Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles

Characters from 17th Century
Histories and Chronicles

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CHARACTERS
FROM THE
HISTORIES & MEMOIRS
OF THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
With an Essay on THE CHARACTER

and Historical Notes
By DAVID NICHOL SMITH
OXFORD

1918

CONTENTS
ESSAY ON THE CHARACTER
I. The Beginnings II. The Literary Models III. Clarendon IV. Other
Character Writers
CHARACTERS
1. JAMES I. By Arthur Wilson 2. " By Sir Anthony Weldon 3. THE
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (George Villiers, first Duke). By
Clarendon 4. SIR THOMAS COVENTRY. By Clarendon 5. SIR
RICHARD WESTON. By Clarendon 6. THE EARL OF ARUNDEL
(Thomas Howard, fourteenth Earl). By Clarendon 7. THE EARL OF
PEMBROKE (William Herbert, third Earl). By Clarendon 8. SIR
FRANCIS BACON. By Ben Jonson 9. " " " By Arthur Wilson 10. " " "
By Thomas Fuller 11. " " " By William Rawley 12. BEN JONSON. By
Clarendon 13. " " By James Howell 14. HENRY HASTINGS. By
Shaftesbury 15. CHARLES I. By Clarendon 16. " By Sir Philip
Warwick 17. THE EARL OF STRAFFORD (Thomas Wentworth, first
Earl). By Clarendon 18. THE EARL OF STRAFFORD (Thomas
Wentworth, first Earl). By Sir Philip Warwick 19. THE EARL OF
NORTHAMPTON (Spencer Compton, second Earl). By Clarendon 20.
THE EARL OF CARNARVON (Robert Dormer, first Earl). By
Clarendon 21. LORD FALKLAND (Lucius Cary, second Viscount).
By Clarendon 22. LORD FALKLAND (Lucius Cary, second Viscount).
By Clarendon 23. SIDNEY GODOLPHIN. By Clarendon 24.
WILLIAM LAUD. By Clarendon 25. " " By Thomas Fuller 26. " " By
Sir Philip Warwick 27. WILLIAM JUXON. By Sir Philip Warwick 28.
THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD (William Seymour, first Marquis).
By Clarendon 29. THE MARQUIS OF NEWCASTLE (William
Cavendish, first Marquis, and Duke). By Clarendon 30. THE LORD
DIGBY (George Digby, second Earl of Bristol). By Clarendon 31.
THE LORD CAPEL (Arthur Capel, first Baron). By Clarendon 32.
ROYALIST GENERALS: PATRICK RETHVEN, EARL OF

BRENTFORD; PRINCE RUPERT; GEORGE, LORD GORING;
HENRY WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER. By Clarendon 33.
JOHN HAMPDEN. By Clarendon 34. JOHN PYM. By Clarendon 35.
OLIVER CROMWELL. By Clarendon 36. OLIVER CROMWELL. By
Clarendon 37. " " By Sir Philip Warwick 38. " " By John Maidston 39.
" " By Richard Baxter 40. SIR THOMAS FAIRFAX. By Richard
Baxter 41. SIR HENRY VANE, the younger. By Clarendon 42. " " " "
" By Clarendon 43. COLONEL JOHN HUTCHINSON. By Lucy
Hutchinson 44. THE EARL OF ESSEX (Robert Devereux, third Earl).
By Clarendon 45. THE EARL OF SALISBURY (William Cecil,
second Earl). By Clarendon 46. THE EARL OF WARWICK (Robert
Rich, second Earl). By Clarendon 47. THE EARL OF MANCHESTER
(Edward Montagu, second Earl). By Clarendon 48. THE LORD SAY
(William Fiennes, first Viscount Say and Sele). By Clarendon 49.
JOHN SELDEN. By Clarendon 50. JOHN EARLE. By Clarendon 51.
JOHN HALES. By Clarendon 52. WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH. By
Clarendon 53. EDMUND WALLER. By Clarendon 54. THOMAS
HOBBES. By Clarendon 55. " " Notes by John Aubrey 56. THOMAS
FULLER. Anonymous 57. JOHN MILTON. Notes by John Aubrey 58.
" " Note by Edward Phillips 59. " " Notes by Jonathan Richardson 60.
ABRAHAM COWLEY. By himself 61. " " By Thomas Sprat 62.
CHARLES II. By Halifax 63. CHARLES II. By Burnet 64. CHARLES
II. By Burnet 65. THE EARL OF CLARENDON (Edward Hyde, first
Earl), By Burnet 66. THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE (John Maitland,
second Earl, created Duke 1672). By Clarendon. 67. THE EARL OF
LAUDERDALE (John Maitland, second Earl, created Duke 1672). By
Burnet 68. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY (Anthony Ashley Cooper,
first Earl). By Burnet 69. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY (Anthony
Ashley Cooper, first Earl). By Dryden 70. THE DUKE OF
BUCKINGHAM (George Villiers, second Duke). By Burnet 71. THE
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (George Villiers, second Duke). By
Dryden 72. THE MARQUIS OF HALIFAX (George Savile, first
Marquis). By Burnet 73. SIR EDMUND SAUNDERS. By Roger North
74. TWO GROUPS OF DIVINES: (1. Benjamin Whitchcot, Ralph
Cudworth, John Wilkins, Henry More, John Worthington; 2. John
Tillotson, Edward Stillingfleet, Simon Patrick, William Lloyd, Thomas
Tenison). By Burnet 75. JAMES II. By Burnet 76. JAMES II. By

Burnet

THE CHARACTER
The seventeenth century is rich in short studies or characters of its