Pachomius 34, 138
pacifism 533
Padilla, René 556
Paeda, Prince of the Mercians 37
Paget, William 269, 270, 277
Paine, Tom 414
Pakenham, Frank 527
Palace of Westminster 443
Palestine 10, 58, 514, 518
Palladius 18
Palmer (née Villiers), Barbara 357
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount 454, 463–4, 468, 469
Pankhurst, Christabel 503
papal infallibility 456, 457, 493
Papist Acts (1778) 402
Paris, Matthew 119, 125, 126, 145, 175, 591
Paris, Treaty of (1259) 124
Paris University 172, 173, 178
Parish and People Movement 541
parish churches 71, 149–52, 193, 196, 228, 584
Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury 254, 298, 301, 321
Parker, Russ 562
Parliament
creation of 124, 126–7
elects Speaker for the House of Commons 209
see also Civil War (1640s)
parliamentary reform 428–30
Parr, Catherine 267, 270, 274, 295
Parry, Hubert 415, 498, 586
Paschal II, Pope 103
Passchendale War Memorial 514
Pasteur, Louis 465
Paston (chronicler) 225
Patagonian Missionary Society 486
Paton, William 521, 525, 527
Patrick, St 18–19
patriotism 405–7, 415
patronage system 347, 434, 486
Paul, St 10
Paul IV, Pope 288, 310
Paul VI, Pope 547, 553
Paula, St 16
Paulet, William 277
Paulinus 9, 31, 32–3, 595
Pavia, Battle of (1525) 241, 242
Paxton, Joseph 454
Peace of Amiens (1803) 414
Pearson, John 365
peasant classes 83–4
Peasants’ Revolt 210–13
Pecham, John, Archbishop of Canterbury 163–4
Peel, Robert 425, 427, 428, 435, 440, 441, 442, 451–2
Pelagius, Pope 29
Pelagius/ Pelagian controversy 16–17, 333
Pelham, Henry 381, 389, 405
penance 186–7
Penda of Mercia 33, 52, 54
Pendleton, Henry 289
Peninsular War 423
Penn, William 355
Pentecostalism 509, 527, 550, 588
People’s Budget (1909) 504
Pepys, Samuel 363, 374
Percy family 91
periodicals, 18th century 386
Perkins, William 348
perpendicular architecture 228, 237
Perpetua, St 12
Persons, Robert 311
Peter, St 10
Peter de Roches 143
Peter the Hermit 116
Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny 141, 142
Peterborough Abbey 92–3
Peterborough Cathedral 282
Peterloo Massacre (1819) 424
Philibert, Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy 296
Philip, Prince 537
Philip Augustus, King of France 114, 119, 121
Philip II of Spain 283–4, 288, 310
Phillips, Henry 263
Phillpotts, Henry, Bishop of Exeter 444, 450, 463, 468
Phipps, Charles 467
Picasso, Pablo 529
Picts 12, 14, 20, 21, 24, 35, 43
Pietism 395
Pilavachi, Mike 562
Pilgrim Fathers 330
“Pilgrim Report” (1930s) 525
Pilgrimage of Grace (1536) 256
Pinter, Harold 545
Piper, John 539
Piran, St 190
Pitt, William, the Elder
see Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of
Pitt, William, the Younger 410, 414, 419, 420–1, 426, 429
Pius IX, Pope 457
Pius V, Pope 309
Pius X, Pope 511
Pius XI, Pope 527
place names, Anglo-Saxon 28
plague
see Great Plague (1665)
Plantagenet dynasty 220
Plato 157, 159–61, 164, 214
Platorius Nepos (Roman governor) 11
Plegmund, Archbishop 63, 69
Pliny the Elder 6
Pliny the Younger 192, 583
Plunkett, Oliver, Archbishop of Armagh 359
Plunkett, William 426
Plymouth, Massachusetts 330
poets and playwrights 326–30, 582–3
Pole, Reginald, Cardinal 284, 286, 288, 289, 290
political satire, 1960s 544
Pompey 4
Pons Aelius 11
Poor Clares 143
Poor Law Act
(1723) 387
(1834) 430
Pope, Alexander 383, 390, 398
Pope, Sir Thomas 296
Popish Plot 359–60
population growth
18th century 411–12
19th century 438, 455, 477, 489
postmodernism 545
Potter, Beatrix, Tale of Peter Rabbit 492
Poullain, Valerand 279
poverty, during reign of Elizabeth I 314
Povey, Thomas 363
Powell, Enoch 548
Powicke, Maurice 527
praemunire, statute of 237, 247, 250
Prasutagus (Iceni king) 9
Prayer Book
see Book of Common Prayer
Prayer Book Rebellion (1549) 275, 277
preaching 581
predestination 219, 398
Premonstratensians (monastic order) 144
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 443
Presbyterianism 301, 303, 321, 338, 340, 344, 346, 354, 356, 459
Preston, John 348
Price, Richard 414
Pride’s Purge 340, 342, 344
Priestly, Joseph 396, 461
Primitive Methodists 413, 459, 509
Princess Ingrid (ship) 532
Princip, Gavrilo 512
Priscian 173
prison reform 461
Pro Fide movement 554
Procopius (Byzantine historian) 20, 24
Profumo scandal 543
Promissio Regio 78, 121
“prophesyings” 302, 581
Prosper of Aquitaine 17, 18
Protestant Ascendancy 344
Protestant martyrs 285, 289
Provisions of Oxford 126
Prynne, William 335, 336
Pugin, Augustus 443, 456, 458
Pullinger, Jackie 485
Purcell, Henry 404, 585
purgatory 182–8, 272
Puritans
emergence during the Reformation 249
under Elizabeth I 299–302, 314
under James I 320–1
and the English Revolution 332, 335, 351–2
during the Commonwealth 344–6
literature, science and philosophy 361
Purvey, John 218
Pusey, Edward 444, 445, 446–7, 448, 450, 458, 469
Pym, John 333, 336, 339
Pythagoras 157, 161