war with America, 22-26, 32, 41; relations with Ireland, 33; position after the American war, 45; religious movement in, 46, 47; industrial progress, 53-60; growing influence of the trading class in, 61; its condition as compared to the rest of Europe, 80; alliance with Prussia and Holland, 85; attitude towards the French Revolution, 87, 88, 93-95; panic in, 103-106; war with France, 108, 109; its colonial acquisitions in 1795, 112; condition during the French war, 114; its dogged temper, 115, 116; effects of the war on its industry and trade, 157, 158; League of Neutrals against her, 159, 160; declares war against Buonaparte, 170; effects of the Continental System on its industry and trade, 177; condition during the French war, 192-195; war with America, 198, 203-205; last strife with Napoleon, 207-211. _See_ English People Engle, the, their early home, i. 9, 10; settle in East Anglia and the north, 36; conquer Bernicia, 52. _See_ English, Mercians, South-Engle English people, their life in Old England, i. 10-22; religion, 22-24; temper, 24-26; love of the sea, 27; character of their conquests, 39-44; of their settlement, 44-48; changes in organization after the conquest, 48-52; tendencies towards unity, 53-55, 61, 83, 130; union under Ecgberht, 103; fusion of northmen with, 126, 127; effects of struggle with the northmen on, 129, 130; tendencies towards disintegration, 133, 134; effects of foreign rule on, 176-178; fusion of Normans with, 200, 281; support William Rufus, 191, 192; support Henry I., 201, 202; revival of national feeling, 280, 281; attitude under George III., vii. 312-314; new life in America, viii. 43, 44. _See_ England Episcopacy abolished in Scotland, v. 140; restored, 143, 166, 167; again abolished, 335; proposal to abolish it in England, 354 Erasmus, Desiderius, iii. 193, 194; his relations with Warham, 196, 212; teaches Greek at Cambridge, 201; protests against war, 211; his _Praise of Folly_, 199, 219; edition of St. Jerome, 212, 213; of the New Testament, 213, 215; his theology, 214; defends the New Learning against Luther, 256 Eric, king of Sweden, i. 128 Essayists, the English, vii. 158-160 Essex settled by the East Saxons, i. 35; submits to Wulfhere, 85; peasant revolt in, ii. 321; Protestantism in, under Mary, iv. 144; royalist rising in, vi. 59 Essex, Arthur Capel, first earl of, commissioner of the Treasury, vi. 301; supports Shaftesbury and the Exclusion, 315, 319; plots with Monmouth, etc., 336; death, 337 Essex, Robert Devereux, second earl of, v. 43, 62, 63