Pope, the, 14; victorious over king, | Reformation, the, 141, 144 61; taxes for, 67, 97; authority questioned, 97; - no longer ac Regency, tae, 379 Regicides, une, 246 Reginald, 59 Richard I., his crusade, 56; arrest of, 57; death, 58 Richard II., and the peasants, 96; tyranny, 100; murder, 101 Richard III,, murders by, 123, 125, 128; death, 130 Ring, wedding, 196 driven from Riots, 389 army and parliament, 235 Press, liberty of the, 288 Preston, 237 Preston Pans, 311 Rising in the North, 169 Roads, improvement in, 400 Rockingham, Lord, ministry of, 327, 335 303, 310 Pretenders, the first, 132; the later, Rodney, Admiral, 336 Romans in Britain, 5 Prime minister, the first, 306 Princes, murder of the, 128 Rome, 445 Romilly, Sir Samuel, 388 Printing-press imported, 124 Protestants, 153; burned, 145, 154 Puritans, the, 166; their demands, 196, 217, 228; division of, 233; persecution of, 248; called dissenters, 249; settlements in America, 316 Pym, John, 228, 233 Pyramids, battle of the, 355 QUEBEC, capture of, 321 RAGLAN, Lord, 429 Railways, introduction of, 401 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 189, 205 Ramilies, battle of, 296 Reform of House of Commons [see Chartists], Pitt's plan defeated, 339; artisans' demand for, 389; rotten boroughs, 395; postponed by French revolution, 396; agitation for. 405; accomplished, 406; further reform proposed, 442 Rooke, Sir George, 297 for parliamentary reform, 397, 398, 404; prime minister, 422. 449 Russia. early trade with, 175; French in, 382; war with, 427 Rye House plot, 265 Ryswick, peace of, 292 SACHEVERELL, Dr., 300 St. Domingo, 179 St. Paul's cathedral, 253, 292 Salamanca, battle of, 382 Saxor's, the, 7 Schism act, 503 Schoolmasters, importation of, 26 Scotland, acknowledges English su- Self-denying ordinance, 234 Seven Bishops, the, 274 Shaftesbury, Earl of, 257, 261, 265 Shakespere quoted, 193 Shrewsbury, battle of, 105 Sidonia, Duke of, 185 Sikhs, 437 Silver, clipped, 291 Silver seized by Drake, 174 Simnel, Lambert, 132 Six Articles, 153 Slave-trade, early, ..1, agitation against, 340; abolition of, 368 Slavery, abolished, 406 Sluys, battle of, 86 Smith, Adam, 339 Spain, hostility to, 171, 205; war with, Star Chamber, 134, 220 Stonehenge, 4 Strafford, Earl of, 224, 227 Strahan, Sir Richard, 376 Suffolk, Duke of, 115 Surajah Dowlah, 325 Surplices, objection to, 196 Sussex, kingdom of, 10, 22 TALAVERA, battle of, 375 Taxation, of land, 40; must be approved by people, 63; arbitrary, 123, 216, 242 Tea, duties on, 328; destruction of, 329 Teignmouth, landing at, 285 Test-act, 257; suspension of, 271; repeal, 398 Tewkesbury, battle of, 123. Thirty Years' war, 207 Smuggling, effort to stop, 307; by Throckmorton's plot, 177 British vessels, 308 Somerset, Earl of, 203 Somerset, Duke of, 156-158 Somerset House, 158 Sophia, Electress, 294 South Sea bubble, 305 Tilsit, peace of, 369 Todleben, General, 480 Toleration act, 278 Tonnage, 218 Tories, the name, 262; success of 263, 301; principles, 339 Vittoria, battle of, 383 Volunteers, 365, 446 Voyages around the world, 174 WAGES, laws regulating, 91 Walcheren, 376 Wales, independence of, 11; con- York, House of, 117 quest, 72 Wales, first Prince of, 72 Yorkshire, devastation of, 39 Yorktown, 335 |