Oroces expedire to 35 Ostram, Sir James, 44) 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 **Pigrimage of Grace," 150 Pory, the 2 Pitt. William, see Chatham, Earl of Plague, the. 251 Pope, the, 14; victorious over king, | Reformation, the, 141, 144 61; taxes for, 67, 97; authority Regency, tae, 379 Regicides, ɩne, 246 questioned, 97; knowledged, 144, 165; 163 Popish plot, 260 Portugal, defence of, 378, 393 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 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 Romans in Britain, 5 Rome, 445 Romilly, Sir Samuel, 388 Rooke, Sir George, 297 Roses, wars of the, 116 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 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 Sea bubble, 305 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, Wedmore, treaty of, 20 385, 387; prime minister, 398, 404 Wessex, 22 West Indies, trade with, 171, 808 Whigs, the name, 262; unpopularity William I. [the Conqueror], his 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 Yorkshire, devastation of, 29 Yorktown, 335 |