Part 37

Eric, king of Sweden, i. 128

Essayists, the English, vii. 158-160

Essex settled by the East Saxons, i. 35; submits to Wulfhere, 85; peasant revolt in, ii. 321; Protestantism in, under Mary, iv. 144; royalist rising in, vi. 59

Essex, Arthur Capel, first earl of, commissioner of the Treasury, vi. 301; supports Shaftesbury and the Exclusion, 315, 319; plots with Monmouth, etc., 336; death, 337

Essex, Robert Devereux, second earl of, v. 43, 62, 63

Essex, Robert Devereux, third earl of, marries Frances Howard, v. 190; divorced, 191; resists a forced loan, 255; captain-general of the Parliamentary army, vi. 1; movements in 1642, 2, 3; captures Reading, 5; his inactivity, 6, 8-10; retires to Uxbridge, 12; relieves Gloucester, 13, 14; movements in 1644, 19, 22, 23; retires, 35

Essex, Earls of. See Fitz-Peter, Mandeville

Essex, Frances, Countess of. See Howard

Estates of the realm, various groupings of, in Parliament, ii. 202, 203

Etherege, Sir George, vi. 157

Eugene of Savoy, Prince, vii. 118, 120, 121, 131, 134

Euphuism, v. 5

Eustace, Count of Boulogne, i. 152, 167

Eustace, son of King Stephen, i. 226, 227

Eustace the Monk, ii. 2

Eva, daughter of Dermod of Leinster, i. 252

Evelyn's Diary, vi. 157

Evesham founded, i. 86; battle of, ii. 77, 78

Evreux, Charles of, ii. 315

Exchange, the Royal, founded, iv. 280

Exchequer, Court of, i. 206; ii. 109; Richard Fitz-Neal's Dialogue on, i. 174, 244; closed, vi. 261

Excise, Walpole's scheme of, vii. 195, 201, 202; revived by Pitt, viii. 77

Exeter, northmen at, i. 106; Welsh driven from, 120; subdued by William I., 167, 168; tailors' gild at, 318; William of Orange received at, vii. 40

Exeter, Henry Holland, duke of, iii. 140, 142

Exeter, John Holland, duke of (Earl of Huntingdon), iii. 7, 8

Exeter, Edward Courtenay, marquis of, iii. 322, 348, 350

Exton, Sir Piers, iii. 8

Exclusion Bill, the, vi. 307, 308, 319, 320