as keeping vivid Anglo-Saxon
traditions, 352; as securing An-|
glo-Saxon ascendency, 354; as
leading toward a brotherhood of
the human race, 365, etc.
Browning, Oscar, his "Modern Eng-
land" cited on the Reform Bill

of 1832, 253.

Brunswick, House of, of little mark,
but pledged to constitutional rule,
173.

Bryce, James, his "American Com-

monwealth" cited, 235, 237, 264,
271, 279, 298, 300, 315, 316, 332;
in Johns Hopkins University
Studies, 5th series, IX, 242.
Buckingham, as illustrating abuses
of borough representation in 18th
century, 183.

Buckle, his "History of Civilization
in England" cited on England
as saved by American resistance
in American Revolution, 225,
231.

Burgesses, House of, in Virginia,

120; its independent temper, 125.
Burke, Edmund, on importance of
preserving representative charac-
ter of House of Commons, 188:
his speech on the Stamp Act, 208;
his doctrine of representation,
211; his position as regards
America, 222; believes England |
saved by American resistance,
222; opposes the radicals, 223;
consistent in opposing French
Revolution, 223; laments the fall
of the Bourbons, 252.

Bute, shire of, as illustrating abuses
of representation in 18th century,
185.

Cabinet, origin and importance of,

in the English polity, 174; its
great modern significance, 257.
Camden, Lord, Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, his speech on the
Stamp Act, 209; his position not
that of the Colonies, 213; calls
Massachusetts the "ring-leading

colony" in American Revolution,
216.
Canada, why it remained to Eng-
land in American Revolution,
246; influence there of exiled
American Tories, 247; present
condition of, 249; long neglect
of, by the home government, 265;
becomes a federation with re-
sponsible government in 1867,
266; local self-government in, its
practical independence, 267 (and
note); difficulties before, 322;
summary of Constitution of, Ap-
pendix E.

Carlyle, his "Life and Letters of
Cromwell" cited, 161.
Carnegie, his "Triumphant De-
mocracy," 328.

Cass, Lewis, his influence in devel-
oping Michigan, 288.
Catharine II, of Russia, has ideas
of reform in 18th century, 251.
Ceorls, their equality in primitive
Anglo-Saxon society, 3; analo-
gous in condition to American
citizen, 9; they sink into villein-
age, 23.
Chamberlain, Mellen, cited, on the
legal status of the Thirteen Colo-
nies, 194; on causes of American
Revolution, 217; on the American
Revolution as a strife, not of
countries, but of parties, 220.
Chapter House, at Westminster,
first home of Parliament, 67.
Charles I, his arbitrary beginning,
107, 108; summons the Short and
the Long Parliament, 1640, 131;
his short-lived prudence, 133;
character of his party, 134, etc.;
at Edgehill, 137; at Naseby, 138;
his duplicity in the hands of his
enemies, 139; denounced in Grand
Army Remonstrance, 148; his exe-
cution, 154.

Charles II, King in Scotland, 1649,
157; restored to English throne,
1660, 163; benefits coming from
his bad character, 165.

Charters, colonial, originally incor-|
porations of trading companies,
"perverted" into constitutions,
195, 234; of mediæval guilds,
their relation to the Rigid Con-
stitution, 234.

Chatham, Pitt, Earl of, his speech

on the Stamp Act, 208; his posi-
tion not that of the colonists, 213;
strongly their friend, believes
their cause that of the English
Whigs, 221; thought English free-
dom was saved by the American
Revolution, 222.

China, possible perils from, to An-
glo-Saxon freedom, 354, etc.
Christian, commentator on Black-
stone, cited, 232, 262.

Church, in early times protects the
people, 49, 94, 95; under Henry
VIII divorced from Rome and
made Anglican, 95; its subser-
viency under Henry VIII, 96,
97; sanctions the jus divinum |
under the Stuarts, 104; its char-
acter under Laud, 108; its devo-
tion to royalty at the Restoration,
163; at first sustains James II,
165; sides with the Tories, 170;
hostile to Reform Bill of 1832,
254.

Church, Alfred, his "Henry V"
cited, 83.

Cities, their satisfactory adminis-
tration in England, 261; their
size and multiplication in the
United States, 299; difficulties
of their government, 300, 301;
suggestions as to improvement
of, 302, etc.; ideas as to, of Hon.
Seth Low, 302, etc.; grounds for
a hopeful view, 304, etc.
Civil War, English, breaks out
1642, the parties, 134, 136.
Cobden, on a reformed upper House
for Parliament, 261.

illustration of the essential iden-
tity of English-speaking men,
318, etc.
Colonies, the Thirteen, their estab-
lishment in America, 110, etc.;
their condition in the middle of
the 18th century, 192, etc.; they
claim to owe allegiance to King,
not Parliament, but are not con-
sistent, 196; the ecclesiastical
grievance, 197; the commercial
grievance, 198; their welfare sac-
rificed to English advantage, 200;
assert through Franklin, in 1766,
allegiance to King, but not Par-
liament, 202; doubt as to their
constitutional position, 202, 203;
effect upon, of fall of Quebec,
203; exasperated by Grenville's
policy, 204, etc.; their position
not that of Pitt and Camden, 213;
superior in political wisdom to
the mother-country, 214; influ-
enced by a discreditable reason
partly, united by the Stamp Act
in resistance to England, 217;
patriots in, embarrassed by the
number of Tories, 225; become
the United States with small con-
stitutional change, 235; the new
colonial empire managed on dif-
ferent principles, 246; how con-
stituted, 246, etc., 264; Sir T.
Erskine May on freedom of, 268.
Comines, Philippe de, on English
parliamentary government in
15th century, 84.
Comitatus (see Gesith).
Commercial class, rises in impor-
tance, for the most part non-
conformists, recruited by foreign
immigrants, 171; tends to plutoc-
racy, 175; its good influence
as regards freedom, 198; its
selfish treatment of the colonies,
199.

free ideas, 251.

Colonial exhibition of 1886, scene

at opening of, 269, 270; as an

national council in 13th century,
57; representation fully estab-
lished under Edward I, 60.

1327, 68.

Dakota, North and South, local

government in, 294.

Danes, effect of their incursions,
22, 23.

Declaration of Rights, 1688, 166,
167.

Deerfield, Franklin Co., Mass.,
town-meeting at, 279, etc.

Elbe, country near mouth of, the
primitive Anglo-Saxon home, de-
scribed, 2.

Electoral College, borrowed from
Holy Roman Empire for Federal
Constitution, a failure in prac-
tice, 239.

Eliot, President, of Harvard, on
the success of democracy, 336,

etc.

De Tocqueville, on the Constitu-
tion, 232, 241; on value of New
England town-meeting, 283, 284;
on feebleness of French coloniza-
tion, 288.

Dilke, Sir Charles, his Problems
of Greater Britain cited, 266,
267, 272, 299, 318, 328.
Dissenters (see Non-conformists).
Dobell, Sidney, his Sonnets quoted,
350.

Domesday Book, description of, 40,
41.

Dunbar, Cromwell's victory at, 158.

East India Company, chartered

1600, beginning of British domin-
ion in India, 111.

Eaton, Dorman B., cited, 188.
Edgehill, battle of, 1642, 137.
Edinburgh, restriction of the fran-

chise in 18th century, 184.
Edward the Confessor, decay under
him of the Anglo-Saxon polity,

23.

Edward I, importance of his influ-
ence, 59; his character, 60; great
development under him of repre-
sentative government, 61.

temper of Parliament under, 99;
her character and rule, 100; ef-
fect of her popularity, 102.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, on the
value of the New England town-
meeting, 284.

England, its germ in the ancient
Teutonic communities, 10; its un-
broken development to the pres-
ent day, 15; its fitness for repre-
sentative government in 1265, 54,
55; freedom preserved to it by
American Revolution, 222; its
masses pro-American in Ameri-
can Revolution, 224; its great-
ness apparently destroyed by loss
of the Thirteen Colonies, 245; ac-
quires at once a new colonial em-
pire, 246; much sympathy in, at
first, for the French Revolution,
251; reaction from this, 252; be-
comes in modern times practi-
cally a republic, 263; present em-
barrassments of, from the Irish
question, 322, 323; love in, for
Anglo-Saxon freedom, 328.
Earl, Anglo-Saxon noble, 5.

Farmers, rise of class of, in 14th
century, 71.
Feudalism, rise of, among the Sax-
ons, 22, 23; its Frankish and
Norman development, 39; estab-