Engle, the, their early home, i. 9, 10; settle in East Anglia and the north, 36; conquer Bernicia, 52. _See_ English, Mercians, South-Engle
English people, their life in Old England, i. 10-22; religion, 22-24; temper, 24-26; love of the sea, 27; character of their conquests, 39-44; of their settlement, 44-48; changes in organization after the conquest, 48-52; tendencies towards unity, 53-55, 61, 83, 130; union under Ecgberht, 103; fusion of northmen with, 126, 127; effects of struggle with the northmen on, 129, 130; tendencies towards disintegration, 133, 134; effects of foreign rule on, 176-178; fusion of Normans with, 200, 281; support William Rufus, 191, 192; support Henry I., 201, 202; revival of national feeling, 280, 281; attitude under George III., vii. 312-314; new life in America, viii. 43, 44. _See_ England
Episcopacy abolished in Scotland, v. 140; restored, 143, 166, 167; again abolished, 335; proposal to abolish it in England, 354
Erasmus, Desiderius, iii. 193, 194; his relations with Warham, 196, 212; teaches Greek at Cambridge, 201; protests against war, 211; his _Praise of Folly_, 199, 219; edition of St. Jerome, 212, 213; of the New Testament, 213, 215; his theology, 214; defends the New Learning against Luther, 256
Essex settled by the East Saxons, i. 35; submits to Wulfhere, 85; peasant revolt in, ii. 321; Protestantism in, under Mary, iv. 144; royalist rising in, vi. 59
Essex, Arthur Capel, first earl of, commissioner of the Treasury, vi. 301; supports Shaftesbury and the Exclusion, 315, 319; plots with Monmouth, etc., 336; 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
Eugene of Savoy, Prince, vii. 118, 120, 121, 131, 134
Eustace, son of King Stephen, i. 226, 227