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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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on William III.'s use of the veto, iv.
80. Supports Fenwick's attainder, 278
Made Lord of the Treasury, 304. Cho-
sen Speaker of the House of Commons,
438. Appointed Treasurer of the Navy,

465.

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

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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 trainbands, 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 fleet, 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, 516.
Character of the inhabitants, 548, 549.
Measures for the defence, 550. Com-
mencement of the siege, 552. Assault

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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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Louvois, French Minister of War, ii. 231.
Advises the devastation of the Palati-
nate, 494. His jealousy of Lauzun, 527,
iii. 259. His advice to James II., ii.
540. Provides means for the siege of
Mons, iii. 379. His death, 533. His
talents as War Minister; adverse to
the plan of invading England, 534.
His plot for the assassination of Wil-
liam, 584.

Love, honourable and chivalrous, unknown

to the Greeks, vii. 621. The passion
as delineated in the Roman poets, 621.
What is implied in the modern sense
of the word love, 621. Change under-
gone in the nature of the passion of
love in the middle ages, 622.
"Love for Love," Congreve's, vi. 518.
Its moral, 535.

"Love in a Wood," when acted, vi. 504.
Lovelace, John, Lord, ii. 265. Rises for
William, 266. Made prisoner, 266.
Liberated by the people of Gloucester;
marches to Oxford, 293. His threat to
the Lords, 379.

Low Church party, ii. 434-456.
Lowick, Edward, his share in the assassina-

tion plot, iv. 211. Executed, 232.
Lowndes, William, his mistaken views of
the currency, iv. 194. Locke's refuta-
tion of, 195.

Lowther, Sir John. See Lonsdale, Earl of.
Loyola, his energy, vi. 468, 479.

Lucas, Charles, character of his Irish
patriotism, iii. 455.

Lucas, Lord, appointed Lieutenant of the
Tower, ii. 310.

Ludlow, Edmund, refuses to take part in

the Whig plots, i. 416. His Swiss re-
tirement, iii. 199. Returns to London,
200. Proclamation for his apprehen-
sion, 201. His flight; his tomb at
Vevay, 201.

Lumley, Richard, Lord, i. 462. Pursues
Monmouth, 479. Joins the revolu-
tionary conspiracy, ii. 196. Signs the
invitation to the Prince of Orange, 197.
Seizes Newcastle for William, 292.
Lundy, Robert, appointed Governor of
Londonderry by Mountjoy, ii. 513.
Professes his adherence to the Govern-
ment of William and Mary, 524. Re-
pulsed by Hamilton at Strabane, 543.
His treachery, 545, 546. His flight,
547. Sent to the Tower, 574.
Lunt, turns informer against Lancashire
Jacobites, iv. 107. His evidence at
Manchester, 111.

Luther, his declaration against the an-

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cient philosophy, vi. 211. Sketch of
the contest which began with his
preaching against the Indulgences, and
terminated with the treaty of West-
phalia, 464-481.

Luttrell, Colonel Henry, ii. 557. His
intrigues at Limerick, iii. 424. De-
puted to St. Germains, 425. Opens a
correspondence with the English, 442.
Deserts James; assassinated, 450.
Luttrell, Colonel Simon, ii. 557. Ejects
the Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin,
571. Governor of Dublin for James,
iii. 283. A member of the deputation
from Limerick to St. Germains, 425.
Remains faithful to James, 450.
Luttrell, Narcissus, his diary, ii. 400

note.

Luxemburg, seized by Lewis XIV., i. 217.
Luxemburg, Francis Henry, Duke of, gains
the battle of Fleurus, iii. 278. Commands
at the siege of Mons, 379. His cam-
paign against William III. in Flanders,
417. Covers the siege of Namur, 573.
His personal peculiarities, 577. Receives
information of the Allies' plans, 578.
Surprised by William at Steinkirk, 580.
Retrieves the day, 582. Advises Lewis
XIV. to give battle, iv. 18. Threatens
Liege, 19. Gains the battle of Landen,
21-23. His inactivity after the battle,
25. His campaign of 1694, 106. His
death, 123.

Lycurgus, his mistaken principles of legis-
lation, vii. 692. His system of domestic
slavery, 77.

Lyme Regis, Monmouth lands at, i. 446.
Lyons, cruelties of the Jacobins at, vii.

161. Barère's proposal to utterly an-
nihilate it, 164.

Lysander, depressed by the constitution
of Lycurgus, vii. 690.

Lysias, anecdote by Plutarch of his speech
for the Athenian tribunals, vi. 327.
Lyttelton, Lord, vi. 77.

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Macburney, original name of the Burney
family, vii. 3.
Macclesfield, Charles Gerard, Earl of,
ii. 258. Opposes the Abjuration Bill,
iii. 251.
Macdonald, Mac Ian, of Glencoe, iii. 65,
513. His quarrel with the Earl of
Breadalbane, 515. Takes the oaths to
the Government after the appointed
day, 516. The fact of his having taken
the oaths suppressed, 523. Slain at
Glencoe, 528.

Macdonald of Glengarry, iii. 65. His
quarrel with Sir Ewan Cameron, 73.

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At the battle of Killiecrankie, 87. His
quarrel with a Lowland gentleman, 335.
At the conference at Glenorchy, 513.
Takes the oaths to William III.'s
Government, 516. Examined by the
Glencoe Commissioners, iv. 150.
Macdonald, Colin of Keppoch, iii. 61.
Threatens Inverness, 62. Joins Dun-
dee, 63. Examined by the Glencoe
Commissioners, iv. 150.

Macdonald of Sleat, iii. 65. Retires from

the Highland army, 98.

Macdonalds, their ancient ascendency in
the Highlands, iii. 54. Their claim to
be Lords of the Isles, 59. Their feud
with the citizens of Inverness, 61.
Macflecnoe of Dryden, character of the,
v. 120.

Machiavelli, his Works, by Périer, v. 46.

General odiousness of his name and
works, 46, 47. Suffered for public
liberty, 47. His elevated sentiments
and just views, 47. Held in high esti-
mation by his contemporaries, 48. State
of moral feeling in Italy in his time,
50. His character as a man, 63. As
a poet, 64. As a dramatist, 65. As
a statesman, 62, 69, 76, 78, 80. His
Prince, 75. Excellence of his precepts,
76. His candour, 78. Comparison
between him and Montesquieu, 78. His
style, 79. His levity, 80. His his-
torical works, 80. Lived to witness the
last struggle for Florentine liberty, 81.
His work and character misrepresented,
82. His remains unhonoured till long
after his death, 82. Monument erected
to his memory by an English nobleman,
82. Character of his history, 145.
Mackay, General Andrew, ii. 254. His
skirmish with the Irish troops at Win-
canton, ii. 277. Sent by William III.
to Scotland, iii. 29. His campaign
in the Highlands, 67. His plan for a
fortress at Inverlochy, 68. Suspends
operations, 75. Marches northwards,
84. Arrives at Killiecrankie, 86. De-
feated by Dundee, 88. His retreat, 90,
91. Reorganises his force, 95. Defeats
the Highlanders at St. Johnston's, 96.
Thwarted by the Scotch administration,
98. Supported by William, 98. Builds
Fort William, 335. Serves under Ginkell
in Ireland, 428. Forces the passage of
the Shannon at Athlone, 433. Turns
the Irish flank at Aghrim, 438. At the
battle of Steinkirk, 581. His fall, 582.
Mackenzie, Mr., his dismissal insisted on
by Grenville, vii. 252.
Mackenzie, Henry, his ridicule of the
Nabob class, vi. 442.

Mackenzie, Sir George, Lord Advocate, i.
616. Dismissed, 616. Hated by the

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Covenanters, iii. 24. His speech in the
Scotch Convention against the deposi-
tion of James II., 31.
Mackintosh, Sir James, his collection of
Newsletters and other documents, i.
305 and note, 344 note. His opinion
on the Roman Catholic question, ii. 61.
Review of his History of the Revolution
in England, vi. 76-134. Comparison
with Fox's History of James II., 76.
Character of his oratory, 79. His con-
versational powers, 80. His qualities
as a historian, 81. His vindication
from the imputations of the editor, 84,
88-95. Change in his opinions pro-
duced by the French Revolution, 84.
His moderation, 87, 88. His historical
justice, 94. Remembrance of him at

Holland House, 542.
Mackintoshes (the), iii. 60.

Maclachlan, Margaret, murder of, i. 391.
Maclean, Colonel, agent in England for
Warren Hastings, vi. 572, 580.
Macleans (the), iii. 56, 66.
Macnaghtens (the), iii. 56, 65.
Macpherson, his forgery of Fingal, vii.
350. Threatens Dr. Johnson, 350.
Madras, description of it, vi. 384.
capitulation to the French, 386. Re-
stored to the English, 387.

Its

Madrid, bread riots in, iv. 470. Capture
of, by the English army, in 1705, v. 668.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, MSS. at,

i. 239 note. See Pepysian Library.
Magdalene College, Oxford, ii. 99. Its
loyalty, 100. Its wealth; vacancy of
the Presidency, 101. The Fellows cited
before the High Commission, 103. In-
terview of the Fellows with James II,
107. Penn's negotiations with, 108,
109 and note, 110 and note. Special
commissioners sent to, 111. Bishop
Parker installed President, 112. The
Fellows ejected, 114, vii. 55. Turned
into a Popish seminary, ii. 115. Con-
cessions of James in regard to, 241.
Announced restoration of the Fellows,
243. Addison's connection with it, 56.
Mahommed Reza Khan, his character,
vi. 555. Selected by Clive, 557. His
capture, confinement at Calcutta, and
release, 557, 559.

Mahon, Lord, review of his History of the
War of the Succession in Spain, v. 638,
684. His qualities as a historian, 638,
640. His explanation of the financial
condition of Spain, 645. His opinions
on the Partition Treaty, 648, 650. His
representations of Cardinal Porto Car-
rero, 658. His opinion of the peace
on the conclusion of the War of the
Spanish Succession, 677. His censure
of Harley, 677; and view of the re-

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semblance of the Tories of the present
day to the Whigs of the Revolution,
677, 678.

Mahrattas, sketch of their history, vi. 390,

583. Expedition against them, 584.
Maine, Duke of, a natural son of Lewis

XIV., iv. 156. His cowardice, 160.
Maintenon, Madame de, saves Trêves
from destruction, ii. 495. Uses her
influence with Lewis XIV. to recognise
James III., iv. 540. Her boast as to
religion in her time, vi. 500.

Malaga, naval battle near, in 1704, v.
662.

Malcolm, Sir John, review of his Life of

Lord Clive, vi. 381-453. Value of his
work, 382. His partiality for Clive, 410.
His defence of Clive's conduct towards
Omichund, 418.

Malkin, Sir Benjamin Heath, epitaph on,
viii. 590.

Mallet, David, patronage of, by Bute, vii.
231.

Maloney, an Irish bishop, i. 642 note.
Malthus, Mr., attacked by Mr. Sadler, v.

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Manilla, capitulation of, vii. 225.

Manley, John, his speech against the at-
tainder of Fenwick, iv. 277.
Mannerism of Johnson, v. 536.
Mansfield, Lord, vii. 227. His character

and talents, vi. 56. His rejection of
the overtures of Newcastle, 64. His
elevation, 64. Character of his speeches,
vii. 265. His friendship for Hastings,
vii. 616.

Manso, Milton's Epistle to, v. 8.
Mansuete, Father, ii. 47.

Manufactures and commerce of Italy in

the fourteenth century, v. 52, 53.
Manufacturing system (the), Southey's
opinion upon, v. 338. Its effect on the
health, 340.

Manufacturing and agricultural labourers,

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comparison of their condition, v. 340,

342.

Manufactories, wages in, i. 326. Ballads
regarding, 326 note. Children's labour
in, 327.

Marat, his bust substituted for the statues
of the martyrs of Christianity, vi. 486.
His murmurs against Barère, vii. 152.
His death, 153 note.

Marcet, Mrs., her Dialogues on Political
Economy, v. 4.

Marcellus, the counterfeit oration for,
vii. 284.

March, Lord, a persecutor of Wilkes, vii.
244.

Marie Antoinette, Queen, Barère's account
of the death of, vii. 129. Brought be-
fore the Revolutionary Tribunal on the
motion of Barère, 155. Her execution,
155.

Marino, San, visited by Addison, vii. 69.
Marlborough, mound at, i. 227 note.
The Duke of Somerset's house at, iii.
329.

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of;
his rise and character, i. 358, v. 221.
Ambassador extraordinary to France,
i. 360. His operations against Mon-
mouth, 462. At the battle of Sedge-
moor, 474. His pity for the convicted
rebels, 504. Sits on the trial of Lord
Delamere, 552. His communications
with Dykvelt; his motives for deserting
James II., ii. 74. His letters to Wil-
liam III., 78, 222. Conspires against
James, 267. Attends James, 270.
His desertion, 279. Commands the
English brigade under Waldeck; re-
pulses the French at Walcourt, iii.
147. Complaints of his avarice, 148.
His relations with the Princess Anne,
241. Supports the Abjuration Bill,
252. One of the Council of Nine,
269. Advises the sending reinforce-
ments to Ireland, 318. His expedi-
tion to Ireland, 330. His dispute with
the Duke of Wurtemberg; takes Cork,
331. Takes Kinsale, 331. His re-
ception by William on his return,
332. Hated by the Jacobites; his ties
to William, 412. Seeks an interview
with Colonel Sackville; his pretended
repentance for his desertion of James
II., 412. His treasonable betrayal of
secrets, 413. His promises to James,
414. Receives a written pardon from
James, 415. Accompanies William to
the Continent, 415. His correspond-
ence with James, 416. His plot for
the restoration of James, 489. Cal-
culates on the army's jealousy of fo-
reigners, 491. Distrusted and betrayed
by the Jacobites, 492, 493. Disgraced,

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