Jacquerie, the, ii. 265
Jamaica conquered by the English, vi. 117
James (I.), son of Robert III. of Scotland, iii. 15; prisoner in England, 16; king, ib., 183; murdered, 184
James IV., king of Scots, iii. 184, 185, 210
James V., king of Scots, iii. 248; iv. 23, 25, 26
James (VI.) of Scotland, born, iv. 231; crowned, 259; relations with Lennox and the Guises, 346; alliance with Elizabeth, 350; relations with Essex and Robert Cecil, v. 63; king of England, 122; his early life, 122-124; character and purpose, 124, 125; struggle with the nobles, 128; with the Kirk, 133, 134, 139-143; his Basilikon Dôron, 143; enters London, 146; person and character, 146-148; policy, 144, 149, 150; gives relief to the Catholics, 150; refuses Puritan demands, 152, 153; proposes union with Scotland, 154; takes title of King of Great Britain, 155; his impositions, 160, 161; struggle with the Assembly and the Kirk, 164-166; with English law, 168; his True Law of Free Monarchy, 169; his theory of monarchy, ib., 170; financial straits, 172; struggle with Parliament, 179-182; his own minister, 185, 186; sets aside the council, 187; his favourites, 188, 189; backs the divorce of Lady Essex, 190, 191, 193; immorality of his court, 193, 194; summons Parliament, 195; dissolves it, 196; revives benevolences, 197, 198, 229; checks the growth of London, 198, 199; increases the peerage, 200; relations with the judges, 201, 202; dismisses Coke, 202; policy towards Spain, 211, 212; towards Germany and Bohemia, 218, 219; revives monopolies, 222; quarrel with Parliament, 228, 229; tears its Protestation, 229; overborne by Buckingham, 235; death, 239; letters of, iv. 4; authorities for his reign, v. 71
James, duke of York (King James II.), vi. 182; Lord Admiral, 193; marries Anne Hyde, 221; fight with Opdam off Lowestoft, 225; conversion, 255; fight with De Ruyter, 268; owns himself a Catholic and resigns his office, 274; second marriage, 278; exempted from the act excluding Catholics from Parliament, 297; sent to Brussels, 300; plans for excluding him from the succession, 306; recalled, 310; goes to Scotland, ib.; again recalled, 315, 335; king, vii. 5; his character, ib., 6; first measures, 6, 7; increases the army, 11; relations with France, 12; refuses to let William visit England, ib.; dealings with the Catholics and the Parliament, 14, 15; with the judges, 15; establishes a camp at Hounslow, 16; restores the High Commission, 18; struggle with the Tory nobles, 19-21; issues Declarations of Indulgence, 22, 29; attempts to pack Parliament, 23, 29; dealings with the Universities, 24-26; relations with William of Orange, 26-28; struggle with the seven bishops, 30, 31; reinforces his army with Irish troops, 33; sides with Lewis against the Empire and Holland, 36; reverses his policy, 39; flight, 42-44; received as king by Lewis, 49; policy in Ireland, 55; lands at Kinsale, 56; his rule at Dublin, 58, 59; returns to France, 71; his plans, 77; death, 106; his Autobiography, vi. 157, 158
James, William, ii. 340
Jamestown, foundation of, v. 308
Jarnac, battle of, iv. 267
Jarrow, i. 91, 92; plundered by northmen, 101
Jeanne d'Arc, iii. 46-55; Procès de, ii. 179
Jeffreys, George, Chief-Justice, vii. 10, 19; Lord Chancellor, 31
Jehan le Bel, ii. 178
Jemappes, battle of, viii. 101
Jena, battle of, viii. 174
Jenkins's ear, vii. 217
Jenkinson, Charles (first earl of Liverpool), vii. 311
Jenkinson's Travels, v. 9
Jersey, Charles II. in, vi. 78
Jerusalem, Ælfred's intercourse with, i. 113; taken by Saladin, 257
Jervis, Admiral, viii. 127
Jesuits, Order of, founded, iv. 31, 101; missionaries in England, 317-320, 353; banished, v. 156; return, vii. 16; in England, materials for their history, iv. 5
Jewel, John, iv. 119, v. 106
Jews in England, i. 187, ii. 125, 130, 284, 307; expelled, ii. 131; return, vi. 112
Joan of Arc. See Jeanne
Joan, daughter of Edward II., ii. 206
Joan of Kent, wife of the Black Prince, ii. 293, 306
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