New York Times, 767. Norham, award of, 231. Norman conquerors, distribution of land among, 103.
Norman Conquest, 90; account of, by Wace, 95; by Symeon of Durham, 101; immediate re- sults of, 102.
Normans, account of, by William of Malmesbury, 102. North, Lord, 641; correspondence of George III with, 634. North Briton, The, No. 45, 615. Northumbria, conversion of, 49; missionaries in, from Scotland,
Northwest passage, 394. Notitia Dignitatum, 29.
Offa, letter from Charles the Great to, 56.
Old-age pensions, 769, 777. Orange, prince of, letter to, from James II, 538.
Ordeal, trial by, in Assize of Clarendon, 142.
Ordeal of iron, rules for, 79. Order of the Garter, 247. Orderic Vitalis, account of dis- tribution of lands to Norman conquerors, 103; account of the New Forest, 106.
Ordinances of spur makers of
London, 209; of white-leather dressers of London, 211. Orleans, siege of, 290; relief of, 292.
Oswald, king of Northumbria, 51. Oswald, St., Life of, 85. Overseas interests of Englishmen, in 1914, 801.
Owen Glendower, revolt of, 283. Oxford, University of, 194.
Pace, Richard, letter of, to Cardi-
nal Wolsey, 333. Palmerston, Lord,715,728; speech of, in 1850, 804. Papal appointments, law against
Englishmen seeking, 250. Papendieck, Madame, journal of, 654.
Papists under Anne, 562. Parker, R., letter of, to Sir J. Graham, 713. Parliament, growth of, 279; speech of Queen Elizabeth in, 415; speech of James I in, 426; con- flict of, with James I, 451; scene in, 1629, 460; dispute of Charles I with, 477; purchase of seats in, 644.
Parliament Act, 1911, 787. Parliamentary committee, testi- mony of factory laborers before, 692.
Parliamentary Debates, 679. Parliamentary reform completed, 735.
Parliamentary theories, 418. Paschal, Pope, letter of, to Henry I, 126.
Past and Present, by Thomas Carlyle, 201.
Peasants' Rebellion, account of, by Henry Knighton, 261. Peel, Sir Robert, letter of Sir J. Graham to, 714.
Penal laws ineffective, 673. Pennsylvania, 626.
Pensions, old-age, 769, 777.
People oppressed by barons, 129. Pepys, Samuel, 508; extracts from diary of, 508.
Percy, George, extracts from diary of, 443.
Perjury, punishment for, 81. Persia, Anglo-Russian treaty con- cerning, 805.
Peterloo, battle of, 666.
Peter Plymley's Letters, by Sydney Smith, 675.
Peter's pence, 89.
Petition of Right, extracts from, 458.
Petition of the Seven Bishops, 541. Pevensey, landing at, 97. Philip II, unpopularity of, in Eng- land, 364; marriage of, with Queen Mary, 366.
Philip IV, defiance of, by Edward,
Philobiblon, extracts from, 193. Pilgrim Fathers, 445.
Pitt, William, early appearance of, 583; letter to, from General Wolfe, 596; resignation of, 606; character sketch of, by Lord Chesterfield, 607; character sketch of, in Annual Register, 608; speech of, 623.
Pius IV, letter of, to Queen Eliza- beth, 373.
Plains of Abraham, battle of, 599. Plimouth Plantation, History of, by Bradford, 446. Pole, Cardinal, 326. Poll tax, 260.
Pope, stanza on Walpole, 579. Post-office system, 697. Potato blight, 713.
Pottery industry, organization of, as a Whitley Council, 819. Praemunire, statute of, 251. Prayer for use on Queen Eliza- beth's festival day, 409. Presbyterians, 564.
Prestonpans, Jacobite victory at, 581.
Princes, murder of, 304. Proclamation of Queen Victoria to people of India, 1858, 721. Provisors, preamble of a
against, 250. Prynne, William, trial of, in Star Chamber, 463.
Public Advertiser, letter to, from Junius, 622.
Public schools, free, 741.
Pultney, Daniel, letter of William Pultney to, 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. Quarterly Review, 801. Quebec, 596; capture of, 598.
Radicals, contests of, with Con- servatives, 663.
Raleigh, Lady, letter of Sir Walter Raleigh to, from Guiana, 440. Raleigh, Sir Walter, History of the Worid, 437; letter of, to Prince Henry, 439; letter of, to his wife, 440.
Ralph of Diceto, account of the penance of Henry II by, 158. Ramsey abbey, seizure of, 130. Rebellion, the Great, 467. Reconstruction, ministry of, 816, 817.
Rectitudines Singularum Persona- rum, 73.
Reflections on the French Revolu- tion, by Burke, 647. Reform Bill, 679, 680, 683, 688,735,
747; dissatisfaction with, 701. Reform legislation, 669, 690, 739- Religious organization under Queen Anne, 561.
Religious tests abolished at uni- versities, 739.
Resolutions adopted in parliament, 1629, 462.
Responsible Government for the Colonies, 755-
Restoration, 505.
Reversion tax, 782. 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 of Carew to, 441. Roger of Hoveden, 145.
Roger of Wendover, 179.
Rolle, Colonel Lord, letter of Colonel Lamy to, 665. Roman Catholic Church, Macaulay on, 674.
Roman Catholics in England, un- der Elizabeth, 385; answers of, 386, 387.
Roman de Rou, by Wace, 95. Roman inscriptions, 31.
Romans, first invasion of Britain by, 10; second invasion of Britain by, 12.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 643, 644; letter of Sir Francis Horner to, 646.
Root and Branch Petition, 473. Roper, Life of More, extracts from,
Rosebery, Lord, speeches of, 774, 790.
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, Bertrand, Justice in War- time, 808.
Russell, Lord John, speech of, on Reform Bill, 680; description of, 728.
Russia, emperor of, visit of, to England, 669.
Russian treaty with England, 1907, 805.
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, III.
Saxons, settlement in Britain, 35, 40.
Schools, free public, 741.
Science of society, aim of Labor party, 828.
Scotland, early conquest of, 26; union with, during reign of Anne, 566.
Senlac, battle of, 94.
Servatius, letter of Erasmus to, 315.
Services of villeins, 215.
Seven bishops, petition of the, 541.
Severus, Emperor, 28.
Sforza, Francisco, letter of Rai- mondo Soncino to, 311. Shaftesbury, earl of, character sketch of, 514.
Shaw, G. B., on socialism, 798. Ship money, writ of, 465. Shire moot, meeting of, 77. Shortest Way with Dissenters, by Daniel Defoe, 565.
Sidmouth, Lord, letter of duke of Wellington to, 666; letter of Secretary of Prince Regent to, 669.
Sidney, Sir Henry, letter of, to his son, 412.
Sidney, Philip, letter to, from his father, 412.
Sidney, Robert, journal of, 498. Silver Box, The, by John Gals- worthy, 791.
Simon de Montfort, 221, 224. Sixtinus, letter of Erasmus to, 315. Skelton, John, Why come ye not to
Slave trade, abolition of, 1806, 651. Sluys, battle before, 238. Smith, Sydney, 643; letter of Francis Horner to, 646; Peter Plymley's Letters, 675. Smithfield, conference at, 264. Smyth, William, account of, 269. Snowden, Philip, speech of, in
Speaker, The, 766.
Spinning machine, 613. Sports, Declaration of, 421. Stamford Bridge, battle of, 93. Stamp Act, 623.
Star Chamber, 441, 463. Starkey, Thomas, 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; ar- rests 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. Submarine, 814.
Submission of the Clergy, 340. Suetonius, Roman governor, 24. Sully, Duc de, extracts from mem- oirs 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 by, 101.
Tacitus, Cornelius, description of Britain by, 4; on origin of Brit- ons, 18; on conquest of Britain, 22; Annales, 23; on revolt in Mona, 23; Germania, 41. Tallard, Count, letter of, to Louis XIV, 555; letter of Louis XIV to, 558.
Tanks used in the Great War, 814. Taxes, early control of, by parlia- ment, 279.
Tewkesbury, battle of, 298. Third reform bill, 747. Thomas of Canterbury, character of, 143; as chancellor, 144; and
Henry, 144; dispute of, with Henry, 145; before pope, 150; murder of, 155; canonization of, 159; miracles of, 160. Thomas of Elmham, 288. Times, The London, 710. Times, The New York, 767. Tobacco, 419.
Toleration Act, adoption of, 1689, 548.
To the Colonies, by William Wat- son, 764.
Tournament at Windsor, 246. Towns, list of small, represented in 1832, 686.
Towns and gilds, 208.
Townshend, Lord, letter of Sir Robert Walpole to, 575.
Townshend, speech of, in House of Commons, 626.
Trade, free, resolution in favor of, 1852, 715.
Trade unions, legalized, 742; ex- tracts from minority report on, 743.
Trades Union Congress, 798. Trafalgar, 655.
Treatise on the Astrolabe, by Chau- cer, 274.
Trevisa, John of, on position of French in England, 273. Triple Alliance, 805. Triple Entente, 805.
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.
Ulster, problem of, 831. Unearned increment, 780. Uniformity, Act of, 371. Union, Act of, between England and Scotland, 566; between Great Britain and Ireland, 651. United States, sympathy with Eng- land, 766.
Universities, 188; rules, 188; fees, 189; books studied, 190; as- sistance 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 of, to Leopold, 700. Victory, Nelson's vessel, 655. Villein, services of a, 215. Virgin Mary at Caversham, 345. Vitalis, Orderic, account of Norman
landlords in England by, 103. Voice of Toil, The, by William Morris, 795.
Wace, Roman de Rou, 95. Wager of battle, 105.
Wales, letter from, to King Henry IV, 283.
Walpole, Horace, letters of, to Sir Horace Mann, 580, 605, 606, 618, 621; letter of, to John Chute, 589; letters of, to earl of Hertford, 619. Walpole, Sir Robert, 574; letter
of, to Lord Townshend, 575; letter of, to duke of Devonshire, 576; sketch of, by Lord Chester- field, 578; stanza on, by Pope, 579. Walsingham, Secretary, 401; letter of Admiral Howard to, 404; letter of Captain Drake to, 405.
Walton, Colonel Valentine, letter of Cromwell to, 481. War of 1914. See Great War. Wars of the Roses, 296. Waterloo, 657.
Watson, William, on Ireland, 751;
To the Colonies, 764. Watt, James, work of, 614. Waverley, annals of abbey of, 177.
Weaving, domestic, 611.
Weekly Register, Cobbett's, 663.
Wellington, duke of, speeches in parliament eulogizing, 657, 658; letter of, 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. Whitley Councils, 819; opposition to, 821.
Why come ye not to Court? by John Skelton, 334-
Wilkes, John, 617, 618. William I, edict of, on wager of battle, 105; coronation oath of, 105; charter of, to London, 105; charter of, to abbey of Abing- don, 106; description of, 107; contest with church, 109; edict for strengthening courts, 109; church rules, 110; laws of, 131. William II, accession of, 115; character of, 116.
William Fitz-Stephen, 144. William of Malmesbury, account of Normans by, 102; anecdote of William II by, 116. William de Newburgh, 130, 139. William of Orange, invasion of England by, 542.
William of Poitou, account of
battle of Hastings by, 98. William of Rishanger, 226. Willoubie, John, letter of Richard Alford to, 515.
Willoughby, John, letter of John Turbervill to, 477. Windsor, tournament at, 246. Winslow, 445; Hypocrisy Un-
Wolfe, General, letter of, to Mr. Pitt, 596; death of, 600. Wolsey, Cardinal, letter of Richard Pace to, 333. Woolen trade, 613.
Wraxall's Memoirs, 641.
Writ to sheriff for representatives,
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