916 
A!eftu9, his Ihort reign,, and death, 542. 
Alfred, his glorious reign, 5495 death and 
chara&er, 551 ; firft divided England into 
fhires and counties, 797. 
America, North, operations there againft the 
French, 721; Louiibourgh and fort Du 
Quefne taken, 724 ; forts Niagara, Crown 
point, and Ticonderago ; Quebec, and all 
Canada, 725 ; ftamp-a£l palled, and re¬ 
pealed, 737; duties on tea, 738, 741, 
746 ; afiifted by the French, 747 j inde¬ 
pendence acknowledged, 770. 
Amiens, peace of, 795. 
Anne of Cleves, Henry VlII.’s fourth wife, 
639 ; divorced, 640. 
Anne, queen, fecond daughter of James II. 
married, to prince George of Denmark, 
691 ; fucceeds William III. on the throne 
of England, 701 ; declares war againft 
France, ~C2 j fupports Charles againlt 
Philip king of Spain, 704; unites the 
parliament of Scotland with that of Eng¬ 
land, 705; adopts a t'ory miniftry, and 
difplaces the duke of Marlborough, 707 ; 
peace of Utrecht, 708; death of Anne, 709. 
Anfelm, archbilhopof Canterbury, 564, 566. 
Anfon, commodore, commands a fquadron 
againft the Spaniards, 71 ;; his fuccefs, 715. 
Antoninus’s wall from the Forth to the 
Clyde, 541. . , 
Argyle, earl of, condemned in the reign or 
Charles II. 6S9 ; duke of, joins in Mon¬ 
mouth’s rebellion againft james II. which 
cods him his life, 691. 
Armada, preparations for, 658 ; defeated, 
659 - 
Army, Handing, under Charles II. 684; de¬ 
clared illegal, 688 ; vote of the commons 
for dilbanding, 700; how governed at 
prefent, 801. 
Arteveld, a brewer of Ghent, J97. 
Arthur, prince of the Silures, 545. 
Arthur, nephew to king John, is murdered 
by him, 578. 
Arthur, fon of Henry VII. marries Catha¬ 
rine of Arragon, and dies foon after, 630. 
Athelftan, king of England, 352. 
Atterbury, biihop of Rochefter, bar.iihed for 
favouring the pretender, 713. 
Aughrim, battle of, decides the fate of Ire¬ 
land, 698. 
Auguftine, St. fent by pope Gregory to re- 
ftore Chriftianity in Britain, 546 j his 
great fuccefs, 547. 
Babington’s confpiracy, 655. 
Bacon, lord Verulam, 665. 
Baliol, John, king of Scotland, 588 ; his 
banifhment, and death, 589. 
Bank ftcps paying cadi, 787. 
Bannockburn, battle of, 593. 
Barnet, battle of, 620. 
Barton, Elizabeth, an impoftor, 638. 
Becket, a very troublefome prieft, 57x ; pro- 
te£ts a murderer, 571 ; is himfelf mur¬ 
dered, 572 ; Henry II. does penance at his 
tomb, 574. 
Bedford, duke of, protedlor during the mi¬ 
nority of Henry VI. 610; his great fuc¬ 
cefs in France, 611 ; his charadler (hines 
. in adverfity, 612 ; dies, after condemning 
Joan of Arc to the flames, 613. 
Belleifle, conqueft of, 728. 
Benbow, admiral, his bravery and unfortu¬ 
nate end, 702. 
Bertram de Gourdcn (hoots Richard I. with 
an arrow, 577 3 his heroic behaviour, and 
hard fate, 588. 
Bill of rights, 696. 
Bifhops fent to the Tower, tried, and acquit¬ 
ted, 693. 
Blake, admiral, oppofed to Van Tromp,68 J; 
.to the Spaniards, 682, 
GENERAL INDE X. 
Blenheim, battle of, 703. 
Boadicea, her cruel fate, 540- 
Boleyn, Anna, gains the affedtions of Henry 
VIII. 635 ; is married to him, 637; the 
king’s jealoufy, 638 ; beheaded, 639. 
Bonaparte firft diftinguifhed in the recovery 
of Toulon, 779 ; his numerous vidtories 
in Italy, 786 ; forces the emperor into a 
peace, 788 ; changes the government of 
Venice and Genoa, 788 ; takes Malta, and 
goes to Egypt, 790 ; fuddenly returns, 
and overturns the French government, and 
is declared firft conful, 792; gains the 
battle of Marengo, 793 ; emperor of the 
French, 796. 
Bofworth, ba’.tle of, 624, 625. 
Botany-bay, or Port Jackfon, fettlement at, 
V72. 
Bothwell, earl of, 6yo; fufpedted of the 
murder of lord Darnley, but is acquitted, 
and recommended to Mary for a hufband, 
651; he feizes her by force, and perfuades 
her to marry him, 652 ; dies, after con- 
fefling Darnley’s murder, ibid. 
Boyne, bittle of, 698. 
Braddotk’s unfortunate expedition, 72 T. 
Bridport, lord, defeats the French, and takes 
three (hips of the line, 783. 
Bruce, Robert, (labs the regent of Scotland, 
and is crowned king, 591; his fuccefl'es, 
592 ; gains the battle of Bannockburn, 
593 - 
Bruce, David, defeated and lofes bis crown, 
596 ; taken prifoner, and brought to Lon¬ 
don, 598. 
Erunfwick, duke of, his foolilfi manifefto, 
and retreat, 777. 
Buckingham, duke of, afiifts Richard III. in 
ufurping the-throne, 622, 623; revolts 
and is beheaded, 624; his fon beheaded, 
634. 
Burke, Mr. his reform-bill, 767. 
Byng, admiral, (hot for negledl of duty, 722. 
Cade, John, the (lory of his infurredtion, 61 3. 
Calais, narrative of the (iegeand furrenderof, 
599 ; taken by the French in the reign of 
Mary, 648. 
Caledonii diftindt from the Scottii, 536 3 
faid to have been cannibals, 542. 
Campo Formio, treaty of, 788. 
Canute king of Denmark becomes king of 
England, 555. 
Cape of Good Hope, taken by admiral El- 
phinftone, 784; fleet for the relief of the 
fame furrenders, 785. 
Caradtacus king of the Silures, 539 ; defeat¬ 
ed, and earned to Rome, 540. 
Caraufius becomes emperor of Britain, 541 ; 
his death, 542. 
Carr, earl of Somerfet, 663 ; he and his 
countefs condemned, and pardoned, 664. 
Carthagena, fruitlefs attempt againft, 715. 
Catharine of Arragon, married to Arthur, 
and afterwards to his brother, Henry VIII, 
630 ; affair of the divorce, 635-637. 
Catharine Howard, Henry VIII.’s fifth wife, 
beheaded, 640. 
Catharine Parr, fixth wife of Henry VIII. 
640 ; marries lord Seymourafter the king’s 
death, 642 ; dies in childbed, 643. 
Cavaliers and roundheads, 671. 
Cefar, Julius, fends to reconnoitre the ifland 
of Britain, 536 ; lands, and defeats the 
Britons, S38 ; quits the ifland; his ac¬ 
count of the Aborigines, 539. 
Charadlers of the kings of England, See .— 
Alfred, 551 ; Edward the Confeflor, 557; 
William the Conqueror, 562 ; William 
Rufus, 565; Henry I. 568; Stephen, 
570; Henry II. 575; Richard I. 578; 
John, 581; Henry III. 581, 586; Ed¬ 
ward I. 592; Edward II. 595; Edward 
III. 601 ; Richard II. 606 ; Henry IV. 
6 o 3 ; Henry V. 610; Henry VI. 617; 
Edward IV. 622; Richard III. 625 ; Henry 
VII. 631 ; Henry VIII. 641 ; Edward VL 
645 ; Mary, 648 ; Mary queen of Scots, 
657; Elizabeth, 661 ; James I. 666 ; 
Charles I. 679; Charles II. 690; James* 
II. 696 ; William I If. and Mary II. 7013 
Anne, 709; George I. 713; Georj$&.Il. 
726. 
Charles VII, of France, his forlorn (Ituation 
at his father’s death, his talents, 6 r 1 ; 
faved by the maid of Orleans, and crown¬ 
ed at Rheims, 612 ; makes the treaty of 
Arras, and recovers Paris, 613 ; and the 
reft of his dominions, 614. 
Charles I. of England, his journey to Francs 
and Spain while prince of Wales, 665 ; 
fucceeds ’nis father James I. on the throne, 
and becomes very unpopular, 666 ; levies 
(hip money, and makes war againft France, 
667 ; makes peace with France and Spain, 
668 ; arms againft the puritans of Scot¬ 
land, 6693 calls the long parliament, 670; 
his concefiions to the parliament, but at 
length takes up arms, 672 ; his declara¬ 
tion, l'uccefsful in the firft campaign, calls 
a parliament at Oxford, 673 ; worfted at 
M3rfton-moor, 674; defeated at Nafeby, 
and furrenders himfelf to the Scots, 675 ; 
fold by them to the parliament, and im- 
prifoned, 676 ; feized by the army, ibid, 
efcapes, but only changes his prifon, 677 ; 
his trial and execution, 678 ; charadter, 
679. 
Charles II. his irkfome (ituation in Scotland, 
his army defeated at Dunbar and at Wor- 
cefter, and he becomes a fugitive, 680 ; 
efcapes to France, 681 ; returns to Eng¬ 
land, and afeends the throne, 684 ; his 
ingratitude to his adherents, war with 
Holland and France, treaty of Breda, 685 ; 
war with Holland in alliance with France, 
636 ; makes peace with the Dutch, which 
is followed by a general peace, 687 ; plots 
at home, 687, 688 ; his arbitrary pro¬ 
ceedings,. 689 ; more plots, his death and 
character, 690. 
Charles-Edward Stuart, the young preten¬ 
der, lands in Scotland, gains the battle 
of Prefton-pans, and proclaims his father, 
718 ; defeated at Culloden, 719 ; efcapes 
to France, 720. 
Cheyt Sing, rajah of the Benares, 759 ; how 
treated by Haftings, 760; depofed, and 
robbed of all his property, 761. 
Cheviot-hills, battle of, 632. 
China, embafly to, 782; fplendid, but fruit¬ 
lefs, 783. 
Civil war, in the reign of Charles 1. 672. 
Clarendon, lord, prime-minifter of Charles 
II. 684; difgraced 685; retires to the 
continent, ibid. 
Claudius fubdues many parts of Britain, 539; 
his clemency to Caradtacus, 540. 
Clive, lord, his treachery and rapacity, 345 ; 
vindicates his conduit, kills himfelf, 346. 
Coalition adminiftration, 770. 
Combat fingle, the ancient mode, 604. 
Commonwealth of England, 680. 
Conftantine divides Britain into three pro¬ 
vinces, 542. 
Conftantius fubdues Britain by a fingle bat¬ 
tle, 542. 
Coote, major-general, his unfortunate expe¬ 
dition, 790. 
Copenhagen-found, battle of, 794. 
Cornwallis, lord, made governor-general in 
India, 771; his judicious meafures, 774; 
takes Bangalore, invefts Seringapatam, and 
figns a peace, 776 ; gives teftimony Is fa¬ 
vour of Haftings, 779 3 fent to quell the 
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