office lay dormant
under Cromwell, 224; revived and continued under Charles II. and
James II., ib.; anecdotes relative to, 226-228.

CENTOS, i. 299.

CEREMONIES, different, among various nations, ii. 12-15.

CERVANTES, remark of i. 394; taken prisoner at the battle of Lepanto,
ib.

CHAMILLART, Minister of France, his rise, ii, 11.

CHARADES, i. 297.

CHARLES MARTEL, his combat with, and defeat of, the Mahometans, ii.
430.

CHARLES the Bald of France, his remarkable vision, ii. 423.

CHARLES the First, account of his expedition into Spain, ii. 1-4;
anecdote of him and Buckingham, 6; history of his diamond seal, 326;
his love of the fine arts, 327; the magnificence and taste of his
court entertainments, 328; anecdote of, 329; catalogue of his
effects, 331-334; an artist and a poet, 334, 335, and note;
influence of his wife on, doubted, 336; his dismissal of his wife's
French establishment, 345; reply to the French ambassador's
remonstrances, 347; his conduct on the death of Buckingham, 371;
secret history of him and his first Parliaments, iii. 448; the
latter a sullen bride, ib.; his address to his first Parliament, and
their ungracious conduct, 449; they abandoned the king, 450; raises
money on Privy Seals, ib.; on the failure of the expedition to Cadiz
he called his second Parliament, 451; communications between him and
his Parliament, ib.; his address to them, noticing the impeachment
of Buckingham, 452; his conduct on that occasion the beginning of
his troubles, 453; on the Commons' further remonstrance against
Buckingham, he dissolves his second Parliament, 457; his distress
for money, ib.; his fresh distresses on the failure of the
expedition to the Isle of Rhe, and his expedients to raise money,
458, 459; their ill success, 460, 461; reflections on his situation,
463; rejects the proffered advice of the President of the
Rosy-Cross, 464; anonymous letter sent to the Commons, and by them
forwarded to the king without perusing, 465; secret measures used by
the opposition, 466; speech of the king to Parliament, 467; his
emotion on being informed that the Parliament had granted subsidies
468; debates on the king's message, 469; Eliot's speech thereon,
470; Coke's memorable speech, 473; the king grants his assent to the
Petition of Right, 475; popular rejoicings, 476; pre