0, 151;
its dissolution, 153;
Charles II.'s, 182, 183; vii. 4;
increased by James II., 11;
Catholic officers in, 14, 15;
Parliament's control over it established, vii. 61;
reduced under William III., 97;
increased again, 105, 107

Army Plot, v. 359, 360

Arnold, General, viii. 23

Arran, James Hamilton, second Earl of, iv. 26, 199

Arras, treaties of, iii. 56, 120, 170

Arteveldt, Jacques van, ii. 227, 233

Arteveldt, Philip van, ii. 349

Arthur, leader of the Britons, i. 34;
legends of, 246, 247; ii. 57

Arthur of Britanny, i. 247, 260, 268

Arthur, son of Henry VII., iii. 186, 187

Articles of Religion, 1536, iii. 333, 337, 338;
Five, iv. 156;
Forty-two, 59, 160;
Six, iii. 346;
repealed, iv. 48;
Thirty-nine, 59, 216;
magistrates and public officers compelled to subscribe to, 273;
subscription of ministers to, v. 156;
Three (Whitgift's), iv. 341, 342; v. 115, 116

Articles, Lords of the, iv. 228

Artillery,
first instance known of its use in field warfare, ii. 237;
results of its introduction, iii. 95, 96

Arundel, Thomas, Bishop of Ely, ii. 352;
Archbishop of Canterbury, 367, 370, 371, 373;
persecuting tendencies, iii. 4;
urges Richard II.'s death, 7;
prevents confiscation of Church property, 15, 21;
removed from the chancellorship, 25;
convicts Lord Cobham of heresy, 27

Arundel, Richard Fitz-Alan, fourth Earl of, ii. 353, 367, 370, 371

Arundel, Henry Fitz-Alan, twelfth Earl of, iv. 173, 267, 268

Arundel, Thomas Howard, fourteenth Earl of, v. 248

Arundell of Wardour, Henry, third Lord, vi. 256, 296; vii. 20

Ascham, Roger, iv. 134, 135

Ashdown, battle of, i. 105

Ashley, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord (_see_ Cooper), vi. 194;
opposes the Act of Uniformity, 208;
character, 216, 217;
policy, 218, 219;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 245;
change in his attitude on the question of toleration, 252;
advises a dissolution, 253;
schemes of toleration, 259;
attitude towards war with Holland, 260.
_See_ Shaftesbury

Assandun, battle of, i. 143

Assembly, the French National, viii. 86

Asser, i. 5, 113

Assize
of Arms, i. 257;
of Clarendon, 238;
of the Forest, 267;
of Northampton, 255

Astley, Sir Jacob, vi. 42

Aston, Sir Arthur, vi. 76

Athelney,
AElfred at, i. 106;