Eva, daughter of Dermod of Leinster, i. 252
Evesham founded, i. 86; battle of, ii. 77, 78
Exchequer, Court of, i. 206; ii. 109; Richard Fitz-Neal's _Dialogue_ on, i. 174, 244; closed, vi. 261
Excise, Walpole's scheme of, vii. 195, 201, 202; revived by Pitt, viii. 77
Exeter, northmen at, i. 106; Welsh driven from, 120; subdued by William I., 167, 168; tailors' gild at, 318; William of Orange received at, vii. 40
Exeter, Henry Holland, duke of, iii. 140, 142
Exeter, John Holland, duke of (Earl of Huntingdon), iii. 7, 8
Exeter, Edward Courtenay, marquis of, iii. 322, 348, 350
Exclusion Bill, the, vi. 307, 308, 319, 320
Fairfax, Edward, his version of Tasso, v. 2
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, his victory at Nantwich, vi. 18; commander-in-chief of the New Model army, 35, 36; victory at Naseby, 40, 41; in the west, 41; marches on Oxford, 46; suppresses royalist rising in Kent, 61; Colchester surrenders to, 64; marches on London, 65; suppresses mutiny, 75; superseded by Cromwell, 79; joins Monk, 151
Falaise, birthplace of William the Conqueror, i. 157; treaty of, ii. 140; reduced by Henry V., iii. 33
Falconberg, William Neville, Lord, iii. 113
Falkirk, battles of, ii. 168, 169; vii. 229
Falkland, Lucius Cary, second viscount, his plans of Church reform, v. 354; abandons Strafford's impeachment, 356; his political position, 368; becomes Charles's minister, 375; joins Charles at York, 378; death, vi. 14; influence on religious thought, 133
Ferdinand (I.), Archduke of Austria, iii. 208, 243; iv. 19; Emperor, 98; v. 174, 175
Ferdinand (II.), Archduke of Austria, v. 213; king of Bohemia, 216; Emperor, 217
Ferdinand V., king of Aragon, iii. 186, 187, 207; forms the Holy League, 209; seizes Navarre, _ib._; dies, 234
Ferrars, Robert, fourth earl of Derby, i. 254
Ferrars, Robert, eighth earl of Derby, ii. 87
Feudalism, tendency to, in England after Danish wars, i. 133, 135, 136; the Conqueror's dealings with, 181-185; antagonism of the universities to, 289-291; revives under Henry III., ii. 4, 5; its military basis, 239; ruin, iii. 92-94
Finance, early English, ii. 103; William I.'s system of, i. 186
Finch, Sir John, Chief-Justice, v. 331; Lord Keeper, 351
Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester, iii. 201; his reply to Luther, 257: quarrel with the Commons, 290; sent to the Tower, 319; beheaded, 321