FAERY COURT, means the reign of chivalry, iv. 248.
FAIRIES, more engaging than the rabble of Pagan divinities, iv. 283.
FAIRY QUEEN of Spenser, to be criticized as a Gothic, and not a
classical poem, 292, 296.
derives its method from the established modes of chivalry, 297.
in what its unity consists, 300.
expedients of the poet in connecting the subject, 302.
allegorical character of the poem, 304.
conduct of the story justified by its moral, 305.
principal defect arising from the union of two designs, 306.
FAIRY WAY OF WRITING, vindicated, iv. 316.
allegory its last resource, 349.
FALKLAND, Lord, his scruples on accepting the office of Secretary of
State, iii. 67.
FEUGREGEOIS, wonders told of it in the history of the crusades, iv.
320.
FEUDAL LAW, instituted by William the Conqueror, iii. 313.
or rather new-modelled by him, 317.
previously adopted in France, 319, 320.
its _fruits_, 321.
favourable to the cause of liberty, 323.
definition of the feudal system, 329.
its defects, 333, 334.
fitted itself to the varying situations of society, 345.
FEUDAL CONSTITUTION, the origin of chivalry, iv. 242.
consideration had of females under it, 274.
distinction between the early and later feudal times, 276.
dissensions of leaders, domestic disorders, and usurpations, 277,
278.
FOREIGNERS, their disputes with British subjects, by what laws
decided, iii. 376.
FORTESCUE, his distinction between regal and political forms of
government, iii. 388. n.
FORTUNE, the making of one, an indefinite expression, iii. 131.
FRANC-ALMOIGN, a particular tenure in the Saxon times, iii. 327.
FRANCE, its lands, under the Carlovingian line, of two kinds, iii.
318.
changes introduced, _ib._ 319, 320.
most of its lands were beneficiary, 324.
her pre-eminence in taste and politeness, iv. 130.
FREEDOM, English, best supported by the ancient nobility, iii. 184.
FREE MEN, persons holding _allodial_ estates in France, so called,
iii. 318.
FRENCH CRITICS, preferred the Gierusalemme Liberata to the Orlando
Furioso, iv. 309.
FYNES MORYSON, his remark on the condition of the English people,
iii. 183. n.