Richard (III.), Duke of Gloucester, patron of Caxton, iii. 161, 163; expedition to Scotland, 163; Protector, 164; King, _ib._; rising against him, 167; his policy, 168, 169, 171; death, 172
Richard, Earl of Cornwall, ii. 36; heads reforming party among the barons, 37; king of the Romans, 71; taken prisoner, _ib._; spared, by the younger Simon, 80; intercedes for him, 85
Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, i. 155, 156
Richmond, Edmund Tudor, Earl of, iii. 165
Richmond, Margaret, Countess of. _See_ Beaufort
Right, Claim of, vii. 51; Petition of, v. 260, 261, 263
Rising, Castle, Queen Isabella imprisoned at, ii. 207
Rivers, Sir Richard Woodville, first earl (_see_ Woodville), iii. 127, 134
Rivers, Anthony Woodville, second earl (_see_ Scales), iii. 161-163
Robartes, John, second Lord, vi. 220, 301
Robert (II.), Steward of Scotland, ii. 213; king, 286
Robert III., king of Scots, iii. 7, 15, 16
Robert (the Magnificent), Duke of Normandy, i. 157
Robert, son of William the Conqueror, i. 190; Duke of Normandy, 191; pledges Normandy to Rufus, 197; goes on crusade, _ib._; returns, 198; invades England, 200, 201; defeated at Tenchebray, 202
Robert, Earl of Gloucester, i. 216, 217, 219, 220
Rochelle, La, protests against severance from France, ii. 280; surrendered to France, 287; attempt to relieve it, 291; revolts, v. 256; siege of, _ib._; English expeditions to, 259, 263; surrenders, 266, 274
Roches, Peter des, Bishop of Winchester and justiciar, i. 341, 347; ii. 32, 34
Rochester surrenders to William the Red, i. 192; to John, 354; diocese of, i. 83
Rochester, Robert Carr, Viscount, v. 190-193. _See_ Somerset
Rochester, Laurence Hyde, Earl of (_see_ Hyde), vii. 2, 20, 98
Rochester, John Wilmot, second Earl of, vi. 162
Rockingham, Charles Watson Wentworth, second Marquis of, prime minister, vii. 329, 331; relations with Burke, 332; resigns, 339; draws away from Chatham, viii. 16; returns to office, 38; opposes reform, 64; death, 65
Roger, Bishop of Salisbury and justiciar, i. 215, 218, 219
Romances, the French, ii. 357; their influence on Chaucer, 360
Rome, disappearance of its influence in England, i. 41, 44, 45; returns with Augustine, 58, 59; Ælfred's intercourse with, 113; stormed by the Duke of Bourbon, iii. 269