Lewis XII., king of France (_see_ Orleans), iii. 206, 232
Lewis XIV., king of France, vi. 188-189; his policy, 190, 191; alliance with Charles II., 192; relations with England and Holland, 227; sends his fleet to join the Dutch, 239; attacks Flanders, 247; his offers to Spain, 249; treaty with her, 250; policy towards Holland, 251; treaties with Charles, 257, 258; attacks Holland, 268; position after Peace of Nimeguen, 291, 316; persecutes the Huguenots, 317, 335; new agreement with Charles, 323; seizes Strassburg, Casale, and Luxemburg, 335; relations with James II., vii. 12; revokes the Edict of Nantes, 13; relations with James and Holland, 36, 38; attacks Germany, 38, 48; receives James II. at St. Germain, 49; war declared against, by England and Holland, _ib._; his fleet, 68; sends troops to Ireland, 71; his successes, 75, 76; turn of his fortune, 79, 80; treaty with William, 90, 91; seizes the Dutch Barrier, 102; acknowledges James's son as king of England, 106; attacks Germany again, 118, 119; his losses, 131, 134; offers terms, 134, 135; death, 183, 185
Lewis XVI., king of France, viii. 28; summons the States-General, 83; a Constitution forced on, 86; attempts flight, 95; imprisoned, 101; executed, 103
Lewis XVIII., king of France, viii. 206, 211
Limoges welcomes Du Guesclin, ii. 285; stormed by the Black Prince, 286
Limousin restored to Edward III., ii. 266
Lincoln, one of the Five Boroughs, i. 117; battles of, 219; ii. 2; relieved by John, i. 356; Jews at, ii. 126, 127
Lincolnshire surrendered to Ecgfrith by Wulfhere, i. 86; rising in, iii. 323
Lindesay of the Byres, Patrick, sixth Lord, iv. 225, 228, 230
Linen manufacture, Irish, its foundation, v. 291
Lisbon, Drake's and Norris's expedition to, iv. 367, 368
Lisle, John Dudley, Lord, iv. 41, 46. _See_ Warwick
Literature, English, its beginnings, i. 77, 93, 96; decay during struggle with Danes, 113; Ælfred's influence on, 114, 115; after Norman Conquest, 242, 243, 246, 278; under Henry II., 174, 244-249; under John, 278, 279; popular, during Peasant Revolt, ii. 318, 319; Wyclif's influence on, 338; revival in fourteenth century, 357, 358; effects of the Renascence on, v. 1-3; developement under Elizabeth, 3-11; after the Revolution, 154; in poetry, 156, 157; in prose, 157-161, 292, 293; beginning of a new developement with Dryden, 333; Welsh, ii. 49-54. _See_ Drama