Sedgemore, battle of, 6$a. 
Senegal, &c. taken by the French, 750. 
Seringapatam taken by general Harris, 791. 
Severus divides Britain into two govern¬ 
ments, defeats the Caledonians, and builds 
a new wall, 541. 
Seymour, Jane, maid of honour to the 
queen, 638 ; married to Henry VIII. and 
dies in childbed, 639. 
Seymour, admiral lord, marries the widow 
of Henry VIII. 642 ; beheaded, 643. 
Shore, Jane, her hiftory, 623, 
Shovel, admiral firCloudefiey, drowned, 705. 
Sidney, fir Algernon, his trial and execu¬ 
tion, 690. 
Simnel, Lambert, hiftory of his impofture, 
626 ; taken prifoner, and pardoned, 627. 
Someriet, duke of, protedlor under Edward 
VI 642; puts his brothet lord Seymour to 
death, completes the reformation, quells 
infurreftions, 643; accufed, fet at liberty, 
and again arrefted, 644; beheaded, 645. 
South Sea bubble, 712 
Spenders,' favourites of Edward II. 593 
both executed, 594, 5. 
Spurs, or Guingate, battle of, 63.2. 
Stafford, vi/count, a popith martyr, 689. 
Stanford, battle of, 557. 
Stanley, lord, arrefted by the proteflor, 
Richard III. 623; goes over to Henry at 
the battle of Bofworth, and turns the 
fortune of the day, 625. 
Stamp-adl palled and repealed, 737. 
Stephen, nephew to Henry I. crowned king 
of England, 568 ; civil war in confequence 
of Matilda’s claim, 5694 his death and 
chara&er, 570. 
Stoke, battle of, 626. 
Stourton, lord, hanged for mutder, 648. 
Surrey, earl o<, beheaded, 641. 
Suwatrow, the Ruffian general, 79r. 
Tewkefbury, battle of, 621. 
Thames river, 529. 
Theodofius relieves Britain from the infults 
of the Caledonians, 541. 
Tippoo Saib defsats colonel Braithwaite, 
7C43 lofcs and recovers Hydernagore, 765; 
GENERAL INDEX. 
makes peace with the Englilh, ibid makes 
as alliance with France, which caufes 
him to be attacked by the Englilh, 776; 
peace.is made, ibid, in the war of 1798, 
he is killed at Seringapatam^ 791. 
Tonnage and poundage, difputes about, 668. 
Toulon taken and abandoned, 778. 
Tournay', a very ftrong place, taken by the 
duke of Marlborough, 707. 
Towton, battle of, 618. 
Trinidad taken from the Spaniards, 787. 
Triple alliance f’oon broken, 686. 
Verneuil, battle of, 611. 
Vernon, admiral, takes Porto Bello with fix 
ffiips, 714. 
Villiers duke of Buckingham, 664; goes to 
Spain with the king's fon, 66 c; accufed 
by the parliament, and protefled by the 
king, 666 ; his fruitlefs expedition to 
Rochelle, 667 ; murdered by Felton, 668. 
Union, Scottilh, 705 ; Irilh, 792 
Vortigern, king of Britain, invites?over the 
Saxons, 544. 
Utrecht, peace of, 70S. 
Wakefield, battle of, 617. 
Wales conquered by Edward I. 387 ; the 
bards put to death, 588; French troops 
landed there, 787 
Wallace, William, his bravery and modera¬ 
tion, 590; taken, and put to death, 591. 
Walpole, Robert,’ made fecretary at war, 
706 ; prime minifter, 713 ; (fir Robert,) 
his excife fcheme, 714; made earl of 
Orford, 715. 
Waltheof, the only Englilh nobleman exe¬ 
cuted during the reign of William I. 5C0, 
561. 
Warbeck, Perkin, hiftory of his impofture, 
628 ; hanged, 629. 
Warren, fir J. B. defeats the French force 
intended for Ireland, 789, 790. . 
Warwick, earl of, called the king-maker, 
615 ; endeavours to fet the duke of York 
on the throne, 616 j takes the king pri¬ 
foner, 617; rebels againft Edward IV. 
619; killed, 620. 
Wat Tyler's infurreition, 602. 
921 
Wentworth earl of Strafford, his charadler, 
668; tried and executed, 670. 
Wentworth, general, his fruitlefs attempt 
upon Carthagena, 715 
Wefl'ex, the molt powerful kingdom of the 
Saxon heptarchy, 547. 
Weft Indies, operations there, 750, 779» 
781, 785, 794 . 
Whig and Tory, 618 . 
Wickliffe, his followers perfecuted, 607. 
Wilkes, J- hn, proceedings againft him, 736, 
740, 741 j commits a meflenger to pri¬ 
son, 744 ; the proceedings againft him ex¬ 
punged from the journals, 768. 
William the Conqueror, his claim to the 
crown of England, 557 ; gains the battle 
of Haftings, 558 ; ctowned king, 559 ; 
introduces the feudal law into England, 
560 ; his domeftic troubles, 561 ; death 
and charafter, 562. 
William Rufus, quells an infurreflion at the 
beginning of his reign, 563 ; gets poflef- 
fion of Normandy, 564 ; his religious dif¬ 
putes, ibid, death and charafter, 565. 
William III. plans a defeent upon England, 
694; lands in England, his firft proceed¬ 
ings, 695; he afeends the throne, 696; 
goes to Ireland to oppofe James, 697 ; 
gains the battle of the Boyne, 698; plot 
for afiaffinating him, 699 ; takes Namur, 
makes peace, and the partition-treaty with 
the French, "00; his death and charac¬ 
ter, 701. 
William, duke of Cumberland, defeated at 
Fontenoy, by Count Saxe, 717 ; returns 
from Flanders, 718 ; defeats the pretender 
at Culloden, 719; lofes an army, and 
Hanover, 723 ; fides with the oppofition, 
734 - 
Winchefter, the firft capital of England, 797. 
Wolfe,.Gen. dies in the arms of vitffory, 725. 
Wolfey, his rapid rife, 633 ; his pride and 
rapacity, 634; difgraced on account of 
the king’s divorce, 636 ; his death, 637. 
Worcefter, battle of, 680. 
Wyat, fir Thomas, his revolt and execution* 
646. 
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