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Revolution, a History of England, Volume 4

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by Peter Ackroyd


  Jamaica ref1

  James I, king of England (James VI of Scotland) ref1, ref2

  James II, king of England: flight to France and exile ref1, ref2, ref3; Tory support for ref1; campaign in Ireland ref1; followers pardoned by William ref1; plots to restore ref1; orders rising against William ref1; and Peace of Ryswick ref1; death ref1; and exclusion crisis ref1; deposed ref1

  Jefferson, Thomas ref1

  Jeffrey, Francis, Lord ref1, ref2

  Jena, battle of (1806) ref1

  Jenkins, Captain Robert ref1

  Jenner, Dr Edward ref1

  Jervis, Sir John, earl of St Vincent ref1

  Johnson, Samuel: conversation ref1; on impolite man ref1; and clubs ref1; on advertising ref1; investigates Cock Lane ghost ref1; on musicians ref1; background and career ref1; eccentric manner ref1; working method ref1; on Junius ref1; on innovation ref1; edits Shakespeare ref1; A Dictionary of the English Language ref1; The History of Rasselas ref1

  Jonathan’s coffee house, London ref1

  ‘Junius’ (anonymous writer) ref1

  ‘Junto, the’ ref1

  Kames, Henry Home, Lord ref1

  Kay, Joseph ref1

  Kersey, John: A New English Dictionary ref1

  King, Charles: The British Merchant ref1

  King, Tom ref1

  Kit-Kat Club ref1, ref2

  Kléber, General Jean–Baptiste ref1

  Kneller, Sir Godfrey ref1

  labour: factory conditions ref1, ref2; children ref1; women’s industrial ref1, ref2, ref3; and trade unions ref1, ref2; unity and power ref1; migration ref1; and development of social institutions ref1; class divisions ref1; farm ref1

  Lancaster, Joseph ref1

  Lancelot, Edward ref1

  land: values and ownership ref1

  la Roche, Sophie von ref1

  Lecky, W. E. H.: on James Watt ref1; History of England in the Eighteenth Century ref1

  Leeds ref1

  Leicester Sisterhood of Female Handspinners ref1

  Leipzig, battle of (‘battle of the nations’, 1813) ref1

  Leopold I, Holy Roman emperor ref1, ref2

  Lettsom, Dr John Oakley ref1

  Levellers (sect) ref1

  Licensing Act (1737) ref1, ref2

  life expectancy ref1

  lighting (public) ref1, ref2, ref3

  Limerick, treaty of (1691) ref1

  literature: style in early ref1th century ref1

  Liverpool: commerce ref1; and slave trade ref1

  Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of ref1

  living standards ref1, ref2

  Lobo, Father Jerome: A Voyage to Abyssinia ref1

  Locke, John ref1

  Lombe, John and Thomas ref1, ref2

  London: coffee-houses ref1, ref2; as cultural centre ref1; conditions ref1; earthquakes ref1; superstitiousness ref1; gin drinking ref1; theatres ref1; in Gordon riots ref1; timekeeping ref1; streetlighting ref1; see also clubs

  London Chronicle ref1

  London Corresponding Society ref1, ref2, ref3

  London Courant ref1

  London Evening Post ref1

  London Journal ref1

  London Police Magistrates ref1

  London Society for Constitutional Information ref1, ref2

  Lord Chamberlain ref1, ref2

  lotteries ref1

  Louis XIV, king of France: William III’s war against ref1, ref2, ref3; Whigs oppose ref1; declines to invade England ref1; recognizes William III as king ref1, ref2; and Spanish throne ref1; in War of Spanish Succession ref1, ref2; death ref1

  Louis XV, king of France ref1, ref2

  Louis XVI, king of France ref1, ref2

  Louis XVIII, king of France ref1

  Loutherbourg, Philip: Coalbrookdale by Night (painting) ref1

  Luddites ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lunar Society of Birmingham ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lunéville, treaty of (1801) ref1

  Luther, Martin: Preface to the Epistle of the Romans ref1, ref2

  Lyttelton, George, 1st baron ref1

  McAdam, John ref1

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington, baron: on William’s campaign in Ireland ref1; criticizes Pitt the elder as war minister ref1; on impeachment of Warren Hastings ref1; on condition of working classes ref1; History of England ref1

  MacKenzie, Henry: The Man of Feeling ref1

  Macky, John: Remarks on the Characters of the Court of Queen Anne ref1

  Macpherson, David: Annals of Commerce ref1

  madness ref1

  Madrid: Wellington occupies ref1

  Maitland, William: The History of London ref1

  Malmesbury, James Harris, 1st earl of ref1

  Malplaquet, battle of (1709) ref1

  Manchester ref1, ref2

  manufacturing: beginnings ref1

  Mar, John Erskine, 6th or ref1th earl of ref1

  Marat, Jean Paul ref1, ref2

  Marengo, battle of (1800) ref1

  Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria ref1

  Marine Society ref1

  markets see fairs and markets

  Marlborough House, London ref1

  Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st duke of: shares command in Ireland ref1; plots to restore James II ref1; qualities and background ref1; appointed commander-in-chief ref1, ref2; dukedom ref1; military campaign in War of Spanish Succession ref1, ref2; Whigs support ref1, ref2; requests appointment as captain-general for life ref1; Steele supports ref1; in Lords ref1; accused of bribery and corruption ref1; dismissal and exile abroad ref1; plans defence of Hanover ref1

  Marlborough, Sarah, duchess of: ridicules William III ref1; relations with and influence on Queen Anne ref1, ref2; loses favour with Anne ref1

  Martin, John ref1

  Mary II (Stuart), Queen of England: proclaimed joint sovereign ref1; coronation ref1; death ref1

  Maryland: tobacco from ref1

  Masham, Abigail ref1

  Mather, Joseph ref1

  Maton, William George ref1

  medicine: satirized by Scriblerus Club ref1

  Mehmet (George I’s servant) ref1, ref2

  Memoirs of . . . Martinus Scriblerus, The ref1, ref2

  Methodism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Metternich, Prince Clemens Lothar Wenzel ref1

  Milton, John ref1

  Ministry of All the Talents ref1, ref2

  Minorca ref1, ref2

  Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de ref1, ref2

  Molesworth, Squire ref1

  Moniteur (journal) ref1

  Montagu, Charles see Halifax, 1st earl of

  Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ref1

  Montcalm, Louis Joseph, marquis de ref1

  Moore, Sir John ref1

  More, Hannah ref1, ref2

  More, Thomas: Utopia ref1

  Moritz, Karl Philipp ref1, ref2

  Morning Chronicle ref1

  Morning Post ref1

  Morris, Corbyn ref1, ref2

  Morris, Gouverneur ref1

  mortality rates ref1

  Murray, Fanny ref1

  museums and galleries: established ref1

  music: concerts ref1

  Mustafa (George I’s servant) ref1, ref2

  Namur, siege and recapture (1695) ref1, ref2

  Napier, Sir William ref1

  Napoleon I (Buonaparte), emperor of the French: on religion ref1; and England as ‘nation of shopkeepers’ ref1; rise to command ref1; campaign in Italy ref1; as invasion threat ref1, ref2, ref3; coalitions against ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; as military leader ref1, ref2; expedition to Egypt ref1; territorial gains ref1; ambitions and wars ref1, ref2; appointed first consul for life ref1; resumes belligerency ref1; crowned emperor ref1; proposes peace negotiations to George III ref1; military successes and advance ref1, ref2; told of Trafalgar defeat ref1; aims to conquer Russia ref1, ref2; imposes Continental System (blockade) against Britain ref1, ref2; campaign in Iberian peninsula ref1; threatens to strip Britain of
overseas possessions ref1; Leipzig defeat and abdication (1814) ref1; defeat at Waterloo (1815) ref1; escapes from Elba and enters Paris ref1; final exile on St Helena ref1

  Nash, Richard (‘Beau’) ref1

  Nelson, Admiral Horatio, 1st viscount ref1, ref2, ref3

  New Lanark ref1, ref2

  New South Wales: as colony and penal settlement ref1

  New York Gazette ref1

  Newcastle Journal ref1

  Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of: qualities ref1; and execution of Byng ref1; coalition with Pitt the elder ref1; and Pitt’s commitment to war ref1, ref2; resigns ref1

  Newcastle upon Tyne ref1

  Newgate Prison ref1, ref2

  newspapers: proliferation ref1

  Newton, Sir Isaac ref1, ref2, ref3

  Nine Years War (1689–98) ref1

  non-jurors ref1

  Norris, Admiral John ref1

  North America: British war with France in ref1; taxed by British ref1, ref2, ref3; unrest ref1, ref2; Lord North abolishes taxes ref1; tea imports and tax ref1; ‘coercive’ (or ‘intolerable’) acts ref1; independence movement ref1; wins independence (1783) ref1, ref2; see also American War of Independence

  North Briton (newspaper) ref1, ref2

  North, Frederick, Lord (2nd earl of Guilford): heads government ref1, ref2; qualities ref1; coercive acts against America ref1; pessimism over war with America ref1, ref2; resigns ref1; arrangement with Fox ref1; and control of East India Company ref1

  Northumberland, Elizabeth, duchess of (née Seymour) ref1

  Nottingham ref1

  novels ref1

  Oakes (banker of Bury St Edmunds) ref1

  Occasional Conformity Bill (1702) ref1

  October Club ref1

  O’Donoghue, Father ref1

  Oldknow, Samuel ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Oliphant, Charles ref1

  Onslow, Arthur ref1

  opera ref1, ref2

  Ormonde, James Butler, 2nd duke of ref1, ref2, ref3

  Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty–Four ref1

  Owen, Robert ref1; A New View of Society ref1

  Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st earl of: as Tory leader ref1, ref2; assassination attempt on ref1; and George I’s anger at British withdrawal from war ref1; in Scriblerus Club ref1; imprisoned in Tower ref1

  Packwood, James ref1

  Paget, Diana ref1

  Paine, Thomas: on ‘declaratory act’ ref1; on Pitt the younger ref1; accused of seditious publication ref1; effigy burned ref1; ‘Common Sense’ ref1; The Rights of Man ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  painting ref1

  Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd viscount ref1

  Paris: peace negotiations at end of American war (1783) ref1

  Paris, treaty of (1763) ref1, ref2, ref3

  Parker, Richard ref1

  parliament: relations with William ref1, ref2; and Act of Settlement determining royal succession ref1; and land ownership ref1; condemns Sacheverell ref1; sovereign status ref1; corruption and bribery ref1; ends war with America (1782) ref1

  Parr, Dr Samuel ref1

  Pasquier, Étienne-Denis ref1, ref2

  Pasteur, Louis ref1

  patents ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Payne, Captain Jack ref1

  Peasants’ Revolt (1381) ref1, ref2

  Pelham, Henry ref1

  Peninsular War ref1, ref2

  Pepys, Samuel ref1

  Perceval, Spencer ref1, ref2

  Peterloo (1819) ref1, ref2

  Petty, Sir William ref1

  Philadelphia: congresses (1774) ref1, ref2

  Philanthropic Society ref1

  Philip V, king of Spain (earlier duke of Anjou) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  pin-making ref1

  Pitt, William the elder (1st earl of Chatham): advocates war with Spain ref1, ref2; eloquence ref1; parliamentary career ref1; qualities ref1; George II’s enmity towards ref1; and prosecution of Seven Years War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; and capture of Guadeloupe ref1; George III’s animosity to ref1, ref2, ref3; and George II’s reliance on Bute ref1; resignation and pension ref1; relations with Grenville ref1; earldom ref1; incapacity and decline ref1, ref2; replaces Rockingham as head of government (1766) ref1

  Pitt, William the younger: on trade ref1; George III offers government to and supports ref1, ref2; qualities ref1; gains and retains office as head of government ref1; wins 1784 election ref1; administration and policies ref1; financial measures ref1; and administration of India ref1; opposes slave trade ref1; on working children ref1; achievements ref1; and George III’s illness ref1; attitude to French Revolution ref1, ref2; Thomas Paine attacks ref1; alarm at French military actions ref1; and outbreak of 1793 war with France ref1; drinking ref1; ‘reign of terror’ ref1, ref2; and conduct of war against France ref1, ref2, ref3; wartime financial measures ref1; food shortages ref1; resigns (1801) ref1; resumes premiership (1803) ref1; rejects French peace proposals ref1; and Trafalgar victory ref1; health decline and death ref1; reaction to Austerlitz news ref1

  Pius VII, pope ref1

  Place, Francis: Autobiography ref1, ref2, ref3

  plagues: absence ref1

  Plassey, battle of (1757) ref1

  pleasure gardens ref1

  Poland: war of succession (1733–8) ref1; Napoleon in ref1

  Political Register (Cobbett’s) ref1

  Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de (Madame de Pompadour) ref1

  Pontiac’s War (1763–66) ref1

  poor, the: numbers and conditions ref1; and industrial work ref1, ref2; children ref1; physical condition ref1

  Pope, Alexander: on Harley ref1; political writings ref1; and Scriblerus Club ref1, ref2; literary style ref1; satirizes Walpole ref1; The Dunciad ref1, ref2; An Essay on Criticism ref1; An Essay on Man ref1

  population: growth ref1, ref2, ref3; urban ref1, ref2; internal migration ref1

  Porson, Richard ref1

  Port of London ref1

  Porteous, Beilby, bishop of London ref1

  porter (drink) ref1

  Portland, William Bentinck, 1st earl of ref1

  Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 1st duke of ref1, ref2

  Porto Bello, Panama ref1, ref2

  Portugal: rebels against Napoleon ref1, ref2

  Postlethwayt, Malachi: The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce ref1

  pottery and china ref1

  power: generation of ref1, ref2, ref3

  Presbyterians ref1

  press: freedom ref1, ref2; power ref1

  Preston ref1

  Prestonpans, battle of (1745) ref1

  Pretyman, George ref1

  Price, Richard ref1

  prices see wages and prices

  Priestley, Joseph ref1, ref2, ref3

  prison reform ref1

  professions ref1

  prose: and plain disourse ref1

  prostitutes ref1

  Protestant Association ref1

  Protestantism: and beginnings of industrialism ref1

  Prussia: in coalitions against France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; peace treaty with France ref1; dominates Holy Roman Empire ref1; Jena defeat ref1; and post-Napoleon settlement ref1; army at Waterloo ref1

  Pryme, Abraham de la ref1

  Public Advertiser ref1, ref2

  Quakers: modesty ref1; industrialists ref1

  Quebec ref1, ref2

  Quiberon Bay, battle of (1759) ref1

  Radcliffe, William: Origin of the New System of Manufacture ref1, ref2

  ragged schools ref1

  Rambler (journal) ref1

  Ramillies, battle of (1706) ref1

  Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea ref1

  Raynes, Francis ref1

  Reach, Angus ref1

  reading and the reading public ref1, ref2, ref3

  Reflexions Upon the Moral State of the Nation (anon.) ref1

  religion: and toleration ref1, ref2; and social class ref1; and rise of evangelicalism ref1;
of industrialists ref1; see also Methodism

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua ref1, ref2

  Rich, John ref1

  Richardson, Samuel: and mail coaches ref1; Clarissa ref1; Pamela ref1

  Rigby, Richard ref1

  Riot Act (1715) ref1, ref2

  riots and agitation ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  rivers: improvements ref1, ref2

  roads: improvements ref1, ref2

  Robespierre, Maximilien ref1, ref2

  Robinson, Frederick ref1

  Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd marquess of ref1

  Roman Catholics see Catholics

  Romanticism ref1, ref2, ref3

  Rossbach, battle of (1757) ref1

  Rowlandson, Thomas ref1

  Royal Academy ref1

  Royal Humane Society ref1

  Royal Navy: supremacy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; unrest ref1

  Royal Society: and agricultural improvement ref1, ref2; and clear discourse ref1; and scientific advancement ref1

  Royal Society of Arts ref1

  Russell, Richard: Dissertation upon the Use of Sea–Bathing ref1

  Russia: in coalitions against Napoleon ref1, ref2, ref3; Napoleon aims to conquer ref1; Napoleon invades ref1; and downfall of Napoleon ref1

  Ryswick, Peace of (1697) ref1, ref2

  Sacheverell, Henry ref1, ref2

  Sadler, Michael ref1

  St Helena (island) ref1

  St James Chronicle ref1

  St James’s Weekly Journal ref1

  Salte, Samuel ref1

  Sancroft, William, archbishop of Canterbury ref1

  Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th earl of ref1

  Saratoga: British surrender at (1777) ref1, ref2

  satire ref1, ref2, ref3

  Saussure, César de ref1, ref2

  Savery, Thomas ref1

  Schomberg, Frederick Herman, duke of ref1

  schools ref1

  Schroeder, Samuel ref1

  Schulenberg, countess Ehrengard Melusina von der, duchess of Kendal ref1

  science: opposition to ref1; advances in ref1; popularization ref1

  Scotland: favours Stuart succession ref1; union with England ref1, ref2, ref3; and Jacobite risings (1715) ref1; (1745) ref1

  Scriblerus Club ref1, ref2

  Scriblerus, Martin (imaginary author) ref1, ref2

  seaside towns ref1

  Sedley, Sir Charles ref1

  sentiment ref1

  Septennial Bill (and Act 1716) ref1, ref2

 

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