studious, but not of the
gentlest kind, 266; her writing, 267; her education severely
classical, ib.; various anecdotes concerning, 264-267; her able
management of her parliaments, ii. 179-186; her conduct regarding
the succession, iii. 328; her treatment of James I., 332; her
proclamation against excess in apparel, 375.

ELIOT, Sir John, a violent opposition leader in Charles I.'s second
Parliament, iii. 452; his speech on the impeachment of Buckingham,
453; committed to the Tower, 454; violent against Buckingham in
Parliament, 469-471; his collection of satires against him, ib.; a
leader in the last Parliament of Charles I., 474-479.

ELOISA, solicited and obtained Abelard's absolution, i. 146; buried
with Abelard, ib.; a fine lady, 147; Pope's reprehensible lines
found in original letters of, 148.

ENCHANTERS, origin of the old stories of, ii. 31.

ENGLISH Poetry, scarcely known in France in 1610, iii. 233;
ignorance of, displayed by Quadrio in his History of Poetry
published in 1750, 236.

ENGRAVING, early origin among the Egyptians, i. 43, note.

ENGRAVINGS, first collection of, under Louis XIV., by Colbert, i. 7;
collecting of engraved portraits originated the work of Granger, 45.

EPITAPH on Cardinal Richelieu, by his protege, Benserade, i. 84; by
celebrated persons on themselves, 417; on Philip I., 471; on Butler,
the author of Hudibras, ii. 548.

ERRATA, remarkable anecdotes concerning, i, 78-82.

ERRONEOUS proper names, given in foreign authors, i. 327, and note.

ETIQUETTE, Court, reflections on its rise and progress, ii. 194;
forms of, observed between the English ambassadors and Cardinal
Richelieu, 195; creation of a master of the ceremonies, 196; absurd
punctilios of, illustrated from the Diary of Sir John Finett,
196-204.

EVELYN, his mode of composition, ii. 88; praise due to him for his
Sylva, 152; his design for arms of Royal Society, 411, and note.

EVENTS which have not happened, ii. 428-438.

EXCOMMUNICATION, by the Popes, dreadful consequences of, ii. 84.

FAIRFAX Papers, curious discovery of, i. 24, note.

FAIRFAX, Sir Thomas, anecdotes of him and his family, ii. 461-474.

FAME, contemned, 66.

FAMILIAR spirits, intercourse with, believed, i. 27, 28, 280.

FANSHAW, Sir Richard, his Ode on the king's commanding the gentry to
reside on their estates, iii