issues a Bull for deposition of Elizabeth, 265;
sanctions the plans of Mary and Norfolk, 272

Pius VI., Pope, viii. 136

Pizarro, Francisco, iv. 329

Place Bill, vii. 62, 82

Plassey, battle of, vii. 261, 262

Plattsburg, English attempt on, viii. 205

Plauen, battle of, vii. 264

Pleas,
Common, Court of, ii. 109;
of the Crown, i. 264; ii. 109

Plymouth (Massachusetts), its foundation, v. 310

Poinet, Bishop of Winchester, iv. 119, 129, 131

Poitiers
captured by Henry of Derby, ii. 235;
battle of, 261-263

Poitou,
Henry III.'s campaign in, ii. 35;
ceded to France, 63;
recovered by Henry of Derby, 243;
restored to Edward III., 266;
won by Du Guesclin, 287

Poland,
contested election to the throne of, vii. 214;
partitions of, viii. 85, 108

Pole, Sir Geoffrey, iii. 349

Pole, John de la, Earl of Lincoln, iii. 176

Pole, Michael de la, Earl of Suffolk, ii. 350-353

Pole, Reginald, iii. 333, 349; iv. 20;
his attainder reversed, 88;
received as Legate, _ib._;
chief minister, 98, 99;
suspected by the Pope, 102;
deprived of the legation, 145;
dies, 165

Pole, Sir Richard, iii. 349

Pole, William de la. _See_ Suffolk

"Politicals," the, iv. 139, 141-143

Poll-tax, ii. 311;
renewed under Richard II., 316;
resistance to, 319, 321;
in 1641, v. 363

Pont-de-l'Arche seized by Henry V., iii. 33

Pontefract,
Thomas of Lancaster executed at, ii. 195;
Richard II. imprisoned at, iii. 7;
Pilgrimage of Grace at, 323, 324

Ponthieu,
Harold wrecked on coast of, i. 159;
Charles IV. demands homage of Edward II. for, ii. 197;
granted in full sovereignty to Edward III., 266;
seized by Charles V., 285

Pontigny, St. Edmund of Canterbury at, ii. 42

Pontlevoi, battle of, i. 212

Pontoise,
negotiations between France and England at, iii. 35;
relieved by Talbot, 56

Poor Laws, Elizabeth's, iv. 276, 277

Pope, Alexander, vii. 204, 217, 294-297

Popish Plot, the, vi. 294-298, 311, 313

Porter, John, v. 82

Portland, Breton descent on, iii. 16

Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, third Duke of, viii. 104,
180, 189

Portland, Richard Weston, Earl of. _See_ Weston

Port Mahon taken by the French, vii. 248

Portmannimote, the, i. 296;
of Oxford, 306, 309

Porto Bello, capture of,