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Observations of all the Kings of England · Edward Leigh

Observations of all the Kings of England, Index

An Alphabeticall Table, expressing or pointing to the chief things contained in this Treatise.

A

ALfred his severall Names page 20

The first annointed King of England, ibid.

His Vertues, p. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

Arthur King and Prince, p. 154, 155

B

Bastards many of them famous, p. 56

Benevolence by whom that Tax was devised, p. 156

Black Prince a valiant person why so called, p. 113, 115

Bush: Why Henry the 7th bore the Hawthorn-Bush with the Crown in it, p. 151

C

Canutus, p. 42, 43, 44, 45

Magna Charta often confirmed, p. 111

City of London gives the Dagger for its Arms, and why, p. 100

D

Danes long molested England, p. 37, 38, 47

E

Edgar, p. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38

Edward the elder, p. 27

More Kings of England of that name than of any other name, p. 27

Edward the Confessor, p. 48, 49, 50, 51.

Edward the first, p. 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104

Edward the second, p. 104, to 109

Edward the third, p. 109, to 117

Edward the fourth, p. 136, to 146

Edward the fifth, p. 146, 147

Edward the sixth, from p. 170, to 178

Egbert, p. 15, 16

England five times plagued by other Nations, p. 14

Called so first by Ethelbald, p. 11, & 18

Ethelbert, p. 7, & 18

Ethelred, p. 10, 18, 19

Ethelwolfe, p. 16, 17

Ethelston, p. 28

G

The order of the Garter instituted by King Edward the third, p. 115, 116

The King of Heralds called Garter, ordained by Henry the fifth, p. 132

Guild-Hall in London in what Kings raign erected, p. 128

H

L. Hastings a speciall judgment on him, p. 149

Harlos, whence, p. 55

Hengist, why so called, the first Monarch of the English, p. 4, 5

The Heptarchy of the Saxons, p. 2, 3

Henry the first, p. 73, to 81

Henry the second, p. 84, to 86

Henry the third, p. 94, to 98

Henry the fourth, p. 122, to 129

Henry the fifth, p. 129, to 134

Henry the sixth, 134, to 139

Henry the seventh, p. 150, to 160

Henry the eighth, p. 160, to 170

Humble King rare, p. 10

Humphrey Duke of Glocester, learned himself and was a great Benefactor to the Vniversity of Oxford, p. 123

I

Queen Jane, p. 178, 179

Jests, witty and merry speeches, p. 21, 29, 35, 81, 92, 158, 163, 165, 166, 167, 175, 176, 185, 188, 207, 211

King John, p. 93, 94

Ironside, why so called, p. 40

A stout Judge, p. 124, 125, 126

K

Kings-Evil when first cured in England, p. 51

King of Heralds ordained by whom, p. 132

L

Laws, the best made in the time of Richard the second and Henry the seventh, p. 148, 155, 956

M

Queen Mary, p. 179, to 183

Murder punished remarkably, p. 149, 150

N

Neote, me of the first Divinity-Readers in Oxford, p. 17

Normans what, p. 53. We rereceived

our Laws and names of sports from them, ib. p. 54

O

Offa first gave the Peter-pence to Rome, p. 12

Offas Church, aud Offas Ditch. ib.

Oswald, p. 9

Oswy, ib. p. 9, 10

P

Parliament, the first in the raign of Edward the third, p. 111

Parliamentum bonum, ib. Parliamentum indoctorum, p. 122. Insanum Parliamentum, p. 96

Plantagenet, whence, p. 84

Q

Vertuous Queens, p. 98, 178, 179, 183, to 200

R

Richard the first, p. 89. 90, 91, 92

Richard the second, p. 117, to 122

Richard the third, p. 146, to 150

Rosamand what it signifies, p. 86, 87

The comely riding of women when it began in England, p. 120

S

Saxons a warlike people, p. 12. They gave names to many Cities, Towns, Rivers, Woods, Fields in Engl. ib. Why Saxon Princes had their Name from a Horse, and gave a Horse for their Escucheon, p. 4, 5

Schola Salernitana, dedicated to Robert Son to William the Conqueror, p. 67, 68

Stephen, p. 82, 83

Stuart, whence, p. 200

T

Thong Castle, why so called, p. 4

Tudors why so called, p. 150, 151

V

Great Victory of the English over the French, p 112, 113

University Colledge in Oxford, founded by King Alfred, p. 22.

There are his Armes in the Hall, p. 25

W

Earle of Warwick, a person of great power in Edward the fourths reign. p. 200

Women, whether the Rule of Women be lawfull, p 179

William the first, p. 54, to 66

William the second, p. 66, to 73

Wolves how destroyed in England, p. 34.

Wicklef in the Reign of Edw. the third, p. 116

Y

Yeomen of the Guard instituted by Henry the seventh, p. 151

FINIS.

End of the text · Edward Leigh, Observations of all the Kings of England (1661)