Abingdon, abbey of, charter to,
106.
Act of Annates, first, 341.
Act of House of Commons declar-
ing England a commonwealth,
495.
Act of Uniformity, 371.
Act of Union, between England
and Scotland, 566; between
Great Britain and Ireland, 651.
Acts of Supremacy, 343, 369.
Adam of Bremen, 86.
Adam of Murimuth, 246.
Adam of Usk, extracts from
chronicle of, 252.
Adams, John, first American min-
ister, 637.
Elfrici Colloquium, 71.
Aëroplane, 813, 814.
Agincourt, battle of, 286.
Agricola, campaign of, in Cale-
donia, 26.
Alan of Canterbury, 150.
Albemarle, duke of, letter of, to
duke of Monmouth, 537; letter
of duke of Monmouth to, 537.
Albert, Prince, 700.
Alcuin, letter of, to the Kentish-
men, 57.
Alexander, Pope, letter of, to his
legates in England, 159.
Alford, Richard, letter of, to John
Willoubie, 515.
Alfred, Life of, by Asser, 63; ac-
cession of, 62, 64; Dooms of,
80; reforms of, 67.
America, discovery of, 306; set-
tlement of, 443; civil war in,
729.
American colonies, 623.
Angles and Saxons, first conquests
of, 35.
Anglesea, revolt in, 23.
Angliae Notitiae, by Chamber-
layne, 561.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 38; ex-
tracts from, 59, 73, 83, 107, III,
127.
Annales, by Cornelius Tacitus,
23.
Annates, Act of, first, 341.
Anne, reign of, 560.
Annual Register, 608.
Anselm, letter of Henry I to,
Appeals, Statute of, 342.
Areopagitica, 478.
Arkwright, Sir Richard, 613.
Arles, Council of, 31.
Armada, 403, 405.
Arms, Assize of, 143.
Ascham, Roger, concerning Eliza-
beth's learning, 408.
Asser, Life of Alfred, 63; arrival
of, at Alfred's court, 68.
Assize of Arms, 143.
Assize of Clarendon, 141.
Attainder, bill of, against Strafford,
Atticus, letters of Cicero to, 14.
Augustine's mission, 47.
Australia, 600.
Babylonian Captivity of the Church
On the, by Luther, 332.
Bacon, Francis, Essays, 436.
Bagehot, Walter, English Consti-
tution, 786.
Baillie, Robert, diary of, 467.
Balkans, question of ascendancy
in, 807.
Ball, John, sermon of, 260; libera-
tion of, 262.
Balliol, John, 231.
Bannockburn, battle of, 232.
Baptists, 562.
Barillon, letter of, to Louis XIV, 532.
Barons, conspiracy of, in 1213,
179; conflicts of, with Henry
III, 217; war of, 222.
Battle Abbey, 107.
Battle of Peterloo, 666.
Bede, Ecclesiastical History, 36,
53; account of Augustine's mis-
sion by, 47; account of conver-
sion of Northumbria, by, 49.
Belgium, question of the neutrality
of, in 1914, 807, 808.
Benevolences, invention of, 300.
Beowulf, 44.
Bill of attainder against Strafford,
470.
Bill of Rights, 545.
Bishops, Puritan attack on, 423.
Black Death, 255.
Black Hole of Calcutta, 590.
Black Prince, 244, 275.
Blakman, 296.
Blenheim, battle of, 560.
Blore Heath, battle of, 297.
Boadicea, revolt under, 23; speech
Boleyn, Anne, letter of Henry VIII
to, 336.
Bolingbroke, Lord, letter of, to
Sir William Wyndham, 576.
Book of Martyrs, 358.
Borley in Essex, extent of, 212.
Braddock's defeat, 595.
Bradford's History, 445.
Bread riots, 665.
Breda, Declaration of, 505; recep-
tion of, by parliament, 507.
Bretigny, Treaty of, 247.
Bright, John, description of, 727;
letter of, to P. Hartley, 747;
speech of, in 1861, 729.
Britain, early description of, 1;
conquest of, under Claudius,
20, 22; decay of, 32.
British Empire, foundation of, 551.
Britons, description of, 15; cus-
toms of, 16.
Brown, William Wells, 726.
Bruce, 232.
Brunanburh, battle of, 73.
Buckingham, letters of James I to,
433, 434; letters of, to James I,
435; dispute concerning, 455;
impeachment of, 456.
Budget of 1909, 779, 783, 784.
Burke, Edmund, 608; Conciliation
with America, 628; Reflections
on the French Revolution, 647.
Burnet, Bishop, 542, 548, 551;
History of the Reformation, 511;
History of His Own Time, 551.
Burney, Miss, at court of George
III, 652.
Cabot, John, 306, 312, 313.
Cædmon, 53.
Cæsar, Gaius Julius, description
of Britain by, 2; invasions of
Britain by, 10, 12; description
of the Britons by, 15.
Calais, sea fight before, 407.
Caledonia, early conquest of, 26.
Cambridge, coroner's inquest at,
Campbell, Captain, 554.
Campion, Edmund, execution of,
389.
Canada, Lord Durham's report on,
757; attracted to United States,
758; proposal for self-govern-
ment of, 759.
Canals, 612.
Canterbury, sack of, 60.
Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's, 274;
extract from, 274.
Capgrave, John, extract from
chronicle of, 286.
Carew, letters of, to Roe, 441.
Carey, Robert, extracts from mem-
oirs of, 406; letter of, to his
father, 411.
Carlyle, Thomas, Past and Present,
Catalogue of Lucubrations, by
Erasmus, 316.
Catherine of Aragon, 337.
Catholic Emancipation Act, 1829,
678.
Catholics, struggle with, 382.
Cavendish, Thomas, 396.
Caxton, 328; prologue to transla-
tion of Virgil's Æneid by, 328.
Cecil, William, 368.
Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitiae,
561.
Chandos, marquis of, speech of,
1831, 684.
Charles, Prince, letter of James I
to, 434.
Charles the Great, letter of, to Offa,
56.
Charles I, letters of, 470, 472, 478,
482; efforts of, to save Strafford,
471; intrusion of, into House of
Commons, 475; dispute of, with
parliament, 477; trial of, 485; sen-
tence of High Court of Justice
upon, 486; death warrant of,
489; account of last night of,
489; execution of, 490; stanzas
on death of, 491.
Charles II, character sketch of,
511; social conditions under,
515; effort of, to introduce free-
dom of worship, 518; death of,
532; mock epitaph on, 534.
Charm for bees, 45.
Charter of city of Lincoln, 208.
Chartism, 701.
Chartist petition, 702.
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 274;
Treatise on the Astrolabe, 274.
Chesterfield, Lord, character
sketches of George I, 571; of
George II, 572; of Walpole,
578; of William Pitt, 607.
Christianity, in Roman Britain,
31; in England, 46; in Kent,
47; in Northumbria, 49; in
East Anglia, 52.
Christians in Britain, A.D. 314,
32.
Chronicon Angliae, 258.
Church, oldest in England, 49.
Church courts, edict to strengthen,
Church rules, by William I, 110.
Churchill, Winston, speeches of,
784, 786.
Chute, John, letter of Horace
Walpole to, 589.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, letters of,
to Atticus, 14.
Cistercians, 204; in England, 205.
Civil War in America, 729.
Civis Romanus Sum speech of
Lord Palmerston, 804.
Clarendon, Assize of, 141.
Clarendon, Constitutions of, 147.
Clarendon, Council of, 146.
Clarendon, earl of, character
sketch of, 513.
Clergy, submission of, 340.
Clive, treaty between Meer Jaffier
and, 592.
Cloune, Sir Cornelius, miracle of,
269.
Cnut, 84, 86; letter from, 87.
Cobbett, Weekly Register, 663.
Cobden, description of, 726.
Coffee-House, Character of a, 529.
Colloquium Alfrici, 71.
Colonies, concentration of power
over, 755; self-government in,
761; speech concerning reten-
tion of, 762.
Colonies, To the, by William Wat-
son, 764.
Colonization, an opinion adverse
to, 1790, 752.
Commerce and explorations, 394.
Commonwealth, 467, 495.
Communist Manifesto, 796.
Conciliation with America, by Ed-
mund Burke, 628.
Conflicts between Henry III and
barons, 217.
Conservatives, contests of, with
radicals, 663.
Constitutions of Clarendon, 147.
Conway, General, 636.
Cook, James, extracts from
journal of, 601.
Corn laws, 701.
Corn-Law Rhymes, by Ebenezer
Elliott, 708.
Coronation charter of Henry I,
Council of Arles, 31.
Council of Clarendon, 146.
Count de Feria, Spanish ambassa-
dor, 362.
Court of High Commission, 463.
Danes, invasion of, 57; battles of,
62.
Danish conquest, 83.
Darnley, Lord, 377.
Death warrant of Charles I, 489.
Declaration of Breda, 505; recep-
tion of, by parliament, 507.
Declaration of Indulgence, 539.
Declaration of Sports, 421.
Declaratory Act, 1766, 625.
Defence of the Realm Acts, 809.
Defence of the Seven Sacraments, 332.
Defender of the Faith, 333.
Defoe, Daniel, 564; The Shortest
Way with Dissenters, 565.
Delhi, 716.
Demand for throne made by
Henry of Lancaster, 277.
Democracy, growth of, 716.
Devonshire, duke of, letter of mar-
quis of Hartington to, 577; let-
ter of Sir Robert Walpole to, 576.
D'Ewes, Sir Simonds, autobiog-
raphy of, 455.
Diamond Jubilee, 765.
Digges, Sir Dudley, 456.
Dio Cassius, on invasion of Britain
under Claudius, 20.
Diodorus Siculus, description of
early Britain by, 2.
Diplomatic support of investors
abroad, 803, 805.
Discussion in House of Commons,
1780, 640.
Dispute concerning territory west
of Allegheny Mountains, 593-
Disraeli, description of, 723, 727.
Dissenters, 561.
Dissolution of monasteries, 344.
Divine right of kings, 538.
Domesday survey, 108, 111, 112;
report of possessions of abbey of
Ely in, 112; extracts from, 113.
Dooms of Alfred, 80.
Don Pacifico incident, 103.
Doughty, Thomas, court martial
of, 397:
Drake, Sir Francis, 396; letter of,
to Secretary Walsingham, 405.
Dudley, Sir Robert, 376.
Dunning's resolutions, 641.
Durham, Lord, report of, on
Canada, 757.
Dutch, hostility of, to English in
New Amsterdam, 520.
Eadmer, extracts from chronicle
of, 110, 115, 127.
East Angles, introduction of Chris-
tianity among, 52.
East India Company, 721.
Ecclesiastical History of England,
by Bede, 36, 53.
Edgar, ordinance of, for the hun-
dred moot, 78.
Edict concerning wager of battle,
by William, 105.
Edinburgh Review, 614, 697.
Edmund Ironside's grandchildren,
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