Irish rising, 310, 311; rebellion in Scotland
under Argyle, 395; James II. attempts to
placate non-conforming, 401; leaders of,
resolve to invite William of Orange to
England, 406.

Protestation, of the house of commons, 1621,
ii. 250.

Province, the, of the Franks, i. 222.
Provisions, use of the term, i. 292.
Provisions of Oxford, i. 401, 448, 498; of
Westminister, 401.

Prynne, William, his Histriomastrix, ii. 294;
sentence against, 294, 295; released from
prison, 304.

Ptolemy, his record of the Saxons, i. 114,
115; of the Angles, 115.
Public Accounts Committee, ii. 557.
Public meeting, struggle for the right of, ii.
494, 495; act of Edward VI. against, 495;
effect of, on the Excise Bill, and on the bill
for protection of silk-weavers, 495; Middle-
sex leads in the use of modern public
meetings, 495, 496; held in the interest of
the reform bill, 529.

Purchase, system of, i. 613.

Puritan revolution, origin, ii. 210-320;
principal events during, 320-339; results,
340-342.

Puritans, the, opposition to the established
church system, ii. 171; coercive measures
against clergymen, 171; a Puritan conven-
ticle suppressed, 171; assault on the epis-
copate, 171; prophesyings " organized,
172; punishment of the authors of the
Martin Mar-Prelate tracts, 172, 173; as-
saults upon, 173; accept Calvinistic con-
ception of a Christian commonwealth, 200;
intrench upon the claims of the Tudor
sovereigns, 202; demands made in the
Millenary Petition, 217; at the Hampton
court conference, 218; James I. declares
against, 218; accuse James I. of papistry,
219; persecuted by James, 223, 224; clergy
driven from their livings by James I., 224;
opposed by Arminians under the leader-
ship of Laud, 253, 254; distrust of Charles
I., 254, 255; conformity forced upon the
clergy by Laud, 293; oppose the royalist
party, 310; statement of their attitude
upon the religious question, 311, 312; no
toleration for Arminians and separatists,
312; make a stand for responsible min-
isters, 312; division over the abolition of
episcopacy, 313; called Roundheads, 314;
effect on the modern constitution of Eng-
land, 322.

Purveyance, i. 390; bill against, ii. 221; re-
strained, 306.

Pym, John, not in James I.'s second parlia-

ment, ii. 237; leadership in the Long Par-
liament, 301; his idea of the plan of action
for the popular party, 301; motion re-
quiring that the king accept councillors
approved by parliament, 311; proposes an
excise tax, 324 n.; seeks Scottish alliance,
325; death, 326; his objects, 340.

QUAKERS, right of affirmation granted, ii.
427.

Quarter-sessions, court of, its origin, i. 453;
jurisdiction of, 454; tries lesser offences,
ii. 192; controls local police system, 193;
becomes the supreme administrative body
of the county, 193; absorbs the adminis-
trative work of the county, 574-

Queen, Peel's demand for changes in the
queen's court, ii. 548, 549.

Questions, may be propounded to the cabi-
net, ii. 563, 564; limitation on the right of
questioning, 563, 564; addressed to mem-
bers outside of the cabinet, 564.

RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, lost colony of, ii.
233.

Ramsay, Sir J. H., on the nature of the
feudal system, i. 222.

Randolph, Edmund, governor of Virginia,
his speech on the "Virginia Plan," i. 70,

72.

Ranulf Flambard, i. 255; his systematic es-
tablishment of feudal tenures, 239, 255,
271, 272.

Ranulf Glanvill, justiciar, i. 244; his legal
treatise, 302, 413; on recognitions, 329;
imperalist theories, 382, 424.

Rathbone, Mr., on the complexity of local
government, ii. 583, 584.

Rebellion, in the north, causes of, ii. 85;
suppression, 86; history of, 86.
Recognitions, institution of, i. 287, 328-331,
450.

Record commission, publications of, i. 415.
Recruiting. See Military System.
Recusancy, penalties for, ii. 167; recusants
restrained to certain places of abode,
167 n.

Redesdale, Lord, On the Dignity of a Peer, ii.
546.
Redwald, king of the East Angles, converted,
i. 156; his relapse to heathendom and
his death, 156.

Reeve (gerefa), i. 143, 203, 207, 255, 298, 303,
376, 416, 446, 462, 468, 484.
Reeves, John, on Bracton, i. 414; on the
adoption of liveries, 566.

Reformation, English; its effect upon the
world's religion, ii. 50; its effect on indi-
vidual countries, 50; its effect in England,

50; inaugurated by Somerset and Cran-
mer, 114; continued by Edward VI., 125;
period of reaction, 152.

Regency, constituted by Henry VIII., ii. 108;
during the Norman reigns, 109; vested in
a council, 109; constituted for Henry III.,
109; constituted for Edward III., 110;
absence of a personal regent for Richard
II., 110; during reign of Henry VI., 110;
estates claim the right to create, III; at
the accession of Edward V., 111; consti-
tutional principles fixed regarding_regen-
cies by the time of Henry VIII., 111,
112; Henry VIII.'s regulation of, by will
under cover of an act of parliament, 112;
act of 1751 on, 515; the act of George
III. to provide for a regency, 515, 516;
Fox's view of the establishment of, 516;
Pitt's view of the right of parliament to
provide for a, 516; duke of York's atti-
tude on, 516; act of 1810-11, 517; ar-
rangements for, at the accession of Wil-
liam IV. and Queen Victoria, 517; last act
upon the subject of, 518.
Regicides, treatment of, ii. 359.
Reginald of Canterbury,

368.
Registrar-General's district, applied to Lon-
don and vicinity, ii. 570.

Regulators, appointed by James II., ii. 403.
Reliefs, beginning of, i. 272, 294; regulated
by Great Charter, 384.

Religion, absolute power of crown over,
denied by the commons, ii. 222.
"Remonstrance of the Army," the, ii. 338.
Renaissance, English, meaning of term, ii.
32; Italian, 33.

Representation, germs of, i. 12, 14, 143, 202,
203, 207, 303, 416, 446, 450; a Teutonic
invention, 1, 2, 14, 428, 429; its continuity
in England, 14, 429, 430, 434, 443; conti-
nental adoption of, 14; reproduced in
Virginia, 18, 21; its relation to taxation,
299, 451; its development in convocation,
343; in national council, first records of,
376, 377, 465, 468; full development of
the system, 417, 418, 469; elder Pitt's de-
nunciation of borough, ii. 520; schemes for
the reform of, 520; Pitt's resolutions of
reform, 521; his bill, 1785, to reform, 521,
522; Flood's efforts for reform, 522;
efforts of Grey and Erskine for reform,
522; radical proposals of reform by Bur-
dette, 523; efforts of Russell to secure
reform in, 524, 525; Peel's declaration that
reform was not needed, 525; condition of
reform at the close of George IV.'s reign,
525, 526; Wellington opposes reforms in,
527; measures presented by Lord Russell
for the reform of, 528, 529; the reform bill

of 1832 equalizes, by disenfranchising rot-
ten boroughs and enfranchising the large
towns, 529; effect of the reform measures
of 1832, 531, 532; Parliamentary Registra-
tion Act, 532; Russell and Derby's pro-
posal for reform, 532-534; demonstrations
in favor of an extension of the suffrage,
534; demands for equalization in, in the
county and borough, 537; reform in,
accomplished by Representation of the
People Act and the Redistribution of
Seats Act, 537-539; king's power over,
abused, 463, 464.

Representation of the People Act, ii. 532,
535; favors the working classes, 535; ex-
tended to Scotland and Ireland, 536; in-
crease of the electorate by, 536; of 1884,
537, 538.
Revenue, expedients to raise, ii. 236; in-
crease, 243. See Taxation.

Revenue, royal, its various sources, i. 182,
257; under the feudal system, 233, 246;
under the Old-English commonwealth, ii.
552, 553; swelled by revenues from feudal
tenures and incidents, 552, 553; waste of
land revenues checked by statute, 553;
land revenues exchanged for a fixed civil
list by George III., 553; still includes the
revenues of Lancaster and Cornwall, 553,
554.

Revolution of 1688, ii. 392-451.
Rhode Island, charter held by, i. 23.
Rice, Ap, doctor, ii. 81.

Richard, bishop of London, author of the
Dialogus de Scaccario, i. 302.

Richard I., taxation under, i. 359, 363; efforts
to raise his ransom, 360; risings against
his taxation, 361-363; his death, 363.
Richard II., deposition of, i. 506, 553, ii. 110;
his early character, 506; social revolts
under, 508-510; his second marriage, 510;
change in his temper, 510; his rebuke to
the houses, 510, 511; absolute monarchy
of, 511; grant of life-subsidy to, 511;
cause of his deposition, 512; procedure of
his deposition, 513; granted subsidies for
life, ii. 16; the first navigation act, 31;
state of the regency, 110.

Richard the Third, duke of the Normans, i.
220; Protector and king, 583; statement
of his title to the crown, 585; life-grant of
subsidy to, 586; his illegal collection of
benefices, 588; killed at Bosworth, 588.
Richard the Fearless, duke of the Normans,
i. 220; the founder of Norman feudalism,
226; quarrel of Æthelred with, 220, 226.
Richard the Good, duke of the Normans, i.
220; quarrel of Ethelred with, 227; his
sister married to Ethelred, 227.

growth of a national representative assem-
bly, 213; office of bishop abolished, 213;
James VI. compelled to yield to the aboli-
tion of episcopacy, 213; attempted settle-
ment by admission of prelates to parlia-
ment, 214; question of union with Eng-
land, 221, 227; debate on, 227-229; ques-
tion of post-nati and ante-nati, 227-229;
English house of commons repeals all hos-
tile legislation, 228; attempt of Laud to
force uniformity on, 295, 296; resistance in
Edinburgh, 296; covenant signed at Grey
Friars, 296; treaty of Berwick signed, 297;
episcopacy abolished, 297; letter from
covenanters to Louis XIII., 297, 298; war
renewed by Charles I., 300; the treaty of
Ripon, 300; demands adoption of presby-
terian system in return for aid, 325, 326;
its forces join those of parliament, 326;
Charles I. tries to use against parliamen-
tary party, 309; the Incident, 309; Charles
I. takes refuge in, 334; surrenders the
king to parliament, 335; Charles I., by
promising to establish presbyterianism in
England, secures aid of, 337, 338; subju-
gated by Cromwell, 345; rebellion led by
Argyle and Monmouth, 395; William III.
suggests union with England, 447 ; scheme
of union with England completed, 448;
representatives in parliament, 448; resist-
ance to the Catholic Relief Act, 498;
franchise regulated by the Reform Act of
1832, 531; perpetuation of the peerage,
540; question of the absorption of peerage
into that of united kingdom, 543.
Scots, ravage Roman Britain, i. 119.
Scratton, T. E., does not support the theory
of the Roman parentage of the manor, i.
116.

Scroggs, Chief Justice, on licensing of the
press, ii. 380.

Scutage, instituted by Henry II., i. 283, 284,
296, 297, 358, 565, ii. 7; limited by the
Great Charter, i. 296, 384; increased by
John, 374; regulation of, omitted in the
reissues of the charter, 421; a tax on the
lands of the tenants in chivalry, ii. 8; ap-
pears for the last time, 8; provides a fund
for the hiring of mercenaries, 195.
Secretary of state, origin and growth of the
office, ii. 178; members of the council
under Henry VIII., 178; title of "our
principal secretary of estate" conferred on
Robert Cecil, 178; secretaries under Henry
VIII. become, 557; appointment of a
third, 557; establishment of a home and a
foreign department for, 558; appointed
for the business of the colonies, for war,
and for the affairs of India, 558.

Sedgemoor, battle of, ii. 396.
Seebohm, Frederick, his theory of the Ro-
man parentage of the manor not supported
by evidence, i. 116; on the extent of the
virgate and normal hide, 293.
Self-Denying Ordinance, ii. 328.
Senlac, battle of, i. 230.
Sergeantries, i. 361.

Settlement, Act of, ii. 422, 423; excludes
office-holders from the commons, 425, 443,

444.

Seymour, Jane, married to Henry VIII., ii.
84.
Shaftesbury, Earl of. See Cooper, Ashley.
Sharp, Dr., resists James II., ii. 400.
Shelburne, Lord, becomes prime minister, ii.
505.

Sheriff, origin of the name, i. 199; represent-
ative of the king in the shire, 199, 200,
258, 305, 448; modern official duty of, 311;
decline in his judicial powers, 319, 388,
448; writs to, 336, 387, 450, 465, 467, 494;
his position, 448; appointment of, 448,
449; his tourn and leet, 452; his rela-
tion to the town, 454, 461-463, 469, 470;
question as to his power of extending
franchise, 470; procedure of, under the
election writ, 471, 473; his procedure in
elections regulated by the commons, 526-
529; becomes purely civil officer, ii. 198;
decline in his judicial powers, 574; his
present functions, 574, 575; superseded
as head of the county by the lord lieutenant,
575-

Sherley, Thomas, case of, ii. 220.
Sherman, Roger, i. 71, 72.
Ship-money, its origin, i. 187, 292, ii. 265;
used by Elizabeth, ii. 265; attempted use
by Charles I., 265; issue of 1634, 286, 287;
opposition to, 287; extended by Charles
I. to include inland counties, 287, 288;
resistance to, 288, 289; John Hampden and
the issue of 1636, 289, 290; validity sus-
tained, 290; all proceedings concerning,
annulled, 304, 305.

Shire, made up of hundreds, i. 27, 105, 123,
134, 145, 303, 446, 485; aggregation of,
forms the kingdom, 27, 105, 123, 134, 145,
170, 172; use of the word, 96, 106, 145,
171; early, its identity with the modern
hundred, 34, 145, 171, 173, 193, 198; early
and modern, distinction between, 170, 171;
purest development of the shire system
in Wessex, 172; government of, 198-201,
338; representative principle in, 303, 356,
416, 430, 446, 465, 466, 475, 484; rights of
its communities guaranteed by the Great
Charter, 386; shire system introduced
into Wales, 409; origin and structure of