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Aberdeen, 160 Athelstan, King of the Anglo-Saxons, 173 Aberdeen Journal, The, 166 Atholl, John Murray, third Duke of, 139 Aberdeenshire, 165, 167 authors and authorship, 4, 10–14, 20–21, 50, Adams, John, President of the United States, 205 90–91, 136–37, 154, 160, 260 Albany, New York, 215 autobiographies, 1–2, 33, 40, 44, 61, 68, 143, 259 Alexander the Great, 225–26, 229 Alexander, William, 9, 243 Babington family of Rothley Temple, 161 Alfred the Great, King of England, 34, 109, Bacon, Francis, 130–31 114, 173 Baker, Michael, 98, 176 Allan, David, 5, 17, 118, 157 Balliol, John, King of Scotland, 141, 199 Allen, Charles, 28 Bangor School, Wales, 27 Almeida, Joselyn, 256 Banks, Joseph, 176 Altick, Richard, 5 Barron, William, 145 America and Americans, 7, 16, 33, 35–36, 43, 54, Bayly, Christopher, 223 61, 151, 180–221, 243, 250–54, 264 Beattie, James, 73, 89 American Revolution, 16, 18, 20, 56–57, 76, Beaufort, Sir Francis, 63 103–4, 125, 160, 180, 182–88, 195, 199, 212–18, Becket, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 34, 235, 252, 262 99, 107, 200 Bank Wars, 206 Belknap, Jeremy, 76, 182–88, 193–94, 200 Civil War, 212 History of New Hampshire, 182, 188 Constitution, 205–6 Bell, John, 89, 95 Continental Congress, 185, 214–15 Bell, Robert, 7 discovery of, 73, 171, 186 Belsham, William, 130 ﬁrst settlement, 171, 186–88, 190, 192, 213 History of England, 145, 163 Loyalists, 214, 217–20 Memoirs of the Kings of England, 48 Native Americans, 171, 186, 188–97, 199, 220, Bennett, John, 30, 46, 110, 112 230, 232, 244, 248 Bentinck, Lord William, 56, 85 Paxton Boys Massacre, 189 Bentley, William, 9, 54, 56, 60, 85, 96, 209–10, 213 political parties, 205–12 Beverley, Robert, 214 Anderson, Benedict, 18, 20, 262 bibliomania, 62 Anderson, Sarah, 50 Biddle, Nicholas, 95, 98, 189, 197, 206, 261 Anglo-Saxons, 18, 46, 72, 111, 114–15, 118, 129, 136, Bishopp, Harriet Anne, 245 174, 259 Blackstone, William, 38 Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 19 Blair, Hugh, 3 antiquaries and antiquarianism, 8, 55, 59, 63, 66, Blind Harry, 143 91, 97, 148, 151–52, 214, 241, 258 Boece, Hector, 170 Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, 89, 95 Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount, 9, 28, 42 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 170 Bolingbroke, Roger, 234 Arnot, Hugo, 163–64 Bonaparte, Napoleon, Emperor, 3, 66, 162, 250 Ashburton, John Dunning, Baron, 55 books assassins, deﬁnition of, 63 copy money, 4, 12

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books (cont.) Campbell, Thomas, 151 illustrated editions, 47, 136 Carey, Mathew, 62, 100, 181, 189 price of, 5–6, 180, 264 Carnall, Geoffrey, 232 print runs of, 5 Carroll, Charles of Carrollton, 35 published by subscription, 7 Carte, Thomas, 19, 120, 144 stereotype editions, 6, 263 Cary, Harriet, 33 booksellers, 7, 9, 12, 14, 89, 91, 94, 100, 136, 158, Catholic Emancipation, 58, 99, 122 181, 260, 263–64 Cebes of Thebes, 80 Borough, Thomas, 59–60, 65, 96, 98–100, 115–17, Certeau, Michel de, 14, 20 162, 241, 243–44, 248–49, 255 Chalmers, George Bossu, Jean Bernard, 241 Caledonia, 166 Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, 61 Life of Mary, Queen of Scots, 169 Boston, Massachusetts, 33, 36, 182, 212–13 Political Annals of the Present United Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, 52 Colonies, 214 Boutflower, Charles, 61 Chambers, Ephraim, 42 Bowen, George, 173–76 Chandos, James Brydges, third Duke of, 54 Boyle, David of Sherralton, 34, 106, 117, 164 Chapman, George, 32, 42 Bracknell, Berkshire, 239 Chapone, Hester, 28, 30, 46 Bradford, William, 35 character, 3, 16–17, 28, 30, 37, 49–52, 56, 62, 77, Brewer, J. S., 136 89, 91, 93, 109, 113, 118, 120, 123, 134–35, 152, Brewer, John, 14 160, 174, 182, 210, 219, 247, 259 Bristol, 8, 42, 84 Charlemont, James Caulfeild, first Earl of, 89 Bristol Library Society, 9 Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, Britain and the Britons, 13, 17–21, 28, 75, 77, 102, 13, 19, 43, 66, 104, 108, 134, 158, 173, 178, 183, 104, 110, 121, 126, 129, 133, 135–36, 143, 160, 185, 201 223, 226, 229, 241, 258 Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Gordon Riots, 18, 57, 122 Ireland, 55, 59, 107, 118, 178, 201, 212 Hanoverian succession, 158, 165, 169, 184 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 25, 39, 54, 79, popular constitutionalism, 18, 121 181, 249, See Robertson, William, Reign of Bromley Common, Kent, 107 Charles V Brooke, Robert Greville, second Baron, 202 Charleston College, 35, 207 Brown, Michael, 155 Charleston, South Carolina, 8, 52, 208 Bruyère, Jean de la, 38 Chartier, Roger, 21 Buchanan, George, 169–70 Chartists, 18 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 227 Chester, Pennsylvania, 215 Burghley, William Cecil, first Baron, 58 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Burlington, New Jersey, 215 Earl of, 28 Burnet, Gilbert, 43, 99, 107 Chippenham, Wiltshire, 107 History of My Own Times, 99, 237 Chosroiduchta, 53 History of the Reformation, 70, 130 Chowbent Book Society, 43 Burntisland, Fife, 259 Christian Observer, The, 90 Burrough, Michael, 59, 142, 144, 176 Chubb, John, 145, 162 Bute, John Stuart, third Earl of, 140, 157, 179 Cibber, Colley, 218 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 210 Cadiz, 25, 107 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, first Earl of, 19, 48, 55, Calvin, John, 79, 100 120, 130, 144, 173, 237 Cambridge, Massasachusetts, 9 Clark, J. C. D., 102 Cambridge, University of, 31, 34, 78 Claudius, Emperor, 53 Trinity College, 103, 126 Clephane, John, 90 Cameron, William, 70, 143–45, 164 Clerk family of Penicuik, 145 Poetic Dialogues on Religion, 70 Clifford, Arthur, 36–38, 44, 64, 259 Campbell, Hugh, 10 Clifford, Rosamund, 259 Campbell, Lady Mary, Duchess of Buckingham climate, 187, 191, 244, 248 and Chandos, 83 clubs and societies, 8, 35, 43, 61, 86, 89, 170, 195, Campbell, Robert, 7 214, 231

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Cobbett, William, 130–31 Douglas family of Cavers, 242 Coke, Sir John, 201 Dow, Alexander, 254 Colley, Linda, 102 Drake, Sir Francis, 107 Collinson, Peter, 177–78 drama and plays, 32, 38, 49, 178, 218, 237, 259 Colquhoun, Patrick, 227 Drummond, Jean, Duchess of Atholl, 69, 140 Columbus, Christopher, 73, 171, 186, 243 Dublin, 35, 144, 148 commerce and commercialisation, 7, 13, 20, 29, Dublin, Trinity College, 35, 74, 147, 151, 156 31, 35, 39–40, 58–60, 150, 163, 172, 181, Ducarel, Gerard Gustavus, 222–24 185–86, 200, 226, 231, 233, 241–43, 245, Ducarel, James, 222 250–51, 264 duels and duelling, 54, 62, 106, 181 Commodus, Emperor, 41 Dumfries, 56 Comnena, Anna, 53 Dumfries Grammar School, 32 conduct writers, 8, 10, 22, 27–32, 46, 92, 110, Dunbar, James, 160 114, 263 Dundee Factory Boy, 143 conjectural history. See society, comparative Dunstan, St, 98, 176, 200 history of Dutch Revolt, 1, 56–57, 99, 202, 235–37, 245, Constantinople, 241 249 Cooke, John and Charles, 6 Cornwallis, Thomas, 15 Eagles, Thomas, 42, 84 correspondence, 22, 35–36, 44–45, 48–51, 56–57, East India Company, 18, 39, 88, 222–40, 60–62, 69, 71, 76, 82, 90, 103, 113, 117, 120, 250–54, 257 125, 139, 169, 205, 222–24, 231, 240, 246, 256 renewal of charter, 58, 243 Crantz, David, 192 Easton, Pennsylvania, 8, 190 Critical Review, The, 29, 92 Edgar, King of England, 174, 259 critics and criticism, 12, 43, 49–50, 61, 68, 74, Edgeworth, Maria, 29 76–77, 81, 83, 85, 92, 101, 154, 206, 235, 238, Edinburgh, 18, 89, 125, 163, 170, 193, 196, 242 258, 261 Edinburgh Review, The, 77 Cromwell, Oliver, 125, 161, 166, 242, 258 Edinburgh, University of, 36, 163, 217 crusades, 52, 85, 97, 131, 250 education, 2, 8, 22, 27–32, 36, 41, 43, 46, 49–50, Cullum, Sir John, 97, 258 58, 61, 105, 121, 127, 167, 182, 213, 217, 246, Curchod, Suzanne, 89 258, 263, See individual institutions Curry, John, 151, 155 classical education, 30, 32, 37, 67 liberal education, 28, 30–31, 42 Dabney, John, 9 maternal role in, 46–53, 71, 73, 76, 93, 110–13, Dalrymple, Sir John, 154, 251 117, 140, 222, 245, 261 Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Edward I, King of England, 59, 109, 111, 140, 142, Property in Great Britain, 56 162, 165, 170, 175, 199 Memoirs of Great Britain, 7, 59, 121–24, 157–59 Edward II, King of England, 150, 170 Dames, Francis Longworth, 40, 42 Edward III, King of England, 54, 59, 108, 131, Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord, 168 201, 241 Darnton, Robert, 11–12, 15, 265 Edward of Westminster, 113 Day, Thomas, 34, 247 Edward of Woodstock (the Black Prince), 131 De Lolme, Jean-Louis, 118 Edward V, King of England, 59, 234 Derby, 125, 259 Edward VI, King of England, 94 Dewar, James, 35, 207 Edwards, Bryan, 62, 240–41 diaries, 9, 22, 26, 32, 35–40, 42, 44, 47–49, 51–55, Egypt and Egyptians, 14, 225 59, 61, 64, 66, 71, 73, 76, 80, 84, 86, 93, 112, Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, 234 119, 121–24, 159–61, 167–69, 235–39, 245, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 216 247, 250–55, 259–61 Elizabeth, Queen of England, 49–51, 58, 63, 106, Dickinson, John, 201 112–13, 116, 127–28, 133–36, 145, 148, 150–51, Dillon, Luke, 34, 144 168, 203, 243 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1 Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 238 Dodsley, Robert, 107 Empire, British, 7, 18, 20, 222–57, 262 Doncaster, Yorkshire, 126 critique of, 4, 18, 161, 184, 246–57 Douai, English College in, 37 expansion of, 223, 233–34

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empires, comparative history of, 4, 9, 25, 39, 73, Gemelli Careri, Giovanni Francesco, 178 181, 189, 207, 219, 226, 235–36, 246, gender, 43, 46–53, 110–13, 202 248–54, 264 genealogy, 54, 216–17 England and the English, 4, 20, 28, 35, 47, 59, 66, General History of Sieges and Battles, 171 99, 106, 109, 111, 115–16, 123, 132, 136, 139, Gentleman’s Magazine, The, 29, 119, 171 141–42, 145–49, 151, 156–62, 165, 169, 172–73, Gentleman’s Museum, The, 153 176–77, 182, 211, 214, 241, 259 George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 158 ancient constitution, 18, 115, 129–36 George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Charter of the Forests, 129 113, 158 Civil Wars, 14, 19, 104, 114, 133, 173, 184, 186, George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 201, 211, 219 107–8, 123, 125, 131, 145, 157–58, 167, 186, 253 Glorious Revolution, 19, 114, 117, 121–24, 126, Germany and Germans, 54, 94, 132, 239 129, 135, 184, 205, 218–20, 263 Gibbon, Edward, 1, 5–9, 36, 43, 46, 53, 89, 169, Magna Carta, 18, 105, 107, 109, 112, 114–15, 129, 213, 241 131, 133–34, 136, 182, 237 Decline and Fall, 4, 6, 9, 11, 20, 37, 39, 41, 52–53, Norman Conquest, 18, 35, 72, 109, 115, 135 56, 60–61, 63, 65, 68–69, 77–88, 95–96, 98, Popish Plot, 14, 100, 122 111, 161, 180, 197, 207–10, 239–40, 248, 255, Wars of the Roses, 108, 113, 234 260, 263 Wittenagemot, 111 Vindication, 84, 87 Enlightenment, 3–4, 12, 16, 69, 94, 98, 100, 114, Gibson, John, 242 150, 153, 177, 182, 186, 195, 233, 244, 248, 265 Gilchrist, John Borthwick, 227 Ethelred II, King of England, 177 Gillies, John, 8, 59, 65, 207 Evans, Jonathan, 106 Gilpin, Henry D., 33, 55 Everett, Edward, 43 Ginzburg, Carlo, 15 Glasgow, 72, 242 Ferguson, Adam, 43, 65 Glasgow, University of, 34, 106 Essay on the History of Civil Society, 8, 34, 56, 65, Godwyn, Charles, 91, 100 209, 247 Goldsmith, Oliver, 210, 237 History of the Progress and Termination of the Abridgement of the History of England, 33, Roman Republic, 54, 59, 207, 209, 248 47 feudalism, 35, 118, 143, 174 History of England in a Series of Letters from Fielding, Henry, 4 a Nobleman to his Son, 6, 33, 218–220 Fish, Stanley, 20, 121, 124, 137, 262 History of Greece, 36 Fiske, Major General John, 9 Roman History, 207, 209 Fitzherbert, Sir William, 108, 146 Goodall, Walter, 169 Flexman, Roger, 74 Goodhue, Benjamin, 9 food, history of, 59, 112, 188, 192, 243 Goodman, Dena, 239 Forbes, James, 237–38 Gordon, Lord George, 57 Fox, Charles James, 19, 173 Gordon, William, 213 France and the French, 4, 8, 18, 38–39, 47, 51, 56, government, comparative history of, 1, 25–26, 31, 61, 64, 83, 85, 100, 111, 122–23, 132, 137, 149, 64–65, 109–10, 125, 132, 181, 200, 207–10, 157, 169, 218, 220, 258 212, 245, 248–49, 251–55 French Revolution, 18, 37, 64, 104, 126, Grafton, Anthony, 17 205, 263 Grant, John, 57, 169 Francis I, King of France, 258 Grant, Peter, 122 Franklin, Benjamin, 177, 213 Gratian, Emperor, 87 Franks, James, 55, 107 Gray, Thomas, 206 French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 4, Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, 243 64–65, 126, 137, 162, 177, 220, 263 Greece and the Greeks, 36, 53, 57, 59, 65, 83, 98, Peninsular War, 4, 25, 49, 61, 66, 109 207, 225, 247, 255 Furlong, John S., 35 Grenville, Louisa, Countess Stanhope, 51, 71, 73, 93, 245, 261 Gambier, James, 76, 120 Grifﬁth, Hugh, 107 Garrett, Robert, 109, 114, 133, 141 Guizot, François, 83 Geffrye Museum of the Home, 6 Guthrie, William, 38, 227, 244

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Hailes, Sir David Dalrymple, Lord, 165 Hume, Sir Abraham, 117 Haileybury College, 88 humour, 89, 198, 258 Halifax, Nova Scotia, 237 Hurd, Richard, Bishop of Worcester, 120 Halifax, Yorkshire, 55, 107, 112, 239–40 Hutchinson, Francis, 120, 144 Hallam, Henry, 19, 131–35 Hutchinson, Thomas, 211 Halliday, John Edmund, 176, 249–50 Hamilton, Alexander, 200, 205 Imrie, David, 56 Hamilton, Frances, 86 India and Indians, 18, 39, 45, 61, 222–40, 243–45, Hare, John Powel, 61 247, 249–54, 257 Harper, James, 7 Allahabad, 225–26 Harrow School, 109 Anglo Maratha Wars, 236 Harvard College, 35–36, 43, 87, 182 antiquities, 224, 231, 251 Hastings, Warren, 18, 34, 245 Bombay, 227, 237 Heathcote, Lady Margaret, 49–50, 62, 113 Calcutta, 222, 228, 238 Henry I, King of England, 107, 171 castes, 225 Henry II, King of England, 34, 107, 140, 148–49, Lahore, 225 153, 172–73, 259 Permanent Settlement reform, 243 Henry III, King of England, 109, 175 Pune, 238 Henry IV, King of England, 59, 108, 132, 203 religion and religious belief, 226, 232–33, Henry V, King of England, 59, 131 244, 254 Henry VI, King of England, 131, 234 sati, 243 Henry VII, King of England, 108, 130, 145 industry and industrialisation, 7–8, 13, 31, 43, 45, Henry VIII, King of England, 59, 94, 112, 116, 120, 59–60, 129, 186, 213, 241 128, 160, 172, 242, 258 information, 2, 16, 22, 24, 26, 31, 38–41, 43–44, Henry, Robert, 5, 8, 43, 61, 107, 177 58–59, 65–67, 85–86, 104–5, 110, 121, 124, Hentzer, Paul, 177 130, 137, 147, 163, 170, 177, 180, 182, 196–97, Hirst, Thomas Archer, 15 213, 216, 223–27, 229, 231, 239, 242, 244, 248, History of the Reign of George the Third, 123 258, 260, 263 Holinshed, Raphael, 177 intertextuality, 105, 119, 127, 129–36, 138, 228, 250 Holthoon, F. L. van, 115 Ireland and the Irish, 7, 12, 20, 34, 40, 49, 62, 74, Holwell, John Zephaniah, 251, 254 77–80, 99, 102, 109, 119–20, 141, 144–47, Holy Alliance, 63 170, 181, 217, 241–42 Hone, William, 96 Boyne, Battle of the, 99, 145, 155 Hoock, Holger, 231 Irish Rebellion (1641), 155–56, 262 Hooke, Nathaniel, 1, 49 Irish Rebellion (1798), 144 Hopper, George, 161, 237–38 Parliament, 120, 144, 146 Howe, Caroline, 49, 51 Patriots, 147–56, 179, 189, 262 Howlett, Benjamin, 90 Poyning’s Law, 146 Howsam, Leslie, 26, 136 Young Ireland Rebellion, 78 Hubbard, William, 214 Ireland, John, 80 Hudson, New York, 215 Irene of Athens, 53 Hume, David, 1, 3–9, 166, 169 irony, 68, 74, 76, 79–82, 84, 87, 92, 97–98, 149, ‘My Own Life’, 12 158, 186, 201, 203 death of, 12, 90 Irvine, James, 164, 166 Essays and Treatises, 70 Isocrates, 79 Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Italy and Italians, 57, 61, 66, 85, 132, 165, 241–42 Soul, 71 History of England, 4, 10, 12, 16, 19–20, 29, Jacobites and Jacobitism, 14, 19, 21, 104, 118, 125, 33–38, 43, 45, 49–51, 54–64, 68–77, 88–94, 135, 137, 140, 143–44, 156, 158, 162, 98, 100, 103–45, 147–57, 160, 162–63, 165, 164–67, 169 176, 180, 182–86, 198–206, 234–35, 237, 245, James I and VI, King of England, Scotland and 251, 258–59, 261–63 Ireland, 52, 106, 112, 116–17, 141, 143, 150, 183, reception in America, 16, 180, 182–86, 214, 243 198–206 James II and VII, King of England, Scotland and Hume, Hanna, 71, 76, 117, 261 Ireland, 145

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James IV, King of Scotland, 164 circulating libraries, 9, 53 James, John, 56 for the working classes, 10 Jardine, Lisa, 17 private libraries, 5, 7 Jauss, Hans Robert, 21 subscription libraries, 8–9, 43, 53, 76, 197, Jebb, John, 79, 82 261–62 Jedburgh, Scotland, 242 Library, or Moral and Critical Magazine, The, 92 Jefferson, Thomas, President of the United Lingard, John, 62 States, 45, 205–6, 209 Linnaeus, Carl, 177 Jerusalem, 250 Lister, Anne, 52, 63, 84–85, 96, 112, 239–40, 261 Joan, Pope, 53 Liverpool, Mechanics & Apprentices Library, 10 John, King of England, 59, 107, 112, 133, 177, 182 Livingston, William, 216 Johns, Adrian, 11 Livingstone, David N., 191 Johnson, R., 29 Livy, Titus, 1 Johnson, Robert, 81 Llewellyn the Great, King of Gwynedd, 141, 175 Johnson, Samuel, 42, 89, 161 Lloyd, David, 146, 172–73, 176 Jolly, Alexander, Bishop of Moray, 166–67 Locke, John, 2, 38, 42, 46, 144, 203 Jones, Sir William, 245 Loft, General John Henry, 177 Julius Caesar, 107 Logan, Deborah Norris, 189, 217 Justinian, Emperor, 95 Logan, George, 217 Logan, James, 217 Kames, Henry Home, Lord London, 6, 18, 35, 54, 60–61, 91, 106, 122, 141, Hints Upon Education, 46 157–58, 177, 237, 257, 259 Historical Law Tracts, 56 Londonderry, Lady Frances, Marchioness of, 48 Sketches of the History of Man, 6, 9, 65, 189, Losh, James, 62 191–99, 204, 232 Louis XIV, King of France, 39, 79 Keene, Henry George, 88 Lowell, Edward Jackson, 36, 38, 41, 213–14, 260 Keith, Sir William, 214 Lowell, Rebecca Amory, 50 Kelso Subscription Library, 76 Luke, George Sercombe, 86 Khan, Almas Ali, 228 Luther, Martin, 74, 100 Khan, Saadat Ali, 229 Lyttelton, George, 8, 48, 172 King, Edward, 251 Lytton family of Knebworth House, 248 King’s College, London, 136 Kingdon, Catherine, 93 Macaulay, Catherine, 43–44, 119, 126, 158, 201–2, Kingdon, Joseph, 93 205–6, 237 Kinloch, Ann Isabella (Cleland), 52, 208 Macaulay, Thomas Babbington, 19 Kinloch, Francis, 208 Mackellar, Daniel, 7 Kinsey, James, 215 Mackenzie, D. F., 11 Kinsey, John, 215 Mackenzie, John, 229 Knox, Vicesimus, 28, 32, 42, 263 Mackenzie, Roderick, 227 Mackenzie, William, 87 Laing, Malcolm, 142 Mackintosh, Sir James, 83, 88 Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne, 58, Maclaine, Archibald, 76, 91, 183 66, 99 Macpherson, James, 154 landscape, 164, 175, 187, 216, 239 An Introduction to the History of Great Britain Langton, Stephen, Archbishop of and Ireland, 154 Canterbury, 133 Ossian, 154, 161 Larpent, Anna, 14, 47–49, 261 Madison, James, President of the United Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, States, 35 130, 200 Magee, William, 77 Ledwich, Edward, 151 Mahon, Arthur, 119, 242 Leeds, Yorkshire, 244 Maitland, William, 177–78 Leland, Thomas, 74, 118, 147–56, 170, 262 Malet, Sir Charles, 233–35, 237, 245 libraries, 8–10, 60, 180, 222, See individual Malmesbury, Sir James Harris, ﬁrst Earl of, 56 libraries Malta, 1, 63 book clubs, 9, 43, 53, 60, 80, 86, 123, 252, 254 Mansﬁeld, David Murray, second Earl of, 56

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Mansfield, William Murray, first Earl of, 157 Morgan-Clifford, William, 146 Manuel, Frank and Frizzie, 218 Morning Chronicle, The, 122 Margaret of Anjou, 113 Morris, Robert, 213 Margaret, Maid of Norway, 141 Mortimer, Edmund, fifth Earl of March, 132 marginalia, 40, 57, 74, 87–88, 97, 118, 147–56, Mosheim, Johann, 61, 76, 183 166–67, 176–78, 190–91, 214–17, 262–63 Murray family, Dukes of Atholl, 69, 139, 164 Bodleian Library, 91, 100 Murray, Lord George, 140 interpretation of, 22, 148 Library Company of Philadelphia, 63, 87, 92, Napier, Letitia, 33, 176, 259 97, 191–206, 208 national identity, 17–21, 28, 51, 75, 100, 102, 104, propriety of, 203 110, 121, 129, 133, 135–36, 139, 143, 151–56, wider audience of, 156, 166–67, 194, 198, 159–60, 169, 171, 173–74, 180, 197, 213, 216, 217 241, 258 Mark’s Hall, Essex, 5 National Library of Ireland, 77, 81, 241–42 Marsh, John, 32 Neville, Cicely, 198 Marshal, William, first Earl of Pembroke, 133 New Hampshire, 76, 182–88 Marshall, John, 211 New Hampshire Gazette, 183 Mary I, Queen of England, 94, 155 New Jersey, 214–17 Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland and New York, 8, 61, 177, 217 Ireland, 99 New York Historical Society, 61 Mary, Queen of Scotland, 13, 49–51, 61, 76, 107, New York Society Library, 9 164–69, 203 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 129 Maryland, 185 news and newspapers, 64, 103, 121–24, 146, Massachusetts, 210, 213, 218 157–59, 181, 228–29 Mathew, R., 171 Nichols, Norton, 60 Matthews, John, 241 Noorthouck, John, 54 McKitterick, David, 11 Norman, George, 107 memory and commemoration, 2, 22, 29–30, 33, North Briton, The, 157 37, 40, 42, 47, 55, 69, 140, 143, 155, 165–66, Norwich, 9, 42, 53, 59, 119, 122, 262 174, 176, 178, 212–18, 262–63 Norwich Public Library, 9, 53 Menocchio, 15 notes and notetaking, 2, 22, 35, 47–50, 54–56, 61, Middle Temple, London, 60 171, 210–12, 222–24, 233–35, See marginalia, Middlesex Journal, The, 122, 158 scrapbooks Mifflin, Sarah, 87 amanuenses, 264 Mill, Charles, 93 chronological lists, 106 Mill, John Stuart, 1–2 commonplace books, 22, 33–34, 38, 40, 42, 44, Millar, Andrew, 12 50, 54, 58–59, 64, 76–77, 81–86, 90, 94–100, Millar, John, 1, 19, 34, 46, 59, 118, 126–29, 142, 201 106–8, 114, 119–20, 142–47, 161–65, 172–77, Miller, Eugene F., 115 182–88, 197, 206–10, 213–14, 218, 224–33, Mills, Charles, 33, 40, 44, 68–69, 83, 250 237–39, 241–44, 247, 249–50, 255 Milner, Joseph, 84 manuscript abridgements, 1, 16, 22, 25, 30, Milton, Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 33–36, 39, 41, 51, 54, 56–62, 66, 78, 86, Viscount, 243 93, 105–8, 110–12, 115–17, 126–36, 140–44, Mitchell, Rosemary, 136 181, 189, 218–20, 235–39, 243, 248–49, Mitford, William, 43, 247, 255 255, 260 money, 57, 60, 133, 162, 217, 250 question and answer style, 109, 114, 133, Money, Alice, 33, 52 141 Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron novels and novelists, 4, 10, 13, 15–16, 20, 28, 92, de, 46, 237, 251 112, 218, 237 Montezuma, 246 historical fiction, 259, 263 Montfort, Simon de, sixth Earl of Leicester, 111, 116 O’Brien, Karen, 20, 143, 168 Monthly Review, The, 74 O’Brien, William Smith, 78, 80 More, Hannah, 92 O’Conor, Charles, 151, 153–54 Morellet, André, 4 O’Halloran, Clare, 151, 154

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O’Halloran, Sylvester, 151, 154 Plato, 80 O’Neill, Sir Phelim, 155 Pliny the Elder, 87 Oakley, Captain Robert Cater, 224–25, 227, Plummer, Joshua, 9 229, 233 Pocock, J. G. A., 10 Oldmixon, John, 19 poetry and poets, 32, 70, 82, 143, 158, 206, 218, Oliver, Andrew, 218–20 237, 247 Onslow, Arthur, 118 Ponteland, Northumberland, 62 Ord, William, 41, 57, 129–37, 146, 261 Pope, Alexander, 4 Orlebar, Anne, 51, 112 Pope, James, 243 Orme, Robert, 226 Porson, Richard, 82 Oswald, St, 55 Porteus, Beilby, Bishop of Chester, 256 Ovid, 174 Portugal and the Portuguese, 225, 242, 255 Owain Glyndwr, 175 Priestley, Joseph, 32, 37, 58 Owen, Sir John, 173 Essay on a Course of Liberal Education, 30 Oxford, University of, 31, 34, 60, 62, 100, 114, 247 General History of the Christian Church, 83, Bodleian Library, 91, 100 85 Christ Church, 27, 34, 144 Lectures on History and General Policy, 42, Corpus Christi College, 34 119, 242 Princeton University (College of New Jersey), 35, Paine, Thomas, 107 43, 95, 194, 206, 261 Panton, Paul, 55, 171, 248, 255 Proud, Robert, 189, 217 paratexts, 12, 174, 217 Public Advertiser, The, 122, 157 Paris, 56, 61, 122, 240 Parker family of Saltram House, Plymouth, 48 Quarterly Review, The, 82–83 Parker, Robert, 65, 81 Quebec, 215 Parker, Thomas Netherton, 58, 98, 114, 116, 161, 244 race, 190–97, 230–33, 247–48 Parliament, 4, 18, 52, 57–58, 66, 99, 106, 111–19, radicals and radicalism, 7, 18, 21, 31, 44–45, 61, 66, 126–36, 140, 144, 157, 159, 162, 165, 173, 176, 70, 103, 110, 115, 118, 124, 126, 130, 137, 151, 183–86, 199–200, 206, 211, 220, 237, 243–44 157, 181, 210, 249 House of Commons, 34, 65, 78, 103, 108, Raine, Eliza, 240 111–12, 116, 118, 127, 133, 137, 144 Ramsay, David House of Lords, 113 History of the American Revolution, 213 pedantry, 29, 84, 93, 148, 158, 203 History of the United States, 214 Pennant, Thomas, 175 Ranson, Jean, 15 Pennington, Lady Sarah, 28 Raper, Thomas, 215 Pennsylvania, University of, 206 Rapin, Paul Thoyras de, 33, 46, 108, 111, Perceval, Spencer, 63 118–19, 237 periodicals, 8, 32, 42, 62, 77, 81, 83, 92, 107, 122, Raven, James, 4 153, 157, 206, 235, 237, 261, See individual Raynal, Abbé Guillaume Thomas, 61, 125, 237, publications 252, 255 Perrers, Alice, 131 reader response, theories of, 14, 21, 121, 124, Philadelphia, 7, 42, 61, 87, 181, 200, 260, 262 137, 262 Philadelphia, Library Company of, 63, 87, 91, 97, reader, ideal, 14, 167 189, 191–209, 220, 232, 262 readers Philip II, King of Spain, 1, 39, 63, 236, 245, 249 antiquaries, 60, 91, 97, 100, 258 Philip III, King of Spain, 1, 97, 249 architects, 176, 249–50 Philips, George Richard, 45 army ofﬁcers, 25, 45, 54, 66, 109, 114, 133, 141, Philips, Lady Sarah Ann, 45, 48, 70, 98, 110, 118, 161, 177, 224–33, 237–38 137, 141–43, 146, 261 art dealers, 164 Philips, Sir George, 45 artisans, 9–10 Phillips, Mark Salber, 12, 19, 40, 59, 127 authors, 33, 40, 44, 55, 68, 74, 147–56 Phipps, Jonathan Wathen, 108 bankers, 59, 65, 81, 86, 95, 98, 142, 144, 176, 189, Pintard, John, 61 197, 206, 261 Pitt, William, ﬁrst Earl of Chatham, 43, 57 booksellers, 62, 89, 95, 100, 181, 189

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clergy, 9, 35, 44, 54–57, 60, 62, 74, 76, 79, 81, children’s, 1, 6, 8, 26, 29, 32–34, 46–53, 73, 85–86, 90, 96–97, 100, 107, 118, 120, 147–56, 92–93, 109, 136, 237 166–70, 182–88, 193–94, 200, 207, 209–10, courses of, 35, 43–45, 48, 55, 68, 70, 93, 98, 213, 239, 256, 258, 262 110–11, 113, 118, 137, 141–43, 224, 261 diplomats, 56–57, 61, 83, 85, 233–35, 237, distractions from, 29, 42, 64, 239, 258–60 245, 256 during recuperation, 62, 181 distillers, 7 emotional engagement with, 142, 171, 178, 189, drapers, 59, 142, 144, 176 213, 240, See sentimentalism East India Company writers, 39, 222–24, evidence for, 22, See autobiographies, 235–39, 249 correspondence, diaries, marginalia, notes excise ofﬁcers, 42, 84, 93 and notetaking, scrapbooks farmers, 33, 86, 98, 109, 114, 133, 141, 176, 217 imaginative engagement with, 51, 142, 164, 239, gentry, 34, 49, 51–52, 58, 62, 65, 81, 84, 89, 93, 246, 259 95–96, 106, 112, 114, 119, 144, 146, 161, 163, in conversation, 2, 17, 21–22, 30, 44, 46, 49, 172–76, 239, 241–45, 248, 260–61 75–76, 110, 113, 121, 146, 167, 186, 202, 204, intellectuals, 177–78 220, 239, 256, 261 lawyers, 9, 32, 34–35, 40, 44, 54–55, 59–60, 62, in isolation, 62, 84 65, 68, 81, 95–100, 106, 108, 115–17, 146, 162, in prison, 61 171, 189, 197, 206, 218–20, 243–44, 248–49, notes from. See notes and notetaking 255, 261 with family, 2, 5, 9, 46–50, 62, 75, 113, 222 manufacturers, 9, 36, 38, 41, 45, 48, 57, 70, 98, reform and reformists, 18, 57, 62, 66, 112, 126–36, 110, 118, 129–37, 141–43, 146, 213–14, 162, 220, 261, 263 260–61 Reid, Thomas, 73 merchants, 7, 9, 42, 53, 59, 61, 80, 84, 87, 107, religion and religious belief, 53, 68–102, 217, 119, 121–24, 137, 145, 159–62, 176, 232–33, 254–55, 258, 262 249–55, 262 Baptists, 90 musicians, 32 Catholics and Catholicism, 18, 21, 25, 51, 57–58, naval ofﬁcers, 63, 242 70, 74, 78, 91, 98–99, 101, 107, 110, 134, 144, nobility, 40, 42, 49, 51, 54, 56, 58, 61–62, 66, 69, 151, 153–54, 156, 164, 168, 200, 204, 244 71, 73, 83, 93, 99, 113, 139, 243, 245, 261 Church of England, 6, 28, 31, 55, 76, 80–82, 86, physicians and surgeons, 9, 61, 108, 217 96, 100, 120, 257 planters, 52, 208 Church of Ireland, 74, 79, 151 poets, 34, 247 Church of Scotland, 70, 143, 167 politicians, 41, 45, 48, 57–58, 63, 66, 70, 78, dissent and dissenters, 18, 21, 77, 99–100, 98–99, 108, 110, 118, 120, 126–46, 190–91, 119, 255 205, 210–12, 214–17, 243, 261 Episcopal Church of Scotland, 167 professors, 43, 74, 88, 194–96 Jesuits, 55 royal family, 108 Puritans, 100 schoolmasters, 9 Reformation, 14, 18, 40, 69, 72, 74, 76, 78–79, shoemakers, 106 94, 102, 110, 114, 128, 155–56, 241, 262 students, 33–39, 44, 55, 60, 64, 78, 86, 95, 98, scepticism, 55, 68–83, 87–89, 91, 93–94, 101, 100, 103, 106–7, 117, 120, 125, 144, 189, 197, 103, 150, 156, 183, 234 206–7, 213–14, 246–47, 259–61 toleration, 4, 85, 94–101, 114, 200, 245 Sunday School teachers, 50 Unitarians, 9, 43–44, 54, 209, 240, 254 women, 9, 33, 45–53, 61–63, 69–73, 75–76, Revolutionary Plutarch, The, 66 83–87, 93–94, 96, 98, 110–13, 117–18, 137, Rhodes, Ebenezer, 6 141–43, 176, 189, 208, 217, 239–40, 245, 247, Richard I, King of England, 107, 131 255, 259, 261 Richard II, King of England, 118, 128, 133, 204 reading Richard III, King of England, 234 abroad, 25, 39, 43, 45, 49, 57, 60–61, 66, 83, 161, Richardson, Joseph, 259 165, 222–33, 235–39, 249 Ridpath, George, 76, 167–69 aloud, 44, 47 Border History of England and Scotland, 169 as appropriation, 14–17, 21, 24, 63–64, 67, 169, Rippingall, Stephen Frost, 86, 100, 107 181, 184–85, 199, 230, 232, 234, 245, 257, 260, Rising, Robert, 62, 84, 89 262–64 Robert I, King of Scotland, 142, 199

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Roberts, Lt Thomas Turner, 45, 224–33 Scott, Sir Walter, 20, 263 Robertson, Joseph, 28–29 Scott-Warren, Jason, 15 Robertson, William, 1, 5–9, 29, 37, 50, 61, 67, 111, scrapbooks, 89, 95, 122, 157–59, 177, 215 122, 143, 159, 164, 169, 180, 197, 213, 238, 263 Sebastiani, Silvia, 191, 193, 195 Historical Disquisition on India, 223–33, 241, Secord, James, 15 243, 249, 257 Segughsonyout (Thomas King), 190 History of America, 6, 36, 59, 73, 186–89, Selkirk, Alexander, 187 193–94, 199, 214, 239, 241–44, 246, 248, Selkirk, Scotland, 8 256–57 Seneca, 87 History of Scotland, 5–6, 9, 20, 29, 36, 48, 50–51, sentimentalism, 13, 50–52, 114, 143, 165, 174, 61–62, 108, 139, 142–45, 160, 166–69, 189, 259 199, 203 Servetus, Michael, 79 Reign of Charles V, 3–7, 9–10, 13, 25, 38, 43, 46, sexuality, 53, 193, 240 48–49, 54, 56, 59–62, 64, 66–67, 73, 94, Shah, Nader, 245 96–98, 100, 157, 160, 181, 189, 235, 241, 250, Shakespeare, William, 38 255, 258 Sharp, Granville, 77, 119 Robinson, Anne, 48 Sharp, Richard, 46, 70, 111, 118, 137, 141, 249 Robinson, Frederick, 103, 120, 125 Sharpe, Kevin, 17, 21 Robinson, John, 136 Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd, first Earl of, Robinson, Thomas, first Baron Grantham, 103 82 Robinson, Thomas, second Baron Grantham, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 82 103, 256 Sher, Richard, 4, 12, 14 Rollin, Charles, 43, 55 Sheridan, Thomas, 105, 110, 261 Rome and the Romans, 1, 20, 34, 53, 59, 65–66, Sherman, William, 17 72, 78, 83, 95, 101, 189, 207–9, 240, 248 Short History of the English Transactions in the East Roscoe, William, 61, 207, 237 Indies, 253 Rose, Elizabeth, 93, 111, 113, 164, 261 Sidney, Algernon, 122–23, 157 Rose, Hugh, 112 Sidney, Sir Philip, 237 Rose, Jonathan, 15 Skinner, Quentin, 10 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 15, 247 slavery, 161, 181, 209 Royal Asiatic Society, 231 abolition and abolitionists, 4, 18, 126, 161, 191, Russell, Alexander, 47 210, 240, 247, 255–57 Russell, William, 39, 43, 52, 65 Sloane, Hans, 177 Russell, William Russell, Lord, 122 Smith, Adam, 12, 193 Rymer, Thomas, 144 Wealth of Nations, 38, 60 Smith, Elizabeth, 43 Said, Edward, 232 Smith, James, 9, 42, 53, 59, 80, 119, 121–25, 129, Salem Social Library, 9 137, 159–61, 250–55, 257, 262 Salem, Massachusetts, 9, 54 Smith, John, 42 Sanford, Edward Ayshford, 95, 260 Smith, John Abel, 86 Sangster, Matthew, 198 Smith, Joseph, 215 Sawbridge, John, 159 Smith, Richard, 190–91, 214–17 Scotland and the Scots, 20, 70, 106, 134, 139, 143, Smith, Richard S., 215 145, 154, 159, 164–70 Smith, Samuel, 190, 214–17 Civil Wars, 108, 166 Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 43, 194–96 Darien scheme, 163 Smith, William, 106 Glorious Revolution, 135 Smith, William (historian), 217 Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, 125 Smollett, Tobias, 6, 43, 92, 112 Parliament, 164 Snowdon, James, 62 Reformation, 96, 200 society, comparative history of, 20, 45, 60, 150, Scotophobia, 156–62 153, 160, 186, 190–97, 209, 230–33, 244–45, Scotticisms, 103, 150, 154, 238 247–48, 251, 255, 262, 264 Scottish Enlightenment, 4, 12, 40, 60, 154, 160, Solon, 207 191, 195, 223 Somerset, 6, 33, 86, 95, 145, 162, 176 Wars of Independence, 141–42, 162, 199 Somerville, Mary, 259

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Spain and the Spanish, 107, 132, 181, 242, 245, travel and travel literature, 32, 43, 56, 59–60, 161, 249, 254 163, 175, 177, 193, 224, 235, 237–38, 241 Armada, 107, 136, 155, 237 Grand Tour, 49, 60 Black Legend, 96, 244, 256 Trevelyan, Mrs George, 6 Cadiz Cortes, 26 Trimmer, Sarah, 47 Conquistadors, 187, 189, 199, 243, 246, 252, 256 Tuckerman, Joseph, 239 Escorial Library, 241 Tyler, Wat, 204 expulsion of the Moors, 97 Tytler, William, 166, 169 Peninsular War, 4, 25, 49, 61, 66, 109 Sparta, 209 Union of Crowns (1603), 141, 144 Spencer, Georgiana, Countess, 49, 51, 61 Union, Anglo-Irish (1800–1), 139, 142, Spencer, Mark, 7, 16, 182, 184, 205 144–46, 220 St Andrews, University of, 34, 198 Union, Anglo-Scottish (1707), 20, 106, 139, 141, St Clair, William, 1, 5 144, 163–66, 169, 178 St Helena, 224 Universal History, 1, 33, 37, 171 St. James’s Chronicle, The, 158 St Paul, Horace, 54 Valens, Emperor, 57 St Paul, Sir John, 54 Valentinian, Emperor, 57 stadial history. See society, comparative history of Vernon, James, 18 Stanhope, James Hamilton, 25, 66, 71 Virginia, 214 Starkie, Le Gendre, 36, 246 Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, 218, 237, Steuart, Sir James, 165 251 Stewart, John, 198 L’Ingénu, 218 Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, 37 Peter the Great, 47 Strachey, Edward, 39, 235–39, 249, 253 Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 34, 130 Wadsworth, Benjamin, 35 Stuart Stevenson family of Castlemilk and Wales and the Welsh, 27, 107, 141, 145, 170–76 Torrance, 72–73, 75 Madoc, 171 Stuart, Charles Edward (Bonnie Prince Welsh Renaissance, 175 Charlie), 164 Wallace, William, 142, 164, 199 Stuart, Gilbert, 98, 206, 237 Waller, Thomas Wathen, 57, 83 History of Scotland, 166 Walpole, Horace, 122 History of the Reformation in Scotland, 96 Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of Student’s Hume, 136 England, Scotland and Ireland, 9 Suderman, Jeffrey, 19 Walsh, Margaret, 239, 247, 255 Sullivan, John, 185 Ward, Joshua, 9 Sumner, Charles Pinckney, 210–12 Ward-Boughton-Leigh family of Brownsover supercargo, 61 Hall, Warwickshire, 106 Swansea, 171 warfare, history of, 65, 149, 172, 247, 251 Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, 177 Warren, George, 177 Warrington Academy, 31 Taunton Reading Society, 86 Warrington, Janette, 49 Teltscher, Kate, 230 Warrington, William, 173–75 Theodosius, Emperor, 66 Washington, George, 211, 213 Thomson, William, 227 Watson, James, 61 Thrale, Hester, 64 Watson, Richard, Bishop of Llandaff, 81 Throckmorton, Sir Charles, 163, 241 Watson, Robert, 1, 46, 97, 238, 252 Thunberg, Carl Peter, 241 History of Philip II, 5–6, 8, 56–57, 60, 63–64, Tollet, Marianne, 52 97, 235–37, 245, 249, 252, 256 Tonbridge School, 28, 32, 263 History of Philip III, 249 Tories and Toryism, 12, 19, 45, 57, 113, 118–19, 130, Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement, 135, 143, 157, 161, 178, 205 The, 89 Toulmin, Harry, 44 Wemyss, Francis, 165 Towers, Joseph, 77, 119, 160 West, Thomas, 55 Trant, Clarissa, 49 Antiquities of Furness, 55

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Whigs and Whiggism, 12, 21, 26, 45, 70, Williams, Peter, 27, 32, 36 110, 113, 117–18, 125, 143, 159, 161, 179, Wilson, Kathleen, 20, 262 249, 261 Winthrop, William, 9, 85 origin of term, 107 Womersley, David, 255 Whiggish history, 19, 113–15, 117, 119, 121–24, Woolf, Daniel, 11, 16 126–36, 156, 168, 200 Wrangham, Francis, 76 Whitchurch, James Wadham, 29 Wraxall, Nathaniel, 8 Wigtown Subscription Library, 9 Wrightson, William Battie, 63, 126–29, 137, Wigtown, Scotland, 8 140, 142 Wilberforce, William, 243 Wilkes, John, 103, 115, 125, 151, 157–59, 162 Yale University, 35, 207 Wilkins, David, 46 York, 240 William I, King of England, 107 Yorke, Jemima, Marioness Grey and William II, King of England, 173, 198 Countess of Hardwicke, 49 William III, King of England, Scotland and Young, Alexander, 43 Ireland, 99, 135, 145, 218–20 Young, Edward, 218 William, Prince of Orange, 99, 236 Williams, Abigail, 5, 16, 261 Zenobia, 52