Pius IV, letter of, to Queen Eliza-
beth, 373.

Plains of Abraham, battle of,
599.

Plimouth Plantation, History of,
by Bradford, 446.

Plymley's, Peter, Letters, by Sydney
Smith, 675.

Pole, Cardinal, 326.
Poll tax, 260.

Pope, stanza on Walpole, 579.
Post-office system, 697.
Potato blight, 713.

Praemunire, statute of, 251.
Prayer for use on Queen Eliza-
beth's festival day, 409.
Presbyterians, 564.

Prestonpans, Jacobite victory at,
581.

Princes, the murder of, 304.
Proclamation of Queen Victoria

to people of India, 1858, 721.
Provisors, preamble of a law
against, 250.

Prynne, William, trial of, in Star
Chamber, 463.

Public Advertiser, letter to, from
Junius, 622.

Public schools, free, 741.
Pultney, Daniel, letter to, from
William Pultney, 574-
Punch, 733; extract from, 734.
Puritan attack on bishops, 423.
Puritan parliament, 459.
Puritan theories, 418.
Puritans, attitude of James I
towards, 430.

Quakers, 563; sufferings of, 515;
unwillingness of, to swear, 517.
Quartering, method of, 388.
Quebec, 596; capture of, 598.

Radicals, contests of, with con-
servatives, 663.

Raleigh, Lady, letter to, from Sir
Walter Raleigh from Guiana,
440.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, History of the
World, 437; letter to his wife,
440; letter to Prince Henry,
439.

Reform legislation, 690.
Religious organization
Queen Anne, 561.

under

Religious tests abolished at the
universities, 739.

Resolutions adopted in parlia-
ment, 1629, 462.

Responsible Government for the
Colonies, 755-
Restoration, 505.

Revolution, the, 539.

Revolution, industrial, 610.

Rice, John Ap, letter of, to Secre-
tary Cromwell, 345.

Richard I, description of, 172;
prepares for Third Crusade,
173; penance of, 174; account
of, in Holy Land, 175.
Richard III, 299, 301.
Richard of Lyons, impeachment
of, 280.

Right, Petition of, extracts from,
458.

Riots of 1819, 666.

Rochester, earl of, epitaph of, on
Charles II, 534.

Roe, letters to, from Carew, 441.
Roger of Hoveden, 145.
Roger of Wendover, 179.
Rolle, Colonel Lord, letter to,

from Colonel Lamy, 665.
Roman Catholic Church, Macaulay.
on, 674.

Roman Catholics in England,
under Elizabeth, 385; answers
of, 386, 387.

Roman de Rou, by Wace, 95.
Roman inscriptions, 31.

Romans, the, first invasion of
Britain by, 10; second invasion
by, 12.

Romilly, Sir Samuel, 643, 644;
letter from Sir Francis Horner
to, 646.

Root and Branch Petition, 473.
Roper, Life of More, extracts from,
331, 347.

Roses, Wars of the, 296.
Rous, John, speech of, 460.
Royal theories, 418.
Rudolph of Arles, 88.
Ruined City, The, 33.
Rules for ordeal of iron, 79.
Runnymede, 181.

Russell, Lord John, speech cf, on
Reform Bill, 680; description
of, 728.

Russia, emperor of, visit to Eng-
land, 669.

Sadler, Michael, 695.

St. Albans, abbey of; debts, 196;
appeal to king, 196; building of
a shrine, 197; books, 198;
rooms, 199; investments, 200;
ale, 200, 222, 226.

St. Albans, second battle of, 298.
St. Edmunds, abbey of, 200, 344.
Salisbury oath, 111.

Saxons, settlement in Britain, 35,

40.

Schools, free public, 741.
Scotland, early conquest of, 26;
union with, during reign of
Anne, 566.

Senlac, battle of, 94.

Servatius, letter to, from Eras-
mus, 315.

Services of villeins, 215.

Seven bishops, petition of the, 541.
Severus, Emperor, 28.

Sforza, Francisco, letter to, from
Raimondo Soncino, 311.
Shaftesbury, earl of, character
sketch of, 514.
Ship money, writ of, 465.
Shire moot, meeting of, 77.
Shortest Way with Dissenters, by
Daniel Defoe, 565.

Sidmouth, Lord, letter from duke

of Wellington to, 666; letter
from secretary of Prince Regent
to, 669.

Sidney, Philip, letter to, from his
father, 412.

Sidney, Robert, journal of, 498.
Sidney, Sir Henry, letter of, to his

son, 412.

Simon de Montfort, 221, 224.
Sixtinus, letter to, from Erasmus,

315.

Skelton, John, Why come ye not to
Court? 334.

Slave trade, abolition of, 1806,
651.

Sluys, battle before, 238.
Smith, Sidney, 643; letter from
Francis Horner to, 646; Peter
Plymley's Letters, 675.
Smithfield, conference at, 264.
Smyth, William, account of, 269.
Soncino, Raimondo, letter of, to
Francisco Sforza, 311.
South Sea panic, 574.

Spain, king of, letter to, from am-
bassador in England, 363.
Spanish marriage, 433; unpopu
larity of, 435.

Spanish ship, capture of, 400.
Spanish Succession, War of, 557.
Speaker, The, 766.

Speech of duke of Wellington to
House of Lords, 1830, 679.
Speeches in House of Commons,
June 23, 1815, 658.

Spinning machine, 613.
Sports, Declaration of, 421.
Stamford Bridge, battle of, 93.
Stamp Act, 623.

Star Chamber, 441, 463.

Starkey, Thomas, 326; dialogue
by, 326.

Statute of Appeals, 342.
Statute of laborers, 256.
Statute of praemunire, 251.
Statute requiring use of English
language in law courts, 272.
Stephen.coronation of, 128; arrests
Henry's officers, 128.

Story of Dermot and the Earl, 169.
Strabo, Geography, 16.

Strafford, impeachment of, 467;
bill of attainder against, 470;
efforts of Charles I to save,
471; letter concerning, 472.

Submission of the Clergy, 340.
Suetonius, Roman governor, 24.
Sully, Duc de, extracts from me-
moirs of, 418.

Summons to the Great Council,
217.

Supremacy, Act of, 343, 367,
369.

Supremacy, oath of, 384.
Swegen, 84.

Swift, Jonathan, A Short View of
the State of Ireland, 567.
Swinburne, A. C., England; an
Ode, 765.

Symeon of Durham, account of
Norman Conquest, 101.

Tacitus, Cornelius, description, 4;
origin of Britons, 18; Annales,
23; on the conquest of Britain,
22; Germania, 41; revolt in
Mona, 23.

Tallard, Count, letter of, to Louis
XIV, 555; letter from Louis
XIV, 558.

Taxes granted by parliament,

279.

Tewkesbury, battle of, 298.
Third reform bill, 747.
Thomas of Canterbury, character,
143; chancellor, 144; and Henry,
144; dispute, 145; before pope,
150; murder, 155; miracles of,

160.

Thomas of Elmham, 288.
Times, The London, 710.
Times, The New York, 767.
Tobacco, 419.

Toleration Act, adoption of, 1689,
548.

Tothe Colonies, by William Watson,
764.

Tournament at Windsor, 246.
Towns, list of small, represented,
1832, 686.

Towns and gilds, 208.
Townshend, Lord, letter to, from

Sir Robert Walpole, 575.
Townshend, speech of, in House
of Commons, 626.

Trade, free, resolution in favor of,
1852, 715.

Trade unions, extracts from minor
ity report on, 743; legalized, 742.
Trafalgar, 655.

Treatise on Astrolabe, by Chaucer,
274.

Treaty of Troyes, 287.

Trevisa, John of, on position of
French in England, 273.

Troops, action of, in 1819, 669.
Troyes, Treaty of, extracts from,
287.
Turbervill, John, letter of, to John
Willoughby, 477.

Turner, Dr. William, Herbal, 409.

Uniformity, Act of, 371.
Union, Act of, between England
and Scotland, 566; between
Great Britain and Ireland, 651.
United States, sympathy with
England, 766.

Universities, 188; rules, 188; fees,

189; books studied, 190; assist-
ance to scholars, 190; student
quarrels, 191; coroner's inquest
at Cambridge, 192; privileges
from pope, 194; religious tests
abolished at, 739.

Usk, Adam of, 252.

Utopia, by Sir Thomas More, 317,
353.

Venetian ambassador's reports to
the senate, 355, 361.

Verney, Sir Ralph, diary of, 475.
Victoria, coronation of, 699; letter
to Leopold, 700.

Victory, Nelson's vessel, 655.
Villein, services of a, 215.
Virgin Mary at Caversham, 345.

Wace, Roman de Rou, 95.
Wager of battle, 105.
Wales, letter from, to King Henry
IV, 283.
Wallace, 232.

Walpole, Horace, letter to John
Chute, 589; to earl of Hertford,
619; to Sir Horace Mann, 579,
580, 605, 606, 617, 618.
Walpole, Sir Robert, 574; letter
to duke of Devonshire, 576; to

Watt, James, work of, 614.
Waverley, annals of abbey of, 177.
Weaving, domestic, 611.
Weekly Register, Cobbett's, 663.
Wellington, duke of, letter to

Lord Sidmouth, 666; speech of,
to House of Lords, 679.
Wesley, John, extracts from diary
of, 584, 589.
Wesleyan movement, 579.
West Saxons, battles of, 62.
Whitby Abbey, 53.

Whitelocke's Memorials, 471, 485.
Why come ye not to Court? by
John Skelton, 334.
Wilkes, 618.

William I, edict of, concerning
wager of battle, 105; coronation
oath of, 105; charter to London
105; description of, 107; contest
with the church, 109; edict
for strengthening courts, 109;
church rules, 110; charter to
abbey of Abingdon, 106; laws

Wycliffe, account of, by Henry
Knighton, 266; and the Loí-
lards, 266; sermon by, 267.
Wyndham, Sir William, letter to,
from Lord Bolingbroke, 576.

Yonge, Walter, extracts from diary
of, 432.

York, duke of, character sketch
of, 512.

York minster, relics in, 117.
Yorkists, 297, 298.
Yorktown, 636.

Young, Arthur, observations of,
610.

Young Pretender, 579.