of lord Herbert of 1661 Boyle's law of compressi-
Cherbury.
bility.
1648 Joseph Beaumont's Psyche. 1661 Thomas Fuller died.
1649 Execution of Charles I. 1661 Glanvill's Vanity of Dogma-
Commonwealth.
tizing.
1650 Madeleine de Scudéry's Grand 1661 Graunt's Natural and Poli.
Cyrus.
tical Observations on the Bills
1650 Glisson's Tractatus de Rachi- of Mortality.
tide.
1662 Act of Uniformity.
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan.
1662 Royal Society's charter.
1651 D'Avenant's Gondibert.
1662 Richard Bentley born (d. 1742).
1652 Thomas Otway born (d. 1685). 1662 Henry More's prose works
1652 Culverwel's Light of Nature. collected.
1652-4 Dorothy Osborne's Letters 1662 Sir W. Petty's Treatise of
(ptd 1888).
Taxes and Contributions.
1653 Oliver Cromwell Protector. 1662 Stillingfleet's Origines sacrae.
1653 Thomas D'Urfey born (d. 1723). 1662 Wilson's Cheats.
1653 (? ) Nathaniel Lee born (d. 1663 Butler's Audibras, Pt 1 (Pt II
1692).
1664; Pt 1 1678).
1653 John Oldham born (d. 1683). 1663 Cowley's Cutter of Coleman
1653 Urquhart's Rabelais, Books 1, Street.
II (Book 111 1693-4; Books iv, v, 1663 Dryden's Wild Gallant
by Motteux, 1708).
1663 Katherine Philips's version of
1653-5 Scudéry's Grand Cyrus in Corneille's Pompée.
English,
1663 Edward Somerset 2nd mar-
1655 Wallis's Arithmetica Infini- quis of Worcester's Century of
torum.
Inventions.
1656 D'Avenant's Siege of Rhodes. 1664 Sir John Vanbrugh born (d.
1656 Harrington's Oceana.
1726).
1656 Osborne's Advice to a Son. 1664 Death of Sanderson.
1656 Pascal's Lettres provinciales. 1664 Cotton's Scarronides.
1657 John Dennis born (d. 1734). 1664 Dryden's Rival-Ladies.
1658 Death of Oliver Cromwell 1664 Etherege's Comical Revenge.
1658 Richard Cromwell Protector. 1664 Evelyn's Sylva.
1659 Dryden's Poem upon the death 1664 Wilson's Projectors.
of Oliver, Lord Protector.
Plague
1659 More's Immortality of the
1665 Head's English Rogue.
Soul.
1665 Sir R. Howard's Foure New
1659 Pearson's Exposition of the Plays.
Creed.
1665 La Fontaine's Contes.
1659 Thomas Rugge's Diurnall 1665 La Rochefoucauld's Maximes.
(unpublished) begins.
1666 Fire of London.
1659 Stillingfleet's Irenicum.
1666 The London Gazette begins.
1659 The Whole Duty of Man. 1666 Dryden's Annus Mirabilis.
1659 Molière's Précieuses Ridicules. 1666 Dugdale's Origines juri-
1660 Restoration.
dicales.
1660 Dryden's Astraea Redux. 1666 Willis's Anatome cerebri.
1660 Pepys begins his diary (ptd 1667 Death of Cowley.
1825).
1667 Dryden's Secret Love.
1660 John Smith's Select Dis- 1667 Sprat's History of the Royal
courses.
Society.
1660 Thomas Southerne born (d. 1667 Molière's Tartuffe.
1746).
1667 Racine's Andromaque.
1660 Madeleine de Soudéry's Al- 1668 Death of D'Avenant.
mahide.
1668 Dryden's An Evening's Love.
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Table of Principal Dates
1668 Dryden's Essay of Dramatick 1678 The popish plot.
Poesie.
1678 Narcissus Luttrell's Brief
1668 Sedley's Mulberry Garden. historical relation begins (ptd
1668 La Fontaine's Fables.
1857).
1668 Molière's Avare.
1678 George Farquhar born (d.
1668 Racine's Plaideurs.
1707).
1669 Pepys ends his diary.
1678 Death of Andrew Marvell.
1669 Death of Sir John Denham. 1678 Cudworth's True Intellectual
1669 Penn's No Cross No Crown. System of the Universe.
1669 Katherine Philips's Poems. 1678 Dryden's All for Love.
1669 Anthony à Wood's Antiquities 1678 Otway's Friendship in
of Oxford.
Fashion.
1669-70 Dryden's Conquest of 1678 Rymer's Tragedies of the
Granada.
Last Age.
1670 William Congreve born (d. 1678 South's Sermons.
1729).
1679 Death of Hobbes.
1670 Dryden appointed poet 1679 Dryden's Preface concerning
laureate.
the Grounds of Criticism in
1670 Mayow's experiments on re- Tragedy (with Troilus and
spiration.
Cressida).
1670 Molière's Bourgeois Gentil- 1679 Oldham's Satyrs upon the
homme.
Jesuits.
1670 Pascal's Pensées.
1679 Collected edition of the Year
1671 Colley Cibber born (d. 1757)
Books.
1671 The Rehearsal.
1680 Burnet's Some passages in the
1671 Tillotson's Sermons.
Life and Death of the Earl of
1672 Addison born (d. 1719).
Rochester.
1672 Cumberland's De legibus 1680 Lee's Theodosius.
Naturae.
1680 Otway's Orphan.
1672 Dryden's essay Of Heroick 1680 Temple's Miscellanea, Pt i
Plays.
(Pt 11 1690; Pt 1 1701).
1672 Puffendorf's De jure naturae 1681 Dryden's Absalom and Achi-
et gentium.
tophel, Pt 1.
1673 Death of Molière.
1681 Dryden's Spanish Fryar.
1673 Settle's The Empress of 1681 Glanvill's Sadducismus trium-
Morocco.
phatus.
1674 Death of Milton.
1681 Hobbes's Dialogue between a
1674 Nicholas Rowe born (d. 1718). Philosopher and a Student of
1674 Wycherley's The Plain the Common Law ptd.
Dealer acted (ptd 1677).
1682 Death of Sir Thomas Browne.
1674 Boileau's Lutrin and Art 1682 Advocates' library founded.
Poétique.
1682 Banks's Unhappy Favourite
1674 Delphin classics.
and Vertue Betray'd.
1675 Dryden's Aureng-Zebe acted 1682 Dryden's The Medal and
(ptd 1676).
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt 11.
1675 Wycherley's Country Wife. 1682 Dryden's Mac Flecknoe and
1676 Etherege's Man of Mode.
Religio Laici.
1676 Otway's Don Carlos.
1682 Otway's Venice Preserv'd.
1676 Ray's edition of Willughby's 1682 Petty's Political Arithmetic.
Ornithologia.
1682 Ray's Methodus plantarum.
1677 Crowne's Destruction of Jeru- 1683 Crowne's City Politiques.
salem.
1684 Death of Corneille.
1677 Lee's Rival Queens.
1684 The Turkish Spy.
1677 La Fayette's Princesse de 1685 Crowne's Sir Courtly Nice.
Clèves.
1685-8 James II
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Table of Principal Dates
487
a
1686 Willughby and Ray's Historia
piscium.
1687 Dryden's The Hind and the
Panther.
1687 Newton's Principia.
1687 La Bruyère's Caractères.
1688 Pope born.
1688 Halifax's Character of a
Trimmer.
1688 Shadwell's Squire of Alsatia.
1689 Locke's first letter on Tolera-
tion. (2nd letter 1690; 3rd
1692. )
1689 Selden's Table-Talk.
1689 Shadwell's Bury Fair.
1689-94 William and Mary.
1690 Locke's Two Treatises of
Government and Essay con-
cerning Human Understanding.
1691 Boyle lectures founded.
1691 Sherlock's Practical Dis-
concerning Future
Judgment.
1691 Racine's Athalie.
1692 Rymer's Short View of Tra-
course
gedy (dated 1693).
1692 Temple's Memoirs.
1693 Congreve's Old Bachelor;
Double-Dealer.
1693 Dryden's Discourse concerning
. . . Satire.
1693 Hacket's Life of Bishop
Williams.
1693 Leslie's Short and easy method
with the Deists.
1693 Penn's Some Fruits of Soli-
tude.
1693 Ray's Synopsis animalium.
1694 Barthogge's Essay upon
Reason.
1694 George Fox's Journal.
1694 Southerne's The Fatal Mar-
riage.
1695-1702 William III.
1695 Congreve's Love for Love.
1696 Baxter's Autobiography.
1696 Colley Cibber's Love's Last
Shift.
1696 Southerne's Oroonoko.
1696 Tate and Brady's new version
of the Psalms.
1696 Toland's Christianity not
mysterious.
1697 Congreve's Mourning Bride.
1697 Dryden's Alexander's Feast.
1697 Vanbrugh's Relapse and Pro-
vok'd Wife.
1698 Jeremy Collier's Short View
of the immorality of the
English Stage.
1698 Farquhar's Love and a Bottle.
1699 Farquhar's The Constant
Couple.
1699 Death of Racine.
1700 Congreve's Way of the World.
1700 Dryden's Fables.
1700 Halifax's Miscellanies.
1700 Cottonian library presented to
the nation.
1700-3 Temple's Letters (ed. Swift).
1701 Farquhar's Sir Harry
Wildair.
1701 Norris's Essay towards the
Theory of the Ideal or Intelli-
gible World, Pt1 (Pt 11 1704).
1702-14 Anne.
1703 Rowe's Fair Penitent.
1704 Robert Nelson's Companion
for the Festivals and Fasts.
1705 Vanbragh's Confederacy.
1706 Farquhar's Recruiting Officer.
1707 Farquhars Beaux Strata-
gem.
1712 Philips's Distrest Mother.
1713 Mémoires de la vie du Comte
de Gramont.
1714 Rowe's Tragedy of Jane
Shore.
1715 Rowe's Tragedy of the Lady
Jane Gray.
1720 Hughes's Siege of Damascus.
1731 Cudworth's Treatise concern-
ing Eternal and Immutable
Morality (publ. posthumously).
1740 Apology for the Life of
Colley Cibber.
1764 Lord Herbert of Cherbury's
Autobiography ptd.
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INDEX OF NAMES
(The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject oćour on at
least two immediately succeeding pages. Birth and death dates are not, as a rule,
given in the case of writers whose work is treated in other volumes. ]
Abercorn, James Hamilton, 1st earl of
(d. 1617), 261
Absalom, in Absalom and Achitophel, 36,
38, 39
Absalom's Conspiracy, 37
Academia Secretorum Naturae of Naples,
364
Achilles, 25, 76
Achitophel, in Absalom and Achitophel,
37, 38, 41, 75
Adam, 841
Addison, J. , 174, 194, 220, 292, 293, 296,
303
and Steele, The Spectator, 378 ;
The Tatler, 140, 158, 175, 390
Admirable Crichton, 195
Advertisement of a Sale of Choice Goods,
99
Advices to a Painter and New Advice,
91
Aeneas, 67
Aesop, 59
Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius, of Nettes-
heim, 64; De Occulta Philosophia, 67
Aimwell, in Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem,
172
Ajax, 68
Alarcon, Juan Ruiz de y Mendoza, 130
Albemarle, A. J. van Keppel, lst earl of
(1669-1718), 202
Alcazar, battle of, 31
Alcoran, Turkish, 291
Aldwinkle All Saints, Northants. , 2
Alexander, in Lee's Rival Queens, 186
Sir Wm. , earl of Stirling, 183
Alfred, king, 310
Almanzor, in Dryden's Conquest of
Granada, 25, 27
Alphonso, in The Mourning Bride, 152
Alps, the, 245
Altamont, in Rowe's Fair Penitent, 196
Alva, duke of, 160
Amalekites, 78
Amanda, in Vanbrugh's Relapse, 161
America, 243, 257, 314, 341
American colonies, 101, 342
Amiens, in As You Like It, 225
Amlet, Mrs, in The Confederacy, 162
Amsterdam, Letter from, to a Friend in
England, 100
Ancient Pistol, 127
Andrewes, Lancelot, 293, 294, 301
Andromache, in Dryden's Troilus and
Cressida, 29
in the Iliad, 50
Angelica, in Congreve's Love for Love,
151, 156
in Farquhar's Sir Harry Wildair,
169
Angevins, the, 311
Anglo-Saxon' language, 307
Anne Neville, queen of Richard III, 123
queen, 96, 113, 220, 261, 373
Annus Mirabilis primus et secundus, 10
Antonio, in Otway's Venice Preserv'd,
94, 184
de Eslava, Noches de Invierno, 126
Antwerp, 141
Apollo, 204
Appletree, Thomas, in Farquhar's Re.
cruiting Officer, 171
Apsley, Lucy, 270
Arber, E. , 182
Archer, in Farquhar's Beaux Stratagem,
172
Argensola, Bartolomeo de (the younger),
129
Ariana, Mistress (Etherege's), 138
Arians, 275
Ariel, in The Tempest, 28, 225
Ariosto, 22
Aristophanes, 38, 58, 164
in D'Avenant's First Day's Enter-
tainment, 117
Aristotle, 8, 29, 170, 203, 221, 277, 278,
287, 289, 291, 329, 350 ; Poetics, 375,
376
Arlington, Henry Bennet, lst earl of
(1618-1685), 92, 198, 376, 379, 380,
384
Arminius, 291, 292
Arrêts d'Amour, Les, 59
Arrowsmith, Reformation (1673), 26
Artaban, in La Calprenede's Cléopâtre, 25
## p. 489 (#511) ############################################
Index of Names
489
Arthurian romance, 81
Ascanius, 70
Ascue, Sir G. , 218
Ashmole, Elias (1617-1692), 247
Aston, colonel, 211
Astrophil, 61
Athanasian Creed, 42
Athelstan, king, 310
• Athens,' Oxford university called so
by Dryden, 4
Atkins, Samuel, 257
Aubignac, abbé d', Pratique du théâtre,
375
Aubrey, John (1626–1697), 295, 322, 361
Aurelian, in Congreve's Incognita, 146
Aurifaber, John, 321
Austin, John, 321
Ayloffe, John (d. 1685), 408
Azo, Portius, jurist, 312
B. , G. S. , A Study of the Prologue and
Epilogue in English Literature, 34
Babylon, 122
Bacchus, 203
Bacon, Francis, lord (1561-1626), 8,
273, 275, 278, 317, 321, 332, 351,
367, 368, 377
A Reading on the Statute of Uses, 316
De Augmentis Scientiarum, 316
Essays, 376
Maxims of the Law, 316
Nathaniel, 142
Bajazet (Louis XIV), in Rowe's Tamer-
lane, 195
Baldock, Herts. , 243
Baldwin, Harvey, Bustorum Aliquot
Reliquiae, 362
Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de, Letters,
371 ff.
Bandello, Matteo, 126
Banks, John_(f. 1696), 21, 195; The
Unhappy Favourite or the Earl of
Esser, 194 ; Vertue Betray'd or Anna
Bullen, 194
Sir Joseph, 361
Barclay, Alex. , Ship of Fools, 69
David (1610-1686), 111
Robert (1648-1690), An Apology
for the True Christian Divinity, ill,
112
Bardsey (near Leeds), 146
Barham, R. H. , The Ingoldsby Legends,
96
Barn Elms, on the Thames, 377
Barnet, 351
Baron, R. (f. 1645), 434
Barrow, Isaac (1630–1677), 295 ff. , 301,
308, 389, 476; Exposition of the Creed,
Decalogue and Sacraments, 297; On the
Pope's Supremacy, 296; Works, 296
Barry, Mrs Elizabeth (1658–1713), 136,
179, 182, 184, 191
Bartholomew fair, 115, 193
Barton, Bernard, 113
Bath, 159, 363
Batrachomyomachia, 64
Battle Royal, The, 92
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), Life and
Times, 297 ; Quaker's Catechism, 110
Bayes, in The Rehearsal, 26
Beatrice, in Much Ado about Nothing,
120, 154
Beau Bunter, in Sir Harry Wildair,
169
Olincher, in Farquhar's The
Constant Couple, 175
Beauford, in D'Urfey's The Virtuous
Wife, 175
Beaumont, Charles, 284
Francis, and Fletcher, John, 13,
127, 132, 226
Beggars Bush, The, 121
Chances, The, 128
Coccombe, The, 128
Custome of the Countrey, The, 128
Double Marriage, The, 128
Faire Maide of the Inne, The, 128
Faithfull Shepheardesse, 18, 271
Island Princesse, 120, 129
Knight of the Burning Pestle, The, 121,
128
Loves Curé, 128
Loves Pilgrimage, 31, 128
Maid in the Mill, The, 128, 129
Maides Tragedy, The, 120, 215
Pilgrim, The, 31, 52, 54, 120, 396
Prophetesse, The, 120, 128, 135
Queene of Corinth, The, 128
Rule a Wife And have a Wife, 128
Sea Voyage, The, 120
Spanish Curate, The, 20, 128
Tamer Tamed, 121
Wild-Goose Chase, The, 120
Women pleas'd, 128
Joseph (1616–1690), 283 ff. , 453 ;
Psyche, 283, 284
Sir John (1583–1627), 228
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, 309
Bedford, Wriothesley, 2nd duke of, 272
Bedfordshire, 60
Behn, Mrs Aphra or Aphara (1640-1689),
140, 168
City Heiress, The, 142
Debauchee, The, 141
Dutch Lover, The, 131, 141
False Count, The, 131, 142
Forced Marriage, The, 141, 181
Maximes, trans. of La Rochefoucauld's,
373
Moor's Revenge, The, 141, 195
Nun, The, or The Perjur'd Beauty,
191
Oronooko, The Royal Slave, 141, 191
Roundheads, The, 122, 142
Rover, The, or The Banished Cavaliers,
131, 141
Town Fop, The, 142
Widow Ranter, The, 142
Young King, The, 141
Belial, men of, 18
Belinda, in Congreve's old Bachelor,
148
in Vanbrugh's Provok'd Wife,
161
22
## p. 490 (#512) ############################################
490
Index of Names
.
Bellair, in Etherego's The Man of Mode,
138
Bellmour, in Congreve's Old Bachelor,
148
Belvidera, in Otway's Venice Preserv'd,
183, 184
Bemerton, 348
Ben, in Congreve's Love for Love,
150 ff.
Bendo, Alexander, 208
Benedick, in Shakespeare's Much Ado,
120, 155
Bentham, Jeremy, 321
Bentinck, countess, 272
Bentley, Richard (1662-1742), 230, 385
Bergen, 202
Berinthia, in Vanbrugh's Relapse, 161
Berkeley, George (1685–1753), 328
lady, afterwards countess of
Portland, 380
Sir W. (d. 1677), 434
Berkshire, earl of, father of Sir Robert
Howard, 8
Berlin, 330
Best, Wm. Draper, 1st baron Wynford,
317
Bethlehem, 7
Betterton, Thomas (1635 ? -1710), 29,
31, 121, 146, 150, 166, 177, 179,
182, 184, 186, 191, 192, 194, 195;
Henry IV, version of, 120; The
Prophetesse, 120
Beveridge, William, 298, 301, 302
Beza, Theodore, 277, 363
Bible, the, 42, 78, 86, 91, 92, 101,
103, 105, 110 ff. , 164, 274 ff. , 278,
294, 298, 302, 326, 346, 364
Genesis, 352
Gospel, the, 290
New Testament, Greek text of, 277
Old Testament, 37
Revelation, The, 286
Bibliothèque universelle, 331
Bignell, Mrs, in D'Urfey's The Modern
Prophets, 175
Bilboe, in Wilson's The Cheats, 122
Biographia Dramatica, 188
Bion, Greek pastoral translated by
Oldham, 86
Biron, in Southerne's Fatal Marriage,
191, 192
Birtha, in Gondibert, 9
• Black Mill, 212, 219
Blackmore, Sir Richard (d. 1729), 32,
54, 168 ; King Arthur, 52; Prince
Arthur, 163; Satyr on Wit, 52
Blackstone, Sir Wm. (1723-1780), 821 ;
Commentaries, 315
Blake, William, 230
Blakesley, Northants. , 2
Blenheim, 163
Blifil, in Tom Jones, 148
Blois, 245
Blount, Chas. , Sale of Esau's Birthright,
97
Bluffe, captain, in Congreve's old
Bachelor, 147, 152
Bobadill, captain, in Every Man in His
Humour, 127, 147, 171
Boccaccio, 51, 52, 183
Dryden's, Theodore and Honoria, 4
Bocking, 269
Boileau, Nicholas, 133, 203, 214, 219,
220, 373 ff. , 385
L'Art Poétique, 373, 375
Lutrin, 197, 373
Satire (second), 63
Satire touching Nobility, 88
Bold, Samuel (1649–1737), 347
Bologna, 5, 312
Boniface, in Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem,
171
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, 303, 305;
Conférence avec M. Claude, 373; Dis.
cours sur l'Histoire Universelle, 373 ;
Exposition de la Doctrine de l'Église
Catholique, 373
Boswell, Jas. , Life of Johnson, 822
Boubours, Dominique, Manière de penser
sur les ouvrages de l'esprit, 876
Bourdalone, Louis, 303
Boursault, Edme, 162
Boyer, Abel (1667-1729), 261; Achilles,
or Iphigenia in Aulis (Racine's), 181
Boyle, Charles, 4th earl of Orrery and
1st baron Marston (1676–1731), 385
Richard, 1st earl of Cork (1566–
1643), 268
Robert (1627–1691), 247, 363 ff. ;
Origine of Formes and Qualities, 338;
Seraphic Love, 268; Tracts, 338
Boys' Own Book, The, 359
Bracegirdle, Anne (1663 ? -1748), 146,
159, 166, 177
Bracton, Henry de (a. 1268), 313; De
Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae,
312
Bradshaw, John (1602–1659), 312
William (f. 1700), The Magpies,
99
Brady, Nicholas (1659–1726), 91, 92;
Psalms, version of, by Nahum Tate and
Nicholas Brady, 41
Brainworm, in D'Urfey's Virtuous Wife,
175
Bramhall, John (1594–1663), 369
Brandenburg, Frederick William, elector
of, 329
Brandon, Charles, duke of Suffolk (d.
1545), 182
Brant, Sebastian, Narrenschiff, 59
Brass, in Vanbrúgh's Confederacy, 162
Brawny Bishop's Complaint, The, 97
Bray, William, 242
Braybrooke, R. G. Neville, 3rd baron,
243, 263
Brentford, battle of, 245
Bridgeman, Sir Orlando (16062-1674),
380
Brisk, Mr, in Congreve's Double-Dealer,
149, 156, 375
British Academy, a, 220
Britons, laws and customs of, 318
Britton, 313
1
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Index of Names
491
Brokesby, Francis (1687–1714), Life of
Hy. Dodwell, 307
Brome, Richard, 124, 142; A Madd
Couple well Matcht, 141
Brooke, Sir Robert, Abridgment of the
Year Books, 315
Brougham, lord Henry Peter, 316
Broughton, John, 347
Brounker, lord William (1620? –1684), 61,
218
Brown, Thomas (1663–1704), 48, 168
Browne, Mary, wife of John Evelyn,
245
Mistress Frances, wife of Sir J.
Reresby, 266
Sir Richard (d. 1669), 245, 246
Sir Thomas, 292, 357, 368, 378,
386; Religio Medici, 42
Wm. , 227
Brueys and Palaprat, Le Grondeur, 139
Brussels, 267
Brute, lady, in Vanbrugh's Provok'd
Wife, 161
Sir John, in Vanbragh's Provok'd
Wife, 161, 162, 168
Bruyère, la, 373
Buchanan, George, Franciscanus, 85
Buckbasket Mishap, The, 116
Buckhurst, Charles Sackville, lord, 6th
earl of Dorset (1638-1706), 49, 91,
133, 136, 198 ff. , 203 ff. , 212, 214 ff. ;
To all you Ladies now at Land, 217;
To Mr Edward Howard, 217; version
of Pompée, 180
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd duke
of (1628–1687), 91, 97, 175, 208, 215,
369, 373, 376, 380; Advice to a Painter,
92; Poetical Reflections, etc. , by a
Person of Quality, 39; The Rehearsal,
17, 20, 21, 25, 26, 34, 48, 118, 402,
403
Buckinghamshire, duke of, 55
Bull, George (1634-1710), 308; Har.
monia Apostolica,
Judicia
Ecclesiae Catholicae, 305 ; Sermon on
the Fall, 305
John, 160
Bulstrode, Sir Richard (1610–1711), 266 ;
Life of James II, 267; Memoirs and
Reflections upon the Reign and Govern.
ment of King Charles the 1st and King
Charles the 2d, 267; Original Letters
written to the Earl of Arlington, 267
Bunyan, John, 105, 293; Grace Abound-
ing, 104; Pilgrim's Progress, The, 284;
Some Gospel Truths Opened, 110
Burford, Oxford, 206
Burghley, lord, 8
Burke, Edmund, 56
W. T. , 54
Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715), 23, 46, 97,
202, 206, 207, 209, 213, 214, 216,
272, 298, 299, 300 ff. , 360
Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles,
300
History of his own Time, 48, 273, 278
History of the Reformation, 250
Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, 10
Pastoral Care, The, 300
Reasons against Repealing the Test, 48
Some passages in the Life and Death
of the right honorable John Earl of
Rochester, 300
Burnet, Thomas (1635 ? -1715), 292;
Sacra telluris theoria, 347
Thomas, of Kemnay, 347
Burrough, Edward (1634–1662), 110
Burthogge, Richard (1638? -1694 ? ), An
Essay upon Reason and the Nature of
Spirits, 347 ; Organum vetus et novum,
347
Burton, Hezekiah (d. 1681), 292
Robt. , Anatomy of Melancholy,
857, 378
Burton Hall, 96
Bury St Edmunds, 357
Busby, Richard (1606–1695), Dryden's
transl. of Fifth Satire of Persius,
ascribed to, 2
Bussy-Rabutin, Histoire Amoureuse de
Gaule, 385
Butler, Joseph, 296
Samuel (1612–1680), 17, 26, 43,
68 ff. (main entry), 88, 215, 232,
372, 373, 402
Characters, 60, 62 ff. , 75
Critics who judge of modern plays by
the rules of the Ancients, Upon, 375
Contradictions, 61
Cynarctomachy, or Battle between Bear
and Dogs, 65, 68
Elephant in the Moon, The, 61, 62,
366
Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose
of Mr Samuel Butler, The, 60, 62, 63
Hudibras, 19, 37, 49, 59 ff. , 64, 67 ff.
