Part 43

George I., King, vii. 146; his temper, 173; foreign policy, 187-189; death, 200

George, Duke of Cambridge (George II.), vii. 144; his character, 173; King, 200; his foreign policy, 221, 223, 226, 247; victory at Dettingen, 224; death, 283

George III., King, vii. 283; his character and aims, 284, 285; importance of his action, 285, 286; his power, 300; relations with Pitt, 305, 316, 328, 331, 339; with the Whigs, 305, 316, 328, 339; with Parliament, 309; urges the expulsion of Wilkes, viii. 6; renews the quarrel with America, 13; his personal government, 16, 17; his rejoicing at the quarrel with America, 19; madness, 84, 196; refuses emancipation to Catholics, 154, 155, 179

George, Prince of Wales (George IV.), Regent, viii. 84, 196

Georgia, colony of, vii. 236, 237

Gerald of Wales, i. 174, 245, 246, 275, 285

Germany, its relations with the Papacy, ii. 218; growth of Protestantism in, iv. 31; v. 175; Catholic reaction in, 176; attacked by Lewis XIV., vii. 38, 48, 118

Gervase of Canterbury, i. 174

Gesta Stephani, i. 173

Gesith, the, i. 50

Gewissas, i. 34

Ghent, Charters confirmed at, ii. 166; revolt at, 233; John of Gaunt born at, 293; reduced by the French, 349; Pacification of, iv. 310, 311

Gibbon, Edward, viii. 46

Gibraltar ceded to England, vii. 142; besieged by the Spaniards, 199; Elliott's defence of, viii. 31, 41

Gifford, Bonaventure, vii. 26

Gilbert, Sir Humphry, iv. 345

Gilbert, William, discovers terrestrial magnetism, vi. 131

Gilbert, William, papal emissary in Ireland, iv. 317

Gildas, i. 3

Gilds, i. 298-300, 304; of English Merchant Adventurers in Flanders, iii. 155; of St. John at Bruges, 154; of the Staple, ii. 304; of tailors, i. 318; of weavers, 317; Ordinances of, 274; suppression of, iv. 54. See Craft-gilds, Merchant-gild

Ginkell, General, vii. 73

Giraldus Cambrensis. See Gerald

Girondists, viii. 96

Glamis, Patrick Lyon, Master of, v. 124

Glamorgan conquered by Robert Fitz-Hamo, ii. 48; by Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, 58

Glamorgan, Edward Somerset, Earl of, vi. 16

Glanvill, Ranulf de, i. 255, 259; his treatise on law, 174, 244

Glastonbury, St. Dunstan at, i. 121, 123; Arthur's tomb at, 247; ii. 57