AAR

AARON, martyrdom of, 23

Abbey lands, the, distributed by Henry
VIII., 400; Mary wishes for the re-
storation of, 422

Abdul Medjid succeeds his father as
sultan, 922
Abercrombie,

General, repulsed at

Ticonderoga, 753
Abercromby, Sir Ralph, resigns his
command in Ireland, 841; killed in
Egypt, 844

Aberdeen, Earl of, foreign policy of,
927: becomes Prime Minister, 943
Aberdeen, Montrose's victory at, 547
Abhorrers, party name of, 620
Aclea, battle of, 57

Acre, captured by the Crusaders, 161;
Edward I. at, 204; failure of Bona-
parte to take, 838; taken by Napier,

922

Act of Settlement, the, 622
Addington becomes Prime Minister, 843;
resignation of, 848; enters Pitt's
ministry and becomes Viscount Sid-
mouth, 851; see Sidmouth, Viscount
Addison, literary and political position
of, 693

Addied Parliament, the, 486
Admonition to Parliament, An, 446 ̧
Adrian IV. grants Ireland to Henry II.,

152

Adulterine castles, 137

Adwalton Moor, battle of, 538

Aedan, king of the Scots, is defeated
at Degsastan, 42

Elfgar, earl of the Mercians, 90
Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, 65, 66
Ælfheah, Archbishop, murdered by the
Danes, 82

Alfred, his struggle with the Danes, 58;
his position after the Treaty of Wed-
more, 59 gains London, ib. ; character
of his work, 60

Alfred the Etheling, murder of, 85,

86

Ælfthryth, wife of Eadgar, 78

Ella, king of Deira, slave-boys from
his kingdom found at Rome, 38
Escesdun, battle of, 58

Ethelbald, king of the Mercians, 53

ALA

Æthelbald, king of the West Saxons, 57
Ethelberht, king of Kent, his supremacy,
38; becomes a Christian, 39; helps
Augustine to set up bishoprics, 40;
death of, 41

Æthelberht, king of the West Saxons, 57
Æthelflæd, the Lady of the Mercians, 62
Æthelfrith, king of North-humberland,
his struggle with the northern Welsh,
41; defeats the Scots at Degsastan,
42 and the Kymry near Chester, 43;
is defeated and slain by Eadwine, 16.
Ethelred, ealdorman of Mercia, 65
Æthelred, king of the West Saxons,
his struggle with the Danes, 58, 62
Æthelred the Unready, his relations with
the Danes, 79; and with the Nor-
mans, 80; orders a massacre of the
Danes, 81; flies to Normandy, 82;
returns and dies, 83

Ethelric unites North-humberland, 41
Æthelstan, reign of, 63

Æthelstan, the Half-King, 73

Ethelwold drives secular canons from
Winchester, 68

Ethelwulf defeats the Northmen, 57
Aetius refuses help to the Britons, 26
Afghan war, the first, 949; the second, 972
Afghanistan, invasions of India froin,
948

Agincourt, battle of, 302

Agitators, choice of, 554; propose to
purge the House, 556

Agreement of the People, the, drawn up
by the Agitators, 556

Agricola, campaigns of, 16; forts built
by, 17

Agriculture in Eadgar's time, 75; More's
views on the decline of, 308; progress
of, in Elizabeth's reign, 464; improve-
ments in, 813

Aidan establishes himself in Holy
Island, 47 his relations with Oswald,
ib. and with Oswine, ib.

Aislabie, sent to the Tower, 712
Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), peace of, 599,
743 congress at, 879

Alabama, the, depredations of, 959;
award of a court of arbitration for
damages caused by, 966

1001

ANN

Anne of Beaujeu, policy of, 348
Anne of Bohemia marries Richard II., 278
Anne of Brittany is married to
Maximilian by proxy, 349; married to
Charles VIII., 349.

Anne of Cleves married to Henry VIII.,
400; divorce of, 401

Annual Parliaments advocated by the
Duke of Richmond, 789, 792
Anselm acknowledges Alfheah to be a
martyr, 82; character of, 117; be-
comes Archbishop of Canterbury, 118;
quarrels with William II., i.; his
relations with Henry I., 125
Anson, Admiral, sails round the world,
730

Anti-Corn-Law League, the, foundation
of, 924; spread of, 932
Antoninus Pius, wall of, 17
Antwerp attacked by Alençon, 455;
taken by Parma, 456

Appeals, Act of, 389; provision for the
hearing of, 391

Appellant, the Lords, 279,
Appropriation clause, the, proposed,
910; dropped, 914

Aqua Sulis (Bath) subdued of the West
Saxons, 35

Aquitaine, Duchy of, passes to Henry
II. by his marriage, 137; is given to
Richard, 155; divided in language
and character from the North of
France, 176; intrigues of Philip IV.
in, 218; efforts of Philip VI. to gain,
234; ceded to Edward III., 253;
the Black Prince made Duke of, 254;
resistance to the Black Prince in, 256;
almost wholly lost, 257; complete loss

of, 320

Arabi, insurrection of, 971
Archers employed at Senlac, 96; armed
with the long bow at Falkirk, 221;
improperly employed at Bannockburn,
226; effect of, at Halidon Hill, 234;
drawn from the yeomen, 236; win the
battle of Crecy, 242; are successful at
Poitiers, 251

Architecture before the Conquest, 51:
Norman, 89; under the Angevins,
170; Early English style of, 207:
Decorated and Perpendicular styles of,
247; later development of, 358; Eliza-
bethan, 465; Stuart, 631, 632; in the
reign of Anne, 701
Arcot, siege of, 761
Areopagitica, 546
Argaum, battle of, 859

Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Earl of,
execution of, 636

Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of,
opposed to Montrose, 547; execution

of, 595

Argyle, Duke of, commands against
Mar's rising, 705

Arkwright

improves the spinning-

machine, 815

Arles, Council of, 23

Arlington, Henry Bennet, Earl of, secre-

ASS

tary to Charles II., 599; intrigues
against Clifford, 607

Armada, the Invincible, sailing of, 458;
destruction of, 462

Armagnac, the Count of, establishes a
reign of terror, 303; murder of, 304
Armagnacs, party of the, oppose the
Burgundians, 296; relations of Henry
IV. with, 299; make war with the
Burgundians, 301; insurrection of the
Parisians against, 304

Armed Neutrality, the, 792

Army, the, the folk-moot in arms, 33:
Alfred's organisation of, 60; under
William I., 104, 106; re-organised by
Henry II., 141; its condition under
Edward III., 236; the New Model,
formation of 545; attempt of Parlia
ment to disband, 553; choice of Agita-
tors in, 554; gains possession of the
king's person, 555; the heads of the
proposals presented in the name of,
ib.; drives out the eleven mem-
bers, ib.; turns against the king, 556,
557; expels members by Pride's
Purge, ib.; its inability to recon-
struct society after the king's exe-
cution, 560; overthrows Richard
Cromwell, restores and expels the
Rump, 575; brings back the Rump, ib.;
receives Charles II. on Blackheath,
578; paid off. 584; parliamentary con-
trol over, 650; reduction of, 667;
abolition of purchase in, 964
Army, the Royal, beginning of, 584
Army plot, the, 531

Arnold, Benedict, plots to betray Ameri-
can forts, 789

Arras, congress at, 313; Treaty of, 337
Art in the reign of Anne, 701
Arteveldt, Jacob van, 235
Arteveldt, Philip van, 278
Arthur, legend of, 33

Arthur, nephew of John, descent of,
173; murder of, 174

Arthur, Prince of Wales, marriage and
death of, 356

Articles, the ten, 395; the six, 399; the
forty-two, 420; the thirty-nine, ib.;
declaration of Charles I..prefixed to, 512
Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury,
banished, 282; his position under
Henry IV., 292; deprived of the
Chancellorship, 299; Oldcastle tried
before, 300

Arundel Castle taken and lost by
Hopton, 542

Arundel, the Earl of, opposes Richard
II., 279; executed, 282
Aryans, the, 5

Ashley, Lord, see Shaftesbury, Earl of
Ashley, Lord, carries a factory act,
911; carries an act restricting labou
in mines, and the labour of women
and children in factories, 927

Aske heads the Pilgrimage of Grace, 397
Aspern, battle of, 865

Assandun, battle of, 83