Langley, Sir Roger, foreman of the jury in the trial of the bishops, ii. 171. Langton, Bennet, his admiration of Miss Burney, vii. 17. A member of the Literary Club, 345.
Languedoc, description of it in the 12th century, vi. 460, 461. Destruction of its prosperity and literature by the Nor- mans, 462.
Lanier, Sir John, at the battle of the Boyne, iii. 289. Falls at Steinkirk, 582. Lansdowne, Charles Granville, Lord,
commands the force on the shores of Torbay, after the battle of Beachy Head, iii. 311.
Lansdowne, Lord, his friendship for Has- tings, vi. 617.
Latimer, Hugh, his popularity in London, vi. 195, 198.
Latin language, partial prevalence of, in
Britain,i. 3. Languages derived from, 53, Latin poems, Boileau's praise of, ii. 327. Excellence of Milton's, v. 8.
Latin scholarship, in England (time of Charles II.), i. 309.
Latin works of Petrarch (the), vii. 630, 631. Latinity, Croker's Criticisms on, v. 505. Laud, Archbishop, his character, i. 69; v.
556, 557. His system of espionage, i. 70. His Liturgy for Scotland, 74. His treatment by the Parliament, v. 203. His correspondence with Strafford, 204. His diary, 556. His impeachment and imprisonment, 567. His rigour against the Puritans, and tenderness towards the Catholics, 571.
Lauder, Sir John, of Fountainhall, i. 629. Lauderdale i. 167. His administration in Scotland, 176, 213. His official gains,
243. Lauzun, Antonine, Count of, ii. 303. Aids the flight of the Queen and Prince of Wales, 305. Louvois' jealousy of him, 527. Commands French auxiliaries in Ireland, iii. 259. His account of the state of Ireland, 259. Opposes William III.'s right wing at the Boyne, 294. Covers the flight of the Irish, 299. Declares Limerick untenable, 319. His impatience to leave Ireland, 320. Re- tires to Galway, 322. Returns to France, 328.
Law, its administration in the time of James II., v. 223. Its monstrous grievances in India, vi. 586, 590. Law, William, a nonjuror, iii. 160 note. Lawrence, Major, his early notice of Clive, 388. His abilities, vi. 387, 399. Lawrence, Sir Thomas, vii. 40. Laws, penal, of Elizabeth, v. 166, 167. Lawyers, their inconsistencies as advo- cates and legislators, v. 529, 531. Lays of Ancient Rome, viii. 443.
Learning in Italy, revival of, v. 53, 54. Causes of its decline, 57.
League and Covenant, the Solemn, i. 94. Leake, Captain John, aids in the relief of Londonderry, ii. 581.
Lebon, the Jacobin, his crimes defended by Barère, vii. 165. Placed under arrest, 178.
Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of (Earl of Danby and Marquess of Caermarthen); becomes minister of Charles II. His character, i. 176; vi. 19. His con- nection with Temple, 284, 286. His policy, 177. His foreign policy, 178. Disgraced, 182. Impeached, 185. His financial good faith, 227. His official gains, 243. Restored to the House of Lords, 405. Complains of James II.'s arbitrary acts, 532. His conferences with Dykvelt, ii. 68. His letter to the Prince of Orange, 78. Joins the re- volutionary conspiracy, 194. Signs the invitation to William, 197. Seizes York for William, 275. His scheme for proclaiming the Princess of Orange, 358, 377. Opposes the plan of a Re- gency, 369. His speech for declaring the throne vacant, 385. His appre hension of a Restoration, 406. Made President of the Council, 411. His hostility to Halifax, 447; iii. 125. Raised to the marquisate of Caermar- then, ii. 492. Parliamentary attack on, iii. 123. His influence with William III., 207, 219. Becomes chief minister, 223. Satirical ballad against, 224 note. His system of parliamentary corruption, 229.
One of the Council of Nine, 269. Chief adviser of Mary, 269. His ad- vice in the Council disregarded, 319. Hated by the Whigs, 360. Parlia- mentary intrigues against, 361. Sligh- ted by William, 362. Receives infor- mation of a Jacobite plot, 367. Causes the emissaries to be arrested, 367. Lays the intercepted papers before William, 368. His absence from the division on the Place Bill, 630. Sup- ports the Triennial Bill, 630. Insulted by Jacobites at Bath, iv. 35. His as- sistance counted on by the Jacobites, 35. Bribed by the East India Com- pany, 37. Resists the Bill for regu- lating State Trials, 75. His speech on the Bank of England Bill, 94. Raised to the dukedom of Leeds, 98. Owes his dukedom to his talent for de- bate, vi. 295. Motion for his impeach- ment carried; his speech in the Lords, iv. 138. The impeachment; sent to the Tower; his defence and escape, 139. vi. 288. His disgrace, iv. 140, 14L
His part in the debate on the Associa- tion, 233. Resists Fenwick's attainder, 290. His part in the debate on Mon- mouth's intrigue. 294. Resigns the Presidency of the Council, 465. Crown lands conferred on him; his official gains, 537.
Leefdale, an accomplice in the French plot for assassinating William III., iii. 585. Betrays Grandval, 585. Legerdemain, vi. 147.
Legge, Right Hon. H. B., vi. 61. His re-
turn to the Exchequer, 64; vii. 212. His dismissal, 223.
Legislation, comparative views on, by Plato and by Bacon, vi. 218. Legitimacy, v. 26.
Leinster, Duke of (Meinhart Schomberg), commands William III.'s right wing at the battle of the Boyne, iii. 293. Com- mands troops intended for a descent on France, 588.
Lely, Sir Peter, i. 322.
Lemon, Mr., his discovery of Milton's Treatise on Christian Doctrine, v. 1. Le Noble; his pasquinades on the corona- tion of William and Mary, ii. 492 note. Asserts Jeffreys to have been poisoned by William III., iii. 121 note. Lennox, Charlotte, vi. 261. Leo X., his character, vi. 467. Nature of the war between him and Luther, 473.
Leopold I., Emperor of Austria; his let-
ters to James II., i. 362 note; ii. 497 note. His conduct in the war against France, iii. 568. His dispute with the Elector of Saxony, iv. 17. His designs on the Spanish succession, 311. Grounds of his claim to the Spanish throne, 402. His dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Loo, 435.
Leslie, Charles; his "Answer to King,"
ii. 502 note. A nonjuror, iii. 161. His account of the Quakers, 390 note. Lestrange, Roger, i. 306. Member for Winchester, 396. His account of the distress of the Nonconformists, 522 note. Sent by James II. to Edinburgh, 617. His answer to the Letter to a- Dissenter, ii. 46. Removed from the post of Licenser, iii. 634. Arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the assassination plot, iv. 223. "Letter to a Dissenter," ii. 46. Letters of Phalaris, controversy between
Sir William Temple and Christchurch College and Bentley upon their merits and genuineness, vi. 320, 322.
Leven, David, Earl of, iii. 17, 28, 84. At the battle of Killiecrankie, 89, 90
Levett, Robert, the quack doctor, vii.
Levinge, Sir Rich., tyrannical treatment
of, by the House of Commons, iv. 526.
Levinz, Sir Creswell, counsel for the seven bishops, ii. 170.
Levison Gower, Sir John, Tory candidate for Westminster (1701); his rejection, iv. 550.
Lewis XIV.; his character, i. 156. His power alarming to the Dutch, 158. Triple Alliance against, 159. His views with respect to England, 162. His ambitious projects, 163. His policy towards England, 163. His league with Charles II., 164. Invades Hol- land, 170. Repulsed, 172. His in- trigues against Danby, 182. Foments English factions, 202, 218. His trans- actions with James II., 355, 357, 360. General fear and hatred of, 361, 364. His policy towards England, 362 note. His dispute with Innocent XI., 363. Retracts the privileges of Protestants in France, 533. Revokes the Edict of Nantes, 534. General reprobation of his conduct, 534. His instructions to Barillon, 538. Supports the Jesuits, 569. His invasion of Holland, ii. 18. His complicity in the designs against Burnet, 66 note. Persecutes Dutch Protestant settlers in France, 215. Alienates his supporters in Amsterdam, 215, 216. His quarrels with the Pope, 217, 219. Warns James II. of his danger, 227. His exertions to save James, 228. Invades Germany, 231. His feelings in regard to the English revolution, 344. His reception of the Queen of England, 345. His liberality and delicacy to James on his arrival in France, 347. Invades the Palatinate, 494. Spares Trêves at the intercession of Madame de Maintenon, 496. unwillingness to send an army to Ire- land, 527. His parting with James, 528. Appoints Avaux to accompany James, 530. His letter to Alexander VIII., iii. 148. Takes Irish troops into his pay, 258. Sends French forces to Ireland under Lauzun, 258. His reception of James on his return from Ireland, 307. Burnt in effigy in London, 329. His advantages over the coalition, 378. Besieges and takes Mons, 378, 379. His quarrel with Louvois, 534. Determines to in- vade England, 536. Opens the cam- paign of 1692, 572. Reviews his troops near Mons; opens the siege of Namur, 573. Takes Namur, 575. His arrogance at its height, 576. Receives
news of the battle of La Hogue; re- turns to Versailles, 577. Accused of participation in Grandval's plot, 587. His surprise at the liberality of Parlia- ment to William, 609. Remonstrates with James, iv. 7. His preparations for the campaign of 1693; institutes the order of Saint Lewis, 14. His re- ception of Middleton, 15. At Namur, 17. Rejects Luxemburg's advice to offer battle to William; returns to Versailles, 18. His want of personal courage, 19. His arbitrary reduction of the price of bread in Paris, 39. His desire for peace, 40. His reluctance to recognise the English revolution, 41. His plan for the campaign of 1694, 99. Puts Brest in a state of defence, 100. His vexation at the misconduct of the Duke of Maine, 160. His navy con- fined to port, 170. Exhaustion of his finances, 241. Agrees to recognise William as king, 268. Offers terms of peace, 310. His reception of the Duke of Portland as English ambassador, 394. Refuses to remove James II. from Saint Germains, 395. His denial of the charge of countenancing assassins, 397. His renunciation of the Spanish succession, 402 and note. His despatches to Tallard during the negotiations on the Spanish succession at Loo, 430 note.
His new propositions on the death of the Prince of Bavaria, 468. Subserviency of the Spanish Ministers to (1699), 474. His considerate at- tention to James II. in his last illness, 539, 540. Question as to his recogni- tion of James III., 541-543. An- nounces his resolution to do so, to James II., 543. Proclaims the Prince of Wales king, 544. Visits him in state at St. Germains, 545. Attempts to excuse his conduct, 546. His con- duct in respect to the Spanish succes- sion, v. 647-655 et seq. His acknow- ledgment, on the death of James II., of the Prince of Wales as King of England, and its consequences, 657. Sent an army into Spain to the as- sistance of his grandson, 661. His proceedings in support of his grandson, Philip, 662-673. His reverses in Ger- many, Italy, and the Netherlands, 674. His policy, vi. 115. Character of his government, 116, 117. His military exploits, 249. His projects and affected moderation, 269. His ill-humour at the Triple Alliance, 274. His conquest of Franche Comté, 274. His treaty with Charles, 282. The early part of his reign a time of licence, vii. 64. His devotion, 499. His bitter regrets for
his former extravagances, v. 259. His character as a king, 626.
Lewis XV., his government, vi. 450. Con- dition of France when he came to the throne, 627.
Lewis XVI., his character, vii. 140. His position in 1792, 140, 141. His death, 146, 148.
Lewis XVIII., restoration of, compared with that of Charles II., vi. 98. Le- niency of his government at the Restor- ation, vii. 198.
Lewis, Prince of Baden; his victories over the Turks in 1689, iii. 146. And again in 1691, 418. Lexington, Lord, ii. 384.
Leyburn, John, Vicar Apostolic in Eng-
land, i. 538, 637; ii. 87. His advice to James II., 241. Arrested by rioters, 316. L'Hermitage; his account of the conduct of the English people in the financial crisis, iv. 251.
Libels on the Court of George III. in Bute's time, vii. 231.
Libertinism in the time of Charles II., v. 220.
Liberty, public, Milton's support of, v. 32.
Its rise and progress in Italy, 50. How regarded by the later ancient writers, vii. 686. How regarded by historians of the Plutarch class, v. 136. Peculiar and essentially English character of English liberty, 137. Political, views with which it was regarded by the French legislators of the Revolution, 635.
Licensing Act, iii. 633. The booksellers' petition against it, 643. Abolished, iv. 124.
Lies, various kinds of, vii. 128. Lieutenancy, commissions of, iii. 233. Agitation in London caused by their revisal, 234. Debates upon, 247. Life, human, increase in the term of, v. 361. Lilienroth, Swedish minister; his confer- ence with Dykvelt and Callieres, iv. 268. Mediator at Ryswick, 314. "Lillibullero," ii. 443. Limerick, the Irish army collected at, iii. 319. Question of defending it, 320, 321. Arrival of William III.; appear- ance and situation of the town, 322. The first siege; exploit of Sarsfield, 324. Baldearg O'Donnel arrives, 325. As- sault repulsed; the siege raised, 327, 328. Dissensions among the defenders, 424-426. Scarcity in, 427. Arrival of French succours, 427. Second siege, 442. Capitulates; the conditions; the garrison have the option of entering the French service, 447, 448. Persuasions addressed to them, 449, 450. The
majority volunteer for France, 450. Question regarding the treaty, 462-
Lime Street, Roman Catholic chapel in, i.
"Limp," a Jacobite sign; its signification, iv. 35.
Lincoln, William III.'s visit to, iv. 178. Lincoln Cathedral, story of the painted window of, v. 158.
Lincoln, Edward Clinton, Earl of, ii. 385. Lincoln's Inn Fields, houses in, i. 278. A resort of beggars and mountebanks, 280. Franciscan establishment in, 598.
Lindsay, Lieutenant, his part in the mas-
sacre of Glencoe, iii. 526, 528. Lines written on the night of the 30th of July, 1847, at the close of an unsuc- cessful Contest for Edinburgh, viii. 590. Lingard, Doctor, his account of the con-
duct of James II. towards Lord Ro- chester, vi. 98. His ability as a his- torian, 274. His strictures on the Triple Alliance, 274.
Lisle, Alice, harbours fugitive rebels, i.
496. Her trial, 498, 499. Put to death, 500. Her attainder reversed, iii. 105.
Lisle, John, assassinated, iii. 199. Literary men more independent than formerly, v. 371, 372. Their influ- ence, 374, 376. Abjectness of their condition during the reign of George II., 521, 523. Their importance to con- tending parties in the reign of Queen Anne, vii. 82. Encouragement afforded to, by the Revolution, 63. Literary Magazine, Johnson's contribu- tions to the, vii. 339.
Literature, on the Royal Society of, vii. 575.
Literature, ancient, proper examination
of, vii. 669. State of literature as a calling, in the last century, 329. Literature of the Roundheads, v. 23. Of the Royalists, 24. Of Italy in the 14th century, 53, 54. Of the Elizabethan age, 611. Of Spain in the 16th cen- tury, 641. Splendid patronage of, at the close of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, 519, 520. Dis- couragement of, on the accession of the House of Hanover, 520. Importance of classical, in the 16th century, vi.
Literature, British, speech on, viii. 377. Literature, German, little known in Eng-
land sixty or seventy years ago, vii. 66. "Little Dicky," a nickname for Norris the actor, vii. 119. Littlecote Hall, ii. 299.
Littleton, Sir Thomas, ii. 361. His speech
Liturgy, Laud's, for Scotland, i. 74. Pro-
posed revisal of the Liturgy of the Church of England, ii. 484; iii. 175, 176. Liverpool, i. 269.
Livingstone, Sir Thomas, surprises the Highlanders under Buchan, iii. 334. Livy, Discourses on, by Machiavelli, v. 75. Compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 78. Livy's faults and merits as a historian, 140.
Lloyd, David, a Jacobite emissary, iii. 410.
Lloyd, William, Bishop of Norwich, ii.
149. A nonjuror, iii. 159. His con- versation with Sir John Trevor, 394. Lloyd, William, Bishop of St. Asaph, ii. 149, 150. (See Bishops, the Seven.) Assures William III. of his support, 222. His disbelief of the legitimacy of the Prince of Wales, 246. Assists at the coronation of William and Mary, 490. A member of the Ecclesiastical Commission, iii. 173. Translated to the see of Worcester, iv. 461. Loans, government, antiquity of, i. 226. Lobb, Stephen, ii. 49.
Lochbuy, Maclean of, iii. 65. Lochiel. See Cameron, Sir Ewan. Locke, John, keeps aloof from the plots of the British refugees on the Continent in 1685, i. 424. Ejected from his fel- lowship; his letter on Toleration, 425. Excepts Roman Catholics from claim to Toleration, 529. His dedication to the Earl of Pembroke, iii. 232. His alleged part against renewing the Li- censing Act, iv. 125 note. Takes part in the discussions on the currency, 192. His paper in answer to Lowndes; his proposed expedient, 195.
Lockhart, Sir George, Lord President of the Court of Session, i. 612. Resists James II.'s policy, 615, 619. Lord President of the Court of Session; his murder, iii. 34.
Lockhart, Sir William, iii. 39. Logan, Mr., his ability in defending Hastings, vi. 639.
Lollards, their movement premature, i. 35.
Lollardism in England, v. 604.
London, indignation in, against Charles I., i. 85. The Plague and Fire, 151. Proceedings against the corporation, 177. Disfranchised, 211. Consump- tion of coal in, 249. The London clergy, 259. London in the time of
customs, 273. The city, 274. Archi- tecture; the streets, 274. The mer- chants; subsequent change in their habits, 275. Festivities, 276. Power of the city, 277. The train bands, 278. Fashionable part of, 278. Shop signs, 282. By night; police; lighting, 283. Coffee-houses, 288. Sanitary improve- ment, 320, 330. Fails to support Mon- mouth, 460. Roman Catholic estab- lishments in (1686), 598. Agitation against them, 599. The Corporation; dismissal of officers, ii. 139. Meeting of the metropolitan clergy, 148. They refuse to read the Declaration of Indul- gence, 149. Illumination for the ac- quittal of the bishops, 180. Restoration of the Charter, 241. Disturbances in, 263, 264. Agitation against the Papists, 290. Transactions after the flight of James II., 308, 309. Riots, 312, 315. The "Irish night," 316. Raises a loan for William, 342. Returns Whig re- presentatives to the Convention, 349. Illuminated for the Proclamation of William and Mary, 399. Election of 1690, iii. 220. Alarm on the news of the defeat off Beachy Head, 278. Offers assistance to the Queen, 280. Effect of the news of the battle of the Boyne, 305, 306. The Jacobite press, 313. Excitement in, on the loss of the Smyrna fieet, iv. 29. Jacobite agita- tion, 30, 33. Various reports during the siege of Namur, 87. Wagers on the event of the war, 164. Election (1695), 180. Rejoicings for the Peace of Ryswick, 324, 325. Attempted Pro- clamation of James III. in, 546. Elec- tion of the Whig candidates (1701), 550. The city in the 17th century, v. 575. Devoted to the national cause, 576, 577. Its public spirit, 598. Its prosperity during the ministry of Lord Chatham, vi. 73. Conduct of, at the Restoration, 102. Effects of the Great Plague upon, 267. Its excitement on occasion of the tax on cider proposed by Bute's ministry, 237. Blessing of the great fire, v. 150. Riots of (1780), vii. 363.
London Bridge, Old, i. 274. Londonderry, history and description of,
ii. 509. Its gates closed against Lord Antrim, 511. Protestants take refuge there, 525. Defences of, 545. Suc- cours arrive from England, 546. At- tempted betrayal by the governor; de- fence taken up by the inhabitants, 546. Character of the inhabitants, 548, 549. Measures for the defence, 550. Com- mencement of the siege, 552. Assault
repulsed, 553. The blockade, 554. Distress in the town, 575. Negotia- tions with Richard Hamilton, 579. Ex- treme famine, 579. Relieved, and the siege raised, 583. Rejoicings, 584. Relics of the siege, and celebrations in memory thereof, 585.
Londoners, their attachment to London, i. 416.
Long, Thomas, his pamphlet, "Vox Cleri," iii. 190.
Longinus, criticism of his work on the Sublime, vii. 661. Longleat Hall, i. 448.
Bishop Ken at, iii. 398.
Long Parliament (the), controversy on its merits, v. 27, 29. Its first meeting 178, 566. Its early proceedings, 187, 189. Its conduct in reference to the civil war, 188. Its nineteen proposi- tions, 199. Its faults, 201-205. Cen- sured by Mr. Hallam, 203. Its errors in the conduct of the war, 204. Treat- ment of it by the army, 206. Re- capitulation of its acts, 567. Its at- tainder of Strafford defended, 569. Sent Hampden to Edinburgh to watch the king, 570. Refuses to surrender the members ordered to be impeached, 576. Openly defies the king, 577. Its con- ditions of reconciliation, 580. Lonsdale, Earl of (Sir John Lowther), i. 545.
Made first Lord of the Treasury, iii. 225. His speeches on the Revenue, 238, 239. One of the Council of Nine, 269. Abuse of, by the Whigs, 361. Parliamentary attack upon, 460. Ap- pointed Lord of the Admiralty, 508. Speaks in defence of Lord Nottingham, 600. Resists the Triennial Bill, 630. Appointed Lord Privy Seal, iv. 465. Joins in the resistance of the Peers to the Resumption Bill, 530.
Loo, William III.'s mansion at, ii. 17.
Negotiations at, between William III. and the Count of Tallard on the Spanish Succession, iv. 426. The treaty signed,
Lope, his distinction as a writer and a soldier, v. 642.
Lords Lieutenant, duties expected from,
by James II, 125. Many of them dis- missed, 126.
Lords, the House of, its position previous to the Restoration, vi. 101. Its condi- tion as a debating assembly in 1770, 539.
Lorenzo de Medici, state of Italy in his time, v. 54.
Lorenzo de Medici (the younger), dedica- tion of Machiavelli's Prince to him, v. 75.
Loretto, plunder of, vi. 486.
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