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ACHAMBER, John, heads a rebellion, 288—ta

ken prifoner, and put to death, 289 Acon, in Paleftine, the fiege of, raised, 2

Albans, St. firft battle of, 224-fecond battle of, 229
Alençon, count de, flain in the battle of Creffy, 100
Ardevelt, James, account of, 89

Arras, treaty of, 189

Arthur, prince of Wales, married to Catharine of Spain, 313-his death, îb.

Artillery, ufed by Edward III. at the battle of Creffy, 97 Afkew, Anne, put to the torture, 411-condemned to the flames, ib.

Affaffins, who, 2-their deteftable character, ib.-undertake to murder prince Edward, íb.-disappointed and their emiffary flain, 3

Audley, lord, joins the Cornish infurgents, 299-taken and executed, 300

Aumale, duke of, betrays a confpiracy formed against Henry IV. 158

Azincourt, battle of, 183

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AINHAM, James, burnt for his religion, 369 Baliol, John, claims the Scottish throne, 17-acknowledges the fuperiority of Edward, 19-renews his oath of fealty, 20-placed on the throne of Scotland, ib.is fummoned to appear at Westminster, ib.-revolts from Edward, 21-enters into a treaty with Philp, ib. -fum

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-fummoned to appear before the parliament of Eng、 land, 21-is affigned a council of twelve noblemen, 22-makes his peace with Edward, 24-refigns his crown into that prince's hands, ib.-carried prifoner to London, ib.-banished to France, and dies in a private station, ib.

Baliol, Edward, claims the crown of Scotland, 83-is fupported by Edward III. ib.-gains a confiderable victory, ib.-crowned at Scone, ib.-defeated by Archibald Douglas, ib.-takes refuge in England, 84reinftated by Edward, 85

Banifler, betrays his benefactor, the duke of Buckingham, 268

Bofworth-field, battle of, 271

Banockburn, battle of, 61

Bards, the Welsh, maffacred, 15
Barnet, battle of, 240

Beaufort, Henry, bishop of Winchester, opposes the duke of Gloucester, 212-gains the afcendant, 214-is accufed of the death of that nobleman, 215-his death,

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Becket, Thomas, his fhrine demolished, 375-his name ftruck out of the breviary, ib.

Bedford, duke of, brother to Henry V. appointed protector of England, 197-totally defeats the dauphin, 198-retires into England, ib.-caufes Henry VI. to be crowned at Paris, 205-burns the maid of Orleans at Rouen, 208-his death, 209

Bible tranflated into Englifh, 376

Bigod, Roger, refufes the command of an army, 32 Bilney, Thomas, burnt for fupporting the proteftant te nets, 369

Bloreheath, action of, 225

Bloody Statute, what, 376

Bohun, Humphry, refuses to take the command of an

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Brifol made a bishopric, 375

Bruce, Robert, claims the Scottish throne, 17-acknow.

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ledges Edward's fuperiority, 19-his claim difmiffed 20-submits to Edward, 22-fecretly favours Wallace, 36-refigns the pleafing hopes of delivering Scotland to his fon, 44

Bruce, Robert, the younger, refolves to free his country from the English yoke, 45-makes his efcape from England, ib.-ftabs Cummin, 46-expels the Englifa forces, ib.-crowned at Scone, ib.-defeated by Aymer de Valence, 47-flies to the Western islands, 48 his fifter fhut up in a wooden cage, ib.-defeats Aymer de Valence, 53-gains a great victory at Banockburn, 61-kills Henry de Bohun, ib.

—, David, invades England, 107-defeated, and taken prisoner, 108

Buchan, countefs of, fhut up in a wooden cage, 48 Bullen, Anna, account of, 353-privately married to Henry VIII. 364-favours the reformation, 367-confined to her apartment, 378-accused of incontinence, 379-fent to the Tower, ib.-her letter to the king, 381-tried by a jury of peers, 384-her noble defence, 385-her proteftations of innocence, 386-her execution, 387

Burdet, Thomas, executed for a trifling exclamation, 248 Burgundy, duke of, affaffinates the duke of Orleans, 189 is himself affaffinated by the dauphin of France, ib.

the young duke of, joins with Henry V. to revenge the death of his father, 189-continues his engagements with the duke of Bedford, 197-breaks his treaty with the English, 209-several of his subjects murdered, ib.

Burley, Sir Simon, condemned and executed, 137

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CABOT, Sebaftian, difcovers the Northern parts of

América, 317

Cade, John, account of, 219-heads a rebellion in Kent, ib.—his demands, ib.-cuts to pieces a detachment of the royal army, 220-enters London, ib.-puts lord Say, the treafurer, to death, ib.-is abadoned by his

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followers, 221-flies into the Wolds of Kent, ib.-
flain by Alexander Eden, ib.

Caen, taken and plundered by the English, 95

Calais, famous fiege of, 102-made a mart for wool,
&c. 104

Catharine, princefs, married to Henry V. 191

- of Spain, married to Arthur prince of Wales,
313-married to Henry prince of Wales, 314-cited
before the ecclefiaftical court, 356-her pathetic intrea-
ties to the king, ib.-refufes to appear before the court,
365-retires to Ampthil, ib.

Chalons, count of, foiled by Edward, 6-his ungenerous
behaviour, ib.

Charles, the wife, afcends the throne of France, 118–
leads an army of banditti into Caftile against Peter the
Cruel, 118

-, dauphin of France, affaffinates the duke of Or-
leans, 189-gains an advantage over the English, 192

is driven beyond the Loire, 193-his deplorable fi-
tuation, 197-defeated at Vernueil, 198-affifted by
Joan of Arc, 200-crowned at Rheims, 203-becomes
very successful, 204-applies himself to cultivate the
arts of peace, 210-invades Normandy, 211—drives
the English out of France, ib,

Chester made a bishopric, 375

Chivalry, its advantages in England, 123

Clarence, duke of, defeated, 192-drowned in a butt of
malmfey, 249

Cleves, Anne of, contracted to Henry VIII. 395-her
marriage celebrated, 396

Clifford, Sir Robert, joins Warbeck, 294-gained over
by Henry, 295-accufes Sir William Stanley, 296
Cobham, lord. See Oldcastle, Sir John.

Combat, fingle, ceremonies of, 142
Commons, origin of the house of, 28
Companions, who, 118

Cranmer, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, fome ac,
count of, 358-fupports the proteftant tenets, 368-
intercedes ineffectually for Anne Bullen, 380-in-
forms Henry of Catharine Howard's incontinence, 401

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the council ordered to enquire into his conduct,
408-restored to favour, 409-attends Henry VIII
in his last moments, 418

Creffingham, his avaricious conduct, 34-perfuades War-
renne to attack Walace, 37—is flain in battle, ib.
Crefy, battle of, 98

Cromwell, Thomas, account of, 367-favours the refor-
mation, 368-placed at the head of a commiffion for
infpecting the monafteries, 372-negociates a mar-
riage for Henry with Anne of Cleves, 396-his great
preferments, 397-condemned for high-treafon, 398
his execution, 399

Cummin of Badenoch, oppofes Wallace, 38-made regent
of Scotland, 41-feconds the interefts of Bruce, 45-
betrays the fecret, ib.-ftabbed by Bruce, 46-killed
before the altar, ib,

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DAVID, brother of Lewellyn, prince of North Wales,
takes Sir Roger Clifford prifoner, 12-is obliged
to fly to the mountains, 14-is executed as a traitor,
15

Denny, Sir Anthony, informs Henry VIII. of his ap-
proaching end, 118

Defpenfer, Hugh, becomes the favourite of Edward II. 64
marries the king's niece, ib.-fentenced to exile by
the parliament, 65-his pride and rapacity, 67-put to
an ignominious death, 72

Douglas, Sir William, joins Wallace, 36-submits to
the English, ib.

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Archibald, attempts to fieze Edward III. 79-
defeats Edward Baliol, 83-flain in battle, 84

Dudley, one of Henry's minifters, 312-account of, 313
-examined before the council, 321-condemned and
executed, 322

Dunbar, battle of, 22

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