the regency, 802; war with America,
812; concludes peace with France, after
the restoration of the house of Bourbon,
821; is obliged to renew the war, 827;
makes peace with America, 8.30.
Gibraltar, taken by Rooke, 529; defended
by Elliot, 709, 714.

Glanville, the famous lawyer, routs an
army of Scots, 103.
Glendour, the Welsh rebel, 213.
Gloucester, Robert earl of, an able and
powerful peer, 82, 84.

murder of Thomasduke of, 205;
also of duke Humphrey, ib.
Godolphin, lord, prime minister, 537.
Godwin, a very powerful nobleman, 46, 47.
Good-Hope, reduction of the Cape of, 773.
Gordon, lord George, a dangerous fanatic,
690, 691.

Grafton, duke of, prime minister, 650.
Grenville, George, an impolitic minister,
649.

Grey, Lady Jane, queen for nine days,
326; her unhappy fate, 331.
Guilford, battle of, 697.

his vengeance upon them, 490; aims at
the conversion (or rather perversion) of
his people to popery, 492; violates law
and privilege, ib.; sends the archbishop
of Canterbury and six other prelates to
the Tower, 496; makes concessions when
he dreads an invasion from Holland,
499; is alarmed at the arrival of his
nephew William with an army, 500;
quits the kingdom, 503; and the throne
is declared vacant, 504. He makes his
appearance among his Hibernian sub-
jects, 507; but, being defeated, he again
emigrates, 511. His death and charac-
ter, 514.

Jane of Flanders, heroic behaviour of. 186.
Jarvis, admiral, triumphs over the Span-
iards, 739.

Jefferies, judge, an inhuman oppressor,

490.

Jena, battle of, 780.
Jersey, attack of, 706.

Jews, banishment of, 154.

tion against the crown, 142; takes up
arms, 144; captures the king and his
brother, 146; calls knights of shires, and
burgesses, to parliament, 147; is killed
in battle, 149.
Leicester, Robert earl of, the favourite of
Elizabeth, 364, 369.
Leipsic taken, 818.
Lewes, battle of, 145.
Lexington, battle of, 666.
Liberty, English, origin of, 79; its pro-
gress, 87, 151, 170.
Lincoln, battle at, 83.
Llewelyn, prince of Wales, death of, 156.
Lollards, a sect of reformers, 219.
London, burned in an insurrection, 9;
fortified and enlarged by Alfred, 31; the
citizens obtain a charter, 79; dreadful
fire in the city, 461; alarming riots, 690.
Longbeard, the advocate of the poor, 117.
Lovat, lord, the rebel, 611.

Louis, a French prince, acts as king of
England, 134; is driven out of the king-

Ina, the most renowned of all the kings dom, 136.
of the heptarchy, 23.
Independents, account of, 417.

India trade partially thrown open, 820.
Interdict, dreadful effects of, 123.
John mounts the throne, to the exclusion
of Arthur, 118; murders that prince,
120; is deprived of his Gallic territories,
121; is embroiled with the clergy, 122;
excommunicated by the pope, 124; de-
graded by the pope's nuncio, 126; con-
strained by his barons to sign Magna
Charta, 130; employs foreign troops
against his people, 132; dies during the
contest, 134.

king of France, dies a prisoner in
England, 196.

Ireland, account of, 98; it is annexed to
the English crown, 100; convulsed with
rebellion, 405, 745; connected with
Great Britain by an union of the two
parliaments, 755.

Junius, character of, 654.

K.

Lewis XVI. assists the Americans in their
revolt, 680; suffers a revolution to con-
vulse France, 731; death by his own
subjects, 733.

XVIII. obtains the French crown
by foreign aid, 824.
Luneville, peace of, 754.
Luther, the reformer, 284.

M.

Maida, battle of, 776.
Malaga, engagement near, 529.
Malplaquet, battle of, 544.
Manilla, reduction of, 647.
Marengo, battle of, 754.
Marlborough, John duke of, joins the
prince of Orange, 501; promotes a vig-
orous war against France, 521; reduces
Spanish Guelderland, 523; takes Bonne
and other places, 525. He and prince
Eugene obtain a complete victory at
Blenheim, 528; he defeats the French
on other occasions, 533, 543, 544.
is dismissed from power on pretence of

Keppel, admiral, suffers a French fleet to corruption, 550.
escape, 684; his trial, 685.

Ket, a bold insurgent, 318.

Marston-moor, battle of, 415.
Martinico, taken by the English, 646.

He

Kilmarnock, execution of the earl of, 610. Mary, queen, restores popery, 332; burns

Killala, French landed at, 748.

L.

La-Feldt, battle of, 612.

a great number of innocent persons, ib.,
&c.; is seduced by her husband into a
war with France, 337; dies unlamented,
338.

Lancaster, death of the potent earl of, 176. Mary, the Scottish queen, is embroiled

Land-tax voted, 670.

Langside, battle of, 347.

Langton, a patriotic primate, 127.
Laud, character and fate of, 394, 416.
Lauderdale, duke of, an evil counsellor,

463.

Leicester, Simon earl of, heads an associa-

with her subjects, 342; is accused of the
murder of her husband, 346; is deposed
ib.; seeks protection in England, 347;
is condemned to death as a conspirator,
357; beheaded, 361.

Massacre of the Romans in Britain, 8;
of the Britons, 16; of the Danes, 42;

Napaul, war in, 830.
Naseby, battle of, 419.
Navigation, encouraged by Henry VII.,

272.

Nelson, a celebrated admiral, 744, 762, 771,
772.

Neutrality, armed, 695.

Nevil, earl of Warwick, strongly supports
the claim of the duke of York to the
crown, 238; defeats queen Margaret,
ib.; is unsuccessful in the next battle
with her troops, 239; contributes to the
elevation of Edward IV., 240; but after-
wards drives him from the throne, 242;
restores Henry of Lancaster, 243; is
defeated and slain by Edward, 244.
Newbury, battle of, 415.

Nootka Sound, contest for, 726.
Norfolk, execution of the duke of, 351.
Normandy, united to England, 70; lost
by king John, 121.

Normans, tyrannise over the English, 57;
establish their power in England, 58.
North, lord, prime minister, 652 ; is driven
from the cabinet by the spirit of the

commons, 711.

Northampton, battle of, 238.

Ordeal, trial by, 59.

Orleans, heroism of the Maid of, 228; her
cruel fate, 231.

siege of, 228.
Oudenarde, battle of, 543.

Oxford, Robert, earl of, a pacific minister,
547, &c.; his trial, 567.

P.

Palatine, the elector, the unfortunate son-
in-law of king James I., 383.
Paris, treaties of, 647, 825; it is twice
taken by the allies, 823, 830.
Parliament, regularly formed, 147; vari-
ous attempts for the accomplishment of
a parliamentary reform, 724, 841.
Parry, a conspirator, 354.

Paul, the Russian emperor, 756, 757.
Pelham, prime minister, 604, 614.
Pembroke, Strongbow, earl of, becomes
king of Leinster, 100.

earl of, an able regent, 135.
People, or the fourth order, acquire impor-
tance in the state, 87; are permitted to
form a regular branch of the legislature,

161.

Perceval, Spencer, administration of, 789;
his assassination, 806.

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Percy, surnamed Hotspur, fall of, 215.
Pestilence, in England and other countries,
192; in France and England, 352; the
last in England, 461.

Peter the hermit, romantic zeal of, 69.
Peterborough, earl of, an extraordinary
man, 530.

Philip, II. of Spain espouses Mary of En-
gland, 330; aims at the conquest of this
country, 362.

Pitt, William, elevates the glory of the
nation, 637; retires from office, 646;
adjusts a new administration, 650; loses
his power, 756.

son of the former, is con-
stituted, when very young, first lord of
the treasury, 716; resigns, 756; he op-
poses the ministry with vigour, 760; re-
enters into power, ib.; endeavours to
form a new league against France, 764;
dies prematurely, 773.

Plantagenet, Geoffrey, ancestor of a royal
race, 79, 82; extinction of the sov.
ereignty of that family, 256.
Plot, the gunpowder, 375; the supposed
popish plot, 469; the Ryehouse, 483,
Poictiers, battle of, 194.
Pondicherri, sieges of, 635, 646.

Northumberland, death of the earl of, 216; Portland, administration of the duke of,

fall of his son Hotspur, 215.

Noyon, battle of, 77.

0.

Oates, Titus, the impostor, 468.

717, 789.

Porto-Bello, taken by Vernon, 592.

Presbyterians, character and views of,
417.

Protestants, reform religion, 316, 340.

Puritans, a protestant sect, 394; prevailed

Orange, prince of, and family escape into for a time, 417.
England, 736.

Q.

Quebec, battle of, 640.
Quiberon, unfortunate affair of, 736.

R.

Raleigh, death of, 381.
Ramillies, battle of, 532.

Rebellion in Ireland, 405; in England,
412, 606; in Scotland, 568, 604.
Reformation, origin and progress of, 284,
316, 340.

Regency, bill of. 650.

Regicides, execution of, 456.

Religion, the Christian, introduced into
England, 20; reformed, 316.
Revolution in Great Britain, 505; in
France, 732, &c.

Richard I., misconduct of, 105, 106; his
romantic folly, 108; his victorious pro-
gress in Palestine, 111; his imprison-
ment, 112; his return, 116; his cruelty,
ib.; his death and character, 117; tur-
bulence of his people, ib.

II. is under the guidance of three
uncles, 199; acts with spirit, 202; with
perfidious inhumanity, ib.; his power is
nearly subverted, 203; he afterwards
crushes all opposition, 205; but is at
length hurled from his throne, 209.

III., cruelty of, 218, 251; his
usurpation, ib.; his defeat and death, 256.
State of England in his time, ib.

duke of York, aspires to royalty,
234; defeats the king's army, 237; is
slain, 239.

earl of Cornwall, one of the rich-
est men in Europe, 138.
Rizzio, murder of, 344.
Robert, the Conqueror's son, misgovern-
ment of, 75; his misfortunes, 76.

earl of Gloucester, heads the party
of Matilda, 82.
Rockingham, marquis of, an upright min-
ister, 711.

Rodney, admiral, exploits of, 693, 713.
Rodrigo, Cividad, reduction of, 804.
Romans invade Britain, 4; subdue the
southern division, 9; abandon their Brit-
ish conquests, 11.

Romilly, sir Samuel, death and character
of, 839.

Rosamond, story of, 100.

Rump, or remnant of the long parliament,

448.

Sandwich, the brave earl of, 464.
Saxons, character and government of, 14;
formation of their heptarchy, 19; disso-
Jution of it, 25; state of England during
their sway, 53.

Scotland, disorders of, 159; temporary
conquest of the country by the English,
160; a new war between them and the
Scots, 164; renewed submission of the
latter, 167; assumption of the crown by
Robert de Brus, 169; who secures it by
a great victory, 174. The crown is
united with that of England, 371; a
complete incorporation is effected, 537.
Scots and Picts, barbarous tribes, 13.
Sebastian, St., siege of, 815.
Seringapatam, stormed by the English,
728; taken, 751.
Seymour, duke of Somerset, administration
of, 313; his severe fate, 322.
Shelbourne, earl of, prime minister, 716.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, oratorical ef-
forts of, 773.

Shore, Jane, account of, 249.
Shrewsbury, battle of, 214.
Slaves, trade for, abolished, 774.
Smith, sir Sidney, distinguishes himself at
Acre, 753.

Societies, seditious, 735, 758.
Spain, long war in, 794.
Spensers, the two, death of, 178.
Stanford-bridge, battle of, 50.
Stanley, lord, chiefly contributes to the
elevation of Henry VII. 255.
Stephen, an usurper, 80; suffers the pos-
sessors of castles to tyrannise over the
people, 81; is defeated at Lincoln and
Wilton by the troops of the dowager em-
press Matilda, 83, 84; is allowed to reign
for life, 86. His character ib.
Sterling, battle of, 165.
Stoke, battle near, 260.
Strafford, trial and death of the earl of,
401, 402.

Suffolk, duke of, prime minister, is mur-
dered, 235.

Surinam, reduction of, 760.

Sweyn, the Dane, domineers in England,
41.

T.

Talavera, battle of, 799.
Teneriffe, failure at, 740.
Tewkesbury, battle near, 244.
Texel, Dutch fleet surrender, 752.
Tilsit, treaty of, 791.
Tippoo, death of, 751.
Tooke, John Horne, trial of, 735.
Tories, or high-church party, 216.
Toulon, sieges of, 533, 734.

Tournay, siege of, 513; another siege, 603.
Townshend, Charles, an injudicious minis-
ter, 651.

Towton, battle of, 240.