Linacre, Thomas, iii. 190, 197, 256
Lincoln, one of the Five Boroughs, i. 117; battles of, 219; ii. 2; relieved by John, i. 356; Jews at, ii. 126, 127
Lincolnshire surrendered to Ecgfrith by Wulfhere, i. 86; rising in, iii. 323
Lindesay of the Byres, Patrick, sixth Lord, iv. 225, 228, 230
Lindisfarne, i. 69, 79, 87, 97
Lindiswaras, i. 73, 117
Linen manufacture, Irish, its foundation, v. 291
Lisbon, Drake's and Norris's expedition to, iv. 367, 368
Lisle, Alice, vii. 11, 66
Lisle, John Dudley, Lord, iv. 41, 46. See Warwick
Litany, the English, iv. 40
Literature, English, its beginnings, i. 77, 93, 96; decay during struggle with Danes, 113; Ælfred's influence on, 114, 115; after Norman Conquest, 242, 243, 246, 278; under Henry II., 174, 244-249; under John, 278, 279; popular, during Peasant Revolt, ii. 318, 319; Wyclif's influence on, 338; revival in fourteenth century, 357, 358; effects of the Renascence on, v. 1-3; developement under Elizabeth, 3-11; after the Revolution, 154; in poetry, 156, 157; in prose, 157-161, 292, 293; beginning of a new developement with Dryden, 333; Welsh, ii. 49-54. See Drama
Lithsmen of London, i. 300
Liturgy, the English, iv. 49; Knox's, v. 327; the Scottish (Laud's), of 1636, ib.; rejected, 328. See Prayer-Book
Liverpool, its rise, vii. 196
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of, viii. 196. See Hawkesbury
"Livery," ii. 311, 355; iii. 105
Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, prince of North Wales, ii. 58; alliance with Montfort, 67, 76; raid upon Chester, 85; defeats Mortimer at Brecknock, 88; submits, 89; refuses homage to Edward I., 108; submission and marriage, 109; last revolt and death, 119, 120
Llewelyn ap Jorwerth, prince of North Wales, ii. 5, 54-58, 108
Llywarch Hen, ii. 49, 53
Loans, forced, under Richard II., ii. 372; demanded by Wolsey, iii. 244; by Charles I., 254, 255
Loch Cé, Annals of, i. 7
Lochleven, Mary Stuart imprisoned at, iv. 257, 258
Locke, John, vi. 170, 171, 259
Logic, study of, at Oxford, i. 288
Lollardry, ii. 339; suppressed at Oxford, 341; its later phases, 344-348; influence in Bohemia, 349; attitude under Henry IV., iii. 19, 21; sympathy of the Commons with, 21; rising under Oldcastle, 27; suppression of, 27, 28; its lingering existence, 96, 258; legal prohibitions of, rescinded, iv. 48; its influence in Scotland, 111
Lodi, battle of, viii. 122
London, Middle-Saxons settle round, i. 54; subject to the East-Saxons, 59; to Mercia, 85; beginnings of its commercial greatness, 138; resists Swein, 142; submits to him, 143; to the Conqueror, 165; its election of Stephen, 215; expels Matilda, 219; its share in religious revival, 222, 223; Normans in, 303; Henry I.'s charter to, 304; relations with Oxford, 308, 309; strife of classes in, 318-320; meeting of barons at, 340; joins the barons against John, 346; its liberties secured by Great Charter, 352; barons blockaded by John in, 355; defies the Pope, ib.; ii. 8; Franciscans settle in, 12; Archbishop Boniface driven from, 32; supports Earl Simon, 67, 69, 70; its charter annulled, 82; its mayor imprisoned, 83; occupied by Gilbert of Gloucester, 89; supports Wyclif, 309, 310; threatened by revolted peasants, 321, 322; its Lollardry, 345; welcomes Henry of Lancaster, 379; Richard II. brought captive to, 381; betrayed to Edward IV. by Archbishop Neville, iii. 142; its petition to Richard III., 168; evades Wolsey's demand for a benevolence, 251; Protestants in, 347; Walloons in, iv. 51; unfavourable to Jane Grey's succession, 71; its Protestant sympathies, ib., 75; attitude in Wyatt's rising, 83-85; Protestant martyrs in, 96, 144; supplies sent from, to refugees abroad, 119; its commerce under Elizabeth, 280; Flemish settlers in, 281; traders of, send help to the Prince of Orange, 324; its contribution for defence against the Armada, 358; its advance under Elizabeth, v. 77; its increase checked, 198, 199, 277; its welcome to Prince Charles, 233; colonizes Derry, 289; sides with the Parliament against Charles I., 372, 375, 376; fortified by the Parliament, vi. 4; train-bands of, at battle of Newbury, 14; Independents and Baptists in, 28; petitions against toleration, 37; rises against the Parliament, 56; Plague at, 226; Fire at, 239; supports the Exclusion Bill, 308; riots in, 322, 323; supports Shaftesbury, 334; turns against him, 335, 336; Huguenot refugees in, vii. 14; Methodists in, 208; supports Pitt, 256, 305; supports Wilkes, 319; viii. 6, 8, 12; petitions to George III., 16, 20; supports the younger Pitt, 69; riot in, 113; "barons" of, i. 319; "boatmen" of, 308; St. Paul's Cathedral in, 223; Dooms of, 300; Gilds of, 299; "lithsmen" of, 300; merchants of, ib.; Merchant Adventurers of, iv. 283, 284; materials for its municipal history, i. 274; portreeves of, i. 303; first theatres in, v. 22, 23; Tower of, i. 166; weavers of, 317, 318; Witenagemots at, i. 152, 153
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