INDEX. ABERDEEN, Earl of, prime minister, Amusements stopped by Puritans, 426; resigns, 433 "Addled" parliament, the, 203 Addington succeeds Pitt as prime minister, 360; resigns, 365 Afghanistan invaded by British, 417; rising of people, 418; retreat from, 418; second invasion, 419; third invasion, 456 Aghrim, battle of, 284 Agincourt, battle of, 107 Agriculture, improvements in, 343 Akbar Khan, commander of the "Alabama," the privateer, 418 241, 248 Anderida, site of, 9 Angles, their origin, 7; conquest by, Anne, Queen, succession settled on, - of Cleves, married to Henry VIII., Anselm, appointed archbishop of Alexander III., King of Scotland, Arkwright, inventions of, 344 Alfred the Great, chosen king, 20; "All the Talents," ministry of, 368 336 Amiens, peace of, 363 Arlington, minister of Charles II., Armada, the preparation of, 180; de- Augustine, St, first archbishop of Austria opposes Russia, 427 duke of, arrests Richard I., 57 BABINGTON Conspiracy, 180 Bacon, Francis, 209 Badajoz, capture of, 381 Baffin's Bay, discovery of, 175 Ball, John, 91 Balaclava, battle of, 430 land, 76; deposed, 76 Bonaparte-Continued. 369; in Spain, 373; in Russia, 382; Boston, tea thrown overboard at, Balliol, John, crowned King of Scot- Boulogne, camp at, 365 Ballot act, 453 Bannockburn, battle of, 82 Bantry Bay, French fleet at, 358 Baptists in Cromwell's army, 284 "Barebones" parliament, 241 Barnet, battle of, 123 Beachy Head, battle of, 284 Bow, use of the, 77 Boyne, battle of the, 284 Braddock, General, 317 Breda, ace of, 254 Bretigny, peace of, 89 Bribery, cases of, 306, 396 Bridgewater canal, 343 Bright, John, aids Anti-corn-law League, 420 Becket, Thomas, becomes archbish- Brindley, James, introduces canals, Beaconsfield. Lord, 456 op, 51; murder, 52 Bede, 26 Benevolences, 123, 134 Bengal, 325 Berlin, treaty of, 456 Bible, translations of the, 147, 196 Bishops abolished in Scotland, 223 - the Seven, 274 Black Death, the, 41 Black Hole, the, 324 Black Prince, his bravery, 87; cru elty, 88; death, 93 Black Sea, naval war in, 427; Russia not to have a fleet in, 434 Blake, Admiral, 241 Blanketeers, the, 389 Blenheim, battle of, 295 Boleyn, Anne, married to Henry VIII., 144; beheaded, 149 Bolingbroke, Lord, 301 -, Henry of, 100 [see Henry IV.] Bombay, 323 Bonaparte, Napoleon, rise of, 351; in Egypt, 355; becomes civil ruler, 361; plan for invading England, 366; exclusion of British goods, Burghley, Lord, minister of Eliza- | Catesby, plot of, 199 beth, 189 Burgoyne, surrender of, 333 Burgundy, Duke of, murder of, 111 Burke, Edmund, wisdom of, 328 Byron, Lord, death of, 398 CABAL ministry, 254 Cabinet, origin of the, 300 Cabul occupied by British army, 417; Calais, siege of, 87; loss of. 164 Calcutta, foundation of, 323; seized by natives, 325 California visited by Drake, 174 Catherine of Arragon, married to Cato Street conspiracy, 392 Campbell, Sir Colin, commands in Charles I. plan to marry the Infanta, India, 441 Campbell, Thomas, quoted, 362 from ministry, 377; his liberal foreign policy, 392; favors Catholic emancipation, 395; becomes prime minister, 398; opposes parliamentary reform, 397; death, 398 Canning, Lord, governor-general of India, 437; his moral courage, 439 Cannon, introduction of, 130 Canterbury, first archbishop of, 16 Cape St. Vincent, battle of, 351 Cardigan, Lord, 430 Carisbrook castle, Charles I. impris- Cartagena, ransom of, 179 204; visit to Madrid, 210; failure of plan, 211; marries Henrietta María, 212; becomes king, 213: quarrel with Parliament, 214, 215; his forced loans, 215; war with Spain, 214; -- with France, 216; assents to Petition of Right, 216; quarrels with Puritans, 217; — about taxes, 219; governs without a parliament, 219; imprisons parliamentary leaders. 219; offends Puritans, 220; legal persecution by, 220; levies ship-money. 221; marches against Scotland, 223; efforts to raise money, 224; war with Scotch, 225; sets up his standard, 231; surrenders to the Scotch. 235; escape, 236; trial and death, 237 Charles II., crowned in Scotland. 289; defeat and escape, 239; becomes king. 244; character, 244; religion, 246; means of getting money, 253; accepts it from French king, 255, 267; death, 267 Charles V., Emperor, and Henry | Clergy [see Monks, Popes], reve VIII., 138, 142 Charles VI., Emperor, claimant to Chatham, first Earl of, popular and honest, 318; success as war-minister, 319 resignation, 326; speech against peace with America, 334; death, 334 second Earl, 376 Chaucer, 98 Chichester, Sir A., 201 Chimneys, introduction of, 170 Christianity, introduced, 6, 14; its Commons, House of [see Reform], origin, 78; corruption in, 306, 337; Copenhagen, battle of, 361 Counties, origin of names of, 10 Cranmer, Thomas, divorces Queen Catherine, 144; is burned for here sy, 164 Crecy, battle of, 86 Discovery, voyages of, 174 Crime [see Punishment], compensa- Dispensing power, 271 tion for, 12 Crimean war, origin, 427; bad gene- Crompton, his invention, 345 Crown, the, not hereditary, 11, 58; Crusades, the, 55 Cumberland, Duke of, 313 DANBY, Earl of, 258 Danes, invasion by the, 19; defeated Danubian principalities, 427 Darnley, Lord, 168 Davy, Sir Humphry, 175 Declarations of Indulgence, 256, 272 Derby, Earl of, ministries of, 426, 442 Disraeli, Benjamin, a leader of the 455 Dissenters [see Lollards, Puritans, Duncan, Admiral, 354 Dutch [see Netherlands], wars with, Dutch Guards, 292 Duties, see Impositions, Tonnage EAST ANGLIA, 10 East India Company, 322 Edgehill, battle of, 232 Edinburgh, riot at, 223; occupied by Edmund, 28 Education, early, 26; reform in, 145; national aid to, 412, 453 Edward the Confessor, becomes king, 29; favors the Normans, 32; death, 82 Edward I., wisdom of, 71; conquest of Wales, 72; interference in Scotland, 74, 78, 80; summons parlia |