Part 31

Delaware, colony of, vii. 236

Denham, Sir John, vi. 325

Denmark, its monarchy founded, i. 128; relations with Sweden and Hanover, vii. 188, 189; joins leagues against England, viii. 162, 180; its fleet captured, 180, 181

Deorham, battle of, i. 38, 61

Derby, one of the Five Boroughs, i. 117; conquered by Æthelflæd, 118; Charles Edward at, vii. 228

Derby, Henry Plantagenet I., Earl of, ii. 234, 235, 243

Derby, Henry Plantagenet III., Earl of, ii. 353

Derby, Henry III. of Lancaster, Earl of. See Henry IV. (king).

Derby, Edward Stanley, third Earl of, iv. 267, 269

Derby, William Stanley, ninth Earl of, vii. 23

Derby, Earls of. See Ferrars.

Derbyshire, lead mines in, ii. 107

D'Erlon, General, viii. 208, 209

Dermod, king of Leinster, i. 251, 252

Derry, colonisation of, v. 289

Derwentwater, James Radcliffe, third Earl of, vii. 184

Desmond, Gerald Fitzmaurice (or Fitzgerald), fifteenth Earl of, iv. 315, 316

Desmond, James Fitzgerald, seventeenth Earl of, v. 62

Despenser, Hugh, justiciar, ii. 64, 66, 87

Despenser, Hugh, the elder, ii. 194, 198.

Despenser, Hugh, the younger, ii. 194, 195, 199

Dettingen, battle of, vii. 224

Devon rises against William. I., i. 168; against Somerset, iv. 55; secured by Prince Maurice for Charles I., vi. 13; rising in, under Monmouth, vii. 9

Devonshire, William Cavendish, fourth Earl of (see Cavendish), vii. 28; signs the invitation to William III., 35; prepares for a rising, 37; heads the rising in the Midlands, 41

Devonshire, Thomas Courtenay, fifth Earl of, iii. 69

Devonshire, Thomas Courtenay, sixth Earl of, ii. 80

Devon, Edward Courtenay, Earl of, iv. 78

D'Ewes, Sir Symonds, iv. 5; v. 72