rt of, 48.
ostentatious titles of, 51.
death of, 51.

RHODOLPH III, crowned King of Hungary, 178.
obtains the imperial throne, 180.
bigotry of, 187.
his infringement of the rights of the burghers, 188.
his blows against Protestantism, 189.
intolerance of in Bohemia, 193.
superstition of, 200.
his favor to Ferdinand; 204.
demands of the Protestants on, 205.
his encouragement of filibustering expeditions, 208.
remarkable pliancy of, 210.
his terror at the chance of assassination, 212.
political reconciliation between Matthias and, 219.
his plot with Leopold, 220.
Rhodolph taken prisoner, 221.
his abdication, 222.
required to absolve his subjects from their oath of allegiance, 223.
retains the crown of Germany, 225.
supplication of to the congress at Rothemberg, 226.
a congress at Nuremberg summoned by, 227.
death of, 228.

RHODOLPH (of Bohemia), death of, 39.

RHINE, separating Basle from Rhodolph, 23.

RICHELIEU, motives influencing, 267.
ambassadors of urge the Duke of Bavaria as candidate for the imperial
crown, 279.

RIPPERDA (Baron), the secret agent of the Queen of Spain at Vienna, 373.
rise and fall of, 375.
escape of to England, 376.

ROBINSON (Sir Thomas), interview of with Maria Theresa, 454.

ROTHENBURG, congress at, 226.

RUSSIA, growing power of, 399.
succession of the crown of, 399.
instrumental in placing Augustus II on the throne, 400.

SARAGOSSA, battle of, 343.

SAXONY, defeat of the Elector of, 128.
nobility of, 128.
degradation of, 129.
power of, 132.
the electorate of, passes to Augustus, 137.

SCHARTLIN (General), the Protestants march under, 125.

SCHWEITZ, Rhodolph of Hapsburg chosen chief of, 21.

SCLAVONIA, marriage of the Duke of to the daughter of Rhodolph, 25.

SECKENDORF, (General), the Austrian army intrusted to, 400.
his plans of campaign broken up by Charles, 402.
capture of Nissa by, 402.
condemned to the dungeon, 402.

SECRET ARTICLES of the treaty with Austria, 376.

SEGEBERG, league at, 267.

SCHMETTAU (General), the retreat of Wallis arrested by, 407.
compelled to yield Belgrade, 409.

SELIM succeeds Solyman, 177.

SEMENDRIA, defense of, 64.
its capture, 65.

SEMPACH, battle of, 55.

SERFS emancipated by Joseph II., 494.
his plan for seizing Bavaria frustrated, 495.

SEVEN YEARS' WAR, termination of the, 481.

SICILY, subjugated and attached to the Neapolitan