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Leopold, the Emperor, interferes against France,
780

Leofwine, son of Godwin, 76

Leslie, General, takes command of Scotch
forces, 516

conduct at Dunbar, 559

taken prisoner at Worcester, 573

Lewes, battle of; see Battles

Lewis the Seventh of France, his struggle with
Henry the Second, 102

Lewis, son of Philip Augustus, afterwards Lewis
the Eighth, his invasion of England, 126
his retreat from England, 128
Lewis the Ninth, his decision about the Pro-
visions of Oxford, 151

his influence on Edward the First, 178
Lewis the Fourteenth, his indignation at
William of Orange's marriage, 635
his pensions to Charles the Second, ib.
effect on his position of the treaty of Nime-
guen, ib.

his relations with James the Second, 651

his revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 651,
652

his character, 658

his policy, 659, 660

his war against the allies, 668, 669

his intrigues about the Spanish succession,
686-688

his treachery to William the Third, 688;
see also Holland, William of Orange,
Arlington, Dover, treaty of

Lewis the Fifteenth, the freedom of opinion in
France under him, 773

Lewis the Sixteenth, convokes the States-

General, 774

accepts the Constitution, 775

flies from Paris, 780

his imprisonment, 781

his death, 782

Lewis the Eighteenth, his flight from Paris,

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Literature, English; see England, literature of
Literature, Welsh, in twelfth and thirteenth
centuries, 155-157, 159, 160

Liverpool, Lord, his ministry, 804, 805
Livery companies; see Companies, Livery
Llewellyn of Wales, his alliance with Faukes
de Breaute, 138

Llewellyn-ap-Jowerth, his struggles for inde-
pendence, 159–162

Llewellyn-ap-Gruffydd, his struggles for inde-
pendence, 159-162

Llywarch Hen; see Literature, Welsh

Locke, John, his political teaching, 603, 604
Lollardry, revival of, and its suppression, 216
meaning of name, 235
struggle of, 235, 236

later phases of, 251-253

protection of, by Richard the Second, 255
persecution of, by Henry the Fourth and
Henry the Fifth, 258, 259

state of, in Henry the Sixth's reign, 267, 268
signs of its extinction, 275

persecution of, its effect on Henry the
Sixth, 277

effect on of Oldcastle's execution, 34a
Lothian becomes abode of Scotch kings, 53
London, its early commerce, 5

plundered by Danes, 42

relations of Normans and French to, 88, 89
shares in the religious revival of the twelft
century, 92

welcomes Stephen, 97, 98

supports him, 98

welcomes the Barons, 123

faithful to Protestantism on Mary's acces
sion, 354

its sympathy with the Long Parliament,
526-529

London, John of, a pupil of Roger Bacon, 134
Londonderry, foundation of, 445

siege of, 672, 673

Longchamp, William, Bishop of Ely, makes an
alliance between Otho and Richard, 109

Longland, William, his history, 248, 249

his poem, 249, 250

Lords, House of, weakened by suppression of
mitred abbots, 341; see also Parliament
Louis Philippe, 814

Luddites, riots of, 812

Luneville, treaty of, 794

Luther, his change of attitude, 314

his relation to the Revival of Letters, 315
reception of his doctrines in England, ;
see Leo, More

advises Tyndale to translate the Bible, 342
Ludlow, General, his share in the conquest of
Ireland, 572

Luttrell, Colonel, 750

Lydgate, his character as a poet, 288
Lyly, his "Euphues," 392

Lyons, William, removed from court, 228
Lyttelton leaves Long Parliament, 530

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Malta, treatment of, by England, 795
Man conquered by Eadwine, 16
Manchester, its Toryism in 1745, 725.
Manchester, Earl of, leads parliamentary
forces, 523

Cromwell quarrels with, 536; see also
Cromwell

Mandeville, Lord, a leader of the Presby-
terians, 526

Manny, Walter de, 221, 222, 241

Mansel, a royal favourite of Henry the Third,
144

Mantes, burning of, by William the First, 85
Manton, his scheme of Protestant compre-
hension, 623

Mareschal, Earl William, his power on death
of John, 126

Mareschal, Earl Richard, his resistance to
Henry, 141

Margaret of Anjou, her marriage, 276
Marlborough, Duke of, his exploits in Ireland,
677

his plots against William the Third, 679
his early career and character, 688-690
his rise in power under Anne, 690, 691
wins Blenheim, 693, 694

the rest of his career. 695-700
his opinion of Walpole, 701

Marlborough, Duchess of, her influence over
Anne, 689, 690
over her husband, ib.
Marlowe, 420, 421
Marmont, Marshal, 804

Marsh, Adam, his reputation as a scholar, 146
his relations to Grosseteste and de Mont-
fort, 147

Marshall, a Presbyterian minister, 526
Marston, a successor of Shakspere, 425
Marston Moor; see Battles

Martin, Henry, 557, 564

Martin Marprelate, 460

Martin, a Papal legate driven from England,

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Masham, Mrs., 700

Massachusetts, attacks on the liberty of, 753
Massena, Marshal, 801

Massinger contrasted with Ben Jonson, 428
Massey made Dean of Christ Church, 653, 654
Matilda of Flanders, her marriage, 73

dispute about it with the Pope, ib.
Matilda, wife of Henry the First, 87, 88
Maud, Henry's daughter, loved by him, 94
her struggle with Stephen, 98, 99

Maurice, Prince, his successes in Devonshire,
533

Maurilius takes the place of Malger as Arch-
bishop of Rouen, 73

May, his account of the atrocities of the Irish,

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its conquests in time of Penda, 23
effect on, of Theodore's arrangements, 30
great progress of, in later part of seventh
century, 30-32

rise of, after fall of Northumbria, 34-36
power of, under Offa, 39, 40
its fall, 41, 42

victories over Danes under Æthelred, 49
its relations to Wales, 157, 158
Meres, Francis, "Wit's Treasury," 424
his opinion of Shakspere, 425
Methodists, the, 720, 721

Mexico, attack of France on, 818
Middleton, as successor of Shakspere, 425
Middle-English; see English, their settlements

in Britain

Middlesex election; see Wilkes, Luttrell
Milton, John, his Puritanism, 451-459
his early career, 510

his first poems, 511, 512
his relation to Spinoza, ib.
his "Lycidas," 515

his sonnet on Massacre of Vaudois, 575
his career as illustrative of Puritanism,
582-584

"Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Re-
gained," and "Samson Agonistes," 584
-586

efforts for freedom of the Press, 647
Monasteries, rise of, in Northumbria, 25
Monks, attacks of Erasmus, Colet, Thomas
Cromwell, More on, 333, 334

Monk, General, reduces the Highlands, 571
circumstances of his restoration of Charles
the Second, 582

Monmouth, Duke of, brought forward by
Shaftesbury, 641

his progress through the country, 643
his arrest, 645

his flight, 646

Monmouth, Duke of-continued.

his insurrection, defeat, and death, 649, 650
Moore, Sir John, his career in Portugal, 800
Montacute besieged, 78

Montagu, his sermons before Parliament, 481
Montagu, made Earl of Sandwich by Charles
the Second, 605

Montagu, a member of Whig Junto, 682
becomes Chancellor of Exchequer, 683
his financial reforms, 683
driven from office, 685

Montaigne, point of similarity between him
and Shakspere, 428

Montcalm, General, 736, 737

Monteagle, Lord, the letter to, 463

Montesquicu, his account of religious state of
England, 717

his work in France, 773

Montfort, Simon de, his relations to the Roman
Church, 144

the king's fear of him, 147, 148

his career in Gascony, 148, 149

his share in the Provisions of Oxford, 149,

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defeated by Argyle, 540, 541

Moravians, Wesley's relations with, 720
More, Mrs. Hannah, her account of absence

of Bibles in England, 717

effect of her writing, 721

More, Sir Thomas, his allusion to Vespucci, 297

his character, 300

his opinion of Colet's school, 305

his career, 308-310

his " Utopia," 310-313

his answer to Luther, 315, 316

his opinion of Wolsey, 319

as Chancellor, 326, 327

his attacks on the monks, 333

his death, 336, 337

influence of his doctrines, 601

Morkere of Northumbria, supports Edgar the
Atheling, 77

reduced to submission by William, 78

Morrison, Robert, a botanist, 599

Mortimer, Roger, his career, 208

Mortimer, House of, its claims in the Lancas-

trian times, 261, 265

Moscow, retreat of, 804

Mountjoy, his rule in Ireland, 444

Mountmorris, his treatment by Wentworth, 501
Mowbray, Roger, rewarded by William the
First with grants of lands, 81
Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, captured
by Rufus, 86

Murray, Earl of, leads the Lords of the Con-
gregation, 378

made Regent, 380
Mutiny Act; see Statutes

NAPOLEON; see Buonaparte

Nelson, Admiral; see Battles, Villeneuve

Newcastle, Duke of, his ignorance of the in-
trigues of Austria and Russia, 726
his incapacity, 727

his corruption, 727, 728

his quarrel with Pitt, 742

Newton, Sir Isaac, his work, 599
Newton, the Evangelical, 721

Nimeguen, treaty of, 635

Nonconformists, effect on of the St. Bartholo
mew's Day of 1662, 609-611; see Pres
byterians, Methodists, Quakers

Norfolk, Earl of, rebels against William the
First, 84; see also Bigod, Earl
Norfolk, Duke of, his share in Henrythe Eighth's
divorce, 326

arrests Thomas Cromwell, 348

his expectations from the Emperor, 349
Norfolk, Duke of, his treason against Elizabeth,
383, 384

Norfolk, Duke of, his answer to James the
Second, 655

Normandy described, 67
civilization of, 68

condition of, under William, 73

conquest of, by Henry the Fifth, 262, 263
Normans, settlement of, in France, 67

conquests of, 70, 71

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354

Northumberland, Earl of, rebels against Eliz
beth, 382

effect of her treatment of him, 384
Northumbria, establishment of a kingdom
there, 15, 16

history of it till its conversion, 16-30
its fall, 34

its anarchy after its fall, 38, 39; see also
Æthelfrith, Æthelbert, Eadwine, Cuth-
bert, Oswald, Oswi, Whitby, Barca,
Cædmon

Norwich, separate French colony in, 89
Nothelm, his assistance to Bæda, 38
Nottingham, Lord, his opposition to Marl-
borough, 695

Nottingham, peace of, 43, 44

Nowell, Dean, Elizabeth's treatment of him,

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Bouvines, 121

Otho, the Papal legate, 141, 142

Oxford, medical school of Jews at, 83

Matilda's escape from, 98

Oxford. University of, its early history, 127
lectures of Vacarius at, 128

description of its early appearance, 128-
131

Normans and Gascons come to, after divi-
sions at Paris, 132

Chancellor of, his position' in the thirteenth
century, 132

takes place of University of Paris, 229
Provisions of, 149-151

the centre of Lollardry, 235

degeneracy of learning at, in the fifteenth
century, 288

its zeal for Charles the First, 531
Oxford, Earl of, Henry the Seventh's treatment
of him, 296

Oxford, Earl of, Burleigh's son-in-law, turns
Roman Catholic, 401

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Paris, University of—continued.
dissensions in, 132

its reputation transferred to Oxford, 229
treatment of, in Cranmer's canvass, 328
Paris, treaty of, 762

Paris, city of, rules France in 1792, 781
Parish, origin of, 3c

Parker, Matthew, made Archbishop of Can-
terbury, 370

his object, 371

his effect on the clergy, 378

his enforcement of uniformity, 457, 458
Parker, the Roman Catholic president of Mag-
dalene College, 654

Parliaments, rise of, 164, 167-171

position of, in time of Edward the Third,
224-228

attacks of, on the Pope, 229

decline of, under Lancastrians; see Com-
mons, House of

claims of, to regulate succession after fall
of Henry the Sixth, 278

importance of, under Edward the Fourth,
283

their relations with the Tudors, 393-397
their feeling about Protestantism, 354,

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Peckham, Archbishop, his reputation as a
scholar, 147

Peel, Sir Robert, supports the Wellington
Ministry, 814

becomes Prime Minister, 815

his policy about free trade, 816

Pelhams, the, contrasted with Walpole, 712
Pelham, Henry, his rise, 722

his fall, 727

gives Pitt office, 729

Pencriche, Richard, a teacher in reign of
Edward the Third, 212

Penda, his struggle against Northumbria, 20,

21, 23, 24

Penn, William, colonizes Pennsylvania, 738

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554

Petition, Millenary, 464

of Right, 486, 487
Petitioners and abhorters, 643

Petre, Father, called to Privy Council, 655
Petty, Sir William, an economist, 598

Pevensey, William lands at, 75

Philip Augustus, hic relations with John, 109
his effect on Arthur's cause, 111

Philip the Second of Spain, his marriage; see
Mary

perceives hopelessness of persecution in
England, 860

puzzled at Elizabeth's power, 363
Elizabeth's use of, 368

his character as a statesman, 403

Philips, Sir Robert, his speeches against Charles
the First, 481

Picts, the, 6

their league with the Britons, 7

their defeat by the English, 8

Piers the Ploughman, vision of, 231; see also
Longland

Pilgrimage of grace, 338

Pillnitz, conference of, 780

Pitt, William, the elder leads the "Boys," 714

his career in office, 727-732

effects of it, 737

effects of his assistance to Frederick, 740

George the Second's dislike of him, 741
his fall, 742

his refusal to return to office, 747

approves the resistance of America, 748;
see also Chatham, Earl of

Pitt, William the younger, his first appearance
in Parliament, 763

moves for Parliamentary reform, 763, 764
his struggle against the coalition, 765
his India Bill, 765

his treatment of Warren Hastings, 766,
767

compared with Walpole, 767

his answer to Fox about his policy towards
France, 767

his financial policy, 768-770, 771
failure of his Bill for Parliamentary Re-
form, 770

his attitude about the slave trade, 772
about the regency, 774

about the French Revolution and about

Prussia, 774, 775

his hopes from France, 777

his opposition to Burke, 778, 779
supports Fox's Libel Bill, 779

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Plagues in Charles the Second's time, 615; see
also Black Death

Plantagenet, origin of the name, 97
Poggio, his view of English literature, 288
Poland, relation of, to Protestantism, 462
divisions of, 774, 775, 783

Pole, Michael de la, Earl of Suffolk, 254
Pole Réginald, his view of Henry the Eighth's
character, 301

his advice to Wolsey, 328

made Cardinal, 339

Pollock, General, his Afghan expedition, 816
Poor; see Statutes, Peasantry
Poor Law Reform, 815

Pope, claims of, on England. 82

attacks of Ockham and Wyclif on, 229-231
Porter, John, in Bonner's time, 447
Portsmouth, Duchess of, supports the exclu-
sion Bill, 644

her presence at Charles the Second's
death-bed, 649

Portreeve, his position in time of Henry the
First, 89

Portugal, relations of, with Spain and Eng-
land, 623

treatment of, at treaty of Fontainebleau,

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