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Revolution, a History of England, Volume 4

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by Peter Ackroyd


  civil service ref1

  civility ref1

  Clapham Sect ref1

  class (social): hierarchy and divisions ref1, ref2, ref3; and polite society ref1; and emulation ref1; see also gentry; middle class; poor, the

  Clerk, Sir John (of Penicuik) ref1

  Clive, Robert, 1st baron ref1

  clubs ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

  coaches ref1

  coal: in iron manufacture ref1; mining ref1; production ref1; as source of power ref1

  Coalbrookdale, Shropshire ref1

  Cobbett, William ref1, ref2

  Cock Lane ghost ref1

  Cockburn, Henry Thomas, Lord ref1

  coffee-houses ref1, ref2

  coinage: reformed by Newton ref1

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: and Romanticism ref1, ref2; ‘The Ancient Mariner’ ref1; Biographia Literaria ref1; Lyrical Ballads (with Wordsworth) ref1

  Collingwood, Admiral Cuthbert, 1st baron ref1

  Combination Act (1721) ref1

  combinations ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  common sense ref1, ref2

  communications: improvements ref1

  Compton, Spencer, 1st earl of Wilmington ref1

  Concert of Ancient Music (society) ref1

  Congregationalists ref1

  Congreve, William: political writings ref1; plays ref1, ref2; club membership ref1; popularity ref1; The Double Dealer ref1; Love for Love ref1; The Old Bachelor ref1, ref2

  consumer society and goods ref1, ref2

  Continental System ref1

  Convention (1689) ref1

  conversation ref1

  Conway, Henry Seymour ref1

  Cook, Captain James ref1

  Cooke, Thomas ref1

  Cornwallis, General Charles, 1st marquess (and 2nd earl) ref1, ref2

  Cornwallis, Admiral Sir William ref1

  Corunna, battle of (1809) ref1

  cottage industry ref1

  cotton manufacture ref1, ref2, ref3

  Courtauld, Samuel ref1

  Cowper, Mary, countess (née Clavering) ref1

  Cowper, William, 1st earl ref1

  Cowper, William (poet) ref1

  Craftsman, The (journal) ref1

  crime rates ref1

  Cromford, Derbyshire ref1

  Crowley, Ambrose ref1

  Crowley, Mr (City merchant) ref1

  Crown (monarchical authority): relations with parliament ref1

  Culloden, battle of (1746) ref1

  Cumberland, George ref1

  Cumberland, Prince William Augustus, duke of ref1, ref2

  Daily Advertiser ref1

  Dale, David ref1

  Dalrymple, Sir Hew ref1

  Darby family ref1

  Darby, Abraham, the elder ref1, ref2, ref3

  Dartmouth (ship) ref1

  Darwin, Erasmus: on Albion Mill ref1; The Economy of Vegetation ref1

  Davenant, Charles: Two Discourses on the Public Revenues and Trade of England ref1

  Davy, Humphry ref1, ref2

  Declaration of Independence (USA) ref1

  Dee, Dr John ref1, ref2

  Defoe, Daniel: on power of parliament ref1; on social class ref1; literary style ref1; on printed cotton fabrics ref1; on Durham Catholics ref1; on manufacturing enterprises ref1; on domestic manufacturing ref1; on poor roads ref1; on working children ref1; on English prosperity ref1; The Complete English Tradesman ref1; An Essay upon Projects ref1; Moll Flanders ref1; Robinson Crusoe ref1, ref2; A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Defour, Judith ref1

  Desaguliers, John Theophilus ref1

  Devonshire, Georgiana, duchess of ref1

  Devonshire, William Cavendish, 4th duke of ref1

  Dibdin, Charles: on durability of iron bridge, Shropshire ref1; Musical Tour ref1

  Dickens, Charles: Hard Times ref1; The Old Curiosity Shop ref1, ref2; The Pickwick Papers ref1

  dictionaries ref1

  Diggers (sect) ref1

  disease ref1

  Disraeli, Benjamin ref1

  dissenters (non-conformists): and money ref1; and occasional conformity ref1; Sacheverell attacks ref1; ‘Old’ ref1, ref2; sects ref1; and beginnings of industrialism ref1; as industrialists ref1; in Birmingham ref1; see also Methodism

  ‘Distilled Spirituous Liquors: The Bane of the Nation’ (pamphlet) ref1

  divine right of kings ref1, ref2

  Doddridge, Philip ref1

  Dodington, George Bubb ref1

  Dolben, Sir William ref1

  domestic interiors and furnishings ref1

  Dominica ref1

  Dryden, John ref1

  Dumont, Etienne ref1

  Duncan, Admiral Adam, viscount ref1

  Dundas, Henry (1st viscount Melville) ref1, ref2

  Dunkirk: proposed demolition ref1; in war with France (1793) ref1

  Dyer, John: ‘The Fleece’ (poem) ref1

  earthquakes ref1

  East India Company: trade ref1; power ref1, ref2; imports tea into America ref1; government control of ref1, ref2

  Eden, William ref1, ref2

  Edinburgh Review ref1

  Edison, Thomas ref1

  education ref1

  Edwin, Sir Humphrey ref1

  Egmont, John Perceval, 1st earl of ref1, ref2

  Egypt: Napoleon’s campaign in ref1

  Elba (island): Napoleon exiled to ref1

  Elisabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine ref1

  Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia (‘the Winter Queen’) ref1

  emotionalism ref1

  enclosure (land) ref1

  Encyclopaedia Britannica ref1, ref2, ref3

  Engels, Friedrich: ‘The Condition of England’ ref1; The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 ref1

  England (and Britain): party divisions ref1, ref2, ref3; war with France (1689) ref1, ref2, ref3; financial strength ref1, ref2, ref3; peace treaty with France (1697) ref1; union with Scotland ref1, ref2; peace with France (1711–13) ref1; trade and industry ref1, ref2; in War of Austrian Succession ref1; Seven Years War against France (1756–63) ref1, ref2, ref3; war with Spain (1762) ref1; conditions at end of Seven Years War ref1; taxation ref1; disaffection and riots ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; industrial revolution ref1; and American War of Independence ref1; National Revival movement ref1; urbanization ref1; naval supremacy and domination of sea ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; reaction to French Revolution ref1, ref2; constitutional and parliamentary reform movement ref1, ref2; war with France (1793–8) ref1, ref2, ref3; treason charges fail (1793) ref1; price rises in Napoleonic wars ref1; food shortages ref1, ref2, ref3; popular actions against war ref1; belief in liberty ref1; invasion threat from France ref1, ref2, ref3; war taxes ref1; union with Ireland (1801) ref1, ref2; differences over negotiating with France ref1; peace treaty with France (1802) ref1; army recruitment against Napoleon ref1; resumes war against France (1803) ref1; and Napoleon’s Continental System ref1; and downfall of Napoleon ref1; as great power ref1

  Enlightenment, the ref1

  enthusiasm (religious) ref1

  epidemics ref1

  Eton College: party factions ref1

  Etruria (pottery) ref1

  Evelyn, John (diarist) ref1

  Evelyn, Sir John (investor) ref1

  Examiner (Swift’s journal) ref1

  excise: duties resisted ref1

  Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ref1

  Eylau, battle of (1807) ref1

  factories ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Fairbairn, Sir William ref1

  fairs and markets ref1

  Farmers’ Journal, The ref1

  Farmer’s Magazine, The ref1

  farms: size increase ref1

  Farquhar, Sir Walter ref1, ref2

  fashion ref1

  Female Tatler (journal) ref1

  Fenton, Lavinia (duchess of Bolton) ref1

  F
erdinand, Prince of Brunswick ref1

  Ferguson, Adam ref1

  Ferriar, Dr (of Manchester) ref1

  fiction ref1

  Fielding, Henry: on effect of growth of commerce ref1; as playwright ref1; ‘An Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers’ ref1, ref2; The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great ref1; Tom Jones ref1

  Fiennes, Celia ref1

  Firth, Mrs (grocer’s widow) ref1

  Fishguard Bay, Pembrokeshire ref1

  Fitzherbert, Maria ref1

  flower pot plot, the (1692) ref1

  Fontainebleau: peace negotiations (1762) ref1

  Foote, Samuel: The Nabob ref1

  Fordyce, James ref1

  Fox, Charles James: gambling ref1; attacks George III over American war ref1; qualities ref1, ref2; arrangement with Lord North ref1; George III’s animosity towards ref1; and control of East India Company ref1; loses 1784 election ref1; opposes Pitt the younger ref1; on governing India ref1; and impeachment of Warren Hastings ref1; supports George Prince of Wales’s right to throne ref1; supports revolutionary France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; condemns execution of Louis XVI ref1; Whigs abandon to support Pitt ref1; withdraws in war with France ref1; and treaty of Amiens (1802) ref1; on death of Pitt the younger ref1; serves as foreign secretary in Ministry of All the Talents ref1

  France: war with England (1689) ref1, ref2, ref3; in War of Spanish Succession ref1, ref2; famine and shortages ref1; peace negotiations and treaty with England (1711–13) ref1; and Jacobite rising (1715) ref1; in War of Austrian Succession ref1; fails to support 1745 Jacobite rising ref1; in Seven Years War with Britain (1756–63) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; invades Hanover (1757) ref1; driven from India ref1; loses Canada ref1; North American territory ref1; revolution (1789) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; supports America in War of Independence ref1, ref2, ref3; and Treaty of Paris (1783) ref1; European wars ref1; urges rising in other European countries ref1; war against England (1793–8) ref1, ref2, ref3; attempts invasion of Ireland and Wales ref1; threatens invasion of England ref1, ref2; peace treaty with England (1802) ref1; resumes war against Britain (1803) ref1; successes in Napoleonic wars ref1, ref2; Britain imposes blockade on ref1; in Peninsular War ref1, ref2; surrenders (1814) ref1; peace settlement (1814) ref1; see also Napoleon I (Buonaparte), emperor

  Francis II, Holy Roman emperor ref1

  Franklin, Benjamin ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Frederick II (the Great), king of Prussia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Frederick, prince of Wales ref1, ref2

  Frederick William III, king of Prussia ref1

  Freeholder (journal) ref1

  French Revolution (1789) see France: revolution

  Friedland, battle of (1807) ref1

  Fuller, Thomas: Gnomologia ref1

  Fuseli, Henry ref1

  Gage, General Thomas ref1

  gambling ref1

  Garraway’s coffee house, London ref1

  Garrick, David ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  gaslight ref1, ref2, ref3

  Gay, John: in Scriblerus Club ref1; on commerce ref1; background ref1; The Beggar’s Opera ref1, ref2

  Gentleman’s Magazine ref1

  gentry (landed) ref1, ref2

  George I, king of Great Britain (George Ludwig of Hanover): as claimant to throne ref1, ref2; anger at British withdrawal from war ref1; succeeds to throne ref1; qualities ref1; and Jacobite rising (1715) ref1; hates son George Augustus ref1; returns to Hanover ref1; hold assemblies and public functions ref1 ref1; achievements ref1; death ref1, ref2; statue ref1

  George II, king of Great Britain (earlier prince of Wales): hated and restricted by father ref1; relations with Robert Walpole ref1, ref2, ref3; accession ref1, ref2; civil list ref1; thwarts Tories ref1; appearance and qualities ref1; visits to Hanover ref1; opposed by son Frederick ref1; declares Hanover neutral (1741) ref1; death and succession ref1; feud with grandson George III ref1

  George III, king of Great Britain: accession ref1; hatred of war and Pitt the elder ref1, ref2; principles ref1; reliance on Bute ref1; relations with political parties ref1; welcomes Pitt the elder’s resignation ref1; illnesses and madness ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; dislikes Grenville ref1, ref2; Wilkes attacks ref1; and American War of Independence ref1, ref2; and end of war with America ref1; popularity ref1; hatred of Fox ref1; supports Pitt the younger ref1, ref2; visits industrial sites ref1; praises Burke for denouncing French Revolution ref1; carriage mobbed in bread riots ref1; resists union with Ireland ref1; opposes Catholic emancipation ref1, ref2; urges measures against Napoleon ref1; considers accommodation with Napoleon ref1; on continuing struggle against Napoleon ref1; anger at French withdrawal from Portugal ref1

  George, Prince of Denmark ref1, ref2

  George, prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and King George IV): enmity towards Pitt the younger ref1; and father’s illness ref1, ref2; hopes for regency ref1; qualities ref1; made regent ref1

  Gerverot, Louis Victor ref1

  Gibbon, Edward: on Gordon riots ref1; on Sheridan ref1; The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ref1

  Gibraltar ref1

  Gillray, James ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  gin ref1

  Gin Act (1736) ref1

  Glorious First of June (1794) ref1

  Glorious Revolution (1689) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Godwin, William ref1, ref2

  Goethe, J. W. von ref1

  Goldsmith, Oliver ref1

  Gordon, Lord George: instigates riots (1780) ref1

  Gorée (island), Senegal ref1

  Grafton, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd duke of ref1, ref2

  Graham, Dr James ref1

  Grattan, Henry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Graves, Richard: Columella ref1

  Gray, Thomas: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ ref1

  Great Britain: formed ref1; see also England

  Grenville, George ref1, ref2, ref3

  Grenville, James ref1

  Grenville, William ref1, ref2

  Guadeloupe ref1

  Habeas Corpus Act: suspended (1793) ref1

  Habsburg dynasty: and War of Austrian Succession ref1; see also Holy Roman Empire

  Haddock, Admiral Nicholas ref1

  Hague, The: treaty of (1720) ref1

  Halford, Sir Henry ref1

  Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st earl of: financial expertise ref1; establishes Bank of England ref1; currency reform ref1

  Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd earl of ref1

  Halifax, George Savile, marquess of ref1

  Handel, George Frideric: Judas Maccabeus ref1

  Hanover: George I revisits ref1; George II visits ref1; mercenary troops serve British army ref1; French invade (1757) ref1

  Hanoverian succession: effected ref1, ref2, ref3; unpopularity ref1

  Harcourt, Simon, 1st viscount ref1

  Hardy, Admiral Sir Charles ref1

  Hardy, Thomas (shoemaker) ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hare, Francis, bishop of Chichester ref1

  Hargreaves, James: spinning jenny ref1

  Harley, Robert see Oxford, 1st earl of

  Harris, Revd John ref1

  Harrison, John (chronometer maker) ref1

  Harvard university ref1

  Hastenbeck, battle of (1757) ref1

  Hastings, Warren: impeachment and acquittal ref1

  Hawkin and Dunn (coffee merchants) ref1

  Hawkins, Sir John ref1

  Haydn, Joseph ref1

  Hayes, John ref1

  Haymarket theatre, London ref1

  Healy, Joseph ref1

  Hegel, G. W. F. ref1, ref2

  Heginbotham, Henry ref1

  Hermes Trismegistus ref1

  Hervey, John, baron of Ickworth ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hess: mercenary troops serve British army ref1, ref2, ref3

  Heyrick, Elizabeth ref1

  Hobbes, Thomas ref1

  Hobhouse, John Cam ref1

  Hobsbawm, E. J.:
Industry and Empire ref1

  Hoffmann, Johann Philipp ref1

  Hogarth, William: on line of beauty ref1, ref2; paints scene from The Beggar’s Opera ref1, ref2; depicts London turmoil ref1; background and influence ref1; membership of St Martin’s Lane academy ref1; individuality ref1; caricatures Wilkes ref1; ‘Beer Street’ (print) ref1; Gin Lane (print) ref1, ref2; The Sleeping Congregation (print) ref1

  Holland: alliance with England in War of Spanish Succession ref1, ref2, ref3; French invade (1793) ref1; falls to French (1795) ref1

  Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd baron ref1, ref2

  Holme Mill, Bradford ref1

  Holy Roman Empire: in William’s coalition against France ref1; Austria and Prussia dominate ref1

  Hondschoote, battle of (1793) ref1

  Hood, Thomas: The Art of Punning ref1

  hospitals ref1

  Houghton Hall, Norfolk ref1, ref2

  houses and housing ref1, ref2

  Howard, Henrietta ref1

  Howard, John ref1

  Howe, Admiral Sir Richard, earl ref1

  Howe, General Sir William, 5th viscount ref1, ref2

  Hutton, William ref1, ref2, ref3

  ‘immortal seven’ ref1

  Indemnity Bill (1689) ref1

  India: British conquests ref1; and British imperialism ref1; British administration in ref1; cotton manufacture ref1; see also East India Company

  industrial revolution: and generation of power ref1, ref2; and domestic manufacture ref1; origins and causes ref1; and art ref1, ref2, ref3; and invention ref1; and increased production ref1; social and labour effects ref1, ref2; and mass production ref1; and Methodism ref1; riots and machine-breaking ref1, ref2, ref3; British lead in ref1; see also factories; steam engines

  industrialists ref1

  industry: growth ref1; geographical distribution ref1; labour force ref1; minor and specialist ref1; effect on towns ref1

  inns ref1

  inventions ref1, ref2

  Ireland: William III’s campaign in ref1; penal laws ref1; demands independence ref1, ref2; Volunteer Associations ref1; French attempt invasion (1796) ref1; rebellion (1798) ref1; union with England (1801) ref1, ref2; and proposed Catholic emancipation ref1, ref2

  iron manufacture ref1, ref2

  iron-masters ref1

  Italy: Napoleon’s campaign in ref1

  Jackson, Andrew ref1

  Jacobins (French) ref1, ref2, ref3

  Jacobites: celebrate William III’s defeat at Mons ref1; hope for James II’s restoration ref1; and death of Prince William ref1; welcome death of William III ref1; 1715 rising ref1; Walpole’s wariness of ref1, ref2; 1745 rising ref1, ref2

 

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