Eldon, Lord, Chancellor, 104 _note^1_, 155, 198; on Thurlow, 111; character of, 113-15; his "Anecdote Book," 114 _note^2_; salary, 117; letter to Dr. Fisher, 117 _note^2_; decisions of, 183 Eleanor, Queen, 105 _and note^1_ Elections, cost of, 43 _and note^2_ Elibank, Lord, 178 Eliot, Sir John, 7, 75, 189 Elizabeth, Queen, Parliaments, 22, 53, 81, 82, 190, 236, 249; reign of, 23 _note^1_, 25, 62 _note^1_; creation of rotten boroughs, 40; and Holland, 70; Chancellors of, 105-6; visit to Westminster, 144; Speakers, 145; the sergeant-at-arms, 181 _note^2_; monopolies, 197; Parliamentary Committees, 230; bills quashed, 248 Ellenborough, Lord, 85; sayings of, _quoted_, 103 _note^2_ Ellesmere, Lord, on the office of the Lord Chancellor, _quoted_, 103 _note^1_ Elsyng, 3 _note^2_, 139 _and note^3_; "Parliaments of England," _quoted_, 142 Ely, Abbot, of, 104 Emerson, _quoted_, 17 English Railway Committee, 230, 231 Epsom, 227 Equity, Court of, 107 Erle, Sir Walter, 180 _and note^2_ Erskine, James, _see_ Grange, Lord "Espying Strangers," 264, 265, 283 Essex, Earl of, 6; trial, 63 Ethelred, Chancellors of, 104 Evans, Colonel, 250 Evans, Sir George de Lacy, 139 _and note^1_ "Examiner," the, 278 Exchange, the, 175 Exchequer Court, 147 Exclusion Bill, 1679 ... , 13 Executive, the, 81 Falkland, Lord, saying of, _quoted_, 53 Farnham, Lord, 24 _note^2_ Fawkes, Guy, 135, 136 Fazakerley, 97 Female Suffrage, 265 Fenian scares, 1885 ... , 263 Ferguson of Pitfour, 50 Ferrars, arrest of, 174 Finance Bill of 1909 ... , 172, 207 Finch, Lord, speech of, 213, 214 Finch, Speaker, 122, 197 Fines, Parliamentary, 183-185 Fire of London, 62 "First Commoner," 132 First Statute of Westminster, 2 Fisher, Dr., of the Charter House, 117 _note^2_ Fitzwilliam, Lord, 85 Fleet, the, 174 Flood, corruption by, 10; on Pitt, 217 Floyd, punishment of, 179 Foreign Office, 87, 240 Forster, _quoted_, 91 Foster, John Leslie, Sheil's essay on, 78-80 Fox, Charles James, Burke's quarrel with, 16, 17; Lord North's dismissal, 97; saying of, _quoted_, 113; the Peace of Paris, 193; scene in the House, 197, 198; duel, 200-201; eloquence, 206; his speeches, 216, 217, 223, 224; _mentioned_, 43, 49, 54, 76, 187 _note^1_ Fox, Sir Stephen, 7 _note^1_ "Franking," the privilege of, 46, 47 French Fleet, visit to London, 64 French Revolution, the, 33 _note^1_ Fuller, 194; insults the Chair, 233 Gardiner, Dr., "History," _cited_, 4 Gardiner, Sir Alan, 211 Garibaldi, 239 _note^1_ Garter-King-at-Arms, duties, 151 Garter, Order of the, 136 Gascony, 117 Gatton, rotten borough of, 10, 268 Gemot of Wessex, 2, 3 "Gentleman's Magazine," the, 279, 280 George I., cabinets, 86