ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
ANNE, her first parliament, 274; hypocrisy of the Tories, 276; vic-
tories obtained by the English arms, 277-8; Gibraltar taken by sir
George Rooke, 281; victory of the allied forces over the French, 283;
Union of England and Scotland, 284; attempt of the Pretender to
land in Scotland, 287; death of prince George of Denmark, 288;
private correspondence of the English ministry and the Pretender,
Note, 293, 4; letter of the Pretender to the king of France, Note,
295; letter of the queen to the electoral prince of Hanover, 297; death
of the princess Sophia of Brunswick, 298; letters of the Pretender,
ibid.; death and character of the queen, 299.
Atterbury, bishop. (See George I.)
Bouchain, battle of, 291.
Buonaparte. (See George III. and IV.)
Burdett, sir F. (Ibid.)
Burke, Edmund, (Iibid.)
Burleigh. (See Elizabeth.)
Byron, lord, 476, 7.
Charles I., his marriage with Henrietta Maria of France, 123; oppo-
sition of the parliament to the king, 124; Buckingham, the king's
favourite, assassinated, 128; firmness of the parliament in asserting
their privileges, 129; Wentworth's misgovernment in Ireland, and
opposition of Scotland to the new service-book, 132-6; trial and exe-
cution of Suffolk, 140-3; civil war, 147-52; execution of bishop
Laud, 153; duplicity of the king, 156; his confinement and trial,
158-69; execution of the king, 156-his character, 172.
Charles II., description of the court, 215; marriage of the king, and
preference for a former mistress, 217-18; the sale of Dunkirk, 221;
bigotry of the ministers of the crown, 222; war with Holland, ibid. ;
dreadful ravages of the plague, 223; the great fire of London, 225;
Clarendon impeached, and ordered to quit the kingdom, 228-9; the