Leopold, the Emperor, interferes against France, Leofwine, son of Godwin, 76 Leslie, General, takes command of Scotch conduct at Dunbar, 559 taken prisoner at Worcester, 573 Lewes, battle of; see Battles Lewis the Seventh of France, his struggle with Lewis, son of Philip Augustus, afterwards Lewis his influence on Edward the First, 178 his relations with James the Second, 651 his revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 651, his character, 658 his policy, 659, 660 his war against the allies, 668, 669 his intrigues about the Spanish succession, his treachery to William the Third, 688; Lewis the Fifteenth, the freedom of opinion in 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, Literature, English; see England, literature of Liverpool, Lord, his ministry, 804, 805 Llewellyn-ap-Jowerth, his struggles for inde- Llewellyn-ap-Gruffydd, his struggles for inde- Llywarch Hen; see Literature, Welsh Locke, John, his political teaching, 603, 604 later phases of, 251-253 protection of, by Richard the Second, 255 state of, in Henry the Sixth's reign, 267, 268 persecution of, its effect on Henry the effect on of Oldcastle's execution, 34a plundered by Danes, 42 relations of Normans and French to, 88, 89 welcomes Stephen, 97, 98 supports him, 98 welcomes the Barons, 123 faithful to Protestantism on Mary's acces its sympathy with the Long Parliament, London, John of, a pupil of Roger Bacon, 134 siege of, 672, 673 Longchamp, William, Bishop of Ely, makes an Longland, William, his history, 248, 249 his poem, 249, 250 Lords, House of, weakened by suppression of Luddites, riots of, 812 Luneville, treaty of, 794 Luther, his change of attitude, 314 his relation to the Revival of Letters, 315 advises Tyndale to translate the Bible, 342 Luttrell, Colonel, 750 Lydgate, his character as a poet, 288 Lyons, William, removed from court, 228 Malta, treatment of, by England, 795 Cromwell quarrels with, 536; see also Mandeville, Lord, a leader of the Presby- Manny, Walter de, 221, 222, 241 Mansel, a royal favourite of Henry the Third, Mantes, burning of, by William the First, 85 Mareschal, Earl William, his power on death Mareschal, Earl Richard, his resistance to Margaret of Anjou, her marriage, 276 his plots against William the Third, 679 the rest of his career. 695-700 Marlborough, Duchess of, her influence over Marsh, Adam, his reputation as a scholar, 146 Marshall, a Presbyterian minister, 526 Martin, Henry, 557, 564 Martin Marprelate, 460 Martin, a Papal legate driven from England, Masham, Mrs., 700 Massachusetts, attacks on the liberty of, 753 Massinger contrasted with Ben Jonson, 428 dispute about it with the Pope, ib. Maurice, Prince, his successes in Devonshire, Maurilius takes the place of Malger as Arch- May, his account of the atrocities of the Irish, its conquests in time of Penda, 23 rise of, after fall of Northumbria, 34-36 victories over Danes under Æthelred, 49 Mexico, attack of France on, 818 in Britain Middlesex election; see Wilkes, Luttrell his first poems, 511, 512 his sonnet on Massacre of Vaudois, 575 "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Re- efforts for freedom of the Press, 647 Monk, General, reduces the Highlands, 571 Monmouth, Duke of, brought forward by his progress through the country, 643 his flight, 646 Monmouth, Duke of-continued. his insurrection, defeat, and death, 649, 650 Montagu, his sermons before Parliament, 481 Montagu, a member of Whig Junto, 682 Montaigne, point of similarity between him Montcalm, General, 736, 737 Monteagle, Lord, the letter to, 463 Montesquicu, his account of religious state of his work in France, 773 Montfort, Simon de, his relations to the Roman the king's fear of him, 147, 148 his career in Gascony, 148, 149 his share in the Provisions of Oxford, 149, defeated by Argyle, 540, 541 Moravians, Wesley's relations with, 720 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 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 Murray, Earl of, leads the Lords of the Con- made Regent, 380 NAPOLEON; see Buonaparte Nelson, Admiral; see Battles, Villeneuve Newcastle, Duke of, his ignorance of the in- his corruption, 727, 728 his quarrel with Pitt, 742 Newton, Sir Isaac, his work, 599 Nimeguen, treaty of, 635 Nonconformists, effect on of the St. Bartholo Norfolk, Earl of, rebels against William the arrests Thomas Cromwell, 348 his expectations from the Emperor, 349 Norfolk, Duke of, his answer to James the Normandy described, 67 condition of, under William, 73 conquest of, by Henry the Fifth, 262, 263 conquests of, 70, 71 354 Northumberland, Earl of, rebels against Eliz effect of her treatment of him, 384 history of it till its conversion, 16-30 its anarchy after its fall, 38, 39; see also Norwich, separate French colony in, 89 Nottingham, peace of, 43, 44 Nowell, Dean, Elizabeth's treatment of him, 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 description of its early appearance, 128- Normans and Gascons come to, after divi- Chancellor of, his position' in the thirteenth takes place of University of Paris, 229 the centre of Lollardry, 235 degeneracy of learning at, in the fifteenth its zeal for Charles the First, 531 Oxford, Earl of, Burleigh's son-in-law, turns Paris, University of—continued. its reputation transferred to Oxford, 229 Paris, city of, rules France in 1792, 781 Parker, Matthew, made Archbishop of Can- his object, 371 his effect on the clergy, 378 his enforcement of uniformity, 457, 458 Parliaments, rise of, 164, 167-171 position of, in time of Edward the Third, attacks of, on the Pope, 229 decline of, under Lancastrians; see Com- claims of, to regulate succession after fall importance of, under Edward the Fourth, their relations with the Tudors, 393-397 Peckham, Archbishop, his reputation as a Peel, Sir Robert, supports the Wellington becomes Prime Minister, 815 his policy about free trade, 816 Pelhams, the, contrasted with Walpole, 712 his fall, 727 gives Pitt office, 729 Pencriche, Richard, a teacher in reign of Penda, his struggle against Northumbria, 20, 21, 23, 24 Penn, William, colonizes Pennsylvania, 738 554 Petition, Millenary, 464 of Right, 486, 487 Petre, Father, called to Privy Council, 655 Pevensey, William lands at, 75 Philip Augustus, hic relations with John, 109 Philip the Second of Spain, his marriage; see perceives hopelessness of persecution in puzzled at Elizabeth's power, 363 his character as a statesman, 403 Philips, Sir Robert, his speeches against Charles Picts, the, 6 their league with the Britons, 7 their defeat by the English, 8 Piers the Ploughman, vision of, 231; see also 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 refusal to return to office, 747 approves the resistance of America, 748; Pitt, William the younger, his first appearance moves for Parliamentary reform, 763, 764 his treatment of Warren Hastings, 766, compared with Walpole, 767 his answer to Fox about his policy towards his financial policy, 768-770, 771 his attitude about the slave trade, 772 about the French Revolution and about Prussia, 774, 775 his hopes from France, 777 his opposition to Burke, 778, 779 Plagues in Charles the Second's time, 615; see Plantagenet, origin of the name, 97 Pole, Michael de la, Earl of Suffolk, 254 his advice to Wolsey, 328 made Cardinal, 339 Pollock, General, his Afghan expedition, 816 Pope, claims of, on England. 82 attacks of Ockham and Wyclif on, 229-231 her presence at Charles the Second's Portreeve, his position in time of Henry the Portugal, relations of, with Spain and Eng- treatment of, at treaty of Fontainebleau, |