tion under Henry III., _ib._;
claim to appoint ministers, 38;
demands for reform, 45;
its assembly regulated by Provisions of Oxford, 61;
becomes Parliament, 156;
the King's, i. 256;
its later developements, ii. 112;
criminal jurisdiction, iii. 178;
position under the Tudors, v. 186, 187;
set aside by James I., 187;
character after the Restoration, vi. 303;
reorganized by Temple, _ib._, 304;
of Nine, ii. 275;
of the North, v. 285, 363;
of Officers, vi. 49, 52, 64, 65;
its plan for a new Parliament, 74;
forces Richard Cromwell to dissolve Parliament, 149;
Permanent, of Fifteen, ii. 61;
the Privy, i. 256;
of State, under the Commonwealth, vi. 72;
broken up, 91;
new one formed, 94;
new, named by the Convention, 99;
its organization, 100

Councils,
Church, their political results, i. 84, 224;
Occasional, called by Edward III., ii. 292, 299;
Provincial, of 1282, 120

Counties, restriction of franchise in, iii. 101, 102

County court (shire-court),
preserved by William I., i. 185, 186;
towns represented in, ii. 73;
its composition and functions, 149;
principle of representation in, _ib._, 150;
election of knights of the shire in, 151, 152

Country Party, the, vi. 272, 298

Courcy, John de, ii. 374

Courtenay, Bishop of London, ii. 309;
Archbishop of Canterbury, 339-341, 346

Coutras, battle of, iv. 355

Covenant,
the Scottish, iv. 115, 116;
renewed in 1638, v. 333;
taken by the English Parliament, vi. 14, 16, 17;
forced on the army, 50;
taken by the Convention of 1660, 152;
burnt in Westminster Hall, 204

Coventry,
Parliament at, iii. 75;
Mary Stuart imprisoned at, iv. 269

Coventry, Sir William, vi. 245, 272

Coverdale, Miles, iii. 334

Cowell, John, v. 169

Cowley, Abraham, vi. 165

Cowling Castle, headquarters of the Lollards, iii. 20, 27

Cowper, William, Lord Keeper, vii. 125;
chancellor, 175

Cowper, William, poet, viii. 46

Cox, Richard, iv. 119

Crabbe, George, viii. 46

Craft-gilds, i. 316-318

Craggs, Secretary of State, vii. 192

Cranfield, Lord Treasurer, v. 229, 236

Cranmer, Thomas, iii. 272;
supports the king's divorce, 291;
proposes an appeal to the universities, _ib._;
Archbishop of Canterbury, 303;
crowns Anne Boleyn, _ib._;
tenders