Irish Church disestablished, 374.

Land Act, 376, 378.
Land League, 377.

Iron, its early use, 9.

Isabelle of France, Queen, 123.
her infidelity, 123.
murders her husband, 124.
prisoner for life, 125.

Jacobites, 281.
James I., King, 229-237.

• II., King, 270-280.
Jeffreys, Judge George, 272.
Jenkins's ear, war of, 315.
Jenner, Dr. Edward, 313.
Jews, robbed and expelled, 118.

admitted to Parliament, 361, 373.
Joan of Arc, 159.

John (Lackland), King, his quarrels, 103.
murders Prince Arthur, 103.
grants Magna Carta, 106.
his evasions; his death, 108.
of Gaunt (Ghent), 134.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 290, 302.
Jonson, Ben, 218, 302.
"Junius," his letters, 331.
Jutes, their invasion, 32.

Knighthood, 83.

Knights of St. John (Hospitallers), 144.
Templars, 144.

Land League, 377.
Law reform, 331, 380.

Lewes, battle of 113.

Lincoln, President Abraham, 371.

Literature, rise of English, 133, 137.

of Anne's reign, 298.

of Elizabeth's, 216, 218.

of George III.'s, 341.

of present age, 380.

Livingstone, David, African explorer, 379.
Locke, John, 302.
Lollards, 139; persecuted, 153.

outbreak of, 155.

London (Llyn-din), its origin, 21.

police, 348.

William's charter, 61.

Londonderry, siege of, 285.
Long Parliament, 241.
Lords Ordainers, 122.
Luther, 187, 189.
Lyell, Sir Charles, 379.

Macaulay, Lord Thomas Babington, 361.
Magellan, Ferdinand de, navigator, 226.

Magna Carta, 105, 107, 142.
Man, primitive, his condition, 2.
what we owe to him, 10.
Manchester massacre, 344.
Mandeville, Sir John, his travels, 133.
Mar, John Erskine, Earl of, 310.
Margaret, Queen, her bravery, 165.

flight to Scotland, 166.
prisoner; released; died in France, 167.
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 278,

293.

Sarah Jennings, Duchess of, 295.

Martin Luther, 187, 189.
Mary (Bloody), Queen, 204.

marries Philip II. of Spain, 206.
her persecutions, 206; her death, 207.
"Queen of Scots," 202, 218, 219.

Masham, Mrs. Abigail, 296.
Matilda (Maud), queen of Henry I., 73.

claims the crown, 75.
Methodists, their rise, 321.
Milton, John, 248, 302.

Miner's safety lamp, by Davy, 340.
Monasteries suppressed, 195.

Monk, General (Duke of Albemarle), 256.
Monks, their literary work, 37.
Monmouth, Duke of, 271.

Monopolies, 215, 237.

Montcalm, Marquis de, his defence of Quebec;

Northmen, the, invade France, 44.

or Normans, settle Normandy, 44.

Oates, Titus, 266, 270.
O'Connell, Daniel, 348.
O'Connor, Feargus, 364.
Oldcastle, Sir John, 155.
Opium War, the, 369.
Ordeal, the, 52.

Oxygen, discovery of, 339.

"Parliament, the Mad," 112.
expelled, 249.
convention, 256, 280.

debates of, published, 331.

Parliamentary reform, 349.
Parr, Catharine, 199.

Peel, Sir Robert, premier, 348.

Peerage, sketch of, 359.

Peers, their number and influence, 361.

"Petition of Right," 239.

Philip II., of Spain, 206.

"Pilgrims, the," 233.

Pillory, the, 331.

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 314, 326.
the younger, premier, 332, 337, 361.

Plague, the, 132, 262.

Plantagenet, 87.

Poitiers, victory of, 130.

Police, the new, 348.

Political progress, 358.
Poor-law, the first, 222.

Pope, the, and William I., 65.

Railway, steam, the first, 355.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 217; beheaded, 237.
Reform Bill, 351, 361.

the second, 373-
the third, 374.

"Regicides," the, 260.

Revolution of 1688, 279, 284.

American, 328.
French, 332.

Richard I. (Cœur de Lion), King, 97.

in third crusade, 99; prisoner, for

II., King, 134.

deposed and murdered, 140.

III. (Duke of Gloucester), King, 170
his death, 173.

Robert invades England and retires, 74.

prisoner; his death, 74.

Roman Catholicism, 199, 204, 206, 270, 274,

283.

invasion, 12, 19.

first colony, 20; cities, 24.

system of government, 24.

paved roads, 243; forts and walls, 25.

taxation and cruelty, 27.

remains still existing, 28.

Rotten boroughs, 349.

Royal Society, the, 268.
Rump Parliament, 246.

Runes, 54.

Rye House Plot, 267.
Ryswick, peace of, 200.

Sacheverell, Dr. Henry, 296.
Saint Albans, council held there, 106.

Bartholomew's Day (massacre), 219.
Paul's Cathedral, 288, 303.

Saxon invasion, 33, 47.

names, 14.

Schools, government, 375.
Scroggs, Sir William, Chief Justice, 266, 284.
Scutage, 89, 144.

Seven Bishops, petition of, 276.
Years' War, 318.

Seymour, Jane, 198.
Shakespeare, 218, 226, 302.
Ship money, 240.

Siege of Londonderry, 285.
Slave trade abolished, 331.
Slavery abolished, 354.
Small-pox conquered, 312.
Smith, John, Captain, 233.
Solemn League and Covenant, the, 244.
South Sea Bubble, 311.
Spanish Armada, 220.

Succession, War of, 291.
Spectator, the (Addison's), 299.

Spenser, Edmund, poet, 218.、
Stamp Act, the, 325.
Star-Chamber Court, 183, 240, 242.
Statistics, 408, 409.

Statutes of Winchester, 119.
Steam-engine, 303; perfected, 338.

navigation, 340.

Stephen, last of Norman kings, 75, 77.
Stone Age, rough, 2; polished, 5.

of Scone, 116.

Stonehenge, 10, 68.
Strike, the great, 132, 148.
Supremacy, Act of, 194, 211.

Survey, the great, 67.

Sweyn, the Dane, conquers England, 45.
Swift, Jonathan, Dean, 302, 311.

Sydney, Sir Philip, 217.

Vaccination introduced, 313.
Vane, Sir Henry, 250.
Victoria, Queen, 357.
Virginia colonized, 233.
Vortigern's advice, 32.

Wales, Prince of, the first, 116.
Wallace, Sir William, rebels, 117.
captured and executed, 118.
Walpole, Sir Robert, premier, 308, 313, 321.
Walsingham, Sir Francis, 210.

Walworth, mayor of London, 136.
Wars of the Roses, 162-164, 173.
Washington, George, 251, 319, 329.
Watt, James, inventor, 338, 339, 340.
Wat Tyler, his rebellion, 135; killed, 136.
Wellington, Duke of, 334, 335, 336, 347,352,

361.