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