314 INDEX 
Portsmouth, the founding of, 135. 
Positivism, the philosophy of, 203, 282. 
Pottawatomies, an Indian tribe, 92. 
Powell, Major J. W., 30. 
Powell, Mary (Mrs. John Milton), 58- 
59- 
Powell, Richard, 58. 
Prefects, government by, 82-87. 
Priestley, Dr. Joseph, 258. 
Prince, Rev. Thomas, 14. 
Prynne, William, 10-11. 
Punchkin, the story of, 293-294, 300- 
302, 304-305. 
Pynchon, William, 145. 
Pythagoras, story of sacrifice of oxen by, 
281. 
Q 
Quakers, controversy between Pennsyl- 
vania Presbyterians and, I19. 
Quebec, taken from the French by the 
English, 113-115. 
Quiberon, defeat of French fleet off, 
132, 
Quincy, Josiah, warns Bostonians against 
rash acts in the tea-ship agitation, 
192-193. 
R 
Ranke, Leopold von, 9. 
Reeves, Arthur Middleton, 16. 
Reform, Parliamentary, 178-179. 
Revenue Act, the Townshend-North, 
181-184, 186. 
Revere, Paul, a participant in Boston 
tea party, 194. 
Robinson, John, 131. 
Rockingham, Lord, becomes British 
prime minister, 173. 
Rodney, Admiral, 112. 
Romilly, Lord, 11. 
Root-and-Branch men, 57-58. 
Rosse, Lord, remarks by, in giving Royal 
medal to Huxley, 221. 
Rotch, Francis, 192. 
Rotten boroughs, English, 176, 178. 
Rumford, Count, 256-257, 275. 
Rutherford, Samuel, 133. 
Ryswick, peace of, 103. 

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St. Albans, chronicles of, 8. 
Sainte-Beuve, 6. 
Salem witchcraft, part taken by Cotton 
Mather in, 20-21. 
Salmasius, “‘ Defence of the King ” by, 
60-61. 
Salmon Falls, massacre of, 99. 
“Samson Agonistes,” 66, 
Sanskrit, study of, 30. 
Saxo Grammaticus, 5. 
Saybrook, Conn., founded, 151 n. 
Schenectady, massacre of, 98-99, 125. 
Schuyler, Peter, 102. 
“ Seottish Chiefs, The,” 4. 
Seeley, Robert, 4. 
Selection, Natural, Darwin’s theory of, 
271-272. 
Seminole Indians, the, 92. 
Seneca Indians, the, 93, 94, 117, 120. 
Seven Wise Masters, the, 290. 
Seven Years’ War, the, 109. 
Shakespeare, 32, 37, 38, 39, 45, 66. 
Shawnee Indians, the, 92, 95, 120. 
Shepard, Thomas, 144. 
Sherman, Roger, 158. 
Shirley, Governor William, 104-105, 171. 
Sime, James, 216. 
‘“‘ Simple Cobbler of Agawam,” the, 133, 
140. 
Six Nations, the, 92, 103. 
“ Soapy Sam ” incident, the, 201-203. 
Soldiers, colonial, in Louisburg expedi- 
tion, 104-105; in old French war, 
Tit: 
Sonnets, Milton’s Italian, 56; Milton’s, 
on Vane, Cromwell, and the Mas- 
sacre of Piedmont, 62. 
Sophocles, 67. 
Southold, Long Island, settlement of, 
14 
Spain, effect on, of expulsion of the 
Moriscoes and establishment of the 
Inquisition, 77-78. 
Sparks, Jared, and Washington’s letters, 
19. 
Spencer, Herbert, association of, with 
Huxley and Tyndall, 199-200, 243; 
“an expert in gastronomy,” 204, 
247; as a reader of books, 205-206; 
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