Milton dictating "Paradise Lost" to his Daughters 357
Gresham College, where the Royal Society was first Housed 365
Evelyn "Discovering" Grinling Gibbons 372
May-Day Revels in the Time of Charles II. 384
Covenanters evicting an Episcopalian Clergyman 405
Battle of Killiecrankie: The Last Charge of Dundee 409
The _Mountjoy_ and _Phœnix_ breaking the Boom at Londonderry 416
Landing of Marshal Schomberg at Carrickfergus 417
Five-Guinea Piece of William and Mary 420
Henry VII.'s Chapel, Westminster Abbey 424
James entering Dublin after the Battle of the Boyne 429
Scene at the Removal of the Irish Soldiers from Limerick 445
Lady Marlborough and the Princess Anne at the Queen's Drawing-Room 453
Burning of Blount's Pamphlet by the Common Hangman 465
Costumes of the Time of William and Mary 473
Old Mercers' Hall, where the Bank of England was first Established 492
Lady Fenwick interceding for her Husband 493
William's triumphant Procession to Whitehall 500
View in the Hague: Old Gate in the Binnenhof, with the Arms of the County of Holland 505
Scene at the Departure from Leith of the Darien Expedition 513
The Royal Palace of Whitehall, from the Thames, in the beginning of the 17th Century 520
Captain Kidd before the Bar of the House of Commons 525
The Pretender proclaimed King of England by Order of Louis XIV. 529
View in the Hague: Chamber of the States-General in the Binnenhof 533
Bishop Burnet announcing her Accession to Anne 537
View in Lisbon: The Práça de Dom Pedro 545
The King of Spain at Windsor: His Gallantry to the Duchess of Marlborough 549
The People of Edinburgh Escorting the Duke of Hamilton to Holyrood Palace 569
Wreck of Sir Cloudesley Shovel's Fleet 577
London Coffee House in the Reign of Queen Anne 585
Drinking to the Health of Dr. Sacheverell 592
The Duke of Marlborough's Interview with Queen Anne 597
Marlborough House in the Time of Queen Anne 604
Henry St. John (afterwards Viscount Bolingbroke) 605
CHARLES I. ON HIS WAY TO EXECUTION, 1649. (_By Ernest Crofts, R.A._) _Frontispiece_
MAP OF ENGLAND DURING THE CIVIL WAR, 1642-1649. _To face p._ 50
THE CHILDREN OF CHARLES I. (_By Miss Margaret I. Dicksee_) " 71
DEATH OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH, CARISBROOKE CASTLE, SEPT. 8TH, 1650. (_By C. W. Cope, R.A._) " 102