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London, Treaty of, 93
'London Weekly Courant,' the, 145
Long Parliament, the, 47, 83
Loom, Dutch, invented, 146

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- Power, invented, 147
Lords, House of, 88

Lowe, Robert, 131

Lucius, Prince of Britain, 112
Lucknow, Massacre at, 69, 110
Lyell, Sir Charles, 160
Lytton, Lord, 159

MACAULAY, Lord, 160

Mackintosh, Sir J., 158

Magdala, Taking of, 71
Magna Charta, 19, 78
Maharajpoor, Battle of, 110
Mahratta War, 109

Maida, Battle of, 64

Mail Coaches first started, 147
Main Plot, the, 42

Malplaquet, Battle of, 56

Malta, Colony of, 95

Manchester, Rise and Growth of, 145
Man, Isle of, 95

Manitoba province, 98

Mansfield, William Murray, Lord, 127

Mar, John Erskine, Earl of, 125

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Plantagenets, Government under the,

77

Plassey, Battle of, 61, 107
Poictiers, Battle of, 24

Pole, Reginald, Cardinal, 119
Police Force, remodelled, 147
Pollilore, Battle of, 108
Poor Law Act, 40, 67, 82
Pope, Alexander, 156
Porto Novo, Battle of, 108
POSSESSIONS, BRITISH, LIST OF, 95
Postage, Penny, the, 147

Postal Service, Horse, established, 143
Improved, 145

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Post, Book, the, 147

Office Founded, 145

Potatoes, Introduction of, 144

Poundage and Tonnage, 83
Præmunire, Statute of, 25, 80
Præsides, 74

Pragmatic Sanction, the, 60
Prayer-Book, Composition of the, 82
Presidencies, Formation of, in India,
107

Preston, Battle of (1648), 48

(1715), 59

Preston Pans, Battle of, 60

Pretender, the Young, Rebellion of,
60

Prince Edward Island, Colony of, 99
Printing, Introduction of the Art of,
143

Prior, Matthew, 155

Privy Council, Institution of the, 80
Progress of the English Nation, 141
Protectorate, the, of Oliver Cromwell,
49

of Richard Cromwell, 50
Provisors, Statute of, 24, 80
Public-houses, Licensing of, 145
'Public Intelligencer.' the, 145
Pumps, Air, invented, 146
Punniar, Battle of, 110
Pym, John, 121

Pyrenees, Battle of the, 65

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QUE

Quebec, Taking of, 61

Queen Anne's Bounty, 146

Queen Charlotte Islands (Colony), 99
Quia Emptores, Statute, 22, 80
Quincey, Thomas de, 161

RAGLAN, Lord, 130

Railway, First, 147

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 121

Ramillies, Battle of, 56

Ramnugger, Battle of, 69, 110

Ramsay, Allan, 156

Rangoon, Taking of, 109

Rebellion,Lord Edward Fitzgerald's, 63
REDWALD, 7

Reformation in England, 38, 39

- Rise and Development of the, 81
Reform Bill, the (1832), 67, 87
(1867), 70, 87

Registers of Births, Deaths, and Mar-
riages established, 144
Remonstrance, the Great, 47, 83
Restoration, the, 50
Revolution, the, 53
RICHARD I., 18

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- Imprisonment of, 19

RICHARD II., 25

RICHARD III., 32
Richardson, Samuel, 157

Ridley, Nicholas (Bishop), 119

Rights, Bill of, 54, 85

Riot Act, the, 59, 86

Ripon, Treaty of, 47, 90
Rizzio, David, 119

Robert, Duke of Normandy, 13, 114

Robertson, William, 158

Robin Hood, 115

Rochelle, Expeditions to, 45

Rodriguez, Colony of, 98

ROMAN PERIOD, THE, 1

Government during the, 73

Britain, Map of, 73
Roads, The four, 3

- Towns, Names of, 74
Rooke, Sir George, 124
Roses, Wars of the, 30
Rowe, Nicholas, 155

Royal Marriage Act, 86

Society organised, 145

Rugby, School at, founded, 145
Rupert, Prince, 122
Rupert's Land, 99

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- Lucia, Colony of, 100
-Paul's Cathedral built, 146
- Quentin, Battle of, 40
-Thomas's Hospital, 148

· Vincent, Colony of, 100
Cape, Battle of, 63
Salamanca, Battle of, 65
Salt Mines discovered, 145
Sanction, the Pragmatic, 60
Saratoga, Surrender at, 62
Savage, Richard, 156

Savings Bank, First, organised, 147
SAXON AND DANISH PERIOD, THE, 4
Genealogical Table, 6

- Invasion, the, 4

Witanagemot, or Witan, 9, 75

Saxons, the, 2, 4

SCHEDULAR ABSTRACT OF ENGLISH
HISTORY, 162

Schomberg, Armand, Duke of, 124
School Boards, 71

Scinde, War with, 68, 109

Scotch Succession, Settlement of, 22

Scott, Sir Walter, 158

Scots, Picts and, 2, 3

Sebastopol, Taking of, 69

Sedgemoor, Battle of, 52

Selden, John, 154

Self-denying Ordinance, the, 48

Septennial Act, the, 59, 86
Seringapatam, Storming of, 109
Settlement, Act of, 55, 85
Seven Bishops, Trial of the, 53
-Years' Wars, the, 61

SEV

Seville, Treaty of, 92

Seychelles Islands, Colony of the, 98
Seymour, Thomas, Lord, 118
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper,
Earl of, 123, 156

Shakspeare, William, 154

Sharp, James, Archbishop of St. An-
drew's, 123

Sheffield, Rise and Growth of, 145
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 157

Shenstone, William, 156

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 128, 158

Sheriffmuir, Battle of, 59
Ship-money, 46, 83

Shire-mote, the, 75

Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, 124
Shrewsbury, Battle of, 29
Sidney, Algernon, 123
Sidney, Sir Philip, 120, 153
Sierra Leone, Colony of, 97
Sikh War, the First, 68, 110
Second, 69, 110

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Silk first manufactured, 145
Broad, first woven, 145
Simnel, Lambert, 118
--Insurrection of, 35

Six Articles, Statute of, 38, 39, 81
Sixpenny Pieces first struck, 144
Slavery, Abolition of, 67, 87
Sluys, Battle of, 23

Smallpox, Inoculation from, 146
Smith, Adam, 158

Smollett, Tobias, 157

Sobraon, Battle of, 68, 110

Solemn League and Covenant, the, 48
Solway Moss, Battle of, 39
Somerset, Duke of, 119

Execution of the, 39

Somers' Islands or The Bermudas, 100
Somers, John, Lord, 124

Somerville, Mary, 160

Sources of English History, 1

S uthey, Robert, 158

South Sea Scheme, the, 59
Southwark Bridge, 148

Sovereigns and Half-sovereigns first
coined, 144

SOVEREIGNS, CONTEMPORARY,
149

Spain, War with, 60

Spanish War, the, 49

-Succession, War of the, 56

LIST OF,

SYR

Spectacles, Invention of, 143
Spenser, Edmund, 153

Spinning Frame, Invention of, 147
Jenny, Invention of the, 147
Rollers, Invention of, 146

Wheels, Invention of, 145

Spurs, Battle of, 37

Stamford Bridge, Battle of, 10
Stamp Act, the, 86

Standard, Battle of the, 14
Standing Army established, 145

Star Chamber, 35, 80

and High Commission, 46
Starch first used, 144

Steamboat, First, on the River Clyde,
147

Steam Engine, First Locomotive, con-
structed, 147

for raising water, built, 146
Steam Engines, Improvements in the,
147

Steele, Sir Richard, 156
Steinkirk, Battle of, 55
STEPHEN, 14

Sterne, Laurence, 157
Stewart, Dugald, 158
Stigand, Primate, 113

Stocking Frame, Invention of the, 144
Stoke, Battle of, 35

Stow, John, 154

Strafford, Thos. Wentworth, Lord, 47,
121

Streets of London first lighted, 143
Strongbow's Invasion of Ireland, 17,

114

STUART, HOUSE OF, 42

Genealogical Table, 43

Stuart, Charles Edward, 127

James, 126

- Lady Arabella, 120

Conspiracy of, 42

Stuarts, Government under the, 82
Sugar Duties, Repeal of, 68, 87
Sugar imported into England, 142
Sunday Schools established by Robert
Raikes, 147

Supplemental Treaties (1870), the, 94
Supremacy, Act of, 40, 82

Surrey, Howard, Earl of, 153

Swift, Jonathan, 156

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 159

Syriam, Taking of, 109

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