Entries that are relatively reliable, according to scholarly sources, are in Roman type. Entries in italics contain information that is more likely to produce confusion, misunderstanding, severe injury, and death if relied upon by time travelers visiting the time and place in question.
ANGLESEY, LOUIS: 1648-. Earl of Upnor. Son of Thomas More Anglesey. Courtier and friend of the Duke of Monmouth during the Interregnum and, after the Restoration, at Trinity College, Cambridge.
ANGLESEY, PHILLIP: 1645-. Count Sheerness. Son of Thomas More Anglesey.
ANGLESEY, THOMASMORE: 1618-1679. Duke of Gunfleet. A leading Cavalier and a member of Charles II’s court in exile during the Interregnum. After the Restoration, one of the A’s in Charles II’s CABAL (which see). Relocated to France during the Popish Plot troubles, died there.
ANNEIOF ENGLAND: 1665-1714. Daughter of James II by his first wife, Anne Hyde.
APTHORP, RICHARD: 1631-. Businessman and banker. One of theA ’s in Charles II’s CABAL (which see). A founder of the Bank of England.
d’ARCACHON, DUC: 1634-. Louis-Francois de Lavardac. A cousin to Louis XIV. Builder, and subsequently Admiral, of the French Navy.
d’ARCACHON, ETIENNE: 1662-. Etienne de Lavardac. Son and heir of Louis-Francois de Lavardac, duc d’Arcachon.
d’ARTAGNAN, CHARLES DEBATZ-CASTELMORE: c. 1620-1673. French musketeer and memoirist.
ASHMOLE, SIRELIAS: 1617-1692. Astrologer, alchemist, autodidact, Comptroller and Auditor of the Excise, collector of curiosities, and founder of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.
D’AVAUX, JEAN-ANTOINE DEMESMES, COMTE: French ambassador to the Dutch Republic, later an advisor to James II during his campaign in Ireland.
BOLSTROOD, GOMER: 1645-. Son of Knott. Dissident agitator, later an immigrant to New England and a furniture maker there.
BOLSTROOD, GREGORY: 1600-1652. Dissident preacher. Founder of the Puritan sect known as the Barkers.
BOLSTROOD, KNOTT: 1628-1682. Son of Gregory. Ennobled as Count Penistone and made Secretary of State by Charles II. The B in Charles II’s CABAL (which see).
BOYLE, ROBERT: 1627-1691. Chemist, member of the Experimental Philosophical Club at Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society.
VONBOYNEBURG, JOHANNCHRISTIAN: 1622-1672. An early patron of Leibniz in Mainz.
CABAL, THE: unofficial name of Charles II’s post-Restoration cabinet, loosely modeled after Louis XIV’s Conseil d’en-Haut, which is to say that each member had a general area of responsibility, but the boundaries were vague and overlapping (see table).
CAROLINE, PRINCESS OFBRANDENBURG-ANSBACH: 1683-1737. Daughter of Eleanor, Princess of Saxe-Eisenach.
CASTLEMAINE, LADY: see Villiers, Barbara.
CATHERINE OFBRAGANZA: 1638-1705. Portuguese wife of Charles II of England.
CHARLESIOF ENGLAND: 1600-1649. Stuart king of England, decapitated at the Banqueting House after the victory of Parliamentary forces under Oliver Cromwell.
CHARLESIIOF ENGLAND: 1630-1685. Son of Charles I. Exiled to France and later the Netherlands during the Interregnum. Returned to England 1660 and re-established monarchy (the Restoration).
CHARLESLOUIS, ELECTORPALATINATE: 1617-1680. Eldest surviving son of the Winter King and Queen, brother of Sophie, father of Liselotte. Re-established his family in the Palatinate following the Thirty Years’ War.
CHARLES, ELECTORPALATINATE: 1651-1685. Son and heir to Charles Louis. War-gaming enthusiast. Died young of disease contracted during a mock siege.
CHESTER, LORDBISHOP OF: see Wilkins, John.
CHURCHILL, JOHN: 1650-1722. Courtier, warrior, duellist, cocksman, hero, later Duke of Marlborough.
CHURCHILL, WINSTON: Royalist, Squire, courtier, early Fellow of the Royal Society, father of John Churchill.
CLEVELAND, DUCHESS OF: see Villiers, Barbara.
COMENIUS, JOHNAMOS(JANAMOSKOMENSKY): 1592-1670. Moravian Pansophist, an inspiration to Wilkins and Leibniz among many others.
COMSTOCK, CHARLES: 1650-1708. Son of John. Student of Natural Philosophy. After the retirement of John and the death of his elder brother, Richard, an immigrant to Connecticut.
COMSTOCK, JOHN: 1607-1685. Leading Cavalier, and member of Charles II’s court in exile in France. Scion of the so-called Silver branch of the Comstock family. Armaments maker. Early patron of the Royal Society. After the Restoration, the C in Charles II’s CABAL (which see). Father of Richard and Charles Comstock.
COMSTOCK, RICHARD: 1638-1673. Eldest son and heir of John Comstock. Died at naval battle of Sole Bay.
COMSTOCK, ROGER: 1646-. Scion of the so-called Golden branch of the Comstock family. Classmate of Newton, Daniel Waterhouse, the Duke of Monmouth, the Earl of Upnor, and George Jeffreys at Trinity College, Cambridge, during the early 1660s. Later, a successful developer of real estate, and Marquis of Ravenscar.
DECREPY: French family of gentlemen and petty nobles until the Wars of Religion in France, during which time they began to pursue a strategy of aggressive upward mobility. They intermarried in two different ways with the older but declining de Gex family. One of them (Anne Marie de Crepy, 1653-) married the much older duc d’Oyonnax and survived him by many years. Her sister (Charlotte Adelaide de Crepy 1656-) married the Marquis d’Ozoir.
CROMWELL, OLIVER: 1599-1658. Parliamentary leader, general of the anti-Royalist forces during the English Civil War, scourge of Ireland, and leading man of England during the Commonwealth, or Interregnum.
CROMWELL, ROGER: 1626-1712. Son and (until the Restoration) successor of his much more formidable father, Oliver.
EAUZE, CLAUDE: see d’Ozoir, Marquis.
ELEANOR, PRINCESS OFSAXE-EISENACH: d. 1696. Mother (by her first husband, the Margrave of Ansbach) of Caroline, Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Late in life, married to the Elector of Saxony.
ELISABETHCHARLOTTE: 1652-1722. Liselotte, La Palatine. Known as Madame in the French court. Daughter of Charles Louis, Elector Palatinate, and niece of Sophie. Married Philippe, duc d’Orleans, the younger brother of Louis XIV. Spawned the House of Orleans.
EPSOM, EARL OF: see Comstock, John.
FREDERICKV, ELECTORPALATINATE: 1596-1632. King of Bohemia (“Winter King”) briefly in 1618, lived and died in exile during the Thirty Years’ War. Father of many princes, electors, duchesses, etc., including Sophie.
FREDERICKWILLIAM, ELECTOR OFBRANDENBURG: 1620- 1688. Known as the Great Elector. After the Thirty Years’ War created a standing professional army, small but effective. By playing the great powers of the day (Sweden, France, and the Hapsburgs) against each other, consolidated the scattered Hohenzollern fiefdoms into a coherent state, Brandenburg-Prussia.
DEGEX: A petty-noble family of Jura, which dwindled until the early seventeenth century, when the two surviving children of Henry, Sieur de Gex (1595-1660), Francis and Louise-Anne, each married a member of the more sanguine family de Crepy. The children of Francis carried on the de Gex name. Their youngest was Edouard de Gex. The children of Louise-Anne included Anne Marie de Crepy (later duchesse d’Oyonnax) and Charlotte Adelaide de Crepy (later marquise d’Ozoir).
DEGEX, FATHEREDOUARD: 1663-. Youngest offspring of Marguerite Diane de Crepy (who died giving birth to him) and Francis de Gex, who was thirty-eight years old and in declining health. Raised at a school and orphanage in Lyons by Jesuits, who found in him an exceptionally gifted pupil. Became a Jesuit himself at the the age of twenty. Was posted to Versailles, where he became a favorite of Mademoiselle. de Maintenon.