escapes, 272;
dealings with Henry VIII.'s divorce, 271, 272, 274, 275, 277, 278;
threatens Henry with excommunication, 302;
annuls Cranmer's proceedings, 304;
refuses to hold a Council, iv. 20

Clement VIII., Pope, iv. 372

Clement, Jacques, iv. 368

Clergy, their privileges, i. 234;
attacked by Henry II., 235-237;
papal demands on, ii. 27, 28, 42, 222;
relations with Edward I., 118, 120, 163;
summoned to Parliament, 157;
cease to attend, 158;
strife of regular and secular, 295;
bondage to Pope and king, _ib._, 296;
decay of their moral influence, 296, 297;
excluded from state offices, 302;
attacked by John of Gaunt and Wyclif, 308;
decline of their influence, iii. 96, 97;
Wolsey's struggle with, 246;
Thomas Cromwell's policy towards, 295;
charged with breach of Praemunire, 296;
submission, 297;
their enslavement, 301, 302, 311, 312;
allowed to marry, iv. 49;
their five articles of 1559, 156, 157;
Elizabeth's dealings with, 161, 162;
their position and character in her reign, 302-304;
growth of Puritanism among, 340; v. 89, 90;
required to subscribe all the Articles, 156;
struggle with James II., vii. 18, 19, 24, 30;
condition under the Georges, 171, 172;
character in the eighteenth century, viii. 47;
Puritan, expelled, iv. 342; v. 156;
Laud's dealings with, 295-297;
their final expulsion, vi. 209;
its results, 210-213;
their sufferings, 222, 223

Cleveland, Barbara Palmer, duchess of (_see_ Castlemaine), vi. 175

Cleves, quarrel about, v. 178

_Clericis Laicos_, bull, ii. 163

Clifford, Thomas, eighth Lord, iii. 74

Clifford, John, ninth Lord, iii. 78

Clifford, Sir Thomas (first Lord Clifford of Chudleigh),
commissioner of the Treasury, vi. 245, 261;
Lord Treasurer, 271;
resigns, 274

Clinton, Sir Henry, viii. 32

Clive, Robert, vii. 233;
seizes Arcot, 235;
victory at Plassey, 261, 262

Clonmell stormed by Cromwell, vi. 79

Closter-Seven, Convention of, vii. 249, 262

Clydesdale, persecution of Catholics in, iv. 218

Cnihtenagild at Aldgate, i. 223, 299

Cnut, king of Denmark, i. 143;
of England, 143-147

Cnut II., king of Denmark, i. 189

Coal, discovery of, viii. 56, 57

Coalition ministry, the, viii. 65-69

Cobham, Eleanor, iii. 43, 58, 97

Cobham, Edward Brook