PIT

Pitt, William (the younger), inherits
his father's policy, 187; becomes
Prime Minister, 188; seeks
national support, 190; the later
years of his ministry, 193; en-
gages in war with France, 195;
Life of, by Tomline, 391; by
earl Stanhope, 392

Poets of the court of Charles I.,
137

Poitiers, William of, his Gesta
Willelmi, 258

Pole, Reginald, the de Unitate of,
304

Popes, the, claims of, 25; the de-
crease of their influence in Eng-
land, 70

Popish Plot, the, 159

Porter (G. R.), his Progress of the
Nation, 230

Poulet, Sir Amias, Letter Books of,
317

Prices, History of, by Rogers, 301;

by Tooke and Newmarch, 403
Protestantism, its character, 108;
its progress in the reign of Ed-
ward VI., III; Elizabeth's
support of, 116; views of the
Jesuits on, 118

Prothero, Mr., his Life of Simon
de Montfort, 283
Provisions of Oxford, the, 73
Prynne, William, Papers relating to,
347

Puiseux, M., his Siège de Rouen,
290

Puritanism, its treatment by Eliza-
beth, 121; its character under
Charles I., 137

ALEIGH, Sir Walter, Life of,

Rby Oldys, 329; by Edwards,

ib.
Ranke, Leopold von, his History of
the Popes, 325; his History of
England, 326

Ranulf, Flambard, his tyranny, 50
Record Commission, publications of
the, 225

'Records,' meaning of the term,
225

ROM

Reformation, the age of the, its
general character, 109
Reformation, the, its influence on
our historical literature, 306
Reformation, Narratives of the, 310
Renaissance, the, character of, 104;
its effect upon England, 105; its
development under Elizabeth, 123
Representative government, the
Roman empire incapable of, 8
Representative system in England,
the, its germs, 69; Simon de
Montfort's scheme of, 73; growth
of, 74; completion of, 75
Reresby, Sir John, Travels and
Memoirs of, 360
Restoration, the, 154
Revolution of 1399 contrasted with
the Revolution of 1688, 97
Revolution of 1688, the, institutions
established at, 163; restriction of
the sphere of government as a
result of, 165

Richard, bishop of London, his
Dialogus de Scaccario, 268
Richard I., his reign, 61; authori
ties for reign of, 264

Richard II., beginning of his reign,

93; his weakness, 96; deposition
of, 97; French chroniclers on,
287

Richard III., Papers of, 296
Richey, Mr. A. G., his Lectures on
Irish History, 324

Rievaulx, Aethelred of, his account
of the Battle of the Standard,
261
Rishanger, William, his Chronica,
273
Rockingham, lord, Memoirs of,
385

Rockingham, the Marquis of, his
leadership, 180; death of, 188
Rogers, professor Thorold, his
History of Prices, 301

Rolls of Parliament, first publication
of, 225

Rolls Series, the, account of its
origin, 219; value of the series,

220

Roman law, revival of the study, of
55

ROM

Rome, its constitution, 4; effect of
the conquest of Italy on the in-
stitutions of, 6; its position as
head of the nations, 7; impossi-
bility of establishing representa-
tive government in its empire, 8;
establishment of the empire of, ib. ;
establishment of scientific law in,
9; sacrifice of the individual to
society in, 10; abstract concep-
tion of, 10; relations with the
Church of the empire of, 12;
Teutonic conquest of its empire,
13; its province in Britain, 15
Romilly, Sir John, his proposals in
connection with the Rolls Series,

220

Romilly, Sir S., Letters of, 387;

parliamentary Journal of, 397
Rose Correspondence, the, 388
Rouen, siege of, authorities for, 290
Rousseau, his influence on the

French Revolution, 192
Roxburgh Club, its foundation, 221
Royal Society, the, histories of, by
Sprat, Birch, Thomson, and
Weld, 368

Rupert, Prince, Life of, by War-
burton, 356

Rusdorf, M. de, Mémoires of, 346;
his Consilia et Negotia, ib.
Rushworth, Collections of, 335
Rymer's Foedera, commencement
of, 224; its defectiveness during
the Commonwealth, 363

SMI

Saxons, the, settlement of, in
Britain, 16

Scobell, H., Collection of, 338
Scotland, its relations with Edward
the Elder and Edgar, 30; its
relations with Edward I., 77; its
resistance to Charles I., 141;
sources for early history of, 281;
authorities for history of, in the
sixteenth century, 324

Scots, their attack on Southern
Britain, 15

Scriptores, Decem, 216
Seebohm, Mr., his Oxford Re-
formers, 328

Selden, John, one of the editors of
the Decem Scriptores, 216
Senlac, Harold's death at, 40
Serfdom, growth of, 34
Serfs, the, emancipation of, 97
Shaftesbury, see Cooper.
Shakespeare Society, foundation
and object of, 222

Shakespeare, William, his historical
plays chiefly founded on Hall, 299
Shelburne, the Earl of, his policy,

187; Prime Minister, 188; Life
of, by lord E. Fitzmaurice, 392
Sheridan, R. B., Life of, by Moore,
393

Shipmoney, levy of, 137

Shirley, professor, his Preface to
the Fasciculi Zizaniorum, 301
Shrewsbury, duke of, his Corre-
spondence, 371

Sidmouth, lord, Life and Corre-
spondence of, 398

Sidney, Sir Philip, Life of, by Lord
Brooke, 328; do. by Zouch, ib. ;
do. by Fox Bourne, ib.
Simancas, State Papers preserved
at, 317

Simon, Earl, see Montfort, Simon de.
Simony, proposed abolition of, 47
Sismondi, account of the third Cru-
sade by, 269

Slavery, effect of the introduction
of, I

Smith, Adam, his influence on Pitt,
190

Smith, John, his edition of Bede,
237

SOC

Social contract, the Whig theory of

the, 164

Societies,
principal, 221-3
Somerset, earl of, account of trial
of, by Amos, 340
Somers Tracts, the, 315
Somerville, Thomas, his History of
Reign of Queen Anne, 378
Songs, political, edited by Wright,
267, 280, 298

historical, account of

Southey, Robert, his Life of Wesley,
393; his Life of Neison, 400
Spain, negotiations of James I,
with, 132

Spalding Club, foundation and ob-
ject of, 222

Spanish marriage, the treaty for
the, 340

Spanish succession, collections re-
lating to the, 364; works relating
to, 381

Sparke, Joseph, his Scriptt. Hist.
Anglic., 217

Spedding, Mr., his Life of Bacon,
356

Spelman (and Wilkins), Councils,
&c., by, 244.

Spenser, Edmund, his account of
Ireland, 324

Spottiswoode, archbishop, his His-
tory of the Church of Scotland, 314
Sprigg, Joseph, his Anglia Redi-
viva, 343

Stafford, William, his Examination
of Complaints, 319
Stair, the earls of, Annals of, by
Graham, 381

St. Albans, the historic school of,
270; importance of the monastery
at, 271; activity of its chroniclers,
ib.; Chronica of, edited by Riley,
ib. n. 2; monk of, Chronicle of
England by, 286; Annales of
monastery of, 291

Stamp Act, the, imposes taxation
on America, 186

Standard, battle of the, accounts of,
by Richard of Hexham, &c., 261
Stanhope, earl, his History of Eng-
land and Reign of Queen Anne,
379

SWI

Stanyhurst, Richard, a contributor
to Holinshed's Chronicles, 307
Star Chamber, the Court of, institu-
tion of, 102

Starkey, Thomas, his England in

the Reign of Henry VIII., 305
State Papers, formerly not open to
the inspection of men of letters,
223; calendars of, 226; for reign
of James I., 330

State Trials, collection of, by Cob-
bett and Howell, 327
Stephen, king, anarchy of his
reign, 54; authorities for his
reign, 260-1

Stephen, Mr. Leslie, his English
Thought in
the Eighteenth
Century, 383
Stewart, Sir Charles, Life of, by
Alison, 401

Stowe, John, his Summary, An-

nales, and Survey of London, 308
St. Paul's, Domesday of, 278
Strafford, lord, Letters and Des-
spatches of, 342

Strickland, Agnes, her Lives of the
Queens, 228; her Lives of the
Stuart Princesses, 357

Strype, John, his Memorials and
Annals, 321; his Lives of Cran-
mer, Parker, &c., 323
Stubbes, Philip, Anatomie of
Abuses, by, 319

Stubbs, professor, on the mark
system, 210; his criticism on the
Lives of Dunstan, 254; his Docu-
ments, &c., ib.; his Select Charters,
&c., 257; his Early Plantagenets,
269; his preface to Walter de
Coventry, 282

Sully, Oeconomies Royales of, 345
Supreme Head of the Church of
England, title of, 110

Surtees Society, foundation and ob-
ject of, 221

Swift, dean, his Journal to Stella,
373; his History of Queen Anne's
Reign, ib.; his political pam-
phlets, 374; his criticisms of
Clarendon and Burnet, ib. ; his
'Tale of a Tub,' 172
Swinfield, bishop, the Roll of, 280

character of its ideas, 172
Tallages, not declared illegal in the
Confirmatio Cartarum, 80
Tanner, bishop, his Bibliotheca,
214

Taxation, assessment of, 57
Taylor, Rev. Isaac, his Words and
Places, 208

Temple, Sir William, his Letters and
Memoirs, 359; Life of, by Hon.
T. P. Courtenay, 369

the

Teulet, M., his edition of the
French Despatches, 316
Thegns, their position in
Witenagemote, 31; their relation
to the king, 33; distinguished
from eorls and gesiths, ib.
Theodore, archbishop, his organisa-
tion of the Church, 26
Thomason, collection of pamphlets.
by, 333

Thornton, Mrs. Alice, Autobiography
of, 349

Thorpe, Benjamin, his edition of
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 238;
his edition of the Ancient Laws,
&c., 254

Thurloe Papers, the, 337
Tindal, Nicholas, his Continuation
of Rapin, 375

Toleration, its adoption by the
sects, 148; its prospects under
the Restoration, 155

Toleration Act, the, enactment of,
165

Tooke (and Newmarch) History of

Prices by, 403

Tories, the, oppose the Exclusion

Bill, 159; their depression after
the death of Anne, 169; recon-
struction of the party of, 186;
their principles in the reign of
George III., ib.
Townshend, Heywood, his His-
torical Collections, 315

VOL

Township, the, sends deputies to
the hundred-mote, 18

Trevisa, John of, his translation of
Higden, 285

Trevelyan, Mr. G. O., his Early
History of C. J. Fox, 392
Tribe, the English, 17; their
amalgamation into kingdoms, 19
Trivet, Nicholas, his Annales, 273;
his six Angevin kings, how
reckoned, ib. n. 2; Rishanger's
work largely borrowed from, ib.
n. 3
Trokelowe, John of, his Annales,
275

Tudor monarchy, the, causes of its
strength, 99

Tulloch, Dr., Rational Theology of,
368

Turner, Sir James, Memoirs by,
365

Twysden, Sir Roger, the Decem
Scriptores generally known under
his name, 216

Tyerman, Rev. L., his Life of Wes-
ley, 393

Tytler, W., his work relating to
Mary, Queen of Scots, 317, 329

WA

WAC

ACE, Robert, his Roman de
Rou, 258
Waitz, G., his Deutsche Verfassungs-
gesch., 256

Walcott, Mr. M. E. C., his William
of Wykeham, 300

Wales, its conquest by Edward I.,
77; sources for early history of,
280-1

Walker, Sir Edward, Historical
Discourses of, 343
Wallington's Diary, 333
Walpole, Horace, Letters of, 376;

his Memoirs of George II. and
Memoirs of George III., 388-90
Walpole, Sir Robert, Life of by
Coxe, 379

Walpole, Mr. Spencer, History of
England by, 403
Walsingham, Thomas, his Historia
Anglicana, 279, 286, 290
War, effect of, on the English tribes,
18

Warburton, Eliot, Life of Prince
Rupert by, 356

Ward, Mr. A. W., Memoir of
Dryden by, 370

Ware, Sir James, his Scriptores
Hiberniae, 214

Waverley, Annals of the Monastery
of, 274

Waurin, Jean de, Chronicles by,

292

Webb, John, his Memorials of the
Civil War, 343
Wedmore, the treaty of, 29
Wellington, Duke of, his Life by

Brialmont, 399; his Despatches,
400; his Correspondence, ib.
Welwood, James, his Memoirs of a
century, 351
Wendover, Roger of, part author
of the Historia Major, 272
Wergild, payment of, 20
Wesley, John, preaching of, 177;

his influence on a later genera-
tion, 190; Lives of, by Southey
and Tyerman, 393

Wharton, Henry, continued Cave's
Historia, 214; his Anglia Sacra,
216
Whethamstede, John, account of by

WIT

John Amundesham, 291; his
Register, ib.

Whigs, the, support the Exclusion
Bill, 159; causes of the ascen-
dancy of, after Anne's death, 170;
their relation with the mercantile
class, 172; their relation to the
Dissenters, 172; their weakness
at the end of the reign of George
II., 176; their relations with the
elder Pitt, 179; their struggle
with George III., 180; adopt the
teaching of Burke, 183; defeat
of, by George III., 186; seces-
sion of, from Fox, 194
Whitelock, Sir Bulstrode, Memo-
rials of, 337

Wilfrid, his argument in support of
the Papal claims, 26; Life of, 247
Wilkes, declared incapable

of

sitting in the House of Commons,
183

Wilkins (and Spelman) Councils,
&c. by, 244

William I., defeats Harold at
Senlac, 40; character of his
government in England, 43;
causes of his power in England,
44; his position as a national
king, 44; organises the English
Church, 50

William II., his tyranny, 50; ap-
points Anselm archbishop, 51;
his quarrel with Anselm, 52
William III., his Continental posi-
tion, 161; the crown offered to,
162 his position in the Govern-
ment, 167; Letters of, edited by
Grimblot, 377

William of Malmesbury, his histori-
cal writings, 51; see Malmesbury.
Williams, Archbishop, Life of, by
Hacket, 348

Williamson, Sir Joseph, Letters of,
361

Wilson, Arthur, his History of
James I., 332

Winchester, Annals of the monas-
tery of, 274

Winwood's Memorials, 318
Witenagemote, the, relations of,
with the king, 19; its constitu-