Essex, Robert Devereux, third earl of, marries Frances Howard, v. 190; divorced, 191; resists a forced loan, 255; captain-general of the Parliamentary army, vi. 1; movements in 1642, 2, 3; captures Reading, 5; his inactivity, 6, 8-10; retires to Uxbridge, 12; relieves Gloucester, 13, 14; movements in 1644, 19, 22, 23; retires, 35 Essex, Earls of. _See_ Fitz-Peter, Mandeville Essex, Frances, Countess of. _See_ Howard Estates of the realm, various groupings of, in Parliament, ii. 202, 203 Etherege, Sir George, vi. 157 Eugene of Savoy, Prince, vii. 118, 120, 121, 131, 134 Euphuism, v. 5 Eustace, Count of Boulogne, i. 152, 167 Eustace, son of King Stephen, i. 226, 227 Eustace the Monk, ii. 2 Eva, daughter of Dermod of Leinster, i. 252 Evelyn's _Diary_, vi. 157 Evesham founded, i. 86; battle of, ii. 77, 78 Evreux, Charles of, ii. 315 Exchange, the Royal, founded, iv. 280 Exchequer, Court of, i. 206; ii. 109; Richard Fitz-Neal's _Dialogue_ on, i. 174, 244; closed, vi. 261 Excise, Walpole's scheme of, vii. 195, 201, 202; revived by Pitt, viii. 77 Exeter, northmen at, i. 106; Welsh driven from, 120; subdued by William I., 167, 168; tailors' gild at, 318; William of Orange received at, vii. 40 Exeter, Henry Holland, duke of, iii. 140, 142 Exeter, John Holland, duke of (Earl of Huntingdon), iii. 7, 8 Exeter, Edward Courtenay, marquis of, iii. 322, 348, 350 Exton, Sir Piers, iii. 8 Exclusion Bill, the, vi. 307, 308, 319, 320 Eylau, battle of, viii. 175 Fabyan's _Chronicle_, ii. 179 Fairfax, Edward, his version of Tasso, v. 2 Fairfax, Ferdinando, second Lord, vi. 4 Fairfax, Sir Thomas, his victory at Nantwich, vi. 18; commander-in-chief of the New Model army, 35, 36; victory at Naseby, 40, 41; in the west, 41; marches on Oxford, 46; suppresses royalist rising in Kent, 61; Colchester surrenders to, 64; marches on London, 65; suppresses mutiny, 75; superseded by Cromwell, 79; joins Monk, 151 Falaise, birthplace of William the Conqueror, i. 157; treaty of, ii. 140; reduced by Henry V., iii. 33 Falconberg, William Neville, Lord, iii. 113 Falkirk, battles of, ii. 168, 169; vii. 229 Falkland, Lucius Cary, second viscount, his plans of Church reform, v. 354; abandons Strafford's impeachment, 356; his political position, 368; becomes Charles's minister, 375; joins Charles at York, 378; death, vi. 14; influence on religious thought, 133 Family Compact, the, vii. 215 "Farm" of a borough, ii. 152 Farmer, Anthony, vii. 25 Farmers, rise of, ii. 240 Farne, islet of, i. 71 Fastolfe, Sir John, iii. 46, 162 Fawkes, Guido, v. 158, 159 Feckenham, Abbot of Westminster, iv. 106 Felton, John, v. 264, 265