death, 337

Essex, Robert Devereux, second earl of, v. 43, 62, 63

Essex, Robert Devereux, third earl of,
marries Frances Howard, v. 190;
divorced, 191;
resists a forced loan, 255;
captain-general of the Parliamentary army, vi. 1;
movements in 1642, 2, 3;
captures Reading, 5;
his inactivity, 6, 8-10;
retires to Uxbridge, 12;
relieves Gloucester, 13, 14;
movements in 1644, 19, 22, 23;
retires, 35

Essex, Earls of. _See_ Fitz-Peter, Mandeville

Essex, Frances, Countess of. _See_ Howard

Estates of the realm, various groupings of, in Parliament, ii. 202,
203

Etherege, Sir George, vi. 157

Eugene of Savoy, Prince, vii. 118, 120, 121, 131, 134

Euphuism, v. 5

Eustace, Count of Boulogne, i. 152, 167

Eustace, son of King Stephen, i. 226, 227

Eustace the Monk, ii. 2

Eva, daughter of Dermod of Leinster, i. 252

Evelyn's _Diary_, vi. 157

Evesham
founded, i. 86;
battle of, ii. 77, 78

Evreux, Charles of, ii. 315

Exchange, the Royal, founded, iv. 280

Exchequer, Court of, i. 206; ii. 109;
Richard Fitz-Neal's _Dialogue_ on, i. 174, 244;
closed, vi. 261

Excise,
Walpole's scheme of, vii. 195, 201, 202;
revived by Pitt, viii. 77

Exeter,
northmen at, i. 106;
Welsh driven from, 120;
subdued by William I., 167, 168;
tailors' gild at, 318;
William of Orange received at, vii. 40

Exeter, Henry Holland, duke of, iii. 140, 142

Exeter, John Holland, duke of (Earl of Huntingdon), iii. 7, 8

Exeter, Edward Courtenay, marquis of, iii. 322, 348, 350

Exton, Sir Piers, iii. 8

Exclusion Bill, the, vi. 307, 308, 319, 320

Eylau, battle of, viii. 175

Fabyan's _Chronicle_, ii. 179

Fairfax, Edward, his version of Tasso, v. 2

Fairfax, Ferdinando, second Lord, vi. 4

Fairfax, Sir Thomas,
his victory at Nantwich, vi. 18;
commander-in-chief of the New Model army, 35, 36;
victory at Naseby, 40, 41;
in the west, 41;
marches on Oxford, 46;
suppresses royalist rising in Kent, 61;
Colchester surrenders to, 64;
marches on London, 65;
suppresses mutiny, 75;
superseded by Cromwell, 79;
joins Monk, 151

Falaise,
birthplace of William the Conqueror, i. 157;
treaty of, ii. 140;
reduced by Henry V., iii. 33

Falconberg, William Neville, Lord, iii. 113

Falkirk, battles of,