Pope, the, 14; victorious over king, | Reformation, the, 141, 144 163 Popish plot, 260 restored, Portugal, defence of, 378, 393 Potatoes, 421 Prayer book, the, 157, 159, 161, 167, 220; in Scotland, 223 Regency, tae, 379 Richard I., his crusade, 56; arres* Richard II., and the peasants, 96; tyranny, 100; murder, 101 Richard III., murders by, 123, 125, 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 Roads, improvement in, 400 Rising in the North, 169 Rockingham, Lord, ministry of, 327, 335 Pretenders, the first, 132; the later, Rodney, Admiral, 336 Romans in Britain, 5 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; per- Pyramids, battle of the, 355 QUEBEC, capture of, 321 RAGLAN, Lord, 429 Saxors, the, 7 Schism act, 303 Schoolmasters, importation of, 26 Scotland, acknowledges English su- Self-denying ordinance, 234 Sepoys, 323, 324, 437 Seven Bishops, the, 274 Shaftesbury, Earl of, 257, 261, 265 Shakespere quoted, 193 Ship-money, 221 Shrewsbury, battle of, 105 Sidonia, Duke of, 185 Sikhs, 437 Silver, clipped, 291 Silver seized by Drake, 174 Six Articles, 153 Slave-trace, early, 1; agitation against, 340; abolition cf, 368 Siuys, battle of, 86 Smith, Adam, 339 Spain, hostility to, 171, 205; war with, Spanish colonies, booty from, 172, 187 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 ap- Tea, duties on, 328; destruction of, Teignmouth, landing at, 285 Test-act, 257; suspension of, 271; re Tewkesbury, battle of, 123 Thieves, punishment of, 139 Thirty Years' war, 207 Smuggling, effort to stop, 307; by Throckmorton's plot, 177 Torres Vedras, battle of, 378 Towns, built by Romans, 5; destroy- Towton, battle of, 117 Travellers, seizure of, 364 Turkey, proposed robbery of, 427; Tyler, Wat, 95 Tyrone, Earl of, 201 Tyrrell, Walter, 43 ULSTER, colonization of, 201; Protes- United Irishmen, 358 United States, civil war in, 446 VENETIA, 444 Victor Emanuel, 444 Victoria, Queen, 408; marriage of, Vinegar Hill, 358 Virginia, 176 Vittoria, battle of, 383 Volunteers, 365, 446 Voyages around the world, 174 WAGES, laws regulating, 91 Wallace, William, 77, 78 Walpole, Sir Robert, prime minister, War, changes in art of, 132 Wedmore, treaty of, 20 Wellington, Duke of, campaigns in 385, 387; prime minister, 398, 404 West Indies, trade with, 171, 308 Wexford, 238 Whigs, the name, 262; unpopularity William I. [the Conqueror], his William III. [see Prince of Orange], Wren, Sir Christopher, 292 YORK, Duke of, 116 Wales, independence of, 11; con- York, House of, 117 quest, 72 Wales, first Prince of, 72 Yorkshire, devastation of, 30 |