Chapter V: Part 5

Russell, William, Lord,
head of the Country party, vi. 272;
correspondence with Barillon, 298;
takes office, 300;
supports the Exclusion, 306;
resigns, 315;
beheaded, 337;
his attainder reversed, vii. 66

Russell, Edward,
signs the invitation to William III., vii. 35;
goes to the Hague, 37;
commands the fleet, 77;
victory at La Hogue, 78;
member of the Junto, 85, 88;
resigns, 98;
impeached, 105

Russia,
its alliance with Maria Theresa, vii. 246;
treaty with George II., 247;
invaded by Napoleon, 198, 200

Russia Company, iv. 284

Ruthin burnt by Owen Glyndwr, iii. 10

Ruthven, Patrick, third Lord, iv. 225, 228, 230

Rutland, Edward, Earl of (Duke of Albemarle), iii. 7, 8.
_See_ Albemarle

Rutland, Edmund, Earl of, iii. 78

Rutland, John Manners, ninth Earl of, vii. 23

Ruyter, Admiral De,
his fights with Blake, vi. 88, 115;
with Monk and Rupert, 238;
with the Duke of York, 268

Rye-House plot, vi. 337

Rygge, Robert, chancellor of Oxford, ii. 340

Ryswick, Peace of, vii. 90, 91

Sacheverell, Dr., vii. 137

Sackville, Lord John, vii. 265

Sæberht, king of the East Saxons, i. 59

St. Albans,
risings of townsfolk at, ii. 84, 322, 325, 330-332;
battles at, iii. 73, 74, 78;
chroniclers of, i. 174, 273; ii. 43, 177;
council at, i. 339;
Parliament at, ii. 66

St. Andrews, Cardinal Beaton murdered at, iv. 33

St. Asaph's, John Trevor, bishop of, iii. 10

St. Cloud, battle of, iii. 23

St. Domingo
discovered, iv. 329;
English descent on, vi. 117

St. Edmundsbury,
abbey of, i. 104;
town of, 311-313;
battle near, 254;
meeting of barons at, 344;
strife of town and abbey, ii. 325-330

St. John, Henry, vii. 124;
his political writings, 138;
returns to office, 139;
intrigues against Marlborough, 140.
_See_ Bolingbroke

St. John, Oliver, v. 341, vi. 81

St. Leger, Sir Anthony, iv. 62

St. Lucia conquered by England, vii. 307

St. Malo, John of Gaunt defeated at, ii. 315

Saintonge
restored to Edward III., ii. 266;
won by Du Guesclin, 287

St. Pierre, Eustache de, ii. 245

St. Pol, Waleran, count of, iii. 6

St. Quentin, battle of, iv. 108

St. Ruth, General, vii. 73

St. Vincent, Cape, battles of, viii. 40, 127

St. Vincent, island of, conquered by England, vii. 307

Saladin tithe, i. 257

Salamanca, battle of, viii. 199, 200

Salisbury,
cathedral at, ii. 106;
Protestant martyrs at, iv. 96

Salisbury, Margaret, countess of, iii. 349

Salisbury, Robert Cecil, first earl of. _See_ Cecil

Salisbury, James Cecil, third earl of, vi. 288

Salisbury, William Longsword, earl of, i. 337, 342, 343, 345

Salisbury, William de Montacute, second earl of, ii. 306, 345, 352

Salisbury, John de Montacute, third earl of, ii. 380; iii. 8, 9

Salisbury, Thomas de Montacute, fourth earl of, iii. 45

Salisbury, Richard Neville, earl of, iii. 73, 74, 75, 78, 112

Salt-springs in Worcestershire, ii. 107

Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, vii. 30, 45, 65

Sanders, Nicholas, iv. 316

Sandwich, Edward Montagu, first earl of, vi. 193, 214

_San Graal_, poem of the, i. 174, 247

San Sebastian, siege of, viii. 202

Santa Cruz, Blake's victory at, vi. 124

Saratoga, Burgoyne's surrender at, viii. 26

Sardinia
conquered by Spain, vii. 187;
the duke of Savoy made king of, 188

Sarsfield, Patrick, vii. 72, 73

Sarum, Old, captured by the West Saxons, i. 37

Saunders, Lawrence, iv. 91

Sautre, William, iii. 5

Savile, Sir Henry, v. 229

Savile, Sir John, v. 284

Savoy
joins the Grand Alliance, vii. 119;
joins the Triple Alliance, 187, 188

"Savoy," the, ii. 32, 263, 321;
conference at, vi. 204

Saxe, Marshal, vii. 226, 231

Saxons,
their early home, i. 10;
attack Britain, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34.
_See_ East Saxons, Middle Saxons, South Saxons, West Saxons

Saxony, Frederic III., elector of, iii. 254

Saxony, Maurice, Duke of, iv. 50, 51, 64

Say and Sele, James Fiennes, first Lord, iii. 66

Saye and Sele, William Fiennes, first Viscount, v. 320, 354, 358; vi.
194

Scales, Anthony Woodville, Lord, iii. 130, 131.
_See_ Rivers

Scarborough,
Piers Gaveston besieged in, ii. 190;
peasant revolt at, 324

Schmalkald, League of, iii. 336; iv. 36, 50

Scholasticism, ii. 21, 22;
its political influence, 22, 23

Schomberg, duke of, vii. 70, 71

Schools,
English language supersedes French in, ii. 356, 357;
founded by Ælfred, i. 114;
under Henry VIII., iii. 200, 201;
under Edward VI., 201; iv. 62;
under Elizabeth, iii. 201;
at Bec, i. 159;
at Canterbury, 92;
at Jarrow, 91;
at York, _ib._;
of the Friars, ii. 14;
Sunday, viii. 47

Science, physical,
Roger Bacon's plea for, ii. 20;
its beginnings in England, iii. 190; vi. 131, 132, 166, 167

Scone,
crowning-place of the Scottish kings, ii. 162;
Robert Bruce crowned at, 173;
Edward Balliol crowned at, 210;
Charles II. crowned at, vi. 82.

Scotland,
its relations with William the Conqueror, i. 189;
with William Rufus, 197;
three divisions of the kingdom, ii. 131;
relations with England in eleventh and twelfth centuries, 132-134;
English claims to its homage, 134, 135;
claimants of the crown, 136;
Edward I. acknowledged as its overlord, 137;
question of appeals from, 140;
relations with France during Hundred Years' War, 141, 197, 213;
submits to Edward I., 161;
rises against him, 167-170;
its overlordship claimed by the Pope, 170;
Edward's first conquest and settlement of, 171, 172;
his plan for its representation in English Parliament, 171;
rises again, 173;
Bruce's successes in, 191-193;
truce with England, 196;
renewed strife, 204;
its independence recognized, 205;
struggle with Edward III., 210-214;
David Bruce's plans for the succession, 264;
relations with Henry IV., iii. 7, 9;
with Owen Glyndwr, 11;
condition after Neville's Cross, 182, 183;
relations with France and England, 184;
with Henry VII., 185;
condition after 1524, iv. 22, 23;
league with France, 23;
relations with Henry VIII., 26-28;
Hertford's invasion of, 29;
Somerset's relations with, 52, 53;
Protestantism in, 111, 112, 115, 117;
condition under Mary of Guise and the Lords of the Congregation,
168, 169;
strife of religions in, 218;
unites against Mary, 245;
condition during minority of James VI., v. 122, 124;
work of the Stuarts in, 125, 126;
political effect of the Reformation in, 127;
character and rise of the people, 129, 130, 135;
proposal for its union with England, 154;
relations with Charles I., 325-328, 330, 333, 334;
revolution in, 334, 335;
rising in, 337;
seeks help of France, 338, 339;
struggle with Charles, 341, 342;
pacification, 363;
Charles I. in, _ib._, 364;
treaty with the English Parliament, vi. 14, 16;
first union with England, 85, 108;
its first representation in the English Parliament, 99, 101;
condition under Cromwell, 108, 109;
its union with England dissolved, 180;
Covenant abolished and Episcopacy restored in, 181;
policy of Lauderdale in, 259;
condition under James II., vii. 16, 17;
William III. recognized as king in, 51;
Jacobite risings in, 52, 183, 228-230;
Presbyterianism restored in, 54;
union with England, 127-129

Scots, i. 31;
submit to Eadward the Elder, 119;
league with Cumbrians and Welsh against Æthelstan, 119, 120;
alliance with Eadmund, 123;
conquer northern Northumbria, 146;
cession of Lothian to, its results, 147;
invade England, 217, 254;
their mode of warfare, ii. 204, 205;
recapture Berwick, 259, 263;
defeated at Homildon Hill, iii. 12;
besiege York, vi. 18;
besiege Newcastle, 23;
give up Charles I. to the Parliament, 49;
invade England again, 62;
defeated at Preston, _ib._

Scrope, Henry, Lord, iii. 30

Scrope, Richard, Archbishop of York, iii. 18

Scutage, i. 233, 257, 344, 350, 351; ii. 104

"Sea-dogs," the, iv. 331-333

Sectaries,
their rise, v. 117;
in London, vi. 28

Sedgemoor, battle of, vii. 10

Sedley, Sir Charles, vi. 163

Selden, John, v. 306, 322

Seminary priests, the, iv. 307-309, 354;
banished, v. 156

Senlac, i. 162, 163

Serfs, manumission of, i. 325.
_See_ Villeins

Seven Years' War,
its beginning, vii. 248;
its importance, 273-275;
its end, 307

Seville, Treaty of, vii. 200

Seymour, Sir Edward, vi. 253

Seymour, Jane, iii. 326, 351

Seymour, Thomas, Lord, iv. 47, 56

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley, Cooper, first earl of (_see_ Ashley
Cooper),
Lord Chancellor, vi. 271;
speech on the war, 272;
relations with the king, 275;
change of policy, 276, 277;
dismissed, 278;
his plans, 279, 280;
committed to the Tower, 288;
released, 295;
attitude towards the Popish plot, 295-297;
correspondence with Barillon, 298;
President of the Council, 300;
supports the Exclusion, 306, 307;
project for Monmouth's succession, 309, 310;
dismissed again, 311;
revives the plot, 312, 313;
struggle with Charles, 313-315, 321, 324;
arrested, 324;
bill of his indictment thrown out, 334;
popularity in London, _ib._;
flight and death, 336

Shakspere, William,
his early life, v. 27-31;
first plays, 31-35;
historical plays, 35-36, 38-40;
attitude towards religion, 37, 38;
political sympathies, 39, 40;
prosperity, 41, 42;
gloom, 42-44;
last plays, 45, 46;
demand for his works in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
vii. 292

Sharp, Rev. Dr., vii. 18

Shaxton, bishop of Salisbury, iii. 336, 347

Shelburne, William Fitzmaurice, second earl of,
President of the Board of Trade, vii. 315-319;
protests against the prosecution of Wilkes, 318;
resigns, 319;
advocates repeal of the Stamp Act, 331, 338;
takes office under Chatham, 340;
resigns office, viii. 6;
heads a ministry, 65;
makes peace with America, _ib._;
resigns, 66.
_See_ Lansdowne

Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, vi. 162

Sheriffmuir, battle of, vii. 183

Sheriffs,
their position under William I., i. 185;
appointment regulated by Provisions of Oxford, ii. 61;
functions in the shire-court, 149;
disqualified from serving in Parliament, 300

Ship-money, v. 317;
Laud's developement of, 318;
Hampden's resistance to, 323;
its legality asserted by the judges, _ib._;
trial of Hampden's case, 324, 330;
judgement on, 331;
declared illegal, 352

Shires, i. 185;
restriction of franchise in, iii. 101, 102;
the six, of York, i. 295

Shire-court. _See_ County Court

Shire-reeves, i. 131

Shirley, James, v. 303

Shore, Jane, iii. 117

Shrewsbury (Pengwern), i. 98;
castle at, 168;
reduced by Llewelyn ap Jorwerth, ii. 55;
Parliament at, 121, 371;
battle of, iii. 14;
Charles I. at, vi. 2

Shrewsbury, John Talbot, first Earl of (_see_ Talbot), iii. 70, 71

Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, twelfth Earl and first Duke of, vii. 23,
28;
signs the invitation to William, 35;
sends him funds, 37;
Secretary of State, 67;
negotiates with James, 77;
member of the Junto, 88;
President of the Council, 146

Shropshire ravaged by the Welsh, iii. 19

Sicily,
crown of, offered to Edmund of England, ii. 59;
ceded to Savoy, vii. 142, 186;
conquered by Spain, 187

Sidmouth, Henry Addington, first Viscount (_see_ Addington), viii.
174, 179, 183

Sidney, Algernon,
supports the Independents, vi. 45;
relations with Lewis XIV., 229, 298;
holds meetings with Monmouth, etc., 336;
beheaded, 337;
his attainder reversed, vii. 66

Sidney, Sir Henry, iv. 241

Sidney, Sir Philip, v. 6, 7, 11, 12

Sikhs, the, vii. 234

Simeon of Durham, i. 6, 173, 243

Simnel, Lambert, iii. 176

Siward, Earl of Northumbria, i. 150, 152, 153

Sixtus V., Pope, iv. 353

Skeffington, Lord Deputy in Ireland, iii. 328

Skelton, John, iii. 273; iv. 43

Slanning, Sir Nicholas, vi. 6

Slave-trade
at Bristol, i. 250;
negro, its beginning, iv. 283;
in the eighteenth century, viii. 52;
proposals for its abolition, _ib._, 79;
abolished, 178, 179

Slavery
in Old England, i. 16, 17;
dies out, 321, 322

Sluys, sea-fight off, ii. 228

Smerwick, slaughter of its garrison, iv. 316

Smith, Adam, viii. 73

Smith, John, settler of Virginia, v. 307

Smith, Sir Sidney, viii. 141

Smithfield,
Priory of St. Bartholomew at, i. 223;
Archbishop Boniface's visitation of, ii. 32

Smollett, Tobias, vii. 297

Snowdon, Lords of, ii. 53

Solway Moss, battle of, iv. 25

Somers, John, vii. 46;
member of the Junto, 85;
Lord Keeper, 88;
retires, 98;
impeached, 105;
arranges the Union with Scotland, 128;
President of the Council, 133;
of the Royal Society, vi. 166;
death, vii. 182

Somerset
conquered by West Saxons, i. 90;
rises against William I., 168;
lead-mines in, 30

Somerset, John Beaufort, Earl of, (Marquis of Dorset), iii. 7

Somerset, John Beaufort, first Duke of, iii. 59

Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, second Duke of (_see_ Beaufort),
Regent of France, iii. 62;
recalled, 67;
arrested, 68;
released, _ib._;
captain of Calais, 69;
committed to the Tower, 71, 72;
released, 72;
slain, 74

Somerset, Henry Beaufort, third Duke of, iii. 78, 80, 126

Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, fourth Duke of, iii. 140, 143-145

Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of (_see_ Rochester), v. 193, 204-207

Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of (_see_ Hertford), iv. 46;
Protector, 47;
his policy, 48, 53, 54;
relations with Scotland, 52;
victory at Pinkie Cleugh, 513;
revolts against, 55;
his misrule, 56;
fall, 57;
beheaded, 65

Somerset, Charles Seymour, sixth Duke of, vii. 21, 146

Somerset, Frances, Countess of. _See_ Howard

Somerset, Margaret, Duchess of, iii. 161

Somerton captured by Æthelbald, i. 91

Somerville, plotter, iv. 350

Soranzo's _Despatches_, iv. 3

Sophia, Electress of Hanover, vii. 103, 144

Soult, Marshal, viii. 188, 200, 202

Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, first Earl of (_see_ Wriothesley),
iv. 47

Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of, v. 41, 43

Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, fourth Earl of, vi. 193, 244

South-Engle, i. 37, 119

Southey, Robert, viii. 135

South-folk, i. 42

South-Saxons, kingdom of, i. 34

South Sea Bubble, vii. 192

Southwark
burnt by William the Conqueror, i. 165;
Bishop Beaufort's palace at, attacked, iii. 44

Spain,
its relations with Aquitaine and France, ii. 281, 282;
Edward III.'s policy in, 282, 283, 287;
its growth under Ferdinand and Isabel, iii. 186;
its greatness under Philip II., iv. 325-327;
possessions in the New World, 329;
ruin of its power, 366;
its relations with James I., v. 212-214, 226, 227, 230-233;
decline, vi. 113, 190;
Cromwell's war with, 117;
relations with Charles II., 187;
with Lewis XIV., 249, 250;
joins the Grand Alliance, vii. 49;
dispute for the succession in, 90, 92-94, 98, 99;
English descent on, 118;
Peterborough's campaign in, 126;
attempts to regain its lost possessions, 186-188;
end of the succession quarrel, 188;
relations with Austria, 199, 200;
with France, 213-216;
efforts to regain monopoly of trade in America, 216, 217;
war with England, 219, 306;
cedes Florida, 307;
league with France and America, viii. 30;
mastered by Napoleon, 185;
rises against him, 186;
Wellesley's campaigns in, 187, 188, 199, 200;
the French driven from, 202

Speed's _Chronicle_, v. 4

Spencer, George John, second Earl, viii. 104, 156

Spenser, Edmund, v. 11-19

Spice Islands conquered by England, viii. 112

Spinola, Ambrogio, v. 219, 220

Spires, Diet of, iv. 19

_Sports, Book of_, v. 296

Spottiswood, Archbishop of St. Andrews, v. 326

Sprigge's _Anglia Rediviva_, v. 73

Spurs, battle of the, iii. 210

Stafford fortified by Æthelflæd, i. 118

Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, vi. 321

Stafford, Henry, iii. 166

Stafford, Sir Humphrey, iii. 66

Stafford, Thomas, iv. 107

Stair, John Dalrymple, second Earl of, vii. 229

Stamford,
one of the Five Boroughs, i. 117;
submits to Eadward the Elder, 119

Stamford Bridge, battle of, i. 162

Stamford, Henry Grey, first Earl of, vi. 5

Standard,
battle of the, i. 217;
Harold's, at Senlac, 163, 164;
of Wessex, the Golden Dragon, 96, 163

Stanhope, James, first Earl, vii. 182, 190, 192

Stanley, Thomas, Lord, iii. 171, 172

Stanley, Sir William, iii. 172

Staple, Gild of the, ii. 304;
reform of, under Richard II., 355

Star-Chamber, Court of, i. 256; ii. 112; iii. 178;
regulates the Press, iv. 343;
developement under Charles I., v. 278;
Laud's use of, 329;
its civil jurisdiction abolished by Long Parliament, 363

States-General, the French, viii. 83;
become a National Assembly, 86

Statutes
substituted for Ordinances, ii. 298, 299;
Petitions changed into, iii. 90;
of Apparel, 65;
of Appeals, 302;
of Occasional Conformity, vii. 123;
repealed, 184:
Conventicle, vi. 220;
Corporation, 207;
Declaratory, vii. 338;
of Economical Reform, viii. 64. 76;
of First-fruits, iii. 302, 304;
Five Mile, vi. 229;
of Grace, vii. 69;
Habeas Corpus, vi. 305, 306;
suspended, vii. 184; viii. 105, 113;
of Heresy, iii. 4, 5;
repealed, iv. 61;
re-enacted, 89;
of Indemnity and Oblivion, vi. 194, 196, 204;
of Kilkenny, ii. 377;
of Labourers, 255;
attempts to enforce, 289, 313;
demand for their repeal, iii. 65;
of Libel, viii. 92;
of Liveries, iii. 118, 177;
of Maintenance, ii. 355; iii. 105;
of Merchants, ii. 122;
Mutiny, vii. 61, 62;
of Mortmain, ii. 118, 119;
Navigation, vi. 86; vii. 310;
Poor Laws, iv. 276, 277;
Poynings', iii. 181;
repealed, viii. 37, 39;
of Præmunire, ii. 274, 355;
of Provisors, 273, 275, 355;
"Quia Emptores," 124, 151;
"de Religiosis," 118;
of Rights, vii. 60;
Schism, 143;
repealed, 184;
of Security, 129;
Septennial, 185;
of Settlement, 103, 127;
Stamp, 326, 327;
American resistance to, 330;
Pitt and Shelburne demand its repeal, 331;
repealed, 338;
of Succession, iii. 317; iv. 45, 67;
of Supremacy, iii. 305; iv. 157;
Test, iv. 215, 273, 308; vi. 273;
James II.'s endeavours to procure its repeal, vii. 22, 23;
Toleration, 64;
of Treason, ii. 292; iii. 314, 319;
Triennial, v. 352; vii. 88;
of Union with Scotland, 128;
of Union with Ireland, viii. 139;
of Uniformity, iv. 159; vi. 208;
of Uses, ii. 355;
of Wales, 121;
of Westminster, the first, 103;
second, 122;
third, 124;
of Winchester, 122;
against Witchcraft, v. 105, 106

Steam-engine, invention of the, viii. 57-59

Steel Yard, the, iv. 282

Steele, Richard, vii. 158

Steinkirk, battle of, vii. 79

Stephen of Blois, i. 214;
chosen king, 215;
crowned, 216;
his charter, _ib._;
revolts against him, 216, 217;
quarrel with the Church, 218, 219;
struggle with Matilda, 219, 220;
proposes to crown his son, 226;
treaty with Henry, 227;
death, 228

Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, i. 161, 187

Stillingfleet, Edmund, vi. 252; vii. 19

Stirling,
battle of, ii. 168;
surrenders to Edward, 171;
invested by Bruce, 191;
Lords of the Congregation muster at, iv. 245

Stoke, battle of, iii. 176

Stokes, Peter, ii. 340

Stow, battle of, vi. 42

Stowe's _Chronicle_, v. 4

Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of (_see_ Wentworth),
his war policy, v. 340-342;
impeached, 350;
trial, 356;
attainder, 357;
death, 361

Stralsund, siege of, v. 274

Strassburg seized by Lewis XIV., vi. 335

Stratford-on-Avon, Shakspere's home at, v. 28, 41, 46

Stratford-le-Bow, Protestant martyrs at, iv. 144

Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 232

Strathclyde,
its struggle with Æthelfrith, i. 60;
submits to Eadward the Elder, 119

Streoneshealh. _See_ Whitby

Strickland, member of Parliament in 1571, iv. 292

Strode, one of the "five members," v. 373

Strongbow. _See_ Clare, Richard of

Strype's historical collections, iii. 84; iv. 3, 4

Stuart, Arabella, v. 121

Stuart, Charles Edward, vii. 227-230

Stuart, Esmé. _See_ Lennox

Stuart, James Francis, son of James II., vii. 34, 35;
known as the "Old Pretender," 103;
acknowledged as king by Lewis XIV., 106;
attainted, 107;
withdraws to Lorraine, 143;
plans a rising in Scotland, 183;
proclaimed as "James VIII." at Edinburgh, 228

Stuart, Lord James, Prior of St. Andrews, iv. 114, 199.
_See_ Murray

Stuarts, the,
their work in Scotland, v. 125, 126;
their lack of sympathy with England, 148, 149

Stubbs, John, iv. 337, 338

Stukely, Sir Thomas, iv. 315

Suchet, General, viii. 191

Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 320, 323

Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of,
his campaign in France, iii. 247;
policy at home, 270, 277;
President of the Council, 286;
marriage, iv. 46, 69

Suffolk, Frances Grey, Duchess of, iv. 69

Suffolk, Henry Grey, Duke of, iv. 65, 69, 82, 84

Suffolk, Thomas Howard, first Earl of, v. 191, 204

Suffolk, Michael de la Pole, Earl of. _See_ Pole

Suffolk, William de la Pole, Earl of, iii. 59, 61-63

Sunderland, Robert Spencer, second Earl of, vi. 301;
opposes the Exclusion, 307, 310;
urges Charles II. to yield to it, 319, 321;
relations with Charles, vii. 2;
with James II., 12;
betrays James to William, 37;
urges the calling of a Parliament, 39;
dismissed, 40;
character, 82;
his ministerial system, 83, 84, 98

Sunderland, Charles Spencer, third Earl of,
ambassador at Vienna, vii. 125;
Secretary of State, 131;
his policy, 132;
dismissed, 139;
in the Stanhope ministry, 190

Surajah Dowlah, vii. 261, 262

Surrey, rising in, iii. 64

Surrey, Thomas Holland, Duke of (Earl of Kent), iii. 7, 8

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, iv. 42-45

Surrey, Thomas Howard, second Earl of, iii. 210.
_See_ Norfolk

Surrey, Thomas Howard, third Earl of, iii. 244, 248.
_See_ Norfolk

Surrey, Earls of. _See_ Warenne

Sussex
accepts Wulfhere's overlordship, i. 85;
conquered by Ine, 90;
rising in, iii. 64;
Protestant martyrs in, iv. 96;
ironworks in, iv. 279.
_See_ South Saxons

Sussex, Thomas Ratcliffe, third Earl of, iv. 111, 240, 241, 269

Swan, Edward I.'s vow on the, ii. 95, 173, 174

Sweden united under King Eric, i. 128

Swein I., king of Denmark, i. 140-143

Swein II., Estrithson, king of Denmark, i. 167

Swein, son of Earl Godwine, i. 150, 151, 152

Swereford, Alexander de, ii. 43

Swift, Jonathan, vi. 158; vii. 138

Swineshead, abbey of, i. 356

Swinford, Catherine, ii. 369; iii. 59

Sydenham, Thomas, vi. 166

Table, the Round,
legends of, i. 247;
of Edward I., ii. 95;
of Edward III., 249, 290

"Tables," the, v. 331, 333

Taillebourg, battle of, ii. 35

Taillefer, i. 163

Tailors' gild at Exeter, i. 318

Talavera, battle of, viii. 188

Talbot, John, Lord, iii. 56, 63.
_See_ Shrewsbury

Taliesin, ii. 53, 57

Tallard, Marshal, vii. 120

Talleyrand, Maurice de, viii. 206

Tamworth fortified by Æthelflæd, i. 118

Tancred, king of Sicily, i. 260

Tangier
ceded to England, vi. 192;
English garrison withdrawn from, vii. 4

Taunton
founded by Ine, i. 89;
Blake's defence of, vi. 78;
Monmouth at, vii. 9

Taxation
under the Norman kings, ii. 104;
under Richard I., i. 264, 350;
under John, 330, 322, 351;
regulated by Great Charter, 351; ii. 105, 145;
under Edward III., 291;
Wolsey's plans of, iii. 245, 246;
character under Elizabeth, iv. 233;
Parliament regains control over, vii. 60, 61;
during the French war, viii. 114, 137;
arbitrary, abolished, v. 352;
indirect, its introduction and growth, ii. 105;
of personal property, i. 257; ii. 105;
of boroughs, 152, 153;
of wool, 107;
of America, schemes for, vii. 311, 326; viii. 3, 4, 14;
papal, of the clergy, ii. 42

Taylor, Jeremy, vi. 134-137, 326

Taylor, Rowland, iv. 92-94

Teignmouth burnt by the French, vii. 76

Temple, Richard Grenville, second Earl, vii. 250, 304, 328, 339

Temple, Sir Peter, v. 323

Temple, Sir William,
ambassador at Brussels, vi. 227;
at the Hague, 249;
Secretary of State, 301;
reorganizes the council, 302-304;
opposes the Exclusion, 307, 311;
retires from politics, 315;
assents to the Exclusion, 319;
his _Memoirs_, 157

Tenchebray, battle of, i. 202

Testament, the New, Erasmus's edition of, iii. 213, 215

Tewkesbury, battle of, iii. 144, 145

Thames entered by northmen, i. 116

Thanes, gild of, at Canterbury, i. 299

Thanet,
Jutes land in, i. 31, 32;
Augustine lands in, 57, 58

Thanet, Thomas Tufton, sixth Earl of, vii. 23

Theatre, first public, in London, v. 22

Thegns, i. 50-52;
of the royal household, 132

Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, i. 223;
legate, 225;
his policy, 226, 227;
study of law in his court, 283;
retires from politics, 232;
dies, 234

Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, i. 81, 83, 84;
his school at Canterbury, 92

Theology, revived study of, in thirteenth century, ii. 13, 14

"Theow," the, i. 322

Thirty Years' War, its beginning, v. 217, 219;
its end, vi. 113

Thomas of Canterbury, St. _See_ Beket

"Thorough," Stafford's, v. 292

Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas, iv. 175

Thurlow's _State Papers_, v. 73

Thurstan, Archbishop of York, i. 217

Ticonderoga, Fort, vii. 244, 266, 267

Tilbury, muster at, iv. 357, 359

Tillotson, John, vi. 169, 252; vii. 19;
Archbishop of Canterbury, 65

Tilly, Count, v. 232

Tilsit, peace of, viii. 175

Tin,
export of, from Cornwall, iv. 279;
mines, i. 30; ii. 107

Tippermuir, battle of, vi. 23

Tippoo, Sultan of Mysore, viii. 131, 140

Tithes, introduction of, i. 84

Tithing, i. 322

Titus Livius, his _Gesta Henrici V._, ii. 179; iii. 41

Tone, Wolfe, viii. 120

Torbay, William of Orange lands at, vii. 40

Torgau, battle of, vii. 302

"Tories,"
origin of the name, vi. 315;
their policy in 1689, vii. 45, 46;
attack Marlborough, 138;
their helplessness, 166, 167;
withdraw from politics, 167, 168;
return, 299;
oppose the abolition of the slave-trade, viii. 179;
govern during the war with Napoleon, _ib._, 180

Torres Vedras, Wellington's defence of, viii. 190

Torrington, Arthur Herbert, Earl of. _See_ Herbert

Tortulf the Forester, i. 209

Tostig, Earl of Northumbria, 153, 160-162

Toulon, revolt of, viii. 109

Toulouse,
battle of, viii. 202;
war of, i. 233, 234

Touraine
conquered by the Angevins, i. 212;
by Philip Augustus, 269;
ceded to France, ii. 63

Tournaments under Edward III., ii. 251

Tournay besieged by Edward III., ii. 228

Tours
won by Geoffry Martel, i. 212;
by Philip Augustus, 258;
council of, 235

Tourville, Admiral, vii. 75, 78

Towns, English,
their origin, i. 294, 295;
early constitution, 296;
common lands, _ib._;
relation to their lords, _ib._, 297;
administration of justice in, 297, 313;
emancipation, 300-302;
struggle of classes in, 315-318;
their liberties secured by Great Charter, 352;
settlement of Friars in, ii. 10, 11;
support Simon de Montfort, 68, 69;
represented in county court, 73;
representatives of, summoned to Parliament, _ib._;
taxation of, 152, 153;
forced labour in, 257;
strikes and combinations in, 267;
support the House of York, iii. 76;
restriction of franchise in, 99-101;
Charles II.'s dealings with, vii. 3.
_See_ Boroughs

Townshend, Charles, second Viscount,
Secretary of State and Prime Minister, vii. 182, 189;
resigns, 190;
returns to office, 191;
Secretary again under Walpole, 193;
turned out, 203

Townshend, Charles, vii. 247;
takes office under Pitt, 250;
deserts him, 303;
President of Board of Trade, 310;
refuses office under Grenville, 315;
accepts it again under Chatham, 341;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, viii. 3;
death, 4

Townshend's _Journal of Parliamentary Proceedings_, iv. 5

Township, the Old English, i. 11

Towton, battle of, iii. 79, 80

Trade, English,
under Eadgar, i. 138;
growth after Norman Conquest, 177;
regulated by Great Charter, 352;
under Edward I., ii. 106, 107, 122;
Richard's II.'s care for, 355;
increase in fifteenth century, iii. 106;
Edward's IV.'s laws for protection of, _ib._;
growth under Richard III., iv. 282;
under Henry VII., _ib._;
under Elizabeth, 279-283; v. 77;
struggle of the Commons for its freedom, 57, 58;
Parliament gains control over, vii. 63;
foreign, regulated by Statute of Staples, ii. 292;
extension under Charles I., v. 281;
effects of the Continental System on, viii. 177;
effect of the American embargo on, 183;
growth during the French war, 194;
with English colonies in America, monopoly of, vii. 195, 241;
with India, vii. 232;
with Spanish America, 192, 216;
Board of, established, 89.
_See_ Iron, Tin, Wool, Slave

Trade and Plantations, Board for, vii. 240

Trade-gilds, i. 316-318

Trafalgar, battle of, viii. 173

"Trail-bastons," ii. 116

Treasurer, the,
origin of his office, i. 132;
right of appointing, claimed for Great Council, ii. 38

Treaties, commercial,
with Florence, iv. 282;
with France, viii. 79

Trent, Council of, iv. 32, 35, 36;
dispersed, 51;
reassembles, 64;
breaks up again, 65;
reassembled again, 192

Tresham, Francis, v. 159

Tresilian, Chief-Justice, ii. 353

Trevanion, Sir John, vi. 6

Trevisa, John of, ii. 357

Trichinopoly, Clive's relief of, vii. 235

Triploe Heath, meeting of the army at, vi. 52

Tristram,
story of, i. 247;
rimes of, ii. 360

Trivet's _Annals_, i. 274

Trokelowe's _Annals_, ii. 177

Tromp, Martin, vi. 86, 88, 115

Tromp, Cornelius, vi. 277

Troyes, treaty of, iii. 35

Trussel, Sir William, ii. 199

Tudor, Edmund. _See_ Richmond

Tudor, Henry. _See_ Henry VII.

Tudor, Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, iii. 132, 143, 165

Tudor, Owen, iii. 165

"Tulchan-bishops," v. 137

"Tun," the, i. 11, 295

Tunstall, Cuthbert, iii. 256

Turenne, Marshal, vi. 124

Turgot, annalist of Durham, i. 243

Turin, siege of, vii. 131

Turkey, schemes for its partition, viii. 161, 162

Turks capture Constantinople, iii. 189

Turner, Sir James, v. 73

Tyburn, Roger Mortimer beheaded at, ii. 207

Tyler, Walter, ii. 319, 321, 323

Tyndale, William, iii. 258, 259

Tyrconnell, Richard Talbot, first Earl and Duke of, vii. 17, 55-57

Tyrone, rising in, v. 62

Tyrone, Con O'Neill, first Earl of, iv. 110, 240

Udall, John, iv. 343

Ulm, capitulation of, viii. 173

Ulster,
John de Courcy in, ii. 374;
rising in, under Hugh O'Neill, v. 61, 62;
colonization of, 288, 289

Universities,
rise of, i. 282;
their cosmopolitan spirit, 290;
democratic constitution, 291;
relations with the Church, 292, 293;
Friars at, ii. 13;
revival of theology at, _ib._, 14;
English, their decline during Wars of the Roses, iii. 98;
the New Learning at, 201, 202;
Henry VIII.'s appeal to, 291, 292;
decline under Edward VI., iv. 62;
James II.'s dealings with, vii. 24-26

Urban V., Pope, ii. 275

Uriconium burnt by the West Saxons, i. 38

Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, v. 290, 353; vi. 199

Utrecht,
treaty of, vii. 141;
Union of, iv. 312

Uxbridge, negotiations at, vi. 38

Vacarius, i. 283, 285

Valence, Aymer de, Bishop of Winchester, ii. 33

Valence, Aymer de, Earl of Pembroke, ii. 174, 183

Valence, William de, Earl of Pembroke, ii. 33

Val-ès-Dunes, battle of, i. 158

Valois, Charles of, ii. 208

Vane, Sir Harry, the elder, vi. 102

Vane, Sir Harry (the younger),
leader of the Independents, v. 354; vi. 45;
negotiates with Scotland, 14, 108;
opposes ordinance against heresy, 60;
re-creates a navy, 78;
his policy, 86, 89;
attacks the Protectorate, 148;
exempted from pardon, 195;
executed, 204

Vannes, Henry of Lancaster sails from, ii. 373

Varangians, i. 167

Varaville, battle of, i. 158

Vassy, massacre of Protestants at, iv. 208

Vaudois, massacre of, vi. 123

Vendôme, Louis Joseph, Duke of, vii. 134

Venner, leader of Fifth-Monarchy men, vi. 182

Verden, quarrel about, vii. 188, 189

Vere, Robert de (third Earl of Oxford), i. 343

Vere, Robert de (ninth Earl of Oxford), ii. 350, 351, 353;
Duke of Ireland, 377

Vere, Sir Horace, v. 219

Vergil, Polydore, ii. 180

Verneuil, battle of, iii. 39

Verney, Sir Edmund, v. 369

Verney, Sir Ralph, v. 72

Vernon, Admiral, vii. 219, 221

Vervins, treaty of, v. 60, 62

Vesci, Eustace de, i, 335, 347

Vienne, John de, ii. 349

Village, the English, i. 10, 11;
its organization after the Norman Conquest, 322

Villars, Marshal, vii. 134

Villenage
unknown in Kent, ii. 320;
demand for its abolition in the eastern counties, 321;
dies out, 333; iii. 65

Villeneuve, Admiral, viii. 172

Villeins, i. 133, 321-323;
their relations with the lord, 323-325;
rise into yeomen, ii. 240, 241;
attempts to check their enfranchisement, 256, 257, 266, 267, 335;
revolt of, _see_ Peasant Revolt

Villeroy, Duke of, vii. 125, 126

Villiers, George, v. 207-210.
_See_ Buckingham

Vimiera, battle of, viii. 187

Vinegar Hill, battle of, viii. 130

Virginia discovered, iv. 345;
settled, v. 307, 308;
heads resistance to the Stamp Act, vii. 330;
remonstrates against taxation, viii. 14;
adheres to England, 20

Vitoria, battle of, viii. 202

Voltaire, his visit to England, vii. 152

Volunteers, the Irish, viii. 37

Wace, i. 174, 247

Wake, Baldwin, ii. 84, 86

Wakefield, battle of, iii. 78

Walcourt, skirmish at, vii. 50

Walcheren, English expedition to, viii. 188

Walden, Roger, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 371

Wales,
sources of its early history, i. 7;
its struggle with Mercia, ii. 46;
subject to the West Saxon kings, _ib._;
Harold's campaign in, i. 153, ii. 47;
William I.'s, i. 189, ii. 47;
William II.'s, i. 198, ii. 48;
Henry I.'s dealings with, 48;
Henry II.'s campaigns in, i. 232; ii. 53, 54;
Gerald de Barri's account of, i. 245, 274;
John's campaigns in, ii. 54, 55;
national revival in, 49-58;
Edward's first campaign in, 59;
outbreaks in, 65, 66;
Edward I.'s annexations in, 109;
conquest of, 119-121;
incorporated with England, 121;
revolts, 142, 143; iii. 9-12;
students from, at Oxford, i. 291;
Council of, v. 168.
_See_ Welsh

Walker, Obadiah, vii. 25

Wall, the Roman, i. 30

Wallace, William, ii. 167-169, 171

Wallenstein, v. 274

Waller, Edmund, vi. 325

Waller, Sir William,
defeated at Lansdowne Hill and Roundway Down, vi. 6;
his reception by the Parliament, 13;
joins Essex, 18, 19;
defeated at Cropredy bridge, 22;
retires, 35

Wallingford, treaty of, i. 227

Wallington, Nehemiah, v. 72, 73, 94

Wallis, Dr. John, vi. 132

Wallis, Captain, vii. 277

Walloons, fugitive Protestant, in England, iv. 51, 58

Walpole, Robert, vii. 134;
his temper, 178;
policy, 179-181;
in the Townshend ministry, 182;
resigns, 190;
defeats the Peerage Bill, 191;
returns to office, _ib._;
head of the Government, 192, 193;
his peace policy, 193, 194;
finance, 195, 196;
his policy of inaction, 197;
towards Catholics and Nonconformists, 198;
relations with George II., 200;
Excise Bill, 195, 201-203;
his jealousy of his colleagues, 203;
strives to avoid war, 215, 217;
loss of his power, 218;
consents to war with Spain, _ib._;
plans of alliance with Russia and Prussia, 220;
fall, 222;
rejects the project for an American Excise, 241

Walsingham, Sir Francis, iv. 119; v. 63

Walsingham's _History_, i. 274; ii. 177, 179; iii. 98

Walter of Coutances, Archbishop of Rouen, i. 260, 261, 266

Walter of Coventry, i. 273

Walters, Lucy, vi. 176

Walworth, William, ii. 312, 323

Wanborough, battle of, i. 90

Warbeck, Perkin, iii. 180, 181, 184, 185, 187

Ward, Dr. Seth, vi. 132

Wareham, northmen encamp at, i. 106

Warenne, William, sixth Earl of, i. 345

Warenne and Surrey, John, seventh Earl of, ii. 117

Warenne and Surrey, John, eighth Earl of, ii. 162, 168

Warham, William, Archbishop of Canterbury,
his patronage of the New Learning, iii. 196-198;
protects Colet, 204;
helps Erasmus, 212, 215;
the seals offered to, 289;
death, 303

Warner's _Albion's England_, v. 35

Warwick, Guy Beauchamp, second Earl of, ii. 187, 190

Warwick, Thomas Beauchamp, fourth Earl of, ii. 353, 370, 371

Warwick, John Dudley, Earl of (_see_ Lisle), iv. 47;
puts down revolt in Norfolk, 56;
Protector, 57.
_See_ Northumberland

Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of, iii. 73, 75;
defeated at St. Albans, 79;
victor at Towton, _ib._, 80;
his greatness, 112, 113, 118;
character, 114, 115;
policy, 119, 122;
negotiations with Lewis XI., 123, 124;
rivalry with the Woodvilles, 127;
mission to France, 129;
estranged from Edward, 131;
submits to him, 132;
intrigues with Clarence, 133;
revolts, 134, 135;
repulsed from Calais, 135;
difficulties with Burgundy, 136;
alliance with the Lancastrians, 137;
lands at Dartmouth, 138;
restores Henry VI., 139;
slain, 142

Warwick, Edward Plantagenet, Earl of, iii. 175, 187

Warwick, Robert Rich, second Earl of,
resists a forced loan, v. 255;
plans to emigrate, 319;
put in command of the fleet, 378

Warwick, Sir Philip, v. 72

Washington, George,
his attack on Duquesne, vii. 243;
takes it, 266;
his influence in Virginia, viii. 15;
his character, 21, 22;
his defence of Boston, 23;
evacuates New York, etc., 24;
his campaign of 1777, 25;
forces Cornwallis to surrender, 32

Washington city burnt by the English, viii. 204

"Water-beggars," the, iv. 298

Waterford besieged by Cromwell, vi. 77

Waterloo, battle of, viii. 208-211

Watling Street, i. 120

Watt, James, viii. 58

_Waverley, Annals of_, i. 273

Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, iii. 66

Weald, iron-mines in the, ii. 107

Wearmouth,
Benedict Biscop's abbey at, i. 91, 92;
plundered by northmen, 101

Weavers,
gild of, i. 317;
Flemish, in England under Edward III., ii. 226

Wedmore, Peace of, i. 107

Weights, uniformity of, enacted by Great Charter, i. 352

Welles, Sir Robert, iii. 135

Wellesley, Sir Arthur,
his campaigns in Spain and Portugal, viii. 186, 188.
_See_ Wellington

Wellesley, Richard, Marquis (_see_ Mornington), viii. 140;
his devotion to Pitt, 71;
words on Pitt's death, 174;
Foreign Secretary, 189

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first Viscount and Duke of (_see_
Wellesley),
his campaigns in Spain and Portugal, viii. 190, 191, 199, 200, 202;
enters France, 202;
campaign in Belgium, 207-211

Welsh, the,
defeated by Cenwealh, i. 87;
by Offa, 97;
league with Scots and Cumbrians against Æthelstan, 119;
rise against Æthelred II., 139;
subdued by Harold, 153; ii. 47;
rise against William I., i. 167;
against John, 333, 334; ii. 55;
national revival, 49-58;
ravage Shropshire, iii. 19;
Oxford students join Owen Glyndwr, 11;
North, tributary to Æthelstan, i. 119, 120;
West, become vassals of Æthelstan, i. 120;
driven from Exeter, _ib._
_See_ Britons, Wales

Welwood's _Memoirs_, vi. 158

Wendover, Roger of, i. 273; ii. 43

Wentworth, Paul, iv. 238

Wentworth, Peter, v. 56

Wentworth, Thomas,
member for Yorkshire, v. 195, 260, 282-284;
policy and character, 285-287;
Deputy in Ireland, 290;
his rule there, 290-292, 364, 365;
returns, 338.
_See_ Strafford

Wenzel of Bohemia, king of the Romans, ii. 348

Wesley, Charles, vii. 207

Wesley, John, vii. 207-210

Wessex,
its power under Ceawlin and Cuthwulf, i. 56;
fall, _ib._;
attacked by Eadwine, 63;
subdued, 64;
greatness under Ine, 89, 90;
civil strife in, 90;
subject to Mercia, _ib._, 91;
rises against Æthelbald, 96;
anarchy in, 97;
greatness under Ecgberht, 102;
attacked by northmen, 103, 105, 106;
revival under Ælfred, 107, 112, 113;
submits to Swein, 143;
to Cnut, _ib._;
its Golden Dragon standard, 96, 163;
earldom of, 146.
_See_ West Saxons

Westfold, Harald of, i. 128

West Indian Company, vi. 223

West Indies, English conquests in, vii. 307

Westminster, Eadward the Confessor's abbey at, i. 149;
rebuilt by Henry III. ii. 25;
completed under Edward I., 106;
William I. crowned at, i. 166;
the Scotch coronation stone removed to, ii. 162;
refounded by Mary, iv. 106;
Henry VII.'s chapel in, iii. 174;
Assembly of Divines at, vi. 30;
Caxton's press at, iii. 156;
chapel of St. Stephen at, ii. 290;
Chaucer's home at, 366;
the Jerusalem Chamber at, iii. 25;
Parliament fixed at, ii. 158;
Provisions of, 62;
Statutes of, 103, 122, 124

"Westminster, Matthew of," ii. 43

Westmoreland, Ralph Neville, first Earl of, iii. 14, 18

Westmoreland, Ralph Neville, fourth Earl of, iii. 323

Westmoreland, Henry Neville, fifth Earl of, iv. 162

Westmoreland, Charles Neville, sixth Earl of, iv. 268, 269

Weston, Lord Treasurer, v. 265;
Earl of Portland, 276;
revives monopolies, 279;
success of his financial measures, 280;
death, 315

Westphalia,
kingdom of, viii. 185;
treaty of, vi. 113, 187

West Saxons,
foundation of their kingdom, i. 34;
defeated by Arthur, _ib._;
defeated in a raid upon Chester, 38;
take Old Sarum, 37;
conquer Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, _ib._;
victory at Deorham, 38, 61;
burn Uriconium, 38;
driven back across Thames, 85;
advance to south-west, 87;
defeated at Bensington, 98.
_See_ Wessex

Wexford, massacre at, vi. 77;
revolt at, viii. 129

Wharton, Philip, fourth Lord, v. 343; vi. 288;
member of the Junto, viii. 85;
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 133;
death, 181

Whethamstede, Abbot of St. Albans, iii. 40

"Whiggamore Raid," vi. 62

"Whigs,"
origin of the name, vi. 62, 315;
their policy in 1689, vii. 45;
struggle with Marlborough and Anne, 132, 133;
refuse peace, 136;
dismissed from office, 139;
invite Marlborough's aid, 145;
their relations with the Church, 169;
with the Crown, 172, 174;
with Parliament, 175, 176;
fidelity to the principles of the Revolution, 177;
relations with public opinion, 289;
with Pitt, 301;
the "Old," viii. 104;
in Scotland, their outrages, vii. 16

White, Sir Thomas, iv. 157

Whitefield, George, vii. 205, 209

Whitehall built, iii. 236

Whitelock, Bulstrode, v. 306, 322, 323;
his _Memoirs_, 72

_White Ship_, wreck of the, i. 207, 208

Whitby (Streoneshealh),
Hild's abbey at, i. 77;
synod of, 79, 80;
its effect on England, 80, 81

Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, iv. 341, 343; v. 58;
his Articles, iv. 341, 342; v. 115, 116;
Strype's _Life of_, iv. 4

Whittingham, Dean of Durham, iv. 127

Wight, Isle of, annexed to Sussex, i. 85

Wilberforce, William, viii. 48, 52

Wilfrid, St., i. 79, 92;
Eddi's _Life of_, 4

Wilkes, John, vii. 249;
his services to the Constitution, 313;
attacks the Government in the _North Briton_, 314, 317, 318;
arrested, 318;
prosecuted for libel, _ib._;
flies to France, _ib._;
returned for Middlesex, viii. 5;
imprisoned, 6;
struggle with the Government, 7;
with the House of Commons, _ib._, 8;
his proposal for Parliamentary reform, 75

Wilkins, Dr. John, vi. 132, 166

William the Conqueror,
duke of Normandy, i. 157;
visits England, 158;
subdues Maine and Britanny, _ib._;
his claim on England, 160;
lands at Pevensey, 162;
exploits at Senlac, 163, 164;
chosen king, 165;
crowned, 166;
returns to Normandy, 167;
risings against him, _ib._, 168;
his vengeance on the north, 168, 169;
march on Chester, 169, 179;
master of England, 170;
receives the Scot king's fealty, _ib._;
his character, 178, 179;
rule, 179-181;
dealings with feudalism, 181-185;
with Old English judicial and administrative organization, 185;
finance, 186;
dealings with the Church, 187, 188;
with Wales, 189; ii. 47;
suppresses slave-trade at Bristol, i. 250;
last war and death, 190

William the Red,
king, i. 191;
revolts against him, _ib._, 192;
his rule, 192;
dealings with the barons, 193;
with the Church, _ib._;
with Anselm, 196;
with Normandy and Scotland, 197;
with Wales, 198; ii. 48;
death, i. 198

William III.,
Prince of Orange, vi. 225;
his youth, 269;
repels the French invasion of Holland, 270, 277;
his diplomatic success, 277;
plans for his marriage, 283;
defeated at Cassel, 289;
marriage, 290;
plans the Grand Alliance, 317;
policy in England, _ib._, 318;
visits England, 334;
shelters Monmouth, vii. 8;
forbidden to visit England, 12;
relations with James II., 26-28;
invited to England, 35;
his preparations, 37;
lands at Torbay, 40;
his advance, 42;
enters London, 44;
calls a Convention, _ib._;
declines to be Regent, 46;
the Crown offered to, 47;
he accepts it, 48;
his foreign aims, _ib._;
dealings with Scotland, 51;
signs the warrant for the massacre of Glencoe, 53;
relations with Parliament, 62, 63, 66, 69;
campaign in Ireland, 71;
goes to Flanders, 76;
defeated at Steinkirk, 79;
struggle with the Commons, 81, 82;
treaty with Lewis, 90, 91;
policy as to the Spanish succession, 92, 93;
his unpopularity, 95;
forced to send home his Dutch guards, 97;
forms a new Grand Alliance, 107;
his relations with Marlborough and Anne, 110;
death, 112

William the Ætheling, i. 207

William the Lion, king of Scots, i. 255, 259; ii. 134

William Longsword, duke of Normandy, i. 155

William, son of Robert of Normandy, i. 203, 208, 213, 214

William of Jumièges, i. 6

William of the Long Beard, i. 319, 320

Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, v. 255, 353, 371

Williams, Roger, v. 312, 313

Willis, Thomas, vi. 166

Willoughby, Hugh, iv. 282; v. 9

Wiltshire, rising in, iii. 67

Wiltshire, Thomas Boleyn, Earl of, iii. 291.
_See_ Boleyn

Wiltshire, William Scrope, Earl of, iii. 18

Winceby, skirmish at, vi. 33

Winchelsey, Archbishop of Canterbury,
opposes Edward I., ii. 163, 165, 170;
head of the "Ordainers," 188

Winchester
surrendered to William the Conqueror, i. 165;
welcomes Stephen, 215;
battle at, 220;
pillaged by the younger Simon de Montfort, ii. 82;
marriage of Philip and Mary at, iv. 86;
Ælfred's abbey at, i. 113;
Wykeham's college at, ii. 307;
the royal hoard at, 180, 188;
Parliament at, ii. 66, 80, 82

Winchester, William Paulet, first marquis of, iv. 65

Winchester, John Paulet, fifth marquis of, vi. 42

Winchester, Charles Paulet, sixth marquis of, vii. 37

Windebank, Secretary of State, v. 351

Windham, William, viii. 104, 156, 171

Windsor Castle
seized by John, i. 261;
surrendered by Edward to the barons, ii. 67;
rebuilt by Edward III., 252

Winter, Admiral De, viii. 127

Winthrop, John, v. 311, 313

Winwæd, battle of, i. 72, 73

Wippedsfleet, battle of, i. 33

Wishart, George, iv. 112

Witchcraft,
belief in, v. 105;
statute against, 105, 106;
Puritan action against, 106, 107

Witenagemot, the, i. 19, 132, 134, 135

Wither, George, v. 303

Witt, John de, vi. 242, 249, 268, 269

Wolsey, Thomas,
his rise, iii. 230;
policy, 231;
greatness, 236;
his industry, 237;
legate, 238;
negotiations with Francis and Charles, 240, 243;
hopes of the Papacy, 240, 241, 249;
revives benevolences, 244, 251;
demands a forced loan, 244;
struggle with the Commons, 245;
with the clergy, 246;
his power shaken, 253;
attitude towards Lutheranism, 261, 263;
founds Cardinal College, 202, 263;
action in the king's divorce, 269, 270;
embassy to France, 271;
negotiations with the Pope, _ib._, 272;
his unpopularity, 273;
commissioner for the divorce, 272;
his fall, 279, 280;
suppresses monasteries, 311;
arrested, 292;
death, 293;
Cavendish's _Life of_, 83

Woodstock, Edmund, earl of, ii. 293

Woodstock, Thomas of, ii. 293.
_See_ Gloucester

Woodville, Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV., iii. 124, 167, 168, 171, 176

Woodville, Sir Richard, iii. 124.
_See_ Rivers

Woodward, John, vi. 167

Wool,
grants of, by Parliament to the king, ii. 230;
taxation of, 107, 164, 298;
trade in, under Edward I., 107;
under Edward III., 226;
monopolized by him, 229;
in the eighteenth century, viii. 53

Woolsack, the Lord Chancellor's, ii. 226

Worcester,
rising at, under Harthacnut, i. 148;
threatened by Owen Glyndwr, iii. 18

Worcester, Thomas Percy, earl of, iii. 13, 14

Worcester, John Tiptoft, earl of, iii. 162

Worcester, William of, ii. 179; iii. 40

Worcestershire, salt springs in, ii. 107

Wordsworth, William, viii. 135

Worms,
diet at, iii. 254;
Tyndale at, 260

Worsted trade, iv. 279

Wriothesley, Lord Chancellor, iv. 46.
_See_ Southampton

Wulfhere, king of Mercia, i. 78, 85-87

Wulfstan, St., bishop of Worcester, i. 192, 250

Wulfstan explores the coast of Esthonia, i. 113

Wurmser, General, viii. 123

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the elder, iv. 42

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the younger, iv. 82, 84, 85

Wycherly, William, vi. 157, 163

Wyclif, John, ii. 275-277;
his treatise _De Dominio Divino_, 278, 279;
commissioner for negotiations with the Pope, 303;
his denunciation of Church property, 308, 309;
summoned to trial for heresy, 309, 310;
his "Simple Priests," 317;
denies Transubstantiation, 337;
condemned at Oxford, _ib._;
at Blackfriars, 339;
his English tracts, 338, 356;
petition to king and Parliament, 342;
his _Fasciculi Zizamorum_, 178;
_Trias_, _ib._;
his Bible, 178, 343;
cited to Rome, 343;
death, 344

Wykeham, William of, bishop of Winchester, ii. 302, 305, 307-309

Wykes's _Chronicle_, i. 274

Wyndham, Sir William, vii. 168, 184

Wolfe, General, vii. 267, 268

Yeoman, the English, ii. 240, 241

Yonge's (Walter) _Diary_, v. 71

York,
capital of Roman Britain, i. 36;
occupied by William I., 167;
stormed by rebels, 168;
massacre of Jews at, ii. 129;
provincial council at, 120;
Parliament at, 195;
held for Elizabeth by Lord Sussex, iv. 269;
Charles I. at, v. 337, 378;
besieged by Manchester, Fairfax, and Leven, vi. 18;
surrenders, 22;
its common pastures, i. 296;
school at, 91;
six shires of, 295;
four wards, 296

York, Edmund of Langley, Duke of (_see_ Cambridge),
supports Richard II., ii. 370;
regent, 379

York, Edward, duke of (_see_ Albemarle, Rutland), iii. 15

York, Frederick, duke of, viii. 108, 110, 140

York, Richard, duke of (_see_ Cambridge), iii. 30;
Regent of France, 56, 57;
recalled, 60;
sent to Ireland, 62, 63;
returns, 67;
struggle with Henry VI., 68-70;
Protector of the Realm, 72;
marriage, 73;
rises in arms, _ib._;
Protector again, 74;
raises his standard at Ludlow, _ib._;
flies to Ireland, 75;
victory at Northampton, _ib._;
his claims to the crown, 75-77;
slain, 78

York House (Whitehall) built, iii. 236

Yorkshire,
Pilgrimage of Grace in, iii. 322;
rise of manufactures in, v. 281

York Town, Cornwallis's surrender at, viii. 32

Young, member for Bristol in 1450, iii. 68

Zaragoza, siege of, viii. 187

Zorndorf, battle of, vii. 263

_Zürich Letters_, the, iv. 4

Zutphen, battle of, iv. 349

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Transcriber's Notes:

This is the index for the 8 volume set of History of the English People. It was included at the end of Volume VIII in the original. For ease in accessibility, it has been removed and produced as a separate volume.

Words in italics in the original are surrounded by _underscores_.

The following corrections have been made to the text:

Page 213: Æthelflæd{original has Ætheflæd}, Lady of the
Mercians

Page 222: under the entry, Burgundy, Philip III., withdraws
his troops from siege of Orleans{original has Orléans}

Page 237: under the entry, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII.,
Parliament refuses to oust her from the succession{original
has sucession}

Page 244: Gilbert, William, discovers terrestrial{original has
terrestial} magnetism

Page 282: Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley{original has
Wroithesley}, fourth Earl of