Part 60

Layamon, i. 174, 279

League of Cambray, iii. 206; the Catholic, in Germany, v. 177, 232; the Holy, iii. 209, 210, 266; in France, iv. 348, 355, 356; of Neutrals, viii. 162-164; of Schmalkald, iii. 336; iv. 36, 50; of the Public Weal, iii. 122, 125, 126

Learning, the New, iii. 194-198, 201, 202; its protest against war, 210; attitude after Wolsey's fall, 289, 291

Leicester, one of the Five Boroughs, i. 117; surrenders to Æthelflæd, 118; condition under its earls, 297; regains right of compurgation, 313-315; stormed by Charles I., vi. 38

Leicester, Robert de Beaumont, Earl of, i. 254

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of (see Dudley), iv. 205, 349, 357; v. 58, 63

Leighton, John, v. 305

Leinster, kingdom of, i. 251, 252

Leipzig, battle of, viii. 202

Leith sacked by the English, iv. 29; siege of, 175, 176

Leland, John, v. 4

Lennox, Esmé Stuart, Duke of, iv. 346; v. 123

Lennox, Matthew Stuart, Earl of, iv. 227, 244; v. 123

Lennox, Margaret, Countess of, iv. 220, 221

Leo X., Pope, iii. 249, 253, 254

Leofa, slayer of Eadmund the Magnificent, i. 123

Leofric, Earl of Mercia, i. 150, 152

Leopold II., Emperor, viii. 95, 96

Leopold V., Duke of Austria, i. 261

Lepanto, battle of, iv. 297

Leslie, Alexander, v. 335, 337. See Leven

Leslie, David, vi. 79, 80, 83, 84

"Lesser barons." See Knights

Levant Company, v. 161

Leven, Alexander Leslie, first Earl of (see Leslie), vi. 18

Lever, Thomas, iv. 119, 128, 132

Lewes, battle of, ii. 70, 71; Mise of, 71; Protestant martyrs at, iv. 96

Lewis of Bavaria, Emperor, ii. 217-219, 221, 229, 235, 248