Baxter, Richard: 
  character of Cromwell;
  Reliquiae Baxterianae;
  letter to Lauderdale. 
Bedford, Francis Russell, fourth Earl of. 
Bee, Cornelius, bookseller. 
Bendish, Bridget. 
Bendish, Henry. 
Bentivoglio, Cardinal Guido. 
Berry, James. 
Bible. 
Boileau. 
Bolton, Edmund:  Hypercritica. 
Bradshaw, John:  Milton’s praise of. 
Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of: 
  character by Clarendon. 
Bristol, John Digby, first Earl of. 
Bristol, second Earl of.  See Digby, George. 
Brooke, Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron. 
Brooke, Robert Greville, second Baron. 
Buckingham, George Villiers, first Duke of: 
  character by Clarendon;
    by Sir Henry Wotton;
  Clarendon’s early account. 
Buckingham, George Villiers, second Duke of: 
  character by Burnet;
    by Dryden (Zimri);
  other characters. 
Buckingham, or Buckinghamshire, John Sheffield, Duke of: 
  ‘Character of Charles II’. 
Burleigh, William Cecil, Baron. 
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury: 
  characters of Charles II;
    Clarendon;
    Lauderdale;
    Shaftesbury;
    Buckingham;
    Halifax;
    seventeenth-century divines;
    James II;
  account of Vane;
    Waller;
  Sir Philip Warwick;
    his characters;
    revision of his characters;
  History of His Own Time;
  Memoirs of Dukes of Hamilton;
  Life of Hale;
  Life of Rochester;
  relations with Lauderdale;
    with English divines. 
Burton, John. 
Bushell, Thomas. 
Butler, Samuel:  character of Shaftesbury;
  of Buckingham. 
Byron, John, first Baron Byron.

Caesar. 
Calamy, Edward. 
Calvert, Sir George, Baron Baltimore. 
Camden, William. 
Cambridge Platonists. 
Canterbury College. 
Capel, Arthur, Baron Capel: 
  character by Clarendon,
  Cromwell’s character of him. 
Carew, Thomas. 
Carleton, Sir Dudley, Baron Carleton,
  Viscount Dorchester. 
Carlisle, James Hay, Earl of. 
Carlyle, Thomas. 
Carnarvon, Robert Dormer, Earl of:  character by Clarendon. 
Cavendish, George. 
Cecil, Robert. See Salisbury. 
Chamberlayne, Edward:  Angliae Nolitia. 
Charles I: 
  character by Clarendon;
    by Sir Philip Warwick;
  Prince. 
Charles II: 
  his character by Halifax;
    by Burnet;
  other characters;
  his taste in sermons. 
Cheynell, Francis. 
Chillingworth, William:  character by Clarendon;
  his siege engine. 
Christ Church, Oxford. 
Christie, W.D. 
Cicero. 
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of: 
  character by Burnet;
  other characters of him;
  characters written by him, see Contents;
  his long study of Digby;
  his merits as a character writer;
  his conception of history;
  his manuscripts;