Hengist, traditional leader of the Jutes, 27 Henrietta Maria, Queen, negotiations for the marriage of, 500; marries Charles I., 502; a papal agent at the Court of, 521; carries abroad the crown jewels, 536; urges Charles not to abandon the militia, 552
Henry I. receives no land at his father's death, 114; his wars with his brothers, 119; accession and marriage of, 122: puts down insurrections, 124; conquers Normandy, 125; his dispute with Anselm, ib.; judicial reforms of, 127; makes war in Normandy, 129; loses his only son, 130; death of, 131 Henry II., early career of, 136; marries
Eleanor, 137; character of, 138; ad- vances Thomas of London, 140; ad- ministrative system of, 140-142; ap points Thomas archbishop,and quarrels with him, 143; draws up the Consti- tutions of Clarendon, 144; persecutes Thomas, 145; issues the Assize of Clarendon, 146; renews the itinerant justices, and inquires into the conduct of the sheriffs, 148; has young Henry crowned, 149; uses strong language against Thomas, 150; goes to Ireland, 151; renounces the Constitutions of Clarendon, 153: does penance, 154; issues the Assize of Arms, ib.; his domestic troubles, 155; takes the cross and dies, 157; his weakness on the Continent and strength in England, 158; literary vigour under, 167 Henry II., king of France, allied with Scotland, 413; his attitude towards Elizabeth, 432; death of, 433
Henry III., minority of, 185; favours Poitevins under the influence of Peter des Roches, 187; marries Eleanor of Provence and favours Provençals, 192: frequently renews the Great Charter, 192; quarrels with Simon de Mont- fort, 193; surrenders Poitou, 194; is opposed by Parliament, 195; hopes to make his second son King of Sicily, 196; misgovernment of, 197; consents to the Provisions of Oxford, 198; recovers power, 200 taken prisoner at Lewes, 201; last years of, 204; progress of the country in the reign of,
Henry III., king of France, proposes, as Duke of Anjou, to marry Elizabeth,
443; accession of, 450; murder of, 464 Henry IV. (see Derby, Earl of) claims the throne, 286; meets with difficulties, 289; leans on the Church, 291; rebel- lion of the Percies against, 293; keeps James I. as a hostage, 295; suppresses a rebellion in the North, 296; quarrels with the Prince of Wales, 298; death of, 299.
Henry IV., king of France, his succes- sion to the French crown disputed, 456; overpowers the League, 464 Henry IV., Emperor, resists Gregory VII., 108
Henry V., career of, as Prince of Wales, 297-299; domestic policy of, 299; claims the crown of France, 300; defeats the French at Agincourt, 302; conquers Normandy, 303; forms an alliance with the Duke of Burgundy, and is declared heir to the French throne, 306; marriage and death of, ib.
Henry V, Emperor, marries Matilda, 131
Henry VI., accession of, 307; crowned at Westminster and Paris, 312; mar- riage of, 317; supports Somerset, 323; insanity of, ib.; recovery and renewed insanity of, 324; second recovery of, ib.; attempts to reconcile the parties, 325; declared a traitor by Edward IV., 329; restoration of, 333; murder of, 334
Henry VI., Emperor, his relations with Richard 1., 161, 162
Henry VII., as Earl of Richmond, genealogy of, 334; invades England, 343; defeats Richard III. and be comes king, ib.; supported by the middle classes, 345; suppresses Lord Lovel's rising, 346; his relations with Brittany and France, 348; assailed by Perkin Warbeck, 350; sends Poynings to Ireland, 352; restores Kildare to the Deputyship, 352; secures Warbeck, ib.; effects an alliance with Scotland, 356; encourages maritime enterprise, 356; fills his treasury, 357; his alliance with the Archduke Philip, 358; last years and death of, 358
Henry VIII., character of, 361; marries Catharine of Aragon, 363; foreign policy of, ib.; promotes Wolsey, ib.; favours More, 368; meets Francis I. on the Field of the Cloth of Gold, 369 has Buckingham executed, ib.; invades France, 371; his views on his relations with the Church, 377: is named Defender of the Faith, 379; thinks of obtaining a divorce, ib.; urges Clement VII. to divorce him, 382; demands a sentence of nullity, 383; makes a victim of Wolsey, ib.; gains the support of the House of Commons, 385: consults the uni- versities, and charges the clergy with being under a præmunire, ib.; obtains from Convocation the title of Supreme Head, 386; has no tenderness towards heresy, 388; obtains the Act of An- nates, ib.; marries Anne Boleyn, and is divorced, 389; attempts to suppress heresy, and obtains fresh powers from Parliament, 390: sends More and Fisher to the Tower, 392; Act of Supremacy in favour of, 393; dissolves the smaller monasteries, 394; marries Jane Seymour, 395; issues the ten articles, and authorises the translation of the Bible, 396; deals hardly with the Pilgrimage of Grace, 397; begins the confiscation of the greater monasteries, ib.; attacks relics and images, 398; presides at Lambert's trial, 399;
obtains from Parliament the SIX articles, 399; marries and divorces Anne of Cleves, 400-401; marries and beheads Catherine Howard, 401; marries Catherine Parr, ib.; his government of Ireland, 401-404; takes Boulogne, 405; makes war with Scotland, 406; debases the coinage, 409; death of, 411
Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, 131; declares against Stephen, 134 Henry of Trastamara, 255
Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James I., intention of the Gunpowder plotters to blow up, 483; death of, 488 Henry, son of Henry II., coronation of, 149; rebellion of, 153; death of, 156 Henry the Fowler, his mode of warfare,
Hereford, besieged by the Scots, 549 Hereford, Duke of, see Derby, Earl of Hereford, Earl of, see Bohun, Hum- frey
Heresy held to be punishable by the Common Law, 419
Heretics, Statute for burning, 292 Hereward, rising of, 103
Herrings, battle of the, 309
Hertford, Earl of, see Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of
Hexham, battle of, 331
High Commission, the, Court of, erection of, 470; its activity in the reign of Charles I., 520; abolition of, 531
Holmby House, Charles I. at, 5532 Charles I., removed from, 555 Holmes, Admiral, attacks the Dutch fleet, 605
Holy Alliance, the so-called, 883 Holy League, the, 363
Homildon Hill, battle of, 293
Honorius III., Pope, protects Henry III., 185
Hooker, his Ecclesiastical Polity, 472 Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, refuses to wear vestments, 417; receives the bishopric of Worcester, 418; speaks of his dioceses as the king's, 420; burnt, 424
Hopton, Sir Ralph, commands the Royalists in Cornwall, 537,
518: fights on Lansdown, 538; takes and loses Arundel Castle, 542; is defeated at Cheriton, ib.
Horne Tooke, Hardy, and Thelwall, acquittal of, 829
Horsa, a traditional leader of the Jutes,
Horses used to carry warriors to battle,
Horsley, Bishop, saying of, 830
Hotham, Sir John, shuts the gates of Hull against Charles I., 537
Hough, chosen President of Magdalen College, 641
Houghton, prior of the Charterhouse, execution of, 394
Hounslow, James II. reviews regiments at, 643 House-carls, 83, 93
Howard of Effingham, Charles Howard, Lord, commands the fleet against the Armada, 460; takes part in the capture of Cadiz, 464
Howard of Escrick, Edward Howard, Lord, informs against the Whigs, 625 Howe, Lord, defeats the French fleet on the first of June, 828; persuades the mutineers at Spithead to return to their duty, 836
Howe, Sir William, commands the British army in America, and occupies New York, 784
Hrolf, Duke of the Normans, so
Hubert de Burgh holds Dover Castle, 185; administration of, 186-188 Hubert Walter, administration of, 163; death of, 177
Hubertsburg, peace of, 767 Hudibras, 597 Hudson's Bay England, 696 Hugh Capet, 80
Hugh of Lusignan rises against John, 174 Hugh the Great, Duke of the French, 63 Huguenots, the, supported by Elizabeth,
436 Buckingham lends ships to fight against, 504
Hull, its gates shut against Charles I., 537; besieged by Newcastle, 542 Humble Petition and Advice, the, 573 Hundred Days, the, 874
Hundred Years' War, the, 234 Hundred-moot, the, organisation of, 31; judicial functions of, 32; gradual decay of, 72
Hundreds, early political organisation of the, 31
Hunt, Orator,' attempt to arrest, 879 Huntingdon, David I. holds the earldom of, 132
Huntley, George Gordon, fourth Earl of, overpowered by Mary, 437 Hurst Castle, Charles I. ímprisoned in,
Ibrahim Pasha, desolates Pelopon-
nesus, 884; gains victories over the Turks, 921
Iceni, the geographical position of, 8; take part with the Romans, 13; roused to insurrection by Boadicea, 15 Ictis, probably identified with Thanet, 8 Ida becomes king of Bernicia, 36 Idle, the, Eadwine's victory on, 43 Images, destruction of, 398 Impeachment of Latimer and Lyons,
262; of Suffolk, 322; of Bacon, 496; of Buckingham, Montague, and Manwar- ing, 511; of Strafford, 530; of twelve bishops, 535 of the five members, 536; of Laud, 546; of Danby, 616; pardon not to be pleaded in bar of, 617 Impositions, the New, first levy of, 484; question of the legality of, 505; act preventing the king from levying, 531 Inclosures, growth of, 320; More's attack on, 368; Ket's rebellion directed against, 416; cessation of complaints against, 464
Income-tax, imposed by Pitt, 840; re- moved, 876; imposed by Peel, 926 Independents, the, originally known as Separatists, 543; driven from the House, and reinstated by the army, 555; are unpopular after the Re- storation, 584
India, break-up of the empire of the Great Mogul and first settlements of the East India Company in, 758; condition of, after the death of Au- rungzebe, 759; influence of the French in the south of, 760; struggle between Clive and Dupleix in, 761; the subjuga- tion of Bengal in, 762; struggle with Lally in, 764; Clive's return to sup- press extortion in, 8o1; Hastings assists the Nawab of Oude to subdue the Rohillas in, 802; the Regulating Act alters the government of, ib.; Pitt's Bill for the government of, 808; defeat of Tippoo in, 837; overthrow of Tippoo in, 838; Wellesley's policy of subsidiary treaties in, 859; the Mar- quis of Hastings in, 948; the north- western frontier of, ib.; Afghanistan invaded from, 949; conquest of Sindh in, 950; the ikh wars in, 951; Dal- housie's annexations in, ib.; the Se- poy army in, 952; mutiny of the Sepoy army in, 953; end of the authority of the East India Company in, 953; the Queen's proclamation to the princes and people of, 954
India Bill, the, of rox and Burke, 806; of Pitt, 808
Ine, his rule in Wessex, 53
Infanta, the, see Maria, the Infanta Inkerman, battle of, 946 Innocent III., Pope, influences the elec
tion of Stephen Langton, 177; puts England under an interdict, and re- duces John to submission, 178-180; declares against the barons, 181-184; establishes the Friars, 190
Innocent IV. becomes Pope, 195; wins over Henry III., 196
Inquisition of the Sheriffs, the, 148 Instrument of Government, the, 568 Intercursus Magnus, the, 351 Interdict, England under, 178 Inverlochy, battle of, 547 Investiture, William I. claims the right of granting, 108; Anselm's position with regard to, 125; compromise on,
Iona, missionaries sent forth from, 47 Ipswich, Wolsey's college at, founced,
377; sold by Henry VIII., 383. Ireland, ancient language of, 7; Druids in, 10; Christianity introduced into, 47; state of civilisation in, 151; partially conquered by Henry II., 152; results of the conquest of, 264; weakness of the English colony in, 265; under Lan- caster and York, 346; under Henry VII., 350, 351: under Henry VIII., 401; legislation of Henry VIII. in, 402;
destruction of relics and images in, ib. ; conquest of a great part of, 404; Henry VIII. named king of, ib.: under Edward VI. and Mary, 451; intro- duction of English colonists into, 452: landing of Sir James Fitzmaurice in, ib.; the slaughter at Smerwick, and the Desmond rising in, 453; O'Neill's rising in, 475: Essex's invasion of, ib.; Mountjoy's conquest of, 478; planta- tion of Ulster in, 484; Wentworth s government of, 527, 528; army col- lected by Strafford in, 529; insurrec tion in, 533; massacre in, 534; the confederate Catholics in, 541; Gla- morgan's mission to, 549; Rinuccini in, 550; soldiers asked to volunteer for, 553; Cromwell in, 562; Ireton and Ludlow in, 567; act of settlement in, 595 James II. supported by the Celtic population of, 640; struggle between James II. and William III. in, 654; penal laws in, 686; destruction of the commerce of, ib.; restrictions on commerce in, ib.; volunteers in, 796; legislative independence conceded to, ib.; Pitt's scheme for a commercial union with, 810; defective constitu- tional arrangements in, 831; rise of the United Irishmen in, 832; votes given to the Catholics of, ib.; mission of Lord Fitzwilliam to, ib.; revolutionary out- break impending in, 833; Hoche at- tempts to invade, 834; outrages in, 840; rebellion in, 841; parliamentary union with, 842; struggle for Catholic emancipation in, 895; policy of Lord Grey's government towards, ç09: Thomas Drummond's management of, 916; failure of O'Connell's repeal movement in, 928; Peel's legislation for, ib.; famine in, 931; Peel's bill for the protection of life in, ib.; public works in, 932: emigration from, 933; relation between landlord and tenant in, ib.; Encumbered Estates Act in, 934; Smith O'Brien's attempted rising in, 935; Fenian rising in, 962; dis- establishment of the Protestant Church of, ib.; Land Act of the first Gladstone ministry in, 963; rejection of a bill on university education in, 966; demand of Home-Rule for, 970; Land Act of the second Gladstone ministry in, ib.; bill for the protection of life and pro- perty in, ib.; murders by the Invin- cibles in, ib.
Ireland, Duke of (see Oxford, Earl of),
supports Richard II., 279; is con- demned to death, but escapes, 280 Ireton draws up The Heads of the Pro- posals, 555; in Ireland, 563 Irish grants of William III. attacked by the House of Commons, 670 Irish Parliament, the, summoned by James II., 655; represents, under William III., only the English colony, 657: passes a bill for the relief of
Catholics, 795; legislative independ- ence granted to, 796; sources of the weakness of, ib.
Isabella of Angoulême marries John,
Isabella of Bavaria, Queen of France, takes part against her son, 306
Isabella of France marries Edward II., 225; obtains the deposition of her husband, 229; gives power to Mortimer, 231; is placed in seclusion,
232 Isca Silurum, Roman colony of, 14; martyrdom of Aaron at, 23
Isle of Wight, Jutish settlements in, 28; plundered by the French, 234
Italy, the French wars in, 363; the French driven from, 364
Italy, Charles Albert fails to drive the Austrians out of, 934, 936; war for the liberation of, 956: formation of the kingdom of, 957; Venetia ceded to, 963; Rome united to, 964 Itinerant justices under Henry I., 127; under Henry II., 148
JACOBITES, the, their action in the last months of Anne's reign, 699; attempt a rising against George I., 705; form part of the opposition against Walpole, 722
Jacqueline of Hainault, marriage of, 308 Jamaica, conquest of, 572
James I., king of Great Britain (see James VI., king of Scotland), becomes king of England, 481; imprisons Raleigh, ib.; attacks the Puritans at Hampton Court, 482; quarrels with his first House of Commons, ib.; obtains a legal decision in the case of the Post-nati, 483; his government of Ireland, 484; his financial diffi- culties, ib. makes Somerset his favourite, 486; offers to bargain with the Addled Parliament, 487; negoti. ates a Spanish marriage for his son, 488 makes Buckingham a favourite, ib.; sends Raleigh to execution, 489: watches the development of the Thirty Years' War, and summons Parliament to vote supplies, 490; his views on the prerogative, 492; sells peerages, 494 improvement of the finances of, ib.; revokes monopolies, 495; sends Digby to Germany and dissolves Parliament, 496; raises a benevolence, 497; his last Parliament, 500; seeks to marry his son to a French princess, 501; death of, ib.
James I., king of Scotland, kept in custody by Henry IV., 295; liberation
James II., as Duke of York, declares himself a Roman Catholic, 600; his conversion known, 607; resigns the Admiralty, ib.; marriages of, 608;
attempt to exclude from the throne, 617; his cruelty to the Scottish cove- nanters, 620; is present at his brother's death, 627 accession of, 634; first acts of the reign of, 635; marches against Monmouth, 637; violates the Test Act and prorogues Parliament, 638; claims the dispensing power and establishes an ecclesiastical commis- sion, 639; his government of Scotland and Ireland, 640; issues a declaration of indulgence, ib.; expels the Fellows of Magdalen and tries to pack a Par- liament, 641; issues a second declara- tion of indulgence, 642; hears of the acquittal of the seven Bishops, 643; birth of a son of, 644; makes con- cessions on hearing of William's approach, ib.; attempts to escape, 645; embarks for France, 646; alleged virtual abdication of, ib.; lands in Ire- land, 654; is defeated at the Boyne, and takes refuge in France, 656; death of, 675
James IV., king of Scotland, invades England, 352; marries the daughter of Henry VII., 356; killed at Flodden, 364
James V., king of Scotland, policy of, 404 death of, 405
James VI., king of Scotland, birth and accession of, 439; assisted by Eliza beth, 450; becomes the tool of Lennox, 454; is captured by Protestant lords, 455; becomes king of England, 481; see James I., king of Great Britain James (the Old Pretender), birth of, 644 Jane Seymour marries Henry VIII., 395; death of, 397
Jaureguy tries to murder William of Orange, 454
Jeffreys enforces the surrender of char-
ters, 625; sends Baxter to prison, 635 : is made Chief Justice, ib.; conducts the Bloody Assizes, 637; becomes Chancellor, 638 Jena, battle of, 857 Jenkins's Ear, 729
Jerusalem captured by the Crusaders,
121; captured by Saladin, 157; Richard I. refuses to look at, 161 Jervis, Sir John, commands at the battle of St. Vincent, 835
Jesuits, the, origin of, 436; land in England, 453; Act of Parliament against, 456
Jews, the, encouraged by William II., 115; protected by Henry I., 128; massacre of, 160; persecuted by John, 179; banished by Edward I., 212 Jews' House, the so-called, 170 John, king of England, his misconduct in Ireland, 156; leads the opposition to William of Longchamps, 161; joins Philip II. against Richard, 162; ac- cession of, 173; loses Normandy and Anjou, 174; appoints an Archbishop of Canterbury, 177; quarrels with the
Junius' Letters, probable authorship of, 775
Junto, the Whig, formation of, 659; break-up of, 669
Jury of presentment, 147
Jury system, the, germ of, 147; com. pleted, 321
Justices of the peace, the, origin of, 277 Justiciar, institution of the office of, 116;
his position under Henry I., 127 Jutes, probably ravage Roman Britain, 24; subdue Kent, 27; settle in the Isle of Wight and the mainland oppo- site, 28
KEBLE, his Christian Year, 940 Kemp, Bishop of London, becomes Lord Chancellor, 309
Kenilworth, Earl, Simon's castle at, 199 Kenneth, king of the Scots, receives Lothian from Eadgar, 68
Kenneth MacAlpin unites the Scots and Picts, 63
Kenmure, Lord, beheaded, 705,
Kent, foundation of the Jutish kingdom of, 27; its inhabitants driven back by the West Saxons, 35; Gaulish traders in, 38; accepts Christianity, 39; is kept by Lawrence from relapsing, 41; comparative weakness of, ib.; rising in, suppressed by Fairfax, 557 Kent, Earl of (brother of Edward II.), execution of, 231
Kentish Petition, the, 675 Keroualle, Louise de, see Portsmouth, Duchess of
Ket's rebellion, 415 Kildare, Earl of, supports the Yorkists, 347; supports Lambert Simnel, ib. ; is deprived of the Deputyship for sup
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