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Bruce, Andrew, Bishop of Du keld, 290
Bruges, surrenders to Marlborough, 416;
the French at, 420; 421 sq.
Brun, St, 629

Brunswick, Congress of, 610
Brunswick-Lüneburg, 581; and Mecklen-
burg-Güstrow, 663

Dukes of, 37; 43; join Quadruple
Alliance, 109; 161; 569; 571

House of, and France, 655; 662
Christian William, Duke of, 655
(Hanover), Ernest Augustus, Duke
of. See Hanover

Frederick Augustus, Prince of, 662
George Lewis, Duke of. See George
I, King of England

(Celle), George William, Duke of,
55; 244; 403

(Hanover), John Frederick, Duke of,
651; 744

Maximilian William, Prince of, 662
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Antony Ulric,
Duke of, 403; 744

Princess Sophia Charlotte of, 538
Rudolf Augustus, Duke of, 55; 403
Brussels, the Duke of York at, 225; 420;

422

Buat, Henri de Fleury de Coulan, Sieur de,
execution of, 152

Buchholtz, Colonel, expedition of to Lake
Yamuish, 544

Buckingham, George Villiers, second Duke

of, 95; 126; and the French alliance,
191; 198; 200 sq.; and the Treaty of
Dover, 203 sqq.; 207 sqq.; 216; sent to
the Tower, 218

Buczácz, Treaty of, 353

Buda, taken by Imperialists, 52, 366; 339;

345; Turkish army at, 346; 363

Buen Ayre, the Dutch in, 687

Bürgi, Jobst, mathematician, 709

Bulavin, Kondraty, leader of Cossack re-
volt, 597

Bulgaria, Black, 479

Bunyan, John, 136; 207; 335

Burghstead, John, regicide, 149
Burgos, depopulation of, 376

Burgsdorf, Conrad von, Brandenburg
statesman, 642

Burgundy, Estates of, 4; 13

434

Louis, Duke of, 28; 30 sq.; 88; 421;

Maria Adelaide, Duchess of, 30 sq.
Burke, Edmund, and the Act of Settle-
ment, 275; 702; 705

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 136;

and Queen Mary, 167; 213; 235; 255;
258; 271; and Latitudinarianism, 752
Burntisland, bombarded by the Dutch, 188
Busher, Leonard, and religious toleration,
326

Butler, James, Duke of Ormond. See
Ormond

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Cabal Ministry, 198; 201; 210; 214
Cabot, Sebastian, and the Muscovy Com-
pany, 513

Cadalso, José de, Spanish poet, 69
Cadiz, English fleet at, 61, 262; 379; 411
8q.

Cadogan, William, first Earl Cadogan,
421; 422; 458 sq.
Caermarthen, Marquis of. See Leeds,
Duke of

Caesalpinus, Andreas, and the circulation
of the blood, 725 sq.; 734 sqq.; 738
Cairncross, Alexander, Archbishop of Glas-
gow, 290

Calais, James II at, 262

Calcutta, establishment of, 699
Calixtus, George, Protestant theologian,
648; 744

Camarão, South American Indian, 674
Cambray, 36; 39; taken by the French,
44; 45; 422; 430
Cambridge, Milton at, 116; University of,
237 sq.; 245

Platonists, 327; 332; 749 sqq.
Duke of, 474

Camerarius, Rudolf Jacob, botanist, 736
Cameron, Richard, covenanter, 286 sq.;

290

Camisards, the, 26

Camoens, Luis de, the Lusiad of, 695
Campbell. See Argyll

Campeachy Bay, the English in, 687
Campredon, N. de, French ambassador in
Russia, 551

Canada, France and, 13; 442; 684 sq.; 688
Canales, Marquez de, 390

Canary Islands, exports from, 677
Candia, 36; the Turks in, 40, 342 sq.;
348 sq.

Canea, taken by the Turks, 342
Cantemir, Demetrius, Hospodar of Mol-
davia, 604

Cape Breton Island, France and, 443
of Good Hope, Dutch occupation
of, 693 sqq.
Capel, Arthur, Earl of Essex. See Essex
Sir Henry, Lord Capel, 321
Caprara, Aeneas Sylvius, Count von, cap-
tures Neuhäusel, 366; 369

Albert, Count, mission of to the
Porte, 358 sq.

Caracas, Dutch trade with, 688
Caracena, Count, Spanish commander, 34
Caraffa, Antonio, Austrian field-marshal,
367

Carbery, Richard Vaughan, second Earl
of, 748

Cardan, Jerome, physician, 716
Carelia, ceded to Sweden, 503; 614

Samuel, 126; 133; 136
Thomas, Earl of Ossory. See Ossory Carew, Thomas, poet, 745

Index

Cargill, Donald, covenanter, 286 sq.
Caribbean Sea, Spanish possessions in,
680; 688; 691

Carlingford, Theobald Taaffe, first Earl
of, 109

Carlisle, Charles Howard, Earl of, 213
Carlowitz, General von, at Moscow, 587
Treaty of, 33; 61; 364; 371; 388
Carlsbad, Peter the Great at, 607
Carolina, 101; foundation of, 685
Caron, François, director-general of French
commerce in India, 703

Carpi, French defeated at, 402

Girolamo da, 724

Carrickfergus, taken by Schomberg, 312;
313

Carrick-on-Suir, William III at, 315
Carstares, William, and the establishment
of Presbyterianism in Scotland, 293
Cartagena, 684; sack of, 691
Carteret, Sir George, 113

Cartets, Viscomte de, and Labadie, 756
Cartwright, Thomas, Bishop of Chester,
234

Thomas, puritan, 326

Cary, Lucius, Viscount Falkland. See
Falkland

Casale, seized by the French, 48; 357
Casimir III, King of Poland, 632

IV, King of Poland, 624; 634

V, King of Poland. See John II
Casimir, Henry, Stadholder of Friesland.
See Nassau-Dietz

Caspian Sea, Russia and, 520 sq., 544 sq.
Cassano, Prince Eugene repulsed at, 414
Cassard, Jacques, in the West Indies, 679
Cassegrain, N., 721

Cassel, William of Orange defeated at, 44;
45; Charles XII at, 610; 743

Castel-Melhor, Louis Souza Vasconcellos,
Count of, Portuguese statesman, 34
Castel-Rodrigo, Governor of the Spanish
Netherlands, 152 sq.

Castile, Council of, and the succession,
392; 428

Castlemaine, Barbara, Countess of, 111

Roger Palmer, Earl of, 235
Castro Vireyna, silver mines at, 682
Catalans, Philip V and the, 445 sq.; 452
Catalonia, the French in, 61, 416; restored

to Spain, 63; 375; 428; 451; and Philip
V, 404, 436; the Allies in, 419; 426;
434; 440

Catania, naval battle of, 44

Catharine I, Empress of Russia, 547 sq.;
accession of, 549; 550 sq.; illness and
death of, 551 sq.

II, Empress of Russia, 479; 505
Ivanovna, Tsarevna, 611

of Braganza, Queen of England,
marriage of, 105; 106; 212 sq.; Titus
Oates and, 225; 698

Catinat de la Fauconnerie, Nicolas de,
Marshal of France, 60 sqq.; 401 sq.;

404 sqq.

935

Cats, Jacob, Grand Pensionary of Holland,
139

Caucasus, Russian influence in, 545
Caulet, Étienne-François de, Bishop of
Pamiers, 84 sq.

Caumartin, François Lefèvre de, Bishop
of Amiens, 756

Cavalier, Jean, Camisard leader, 26
Cavalieri, Bonaventura, mathematician, 711
Cavendish, Lord. See Devonshire, Duke of
Caya river, defeat of the Allies on, 426
Cayenne, French colony of, 448; 678
Centurione, Paolo, Genoese traveller, 512
Cerkova, Charles XII at, 600

Cesi, Prince Federigo, and the Accademia
dei Lincei, 740

Cevennes, Protestant rising in the, 26
Ceylon, and French colonisation, 13; the
Dutch in, 107, 696; 146; 695
Châlons, House of, 669

Chamberlain, Hugh, and a national bank,
266; 271

Chamberlayne, William, poet, 136
Chamillart, Michel de, French financier,
28 sq.; 417; 424

Champagne, customs of, 13

Champlain, Samuel de, founder of Quebec,
684

Chancellor, Richard, in Russia, 512 sq.
Chandernagore, factory at, 703
Charenton, Synod of, 743

Charlemont, captured, 314

Charleroi, 43; restored to Spain, 45; 160;
taken by the French, 199; 450; 457 sq.
Charles the Great, Emperor, 617

IV, Emperor, 621; 633

V, Emperor, 34; 627

VI, Emperor (Archduke of Austria),
and the Spanish Succession, 384, 388,
390 sqq., 401; 412; and Spain, 416 sq.,
419 sq.; 456 sq.; 429; leaves Spain,
432; and the peace negotiations, ib.;
elected Emperor, 434; and the Peace of
Utrecht, 434, 438 sqq., 450 sq.; and the
Peace of Rastatt, 435 sq., 452 sqq.; and
the Catalans, 445 sq.; and the Peace of
Baden, 454 sq.; and the Tsarevich, 539;
and Peter the Great, 542; 543; 704;
744

VII, Emperor. See Bavaria, Charles
Albert, Elector of

I, King of England, 92; and Ireland,
103; 105; 216; and Scotland, 279 sq.,
283 sq., 291; and the Puritans, 325;
326; 746

II, King of England, policy of
(1667-85), Chap. IX; and the govern-
ment of Scotland, Chap. X (2); in
Holland, 148; lands at Dover, 280;
and Portugal, 34, 105, 107, 148; and
Louis XIV, 37, 40, 42, 44 sqq., 105 sq.,
109, 154; and the United Provinces,
37, 43 sqq., 107, 178 sq.; the restoration
and policy of, 92 sq.; 94; 96; 98; and
religious toleration, 99 sqq., 329, 333 sq.;

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and Clarendon, 101 sq., 114; and Spain,
104 sq.; marriage of, 105; and the
Prince of Orange, 107, 158, 163; and
the Dutch war, 108 sq.; financial diffi-
culties of, 110 sqq.; and the peace ne-
gotiations, 112 sq.; and the army, 113,
265; and the Parliament, 114 sq.; 124;
Dryden and, 134 sqq.; and the Bishop
of Münster, 150, 182; and the Triple
Alliance, 154, 191; and the Treaty of
Dover, 154, 156; 177; and the fleet,
178, 187 sq.; declares war against the
Dutch (1665), 180; 187; 190; declares
war against the Dutch (1672), 191;
197; and Ireland, 301 sqq., 310; re-
ligion of, 331; 359; and Dunkirk, 442;
650; and Brazil, 675; and colonial
affairs, 690; and the East India Com-
pany, 697; and Hobbes, 751; death of,
230, 288

Charles VIII, King of France, 483

II, King of Spain, character and
rule of, 34 sq.; marriages of, ib.; 45;
49; 62; and William of Orange, 244;
338; 349; accession of, 373; adminis-
tration under, 374 sqq.; 377; infirmity
of, 379 sq.; 381; 383; and the succes-
sion, 384 sq., 391 sq.; death of, 393;
will of, 392 sqq., 401; 395; 459; 523;
591; and the League of Augsburg, 655;
659; 664

IX, King of Sweden, 578

X Gustavus, King of Sweden, and
the Baltic struggle, 146 sq.; and Den-
mark, 344, 562; and Poland, 344, 349,
505; 558; and the succession, 563; and
the Hetman Chmielnicki, 599; 643;
death of, 147, 344

XI, King of Sweden, 49; 527; 563;
government of, 567; 568; and the war
of Scania, 569 sq.; and the peace treaties
of 1679, 571; character of, 572; and his
advisers, 573 sq.; and the "Reduction"
of 1680, 574 sq.; domestic policy of,
577 sq.; and Gottorp, ib.; 580; and
Charles XII, 584 sq.; and Patkul, 586;
and the League of Augsburg, 655; death
of, 576, 579, 584

XII, King of Sweden, 417; 527; 572;
576; 579; and Denmark, 580 sqq.; in-
vades Norway, 583; character and train-
ing of, 584 sq.; coronation of, 585; 586;
and the Duke of Gottorp, 580, 587; and
the great Northern War, 587 sqq.; at
Narva, 588 sq.; and Augustus II, 589,
592; invades Poland, 592; and Stanis-
laus Leszczynski, 593; treaty of, with
Augustus II, 595; and the Russian peace
overtures, 596; enters Grodno, 597; at
Holowczyn, 598; and Mazepa, 599 sq.;
in the Ukraine, 600; defeated at Poltawa,
601; in Turkey, 602 sqq.; at Bender,
606; rejects the neutrality compact, 607;
680; and the "Stettin Sequestration,'
609; at Stralsund, 610 sq.; and the

third anti-Swedish league, 611; in Scania,
612; and the peace negotiations with
Russia, 613 sq.; 659; and Frederick I
of Prussia, 666 sq.; death of, 583, 614
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 488
Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia
(Prince of Piedmont), 432
Charlotte, Tsaritsa, 538
Charnock, Job, founder of Calcutta, 699
Charterhouse, James II and the, 335
Châteauneuf, Pierre-Antoine de Castag
nères, Marquis de, French Minister at
the Hague, 610
Chatham, 169; the Dutch attack on, 150
sq., 154, 188

Cherkasky, Alexander, Prince, 544
Alexis, Prince, 557

Chernaya Napa, Swedish reverse at, 598
Chernigoff, annexed by Ivan the Great,
479 sq.; 504

Prince of, 481

Chester, James II and Tyrconnel at, 307;
William III sails from, 313
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope,
fourth Earl of, 70

Cheynell Francis, and Chillingworth, 746
Chiabrera, Gabriello, Italian poet, 69
Chiari, Imperial army at, 402
Chicheley, Sir John, Rear-admiral, 196
Chichester, William Chillingworth at, 746
Chigi, Fabio. See Alexander VII, Pope
Child, Sir Francis, banker, 266

Sir John, Governor of Bombay, 698 sq.
Sir Josia, chairman of the East India
Company, 699 sqq.

Chili, the Spaniards in, 683
Chillingworth, William, 326; 332; 745 sqq.
China, route to, 512; Russia and, 544
Chinsura, capitulation of, 697
Chios, attacked by the Venetians, 365
Chmielnicki, Bogdan, Hetman of Little

Russia, 504 sq.; 599
Chrétien, Michael, and Gallicanism, 76
Christian Brothers, the, 79

IV, King of Denmark, 561

V, King of Denmark, 44; 561;
war of, with Sweden, 568, 570; and the
Treaty of Fontainebleau, 571; 578 sq.

first bishop of Prussia, 629
Christiania, occupied by the Swedes, 583
Christiansborg, Slave Coast station, 691
Christina, Queen of Sweden, abdication of,
146; 564; 744; and the Great Elector,
639, 641
Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough.
See Marlborough

Ciampini, Giovanni Giustino, founder of
the Accademia fisico-matematica, 704 sq.
Cibber, Colley, dramatist, 129
Cistercian Order, in Brandenburg, 619
Ciudad Rodrigo, captured, 416
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, first Earl of,
93 sq.; and the religious settlement,
96; 97; 100; charged with high treason,
101; and Parliament, 102; opposes acts

Index

against Irish trade, 104; foreign policy
of, ib.; and the marriage of Charles II,
105; 106; and the Dutch war, 108; 113;
the fall of, 114; exile of, 115; 136; 198;
policy of, 199; 201 sq.; 231; Scottish
Privy Councillor, 280; 305; 333; 745
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, third Earl of.
See Cornbury, Viscount

Henry Hyde, second Earl of, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, 234, 306; 247; and
the Revolution settlement, 249 sq.; 255 sq.
Claudia Felicitas, Empress, 211
Clement IX (Giulio Rospigliosi), Pope, and
Charles II, of England, 202, and Jan-
senism, 84, 89 sq.; 202; 420; and the
Peace of Baden, 454 sq.; and the Prus-
sian monarchy, 665 sq.; 743
Clermont, county of, ceded to France, 33
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Coeverden, Dutch success at, 160
Coke, Sir Edward, Lord Coke, 252
Colbert, Charles, Marquis de Croissy,
French ambassador in England, 203 sq.;
209; 211

Jean-Baptiste, Marquis de Seignelay,
French statesman, 1; 4 sq.; and Fouquet,
6; character and aims of, 6 sqq.; and
taxation reforms, 8 sq.; industrial and
commercial projects of, 10 sqq.; and the
war with Holland, 10; and the French
colonies, 13, 684; and the internal cus-
toms of France, 13; and the improve-
ment of canals and roads, 14; and the
French navy, 14; creates five new Acade-
mies, 15; and the administration of
justice, 16; rivalry of, with Louvois,
16 sq.; 22; 25; and the municipalities,
27; 39; and the dispute with the Papacy,
85; 200; and the African trade, 692;
and India, 702; and the Académie des
Sciences, 741; death of, 17, 28

Jean-Baptiste (the younger). See
Seignelay, Marquis de
Colchester, the plague in, 110
Coldstream Guards, 113

937

Coleman, Edward, and the Popish Plot,

220 sqq.

Coleraine, fugitives in, 307 sq.; 309
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 122
Coligny, Jean de, French general, 347
College, Stephen, conviction of, 228
Collier, Jeremy, 128; 130

Collins, Samuel, physician to the Tsar
Alexis, 513

Colmar, victory of Turenne at, 44
Cologne, treaty of, with Louis XIV, 42;
peace conference at, 43; election of arch-
bishop of, 54 sq., 63; war of, with the
United Provinces, 157 sq.; 161; 435
Joseph Clement, Elector of, 53 sqq.;
404; 455

Maximilian Henry, Elector of, 54
Colombus, Realdus, 725

Colson, John, mathematician, 718
Company of Royal Adventurers trading to
Africa, 691

Compton, Henry, Bishop of London, 233
sq.; 242; 255; suspended, 335
Condé, taken by the French, 44; 45; 457 sq.
Henri-Jules de Bourbon, Prince de
(Duc d'Enghien), 349

Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de, at
Seneff, 44, 161; 45; in Franche Comté,
200, 373; 256; 340; and the Polish
crown, 349 sq.; 411; 650

Congreve, William, dramatist, 128; 130;
132 sq.; the Incognita of, 136

Coningsby, Thomas, Earl Coningsby, Irish
Lord Justice, 220

Conseil d'Etat, 3

des Dépêches, 3

des Finances, 3
Privé, 3

Constance, Lake of, 408

Constantine I (the Great), Emperor of
Rome, 484

VIII, Emperor of Rome, 483

IX Monomakhos, Emperor of Rome,
483 sq.

Palaiologos, Emperor of Rome, 482
Constantinople, anarchy in, 367; 368; 515
Treaty of (1724), 545

Conti, François-Louis de Bourbon, Prince
of, 370; 449

Cooper, Anthony Ashley. See Shaftesbury,
first Earl of

Copenhagen, besieged by the Swedes, 147;
558; the coup d'état at, 559 sq.; 561;
581; the plague at, 582; 583; 610 sq.;
Peter the Great at, 612

Treaty of (1727), 551
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 708; 713
Corbet, John, puritan author, 331

Miles, regicide, 149

Corinth, occupied by the Venetians, 365
Cork, 308; taken by Marlborough, 316
Cornbury, Edward Hyde, Viscount (after-

wards third Earl of Clarendon), 255
Corneille, Pierre, 66 sqq.; 125
Corocoro, silver mines at, 682

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Coromandel, the Great Elector and, 646;
the Dutch in, 695, 697
Corzana, Count, Imperial plenipotentiary
at Utrecht, 439

Cotes, Roger, mathematician, 720
Courland, 494; 555; Charles XII in, 592;
594; Swedish occupation of, 666; Prus-
sia and, 667

Anne, Duchess of. See Anne, Em-
press of Russia

Frederick William, Duke of, 550
Courtray, Spain and, 45, 63; 199; 416
Coventry, Henry, envoy to Sweden, 109;
and the Treaty of Breda, 112

Sir William, Secretary to the Duke
of York, 113; 183; 210; 216
Cowley, Abraham, 129; 132; and the
Philosophical College, 740; 745
Cowper, William, first Earl Cowper, 446;
465; 469

Cracow, 480; the Swedes in, 505; 592
Cradock, Francis, and the scheme for a
national bank, 266

Crawford, William Lindsay, eighteenth
Earl of, 292

Cremona, raid on, by Prince Eugene, 403
Créquy de Blanchefort, François, Marshal
of France, 44

Crete.

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Croft, Herbert, Bishop of Hereford, 331;
334

Cromwell, Oliver, and Portugal, 105, 107;
and Mazarin, 106; and the Dutch Re-
public, 138, 140 sqq., and Nieuwpoort,
146; 178; 266; and Ireland, 315; and
the religious sects, 327 sq.; 333; and
Spain, 372, 375, 378; 386; the Elector
Frederick William and, 648; 680; 697
Cronsbruch, Caspar Florenz, Baron von,
at Utrecht, 439

Crowne, John, dramatist, 126 sq.; 132; 136
Croy, Prince Carl Eugene de, 369; 589
Crynssen, Abraham, captures Tobago, 152
Cuba, a Spanish possession, 687
Cudworth, Ralph, Cambridge Platonist, 750
sq.; 753

Culloden, battle of, 326
Culmbach, 622

Culmland, the, and Poland, 629; and the
German Order, 630; 634
Culverwell, Nathanael, Cambridge Pla-
tonist, 752

Cumana, Dutch trade with, 688

Cumberland, Richard, Bishop of Peter-
borough, 753

Cüstrin, the Great Elector at, 639
Curaçoa, contraband trade at, 684; 687
Cyprus, 342

Daghestan, Russia and, 545

Dahlberg, Erik, Swedish general, 569; 587

Dalmatia, Venetian conquests in, 366, 371
Dalrymple. See Stair

Dalziel, Sir Thomas, at Rullion Green,
284; 288

Danby, Earl of. See Leeds, Duke of
Danckelmann, Eberhard von, Prussian
statesman, 647; 658; 662 sq.

Nicolas von, Brandenburg Minister
at Vienna, 663

Dangerfield, Thomas, perjurer, 231
Danzig, besieged by the Swedes, 146; 611;
Brandenburg and, 620; 629; the Ger
man Order and, 631; 634; and Poland,
636; 638

Treaty of, 611
Darien Expedition, the, 296
Dartmouth, George Legge, Lord 262
Daun, Wirich Philipp Lorenz, Count, cap-
tures Naples, 419; 425

Dauphiné, invaded by the Duke of Savoy,60
D'Avenant, Sir William, dramatist, 125 sq.;
136; 745

Day, Francis, builder of Fort St George, 698
Deane, Sir Anthony, Commissioner of the
English navy, 170 sq.; 177
Deccan, Aurangzeb and the, 699
Defoe, Daniel, 396; 467; 468 sq.
Delamere, Henry Booth, Lord, supports
the Prince of Orange, 246
Delhi, the interregnum at, 697; 701
Demoivre, Abraham, mathematician, 716
Denain, battle of, 433 sq.
Dendermonde, captured by Marlborough,
416; 457; 459

Denia, capture of, 426
Denmark, 1660-75, Chap. XVIII (1) ; 1679–

1720, Chap. XVIII (3); and France,
33, 41, 49, 54, 56; and the United
Provinces, 37, 142, 161, 164; and Sweden,
40, 45, 53, 562, 568 sq., 571, 614 sq.;
at war with Sweden, 146 sq., 344, 403,
569; joins the Emperor's coalition, 43;
58; and the Anglo-Dutch war, 109; joins
the Quadruple Alliance, ib.; treaty of,
with England, 269; and Russia, 482; and
Livonia, 493 sq.; and Schleswig, 550;
joins the Hanoverian Alliance, 551, 586;
and the great Northern War, 587 sq.;
and the anti-Swedish leagues, 602, 608,
610 sq., 651; invaded by the Swedes, 609;
and Saxony, ib.; 612; and Coromandel,
646; and the Peace of Nymegen, 652; 666
Deptford, Peter the Great at, 523
Derbent, Peter the Great at, 544; 545
Derby, Duke of Devonshire in arms at, 246
Dernei, Anton, printer, 531

Derry, revolt of, 307; 308; siege of, 309,

311 sq.,
315

Desalliers, French Minister in Transylvania,

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