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Oroces expedire to 35
Oceans, reset € 112
Grudemande, battle E. 20
Oude, $5

Ostram, Sir James, 44)
Oxford, provisions of, 68

PALATINATE, war in the. 207, 219 Palmerston, Lord, foreign policy. 414: prime minister, 433-442; second ministry, 443–449 Pandulph, 61

Parker, Hyde, 261

Parliament [see Commons, Lords]. beginning of, 68, 69; division into two houses, 78; Scotch representatives, 78; indifference to popular welfare, 122

Parma, Duke of, 181, 184
Parr, Catherine, 156

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Pitt. William, see Chatham, Earl of
Pitt, William. the youngest prinie
minister, 337; success. 38; adop-
tion of new ideas, 339; opposes
slave-trade, 341; efforts in behalf
of Ireland, 357; and of the Catho-·
lics, 360; second ministry, 965;
death, 368

Plague, the. 251
Plassey, battle of. 325
Poitiers, battle of, 87
Police, reform of the, 400
Pollock. General, 419
Poor law, 181, 406

Pope, the, 14; victorious over king, | Reformation, the, 141, 144 61; taxes for, 67, 97; authority

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Regency, tae, 379 Regicides, ɩne, 246

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questioned, 97; knowledged, 144, 165;

163

Popish plot, 260

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Portugal, defence of, 378, 393
Post-office reform, 411
Potatoes, 421

Prayer book, the, 157, 159, 161, 167,

220; in Scotland, 223 Presbyterians, 233;

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

303, 310

Prime minister, the first, 306

Princes, murder of the, 128

Rising in the North, 169

Roads, improvement in, 400

Rockingham, Lord, ministry of, 327,

335

Pretenders, the first, 132; the later, Rodney, Admiral, 336

Printing-press imported, 124
Protection, 426

Protestants, 153; burned, 145, 154
Prussia, rising of, against French, 383
Punishment [see Cruelty], king's
power of, abolished, 63; under
Henry VIII., 139
Punjab, 437

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

Romans in Britain, 5

Rome, 445

Romilly, Sir Samuel, 388

Rooke, Sir George, 297

Roses, wars of the, 116
Rouen, siege of, 110
Roundheads, 232
Ruins of Britons, 4
Runnimede, 62
Russell, Lord, 266
Russell, Earl [Lord John], efforts

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. Arnaud, 429

St. Domingo, 179
St. Helena, 387
St. John, 301

St. Paul's cathedral, 253, 292
St. Sebastian, battle of, 384
Saladin, 57

Salamanca, battle of, 382
Salaries and gifts, 209
Sancroft. Archbishop, 267
Savoy, 445

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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
Terror, Reign of, 350

Test-act, 257; suspension of, 271; repeal, 398

Tewkesbury, battle of, 123
Thames, blockade of the, 254
Thieves, punishment of, 139

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

Sea bubble, 305

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Vittoria, battle of, 383

Volunteers, 365, 446

Voyages around the world, 174

WAGES, laws regulating, 91

Walcheren, 376

Wallace, William, 77, 78

Walpole, Sir Robert, prime minister,
306; fall, 309
Walworth, Mayor, 96
War, changes in art of, 132
Warbeck, Perkin, 132
Warwick, Earl of, 118, 122
Washington, George, 333
Waterloo, 386

Wedmore, treaty of, 20
Wellington, Duke of, campaigns in
the Peninsula, 373; in France,

385, 387; prime minister, 398, 404 Wessex, 22

West Indies, trade with, 171, 808
Westminster Abbey, 32, 67
Wheeler, Sir Hugh, 438
Wexford, 238

Whigs, the name, 262; unpopularity
of, 263, 300, 327; success, 303
Wilberforce, William, 340
Wilkes, John, 328

William I. [the Conqueror], his
claims, 33; title, 36; cruelty, 39;
management of nobles, 38
William II. [Rufus], 41-43

William III. [see Prince of Orange], reign, 278-295; plot to kill, 290 William IV., 402-408

Wolfe, General, 319

Wolsey, Cardinal, 138, 143

Women, services of, 432

Worcester, battle of, 239

Wren, Sir Christopher, 292 Wyclif, John, 96

YORK, Duke of, 116

Wales, independence of, 11; con- York, House of, 117

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Yorkshire, devastation of, 29 Yorktown, 335

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