Part 25

Charles I., his letter of thanks to the County of Cornwall, ii. 38. is nearly shot at Fowey, ii. 43 _note_. his letter of thanks to Sir Bevill Grenville, ii. 49.

Charles II., at Pendennis Castle, i. 92. takes refuge at Scilly, i. 350.

Cholwel, the Week St. Mary schoolmaster, i. 157.

Clapperton, Captain, ii. 202.

Clapton, Elizabeth, i. 103.

Clarendon, his encomium of the Cornish army, ii. 50. his account of young Sidney Godolphin, i. 357-359. description of Sir Bevill Grenville, ii. 38, 56. account of the great Sir Richard Grenville, ii. 13. quarrel with the second Sir Richard Grenville, 'Baron of Lostwithiel,' ii. 33, 35. his character of the second Sir Henry Killigrew, ii. 152. his account of the battle of Lansdowne, ii. 50. his account of the battle of Stratton, ii. 46.

Clares, Nunnery of, at Truro, ii. 285.

Clarke Hyde, his comparison of Trevithick and Watt, ii. 325.

Clarke, Theophilus, A.R.A., a pupil of Opie, ii. 273 _note_.

Claverton--Ralph Allen buried there, i. 22.

Clement's, St., near Truro, i. 314.

Clifton, ii. 4.

Clifton, Sir Francis, marries Elizabeth Killigrew, ii. 159.

Clinton family, i. 196.

Clowance, ii. 282, 287.

Coffin, Jaquet, i. 118.

Coke, the Godolphin steward, i. 342.

Colburn, Zerah, on locomotive engineering, ii. 320.

Cole, Thomasin, ii. 13.

Colenso, Bishop, ii. 226 _note_.

Coleridge, his opinion of Davy's poetic faculty, i. 248, 256, 261 _note_.

Columb, St. (major), i. 38. its college, i. 52.

Conon, Mr., master of the Truro Grammar School, i. 293.

Cook, Captain, the circumnavigator, i. 140, 224 _note_.

Cooke, Sir Anthony, Preceptor of Edward VI., ii. 147.

Cooke, his life of Foote, i. 311 _note_, 315.

Cooke, Katherine, wife of Sir Henry Killigrew, ii. 147. her learning, ii. 148. her Latin verses to Cecil, ii. 148. her burial-place and epitaph, ii. 149.

Cookworthy, William, i. 161.

Coombe, near Stow, ii. 17.

Corbeil, or Corboyle, ii. 6, 69, 78.

Cornelius, Father, i. 55.

Cornish Worthies, the necessity for an account of them, i. xi.-xiii. principles in selection of the Lives, xiii.

Cornish miners capture the _Cleopatra_, i. 297.

Cornishmen, members of the Royal Society, i. 288. members of the Royal Academy of Arts, ii. 245 and _note_. noted for their bass voices, ii. 90. Queen Elizabeth's saying of them, ii. 123. Wranglers at Cambridge, ii. 226 _note_.

Cornish forces for King Charles I., ii. 39 _note_. song on the Armada, ii. 17 _note_. troops at siege of Bristol, ii. 52. tumults in 1727 owing to scarcity of corn, ii. 290.

Cornwall, Charles I.'s letter of thanks to the county, ii. 38. the mining districts, i. 109. mining operations in, ii. 308-311. the old main road through, i. 99.

Corrie, Bishop, the friend of Martyn, ii. 236, and _passim_.

Corunna, Lord Vivian at, ii. 349.

Coryton, Mr., a Royal Commissioner for Cornwall, ii. 150.

Courtney, W. P., i. (_in Introduction_).

Courtneys, The, i. 101, 140 _note_.

Courtenay, Henry, at battle of Braddock Down, ii. 286.

Coverack, ii. 89.

Coxe, Frances Susannah, i. 131 _note_.

Cranch, Betsy, mother of Lord Vivian, ii. 346, 347 and _note_.

Crantock, i. 38.

Crediton, Sir Robert Killigrew, Lord of the Manor of, ii. 159.

Croft, Cecilia, wife of Tom Killigrew, ii. 167, 168, 178.

Crowan Church, ii. 282, 285, 286, 300.

Cudlipp, Elizabeth, wife of John Anstis, i. 33.

Cunningham, Allen, his remarks on Opie, ii. 246.

Curgenven, Rev. W., Martyn's brother-in-law, ii. 227.

Cuvier, his opinion of Davy, i. 264, 287.

D

Danet, Elizabeth, i. 104.

Dangrous, William, i. 195.

Daniell, Ralph Allen, i. 25.

Daniell, Thomas, i. 25, 26, 255.

Darrell, Jane, ii. 117 _note_.

Davies, his opinion of Foote, i. 321, 331, 336.

Davy the composer, ii. 91.

Davy family, i. 247.

DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY, i. 247-288. his birthplace, 247. his youth, 248. his poetic faculty, 248, 256, 261 _note_. his schooling, 250, 253. his portraits, 251-257. as a young man, 252, 257, 260 _note_, 261. articled to a surgeon, 253. his fondness for fishing and shooting, 254, 272, 282 _note_. begins chemistry, 254. becomes assistant at the Pneumatic Hospital, Clifton, 255. his dangerous experiments on nitrous oxide, etc., 256, 266. his scheme of study, 259. appointed to the Royal Institution, 259. the father of agricultural chemistry, 260. elected F.R.S., 260. delivers the Bakerian Lectures, i. 261. ill with typhus fever, 262. visits Ireland, 262. is urged to enter the Church, 263. is knighted, 264. is married, 264. visits Scotland, 266. experiments in electric lighting, 266. goes on the Continent, 267. experiments on the torpedo, 267, 284. examines the extinct French and Italian volcanoes, 268, 271. becomes acquainted with Volta, 268. helps to found the Geological Society of Penzance, 268. one of the founders of the Athenæum Club, 269. originates the Zoological Society, 269. returns to England in 1815, 269. discovers the safety-lamp, 270. is entertained by the coal-owners at Newcastle, 270. his will, 270 _note_, 286. is made a baronet, 271. revisits the Continent in 1818, 271. examines the fresco colouring at Pompeii, 272. do. the burnt papyri at Herculaneum, 272. returns to England in 1820, 272. visits Scott at Abbotsford, 272-275. his costume, 273, 277. his conversations with Scott, 275. is made President of the Royal Society, 277. his weekly social gatherings, 277. his illness, 278, 280. revisits Ireland, Wales and Scotland, 278. visits Penzance in 1821, 278. investigates metal sheathing for vessels, 278. visits Norway, Sweden and Denmark, 279. specimens of his poetry, 248, 279, 282. revisits the Continent in 1827, 280. retires from the Royal Society, i. 281. Royal Society medal in his honour, 281 _note_. his religious views, 281, 282. returns to London, 1827, 282. writes the 'Salmonia,' 283. last visit to the Continent in 1828, 283. plans 'Consolations of Travel,' 283. writes 'Last of the O'Donoghues,' 283. is seriously ill at Rome, 284. a good linguist, 284 _note_. his latest literary enjoyments, 285. at Geneva on his return homewards, 285. last hours and death at Geneva, 286. his death and epitaph, 286. his principal works and discoveries, 287 _note_. on Trevithick's steam locomotive, ii. 319 note.

Davy, Robert, i. 247. Dr. John, i. 259, 280, 281, 284, 286. his analysis of Sir Humphry Davy's earlier discoveries, i. 263.

De Crespigny, Eliza, Lord Vivian's first wife, ii. 348, 363.

DE DUNSTANVILLES, their Norman origin, etc., i. 111-113 _note_. Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, i. 112 _note_. Adeliza, wife of Thomas, Baron Basset, i. 112 _note_. Alan de (temp. 1100), i. 112. Alice (temp. Hen. III.), i. 113. Cecilia (temp. Rich. I.), i. 113. Lady, at Trevithick's, ii. 319.

Delaines, The, friends of Foote, i. 319.

Delany, Mrs. (Mary Grenville), her account of the Basset family (circa 1730), i. 124. her description of George Grenville, ii. 83. do. of Mr. Killigrew, ii. 135. her portrait by Opie, ii. 260.

Denham, Sir John, his lines on Tom Killigrew, ii. 163. his epigram on Cowley and Killigrew, ii. 166.

Dentatus, Hamon, ii. 6.

Dibdin, Dr., his remarks on Davy, i. 252.

Dibdin, his relations to Incledon, ii. 98.

'Dineham, John,' i. 157.

Dixon, 'Fasti Eboracensis' of, ii. 9.

Dodd, Rev. Dr., his widow caricatured by Foote, i. 331.

'Dolphin Town (see _Godolphin Town_).

Doran, Dr., his observations on Foote, i. 331.

Drew, Samuel, i. 255.

Dryden, his tribute to George Grenville's poetry, ii. 85. his ode on Anne Killigrew, ii. 190.

Duloe, Rectory of, ii. 285.

Dunbar, Major John, marries Ann Killigrew, ii. 132.

Durham, Bishop of, urges Davy to enter the Church, i. 263.

Durham, Lord, his address to Davy, i. 270.

Dutch ships seized by the Killigrews at Falmouth, ii. 114.

E

Ecclesiasticus on our forefathers, vii.

Echard, his account of Sir Richard Grenville, 'Baron of Lostwithiel,' ii. 35. his particulars of the Restoration, ii. 66 _note_.

Edgcumbes, The, of Mount Edgcumbe (see _Introduction_).

Edgecumbe, Honble. George, Admiral, i. 208 and _note_.

Edgecombe Lieut.-Colonel in Charles I.'s army, ii. 39 _note_.

Edwardes, Dr., i. 255.

Edwards, Thos., the architect, i. 116.

Efford or Ebbingford, i. 81-87.

Elder-trees in Cornwall, i. 193.

Elizabeth Castle, Scilly, ii. 119.

Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, intercedes for Tom Killigrew, ii. 168 _note_.

Eliot, Sir John, xiv. relations with Sir Bevill Grenville, ii. 41.

Emerson, R. W., on Biography, x. on 'Steam,' ii. 328 _note_.

Enys family, i. 114. J. S., ii. 314.

Erissey family, i. 344, 345. Juliana, i. 87.

Erissey, Richard, marries Frances Killigrew, ii. 131.

Erissey, Richard, ii. 131 _note_.

Erme, St., ii. 115.

Erth, St., ii. 119.

Evelyn, John, his friendship with the Godolphins, i. 362. his life of Margaret Godolphin, i. 365, 370 _et seq._ his opinion of the great Sir R. Grenville, ii. 28. his anecdote of Tom Killigrew, ii. 168.

Ewens, William, ii. 121.

Exeter College, Oxford, ii. 226 _note_. Registers of, xii., ii. 5.

EXMOUTH, LORD, i. 291-308. his birth and childhood, 292-3. enters the navy, 294. under Burgoyne in America, 294. returns to England, 295. made Post-Captain, 296. marries, 296. in the _Winchelsea_ and _Salisbury_, 297. turns farmer, 297. appointed to the _Nymphe_, 297. is knighted, 298. clears the Channel, 299. cuts down and refits the _Indefatigable_, 299. his gallant rescue of the _Dutton's_ crew at Plymouth, 300. made a Baronet, 300. his coat of arms, 300. assists in preventing the French descent upon Ireland, 300. desires to attack Brest, 301. quells a mutiny at Bantry Bay, 301. rests at Trefusis, 302. made Colonel of Marines, and elected M.P., 302. blockades the French at Corunna and Ferrol, 302. helps to save Pitt's administration, 302. promoted Rear-Admiral of the White, 302. made Commander-in-Chief, in India, 302. returns to England, 303. blockades the Dutch fleet in the Scheldt, 303. Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, 303. made Baron Exmouth, 303. his offspring, 303 _note_. goes again to the Mediterranean in 1815, 304. saves Marseilles, i. 304. undertakes the siege of Algiers, 304-6. liberates the Christian and other slaves, 306. his later honours, 307. is appointed to the naval command at Plymouth, 307. his last days and death, 308. his portraits, 308.

F

Fairfax in Cornwall, i. 93, 172.

FALMOUTH family (see _Boscawen_). Haven, i. 99, 194, 292. the town arms, ii. 116. its rise and progress, ii. 125, 126, 128, 131, 132, 135. old maps of, ii. 126 _note_. origin of St. Charles Church there, ii. 128. Killigrew monuments in the church, ii. 132.

Faraday, his connexion with Davy, i. 267.

Farningham, i. 146.

Fauntleroy's Bank, i. 164.

Felton, Dr., his opinion of George Grenville as a poet, ii. 84.

Fentongollan, i. 99, 192, 205.

Ferguson, Professor, his opinion of Davy, i. 257.

Fermor, Jane, ii. 124.

Fielding at Ralph Allen's, i. 9.

Fleming, maiden name of Martyn's mother, ii. 224.

Flores, in the Azores, ii. 21 and _note_.

Flushing, i. 292, 296, 297.

Foote, Edward, i. 313. Eleanor, i. 313, 314. Henry, i. 314. John, the dramatist's grandfather, i. 314. John, mayor of Truro, 314 _note_.

FOOTE, SAMUEL, i. 311-336. his claims to notice, 311. his voluminous works, 311. Foster's opinion of him, 312. Baker's opinion of him, 312. his _bon mots_, 313, 333. his parentage and birthplace, 313, 315. his education, 315. goes to Worcester College, Oxford, 316. entered at the Inner Temple, 316. his vanity and dandyism, i. 317 and _note_. quarrels with Garrick, 317 and _note_, 326. his portraits, 318. his three fortunes, 318, 322. goes on the stage, 319. his first piece, 320. caricatures Macklin, 320, 323 and _note_. has his license withdrawn, 320. his 'Tea-drinking,' 321. his 'Auction of Pictures,' 321. his satiric powers, 321. his generosity, 321 _note_. his address, 321. his play 'The Knights,' 322. his extravagance and dissipation, 322, 328 _note_, 330. again takes the Haymarket Theatre, 323. his piece 'The Author' suppressed by the Lord Chamberlain, 323. goes to Dublin with Tate Wilkinson, 324. produces 'The Minor,' 324. ridicules Whitefield, 325. his aversion to newspaper critics, 326. produces 'The Liar,' 327. do. 'The Orators,' 327. leases the Edinburgh Theatre, 327. 'The Mayor of Garrat, and succeeding plays, 328. breaks his leg, 328. produces 'The Devil on Two Sticks,' 329. revisits Dublin, 330. his 'Primitive Puppet Show,' 330. his 'Cozeners,' and later plays, 321-333. his affair with the Duchess of Kingston, 331. sells his Patent to Colman, 332. paralysed whilst acting, 333. retires to Bath, 333. goes to Dover, 333. his last jokes at the Ship Inn, Dover, 333. last illness and death, 333. buried at Westminster Abbey, 334. his epitaph, 334. his alleged marriages, 334. his residences, 326, 335. his talents and his character, i. 335.

Foote, Samuel, the elder, i. 313, 314. Samuel (another of that name), 311 _note_.

Fortescue family, i. 196 _note_; ii. 5.

Fox, the late Caroline, her remark on Mr. Edward Opie, ii. 247. Charles James, his opinion of Foote, i. 327, 336. his portrait by Opie, ii. 256. his opinion of Opie's mental powers, ii. 264. George Croker, his advice to Lander, ii. 202. Mr. Howard, on the Lizard Point lights, ii. 124 _note_.

Froude, Mr., his tribute to Sir Richard Grenville, ii. 27.

Frowde, Susan, i. 296.

Fuller, on William Grenville, Archbishop of York, ii. 9.

Fuller's translation of Lady Katharine Killigrew's lines, ii. 149.

Fuseli, his portrait by Opie, ii. 256.

G

Gall, Master John, i. 155.

Garrick, his relations with Foote, i. 317 _note_, 326, 336.

Garth, Dr., his tribute to Godolphin's merit, i. 384.

Gatty, Dr. Alfred, his acquaintance with Bligh, i. 145.

Gaverigan, Manor of, ii. 285.

Geneva, Davy dies there, i. 286.

George III., his conversation with Bligh, i. 145.

Ghent, Sir R. Grenville's tomb at, ii. 34 _note_.

Gilbert, C. S., his 'History of Cornwall,' i. 369; ii. 56.

Gilbert Davies, i. 26, 251 _note_, 254, 281; ii. 37. his connexion with Trevithick, ii. 314, 319, 327.

Gillyngvase Bay, ii. 126.

Gluvias Church, ii. 117.

Glynn, Major, i. 111.

Glynn, the seat of the Vivians, ii. 345.

Godfrey, Charlotte, i. 197, 210.

Godfrey of Cornwall, xiv.

GODOLPHINS, THE, i. 340-396. family, 114, 118, 173, 191, 195, 340-396; ii. 3, 39, 119, 283. Hals' description of the family, i. 340. description of the place, 340-344. or 'Dolphin Town, Scilly, 350. Manor of, ii. 285. origin of the name, i. 344. their early origin, 345. intermarriages of the family, 344, 353. great tin-owners, 342, 347, 348. obtain lease of Scilly Isles and become Governors, 350-353. number of deaths in the family in a short period, 350. School, The, at Salisbury, 352. Captain, killed in a duel, 1682, 353. Colonel in Charles I.'s army, ii. 39. Charles, M.P. for Helston, i. 379. Elizabeth, maid of honour to Katharine of Braganza, 353. Ellinor, 344. Sir Francis, friend of Richard Carew, ii. 24. Francis, Baron Godolphin of Helston, i. 364. Sir Francis, knighted in 1580, 347. Carew's account of him, 347, 348 _note_. Lipscomb's do., 347. repulses the Spaniards at Penzance, 348. marries Margaret Killigrew, 350. Sir Francis, 361, 368. his loyalty and poetic skill, 361. Hobbes dedicates his 'Leviathan' to him, 362. is M.P. for St. Ives, 1640, 362. his wife and family, 362. Francis, second and last Earl, 374, 389. is made Lord Warden of the Stannaries, 382. dies, 389. his love for the turf, 392. Gentle, three of the name, 347. Henry, Dean of St. Paul's and Provost of Eton, 362. educated at Eton and at Oxford, i. 362. marries his cousin Margaret Godolphin, 362. his piety and munificence, 363, 364. his monument at Eton, 363. was to have been made Bishop of Exeter, 364. his descendants, 364. Jael, 197, 210. John (temp. Hen. III.), 340. John (temp. Hen. VII.), 345. John, Captain of Scilly, 351. marries Judith Amerideth, 351. John, LL.D., goes to Oxford, 353. is made Judge of the Admiralty, 354. his legal and religious books, 355. his death and burial-place, 356. his son Francis, died 1695, 356. Margaret, wife of Sidney Godolphin, 362. as 'Diana,' 370 _note_. comes to the Court, 371. her pious disposition, 371. leaves the Court, 373. lodges in Scotland Yard, 373. marries Sidney Godolphin, 374. her illness and death, 374. her last letter to her husband, 375. is buried at Breage, 377. the inscription on her coffin, 377. Sidney, M.P., killed in a Civil War skirmish, 1643, 357. Clarendon's account of him, 357. Sir Egerton Brydges' do., 360. Hobbes' do., 360. his poetic skill, 361. Sidney, 'Prime Minister,' 340, 362, 365-396. is left £5,000 a year by his brother, 362. his birth and early days, 365. goes to Spain and Holland, 366. is made Privy Councillor, and one of the 'Triumvirate,' i. 368. becomes First Lord of the Treasury, 368. is made Baron Godolphin of Rialton, 368. James II. practises upon him, 369. is made Chamberlain to the Queen, 369. Second Commissioner to the Treasury, 369. is selected to propose an 'accommodation' with William III., 369. finds favour with William III., 370. yearns to retire to Cornwall, 370. marries Margaret Blagge, 374. his letter to Evelyn on his wife's death, 375. political troubles, 378, 380. is made one of the nine Justices to manage England, 378. leaves office for a while, 378. is made Lord High Treasurer by Anne, 378. effects the Union with Scotland, 379, 383. his pseudonyms, 380 _note_, 381. his secret correspondence with James II., 381. his honours increase, 381, 386. his connexion with Marlborough's Continental wars, 379, 382. his portraits, 382, 391. his North American Expedition, 383. his weariness of office, 383, 386. his share in the Conformity Bill, 384. clamour against him, 384. favours Walpole, 385. loses favour with Anne, 386. is dismissed from office, 387. the shock to the national credit, 388. his illness, death, and funeral, i. 389. his appearance, manners, and character, 391-6. Thomas, shot at the siege of Boulogne, 346. marries first a Grenville, 347. marries, second time, a Bonython, 347. Colonel William, brother of young Sidney, 361. Sir William, Vice Warden of the Stannaries (temp. Hen. VIII.), 342, 346. Sir William, 351, 356. his son, ambassador at Madrid, 351. the friend of Locke, 351. is suspected of treason, 352. his will declared void, 352. Sir William, made a baronet by Charles II., 362. See also _Errata and Addenda_.

Godwin, a friend of Opie, ii. 255.

Goodere, Sir Edward, i. 314. tragedy, the, concerning, i. 318.

Gordon, Duchess of, i. 260.

Gornard (or Gurney), Sir Richard, ii. 4.

Granville (see _Grenville_).

Granville, in Normandy, ii. 6.

Graynfylde, John, ii. 4.

Green, Anne, her horrible execution, ii. 129.

Green, J. R., his account of the support of the Royal cause by the Cornish, ii. 57 _note_.

Grenfell, Miss, her relations with Martyn, ii. 232 and _passim_.

Grenfield, Henry, Master of Truro Grammar School, ii. 37.

Grenfield, Richard (temp. 1316), ii. 5.