Part 75

Northampton reduced by Eadward the Elder, i. 119; John's deposition proclaimed at, 333; John and Langton at, 340; Essex musters the Parliamentary army at, vi. 2; Assize of, i. 255; battle of, iii. 75; councils at, i. 237; ii. 120; treaty of, ii. 205

Northampton, William Bohun, Earl of, ii. 237

Northampton, George Compton, fourth Earl of, vii. 23

Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of, v. 191

Northampton, William Parr, first Marquis of, iv. 47

North folk, i. 42

North Foreland, battles off the, vi. 238, 239

Northmen, their temper, i. 100; attack Britain, 101; settle in Ireland, 103; victorious at Charmouth, ib.; defeated at Aclea, ib.; conquer Northumbria and East Anglia, 104; attack Wessex, 105; defeated at Ashdown, ib.; invade Mercia, ib.; Alfred's struggle with, 106, 107, 116, 117; attack Wessex, 118; character of their attack, i. 125, 126; fusion with English, 126, 127; their work in England, 129; settle in Iceland, the Orkneys and Hebrides, ib.; again threaten England, 139; victory at Maldon, ib.; bought off by Æthelred, 140; mercenaries in England, massacred, 141; settlement in Gaul. See Normandy, Normans

Northumberland granted to Henry of Scotland, ii. 134; lead-mines in, i. 30

Northumberland, John Dudley, Duke of (see Warwick), iv. 65, 67-69, 71

Northumberland, Henry Percy, first Earl of, ii. 378, 380; iii. 12-14, 18, 19

Northumberland, Henry Percy, second Earl of, iii. 28, 73, 74

Northumberland, Henry Percy, third Earl of, iii. 80

Northumberland, Henry Percy, fourth Earl of, iii. 138, 172

Northumberland, Thomas Percy, seventh Earl of, iv. 268, 269, 274

Northumberland, Henry Percy, ninth Earl of, iv. 353, 358

Northumbria, kingdom of (Bernicia and Deira), i. 53, 60; greatness under Eadwine, 62-63; accepts Christianity, 64-65; greatness under Oswald, 67; Irish missionaries in, 69; struggle with Penda, 70-73; Cuthbert's mission-work in, 75, 76; monasteries in, 76, 77; religious strife in, 78-80; its power under Ecgfrith, 86, 87; struggle with the Picts, 88, 89; with Mercia, 89; schools and learning in, 91; repulses Æthelbald, 96; anarchy in, 97; submits to Ecgberht, 102; conquered by northmen, 104; submits to Eadward the Elder, 119; incorporated with Wessex and Mercia by Æthelstan, ib.; rises against him, 120; against Eadmund, ib.; against Eadwig, 137; earldom of, 146; revolts against Tostig, 160; against William I., 168; northern, conquered by the Scots, 146

Norway, its monarchy founded, i. 128, 129

Norwich, French settlers in, i. 303; clothiers of, resist benevolences, iii. 251; rising at, against Somerset, iv. 55; centre of the worsted trade, 279

Nothelm, friend of Bæda, i. 94

Nottingham, Æthelred I.'s treaty with the northmen at, i. 104; one of the Five Boroughs, 117; submits to Eadward the Elder, 119; Edward III. arrests Mortimer at, ii. 207; Charles I. raises his standard at, vi. 2

Nottingham, Daniel Finch, second Earl of, vii. 28, 88, 124

Nottingham, Thomas Mowbray, second Earl of, ii. 353, 370. See Norfolk

Nottingham, John Mowbray, fourth Earl of, iii. 18

Nova Scotia, French settlers driven from, vii. 242; ceded to England, 307

Novi, battle of, viii. 140

Nowell, Alexander, Dean of St. Paul's, iv. 165

Noy, William, v. 317