Part 40

Flanders, Margaret of, ii. 286

Fleet, English, created by Ælfred, i. 116; successes under John, 333, 337; under Hubert de Burgh, ii. 2, 3; repulsed from Abermenai, 54; reduces Anglesea, 109; victory at Sluys, 228; defeated by Spaniards, 313; harries the coast of Britanny, iii. 16; Henry VIII.'s, iv. 28, 29; Elizabeth's, 360; its fight with the Armada, 361, 362; declares for Charles I., vi. 59; re-created by Vane, 78; increased under William III., vii. 105, 107; blockades Cadiz and threatens Naples, 223; its share in the war with France, viii. 111, 127, 133; blockades Malta, 162, 165; attacks Copenhagen, 163, 180

Fleetwood, General, vi. 121, 145, 150

Flemings in Pembrokeshire, ii. 48, 55; settle in England under Edward III., 226; besiege Bouvines, 234; attack France, 244

Fletcher, Giles, v. 304

Fletcher, Phineas, v. 304

Fleurus, battles of, vii. 75; viii. 109

Flint, Richard II. taken prisoner at, ii. 381; castle captured by Owen Glyndwr, iii. 11

Flodden, battle of, iii. 210

Flood, Henry, viii. 37

Florence, revival of letters at, iii. 189; commercial treaty with, iv. 282

Florence of Worcester, i. 6, 173, 280

Florida, Huguenot colony in, iv. 330; ceded to England, vii. 307; to Spain, viii. 41

Flushing pledged to Elizabeth, iv. 349

Foliot, Gilbert, his letters, i. 173

Folk, the, i. 19

"Folk-land," i. 47

Folk-moot, the, i. 19, 20.

Fontenoy, battle of, vii. 227

Ford, John, v. 303

Forests, Assize of the, i. 267; Charter of the, ii. 165, 166, 170; Law of the, 34; commission of, under Charles I., v. 277; New, disafforested by Great Charter, i. 352

Forster, Thomas, vii. 184

Fort St. George (Madras), vii. 232

Fort William (Calcutta), vii. 232

Fort William (Inverness-shire), vii. 52

Fortescue, Sir Faithful, vi. 3

Fortescue, Sir John, iii. 86

Fotheringay, Mary Stuart beheaded at, iv. 352