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Memoirs, 359; Life of, by Hon.
T. P. Courtenay, 369
Teulet, M., his edition of the
French Despatches, 316
Thegns, their position in
Witenagemote, 31; their relation
to the king, 33; distinguished
from eorls and gesiths, ib.
Theodore, archbishop, his organisa-
tion of the Church, 26
Thomason, collection of pamphlets
by, 333

Thornton, Mrs. Alice, Autobiography
of, 349

Thorpe, Benjamin, his edition of
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 238;
his edition of the Ancient Laws,
&c., 254
Thurloe Papers, the, 337
Tindal, Nicholas, his Continuation
of Rapin, 375

Toleration, its adoption by the
sects, 148; its prospects under
the Restoration, 155

Toleration Act, the, enactment of,
165

Tooke (and Newmarch) History of
Prices by, 403

Tories, the, oppose the Exclusion

Bill, 159; their depression after
the death of Anne, 169; recon-
struction of the party of, 186;
their principles in the reign of
George III., ib.

Townshend, Heywood, his His-
torical Collections, 315

VOL

Township, the, sends deputies to
the hundred-mote, 18

Trevisa, John of, his translation of
Higden, 285

Trevelyan, Mr. G. O., his Early
History of C. J. Fox, 392
Tribe, the English, 17; their
amalgamation into kingdoms, 19
Trivet, Nicholas, his Annales, 273;
his six Angevin kings, how
reckoned, ib. n. 2; Rishanger's
work largely borrowed from, ib.
n. 3
Trokelowe, John of, his Annales,
275

Tudor monarchy, the, causes of its
strength, 99

Tulloch, Dr., Rational Theology of,
368

Turner, Sir James, Memoirs by,
365

Twysden, Sir Roger, the Decem
Scriptores generally known under
his name, 216

Tyerman, Rev. L., his Life of Wes-
ley, 393

Tytler, W., his work relating to
Mary, Queen of Scots, 317, 329

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WACE

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ACE, Robert, his Roman de
Rou, 258
Waitz, G., his Deutsche Verfassungs-
gesch., 256

Walcott. Mr. M. E. C., his William
of Wykeham, 300

Wales, its conquest by Edward I.,
77; sources for early history of,
280-1

Walker, Sir Edward, Historical
Discourses of, 343
Wallington's Diary, 333
Walpole, Horace, Letters of, 376;

his Memoirs of George II. and
Memoirs of George III., 388-90
Walpole, Sir Robert, Life of by
Coxe, 379

Walpole, Mr. Spencer, History of
England by, 403

Walsingham, Thomas, his Historia
Anglicana, 279, 286, 290
War, effect of, on the English tribes,
18

Warburton, Eliot, Life of Prince
Rupert by, 356

Ward, Mr. A. W., Memoir of
Dryden by, 370

Ware, Sir James, his Scriptores
Hiberniae, 214

Waverley, Annals of the Monastery
of, 274

Waurin, Jean de, Chronicles by,

292

Webb, John, his Memorials of the
Civil War, 343
Wedmore, the treaty of, 29
Wellington, Duke of, his Life by

Brialmont, 399; his Despatches,
400; his Correspondence, ib.
Welwood, James, his Memoirs of a
century, 351

Wendover, Roger of, part author
of the Historia Major, 272
Wergild, payment of, 20
Wesley, John, preaching of, 177;

his influence on a later genera-
tion, 190; Lives of, by Southey
and Tyerman, 393

Wharton, Henry, continued Cave's
Historia, 214; his Anglia Sacra,
216

Whethamstede, John, account of by

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John Amundesham, 291; his
Register, ib.

Whigs, the, support the Exclusion

Bill, 159; causes of the ascen-
dancy of, after Anne's death, 170;
their relation with the mercantile
class, 172; their relation to the
Dissenters, 172; their weakness
at the end of the reign of George
II., 176; their relations with the
elder Pitt, 179; their struggle
with George III., 180; adopt the
teaching of Burke, 183; defeat
of, by George III., 186; seces-
sion of, from Fox, 194
Whitelock, Sir Bulstrode, Memo-
rials of, 337

Wilfrid, his argument in support of
the Papal claims, 26; Life of, 247
Wilkes, declared incapable of

sitting in the House of Commons,
183

Wilkins (and Spelman) Councils,
&c. by, 244

William I., defeats Harold at
Senlac, 40; character of his
government in England, 43;
causes of his power in England,
44; his position as a national
king, 44; organises the English
Church, 50

William II., his tyranny, 50; ap-

points Anselm archbishop, 51;
his quarrel with Anselm, 52
William III., his Continental pesi-
tion, 161; the crown offered to,
162 his position in the Govern-
ment, 167; Letters of, edited by
Grimblot, 377

William of Malmesbury, his histori-
cal writings, 51; see Malmesbury.
Williams, Archbishop, Life of, by
Hacket, 348

Williamson, Sir Joseph, Letters of,
361

Wilson, Arthur, his History of
James I., 332

Winchester, Annals of the monas-
tery of, 274

Winwood's Memorials, 318
Witenagemote, the, relations of,
with the king, 19; its constitu

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