Abingdon, abbey of, charter to, 106.
Act of Annates, the first, 341.
Act of House of Commons de-
claring England a common-
wealth, 495.
Act of Uniformity, 371.
Act of Union between England.
and Scotland, 566; between
Great Britain and Ireland, 651.
Acts of Supremacy, 343, 369.
Adam of Bremen, 86.
Adam of Murimuth, 246.
Adam of Usk, extracts from the
chronicle of, 252.
Adams, John, first American min-
ister, 637.
Elfrici Colloquium, 71.
Ælius Spartianus, visit of Ha-
drian to Britain, 28.
ENEID, 328.
Agincourt, battle of, 286.
Agricola, campaign in Caledonia,
26.
Alan of Canterbury, 150.
Albemarle, duke of, letter of, to
duke of Monmouth, 537; letter
from duke of Monmouth, 537.
Albert, Prince, 700.
Alcuin, letter of, to the Kentish-
men, 57.
Alexander, pope, letter to his
legates in England, 159.
Alford, Richard, letter of, to John
Willoubie, 515.
Alfred, Life of, by Asser, 63; ac-
cession of, 62, 64; Dooms of,
80; reforms of, 67.
America, discovery of, 306; settle-
ment of, 443; civil war in, 729.
American colonies, 623.
Angles and Saxons, first con-
quests of, 35.
Anglesea, revolt in, 23.
Angliae Notitiae, by Chamberlayne,
561.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 38; ex-
tracts from, 59, 73, 83, 107, III,
127.
Annales, Cornelius Tacitus, 23.
Annates, Act of, the first, 341.
Anne, reign of, 560.
Annual Register, 608.
Anselm, letter to, from Henry I,
Appeals, the Statute of, 342.
Areopagitica, 478.
Arkwright, Sir Richard, 613.
Arles, Council of, 31.
Armada, 403, 405.
Arms, Assize of, 143.
Ascham, Roger, concerning Eliza-
beth's learning, 408.
Asser, Life of Alfred, 63; arrival
of, at Alfred's court, 68.
Assize of Arms, 143.
Assize of Clarendon, 141.
Attainder, bill of, against Straf-
ford, 470.
Atticus, letters of Cicero to, 14.
Augustine's mission, 47.
Australia, 600.
Babylonian Captivity of the Church,
On the, by Luther, 332.
Bacon, Francis, Essays, 436.
Baillie, Robert, diary of, 467.
Ball, John, sermon of, 260; liber-
ation of, 262.
Balliol, John, 231.
Bannockburn, battle of, 232.
Baptists, 562.
Barillon, letter of, to Louis XIV,
532.
Barons, conspiracy of, in 1213,
179; conflicts of, with Henry
III, 217; war of the, 222.
Battle Abbey, 107.
Battle of Peterloo, 666.
Bede, Ecclesiastical History, 36,
53; Augustine's mission, 47;
conversion of Northumbria, 49.
Benevolences, invention of, 300.
Beowulf, 44.
Bill of attainder against Strafford,
470.
Bill of Rights, 545.
Bishops, Puritan attack on, 423.
Black Death, 255.
Black Hole of Calcutta, 590.
Black Prince, 244, 275.
Blakman, 296.
Blenheim, battle of, 560.
Blore Heath, battle of, 297.
Boadicea, revolt under, 23; speech
Boleyn, Anne, letter to, from
Henry VIII, 336.
Bolingbroke, Lord, letter of, to
Sir William Wyndham, 576.
Book of Martyrs, 358.
Borley in Essex, extent of, 212.
Braddock's defeat, 595.
Bradford's History, 445.
Bread riots, 665.
Breda, Declaration of, 505; recep-
tion of, by parliament, 507.
Bretigny, Treaty of, 247.
Bright, John, description of, 727;
letter of, to P. Hartley, 747;
speech of, in 1861, 729.
Britain, early description of, I;
conquest of, under Claudius,
20, 22; decay of, 32.
British Empire, foundation of, 551.
Britons, description of, 15; cus-
toms of, 16.
Brown, William Wells, 726.
Bruce, 232.
Brunanburh, battle of, 73.
Buckingham, letters from James
I, 433, 434; to James I, 435;
dispute concerning, 455; im-
peachment of, 456.
Burke, Edmund, 608; Conciliation
with America, 628; Reflections
on the French Revolution, 647.
Burnet, Bishop, 542, 548, 551;
History of the Reformation,
Charles I, letters of, 470, 472,
478, 482; efforts to save Straf-
ford, 471; intrusion into House
of Commons, 475; dispute with
parliament, 477; trial, 485; sen-
tence of High Court of Justice,
486; death warrant, 489; ac-
count of last night, 489; execu-
tion, 490; stanzas on death of,
491.
Charles II, character sketch of,
511; social conditions under,
515; effort to introduce freedom
of worship, 518; death of, 532;
mock epitaph on, 534.
Charm for bees, 45.
Cobbett, Weekly Register, 663.
Cobden, description of, 726.
Coffee-House, Character of a, 529.
Colloquium Elfrici, 71.
Colonies, concentration of power
over, 755; self-government in,
761; speech concerning reten-
tion of, 762.
Colonies, To the, by William Wat-
son, 764.
Colonization, an opinion adverse
to, 1790, 752.
Commerce and explorations, 394.
Commonwealth, 467, 495.
Conciliation with America, by Ed-
mund Burke, 628.
Charter of the city of Lincoln, 208. Conflicts between Henry III and
Chartist petition, 702.
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 274;
Treatise on Astrolabe, 274.
Chesterfield, Lord, character
sketches of George I, 571;
of George II, 572; of Walpole,
578; William Pitt, 607.
Christianity, in Roman Britain,
31; in England, 46; in Kent,
47; in Northumbria, 49; in East
Anglia, 52.
Christians in Britain, A.D. 314, 32.
Chronicon Angliae, 258.
Church, oldest in England, 49.
Church courts, edict to strengthen,
109.
Church rules, by William I, 110.
Chute, John, letter to, from Horace
Walpole, 589.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, letters to
Atticus, 14.
Cistercians, 204; in England, 205.
Civil War in America, 729.
Clarendon, Assize of, 141.
Clarendon, constitutions of, 147.
Clarendon, Council of, 146.
Clarendon, earl of, character sketch
Clergy, submission of, 340.
Clive, treaty between Meer Jaffier
Cloune, Sir Cornelius, miracle of,
269.
Cnut, 84, 86; letter from, 87.
Darnley, Lord, 377.
Death warrant of Charles I, 489.
Declaration of Breda, 505; recep-
tion of, by parliament, 507.
Declaration of Indulgence, 539.
Declaration of Sports, 421.
Declaratory act, 1766, 625.
Defender of the Faith, 333.
Defense of the Seven Sacraments,
332.
Defoe, Daniel, 564; The Shortest
Way with Dissenters, 565.
Delhi, 716.
Demand for throne made by
Henry of Lancaster, 277.
Democracy, growth of, 716.
Devonshire, duke of, letter to,
from marquis of Hartington, 577;
from Sir Robert Walpole, 576.
Diamond Jubilee, 765.
Digges, Sir Dudley, 456.
Dio Cassius, invasion of Britain
under Claudius, 20.
Diodorus Siculus, description of
early Britain, 2.
Discussion in House of Commons,
1780, 640.
Dispute concerning territory west
of Allegheny Mountains, 593.
Disraeli, description of, 723, 727.
Dissenters, 561.
Dissolution of monasteries, 344.
Divine right of kings, 538.
Dooms of Alfred, 80.
Domesday Survey, 108, 111, 112;
report of possessions of abbey
of Ely, 112; extracts from, 113.
Doughty, Thomas, court-martial
Drake, Sir Francis, 396; letter of,
to Secretary Walsingham, 405.
Dudley, Sir Robert, 376.
Dunning's resolutions, 641.
Durham, Lord, report on Canada,
757.
Dutch, hostility of, to English in
New Amsterdam, 520.
Eadmer, extracts from chronicle
of, 110, 115, 127.
East Angles, introduction of Chris-
tianity among, 52.
East India Company, 721.
Ecclesiastical History of England,
by Bede, 36, 53.
Edgar, ordinance of, for the hun-
dred moot, 78.
Edict concerning wager of battle
by William, 105.
Edinburgh Review, 614, 697.
Edmund Ironside's grandchildren,
90.
Edward the Confessor, sanctifi-
cation of, 123.
Edward I, description of, 226;
reign of, 225.
Edward III, styles himself king
of France, 236; defies Philip,
240.
Edward IV, seizure of throne
by, 299; financial arrangements,
301.
Edward VI, 351.
Edwin, death of, 51.
Egbert, king of West Saxons, 60.
Eikon Basilike, extracts from, 492.
Eliot, Sir John, 456.
Elizabeth, Queen, 361, 362, 363,
374; letter from pope, 373;
excommunication of, 382; letter
to James of Scotland, 403;
characteristics, 408; speeches
of, 410, 415; anecdotes of, 411,
Elliott, Ebenezer, Corn-Law
Rhymes, 708.
Ellis, Francis, letter to, from T. B.
Macaulay, 688.
Elmham, Thomas of, 288.
Ely, abbey of, possessions of, in
Domesday Survey, 112.
England; an Ode, by A. C. Swin-
burne, 765.
England in
1395, account by
Froissart, 275.
English claims in North America,
1753, 595.
English, expulsion of, from
France, 296.
English language and literature,
Erasmus, Catalogue of Lucubra-
tions, 316; letter of, to Robert
Fisher, 314; to Servatius, 315;
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