Lille, 239, 244, 260, 262
Limerick, "City of the Broken Treaty," 230
Limitation Bill, the, 214
Lingard, 7
Linnæus, 20
Lionne, 234; influence over Lewis XIV., 239
Lisbon, port of, 58
Lisola, Austrian statesman, 243
Livonia, retention by Peter the Great, 281
Livy, 110
Loaysa, Cardinal, 106
Locke, John, 136; principles, 217
Lollardry, 137
Lombard, Peter, 74
Lorraine, surrendered to France, 126
Lorraine, Cardinal, 147—
Lorraine, Duke of, 243
Louvain University, 120
Louvois, cited, 229; influence over Lewis XIV., 239; policy, 243-4
Loyola, Ignatius, 114 sqq,
Ludovisi, family of, 226
Luther, Martin—
Lutheranism. (See also Calvinism and Protestantism)—
Lützen, battle of, 192
Luxemburg, becomes French, 243, 244
Luynes, favourite of Lewis XIII., 175
Lyons, Calvinism in, 156
Macaulay, Lord, 12, 15; cited, 27, 110, 231, 275
Macdonalds, massacre of the, 228-9
Machiavelli, 45, 50-51, 81, 95, 120, 142, 172, 196
Madrid, Treaty of, 48
Magdeburg, siege of, 188-9
Magellan, voyage of, 50, 65-6; acquisition of the Philippines, 66
Mahomet, seizes Otranto, 35
Maimonides, Jews forbidden to read, 86
Maintenon, Mme. de, 244
Maitland, advises Mary regarding Darnley, 147
Malacca, fall of, 57, 65
Malindi, 54
Malplaquet, battle of, 260, 261
Malta, Turkish repulse, 36
Manichees, 111
Mansfeld, account of, 186-7
Marchiali, mystery of, 243
Margaret of Valois, marriage with Henry IV., 158-9
Maria Theresa, empress, 291-2
Maria Theresa, wife of Lewis XIV., 235-6; renunciation of estates, 237-8
Mariana and the Jesuits, 116; cited, 167; teachings of, 169
Maria Mancini, Lewis XIV. and, 235
Marignano, battle of, 47
Marlborough, Duchess of, 261
Marlborough, Duke of—
Marmont and Napoleon, 298-9
Martin of Connemara, 222
Martinitz, Bohemian minister, 183
Mary of Medici and Richelieu, 175-7
Mary, Princess of Orange, succession, 214
Mary Stuart—
Mary Tudor, persecutions under, 119; proposed marriage of, 138, 140; Sir Thomas More and, 141
Masenius and Paradise Lost, 116
Massachusetts, attempt to coerce, 311-12
Maurice of Nassau, 126, 174
Max Emmanuel of Bavaria, 250
Maximilian, Emperor—
Maximilian II., Religious policy, 124, 182
Maximilian of Bavaria, 184-5
Mayenne, breach with Paris, 168
Mayflower, the, 199