JAMES I. favoured the study of the civil law, iii. 381.
advantages under which he succeeded to the crown, iv. 33.
believed himself absolute, 37.
his bold language to his parliaments, 38.
asserts the right of the King to suspend the laws, 54.
considered a most able judge of _church work_, 59, 60. n.
styles himself the great schoolmaster of the land, 69. n.
JESUITS, their expedient to justify the pope in deposing kings, iv.
61.
IGNORANCE, the parent of many vices, iv. 108.
INTEREST, of men in office, how connected with duty, iii. 139.
JONSON, BEN, praised by Lord Clarendon, iii. 140. n.
his encomium on legends of ancient chivalry, 194.
contrasts them with real life and manners, 198.
design of the witch-scenes in his Masque of Queens, iv. 287.
IRELAND, distractions in, during the reign of Elizabeth, iii. 231.
IRISH, savage, in the reign of Elizabeth, held their rhymers in
principal estimation, iv. 271.
ITALIAN POETRY, a short history of, 309 to 315.
vindicated, 316, 328.
its fictions ingenious as well as bold, 330.
ITALY, the theatre of politeness in the age of Elizabeth, iv. 99.
abounding with literary men, 121.
JURY, trial by, when disgraced and rejected, iii. 379, 382.
JUSTICES OF PEACE, in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, notoriously corrupt,
iii. 270.
JUSTINIAN LAW, when introduced into England, iii. 354.
Why the chief study of the clergy, 361.
opposed by the barons, 363.
allows legitimation by subsequent marriage, 365.
in what courts it obtains to this day, 375.
its fate and fortunes down to the present time, 378.
JUSTS AND TURNAMENTS, their origin, iv. 243.