attitude towards the French Revolution, 87, 88, 93-95;
panic in, 103-106;
war with France, 108, 109;
its colonial acquisitions in 1795, 112;
condition during the French war, 114;
its dogged temper, 115, 116;
effects of the war on its industry and trade, 157, 158;
League of Neutrals against her, 159, 160;
declares war against Buonaparte, 170;
effects of the Continental System on its industry and trade, 177;
condition during the French war, 192-195;
war with America, 198, 203-205;
last strife with Napoleon, 207-211.
_See_ English People

Engle, the,
their early home, i. 9, 10;
settle in East Anglia and the north, 36;
conquer Bernicia, 52.
_See_ English, Mercians, South-Engle

English people,
their life in Old England, i. 10-22;
religion, 22-24;
temper, 24-26;
love of the sea, 27;
character of their conquests, 39-44;
of their settlement, 44-48;
changes in organization after the conquest, 48-52;
tendencies towards unity, 53-55, 61, 83, 130;
union under Ecgberht, 103;
fusion of northmen with, 126, 127;
effects of struggle with the northmen on, 129, 130;
tendencies towards disintegration, 133, 134;
effects of foreign rule on, 176-178;
fusion of Normans with, 200, 281;
support William Rufus, 191, 192;
support Henry I., 201, 202;
revival of national feeling, 280, 281;
attitude under George III., vii. 312-314;
new life in America, viii. 43, 44.
_See_ England

Episcopacy
abolished in Scotland, v. 140;
restored, 143, 166, 167;
again abolished, 335;
proposal to abolish it in England, 354

Erasmus, Desiderius, iii. 193, 194;
his relations with Warham, 196, 212;
teaches Greek at Cambridge, 201;
protests against war, 211;
his _Praise of Folly_, 199, 219;
edition of St. Jerome, 212, 213;
of the New Testament, 213, 215;
his theology, 214;
defends the New Learning against Luther, 256

Eric, king of Sweden, i. 128

Essayists, the English, vii. 158-160

Essex
settled by the East Saxons, i. 35;
submits to Wulfhere, 85;
peasant revolt in, ii. 321;
Protestantism in, under Mary, iv. 144;
royalist rising in, vi. 59

Essex, Arthur Capel, first earl of,
commissioner of the Treasury, vi. 301;
supports Shaftesbury and the Exclusion, 315, 319;
plots with Monmouth, etc., 336;