Knights, their complaint against the barons, ii. 62; right of attendance at the Great Council, 145; growth of their importance after the Barons' War, 147; relations with the Crown, _ib._, 148; of the shire, summoned to Parliament, 66, 71, 73, 150, 151; result of their election in county court, 151, 152; relations with the Lords, 202; grouped together with the burgesses as "the Commons," 203; petition for due election of, 300 Knolles's _History of the Turks_, v. 4 Knollys, Sir Francis, iv. 119, 215 Knox, John, iv. 113-115, 119, 128; denounces Mary Tudor, 130; resists Mary Stuart, 201, 212, 218; breaks with Murray, 218; defies Mary, 220; calls for her death, 259; his character and influence, v. 130, 131; his Liturgy, 327; his _History of the Reformation_, iv. 4 Knyghton, Henry, ii. 177, 179 Kolin, battle of, vii. 248 Kunersdorf, battle of, vii. 263 Labour-rents, i. 322, 323; commutation of, 324; attempts to revive, ii. 257, 266, 267 Labourdonnais besieges Madras, vii. 233 Labourers, their position after the Black Death, ii. 255; condition under Richard II., 314; in fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, iii. 109-111; under Elizabeth, iv. 275, 276 Lacy, Henry de, ii. 188 Lacy, Robert de, i. 201 Læt, the, i. 14, 15 Lafayette, Marquis de, viii. 83 Lagos, battle off, vii. 273 La Hire, iii. 49 La Hogue, battle of, vii. 78 Lake, Gerard, first viscount, viii. 130 Lambert, General, his campaign against Hamilton, vi. 62; pursuit of Charles II., 83; resigns his command, 121; relations with Monk, 150, 151; escape and defeat, 152; exempted from pardon, 195 Lambeth, Harthacnut dies at, i. 148; treaty of, ii. 3; the archbishop's chapel at, its transformations, v. 90; Laud's restoration of, 299, 300 Lancashire, reluctance of its boroughs to send members to Parliament, ii. 155 Lancaster, Blanche of, ii. 287 Lancaster, Edmund, Earl of. _See_ Edmund Lancaster, Henry, Earl of, ii. 199, 203, 206 Lancaster, Henry, first Duke of (_see_ Derby), ii. 258-260, 266 Lancaster, Henry of (King Henry IV.) _See_ Henry Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of, ii. 188, 191, 193-195 Lancelot, legend of, i. 247 Land-tenure in Old England, i. 14; after Norman Conquest, 322-324; Edward I.'s legislation concerning, ii. 124, 125 Land-tax, i. 186, 207, 350; ii. 103 "Landless man," the, i. 322, 323 _Lanercost, Chronicle of_, i. 273 Lanfranc, abbot of Bec, i. 159; Archbishop of Canterbury, 187; crowns William II., 191 Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, vi. 40 Langland, William, ii. 178, 179, 269-272 Langport, battle of, vi. 41 Langside, battle of, iv. 261 Langton, Simon, i. 355