D'Ewes, Sir Simonds, autobiog- raphy of, 455.
Executions of Roman Catholics, 388; Edmund Campion, 389; James Fenn, 393; William Hart, 392; Robert Johnson, 390. Executions during reign of Queen Mary, 358.
Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, 55. Explorations and commerce, 394,
Extent of manor of Borley, 212.
Fabyan's Chronicle, 300. Factory act, extracts from address introducing, 695.
Factory laborers, testimony given by, 692.
Factory law, debate on, 691. Fenn, James, execution of, 393. Feria, Count de, 362; letters of, to king of Spain, 363.
Feudalism, relief to be paid, 131; duties, 132; acknowledgments, 133, 134; wardships, 134; right to hold court, 135; con- fiscation and regrant of fief, 136.
Fire of London, 524.
Fisher, Robert, letter to, from Erasmus, 314.
Fitz-Harding, Stephen, helps to found Cistercian order, 205. Fitz-Stephen, William, 144. Flemings, expulsion
Henry II, 140.
Forest laws, 108.
Forster, William E., 762. Fountainhall's Memoirs, 534. Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 358. France, war in 1369, 257. Francis, Dr., letter of Erasmus to, 316.
Fuller, History of the Holy Wars, 632.
Garter, order of the, 247. Gebur, 73.
Geoffrey de Mandeville, earl of Essex, 130.
Geography of Strabo, 16. George I, character sketch of, by Lord Chesterfield, 571. George II, character sketch of, by Lord Chesterfield, 572. George III, description of, 604; accession of, 605, 615; corre- spondence with Lord North, 634; speech to parliament, 636; dissatisfaction with, 640; in- sanity of, 652, 654. George IV, 654.
Germania by Cornelius Tacitus, 41. Germans, customs of, 42. Gildas, extracts from, 32, 35. Gilds and towns, 208.
Giraldus Cambrensis, 137; ex- tracts from autobiography of, 164.
Giustiniani, letter of, 330. Gladstone, description of, 723, 727; Life of Gladstone, by Mor- ley, 748; speeches of, 735, 748. Glencoe, massacre of, 554. Glendower, Owen, rising of, 283. Gloucester, letter from, 613. Good Hope, Cape of, 401. Good Parliament, 258; account of, in Chronicon Angliae, 258, 280. Gordon riots, 641.
Goths, settlement in Britain, 40. Gower, Dr. Humphrey, 538. Graham, Sir J., letter to, from R. Parker, 713; letter of, to Sir Robert Peel, 714.
Great Council, 107, 111; summons
to, 217; its action, 218; under Henry III, 226. Great Mogul, 441.
Great Protestation of House of Commons, 1621, 452.
Green, J. R., Making of England,7. Gregory I, Pope, 46.
Gregory VII, Pope, 110. Greville, C. C. F., Journal, 699, 704, 707.
Grey, Lady Jane, report of execu- tion of, 356.
Grey Friars at Reading, 345; Chronicle, 351.
Grim, Edward, 155, 157. Gunpowder Plot, 432. Guthrum, baptism of, 66.
Habeas Corpus Act, 522. Hadrian's visit to England, 27. Hakluyt, Principal Navigations,
Hall, extract from chronicle of, 337.
Hampton Court Conference, 430. Harold's visit to Duke William, 91. Hart, William, execution of, 392. Hartington, marquis of, letter of,
to duke of Devonshire, 577. Hartley, P., letter to, from John Bright, 747.
Hastings, battle of, 94, 98.
Haxey, Thomas, the case of, 282. Henry I, 121; coronation charter
of, 121; laws of, 131; letter to Anselm, 124; letter from pope, 126.
Henry II, 137; personal appearance,
137; character, 138; policy, 139; laws, 141; and Thomas, 144, 145; penance of, 158; canonization of, 159; makes grants in Ireland, 169, 170; scene at burial, 171. Henry III, and the barons, 217; and Simon de Montfort, 221. Henry IV, letter to, from Wales,
283; from Prince Henry, 283. Henry V, by Shakespeare, 286. Henry V, speech of, 286; arrange- ments for government of Eng- land and France, 288.
Henry VI, description of, 296, 297- Henry VII, 306; account book of, 306.
Henry VIII, description of, 330; letter to Anne Boleyn, 336. Henry of Lancaster's claim to the throne, 277.
Henry, Prince, letter of, to Henry IV, 283.
Henry, Prince, letter to, from Sir Walter Raleigh, 439.
Hentzner, Paul, description of England, 6.
Herbal, Dr. William Turner, 409. Heresy, first burning for, in Eng- land, 271.
Herodian, account of Severus'cam- paign in Britain, 28.
Hertford, earl of, letter to, from Horace Walpole, 619.
Hervey, Lord, Memoirs, 573- High Court of Justice, sentence of, upon Charles I, 486. Hipocrisy Unmasked, 450. Historical Journal of Captain John Knox, 598.
Historie of Kynge Richarde the Thirde, by Sir Thomas More, 301.
History of His Own Time,by Gilbert Burnet, 511, 551.
History of Plimouth Plantation, by Bradford, 446.
History of the Holy Wars, by Fuller, 632.
History of the Reformation, by Gilbert Burnet, 511.
History of the World, by Sir Walter Raleigh, 437, 438.
Hodder, I. R., letters of, from India, 1857, 716.
Horner, Francis, 643; letter to Sir Samuel Romilly, 646; letter to Sidney Smith, 646.
House of Commons, 226, 281, 415, 428; right of free speech, 282; apologizes to James I, 428; letter of James I to, 451; Great Pro- testation of, 452; intrusion of Charles I into, 475; act of, de- claring England a common- wealth, 495; discussions in, 640;
report of committee of, 1820, 670; Reform Bill in, 680; speech of Marquis of Chandos, 1831, 684.
House of Lords, Reform Bill in, 679.
Howard, Admiral, letter of, to
Secretary Walsingham, 404. Howell, James, letter of, to his father, 453.
Hugh de Mortimer, 141. Hundred moot, ordinance of King Edgar for, 78. Hundred Rolls, 133.
Hundred Years' War, 233; close of, 289.
Hunsdon, Lord, letter of, from Sir
Robert Carey, 411.
Impeachment of king's ministers, first instance of, 280. Imperial interests of Great Britain, 590.
Imperialist feeling, 766. Independents, 563.
India, rebellion in, 716; proclama- tion of queen to people of, 721. Indulgence, Declaration of, 539. Industrial Revolution, 610. Inglis, Sir Robert H., speech against Reform Bill, 683. Injuries, compensation for, 81. Innocent, Pope, to monks of West-
Inscriptions, Roman, 31. Instructions from the English min- istry to American governors, 595. Instrument of Government, 495. Interdict of 1208-1213, 177. Investiture, lay, 125; prohibited, 126; compromise, 127.
Ireland, description of, by Giraldus Cambrensis, 168; union of, with Great Britain, 650. Irish home rule, 748.
James I, 381; on tobacco, 420; speeches, 426; letters to Buck- ingham, 433, 434; to House of Commons, 451; from Bucking- ham, 435; from parliament, 451; death of, 453.
James II, accession of, 532; letter to prince of Orange, 538; letter from duke of Monmouth, 538; invasion of Ireland, 551. Jamestown, 443. Jay, John, 637. Jeffrey, Francis, 614.
Jews, debts to, 201; treatment of, 227; expulsion of, 230. Joan of Arc, 289; letter of, to king of England, 292; testimony concerning herself, 293. Jocelin of Brakelond, 201. John, King, 176.
John of Trevisa, on the position of French in England, 273. Johnson, Robert, execution of, 390. Jubilee, 765.
Judges, speech of James I before, 426.
Judges, trial before the king's, 265. Junius Letters, 621.
Jutes, settlement in Britain, 40. Juvenal des Ursins, extracts from the chronicle of, 284.
Kentishmen, letter of Alcuin to the, 57.
Knighton, Henry, 255; account of Black Death, 255; of Peas- ants' Rebellion, 261; of Wyc. liffe, 266.
Knox, Captain John, Historical Journal, 598.
Laborers, meeting of, 1846, 710. Laborers, statute of, 256. Labrador, 395.
Lamy, Colonel, letter of, to Colonel Lord Rolle, 665.
Language, English, use of, 272. Law against Englishmen seeking papal appointments, 250. Law against provisors, 250. Laws, penal, ineffective, 673. Laws of Henry I, 131.
Laws of William the Conqueror,131. Leicester, 381.
Lenthall, William, letter to, from Cromwell, 482.
Leopold, king of Belgium, letter from Queen Victoria to, 700.
Lewes, battle of, 222. Leyden, 448.
Life of Gladstone, by Morley, 748. Life of More, by Roper, 331. Life of St. Oswald, 85.
Lincoln, charter of city of, 208. Lincoln, President, 733.
Lollards, 266, 268, 269, 270, 271. London, earliest description of, 24; sack of, 60.
London, John, letter of, to Secre- tary Cromwell, 346. London Times, 660. Long Parliament, expulsion of, by Cromwell, 498. Long-bow, proclamation in favor of, 249.
Louis XIV, letter to, from Barillon, 532; from Count Tallard, 555; to Count Tallard, 558.
Loyalists, 631. Lupset, Thomas, 326. Luther, On the Babylonian Cap- tivity of the Church, 332.
Macaulay, T. B., 688; letter to Francis Ellis, 688; on Roman Catholic Church, 674; descrip- tion of, 726.
Magellan, Strait of, 398. Magna Carta, 177; extracts from, 182.
Mainwaring, Rev. Roger, a sermon by, 427.
Making of England, by Green, 7. Maldon, battle of, 84. Manchester, 666.
Mann, Sir Horace, letters from Horace Walpole to, 580, 605, 606, 618, 621.
Marlborough, duke of, letters of, to his wife, 560.
Marprelate, Martin, anonymous pamphlets of, 423. Marston Moor, 480.
Marvell, Andrew, An Horatian Ode, 491.
Mary, queen of England, 355; marriage with Philip, 366. Mary Queen of Scots, 375, 376, 377; imprisonment of, 382, 403. Massachusetts, 626.
Massacre, Manchester, 666. Matthew Paris, 217, 222. Mayflower, 450.
Meade, Rev. Joseph, letters of, to Sir Martin Stuteville, 435, 457- Meer Jaffier, treaty between Clive and, 592.
Meeting of laborers, 1846, 710. Melville, Sir James, ambassador from Mary Queen of Scots, 374, 381. Memoirs, by Fountainhall, 534- Memoirs, by Lord Hervey, 573- Memoirs, by Wraxall, 641. Memorials, by Whitelocke, 471, 485. Methodism, 586.
Mile End, conference at, 263. Millenary Petition, 425.
Milton's Areopagitica, 478; ex- tracts from, 479;
Minutes of council of ministers of French government, 593. Miracle of Sir Cornelius Cloune, 269.
Mona, revolt in, 23.
Monasteries, 195; dissolution of, 344.
Monmouth, duke of, rebellion of, 536; letter to duke of Albe- marle, 537; from duke of Albe- marle, 537; to James II, 538. Monopolies, 415.
Monstrelet's chronicle, 289. Montcalm, death of, 600. More, Sir Thomas, Historie of Kynge Richarde the Thirde, 301; Utopia, 317, 331, 347, 353- Morley, Life of Gladstone, 748. Munimenta Academica, 188. Mutiny Act, 549.
Napoleon, surrender of, 660. Naseby, battle of, 481. Navigation Act, 497. Navy of Alfred, 63.
Nelson, victory at Trafalgar, 655; contemporary estimate of, 656. New Amsterdam, capture of, 520. New Forest, 106.
New York Times, 767. Newcastle, earl of, letter to, from Charles I, 478. Norham, award of, 231. Norman conquerors, distribution of land to, 103. Norman Conquest, 90; account of, by Symeon of Durham, 101; by Wace, 95; immediate results of,
Parker, R., letter of, to Sir J. Graham, 713. Parliament, growth of, 279; speech of Queen Elizabeth in, 415; speech of James I in, 426; con- flict with James I, 451; scene in, 1629, 460; dispute of Charles I with, 477; purchase of seats in, 644. Parliamentary committee, testi- mony by factory laborers to, 692. Parliamentary Debates, 679. Parliamentary theories, 418; re- form completed, 735.
Paschal, Pope, letter of, to Henry I, 126.
Past and Present, by Thomas Carlyle, 201.
Peasants' Rebellion, account of, by Henry Knighton, 261. Peel, Sir Robert, letter to, from Sir J. Graham, 714. Penal laws ineffective, 673. Pennsylvania, 626.
People oppressed by barons, 129. Pepys, Samuel, 508; extracts from diary of, 508.
Percy, George, extracts from diary of, 443.
Perjury, punishment for, 81. Peterloo, battle of, 666. Peter's pence, 89.
Petition of Right, extracts from, 458.
Petition of the Seven Bishops,
Pevensey, landing at, 97. Philip II, unpopularity of, in Eng- land, 364; marriage of, with Queen Mary, 366.
Philip IV, defiance of, by Edward,
Philobiblon, extracts from, 193. Pilgrim Fathers, 445. Pitt, William, early appearance of, 583; letter to, from General Wolfe, 596; resignation of, 606; character sketch of, by Lord Chesterfield, 607; charac- ter sketch of, in Annual Reg ister, 608; speech of, 623.
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