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INDEX

Abercromby, Sir Robert, repulsed at
Ticonderoga, 479

Acadia, French in, 86; Charles I sells back
to the French the settlements captured
by Kirke, 132; French forts in, captured
by English force (1654), 227, 231;
returned to the French by the Treaty of
Breda (1667), 314; ceded by France at
the Treaty of Utrecht, 328, 523;511;576;
see also Nova Scotia

Acapulco, in the Philippines, 305
Aché, Comte d', French naval officer, in
India, 529-30

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Act of Union with Scotland, and the
position of Scots in the colonies, 266, 287
Adams, John, 649; counsel for the soldiers
concerned in the "Boston Massacre,
670; 684; 705; 771; 777
Adams, Samuel, 632; 666; leader of the
extreme Radicals, 670; and the Com-
mittees of Correspondence, 671; and the
"Boston tea party," 674; 676
Addison, Joseph, 240

A Discourse of a Discovery for a new passage to
Cataia, tract written by Humphrey
Gilbert, 59; 105

A discourse on how her majesty may annoy the
King of Spain, by Humphrey Gilbert, 61;
70
Admiralty, relations between, and the
colonies, 415-16; 451; 514

Admiralty court, 42; 47; 286; 297; 411;
416; 540-1; jurisdiction of, extended by
Grenville, 644; and the Stamp Act, 654
Adolf Frederik, King of Sweden, 541
Africa, 1; and the slave trade, 4, 48, 437-

59; and missionary enterprise, 11, 16;
Portuguese in, 23, 30-3, 438; English
trade with, 43 seqq.; 65; 75; Anglo-
Portuguese agreement of 1654, English
to trade freely with Portuguese Africa,
230; the African Company, 440-50,
struggles with the French in, 446-58,
466; 479; 502-3; 570; export of rum to,
from the North American colonies, 597
African Company, see under Companies
Aid, ship lent by Elizabeth to Frobisher,
103

Aiguillon, Emmanuel Armand, Duc de,
French Foreign Minister, 703

Aitken, James, deserter from the army,
attempt of, to fire the Portsmouth dock-
yard, 707

Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of (1668), 315; treaty
of (1748), 346, 376, 527; Pretender sacri-
ficed by France at (1748), 349; 548
Alabama, 546

Albany, New York, 390; the Albany Plan
of Union, 392, 630, 634-5; 476; 725

Albemarle, William, 2nd Earl of, English
ambassador at Paris, 467-9

Albemarle Sound, in Virginian coast,
Amadas and Barlow land at, 109;
colony at, 250

Alberoni, Cardinal, 332; 339; 355
Albreda, French station on the Gambia
river, 457

Alcide, French warship, capture of, by
Boscawen, 469

Alday, James, Barbary merchant, 41; 42
Alexander VI, Pope, 46

Alexander, Sir William, 130; and the
colonisation of Nova Scotia, 153-5
Algarve, 46

Algiers, pirates of, abortive attempt of
Mansell against, 130; 135

Alleghany Mountains, 394; 641; 771; 776
Allen, Ethan, American soldier, 718
Allen's Town, Clinton at, 738

Altamaha River, English post on, 395-6
Alva, Fernando, 3rd Duke of, 30
Amadas, Captain, sent by Raleigh to
Virginia, 109

Amazon, River, 86; 87

Amazon's Company, see Company
Amboy, 729

Amboyna, massacre of, 131, acquiescence
of Stuarts in, 134; 142; 208
American Revenue Bill, 597

Amerola, Spanish captain, raid of, on
England, 124

Amherst, Jeffrey, Lord, 479; expedition of,
to Montreal, 483, 485, 532; 637-8
Amsterdam, 30; the Scrooby congregation
at, 156

An Account of New England, by Samuel
Maverick, 613

André, John, Major, capture of, 751
Andros, Sir Edmund, Governor of New

York (1674-80), 253; sent out by
James II to take control of the new
Dominion of New England, 260; im-
prisoned at Boston (March 1689), 260;
617

Anguilla, in the Leeward Islands, 377
Annapolis, 375; 393.

Anne, Queen of England, 240; 332; grants
charter to South Sea Company, 335.
Annexation, Guiana, formally annexed by
Harcourt (1609), 87; California, annexed
by Drake, 102; Newfoundland, annexed
by Gilbert (1583), 106; Barbados annexed
by Powell (1624), 144; vagueness of
international theory as to validity of,
185-7; the rights of aborigines, 191-4
Annobon, 458

Annual Register, 453; on the capture of the
Dutch forts in Africa (1782), 457

Anson, George Anson, 1st Viscount, ex-
pedition of, to the Pacific, 344, 371, 524;
victory of, in the Bay of Biscay, 376; 477;
480; 489; influence of, at the Admiralty,
524 seqq.; and the Falkland Islands, 698;
735

Anti-Corn Law League, 14

Anticosti, whaling fleet visits, 74
Antigua, 209; introduction of sugar in-
dustry to, 209; resistance of, to Common-
wealth, 212; submits to Sir George
Ayscue, 219; squabbles between Keynell,
Puritan governor of, and the inhabitants,
233; Norwegians allowed to settle in,
237; occupied by the French (1666–7),
242; resettled, 243; returned to English
by the Treaty of Breda, 314; 376; 407;
512; 570; 582; 813; 818-19
Antilles, 70; 77; failure of colonies in St

Lucia and Grenada, 87; settlement of
Warner on St Christopher, 143.
Antonio, Don, claimant to throne of
Portugal, 63; 65; and the English trade
with Africa, 438

Antwerp, 2; Portuguese trade with, 30, 33;
and the Hansa, 38, 39; decay of, during
war of Dutch independence, 63; sack of,
64; taken by Parma, 119; 375; Truce of,
128, 200

Apam, Dutch fort in West Africa, captured
by English (1782), 457

Appalachian Mountains, 641-2
Apsham, fishing merchants of, 74
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, scholastic views
of, 192
Aquitaine, 23

Aranda, Pedro Abarca y Bolea, Count of,
700; 773

Arbuthnot, Marriot, Admiral, 747-8; 751
Archangel, port of the Muscovy Company
at, 40, 41
Arcot, 485

Argall, Captain Samuel, breaks up French
settlements in North America, 86; dis-
covers direct route to Virginia, 114
Arguin, Dutch station in Senegal, captured
by the French, 446

Arlington, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of,
Virginia grant to (1673), 257; promoter
of Navigation Acts, 271; and the secret
Treaty of Dover, 316; 815
Armada, Spanish, 104; Venetian ambassa-
dor at Paris, predicts defeat of, 107; 115;
120; in the Channel, 121
Armed Neutrality, 716; 750; 774; 781
Arnold, Benedict, his invasion of Canada,
709; 718; 720; 725; 748; 751-3
Arzina, 40

Ascham, Anthony, Commonwealth envoy
at Madrid, murder of, 226
Ashanti, Kingdom of, 452-3
Ashehurst, Thomas, Bristol explorer, sails
to north-west, 27

Asiento, 8; French Asiento Company, 326,

334; held by Portuguese, 333; Charles II
fails to secure Asiento for the African
Company, 334; Asiento treaty with
England, 328, 336, 542; Spanish ob-
stacles in the way of the trade, 340;
English disregard for obligations of, 342;
suspended by Spain, 343; 345; 524-5
Assembly, Barbados, 422, 424, 427 seqq.;
Bermuda, 152; Carolina, North, 421,
429 seqq.; Carolina, South, 421, 424,
430-1; Connecticut, 163, 409, 429;
Jamaica, 245, 406-7, 410, 426 seqq.;
Leeward Islands, 407-8; Maryland,
424; Massachusetts, 161, 405, 425 seqq.,
667, 674; New York, 405, 425 seqq.;
Pennsylvania, 255, 428 seqq.; Rhode
Island, 258, 409, 424-5; takes root during
the interregnum, 248; opposition of,
to local governors and the Home Govern-
ment, 377-8, 386-9; from 1660-1763,
405-36

Assumption, Isle of, see Anticosti
Atkins, Sir Jonathan, Governor of Barba-
dos, his dispute with the Crown, 291,
816-17

A treatise of the new India, with other new
found Lands and Islands, translation by
Richard Eden, of Sebastian Munster's
Cosmographia, 55

Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester,
Jacobite plot of, 349

Aubrey, William, his description of Raleigh,
108-9
Augsburg, 30

Augustus III, Elector of Saxony, becomes
King of Poland, 368; 462

Australia, 11; 15; 17; William Dampier in,
517; Captain Cook in, 536
Austria, and the War of the Spanish
Succession, 325-9; and the Pragmatic
Sanction, 353, 364, 368; and the War of
the Austrian Succession, 371-6; 461-4;
469-72; and the Seven Years' War,
475 seqq.

Austrian Succession, War of, 371-6
Avilés, Pero Menéndez de, Ribault's crews
fall into hands of, 56

Ayala, Balthazar, opinion of, that bar-
barian countries were not territoria
nullius, 192; his De jure et officiis bellicis
et disciplina militari, 205
Ayscue, Admiral Sir George, overcomes
resistance of Royalists of Barbados, 133;
134; 218-19

Azores, 25, 35, 46; French expedition
against, 63; 65; 107; 114; 122; Sir
Richard Grenville at Flores of, 123;
wine from, exempted from the provisions
of Navigation Laws, 275, 567

Bacon, Sir Francis, sponsors colony of
Newfoundland, 90; on sea power, 126;
147; and the transportation of un-
desirables to the colonies, 604-5; and the

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