WIL

of Marlborough's treason, 493. Ad-
journs Parliament, 505. His use of
the Veto on parliamentary bills, 505,
506. His peculiar situation, 506, 507.
Negatives the Bill for Judges' Salaries,
507. Signs the order against the Mac-
donalds of Glencoe, 523. Goes to the
Continent, 533, 563. His difficulties,
caused by the conduct of the Northern
Powers, 564. By the change of Popes,
565. By the conduct of his allies, 565-
568. His exertions to maintain the
coalition, 569-571. Declines the Go-
vernorship of the Spanish Netherlands,
571. His attempts to relieve Namur,
574. Attacks Luxemburg at Steinkirk,
579. Defeated, 582. Plot for his assas-
sination, 584, 586; vi. 520. Returns to
England, iii. 587. His measures to put
down highway robberies, 593. His
speech to Parliament, 595. Conciliates
the Peers, 596. Consults Sir W. Temple,
649; vi. 316. His interview with
Swift, iii. 650. Negatives the Trien-
nial Bill, and prorogues Parliament,
651. His ministerial arrangements,
651-654. Goes to Holland, 654. The
French statesmen's opinion of him, iv.
15. Prepares for the campaign of 1693,
16.

Collects his forces near Louvain,
17. Deceived by Luxemburg, 19. His
position at Landen, 20. His defeat,
22. His conduct in covering the re-
treat, 23. His energy in repairing his
loss, 26. Returns to England, 38. His
complaints of the caprice of the House
of Commons, 43. Sunderland's advice
to him, 50. Appoints Whig ministers,
70. Negatives the Place Bill, 79.
Prorogues Parliament. 96. His inter-
view with Shrewsbury, 97. His plan
for the campaign of 1694, 99. Rejects
Marlborough's offer of his services,
103. His campaign of 1694, 105. His
return to England; speech to Parlia-
ment, 111. Grants a pension to Tillot-
son's widow, 112. Consents to the
Triennial Bill, 115. His agony at the
death of Mary, 117, 118, 124. Ap-
points Lords Justices, 141. His recon-
ciliation with the Princess Anne, 143.
Directs inquiry into the massacre of
Glencoe, 149. Dismisses Sir John
Dalrymple, 155. Opens the campaign
of 1695, 157. Invests Namur, 159.
Gains possession of the town, 162.
Besieges the castle, 163. Offers battle
to Villeroy, 164. Takes the castle,
167. Returns to England, 175. Dis-
solves Parliament; visits the Princess
Anne, 176. His progress through the
country; at Newmarket, 176. At Al-
thorpe, at Stamford, and Burleigh, 177.

246.

WIL

His

At Lincoln, Welbeck, 178. At Brad-
gate, Warwick, Burford, 179. At Ox-
ford; returns to London, 179. His
speech on opening Parliament, 198.
His vexation at the proceedings against
his grant to Portland, 206. His speech
to Parliament on the discovery of the
assassination plot, 221. Negatives the
Bill for regulating Elections, 238. Pro-
motes the Land Bank scheme, 239.
Joins the army in Flanders, 241. His
difficulty in provisioning his troops,
Receives Fenwick's confession,
260. His letter to Shrewsbury, 262.
Effect of his letter, 262. Returns to
England, 263. His speech to Parlia-
ment, 265. Examines Fenwick, 272.
Closes the Session of Parliament, 303.
Goes to the Continent, 310. His
night march to Brussels; his desire
to accept terms of peace, 310. Sends
Portland to Boufflers, 315. His de-
mands upon Lewis XIV., 317. His
return, and entry into London, 325.
Difficulties of his situation after the
Treaty of Ryswick, 332. Opens the
Session of Parliament, 342. The Par-
liament well affected to him, 342. His
grants of Crown lands to his Dutch
favourites, 355. His speech on proro-
guing Parliament in 1698, 378.
unwillingness to rebuild Whitehall, 381.
His intercourse with the Czar Peter,
386. His conciliatory letters to Port-
land, 390. His politic profusion in the
appointments of the embassy to France
under Portland, 392. His instructions
on the subject of the Spanish succession,
409. His negotiations with Tallard at
Newmarket, 413-415. His impatience
to leave England, 415. His reconcilia-
tion with Marlborough, 417. Sets sail
for Holland; terms agreed upon with
Tallard at Loo, 426. Signs the First
Partition Treaty, 433. His imprudence
in neglecting to conciliate the English;
detained by the wind beyond the time
fixed for opening Parliament, 436. His
speech from the throne, 438. Differ-
ence between him and his ministers on
resisting the reduction of the army, 439,
440. His indignation at being required
to dismiss his Dutch guards, 440, 441.
Contemplates abandoning England,
442. Recovers his self-command, 454.
His speech on giving his assent to the
Bill for disbanding the army, 454. His
imprudent pertinacity on the subject of
the Dutch guards, 457, 458. His letter
to the Commons, 459. Strong feeling
on the rejection of his request, 460.
His speech in proroguing Parliament,
462. Ministerial changes, 464 466.

WIL

Divisions in his household, 466. His
endeavours to conciliate Portland, 467,
468. His return from the Continent,
506. His speech on opening Parlia-
ment, 513. His grant of Irish lands
to the Countess of Orkney (Elizabeth
Villiers), 524. His answer to the
Speaker on his grants of Irish forfeited
estates, 527. Prorogues Parliament in
displeasure, 538. His declining health,
542 and note. Receives tidings of the
proclamation of James III.; his mea-
sures, 546. Returns to England, 548.
Dissolves Parliament, 549. Alarming
state of his health, 552. His last letter
to Heinsius; his fall from horseback,
553. His message to Parliament re-
commending measures for the Union
with Scotland, 553. Suffers under a
complication of diseases, v. 656. His
death-bed, iv. 555. His death, 556; v.
657. Low state of national prosperity
and character in his reign, 229. His
feeling in reference to the Spanish suc-
cession, 655. Coalition which he formed
against Lewis XIV. secretly favoured
by the Pope, vi. 481. His vices not
obtruded on the public eye, 519. Ad-
dison's lines to him, vii. 59.
Williams, Sir William, Solicitor General,
ii. 144. Conducts the prosecution of
the bishops, 169, 172, 176, 178. Re-
warded with a baronetcy, 204. His
treachery to James II., 328. Attacks
James in Parliament, 365. Counsel
for the prosecution of Jacobites at
Manchester, iv. 110, 111. His charac-
ter as a lawyer, vi. 164. His view of
the duty of counsel in conducting pro-
secutions, 164.

Williams, Dean of Westminster, his ser-

vices to Buckingham, and counsel to
him and the king, vi. 187.

Williams, John, his character, vi. 639; vii.

16. Employed by Hastings to write in
his defence, vi. 639.

Williams, Mrs., in Dr. Johnson's house,
vii. 348.

Williamson, Sir Joseph, English nego-
tiator at Ryswick, iv. 315. Commis-
sioner for signing the Treaty of Loo,

433.

Will's Coffee House, i. 288.
Wilson, Margaret, murder of, i. 390.
Wilson, William; his "Dying Testimony,"
iii. 4 note.

Wiltshire, Charles Paulet, Earl of, ii. 231,
363.

Wimbledon Church, Lord Burleigh at
mass at, v. 590.
Wincanton, skirmish at, ii. 277.
Winchelsea, Earl of, protects James II.
from the Kentish fishermen, ii. 321.

Windsor, Roman Catholic procession at,
ii. 88. The Prince of Orange at, 328.
Wine, excess in, not a sign of illbreeding
in the reign of Queen Anne, vii. 84.
"Wisdom of our ancestors," proper value

of the plea of, vii. 54, 56.

Wit, Addison's, compared with that of
Cowley and Butler, vii. 90.
Withins, Sir Francis, i. 603.
Witsen, Nicholas, Dutch envoy to con-
gratulate William of Orange on his
success, ii. 349.

Witt, John de, power with which he
governed Holland, vi. 267. His inter-
view with Temple, 270. His manners,
270, 272. His confidence in Temple
and deception by Charles's Court, 277,
279. His violent death, 281.
Wolcot, vii. 16.
"Wolf-land;

name applied to Ireland,

ii. 504 note.
Wolfe, General, Pitt's panegyric upon, vi.
49. His conquest of Quebec, and death,
71. Monument voted to him, 71.
Wolseley, Colonel, sent by Kirke to sup-
port the Enniskilleners, ii. 586. De-
feats Mountcashel at Newton Butler,
587, 588. At the battle of the Boyne,
iii. 290.

Wolsey; his magnificence, i. 255.
Women, condition of, among the Greeks,
vii. 621. Among the Romans, 621.
Superstitious veneration with which
they were regarded by the warriors of
the North of Europe, 622. Their insight
into motives, 132. Rejected by Mr.
Mill from all share in government, 258.
Identity of interest between the sexes,
259. Right of women to vote as well
as men, 284.

Wood, T.; his "Angliæ Notitia,” i. 257

note.

Wood's History of Bath, ii. 148 note.
Woodfall, Mr., his dealings with Junius,
ii. 197.

Woodstock, Lord, son of the Duke of
Portland; forfeited Irish property be-
stowed on him, iv. 522.

Woodward, the naturalist, i. 320.
Woollen manufacture, i. 267.

712

WOR

Worcester, i. 265. Riots at, 599.
Worcester, Marquess of; his steam en-
gine, i. 291.
Wordsworth, relative "correctness" of
his poetry, v. 398. Byron's distaste

for, 408. Characteristics of his poems,
409, 414. His egotism as exhibited
in his writings, vii. 620.

Works, public, employment of the public
wealth in, v. 347. Public and private,
comparative value of, 347, 348.
World, the, vii. 338. Its remarks on the
literary genius of Johnson, 339.
Wren, Sir Christopher, i. 275, 322.
Wright, Sir Robert, made Lord Chief
Justice by James II., ii. 90. Commis-
sioner at Oxford on the affairs of Magda-
lene College, 111. Consulted by James,
142. Presides at the trial of the bishops,
169. Overawed by the general feeling,
173. His summing up, 176. Retains
his post, 205.

Writing, grand canon of, v. 639.
Wurtemberg, Charles Frederick, Duke of,

iii. 290, 331. Joins Ginkell's army in
Ireland, 429. Volunteers to force the
passage of the Shannon at Athlone,

433.

Wycherley, William, ii. 28. His literary
merits and faults, vi. 503. His birth,
family, and education, 503. Age at
which he wrote his plays, 504. His
favour with the Duchess of Cleveland,
505, 506. His marriage, 509. His
embarrassments, 509. His acquaint-
ance with Pope, 511, 512. His cha-
racter as a writer, 513, 516. His
severe handling by Collier, 524. Ana-
logy between him and Congreve, 531.
Wycliffe, i. 16.

XENOPHON, historical value of his

treatise on Domestic Economy, vii.
702. Character of his history, v. 134.
His Life of Cyrus, 134. His Expedition
of the Ten Thousand and History
of Grecian Affairs, 134. His supersti-

ZUL

tion and horror of popular turbulence,
134. Regarded as a delineator of cha-
racter. 143. His report of the reason-
ing of Socrates in confutation of Aris-
todemus, vi. 456.

YAR

WARMOUTH, changes of magistrates
at, ii. 140.

Yarmouth, Earl of, ii. 133.

Yeomanry, under Charles II.; their infla-
ence and sentiments, i. 262.
Yonge, Sir William, vi. 44.
York, i. 265. Archbishopric of, 590. Ar-
chiepiscopal province of, iii. 182.

York, Council of, i. 71. Abolished, 77.
York, Duchess of (Ann Hyde); her
death, i. 165.

York, James, Duke of. See James II.
York, Duke of, son of George III., vi.
290. Anxiety excited by his sudden
return from Holland, 310. Detesta-
tion of him, 311. Revival of the ques-
tion of his exclusion, 312.
York House, the London residence of
Bacon and of his father, vi. 185, 201.
Young, Robert, his villanous character
and adventures, iii. 554, 555. Forges
a paper in proof of a Jacobite plot, 556.
Gives information to the Privy Coun-
cil, 557. His detection and impudent
conduct, 560, 561. His subsequent
career, 562.

Young, Dr., his testimony to Addison's
colloquial powers, vii. 83.