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Engffrie, (Srtric?, tfls with the duke of Marl¬ 
borough at Blenheim, 703 ; his fruitlefs 
attempt upon Toulon, 705 ; his ill-fuc- 
cefs after the recal of Marlborough, 708. 
Euftatia taken and retaken, 766. 
Excife propofed by fir Robert Walpole, 714 ; 
made permanent by lord Bute, 735, 
Exeter, bilhop of, beheaded by the mob, 
59 4. 
Fairfax, a parliament general, 675 ; refigns,' 
68 o. 
Falkirk, battle of, 590; another, 719. 
Falkland Iflands, affair of, 743. 
Felton, an Irifii officer, kills the duke of 
Buckingham, 668. 
Feilwick, fir John, unlawfully put to death,- 
6 99 » 7 °°- 
Feudal law eflablifhed in England by Wil¬ 
liam the Conqueror, 560 ; farther con- 
fidered, 579. 
Fleurus, battle of, 780. 
Fontenoy, battle of, gained by the French, 
7 > 7 - 
Fox, Charles James, a lord of the treafury, 
744 j his coalition with lord North, 770 ; 
his India bill and himfelf thrown out, 771; 
propofes to make the prince of Wales re- 
gent, 773; fpeaks in favour of peace, or at 
lead of defining the objedl of war, 779. 
Frederic the Great, king of Pruffia, his va¬ 
rious fuccefs in alliance with the Englifh, 
723 ; expoftulates with George II. 724 ; 
gains two viflories, relieves Leipfic, and 
takes Brellau, 725; at length makes 
peace, 73 5- 
Frederic duke of York, his operations 3gair.fi: 
the armies of the French republic, 7775 
takes Valenciennes, but fails before Dun- 
kirk, 778 ; further operations, 779 ; 
forced to retreat, 780, 782 ; his expedi¬ 
tion to Holland, 791. 
Galleons, or regilter-fhips, taken from tha 
Spaniards, 715, 734, 
Gafcoigne, an upright refolute judge, 608. 
Gaveftone, Piers, Edward II.’s favourite, 
592, banifhed, recalled, and beheaded, 593. 
Geoffrey, the Child of Perdition, 575. 
George I. fucceeds queen Anne, 709 ; en¬ 
courages the whigs, the beginning of his 
feign difturbed by the pretender, 710; 
refules to pardon the rebel lords, 711 ; 
the quadruple alliance, war and peace 
with Spain, 712; his death and charac- 
. ter, 7 1 3 - 
George II. fucceeds his father, 71!}.; war 
with Spain, ibid, continental war, in de¬ 
fence of the queen of Hungary, 7x6; 
heads the army, and gains the battle of 
Dettingen, 717; France declares war, 
ibid, attempt of the young pretender de¬ 
feated, 718; treaty of general peace at 
Aix-la-Chapelie, 720; foon goes to war 
again with the French, 721 3 makes a 
treaty with the emprefs of Ruffia, 722 ; 
with the king of Prufiia, 723 ; his death 
and character, 726. 
George III. fucceeds his grandfather, 727 ; 
his firft addrefs to the parliament, his 
marriage, ibid, declares war againft Spain, 
732 ; the civil lift fettled, ibid, fends aid 
to Portugal, 733; makes peace with 
France and Spain, 7343 war with Ame¬ 
rica, 747 ; and France, 748 ; and Spain, 
749 ; and Holland, 753 ; makes a gene¬ 
ral peace, 770; attacked by Margaret 
Nicholfon, 772; makes treaties of com¬ 
merce, ibid, his illnefs, and recovery, 773 ; 
receives a letter from the king of trance, 
776 ; war declared againft him by the re¬ 
public of France, 777 ; publishes a deda- 
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ration, 779 ; makes peace with the French 
as cleftor of Hanover, 784 ; attacks the 
Dutch in the Eaft and Weft Indies, 785 ; 
endeavours to negociate a peace, 786 ; at 
war with Spain, 787 ; another fruitlefs 
negociation, 788; lhoc at by Hadfield, 
79s ; completes the union of Great-Bri- 
tain and Ireland, ibid, changes his minif- 
try, 793; and makes peace, 795; again 
at war, ibid. 
Geofge prince of Wales born, 734 ; waves 
his right to the regency, 773. 
Gibraltar taken from the Spaniards, 704 ; at¬ 
tempts to recover it, 704,713, 752; im- 
menfe preparations for its reduction, 769 ; 
effe&ually relieved, 770. 
Ginckle, general, completes the redu&ion of 
Ireland for king William, 698. 
Godwin, duke of Weffex, 555 3 bis intri¬ 
guing charadler, and death, 556. 
Gordon, lord George, 751 j acquitted on the 
charge of high treafon, 752- 
Gratian, emperor of the Weft, his death, 
543 ; Gratian king of Britain, ibid. 
Greenville, fir Richard, his extraordinary 
boldnefs, 659. 
Grey, lady Jane, 645 5 reigns queen of Eng¬ 
land for ten days, 646 ; beheaded, with 
her hufband and father, 647. 
Guadaloupe, taken and loft, 781.. 
Guernfey, 534. 
Gunpowder-plot, deterfted by James I. 662. 
Halidown-hill, battle of, 596. 
Hampden, John, withftanda the payment 
of fhip-money, 669 ; his death, 673 ; 
his grandfon enters into a plot againft 
Charles II. 689; heavily fined, 690. 
Hanover taken by the French, 796. 
Hardicanute king of England, 553. 
Harfleur taken by ftorm, 609. 
Harold Harefoot, 355. 
Harold, fon of Godwin, his behaviour during 
the life of king Edward, 556 ; crowned 
king by the nameof Harold I 557 j lofes 
his crown and life, 558. 
Haftings, battle of, 558. 
Haftings, Mr. his proceedings when firft 
made governor-genoral of Bengal, 753 3 
his reafons for the Rohilla war, 754; 
aifregard of treaties, 7575 receives large 
prefents from Cheyt Sing, 759 ; his 
grateful return, 760 ; his treatment of 
the nabob of Oude, 767 ; and of the be¬ 
gums, 762 ; refolutions againft him in 
England, 764; refigns, and is impeached, 
766 3 returns to England, and is heard at 
the bar of the houfe, 771 ; his trial, 772, 
773 > 774 . 775 > 779 1 concluded, 783. 
Havannah, capture of, 733. 
Helder, expedition to the, 791. 
Hengift and his Saxons fettle in Britain, 
544 ; he conquers Kent only, 545 ; his 
death, 546. 
Henrietta of France, married to Charles I. 
of England, 665,6; brings reinforcements 
to the king from Holland, 679. 
Henry I. fecond fon of William the Con¬ 
queror receives his patrimony in money, 
362; reduced to poverty by his two bro¬ 
thers, 564; becomes king of England, 
365 ; marries the nieceof Edgar Atheling, 
566; conquers Normandy from his bro¬ 
ther, 567; lofs of his fon, ibid, his own 
death, and charafler, 568. 
Henry II. furnamed Plantagenet, fon of Ma¬ 
tilda, fucceeds to the crown, 570 ; correfts 
many abufes 1 , his quarrels with Becket, 
571; fuppofed to have inftigated Becket’s 
murder, 572 ; conquers Ireland, 573 ; his 
fons rebel againft him, 374 ; does penance 
»t BecketV tomb, ibid, makes a difgraee- 
ful treaty, and dies; his chara&er, 575. 
Henry fon of Henry II. crowned in his fa¬ 
ther’s life time, 573; rebels againft him, 
574 ; his death, 575. 
Henry III. fon of king John, crowned king 
at nine years of age, 581 ; his capricious 
and imprudent behaviour, 582 ; renews 
Magna-Charta, 383 ; his authority fuper- 
feded, by Montfort earl of Leicefter and 
the mad parliament, ibid, taken prifoner 
by Leicefter, 584; liberated, 5853 hie 
death, and charadter, 58s. 
Henry IV. while earl of Hereford, challenges 
the duke of Norfolk, and is banifhed, 604 ; 
becomes duke of Lancafter, and king of 
England, 603 ; infurredtions againft him, 
606, 607 ; gains the battle of Shrewfbury, 
defeats another infurred!ion,and perfecotes 
the Wickliffites, 607 3 his death and 
charadter, 6c 8. 
Hienry prince of Wales, and Henry Percy 
furnamed Hotfpur, 607. 
Henry V. his behaviour while prince of 
Wales, 607, 608 3 crowned, ibid, takes 
Harfleur, and gains the battle of Agin- 
coua t, 609 ; couquers France, and. dies ; 
his charaAer, 610. 
Henry VI. proclaimed king of France as 
well as of England, 610 ; fuccefs of his 
armies in France during his minority, 61 r 3 
Joan of Arc turns the tide againft them, 
612 ; he is married to Margaret of An¬ 
jou, 613 ; his weaknefs, 614; taken pri- 
loner by the duke of York, 616 ; taken, 
and retaken; and at length dethroned, 
617; confined in the tower, 619; libe¬ 
rated and again imprifoned, 620, his 
death, 621. 
Henry VII. while earl of Richmond, lands 
in England, and lays claim to the crown, 
624; gains the battle of Bofworth, and is 
crowned king, 625 ; marries the heirefs 
of the houfe of York, and fo unites tha 
two houfes, ibid, defeats Lambert Simnel, 
626; is difturbed by another impoftor, 
627 ; and by infurre&ions in Cornwall, 
628 ; pardons the Cornifh rebels twice 
puts Warbeck to death, and the unfortu¬ 
nate earl of Warwick, 629; his wife po« 
licy, 630 ; his death and character, 631. 
Henry VIIL married at twelve years of 
age to Catharine of Arragon', widow of 
his brother Arthur, 630; afeends the 
throne, 631 ; his befieging expedition, 
632 ; makes Wolfey prime minifter., 633; 
his -interview with the king of France, 
634 j defends the church of R,ome againft 
Luther; requires to be divorced from 
his queen, 635 ; difgraces Wolfey, and 
takes Cranmer into favour, 63d ; marriee 
Anna Boleyn, and declares himfelf head 
of the church, 637; proteftants and pa- 
pifts perfecuted and burnt, 637, 639, 
640, 641 ; fupprefles the monafteries, 
fets forth the bloody ftatule, falls in love 
with Jane Seymour, 638 ; marries Jane, 
and afterwards Anne of Cleves, 639 ; 
divorces Anne, and marries Catharine 
Howard, fhe is beheaded, and then lie 
marrie* Catharine Parr, 640; his death, 
will, and character, 641. 
Hexham, battle of, 618. 
Honorius, the Roman emperor, advifes the 
Britons to provide for their own fafety, 
543 - 
Hood, lord, takes poffeffion of Toulon, 
which he is forced to abandon, 778, 
Hotham, admiral, takes two fhips, and lofes 
one, 783 j another a&ion, 784. 
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