Eikon Basilike, vi. 72
Elba, Napoleon at, viii. 205
Eleanor of Castille, wife of Edward I., ii. 93
Eleanor of Poitou, wife of Henry II., i. 226; her claims on Toulouse, 233; turns against Henry, 254; imprisoned, 255; joins Richard in Sicily, 260; secures Aquitaine for John, 268; besieged at Mirebeau, ib.; dies, 270
Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III., ii. 32, 69, 72, 74
Eleanor, daughter of King John, ii. 36
Eliot, John, v. 195, 248, 249; attacks Buckingham, 249-252; sent to the Tower, 253; released, ib.; proposes a Remonstrance, 262; share in the Avowal, 268; death, 273
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII., iv. 46; her classical scholarship, iii. 212; Thomas Seymour's attempt to marry her, iv. 56; sent to the Tower, 85, 136; Parliament refuses to oust her from the succession, 89; her person, 134; scholarship, ib., 135; relations with Mary, 136; Philip's policy towards, 137, 138; set free, 138; accession, 146; religious policy, 148-150, 152, 153; coronation, 153; refuses to marry Philip, 154; relations with Paul IV., 155, 156; her title acknowledged by Parliament, 156; restores the Prayer-Book, 158, 159; drops the title "Head of the Church," 160; dealings with the clergy, 161, 162; relations with Parker, 165, 166; with the Scotch Lords of the Congregation, 170, 172-175; treaty with Mary and Francis, 176; character, 177-181; statesmanship, 182-186; supports the Huguenots, 189; temporises with Pius IV., 192; refuses to send envoys to Trent, 193, 194; schemes for her marriage, 193, 195, 199; refuses a safe-conduct to Mary Stuart, 200; difficulties with Mary, 202-204; treaty with the Huguenots, 209, 210; with France, 219; her changes in the system of the monarchy, 232; policy in Ireland, 240; drift of her religious policy, 247, 248; difficulties with Mary and Alva, 257, 258; demands Mary's release, 259; refuses to recognize Murray's government, ib.; renews marriage negotiations with Austria, 260; negotiates for Mary's restoration, 262; her temporizing policy, 264; bull of deposition against her, 265, 270; her relations with England, 274, 275, 287-289; checks the "liberty of prophesying," 290; relations with Parliament, 292, 293; v. 56-58; resists Puritan pressure, iv. 293, 294; scheme for her marriage with Henry of Anjou, 297; expels the "water-beggars," 298; attitude towards the Netherlands, 300; persecutes the Catholics, 308, 309; alliance with the Netherlands, 311; scheme for her marriage with Francis of Anjou, 313, 316, 337, 338; dealings with the Catholics, 319, 320; relations with Drake, 334; confers new powers on the Ecclesiastical Commission, 340; refuses Protectorate of the Netherlands, 349; sends them aid, ib.; alliance with James VI., 350; plots against her, ib.; signs the death-warrant of Mary Stuart, 352; her victory over party disunion, 364, 365; sends an expedition to Portugal, 367; help to Henry IV., 371; league with France and the Netherlands, v. 60; her loneliness, 63; waning popularity, 64, 65; last days, 65, 66; death, 67; materials for her history, iv. 3-5
Elizabeth, Czarina of Russia, vii. 246, 306
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV., iii. 133, 167, 168, 170, 171; marries Henry VII., 175
Elizabeth, daughter of James I., v. 210
Elizabeth Woodville. See Woodville
Elizabeth of France, wife of Philip II. of Spain, iv. 372
Ellandun, battle of, i. 102
Elliott, General, viii. 31, 41
Elmet conquered by Eadwine, i. 63
Elmham's Life of Henry V., ii. 179
Ely burnt by northmen, i. 104; Cnut at, 145; the Ætheling Ælfred blinded at, 148; surrenders to William, 170; seized by the Disinherited, ii. 88
Emma of Normandy, wife of Æthelred II., i. 141, 156
"Emperor's men," the, i. 303
Empson, Sir Richard, iii. 199
Engla-land, i. 138
England, Old, i. 9
England, character of its settlement, i. 44-48; work of the northmen in, 129; first use of the name, 138; its peace under Cnut, 146; prosperity under Eadward and Harold, 153; effects of foreign rule on, 176-178, 278; fusion of Normans and English in, 200, 281; invaded by Robert of Normandy, 200, 201; civil war in, 219, 220; anarchy in, 220, 221; revival of national feeling in, 280, 281; Norman immigration to, 302; effects of loss of Normandy on, 325, 326; under Interdict, 330, 331; Friars arrive in, ii. 11; Provençals and Poitevins in, under Henry III. 32, 33; early finance, 103; relations with the Papacy, 26-28, 218, 219, 221-223, 225, 273-275, 303; social changes after the Black Death, 254, 255; social strife in, 266-268, 289, 316, 317; sufferings under Edward III., 290, 291; constitutional, its beginnings, 100; its freedom established, iii. 85; moral and intellectual decay during Wars of the Roses, 97, 98, 115; social condition in fifteenth century, 104-107; agricultural changes in, 107, 108; evictions and enclosures in, 109, 110; definition of its foreign policy, 128; intellectual progress under Edward IV., 153, 154; the New Learning in, 191-196, 201; relations with the Papacy under Henry VIII., 288, 289, 299, 300, 302; rejects Papal jurisdiction, 305; foreign Protestants in, iv. 51, 58, 59, 305; condition under Somerset, 54, 55; religious disorder in, 61; condition under Northumberland, 66; religious changes in, under Mary, 75; submits to Rome, 88, 89; effects of the Reformation on, 121, 122; attitude in Mary's later years, 134, 138, 139; condition at her death, 146, 147; religious chaos under Elizabeth, 162-165; becomes Protestant, 166, 167, 247, 248; its importance to the Papacy, 253, 254; parties in, 263; social condition under Elizabeth, 274-277, 283-287; religious condition, 289-291, 302-305; volunteers from, in the Netherlands, 324; unites against the Armada, 358; effect on, of the fight with Spain, 364; its maritime warfare with Spain, 370, 371; intellectual developement under Elizabeth, v. 1-11; condition at her death, 75, 76; growth of wealth and social advance, 77; rise of the squires, 78; growth of national spirit in, ib., 79; growth of the religious spirit in, 81; foreign rule of the Stuarts in, 148, 149; James I.'s proposal for its union with Scotland, 154; change in its attitude towards the crown, 171, 172, 183, 184; condition under Charles I., 280-282, 315, 316; declared a Commonwealth, vi. 68, 69; scheme of union with Holland, 81; with Scotland, 85; with Ireland, 86; war with Holland, ib., 88; condition under Cromwell and the major-generals, 106-108; progress of the Puritan ideal in, 125-128; scientific movement in, 131-133; Latitudinarians in, 133-137; modern, its beginnings, 160-161; intellectual progress after the Restoration, 163-171; union with Scotland and Ireland dissolved, 180; Restoration settlement of, 196-198; quarrel with the Dutch, 223, 224; war with Holland, 225-226, 238, 239, 261; attitude towards Lewis XIV., 228; its diplomacy under Charles II., 247, 248; declares war against Lewis XIV., vii. 49; alliance with Holland, 102, 104, 105; Union with Scotland, 127, 128; its European position after the Revolution, 147, 148; its European policy, 149-151; its intellectual influence, 151-153; character of political controversy in, 161; strength and weakness of public opinion in, 162-164; social condition under the Georges, 170, 171; alliance with France and Holland, 187; condition under Walpole, 195-198; alliance with France and Prussia, 199; quarrel with Spain for trade in America, 216, 217; declares war, 218; intercourse with India, 232; relations with America, 240, 241, 243, 244; treaty with Frederick II., 247, 248; war with France, 248, 249, 264; becomes a world-power, 274-277; annexations in the Pacific, 278, 279; its empire, 279; relations with America after the Seven Years' War, 280-283; results of the Revolution in, 286, 287; intellectual advance in the eighteenth century, 292, 293; war with Spain, 306; conquests in the West Indies, 307; its gains by the treaty of Paris, ib.; English and American theories of its relation to America, 321-325; growing influence of public opinion in, viii. 1, 2, 10, 11; war with America, 22-26, 32, 41; relations with Ireland, 33; position after the American war, 45; religious movement in, 46, 47; industrial progress, 53-60; growing influence of the trading class in, 61; its condition as compared to the rest of Europe, 80; alliance with Prussia and Holland, 85; attitude towards the French Revolution, 87, 88, 93-95; panic in, 103-106; war with France, 108, 109; its colonial acquisitions in 1795, 112; condition during the French war, 114; its dogged temper, 115, 116; effects of the war on its industry and trade, 157, 158; League of Neutrals against her, 159, 160; declares war against Buonaparte, 170; effects of the Continental System on its industry and trade, 177; condition during the French war, 192-195; war with America, 198, 203-205; last strife with Napoleon, 207-211. See English People
Engle, the, their early home, i. 9, 10; settle in East Anglia and the north, 36; conquer Bernicia, 52. See English, Mercians, South-Engle
English people, their life in Old England, i. 10-22; religion, 22-24; temper, 24-26; love of the sea, 27; character of their conquests, 39-44; of their settlement, 44-48; changes in organization after the conquest, 48-52; tendencies towards unity, 53-55, 61, 83, 130; union under Ecgberht, 103; fusion of northmen with, 126, 127; effects of struggle with the northmen on, 129, 130; tendencies towards disintegration, 133, 134; effects of foreign rule on, 176-178; fusion of Normans with, 200, 281; support William Rufus, 191, 192; support Henry I., 201, 202; revival of national feeling, 280, 281; attitude under George III., vii. 312-314; new life in America, viii. 43, 44. See England
Episcopacy abolished in Scotland, v. 140; restored, 143, 166, 167; again abolished, 335; proposal to abolish it in England, 354
Erasmus, Desiderius, iii. 193, 194; his relations with Warham, 196, 212; teaches Greek at Cambridge, 201; protests against war, 211; his Praise of Folly, 199, 219; edition of St. Jerome, 212, 213; of the New Testament, 213, 215; his theology, 214; defends the New Learning against Luther, 256
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