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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.

LEE

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, i. 267.

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

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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.

Levees, i. 286.

Leven, David, Earl of, iii. 17, 28, 84. At
the battle of Killiecrankie, 89, 90

note.

LEW

Levett, Robert, the quack doctor, vii.

349.

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

His

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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

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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

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majority volunteer for France, 450.
Question regarding the treaty, 462-

464.

Lime Street, Roman Catholic chapel in, i.

599.

"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.

144.

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

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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

LON

Charles II., 272-290.

Population;

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

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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.

Retirement of

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,

433.

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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