t refugees in, vii. 14;
Methodists in, 208;
supports Pitt, 256, 305;
supports Wilkes, 319; viii. 6, 8, 12;
petitions to George III., 16, 20;
supports the younger Pitt, 69;
riot in, 113;
"barons" of, i. 319;
"boatmen" of, 308;
St. Paul's Cathedral in, 223;
Dooms of, 300;
Gilds of, 299;
"lithsmen" of, 300;
merchants of, _ib._;
Merchant Adventurers of, iv. 283, 284;
materials for its municipal history, i. 274;
portreeves of, i. 303;
first theatres in, v. 22, 23;
Tower of, i. 166;
weavers of, 317, 318;
Witenagemots at, i. 152, 153

Londonderry
colonized, v. 289;
siege of, vii. 57, 58

Longchamp, William, Bishop of Ely and justiciar, i. 260, 261, 264

"Lord" and "man,"
their mutual relations, i. 133;
and villeins, i. 323-325

Lords, House of,
origin of its judicial character, i. 256;
its composition under the Houses of Lancaster and York, iii. 94, 99;
under Henry VIII., iv. 13, 14;
rejects proposals of the Commons to confiscate Church property, iii.
15, 22;
its dealings with the Duke of York's claim to the Crown, 77;
assents to bills for Church reform, 291;
its address to the Pope, 297;
increase in its numbers under the Stuarts, v. 199, 200;
relations with Crown and Commons in 1641, 360;
charges Cromwell with treason, vi. 63;
rejects the ordinance for the trial of Charles I., 66, 67;
abolished, 67, 69;
Cromwell's substitute for, 144;
the Bishops restored to, 204;
rejects the Exclusion Bill, 320;
proposal to limit its numbers, vii. 190, 191;
its dealings with Wilkes, 318;
rejects Chatham's bill for repeal of the Stamp Acts, viii. 19, 20;
refuses Catholic emancipation, 196

Lorne, Archibald Campbell, Lord, v. 326.
_See_ Argyle

Lorraine annexed by France, vii. 215

Lorraine, the Cardinal of, iv. 267

Lothian ceded to Malcolm I., i. 147

Loughborough, Alexander Wedderburn, first Lord, viii. 154

Louisburg, capture of, vii. 266

Louisiana,
French settlement in, vii. 242;
ceded to England, 307

Louviers captured by Henry V., iii. 33

Lovat, Simon Fraser, thirteenth Lord, vii. 230

Lovelace, John, third Lord, vii. 42

Lowestoft, battle of, vi. 225

Lowlands, alleged grant of, by Cnut to the Scots, ii. 132

Lucy, Geoffrey de, i. 345

Lucy, Richard de, i. 343, 344