138;
its peace under Cnut, 146;
prosperity under Eadward and Harold, 153;
effects of foreign rule on, 176-178, 278;
fusion of Normans and English in, 200, 281;
invaded by Robert of Normandy, 200, 201;
civil war in, 219, 220;
anarchy in, 220, 221;
revival of national feeling in, 280, 281;
Norman immigration to, 302;
effects of loss of Normandy on, 325, 326;
under Interdict, 330, 331;
Friars arrive in, ii. 11;
Provencals and Poitevins in, under Henry III. 32, 33;
early finance, 103;
relations with the Papacy, 26-28, 218, 219, 221-223, 225, 273-275,
303;
social changes after the Black Death, 254, 255;
social strife in, 266-268, 289, 316, 317;
sufferings under Edward III., 290, 291;
constitutional, its beginnings, 100;
its freedom established, iii. 85;
moral and intellectual decay during Wars of the Roses, 97, 98, 115;
social condition in fifteenth century, 104-107;
agricultural changes in, 107, 108;
evictions and enclosures in, 109, 110;
definition of its foreign policy, 128;
intellectual progress under Edward IV., 153, 154;
the New Learning in, 191-196, 201;
relations with the Papacy under Henry VIII., 288, 289, 299, 300,
302;
rejects Papal jurisdiction, 305;
foreign Protestants in, iv. 51, 58, 59, 305;
condition under Somerset, 54, 55;
religious disorder in, 61;
condition under Northumberland, 66;
religious changes in, under Mary, 75;
submits to Rome, 88, 89;
effects of the Reformation on, 121, 122;
attitude in Mary's later years, 134, 138, 139;
condition at her death, 146, 147;
religious chaos under Elizabeth, 162-165;
becomes Protestant, 166, 167, 247, 248;
its importance to the Papacy, 253, 254;
parties in, 263;
social condition under Elizabeth, 274-277, 283-287;
religious condition, 289-291, 302-305;
volunteers from, in the Netherlands, 324;
unites against the Armada, 358;
effect on, of the fight with Spain, 364;
its maritime warfare with Spain, 370, 371;
intellectual developement under Elizabeth, v. 1-11;
condition at her death, 75, 76;
growth of wealth and social advance, 77;
rise of the squires, 78;
growth of national spirit in, _ib._, 79;
growth of the religious spirit in, 81;
foreign rule of the Stuarts in, 148, 149;
James I.'s proposal for its union with
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