in The Examiner, 178; writes to the
queen, 179; her character of the
queen, 222; death of, 304.
Marlborough, Earl of, afterwards Duke
of (John Churchill), his military talents,
I; his political views, 1; made captain-
general, 3; envoy to Holland, 3, 6; for
war, 4; joins the army in the Nether-
lands, 9; escapes capture, 10; returns
to England and is created duke, 10; his
second campaign, 15; is censured by
the Dutch, 16; protests to the States-
General, 16; parliamentary congra-
tulations to, 25; friends of, vote with
whigs, 26; thanksgiving for successes
of, 26; and the whigs, 34; hostility
of tories, 35; works against the
second occasional conformity bill
but votes for it, 37; and the Scottish
plot, 39, 41; and Nottingham, 42;
and a middle party, 43; and St. John,
46; his plans for 1704, 48, 49, 50;
meets Eugene, 51; storms the Schel-
lenberg, 52; his movements, 53;
marches to join Eugene, 54; at Blen-
heim, 55, 56, 57; after Blenheim, 58,
59; returns to England, 59; consulted
as to Gibraltar, 62; Woodstock granted
to, 65; and the Duke of Buckingham,
67; and the whigs, 68; on Spain,
69; and a campaign on the Moselle,
75, 76; in the Netherlands, 76, 77;
at Vienna and Berlin, etc., 79; in
Brabant, 80; at Ramillies, 80, 81;
captures Courtray, 82; nominated
governor of the Netherlands, 83; and
the Dutch, 84, 85; and Peterborough,
88; and Guiscard, 91; returns to
London (1704), 99; advice on Spain,
109, III; visits Charles XII., 113;
his campaign in 1707, 114; and the
Elector George, 115; at Oudenarde,
116, 117; proposes to march on Paris,
118; captures Lille, 119; his opinion
of Galway, 120; and Godolphin, 122;
and Sunderland, 123; pension to, 124;
and the junta, 125; Harley and, 126;
and St. John, 127; and the first par-
liament of Great Britain, 128; at-
tacked by tories, 129; betrayed by
Harley and St. John, 130; denounces
Harley, 132; supported by Admiral
Churchill, 133; and Jacobite prisoners,
136; supports the Bank of England,
137; Anne appeals to, 138; his cor-
respondence with St. Germain's, 143;
organises campaign for 1709, and the
preliminaries of peace, 146, 147, 148;
on Dunkirk, 149; refuses to sign
Barrier treaty, 150; reassures Prussia,
151; besieges Tournay, 152; at Mal-

plaquet, 153, 154, 155; plan of cam-
paign of, 157; takes Douay, 158; alien-
ates Lord Halifax, 160, 161; asks for
a patent for life, 162; denounces Mrs.
Masham, 163; Shrewsbury and, 170,
171; emperor opposes dismissal of
172; Addison's panegyric on, 177;
returns to London, 178; ill-health of,
179; supports Galway in the Lords,
179; tories and, 180; opposes Villars,
187; penetrates the French lines, 188;
overtures to by Oxford, 189, 190;
secures the defeat of Oxford's minis-
try, 191; dismissed the army, 192,
193; accused of a conspiracy, 194;
consequence of his dismissal, 200;
Hanmer and, 207; omitted from the
regency, 223; well received by George
I., 229; as a statesman, 230, 245;
inactivity of, 248, 251; Argyll and,
255; fails the pretender, 262; discards
the army, 243; distrusted by Stanhope,
248, 251; Argyll and, 255; fails the
pretender, 262; resigns captain-
generalship, 300; death of, 304;
former officers of, 307.

Marsin, Count de (Ferdinand), marshal
of France, 17, 50, 51, 55, 56, 75, 80.
Martin, Commodore, 372.
Mary of Modena, ex-queen, 38, 224, 239,

240.

Mary II., her death, I.
Masham, Mrs., afterwards Lady, 126,
138; triumphant, 139; her intrigues,
160, 162, 172, 175; her brother, 182;
supports Bolingbroke, 210; is bribed
by him, 219; her character of the
queen, 222.

Masham, Samuel, afterwards Lord, 193.
"Mat's Peace," 187.
Mathews, Admiral, in Mediterranean,
371-372; off Toulon, 379; and Admiral
Lestock, 379, 413.
Maubeuge, 188.
Maynwaring, Arthur, auditor of the
exchequer, 180.

Mead, Dr. Richard, physician, 308.
Mechlin, 8.

Mecklenburg, 273, 275.
Medina, Sir Solomon, 192.
Mediterranean, the command of the, 12,
20, 62, 65, 78, 121, 129, 187, 477;
France and Venice in the, 112.
Mehaigne, river, 15, 16, 80.
Meldert, 77, 114.
Menin, 82, 151.

Mercy, Count, imperialist general, 155.
Meredyth, Thomas, general, 178.
Merioneth, 45.

Mesnager, French diplomatist, 187.
Messina, 281.

Methuen, John, ex-lord chancellor of
Ireland, envoy to Portugal, 23, 92.
Methuen, Paul, envoy to Portugal, 22,
60, 85, 112; acting secretary of state,
271, 279; envoy to Madrid, 273.
Methuen treaty, 23, 207.
Metz, 80.

Meuse, river, 9, 15, 16, 49, 76, 150.
Mexico, 14.

Midleton, Viscount (Alan Brodrick),
chancellor of Ireland, 229, 301, 315,
316, 318; resigns, 319.
Milan, Spanish troops in, 8; Victor
Amadeus and, 18; treaty of, 109.
Militia bill, the, 438, 439, 448, 449.
Minas, Marquis das, Portuguese general,
63, 87, 88, 89.

Minden, battle of, 460-462.

Minorca, projected attempt on, 90, 120,
121; cession of, 149, 150, 189, 206;
alliance for the recovery of, 325, 376;
loss of, 440-443.

Mirepoix, Duke de, 436.

Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal, 474, 475.
Mississippi, the, river, 339.
Mississippi scheme, the, 204, 205.
Mist, Nathaniel, printer, 304.
Moffat, 250.

Mohammed Ali, 431-432.
Mohocks, the, 194.

Mohun, Lord (Charles Mohun), 205.
Moidart, Seven men of," 391.
Monckton, Brigadier, at Quebec, 464;
wounded, 466.

Mons, 82, 119, 152; fall of, 412.
Montagu, Edward Wortley, 141.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 141, 248,
495.

Montagu, Sir James, solicitor-general,
133.

Montcalm, Marquis of, sets out for
Canada, 444; success of, 454;
besieged in Quebec, 464-466; death,
466.

Monteleone, Count de, Spanish envoy,
322.

Montespan, Madame de, 59.

Monthermer, Marquis of, afterwards
Duke of Montagu (Ralph Montagu),

97.

Montjuich, fort, 87.
Montpellier, 159.
Montreal, fall of, 473.
Montrose, 260.

Montrose, Duke of (James Graham),
229, 347.

Moore, Arthur, 182, 207, 219, 289.
Moravia, 48.

Mordaunt, General Sir John, 452;
court-martialed, 454.

Moreau, French banker, 182.

543

Münster, treaty of, 150.
Murray, Brigadier James, in Canadian
war, 464, 466, 472-473.

Murray, Lord George, advises Prince
Charles Edward, 392, 396, 398, 400,
401, 404, 405.

Murray, William, created Lord Mans-
field, 445.

Musgrave, Sir Christopher, 10.
Mustapha, George I.'s page, 231.
Mutiny Act (1712), 221; (1718), 290;
(1747), 419; (1748), 420; (1749), 420.

Nairne, Lord (Lord William Murray),
266.

Namur, 76, 80, 82, 350; fall of, 412.
Naples, Leopold I.'s designs on, II,
18, 19, 23; Joseph I. and, 109, 113;
Louis XIV. and, 147; Sir G. Byng's
fleet at, 281; Charles (Don Carlos)
King, 371-372.

National debt, the, 288, 293, 294.
Navarre, 89, 121.

Navy, whigs dismissed from the, 203.
Neapolitan troops, 86, 87.
Nebel, river, 54.
Neckar, river, 50.
Netherlands, the, 8; reinforcements for,
15; defence of, 49; Marlborough
marches from, 50; the French in, 75,
76; Marlborough in, 77, 80; Spanish,
82, 83, 115, 121, 145, 147 150; French
army in, 151; British army in, 192;
Ormonde in, 197; Austrian governor
of, 283; and trade with West Indies,
321; British army in, 372, 412.
Nettuno, 283.

Newcastle, Duke of (John Holles), 62,
67, 133, 137, 138, 171, 173; death of,
183.
Newcastle, Duke of (Thomas Pelham
Holles), affronted by the Prince of
Wales, 289; joint-secretary for Scot-
land and secretary of state for the
southern department, 320; refuses
to concede Gibraltar, 322; neutral
between Walpole and Townshend,
325; preferred by Walpole to Pul-
teney, 335; supports Walpole against
Townshend, 340; and against the

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opposition, 347; differs from Walpole
on the Porteous riot, 352; views of,
on the war, 377; characteristics of,
383-384; relations of, with George
II., 411, 417; and the reductions in
the navy, 422; and Archduke Joseph,
425; and "Bow Street runners,'
429; universal minister," 430-431;
relations of, with Pitt, 435, 445, 450-
451; the question of subsidies, 436-
437; on militia scheme, 439; his
intelligence department, 440; atti-
tude of, towards Admiral Byng, 443;
and Port Mahon, 447; weakness of,
448; mentioned, 392.

Newcastle, town of, 98, 249, 250, 253.
Newmarket, 170.
New England, 6.

New Forest, the, 21.

Newfoundland, 18, 147, 187, 206.
Newgate, prison of. See London.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 317, 480.
New York, 142.

Neynoe, Philip, 306, 307.
Nice, 59.

Nicholson, Francis, general, 189.
Nieuport, 82, 136.
Nimeguen, 9.

Nithsdale, Countess of (Winifred Her-
bert), 267.

Nithsdale, Earl of (William Maxwell),
rebels, 250; impeached, 266; escapes,
266, 267.

Noailles, Duke de (Anne Jules), Mar-
shal of France, 120, 157, 374, 375,
378.

Nonconformists. See Dissenters.
Non-jurors, 40, 221, 305, 308.
Nore, the, 287, 326.

Norfolk, 331.

Norken, river, 116, 117.

Normandy, 118.

Norris, Captain Richard, 378.

Norris, Sir John, admiral, 158, 274, 275,
284, 286, 287, 363, 381.

North American Fisheries, the, 187, 390.
North and Grey, Lord (William North),
306, 307, 308.
North Sea, the, 48.
Northumberland, 250, 251.
Norway, 262, 283.

Norwich, Hayter, Bishop of, and the
Jews, 429.

Nottingham, Earl of (Daniel Finch), of
the Church party, 4; called" Dismal,"
4; made secretary of state, 4, 31; dis-
misses whig officials, 35, 36; and the
Scottish plot, 38, 39; resigns, 42; his
intrigues, 43, 66, 69, 72; his influence
on Church appointments, 73; letter
from, 94 n. 1; leads opposition, 97,

107; dismissed from privy council,
124; attacks the admiralty, 128; and
also Marlborough, 129; deserts the
tories, 190, 195, 200; leads the
Hanover tories, 214, 223; relations
to the dissenters, 218; president of
the council, 229, 230; pleads for the
rebel prisoners, 266; dismissed, 267,
271; in opposition, 268.
Nottingham, town of, 131.
Nova Scotia, 189, 205, 206, 420, 422.
Noyelles, Dutch general, 109.
Nugent, Lord (Thomas Nugent), 13, 250.
Nugent, Robert, later Earl Nugent, and
the drink trade, 422-423.
Nystad, treaty of, 287.

Oberglauheim, 55, 56.

Occasional conformity bill, 30, 31, 32,
33; second, 36; rejected by the
lords, 37; accepted by the whigs,
190; repealed, 291.

Occasional Writer, the, newspaper, 336.
October club, the, 180, 183, 207.

Ogilvie, Captain John, a spy, 84 n. 1,
134 n. I.

Ogle, Rear-Admiral Sir Chaloner, 366.
Oglethorpe, James Edward, general, 342,
343.

Oldfield, Anne, 490.
Oldmixon, John, 3.

Old Sarum, borough of, 361.
Onslow, Arthur, Speaker, 27, 292, 300,
305, 308, 335.
Onslow, Sir Richard, Speaker, after-
wards Lord Onslow, 140, 269.
Opdam, Dutch general, defeat of, 16.
Orange, Prince of (John William

Frison), at Malplaquet, 153, 154-
Orange, Prince of. See William III.
Orange, Prince of (William IV.), 355.
Orford, Earl of (Edward Russell), 42,
67, 122, 125, 160, 161, 166, 174, 229,
279.

Orkney, Earl of (Lord George Hamil-
ton), general, 55 n. 1, 57; at Mal-
plaquet, 153, 154.
Orkneys, the, 262.

Orleans, Anne of, Duchess of Savoy,
213.
Orleans, Duc d' (Philippe), general,

afterwards Regent of France, 79
109, 110, 120; intrigues with Stan
hope, 121, 140; Regent of France,
244, 246-263; releases Huguenot
prisoners, 264; impressed by the
collapse of the Jacobite rebellion,
265; and Philip V., 273; makes
overtures to George I., 277, 280;
Alberoni's plot against, 282; de-
clares war against Spain, 283.

Ormonde, Duke of (James Butler),
commands army against Cadiz, 12,
13, 60 n.; lands at Vigo, 14;
thanksgiving for, 26; lord-lieutenant
of Ireland, 27, 72, 214; and Rooke,
86; appointed captain-general, 197;
his orders, 198; proclaims an ar-
mistice, 199; and Hanmer, 207;
"discards the army," 211; Anne and,
216; suspected of Jacobitism, 220;
his desertion of the allies, 226; dis-
missed, 229; riot in honour of, 232;
Stanhope on, 233; his popularity,
236, 238; in the Netherlands, 237;
projected attempt on England, 241;
his flight, 244, 249; and Marlborough,
245; expected attempt by, 246; his
secretary, 248; at St. Malo, 250; the
pretender and, 250; expected in Lan-
cashire, 252; to make an attempt on
England, 259; his failures, 262; price
on head of, 264; to lead a Spanish
invasion, 281, 283; in conspiracy,
305, 307.

Orrery, Earl of (Charles Boyle), 186,
306, 307, 308.
Osborn, Admiral, 457.
Osnabrück, 332.

Ostend Company, the imperial, 321,
322, 323, 325, 329, 330, 338.
Ostend, importance of, 15; siege of, 82,
116, 118.

Oudenarde, 116, 117; battle of, 116, 117,
118, 119, 228, 308; surrender of, 388.
Ouwerkerk, Dutch general, 49, 50, 77,

82.

Oxburgh, Colonel, Jacobite, 253.
Oxenden, Sir George, 332.
Oxford, city of, 238.
Oxfordshire, 170.

Oxford, University of, 29, 65, 164, 169,
178, 244, 249, 315; Christ Church,
318.

Painters of the eighteenth century, 496.
Palatinate, the Rhenish, 79, 141, 349.
Palatines, the, 141, 142, 143, 167.
Palm, Count, 329.
Panmure, Earl of (James Maule), 246,
255.

Pardo, the convention of the, 337, 341.
Paris, 157, 177, 182, 186, 188, 200, 204,
225, 230, 234, 241, 244, 245, 248, 269,
276, 282, 285, 295, 311, 312, 322, 328,
330, 337.

Parker, Sir Thomas, afterwards Earl of
Macclesfield, and chancellor, 168; ap-
pointed chancellor, 290, 331; im-
peached, 332.

Parliament, English (afterwards British),
last of William III., meets, 2; Anne's

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first, 25; opening of session, 36; dis-
solution of, 67; and Irish parliament,
73; and Scots, 98.
Parliament of Great Britain, opening of
the first, 127; of 1710, 178; and the
preliminaries, 190; eleven proroga-
tions of, 205; of 1715, 233; and the
pretender, 242, 243; and Sweden,
276; and the South Sea Company,
293-303; of 1722, 306; relations to
the Irish parliament, 313; and the
liquor trade, 350, 351, 352
Parliament, Scots, 38, 93, 94, 95, 98,
102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 134;
restoration of, promised by pretender,

259.

Parliament, the Irish, 72, 73; encourage
Palatine immigrants, 142; and devo-
lution of land, 143; and Bolingbroke,
214; and the pretender, 264; and
the South Sea Bubble, 298; session
of 1723, 315; and Wood's halfpence,
319.

Parma, duchy of, 280, 322, 338.
Parma, Duke of, 338.

Parnell, Thomas, poet, 177.
Passajes, 284.

Passaro, battle of Cape, 282, 359, 360.
Passarovits, peace of, 282.
Paul, Joshua, captain, 251.
Peace and war, act anent (Scotland),

95.

Peerage bill, the, 291, 292, 293.
Pelham, Henry, secretary at war, 320
n. 2; defends Walpole, 367, 368; first
lord of the treasury, 377; his econo-
mies, 420, 422; his administration,
425, 429; and the Jews, 428-429; his
death, 430.

Pembroke, Earl of (Thomas Herbert),
lord president, 132, 138; lord-lieu-
tenant of Ireland, 138; lord high
admiral, 139; attacked by the junta
161.

Penn, William, Quaker, 142.
Penrith, 252.

Penterriedter, Christoph Freiherr von,

imperial ambassador, 281.
Pepper, John, general, 249.
Pepperell, Sir William, 390.
Perth, 247, 251, 255, 260, 264.
Perth, Dummond, titular Duke of, 392.
Perth, titular Duke of (James Drum-
mond), 255.

Peter the Great, 145, 275; his dislike of
George I., 285; and Prussia, 286;
ravages Sweden, 286; withdraws,
287; refuses George I.'s mediation,
287; Carteret and, 311; favours Jaco-
bites, 311; his widow, Catherine I.,
326.

Peterborough, Earl of (Charles Mor-
daunt), 85, 86; in joint command
with Shovell, 86 and n. 1; at Mont-
juich, 87; and Leake, 88; at Va-
lencia, 89, 92, IIO; recalled to
England, 129; the New Atlantis
and, 162; the tories and, 167, 179;
and the Catalans, 214; turns Jaco-
bite, 245.

Peterhead, 259, 261.

Petkum, Edzard Adolf, German diplo-
matist, 119, 146.
Pevensey, 353.

Philip, Don of Spain, 389, 417.
Philip II., King of Spain, 85.
Philip V., Bourbon King of Spain (Duke
of Anjou), 12, 19, 22, 57, 69, 85, 86,
87; evacuates Spain, 88, 111, 121;
Torcy on, 146; preliminaries as to,
148; refuses to abandon Spain, 155;
defeated, 156; joined by Vendôme,
157; demands of, at Utrecht, 196;
proposed renunciation by, 197, 205;
his cruelty, 215; lends money to the
pretender, 242; ambitious of the
French crown, 244, 245; hostile to
George I., 273; and the Regent Or-
leans, 277; seizes Sardinia, 280, 281;
plot to make him regent of France,
203; and the pretender, 284; accedes
to the Quadruple alliance, 285; his
second wife, 321; his irritation on
account of Gibraltar, 322, 323, 330,
337; cedes the two Sicilies to Don
Carlos, 349; and South Sea Company,
359-360; the marriage of his son, 364;
his death, 413.

Philip V., wives of. See Savoy and
Farnese.

Philips, John, 483.

Phipps, Sir Constantine, afterwards
chancellor of Ireland, 168, 213, 214;
dismissed, 229; defends Atterbury,
307.

Piacenza, battle of, 413.

Piacenza, Duchy of, 280.
Picardy, 118, 158.

"Pickle the Spy," 427, 428.
Piedmontese army, 16, 17, 18, 158.
Piper, Count, Swedish minister, 113.
Pitt diamond, the, 360.

Pitt, William, afterwards first Earl of
Chatham, 347 and n. 3; and Prince
of Wales's allowance, 356, 357;
his speech on Spanish convention,
360-361; against registration of sea-
men, 365; attitude of, towards Wal-
pole, 370; the king's attitude towards,
383, 411-412; contrasted with Fox,
412; and treaty of Madrid, 421;
attitude of, towards Newcastle, 422,

424-425, 430-431; new policy of, 434-
435; against subsidies, 437; and
militia scheme, 438-439; says that
the country is unprepared for war,
441; moral force of, 445; the nation
turns to him, 446-447; attitude of,
towards rebel highlanders, 448; and
Byng, 449-450; dismissed from office,
450; reinstated, 451; relations of, with
Frederick II., 455; interest of, in
North American campaign, 456, 463,
472; general ascendancy of, 458-459;
he assumes the offensive against
France, 460; military skill of, 470;
will not desert Prussia, 471; on Clive,
476-477.

Pitt, William, the younger, 241.
Placentia, Newfoundland, 18.
Plassey, battle of, 474, 476.
Platen, Countess, 301, 310, 312.
Plunkett, Plunket, John, 193, 194, 305,
307, 308.

Plymouth, 14, 249.

Poblet, monastery of, 337.
Pocock, Admiral, in Indian waters, 460,
474, 477.

Pointis, French rear-admiral, 64.
Poland, designs of Prussia on, 59; Fre-
derick Augustus renounces in favour of
Stanislaus, 113; at war with Charles
XII. of Sweden, 274; John Sobieski,
late king of, 284; Sweden and, 286;
and the treaty of Hanover, 326;
death of Augustus of Poland, 349.
Polwarth, Lord (Alexander Hume-
Campbell), minister to Denmark,

afterwards second Earl of March-
mont, 276.

Pompadour, Mme. de, under the in-
fluence of Maria Theresa, 444, 463.
Pondicherry, siege of, 416; surrender
of, 477.

Pont de Vendin, 158.
Ponte Vedra, 12.

Pope, Alexander, poet, 288, 301, 337;
literary style of, and works, 483, 484,
485; his gardens, 495.
Pope, Clement XI., 264.
Porteous, John, 352.
Porteous riot, the, 352.
Porter, Mary, actress, 490.
Portland, Duke of (William Henry Ben-
tinck), 298.

Portland, Earl of (William Bentinck),
28, 29; letter of, 39, 40, 83; grants
to, 200.

Port Mahon, 60, 120, 149, 187, 189, 195,
328; loss of, 442-443; value of, versus
Gibraltar, 447-448.

Port Royal, Jamaica, 14.
Port St. Mary, Spain, 13.