Corunna, Drake's descent on, iv. 355; siege of, 367, 368; battle of, viii. 187
Cotentin, the, conquered by William Longsword, i. 155; ceded to Robert by Henry I., 201
Cotton, manufacture of, viii. 53, 59, 193
Council of Agitators, vi. 52; the Continual, ii. 114, 353; iii. 22, 23; the Great, i. 256, 351; changes in its character after Norman Conquest, ii. 144; its importance under Henry II., 144, 145; powers over taxation recognised by the Great Charter, 145; mode of summons to, 146; its composition 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
Courtenay, Bishop of London, ii. 309; Archbishop of Canterbury, 339-341, 346
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
Cowling Castle, headquarters of the Lollards, iii. 20, 27
Cowper, William, Lord Keeper, vii. 125; chancellor, 175
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 the oath of allegiance to More, 318, 319; attitude towards Lutheranism, 336; opposes persecution, 346; drifts into Protestantism, iv. 48, 59, 127; welcomes foreign refugees, 51; his view of Episcopacy, 60; remonstrates against Edward's "plan" for the succession, 70; sent to the Tower, 75; tried for treason, _ib._; his political position, 103, 104; share in the English Liturgy, 103; convicted of heresy, 104; death, 105; Strype's _Life of_, 3