Regency was two votes. It was not till Mary had declared that she would not take precedence of her husband, and till William had declared that he would be nothing short of king, that the Lords yielded. U2. Seven votes.-Hallam gives nine. VI. James." He was brave, firm, energetic, straightforward, and sincere, save in matters where religion supervened, but he was always cruel, proud, vindictive, obstinate; although he would have been himself a faithful and obedient subject, he became one of the least suitable sovereigns to reign over a free people" (Barrow). V2. The Tories maintained-that the king could never die, and that therefore the throne could not be vacant. William was ready to return home again, and intimated that nothing less than kingly power for life would satisfy him, and that he was not in the humour to be dependent on a woman, whoever she was (Barrow). V3. Eleven votes.-Hallam gives fourteen. WI. At last. "After the Revolution England became practically a republic” (Gardiner and Mullinger). INDEX AGINCOURT, battle of, 73 Alexander III., King of Scotland, 59 Alfred the Great, 9, 35, 36 Annates, 219 Anne of Cleves, 86, 224 Apprentices, London, 288 Armada, the Spanish, 92, 248-49 Arthur, King, 25 Arundel, Earl of, 12 Ashburnham Library, 4 Askew, Anne, 87, 226 Attainder, Bill of, 287 Augustine, St., of Canterbury, 27 BABINGTON, the Conspiracy, 92 Balliol, King of Scotland, 59, 61, 65, 67, Barnet Heath, battle of, 78, 198 His History of England, 5, 16, 17, Battles. See Agincourt, Barnet Heath, cester Bayeux, Odo, Bishop of, 44, 45, 127 Bible, English, 85, 220, 224-25 Black Death, 170, 171, 173, 174 Black Prince, 66, 67, 168, 171 Blood, "The Notorious," 115, 332 Boétie, La, 23 Boleyn, Anne, 84, 86, 214, 219, 220 Bruce, Robert, 60, 62, 65, 165, 167 Buckingham, Villiers, Duke of, 96, 274-75, Bulls, Papal, 42, 47, 51, 57, 61, 63, 85, CADE, Jack, 192 Cambridge, University of, 36 Carlisle, Countess of, 284 Carte, Thomas, xiii, xxi–xxiii, 217 Mary, Queen, 89-90, 322-28 Queen of Scots, 13, 92, 228-40, 246-47 Masson, M. Frédéric, xiv, 14 Merchant adventurers, 159 Milton, 41 m., 327 Model, The New, 299 Monasteries, Dissolution of, 222-24, 237 Monks, 35, 37, 38, 41, 44, 85, 126, 141, Mowbray, 181 Mullinger, J. B., 16 n., 43 Municipal System, English, 58 NAPIER, Macvey, xv Napoleon, xi, xiii; his biographies (see Naseby, battle of, 106, 300 Navy, English, 12, 36, 42, 51, 59, 117, 145, 159, 185, 192, 248, 289, 293, 304, OATES, Titus, 116, 334 Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, 44, 45 Ordeal of Fire, 41 Orleans, Siege of, 75, 188 Oxford, Provisions of, 55, 57, 150 PAGEANTS, 149, 150 Pandulph, Papal Legate, 51, 141 Patriotism, English, 95 Pembroke, Earl of, 51, 55, 60 Perrers, Alice, 172 Persecution, religious, 28 Peter's Pence, 28 Philip of France, 51 the Bold, 58, 158 the Fair, 63 King of Spain, 90, 92, 234 Plantagenets, The, 47 seq. Poictiers, 66, 171 Præmunire, Law of, 92, 241 Prestonpans, battle of, 88, 228 Puritans, The, 94, 102, 256 Pym, 98, 102, 105, 274, 284-85, 288, 297 QUAKERS, The, 113, 326 RALEIGH, Sir W., 96, 263-64 |