Short Parliament (1640) 1, 2, 3
Sidney, Robert 1
Simnel, Lambert 1, 2, 3, 4
Somerset, Duke of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Spain, King of 1
Spain 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
and the Americas/colonies 1, 2
conquest of Palatinate by 1, 2
invasion force from 1
and Netherlands 1
Tudor tradition of friendship with 1
Spanish Armada 1, 2
defeat of 1, 2
Stafford, Thomas 1
Standish, Henry 1
Stanley, Sir William (Lord Chamberlain) 1
Stewart, Sir Henry 1
Strafford, Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1, 2
see also Wentworth, Thomas
and Act of Attainder by Commons 1
execution of 1
Stuarts, the Early (1603–42) 1 see also Charles I; Elizabeth I; James I; James VI; Mary, Queen of Scots; Parliament; Scotland and Strafford, Earl of and collapse of Stuart monarchies 2
Crown and Parliament under 1
Suffolk, Duke of 1, 2
Sussex, Earl of 1
Sussex 1, 2, 3
East 1, 2
iron in 1
West 1
witchcraft in 1, 2
Swift, Jonathan 1
Tacitus 1
taxation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
and City of London tithes 1
reform of war 1
theatre in England 1
Tower of London 1, 2, 3
trade routes 1, 2
Traquair, Earl of (formerly Lord Treasurer) 1
Tudor, Jasper 1
unemployment/underemployment 1, 2
Norwich survey of (1570) 1
universities 1, 2, 3, 4
Cambridge 1
Scottish and Welsh 1
Vergil, Polydore 1
Victoria, Queen 1
Victorian Chartists 1
Villiers, George (Duke of Buckingham 1, 2
Wales 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
administrative changes in 1
Cecil family of 1
and English system of government 1
Glamorgan 1
literature and language of 1
reform of government of 1, 2
and religion/reformation of 1
and Royalists 1
and Welsh Borders 1
and Welsh king 1
witchcraft in 1
Waller, Sir William 1
Walwyn, William 1
Warbeck, Perkin 1, 2, 3, 4
Warham, William (Archbishop of Canterbury) 1
war(s) 1, 2, 3 see also Civil War and English Revolution
of 1513 1
between England and Spain 1, 2, 3, 4
Bishops’ Wars (1639 and 1640) 1
with Dutch (1654) 1
Elizabethan 1
European (1621) 1
between France and Spain 1
French religious 1, 2
Hundred Years War 1, 2, 3
with Scotland 1
Thirty Years War 1
use of firearms in 1
Wars of the Roses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Warwick, Earl of 1, 2, 3
Wentworth, Thomas (Black Tom Tyrant), Earl of Strafford 1
ruler of Ireland under Charles I 1
West Country 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Westminster Abbey 1
Westmorland, Earl of 1, 2
as Archbishop of Canterbury 1
William the Conqueror 1, 2
Winchcombe, Abbot of 1
Winchester, Marquis of 1
as Lord Treasurer to Elizabeth I 1
Winchester Castle 1
Windebank, Sir Francis 1
Windsor Castle 1
Witchcraft, Survey of Scottish 1
witchcraft 1 see also Scotland
as capital crime in Britain 1
in Europe 1, 2
and prosecutions of women 1
and Protestant–Catholic struggle 1
trials 1
at Salem 1
Woodford, Robert 1
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
as Abbot of St. Albans 1
as Archbishop of York 1, 2
as Cardinal Legate of the Pope 1
women, status of 1
and property rights 1
and the vote 1
Wren, Matthew 1
Wyot, John 1
Yeomen of the Guard 1
Yorkist kings 1, 2, 3
Yorkist(s) 1
claimants to throne 1
York/Yorkshire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
barons: Hussey and Darcy 1
About The Author
Ronald Hutton is a leading authority on the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as ancient and medieval paganism and magic, and the global context of witchcraft beliefs. He is author of the definitive The Pagans: A History as well as The Rise and Fall of Merrie England, The Restoration and a biography of Charles II. His expert opinion is frequently sought on TV and radio.
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