Portmore, Earl of (David Colyear), 328.
Porto Bello, Admiral Hosier at, 326;
Admiral Vernon captures, 363, 365.
Portsmouth, 23, 26, 92.
Portugal, desirous of neutrality, 11;
enters the grand alliance, 22; and
France, 62, 63, 87, 91, 110; change
of feeling in, 112; British army in,
120, 130, 189; and the Amazon river,
205; the Methuen treaty with, 23,
207; and the Quadruple alliance,
311; Spain and, 324..

Portugal, King of, Pedro II., 22, 23, 60;
John V., 148.
Portuguese fleet, 64.

Portuguese generals, 63, 88, 89, 90.
Portuguese troops, 23, 63, 64, 85, 87,

89, 110, 112, 156.

Portuguese wine, consumption of, 24.
Poulett, Earl (John Poulett), 171, 173,
183, 212.

Poyntz, Stephen, envoy to Stockholm,
324.

"Pragmatic army, the," 374, 377.
Pragmatic Sanction, the, 323, 327, 338.
Pratt, Chas., 451.

Pratt, Sir John, chief justice and chan-
cellor of the exchequer, 300.
Preston, surrender of rebels at, 253,
254; dissenters at, 264; prisoners
taken at, 265.

Prestonpans, battle of, 394-395.
Pretender, the old (James Edward), 7,
69, 99, 117, 134; his proclamation,
135; sails for Scotland, 136; Anne!
denounces, 137; his attempt, 139, 140,
144, 146; to be banished from France,
147; at Cambray, 158; his birth, 168;
plans for restoration of, 175; Plunkett
and, 194; Bolingbroke and, 203; Ox-
ford and, 204, 211; circular letters
from, 212; in Lorraine, 215; declines
to conform, 217; the whigs and, 221;
Marlborough and, 224; excluded from
France, 225; declaration of, 232, 233;
London mob and, 237; character of,
239; his religious designs, 240; pro-
jected attempt on Scotland, 241; and
Bolingbroke, 241; overtures of Marl-
borough to, 245; proclaimed as James
III., 246; dejection of, 249; goes to
St. Malo, 250, 259; arrives in Scot-
land, 260; re-embarks for France,
261; his failure, 262; dismisses Bol-
ingbroke, 263; takes refuge at Avig-
non, 264; his expulsion demanded,
270, 277; Alberoni plans combination
in support of, 281; goes to Madrid,
283; marriage of, 284, 285; the South
Sea Bubble and, 305; and Atter-
bury's conspiracy, 305, 308; declara-

547

tion by, 308; Spain and, 323, 327, 328
at Rome, 336.

Price, Sir Robert, baron of the exche-
quer, 210.

Prié, Marquis de, 283.
Prince's party, the. See Leicester House.
Prior, Matthew, poet and diplomatist,
124, 177, 182, 186, 187, 191, 204, 225,
234, 235, 240, 289, 485.
Protestant succession, the, 150, 155,
168, 183, 190, 205, 215, 232.
Protestantism, proposed extirpation of,
327, 328.
Protestants, persecution of, 113, 264,
339; immigration of foreign, 141,
167 and n. 1, 206; naturalisation of
foreign, 141, 200.

Provence, 189.

Prussia, Frederick II. of, declares for
France, 382; comes to terms with
Great Britain, 389; the Silesian loan,
427; and the Jacobites, 428; delicate
position of, 430; defeat of, at Kolin,
451; relations of, with Pitt, 455;
Leignitz and Torgau, 472; referred
to, 364, 366, 371.

Prussia, Hanoverian jealousy of, 230;
treaty with (1719), 286; negotiations
with (1723), 311; accedes to treaty
of Hanover (1725), 324; allied with
Charles VI., 340; alliance of, with
Great Britain, 364, 373.

Prussia, King of, Frederick I., 7, 9, 59,
79, 141; his grievances, 145, 148, 151,
205.

Prussia, King of, Frederick II. (“the
Great"), 311.

Prussia, King of (Frederick William I.),
227, 274, 275, 286, 311, 323-327.
Prussia, Princess Royal of, afterwards
Margravine of Baireuth, 311, 327, 342.
Prussia, Queen of (Sophia Dorothea),
311.

Prussian troops, 50, 153, 154.
Public accounts, commissioners of, 33,
42.

Publication, methods of, in eighteenth
century, 494.

Pulteney, Daniel, 335, 336.
Pulteney, William (afterwards Earl of
Bath), denounces "the restraining
orders," 199; secretary at war, 248; dis-
missed, 279; for the Austrian alliance,
325; growing popularity of, 329, 335;
a leader of the opposition, 336, 342;
denounces the excise bill, 344; on
the dismissal of officers, 348; opposes
regulation of plays, 353; opposes re-
peal of Test Act, 354; and Prince of
Wales's allowance, 356; secession of,
361; he vindicates secession, 364;

Quadruple alliance, the (1718), 280, 281,
284, 285, 311.
Quakers, 142, 354.

Quebec, General Nicholson's designs
against, 189, 220; siege of, by General
Wolfe, 463-467; attacked by General
Lévis, 472-473.
Queensberry, Duke of (James Douglas),
high Commissioner, 38; dismissed,
40; for the Union, 94; vetoes the
act of security, 95; and the Scottish
plot, 96; privy seal, 100; his talent,
103, 106; secretary for Scotland, 161.
Quesnoy, Le, 154, 188, 198.
Quiberon Bay, battle of, 469.

Radcliffe, Charles, execution of, 408.
Rain, 54.

Rakoczy, Francis, Hungarian insurgent,
7, 48.

Rambler, The, 493.

Ramillies, battle of, 80, 81, 82, 85, 88,
115, 116, 146, 174.

Ranelagh, Earl of (Richard Jones), 33-

34.

Rapparees, Irish, 13.

Recruiting the army, 140.

Reductions in army and navy, 420.
Regency Act, 70.

war

Regensburg, diet of, declares
against France, II, 349, 350.
Regiments, British-Stanhope's, 63;
Stewart's, 63; Churchill's, 81 n. 1;
Mordaunt's, 81 n. I;
Grenadier
Guards, 251; Scots Greys, 256;
Cobham's Horse or King's own regi
ment of Horse (First or King's
Dragoon Guards), 347 and n. 3; The
Blues, 347; Inniskilling Dragoons,
348; Hamilton's Dragoons, 394, 396,
403;
Cobham's dragoons (10th
Hussars), 403, 406; Gardiner's, 403;
Ligonier's, 403; Ker's, 406; 4th
Foot, 403; 14th, 403; 42nd (Black
Watch), 386; 48th, 403; 12th, 461;
20th, 461; 23rd, 461; 25th, 461; 37th,
461; 51st, 461; 60th, 466.
Regium Donum, the, 72.
Renauld, Ormonde's cook, 244.
Reval, 287.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 496.

Rhine, the, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 48, 50, 75,

114, 115, 119, 155, 157, 158, 187, 189.
Ribble, river, 253.

Richards, John, major-general, 86, n. 1.
Richardson, Samuel, 491.
Richelieu, Cardinal, 453.
Richmond, Surrey, 244.

Right of search claimed by Spain,
358 et sqq., 422.
Riosecco, Duke of, 21.
Ripperdá, Duke de, prime minister of
Spain, concludes treaty of Vienna
(1725), 323, 324; threatens England,
323; negotiates a secret treaty of
Vienna, 325; his intrigues in France,
327; his hostile preparations, 327;
his fall, 328.

Rivers, Earl (Richard Savage), 29, 91,
92, 109, 110, 162, 171.
Robethon, Jean de, 229, 231.
Robinson, Anastasia, 489.
Robinson, Dr. John, Bishop of Bristol
and afterwards of London, 113, 183;
opens conferences at Utrecht, 19,9
199, 234; Bishop of London, 236.
Robinson, Sir Thomas, 347, 376, 430,
435.

Rochester, Bishop of. See Atterbury.
Rochester, Earl of (Laurence Hyde),
uncle to Queen Anne, 3; lord-lieuten-
ant of Ireland, 3; a Jacobite, 4; re-
signs the lord-lieutenancy, 27, 35, 47,
66, 69, 71, 72; leads opposition, 97;
dismissed from privy council, 124;
attacks the admiralty, 128; supports
Peterborough, 129; approached by
Harley, 139, 174; and the queen, 176,
183.

Rochford, Earl of (William Nassau-
Zulestein), 28.

Rocoux, battle of, 412.

Roermond, 9.

Rollo, Lord (Robert Rollo), 258.
Roman catholic persecutions of pro-
testants, 141.

Roman catholics, the, in England,
disarmed, 98; and the Abbé Gualtier,
175; associated with the whigs, 182;
the Duchess of Gordon, 184; dis-
armed, 221; their religious designs,
230; join rebels, 253; tax on, 308;
bishop of, and George II., 350.
Roman catholics, the, in Ireland, 72,
74; devolution of land of, 143.
Roman Church and the pretender, 239,
240, 264.

Rome, 264, 283, 307, 336.
Ronquillo, Spanish general, 63.
Rooke, Sir George, admiral, inquiry
into conduct of, 10; sails from Spit-
head, 12; unpopular, 13; in bed at
battle of Vigo, 14; supported by the
tories, 18; commands channel fleet,
19; escorts Archduke Charlesto Lis-
bon, 23; member for Portsmouth, 26;
thanksgiving for victory of, 26; lords'
vote on, 27; commons and, 41; Marl-
borough and, 59; takes Gibralter, 60,
62; in battle off Malaga, 61, 62; his
return to England, 64; commons ad-

dress queen on, 65; and Ormonde,
86; struck off privy council, 123,
167.

Roquefeuil, Admiral de, his fleet, 381.
Rosas, 283.
Roselaere, 82.
Ross-shire, 284.
Rota, Spain, 13.

Rothbury, 250, 251.
Rothwell, 50.

Rotterdam, 141.

Roussillon, 88, 109, 157.

Rowe, Nicholas, poet laureate, 177.
Rowley, Vice-Admiral, 389.

Roxburghe, Duke of (John Ker), 223,
299; dismissed, 320.

Royal Exchange company, 295.
Russia, the Swedes march against, 114;

in the Baltic, 145; at war with
Sweden, 274; its fleet, 277; Alberoni
and, 281, 283, 285; and Prussia, 286;
dominant in Northern Europe, 287;
contemplated alliance with Spain
against England, 323, 327; British
treaty with, 373.

Russian ambassador, the, 146.
Russian troops, 273, 275.
Ryder, Sir Dudley, death of, 445.
Ryswick, peace of, II.

Sacheverell, Dr. Henry, Fellow of
Magdalen College, Oxford, 31, 164,
165, 167, 168, 169, 174, 175, 213,
230, 232.

Sackville, Lord George, 455, 456; suc-

ceeds Marlborough in command, 460;
strange conduct of. 462; court-mar-
tialed, 463.

Saint Alban's, 224.

Saint Christopher, island of, 206.
Saint Florentin, Count, 310.
Saint-George, Chevalier de. See Pre-
tender.

Saint-Germain's, court of, 38, 39, 94,
103, 134, 135, 143, 234, 263.
Saint Helen's, Isle of Wight, 19.
Saintonge, 91.

Saint Philip's castle. See Port Mahon.
Saint Venant, 158 n. 1.
Saint Vincent, island of, 339.
St. John, Henry, afterwards Viscount
Bolingbroke, 29; commissioner of
public accounts, 33, 41, 44 n. 1;
secretary at war, 45, 46, 91, 92, 124,
130, 131; resigns, 133, 138; descrip-
tion of the pretender, 136; relations
to Harley, 139; supports Sacheverell,
169; secretary of state, 174, 176;
patronises Swift, 177; allied with
the clergy, 178; and with the squires,
181; rivalry with Harley, 182; his

549

wife, 176, 182; charged with pecula-
tion, 183; and the Habsburgs, 186;
urges expedition against Canada, 189;
designs against Marlborough, 190;
antagonism of to R. Walpole, 191;
attacks the Dutch, 194; and Gib-
raltar and Port Mahon, 195; begins
secret negotiations, 196; and "the re-
straining orders," 197, 198; supreme
in the commons, 200; created Vis-
count Bolingbroke, 202; on Oxford's
action, 204; draughts ultimatum to
France, 205; his concessions cen-
sured, 206, 207; defeat of his treaty
of commerce, 207, 208; conciliates
Lady Masham, 210; increased influ-
ence with the queen, 211; the Elec-
tor George and, 212; and Dunkirk,
213; and the Irish parliament, 214;
and the Catalans, 215; bribes Lady
Masham, 216; his reasons for the
schism bill, 217, 218; and the
Spanish commercial treaty, 219;
charged with corruption, 220; his
intentions, 221; and George I., 222;
dismissed, 225; his foreign policy,
225; his mistaken view of George I.,
227; does homage to George I., 232;
last speech in the lords, 233; his
alarm, 234; flight of, 235, 236;
Oxford's charge against, 237; his
description of the pretender, 239;
watched by Stair, 241; the pre-
tender's secretary of state, 242; and
the army, 242; interview with Duke
of Leeds, 245; remains at Paris, 249;
draughts a proclamation for the pre-
tender, 259 and n. 2; dismissed, 263;
political foresight of, 273; his peerage,
289; Atterbury's alleged proposal to,
306; is pardoned, 309; restored to
his estates, 312; his intrigues, 329;
writes in The Craftsman, 326; in-
spires the opposition, 339, 348; and
Prince of Wales, 356, 419; returns to
England, 361; death, 425; philo-
sophical works of, 481.

St. John, Sir Henry, Viscount St. John,
271.

St. Lawrence, river, 189.
St. Lucia, island of, 339.
St. Malo, 250, 259, 455, 456.
Salisbury, Bishop of (Gilbert Burnet).
See Burnet.
Salop, 169.

San Sebastian, 284.

Santa Catalina, 13.

tury, 498-499.
Scilly Isles, 112, 142, 249.
Scone, palace of, 260.

156, 157.

Sardinia, 120; a kingdom, 280, 371, 376;
evacuated by Spaniards, 285.

Sart, 153.

Saunders, Admiral, 443, 459, 463, 466-
468, 477.

Savoy, Duchy of, 17, 124.

Savoy, Duke of (Victor Amadeus II.),
his army, 8; his connexions, 17;
joins the grand alliance, 18, 20;
envoy to, 36, 178; effect of Blen-
heim on, 57, 59, 87; and Peter-
borough, 90; and Eugene, III; and
the emperor, 145; and the maritime
powers, 148; to invade France, 155;
and "Mat's Peace," 187; opposed to
Berwick, 189; claims to Spain, 197;
and the peace, 203, 205; King of
Sicily, 206; Bolingbroke and, 213,
225; King of Sardinia, 280.
Savoy, Eugene, Prince of. See Eugene.
Savoy, Marie Adelaide of, Duchess of
Burgundy, 17.

Savoy, Marie-Louise-Gabrielle of, wife
of Philip V. of Spain, 17.
Saxe, Marshal de, and Prince Charles
Edward, 380, 381, 382; commander-
in-chief of the French army, 385, et
sqq.; at siege of Tournay, 388; and
battle of Rocoux, 412; and Maestricht,
414-415; his overtures for peace, 417.
Saxe-Gotha, 79.

Saxe-Gotha, Duke of (Frederick), 355.
Saxony, Elector of (Frederick Augustus),

113; treaty with Hanover, etc., 285.
Scandinavian kingdoms, the, 145. See
also Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Scarbrough, Earl of (Richard Lumley),
345, 347.

Schaub, Sir Luke, ambassador at Paris,
311.

Schelde, river, 49, 82, 116, 119, 150,
152, 188.

Schellenberg, the, 52, 53.
Schenek, Fort, 7.

Schism act, the, 217, 218, 221; re-
pealed, 291.

Schleswig-Holstein, Duke of, 119, 146,

Scotland, Jacobites in, 37; succession
to crown of, 38, 40, 93; commis-
sioners for union with, 94; succes-
sion to, 95, 99; highlands of, 96,
103; apprehended invasion of, 97; and
English trade, 98, 99; feeling in,
100; commissioners for union, 100,
IoI; negotiations for union, 101-104;
Church of, 104, 106; treaty of union,
106; act of union, 107, 124; discon-
tent in, 108; peers of, and whigs, 129;
disaffection in, 134, 135; attempted
invasion of, 136, 137, 144; peers of,
bribed, 193; disturbances in, 201; and
the malt tax, 202; secretaryship for,
209; peers support the tory ministry,
210; highland clans, 215; Montrose
secretary of state for, 229; repre-
sentative peers of (1715), 233; pro-
jected rising in, 236; Jacobites in,
239; pretender in, 240; discontent
in, 241; precautions against Jaco-
bites in, 243; outbreak of rebellion
in, 245-262; Cadogan, commander-
in-chief in, 262; prisoners removed
from, 265; expected invasion of by
Charles XII., 277; attempt by Span-
iards, 283; and naval supplies, 308;
discontent in, at the mait tax, 319;
managed by Lord Ilay, 320; secretary.
ship of state for, abolished, 320; great
seal of, 347; administration of, 392;
Prince Charles retreats to, 401; de-
vastation of, 407; improvements in,

410.

Scots' brigade, the (in the Dutch ser-
vice), 117.

Scottish officers (in the French service),
265.

Scottish plot, the, 38-41, 96.
Scottish presbyterians, 72.
Scottish trade, 98, 99, 107, 410.
Sculptors of the eighteenth century,

497.

Seafield, Earl of (James Ogilvy), after-
wards Earl of Findlater, chancellor
of Scotland, 106, 202, 209.
Seaforth, Earl of (Kenneth M.Kenzie),
255, 258, 284.

Security, act of (Scotland), 95, 97.
Sefelingen, 58.
Segovia, 328.
Sejanus, 300.
Selle, river, 188.

216.

Sensée, river, 188.

bill to repeal, 348.

Seton palace, 251.
Settlement, act of, 270.

Seville, treaty of (1729), 338, 340, 343,
359.

Seymour, Sir Edward, comptroller of
the household to Anne, 3; made a
privy councillor, 4; motion against
alien peers, 29; unpopularity of, 34,
41; dismissed, 42, 45, 47.
Shah Alam, invades Bengal, 475, 476.
Shannon, Viscount (Richard Boyle), 318.
Sharp, Dr. John, Archbishop of York, 4.
Sheridan, Sir Thomas, 392.

Sheriff Muir, battle of, 255, 256, 257,
260.

Sherlock v. Annesley, case of, 312.
Sherlock, Bishop, cited, 377.
Shippen, William, 226, 241; sent to the
Tower, 290; defends Schism act,
291; opposes treaty of Hanover, 324,
325; and the cashiering of officers,
348; and Walpole, 367.

Ships, names of: Torbay, 14; Worces-
ter, 100; The Prince Frederick, 330,
337; The Marlborough, 379; The
Victory, 382.

Shirley, William, governor of Massa-
chusetts, 434.

Shovell, Sir Clowdisley, admiral, 14;
commander-in-chief in the Mediter-
ranean, 19, 20; returns to England,
21, 23, 41, 59, 60, 61; in joint-com-
mand with Peterborough, 86; and
Guiscard, 92; in south of France, 111,
112, 120; and the Catalans, 214.
Shrewsbury, Duke of (Charles Talbot),

18 n. 1, 21, 139, 170, 171, 174, 205,
214, 220, 221, 223, 229, 245, 268, 289.
Shrewsbury, town of, 169.
Sicilian abbots, 328.

Sicilies, kingdom of the Two, 349.
Sicily, 23, 206, 213, 272; surrendered

to Charles VI., 280; projected in-
vasion of, by Spain, 281; Cape Pas-
saro in, 282; Spanish army in, 285;
evacuated, 285.

Silesia, 48, 113, 389, 439; Silesian loan,
the, 427, 439.

Sinclair, General, 413.
Sinclair, the Master of, 258.
Slangenbourg, Dutch general, 77, 78.
Sloane, Sir Hans, 498.

Smalridge, George, Bishop of Bristol,
169.

Smith, John, speaker, 68, 101; chan-

cellor of the exchequer, 133, 173.
Smollett, Tobias George, 366, 491.
Smuggling, 352, 353.

Sobieski, Clementina, 284.

Soissons, congress of, 337.

551

Somers, Lord (John Somers), omitted
from the privy council, 4, 29; his re-
presentation, 39, 40, 67, 97, 98, 122,
138; lord president, 140, 143, 147;
bribed by Anne, 160 and n. 1, 171,
173; attitude towards Mrs. Masham,
223; on the prosecution of Sacheve-
rell, 165; dismissed, 174; opposes the
commercial treaty with France, 207;
at the queen's last council, 221; re-
lations to the queen, 222; death of,
238.

Somerset, Duke of (Charles Seymour),
34, 42, 132, 137, 138, 171, 173, 183,
220, 225, 229, 268.
Sophia Dorothea, Queen of George I.,
227, 228.

Sophia, Electress of Hanover, 69, 70,
79, 171, 203, 216; death of, 217, 226.
Southampton, 167 n. 1, 249.
Southesk, Earl of (James Carnegie), 261

n. 4.

South Sea Bubble, the, 287, 293-303.
South Sea Company, expels A. Moore,
182, 219; its origin, 185; its new
Asiento treaty, 273; advances
£2,000,000 to Government, 288; its
plan for dealing with the National
Debt, 293, 294; rise of its stock, 295,
296; fall of its stock, 297, 298; its
corrupt action, 300, 303; ship of, 330;
and quarrel with Spain, 359-360, 361,
362; rights of, surrendered, 421.
Spain, declaration of war against, 5; as
a market for England, 5; its colonial
ports, 5; candidature of Archduke
Charles for crown of, 11; projected
invasion of, 18; Dutch trade with,
26; effect of Blenheim in, 57; French
army in, 64; effect of relief of Gibral-
tar on, 65; Marlborough's views as to,
69; French driven out of, 81; and
the Barrier, 82; Austrian party in,
85; Anglo-Portuguese army in west
of, 88, 92, 112; French successes in,
114, 115, 120; Orleans and the crown
of, 121; campaign in, 124; and the
house of Bourbon, 129; and the
house of commons, 130; tory party
against war in, 139, 189; resolution
of house of lords as to, 140, 191;
the Netherlands and, 147; French
troops to compel evacuation of,
148, 159; British policy in, 149, 155;
Galway in west of, 156; inquiry into
campaigns in, 179; and the South
Sea Company, 185; and union with
Austria, 186; demand of, for Philip
V., 196; signature of treaty of peace