History of the English People, IndexGreen, John Richard
History
History of the English People, Index
Green, John Richard
Great Britain -- History; Indexes
Burke, Edmund, vii. 332-337;
supports the Declaratory Act, 338;
attacks the Chatham ministry, 341;
his scheme for reform of the constituencies, viii. 10;
his proposals for conciliating America rejected, 20;
his bill of Economical Reform, 64, 76;
refuses office under Shelburne, 65;
attitude towards the French Revolution, 87, 89;
share in the impeachment of Hastings, 90;
_Reflections_, _ib._;
quarrel with Fox, 92, 93;
_Appeal from the new to the old Whigs_, 93;
supports the government against France, 104;
_Letters on a Regicide Peace_, 116;
death, 126
Burleigh, William Cecil, Lord (_see_ Cecil), iv. 352;
protests against expulsion of Puritan clergy, 342;
his tract on _The Execution of Justice_, 5;
his ill-will to Spenser, v. 12;
death, 63
Burley, Sir Simon, ii. 353
Burnet, Gilbert, vi. 169;
bishop of Salisbury, vii. 65;
his _History of his own Time_, vi. 157
Burns, Robert, viii. 46
_Burton, Annals of_, i. 273
Burton, John, v. 329
Burton, Thomas, his _Diary_, v. 37
Busaco, battle of, viii. 190
Bute, John Stuart, third Earl of, vii. 302, 303;
Prime Minister, 306;
policy towards America, 310, 311;
fall, 314
Butler, Joseph, vi. 169
Butler, Samuel, vi. 162
Butler, the king's, origin of his office, i. 132
Buttington, battle of, i. 117
Byng, Admiral, vii. 248
Byron, Commodore, vii. 277
"Cabal," the, vi. 246, 303
Cabinet, the, its origin, vi. 303
Cabot, Sebastian, iii. 189; iv. 283, 330
Cade, John, iii. 64-67
Cadiz,
Drake's expedition to, iv. 355;
English descents on, v. 60, 247;
blockaded by an English fleet, vii. 223
Cadwallon, king of the Britons, i. 66, 67
Cædmon, i. 77, 78
Caen
sacked by Edward III., ii. 235;
stormed by Henry V., iii. 33;
university at, 55
Caermarthen besieged by Owen Glyndwr, iii. 14
Caernarvon, castle built at, ii. 121
Cahors, bankers of, ii. 107, 130
Calabria, John, Duke of, iii. 126
Calais
besieged by Edward III., ii. 243;
surrenders, 244;
the six burgesses, 245-247;
ceded to Edward, 266;
threatened by the French, iii. 69, 70;
Warwick repulsed from, 135;
won by Guise, iv. 108;
restored to France, 158
Calamy, Edmund, v. 354; vi. 157
Calcutta,
its origin, vii. 232;
the Black Hole of, 261
Calvin, John, iv. 119, 123, 126
Calvinism,
system of, iv. 123-126;
its political tendency, 171;
in Scotland, accepted by Parliament, 187;
its establishment sanctioned by Mary Stuart, 245;
its growth in England, v. 86-89.
_See_ Presbyterianism
Calvinists,
German, their position after Peace of Passau, v. 176, 177;
Scotch, suppress Catholicism by force, iv. 218
Cambray
occupied by Philip VI. of France, ii. 219;
besieged by Edward III., 220, 228;
negotiations at, iv. 145;
League of, iii. 206;
treaty of, 234
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