Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

by Saint the Venerable Bede

Index

Aaron, British Martyr, [18].

Aaron, High Priest, [361].

“Abbots, Anonymous History of the,” editorial references to, [xxxv], [257] n., [389] n.;

and see [Bede].

Abercorn or Aebbercurnig, Monastery of, [xxix], [286].

Abraham's Oak, [342].

Abraham's Tomb, [341].

Acca, friend of Bede, afterwards Bishop of Hexham, in succession to Wilfrid, [xxx], [161], [248], [357], [358], [379] n., [381];

his attachment to Wilfrid, [161], [355], [358];

driven from his see, [161], [390];

his good works, musical gifts and learning, [358];

educated by Bosa, [358].

Acha, sister of Edwin, wife of Ethelfrid, and mother of Oswald, [147], [383] n.

Acts of the Apostles, quoted, [11], [197], [304], [335], [371].

“Adalbert, Life of,” editorial reference to, [143] n.

Adam, [130], [341] n.;

his tomb, [341].

Adamnan, Abbot of Iona, [140] n., [285] n.;

his work on the Holy Places (“De Locis Sanctis”), [xxii], [xxx], [337], [338];

his “Life of St. Columba,” [336] n.;

his missions to King Aldfrid, [336], [372];

converts the Irish to the Catholic Easter and ecclesiastical tonsure, [336], [337], [372], [373];

his death, [337];

receives Arculf, [338];

return to Ireland, [373].

Adamnan, Monk of Coldingham, foretells the burning of Coldingham Monastery, [xxix], [283], [284];

his vision, [281], [283], [284];

his penitence, [282], [283];

his austerity, [281], [282], [283].

Ad Barvae, or At the Wood, Monastery of, [219], [231].

Adda, Northumbrian priest, [xxvii], [180], [181].

Addi, a thegn, [308].

Adeodatus, [179] n.

Adgefrin, see [Yeavering].

Adtuifyrdi, see [Twyford].

Adulwald, see [Eadbald].

Aebba, Abbess of Coldingham, half-sister of Oswy, [260], [283], [284];

account of, [260] n.;

her name, [260] n.;

founds the monasteries of Ebchester and Coldingham, [260] n.;

her friendship for Cuthbert, [260] n.;

intercedes for Wilfrid, [260] n., [352] n.;

her death, [284].

Aebbercurnig, see [Abercorn].

Aecci, Bishop of Dunwich, [231].

Aedan, King of Scots, defeated by Ethelfrid, [73], [74].

Aedgils, fellow priest of Bede, [284].

Aelfric (“Grammaticus”) editorial reference to, [288] n.

Aelfric, father of Osric, [134], [164] n.

Aelfwine, brother of Egfrid, [267], [385].

Aelli, King of Deira, [73], [83];

Gregory's pun on his name, [83].

Aelli, King of Sussex, first Bretwalda, [94], [245] n.

Aenhere, King of the Hwiccas, [246].

Aescwine, Sub-king of Wessex, [241] n.

Aesica, a little boy dedicated to religion, [xxxiii], [234].

Aetherius, Archbishop of Lyons, [44], [49], [63].

Aetius, the Consul, [26], [27];

put to death by Valentinian, [27], [41].

Aetla, Bishop of Dorchester, [272], [273].

Aetswinapathe, see [Ouestraefelda].

Africa, Churches of, [196].

Agabus, the prophet, [11].

Agatha, St., [265].

Agatho, Pope, [254] n.;

sends John the precentor to report on the English Church, [257], [258], [259];

holds a Synod against the Monothelites, [352];

tries Wilfrid's cause, [352], [353], [354].

Agatho, a priest, companion of Agilbert, [195].

Agilbert, missionary to the West Saxons, Bishop of Dorchester, [147], [148], [149], [194], [241];

offended by Coinwalch, returns to Gaul, [150];

made Bishop of Paris, [150], [350];

refuses to return to England, and sends Leutherius in his place, [150], [151];

at the Whitby Synod, [195], [196], [201];

his ignorance of English, [196];

entertains Theodore, [215];

consecrates Wilfrid, [206], [350].

Agnes, St., [54] n., [265].

Agricola, [11] n.

Agricola, son of Severianus, a Pelagian, [32].

Aidan, Monk of Iona, Abbot and Bishop of Lindisfarne, [xxv], [xxvi], [4] n., [139] n., [140], [201], [347] n.;

Bede's admiration for, [xxxix];

his mission to Northumbria, [138], [144], [146], [376];

his life, [144], [146];

ordination, [144];

his character, [138], [144], [145], [170], [171];

his doctrine, [144], [145];

his good example, [144], [145];

his rebuke to Corman, [145];

gives his horse to a beggar, [165];

his friendship for Oswin, [165], [166];

death, [166], [169], [192], [288] n., [384];

his prevision of Oswin's death, [166];

foretells and calms a storm, [166], [167];

his miracles, [166], [167], [168], [169], [170];

at Farne, [168];

saves Bamborough from fire, [168];

his body translated to Lindisfarne, [169], [202];

his observance of Easter, [170], [171], [193];

his disciples, [202], [208];

his rule, [290];

persuades Hilda to return to Northumbria, [271];

consecrates Heiu as a nun, [271].

Aire, the River, [189] n.

Akeburgh (perhaps Jacobsburgh), [132] n.

Alani, the, [22], [41].

Alaric, [22].

Alban, St., [xxiii], [39];

his conversion, [14], [15], [16];

Lives of, [15] n.;

miracles, [17];

his tomb, [36];

his blood, [36].

Albinus, Abbot of St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury, in succession to Hadrian, [xxx], [2] n., [3], [357];

his scholarship, [2], [357];

furnishes Bede with materials for the “Ecclesiastical History,” [2], [3].

Albion, early name of Britain, [5].

Alchfled, daughter of Oswy, wife of Peada, [180], [191].

Alchfrid, King of Deira, son of Oswy, [xxvii], [195], [206], [377] n.;

rebels against Oswy, [163], [207] n.;

account of, [163] n.;

converts Peada, [180];

death, [180] n.;

at the battle of the Winwaed, [188];

friendship for Wilfrid, [194], [350];

his observance of Easter, [194], [195];

at Whitby, [195];

friendship for Coinwalch of Wessex, [350].

Alcluith, or Dumbarton, see [Dumbarton].

Alcuin, his letter to the monks of Wearmouth, [xxxv];

his influence on learning, [xxxvi];

his anecdote of Bede, [xxxvii];

his “De Sanct. Ebor.” quoted, [243] n., [273] n.;

his “Life of Wilbrord” quoted, [143] n.;

ref. to, [319] n., [320], [323] n., [325] n.

Aldbert, Bishop of Dunwich, [379], [380].

Aldfrid, King of Northumbria after Egfrid, [xxix], [287], [302], [312], [353] n., [372], [377] n.;

death, [xxx], [342], [356], [385], [391] n.;

his relations with Wilfrid, [247] n., [353], [354], [356];

account of, [287] n.;

retrieves the fortunes of Northumbria, [287];

visits Drythelm, [331];

friendship for Adamnan, [336], [338];

his exile in Iona, [336] n.

Aldgils, King of Frisland, [351].

Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, [xxx], [148] n., [210] n., [265] n., [343], [345] n.;

his women scholars, [237] n.;

letter to Geraint, [336] n., [344];

account of, [343] n.;

letter to Wilfrid's clergy, [343] n.;

made Abbot of Malmesbury, [343] n., [344];

death, [343] n., [344];

buried at St. Michael's, Malmesbury, [343] n.;

his literary works, [344].

Aldwin, Abbot of Partney or Peartaneu, [158].

Aldwin, or Worr, Bishop of Lichfield, [379], [380].

Aldwulf, Bishop of Rochester, [378], [379], [380].

Aldwulf, King of East Anglia, son of Ethelhere, [121], [254], [271];

his support of Ethelthryth, [260] n.

Alemanni, the, [92] n.

Alexandria, [338], [364].

Alexandria, Bishop of, see [Cyril], [Theophilus].

Alexandrians, the, [366] n.

Alfred, his translation of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xx], [321] n.

“Alfrid,” King of Northumbria, [377] n.

Allectus, [14].

Allelujah, or Hallelujah, [83].

All Martyrs, the Festival of, later the festival of All Saints, [93] n.

All Saints, the Festival of, introduced by Pope Boniface, [93] n.

Alne, the River, [292].

Alric, son of Wictred of Kent, [377].

Aluchred, King of Northumbria, [393].

Alweo, brother of Penda, [380] n.

Alwic, Bishop of Lindsey, [390].

Amasea, Bishop of, see [Asterius].

Amber, [6].

Ambleteuse, see [Amfleat].

Ambrose, St., quoted, [xlii].

Ambrosius Aurelianus, [31], [32].

Amfleat, or Ambleteuse, [72], [73].

Amphibalus, St., [15].

Amulets, [289].

Anastasis (Resurrection of our Lord), Church at Jerusalem, [339].

Anastasius, St., [388].

Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicea, authority on the Easter question, [139], [198], [199], [368] n., [388].

Ancyra, a cloak of, [109].

Andeley-sur-Seine, Monastery of, [152].

Andhun, ealdorman, rules the South Saxons, [251].

Andilegum, see [Andeley-sur-Seine].

Andragius, see [Androgius].

Andredsweald, the, [245] n.

Andrew, a monk, refuses the English Archbishopric, [214].

Andrew, St., [42] n., [89], [163].

Androgius, Andragius, Androgorius or Mandubracius, Chief of the Trinovantes, [10].

Angels, [xxxviii], [174], [175], [176], [221], [222], [333], [334].

Angles, [29], [30], [31], [82];

Gregory's pun upon, [82].

Anglesea, [94], [102].

Anglia, the name of, [30].

Angrivarii, the, [317] n.

Angulus, see [Anglia].

Anna, King of East Anglia, [149], [152], [172], [185], [189], [232], [260] n., [271] n.;

his piety, [149], [172], [259];

his good children, [149], [173];

slain by Penda, [173];

enriches the monastery of Cnobheresburg, [174].

“Annales Cambriae,” editorial references to, [32] n., [337] n.

“Annales Francorum,” editorial reference to, [323] n.

Annegray, Monastery of, [92] n.

Annemundus (Dalfinus), Archbishop of Lyons, [194];

his kindness to Wilfrid, [248], [348];

his execution, [349].

Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, [72] n.

Antioch, Patriarch of, see [Anastasius].

Antoninus Pius, his rampart, [24].

Antonius, Bassianus, Emperor, [13].

Antwerp, [xxi].

Appleby, Thomas, Bishop of Carlisle, [294] n.

Apollinarianism, [255] n.

Apostles, the, their manner of tonsure, [370].

Aquila, [197].

Aquileia, [20].

Aquitaine, [21] n., [33] n., [369] n.

Arcadius, Emperor of the East, son of Theodosius, [20].

Arculf, Bishop of Gaul, [337-340].

Argyll, [8] n.

Arianism, [xxiii], [19], [20], [148] n., [255].

Arles, [22], [49], [215];

Bishop of, [54].

Arles, Archbishop of, see [John], [Vergilius].

Armagh, Abbot of, see [Tomene].

Armagh, Bishop of, see [Tomene].

Armenia, [6].

Armorica, [7].

Armoricans, [41].

Arnwin, [391].

Arwald, King of the Isle of Wight, [252];

his brothers, [252], [253].

Asclepiodotus, restores Britain to the Romans, [14].

Ascension, the Basilica of the, at Jerusalem, [340], [341].

Asia, Churches of, [196].

Asterius, Bishop of Genoa (Archbishop of Milan), [148].

Asterius, Bishop of Amasea, [265] n.

Astronomy, [217].

Athelstan, [303] n.

Atlantic, the, [5].

At the Stone, see [Stoneham].

At the Wood, see [Ad Barvae].

Attila, King of the Huns, [27], [317] n.

Audrey, popular form of Ethelthryth, [263] n.

Augustine, St., sent by Pope Gregory to convert the English, [xxi], [xxii], [xxiii], [xxiv], [42], [43], [47], [48], [81], [86], [94] n., [98], [126], [210] n.;

ordained abbot, [43];

recommended to Aetherius, [44];

lands in Thanet, [45], [93], [94], [142] n., [383];

received by Ethelbert and Bertha, [45], [46], [47];

settles at Canterbury, [47], [48], [72];

his report to Gregory, [49];

ordained Archbishop of the English at Arles, [49], [383];

his see, [49] n.;

recommended by Gregory to Vergilius, [63], [64];

receives the pall, [64], [65], [66], [383];

his miracles, [68], [69], [81], [83], [85];

recommended to Ethelbert by Gregory, [70], [71];

restores the Church of St. Saviour, Canterbury, [72];

builds the Monastery of SS. Peter and Paul, [72];

calls a Synod, [83];

his dispute with the British bishops, [85], [87];

his prophecy of disaster, [87], [89];

ordains Mellitus and Justus, [89];

death, [88], [89], [90];

buried in the Church of SS. Peter and Paul, [72], [90];

his tomb and epitaph, [90];

his body translated, [90] n.;

his monastic rule, [290].

Augustine, St., Bishop of Hippo, [21], [388];

The Sentences of, [341] n.

Augustine's Ác, or Augustine's Oak, Synod at, [84-86].

Augustus, Emperor, [11], [12], [13], [20], [22], [26], [29], [42].

Aurelius Commodus, Emperor, [12].

Aurelius Victor, quoted, [135] n.

Aust, probably Augustine's Ác, [84] n.

Austerfield, Northumbria, [353] n.

Austrasia, King of, see [Dagobert].

Avon, the River, in Linlithgow, [189] n.

Aylesford, Kent, [30].

Ayrshire, [325] n., [392] n.

Babbanburch, see [Bamborough].

Badbury, Dorsetshire, supposed to be Badon Hill, [32] n.

Badon Hill, Battle of, [32], [42] n.

Baducing, patronymic of Benedict Biscop, [257] n.

Badudegn, a monk of Lindisfarne, [298], [299].

Badwin, Bishop of Elmham, [231].

Baithanus, Irish bishop, [128].

Balder, the God, [323] n.

Baldhild, or Bathild, Queen Regent of Neustria, wife of Clovis II, [152] n., [349].

Ballads, English, [277] n.

Baltic, The, [317] n.

Bamborough, Babbanburch, Bebbanburh, or Bebburgh, [147], [161], [168], [383] n., [385] n.

Bangor, alleged birthplace of Pelagius, [21].

Bangor-is-Coed, or Bancornaburg, monastery of, [86], [86] n., [88].

Bangor, Abbot of, see [Dinoot].

Baptism, of women, [55], [56];

of children, [55], [56];

its practice in the British Church, [87];

in the Roman Church, [87];

proper days for, [104] n.;

ritual of, [119].

Bardney, Monastery of, [123] n., [157], [158], [224], [241] n.;

endowed by Ethelred and Osthryth, [157];

burial place of Oswald, [157], [158].

Bardney, Abbot of, see [Ethelred], [Hygbald].

Barking, or In Berecingum, Monastery of, [xxviii], [xxxiii], [232], [233], [234], [235], [237], [238].

Barking, Abbess of, see [Ethelburg].

Barrow, Lincolnshire, [219] n.

Barton-on-Humber, [219] n.

Basil, St., his Hexameron, quoted, [6].

Bassianus, see [Antonius].

Bassus, Edwin's thegn, [132].

Bathild, see [Baldhild].

Baths of Britain, [6].

Bay of the Lighthouse, see [Whitby].

Beardaneu, see [Bardney].

Bebba, Queen, [147], [168].

Bebbanburh, or Bebburgh, see [Bamborough].

Bede, or Beda, the author, called “Venerable,” [xxi], [xxxiv];

account of his life, [xxxiii-xliii];

his family, [xxxiii];

born near Wearmouth, [xxxiii], [xxxiv], [386];

his instructors, [xxxiii], [xxxiv], [222], [257] n., [386];

his ordination, [xxxiii], [273] n., [386];

his life spent in the Monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, [xxxiii], [xxxiv], [137] n., [386];

dates of his birth and death, [xxxiv];

his autobiography, [xxxiv], [386-389];

his diligence, [xxxiv];

his eyes dim in age, [xxxiv];

his death, [xix], [xxxiv], [xxxix-xliii], [391];

his epitaph, [xxxiv];

his learning, [xxxiv], [xxxv], [xxxvi];

his style, [xxxvi];

visits Lindisfarne, [xxxvi];

visits York, [xxxvi];

Egbert his pupil, [xxxvi];

his “Epistola ad Ecgbertum,” [xxxvi], [273] n., [342] n.;

his influence, [xxxvi];

his last illness, [xxxvi], [xxxix], [xl], [xlii], [xliii];

his “Life of Cuthbert” in prose and verse, [xxxvi], [4] n., [260] n., [285] n., [287] n., [pg 400] [288] n., [291], [309];

story of his visit to Rome, [xxxvi];

story of his residence at Cambridge, [xxxvi];

his writings, [xxxvii], [311] n.;

list of his literary works and compilations, [386-389];

his studies, [xxxvii], [386-389];

his duties, [xxxvii];

his character, [xxxvii], [xxxviii], [xxxix];

his zeal for Catholic usages, [xxxviii], [xxxix];

his admiration for Aidan, [xxxix];

dictates to Wilbert his translation of St. John and St. Isidore, [xlii], [xliii];

buried at Jarrow, [xl];

his relics stolen by Elfred and carried to Durham, [xl];

translated with those of St. Cuthbert to the new Cathedral, [xl];

a shrine erected to him by Hugh de Puisac, [xl];

his chronology corrected, [9], [11], [12], [13] n., [20] n., [22] n., [23] n., [27] n., [28] n., [29] n., [42] n., [63] n., [68] n., [75] n., [94] n., [241] n., [254] n., [287] n., [314] n.;

his “Martyrology,” editorial references to, [27] n., [99] n., [265] n.;

his friendship for Acca, [161] n.;

his “De Temporibus,” [170];

his “De temporum Ratione,” [170], [227] n.;

his “History of the Abbots,” [213] n., [215] n., [257] n., [287] n.;

uses the Caesarean system of Indictions, [227] n.;

his “De Locis Santis,” [337] n., [338] n.;

said to have written Ceolfrid's Letter to Naiton, [360] n.;

his “Expositio in Marci Evangelium,” [364] n.;

his “Ecclesiastical History,” see [Ecclesiastical].

Bega, Irish Saint, [271] n., [275] n.

Begu, a nun, has a vision of Hilda's death, [275], [276].

Belgium, or Belgic Gaul, [5], [13] n.

Benedict I, Pope, [83].

Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, [215] n., [359], [389];

Bede trained under, [xxxiii], [386];

founds the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, [xxxiv], [257];

his library, [xxxv], [257] n., [287] n.;

temporary abbot of SS. Peter and Paul's Monastery, [216] n.;

goes to Rome, [257], [348];

account of, [257] n.;

brings John the Precentor back with him to Britain, [257], [258];

obtains a letter of privilege for his monastery, [257], [258];

his monastic rule, [257] n.

Benedictus Crispus, Archbishop of Milan, [313] n.

Benedictine Order of Monks, [275] n.

Beneventum, [21] n.

Benjamin, [73].

Beornred, King of Mercia, said to have murdered Ethelbald, [392].

Berct, Berctred, Brectrid or Briht, Egfrid's General, lays Ireland waste, [285], [336] n.;

slain by the Picts, [385].

Berecingum, or Barking, see [Barking].

Berkshire, [10] n., [343] n.

Bernicia, History of, xxvi, [82] n., [83] n., [120], [137], [141], [147], [190];

diocese of, [244] n.

Bernicia, Bishop of, see [Eata].

Bernicia, King of, see [Eanfrid], [Ethelric], [Ida], [Oswald], [Oswy].

Bernwin, Wilfrid's nephew, his mission to the Isle of Wight, [252].

Bersted, Witenagemot of, [316] n.

Bertfrid, Osrid's Ealdorman, [385].

Bertgils, surnamed Boniface, see [Boniface].

Bertha, daughter of Charibert, wife of Ethelbert of Kent, [46], [48], [94], [95] n., [132] n.

Berthun, Ethelwalch's Ealdorman, [251].

Berthun, Abbot of Beverley, [273] n., [302], [303], [305].

Bertwald, Archbishop of Canterbury after Theodore, [xxx], [xxxi], [239] n., [314], [315], [343] n., [344] n., [353] n.;

his burial place, [90];

his election and consecration, [274] n., [316], [323];

Abbot of Reculver, [pg 401] [315];

his learning, [315];

ordains Tobias, [316];

returns from the Continent, [323] n.;

reconciled to Wilfrid, [354] n., [355], [356] n.;

at the Synod on the Nidd, [356] n.;

consecrates Aldwulf, [378];

death, [378], [386].

Berwickshire, [260] n.

Betendune, see [Watton].

Bethlehem, [338], [339].

Betti, a Northumbrian priest, [xxvii], [180], [181].

Beverley, Inderauuda, or In the Wood of the Deiri, Monastery of, founded by John and Berthun, [273] n., [303], [307].

Beverley, Abbot of, see [Berthun], [John].

Bewcastle, [163] n.

Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester, converts the West Saxons, [xxvi], [147], [148], [241];

consecrated by Asterius, [148];

death, [148];

buried at Dorchester, [148];

his body translated to Winchester, [148], [149].

Biscop, see [Benedict].

Bishop Burton, [307] n.

Bishops, rules for, [49], [50], [228], [229];

their stipends, [49], [50];

consecration of, [53], [54], [65], [85] n.

Bishoprics, English, List of in 731 a.d., [379] n.;

subdivision of, [122] n., [229], [231], [242-4], [272] n., [273] n., [343].

Bisi, Bishop of Dunwich after Boniface, [227], [228] n., [230].

Blackwater, the River, [183] n.

Blaecca, Reeve of Lincoln, converted, [122].

Bledla, King of the Huns, [27].

Blessed Mother of God, Church of the, at Lastingham, [187];

at Barking, [237];

in St. Augustine's, Canterbury, [357].

Blithryda, or Plectrude, wife of Pippin, [324].

Blood-letting, [305], [306].

Bobbio, Monastery of, [92] n.

Boethius referred to, [145] n.

Boisil, Provost of Melrose, [288];

teaches Cuthbert, [288], [289], [292];

death, [289];

appears to one of his disciples in dreams, and forbids Egbert to go to the Germans, [317], [318], [319].

Boniface IV, Pope, [92], [93];

his pastoral letters to the English Church, [93].

Boniface V, Pope, [xxv], [112], [124];

his letters, [98], [100], [101], [105], [111], [380] n.;

sends the pall to Justus, [100];

sends gifts to Edwin, [109];

to Ethelberg, [111];

death, [105] n.

Boniface, St., editorial references to, [3] n., [87] n., [179] n., [237] n., [324] n., [325] n., [342] n., [346] n., [391] n.;

his martyrdom, [392];

account of, [392] n.

Boniface, or Bertgils, Bishop of Dunwich, or of the East Angles, [179], [206] n., [207] n.;

death, [230].

Boniface, the Archdeacon, Pope's Counsellor at Wilfrid's second trial, [349], [354].

Boniface (probably St. Cuiritin), missionary, converts Naiton to Roman usages, [359] n.

Bordeaux, Pilgrim of, [340] n.

Borrowdale, [294] n.

Boructuari, The, [245] n., [317];

converted by Suidbert, [324].

Bosa, Bishop of Deira or York, [243], [244], [358];

account of, [243] n.;

consecrated in Wilfrid's place, [244], [385];

educated at Whitby under Hilda, [272], [273];

death, [305], [356] n.

Bosel, Bishop of Worcester, [273], [274].

Bosham, or Bosanhamm, Monastery of, [246].

Bothelm, [137], [138].

Boulogne, or Gessoriacum, [5], [13], [72] n., [73].

Bowmont Water, [120] n.

Bowness-on-Solway, [25] n.

Boy, a Saxon, his dying vision of SS. Peter and Paul, [248], [249], [250], [251].

Bradford-on-Avon, [210] n.

Bredon, or Briudun, monastery of, [379].

Bregusuid, mother of Hilda, [274].

Bretwalda, see [Aelli], [Caelin], [Edwin], [Ethelbert], [Oswald], [Oswy], [Redwald].

Bridius, or Bruide Mac Maelchon, King of the Picts, [141] n., [142].

Brige, In Brige, or Faremoûtier-en-Brie, monastery of, [151], [152].

Brige, Abbess of, see [Fara], [Ethelberg], [Saethryth].

Bright, his “Early English Church History,” vi;

references to, [12] n., [51] n., [84] n., [105] n., [121] n., [148] n., [151] n., [183] n., [195] n., [214] n., [242] n., [251] n., [292] n., [326] n.

Briht, see [Berct].

Britain, [xxiii];

Roman occupation of, [xxiii], [9-23];

description of, [5], [6];

language, [6], [80];

freed from Roman rule, [22], [23], [26], [382];

the Romans return to, [24];

its corruption during peace, [28], [41], [42];

suffers from a plague, [28], [29];

overrun by the Angles and Saxons, [29], [31], [32];

civil wars in, [41];

converted to Christianity, [80].

Britain, Church of, see [British].

Britain, King of, see [Lucius].

Britannicus, son of Claudius, [11].

British Church, [xxiii], [xxiv], [xxxix], [19], [54], [55], [86], [92];

its attitude towards the Easter question, [xxiv], [91], [196], [336], [344], [376] n., [381];

refuses allegiance to Augustine, [87];

approached by Laurentius, [92].

British Museum, The, [331] n.

Britons, or Brythons, [xxxi];

defeated by Ethelfrid, [xxiv], [73];

origin of, [6], [7];

language, [6].

Britons of Strathclyde, [286], [336] n.

Britons of Strathclyde, King of, see [Theudor].

Brittany, [7] n.

Briudun, see [Bredon].

Brocmail, Welsh Prince, [88].

Bromnis, [352] n.

Bructeri, The, [317] n.

Bruide, see [Bridius].

Bruide Mac Bili, King of the Picts, [285] n.

Brythons, see [Britons].

Buckinghamshire, [10] n.

Bulgarians, [317] n.

Burford, Battle of, [380] n., [392] n.

Burgh Castle, Monastery of, [174], [177].

Burgh Castle, Abbot of, see [Fursa].

Burghelm, a priest of Wilfrid's, [245].

Burgundians, [92] n.

Burgundofarus, see [Faro].

Burgundy, [122].

Burton, see [Bishop], [North], [South].

Bury, Professor, his “Life of St. Patrick,” reference to, [27] n.

Butler, his “Lives of the Saints,” reference to, [388] n.

Cadvan, father of Caedwalla the Briton, [130] n.

Cadwalader, son of Caedwalla the Briton, [241] n.

Cadwallon, see [Caedwalla].

Caedmon, the Poet, his life and death, [277-281].

Caedwalla, or Cadwallon, King of Gwynedd in Wales, [xxv], [241] n.;

account of, [130] n.;

his revolt against Edwin, [130], [131];

allied with Penda, [130];

his cruelty, [131], [135];

a Christian, [131];

besieged by Osric in York, [134], [135];

kills Osric, [134], [135];

kills Eanfrid by treachery, [135];

slain by Oswald, [135].

Caedwalla, King of Wessex, [xxx], [287] n., [353] n.;

account of, [241] n.;

in exile, [251];

kills Ethelwalch in battle, [251];

expelled by Andhun and Berthun, [251];

kills Berthun, [251];

conquers and reunites Wessex, [241], [251], [252];

conquers the South Saxons and the Isle of Wight, [252], [253];

his relations with Wilfrid, [252];

kills [pg 404] Arwald's brothers, [252], [253];

in concealment at Redbridge, [253];

wounded in the Isle of Wight, [253];

abdicates, [241], [345] n.;

his pilgrimage to Rome, [241], [312], [313], [314], [345], [385];

baptized under the name of Peter, [312], [313];

dies at Rome, [241], [312], [314];

buried in St. Peter's, [313];

his epitaph, [313], [314].

Caelin, or Ceaulin, King of the West Saxons, second Bretwalda, [94], [241] n.

Caelin, brother of Cedd, [185], [187].

Caerleon-on-Usk, or City of Legions, [18].

Caesar, Caius Julius, editorial references to his works, [5] n., [10];

his invasion of Britain, [9], [10], [11], [23], [382];

returns to Gaul, [10].

Caesarea, library of, [369] n.;

Bishop of, see [Eusebius].

Caesarean System of Indictions, [227] n., [254] n.

Caiaphas, [335].

Cairbre Riada, see [Reuda].

Caistor, or Cyneburgacaster, Abbess of, see [Cyneburg].

Calcaria, or Kaelcacaestir, now Tadcaster, [271], [272].

Cale, see [Chelles].

Caledonians, the, [14] n.

Cambridge, [xix], [xxxvi], [172] n., [261] n.

Cambridgeshire, [112] n., [179] n., [259] n.

Campania, [21], [214], [388] n.

Campodonum, or Donafeld, [120].

Canche, the, [215] n.

Candidus, a presbyter, [44].

Cannes, [33] n.

Canons of the Western Church, [228].

Canterbury, or Doruvernis, [47], [48], [49], [210] n., [254], [255], [379];

churches of, xxii, [3], [51] n., [72];

see of, [49] n., [379] n.;

monastery at, [72];

almost destroyed by fire, [99];

school of, [121] n., [316] n., [343] n.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, see [Anselm], [Augustine], [Bertwald], [Cuthbert], [Deusdedit], [Honorius], [Justus], [Lanfranc], [Laurentius], [Mellitus], [Nothelm], [Tatwine], [Theodore].

Cantuarians, the, [133].

Cantuarii, [245] n.

Cantus Ambrosianus, [133] n.

Cantus Romanus, [133] n.

Cantyre, or Kintyre, [8] n., [142] n.

Caracalla, see [Antonius Bassianus].

Carausius, [13], [14].

Carlegion, see [Chester].

Carlisle, Luel, or Lugubalia, [73] n., [285] n., [294].

Carlisle, Bishop of, see [Appleby].

Carloman, King of the Franks, son of Charles Martel, [391], [392].

“Carmen Paschale,” see [Sedulius].

Carpophorus, St., [99] n.

Carriden (probably Urbs Iudeu), [23] n., [189] n.

Cassobellaunus, chief of the Catuvellauni, [10].

Catterick Bridge, Cataract, or Cataractonium, [120], [132], [164].

Catuvellauni, the, [10] n.

Ceadda, or Chad, St., afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and York, [xxvii], [3], [384];

Abbot of Lastingham, [xxxv], [187];

consecrated Bishop of York in Wilfrid's place, [206], [207], [351];

reconsecrated by Theodore, [207] n., [217];

on Wilfrid's return retires to Lastingham, [218], [351];

made Bishop of Lichfield, [192], [218], [219];

a disciple of Aidan, [208];

his holy life, [207], [219], [222], [223];

builds the monastery of Ad Barvae, [219];

account of his death, [xxxviii], [219], [222], [224];

buried at Lichfield, [219], [224];

his posthumous miracles, [224];

his relics, [224] n.

Cearl, King of Mercia, [119].

Ceaulin, see [Caelin].

Cecilia, St., [265], [324].

Cedd, afterwards Bishop of Essex, [xxvii], [3], [183], [206] n., [207], [208];

his mission to Mid-Anglia, [180], [181];

reconverts the East Saxons, [182], [183];

excommunicates a “gesith” for his unlawful marriage, [184];

rebukes King Sigbert and prophecies his death, [184];

baptizes King Suidhelm, [184], [185];

visits Northumbria, [185];

his self-imposed discipline, [186];

founds the monastery of Lastingham, [185], [186];

his brothers, [185], [186], [187];

his death, [185], [186];

burial, [186], [187];

trained at Lindisfarne, [186];

posthumous miracle, [187];

at Whitby, [195];

forsakes the Celtic Easter, [201];

his spirit appears at the time of Ceadda's death, [224].

Celestine, or Celestinus, Pope, sends Palladius to the Irish, [27], [33] n., [382], [383].

Celtic Churches, [xxiii], [xxiv], [xxx], [xxxi];

and see [British Church], [Irish Church].

Celtic Missions, [xxv], [xxvi], [xxx], [139] n.

“Celtic Scotland,” Skene's, see [Skene].

Celts, [7] n.;

their observance of Easter, [84] n., [87];

and see [Easter Controversy].

Centwine, sub-king of Wessex, [241] n., [352] n.;

his wife, [352] n.

Ceolfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, [xxx], [xxxiv], [xxxv], [387], [389];

educates Bede, [xxxiii], [386];

enlarges the library of Wearmouth and Jarrow, [xxxv];

Pope Sergius' letter to, [xxxvi];

account of, [257];

sends builders to Naiton, King of the Picts, [359];

his letter to Naiton (said to be written by Bede), [360-374].

Ceollach, Bishop of Mid-Anglia and Mercia, [181], [191].

Ceolred, King of Mercia, son of Ethelred, succeeds Coinred, [346];

his bad character, [346] n.;

his death, [346] n., [380] n., [386];

his enmity to Ethelbald, [380] n.

Ceolwulf, King of Northumbria, brother of Coenred, succeeds Osric, [xxxi], [375] n., [381];

“Ecclesiastical History” dedicated to, [xxii], [1];

account of, [1];

taken prisoner, tonsured, and sent back to his kingdom, [390];

leaves the kingdom to Eadbert, [391].

Cerdic, British King, [274].

Cerot, Island of, [232].

Cerotaesei, see [Chertsey].

Chad, St., see [Ceadda].

Chalcedon, [265] n.;

council of, [228] n., [254] n.

Chaldeans, the, [31].

Charibert, King of Paris, [46] n., [132] n.

Charles Martel, King of the Franks, defeats the Saracens, [378];

supports Boniface's mission, [392] n.;

death, [391].

Charybdis, [365].

Chauci, the, [317] n.

Chelles, or Cale, monastery of, [152], [271], [349] n.

Chepstow, [84] n.

Chertsey, Cerotaesei, or the Island of Cerot, monastery of, [xxviii], [232].

Cherusci, the, [317] n.

Cheshire, [204] n.

Chester, Carlegion, City of Legions, or Legacaestir, [18] n.;

Battle of, [xxiv], [87], [88].

Chester-le-Street, or Cunungaceaster, [295] n., [325] n.

Chichester, [246] n., [247] n.

Childebert, King of Austrasia and Burgundy, [49] n.

Chilperic, King of Neustria, brother of Charibert, [132] n.

Chosroes II, King of Persia, [340] n.

Chrism, [87] n.

Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, [72].

Christians, persecuted under Diocletian [pg 406] and Maximian, [14-19];

under Nero, [14].

Christmas, [206].

“Chronological Recapitulation of the whole Work,” [382], et seq.

Church Furniture, [65];

Music, [133], [358], [386].

“Church Historians,” see [Stevenson].

Churches of Wood, [170], [192], [360];

of stone, [192], [359];

covered with lead, [192].

Cilicia, [214].

City of Legions, see [Caerleon] and [Chester].

Claudius, Emperor, invades Britain and conquers the Orkneys, [11], [382].

Clement, St., [91].

Clement, name given to Wilbrord, [179] n., [324].

Clergy, rules for, [50], [229].

Cliff-at-Hoe, Clofeshoch, or Clovesho, [229] n., [255] n.

Clonard, [140] n.

Clonard, Abbot of, see [Colman or Columbanus].

Clothaire III, King of Neustria, [206], [215], [349] n.

Clothilde, wife of Clovis I, [152] n.

Clovesho, see [Cliff-at-Hoe].

Clovis I, King of the Franks, [152] n.

Clovis II, King of Neustria, [152] n., [178], [349] n.

Clyde, or Cluith, the river, [24].

Cnobheresburg, or Cnobhere's Town, see [Burgh Castle].

Coenred, or Coinred, King of Mercia after Ethelred, son of Wulfhere, [xxx], [332], [356], [385];

his thegn's visions, [332], [333], [334];

gives up his throne and goes to Rome, [345], [346], [385];

becomes a monk, [345], [346];

reconciled to Wilfrid, [356].

Coenred, King of Northumbria, [375], [377], [378].

Coenwald, Theodore's representative at Wilfrid's trial, [352] n.

Coifi, a pagan priest converted to Christianity, [116], [117], [118].

Coinwalch, King of Wessex, son of Cynegils, [xxvi], [149], [350] n.;

in exile in East Anglia, [149];

puts away his wife, Penda's sister, and marries another, [149];

restored to his kingdom, [149];

his relations with Agilbert, [149], [150];

death, [241].

Coldingham, or Coludi, monastery of, [xxix], [260], [266] n., [281], [283], [284].

Coldingham, Abbess of, see [Aebba].

Coldstream, [120] n.

Colman, Bishop of Northumbria, [xxviii], [194], [201];

at the Whitby Synod, [195], [196], [198], [200];

returns to Ireland, [201], [204], [213], [225], [384];

takes some of Aidan's bones with him, [202];

his frugality and plain living, [202], [203];

at Iona, [225];

at Innisboffin, [225];

at Mayo, [225], [226].

Colman, or Columbanus, Irish bishop, [128], [129] n.

Cologne, [322].

Coludi, see [Coldingham].

Columba, or Columcille, St., Bishop of Iona, [151] n., [372];

his mission to the Picts, [xxv], [xxvi], [140], [141], [142], [359] n., [383];

converts King Bridius, [142];

account of, [140] n.;

his name, [140] n., [318];

founds the monastery of Iona, [xxvi], [142], [383];

builds the monastery of Dearmach, [142];

his rule and jurisdiction, [142], [143];

records of him, [143];

miracles, [199], [200];

death, [142] n.;

buried at Iona, [142].

“Columba, St., Life of,” see [Adamnan] and [Reeves].

Columban Monasteries, Egbert's mission to, [318], [319], [375] n.

Columbanus, Irish missionary to the continent, [92].

Columbanus, see [Colman].

Columcille, see [Columba].

Comb sent by Boniface to Ethelberg, [111].

Comets, [xxxi], [242], [378], [385], [386].

Communion, Holy, [53], [54], [55], [56], [58], [60], [61], [62], [65], [96], [101], [249], [275], [280], [363].

Compiègne, Royal Villa, [206].

Conall, King of the Dalriadic Scots, [142] n.

Confirmation, the rite of, [87] n.

Connor, Bishop of, see [Dima].

Conquest, the Norman, [343] n.

Conrad, Prior of Canterbury, [72] n.

Constans II, or Constantine IV, Emperor, [256].

Constans, son of Constantine, Tyrant of Britain, [22].

Constantine I, Pope, [345].

Constantine the Great, Emperor, [19], [210] n.;

establishes Christianity, [70];

completes the Basilica of the Anastasis, and builds the Church of the Martyrium, Jerusalem, [339], [340].

Constantine III, Emperor, [127].

Constantine IV, see [Constans II].

Constantine, Tyrant in Britain, [22].

Constantinople, [xxxviii], [27], [77], [254] n., [338];

Church at, [254];

councils of, [254], [255], [256], [258], [352] n.

Constantinople, Bishop of, see [Eudoxius], [Macedonius], [Nestorius].

Constantinopolitan System of Indictions, the, [227] n.

Constantius, father of Constantine the Great, [19].

Constantius, Count, [22].

Constantius Chlorus, Emperor, [14] n.

Constantius of Lyons, his “Life of Germanus,” [xxii];

editorial references to, [33] n., [36] n., [38] n.

Continuation of Bede, the, [390], et seq.

Conwulf, Bishop of Lindisfarne, after Ethelwald, [391].

Corinth, [197].

Corinthians, Epistle to the, quoted, [103], [111], [363].

Corman, his unsuccessful mission to the Northumbrians, [145].

Cornish Britons, [7] n., [336] n.

Cornwall, [33] n., [84] n.

Corrib, Lough, monastery on, [174].

“Cotton MSS.,” [xix].

Councils, [116], [128], [255] n., [256];

and see [Constantinople], [Rome], and [Synods].

Cousins, marriage of, [52].

Cricklade, [84] n.

Crimea, the, [256] n.

Croes Oswallt, see [Oswestry].

Cromanus, or Cronan, Bishop of Nendrum, [129].

Cross, The, in procession, [46];

sign of the, [304];

Invention of the Holy, by Helena, [339], [340] n.

Cross, erected by Oswald, at Hefenfelth, [136], [137], [138].

Cross at Maserfelth, [154] n.

Cudwald, see [Cuthbald].

Cuichelm, King of Wessex, son of Cynegils, [103], [104], [149] n.

Cuichelm, Bishop of Rochester after Putta, [241], [242].

Cuiritin, Irish saint, [359] n.

“Culdees, The,” see [Reeves].

Cunningham, [325] n.

Cunungaceaster, see [Chester-le-Street].

Cuthbald, Abbot of Medeshamstead, [356] n.

Cuthbald, or Cudwald, Abbot of Oundle, [356].

Cuthbert, St., Bishop of Lindisfarne, [xxii], [xxix], [xxxviii], [4], [161] n., [168] n., [192] n., [244] n., [331] n., [389];

history of, [288-295];

at Farne, [288];

at Melrose, [288], [289];

succeeds Boisil as Provost, [289];

at Ripon, [194] n.;

his consecration, [285], [288], [292], [293];

Bishop of Hexham, [293];

of Lindisfarne, [293];

his friendship for Elfled, [189] n.;

foretells Egfrid's defeat by the Picts, and death, [pg 408] [189] n., [285], [286];

his vision, [288] n.;

his spiritual powers, [289];

his missionary journeys, [289], [290];

his hermitage on Farne Island, [291], [292], [294];

attends the Synod at Twyford, [292];

his piety, [293], [297];

at Carlisle, [294];

foretells his own death to Herebert, [294], [295];

death, [295];

buried at Lindisfarne, [295], [302];

his body preserved from corruption, [295] n., [296], [297], [300];

removal of his relics, [295] n., [302] n.;

miracles, [291], [292], [297], [298], [299], [300];

Anonymous Life of, [xxii], [285] n.;

Bede's Life of, see [Bede].

Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury after Nothelm, [90] n., [391].

Cuthbert, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, pupil of Bede, [xxxix], [xl];

his letter to Cuthwin describing Bede's death, [xxxiv], [xxxv], [xxxix], [xl-xliii].

Cuthred, King of Wessex, [391], [392] n.

Cuthwin, [xxxiv], [xl], et seq.

Cuthwine, father of Coenred, King of Northumbria, [375] n.

Cycles, Paschal, [84] n., [368], [369], [370], [374].

Cyneburg, St., daughter of Penda, wife of Alchfrid, Abbess of Caistor, [180].

Cyneburga, daughter of Cynegils, wife of Oswald, [148].

Cyneburgacaster, see [Caistor].

Cynegils, King of Wessex, [xxvi], [103] n., [147];

baptized with all his people, [148];

his daughter married to Oswald, [148];

divides the West Saxon diocese, [150];

death, [149].

Cynibert, Bishop of Lindsey or Sidnacester, [4], [243], [244], [379] n., [380];

death, [390].

Cynibert, Abbot of Redbridge, [253].

Cynibill, brother of Cedd, [186], [187].

Cynifrid, surgeon to Ethelthryth, [262].

Cynimund, a priest, [167].

Cyniwulf, King of Wessex, [392].

Cynwise, wife of Penda, [188], [227] n.

Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, [255] n., [256], [369].

Cyrus, in Syria, Bishop of, see [Theodoret].

Dacre, or Dacore, The Monastery of, [299];

a monk of, miraculously cured of a tumour, [299], [300].

Dacre, Abbot of, see [Suidbert], [Thruidred].

Dacre, The River, [299].

Dagan, Bishop of Inverdaeile, or Ennereilly, [92].

Dagobert I, King of the Franks, [132].

Dagobert II, King of Austrasia, [351] n.

Dal, Signification of, [8].

Dalfinus, Archbishop of Lyons, see [Annemundus].

Dalfinus, Count of Lyons, [194] n., [348].

Dalriada, the Dalreudini or Dalriadic Scots, history, [xxiv], [8], [73], [142] n., [286], [392] n.

Dalriadic Scots, King of, see [Conall].

Dalston, near Carlisle, [73] n.

Damascus, [338].

Damian, or Damianus, Bishop of Rochester after Ithamar, [179], [216], [245] n.;

account of, [179] n.;

death, [206] n., [218].

Danes, [30], [317];

their invasions of England, [122] n., [161] n., [231] n., [295] n., [303] n.

Daniel, Bishop of Winchester, [xxx], [3], [148] n., [253], [344], [345], [379], [380].

Danube, The River, [317] n.

Darling, Grace, [168] n.

David, [61], [338], [341].

Dawstane Rig, Liddesdale, [73] n.

Dearmach, Durrow, or Field of Oaks, Monastery of, [142].

Decius, Emperor, [265], [388] n.

Deda, Abbot of Partney, [123].

Degsastan, or Degsa Stone, Battle of, [73], [74], [383].

“De Ingratis,” see [Prosper].

Deira, History of, [xxvi], [82] n., [83] n., [120], [134], [147], [190], [270] n., [383] n.;

diocese of, [243] n.;

Gregory's pun on the name, [82].

Deira, King of, see [Aelli], [Ethelfrid], [Ethelric], [Oidilwald], [Osric], [Oswin], [Yffi].

Deira, Sub-king of, see [Aelfwine], [Egfrid].

Deira, Bishop of, see [Bosa].

“De Locis Sanctis,” see [Adamnan] and [Bede].

“De Mensura Orbis Terrae,” the author of, [246] n.

Denisesburna, or The Brook of Denis, Battle of, [135], [136].

Deogratias, [179] n.

Derbyshire, [181] n.

Derwent, the River (Cumberland), [294].

Derwent, the River (Durham), [260].

Derwent, the River (Yorkshire), [104], [118], [350] n.

Derwentwater, [294].

Deusdedit, Pope, [98], [100], [179] n.

Deusdedit, or Frithonas, Archbishop of Canterbury, after Honorius, [xxvi], [178], [179], [208], [351] n.;

death, [179], [206] n., [207], [213], [217].

Deusdedit, The name of, [179] n.

Deuteronomy, quoted, [55], [279].

Devils, [328], [332], [333], [334], [335], [336].

Devil's Water, [135] n.

Devon and Cornwall, Kingdom of, see [Dumnonia].

Diarmaid, Irish King, [140] n.

“Dictionary of Christian Antiquities,” referred to, vi, [227] n.

“Dictionary of Christian Biography,” referred to, [vi], [19] n., [49] n., [387] n.

Dicul, an Irish monk of Bosham, [246].

Dicull, one of Fursa's priests, [177].

Dima, Bishop of Connor, [129] n.

Dinnaus, probably Dima, [128].

Dinoot, Donatus, Dunawd or Dunod, Abbot of Bangor, [86].

Diocletian, Emperor, [12], [13], [14], [19], [265] n.

Dionysius Exiguus, [228] n., [369].

Discipline, Augustine's Questions and Gregory's Answers on, [49-64].

Diuma, Bishop of Lindsey, Mercia, and Mid-Anglia, [xxvii], [181], [190];

accompanies Peada into Mid-Anglia, [180], [181];

death, [181], [190];

burial, [190], [191].

Divorce, [230], [238], [239].

Dolphins in Britain, [5].

Domesday-Book, [268] n.

Dommoc, see [Dunwich].

Don, The River, [189].

Donafeld, see [Campodonum].

Donatus, see [Dinoot].

Doncaster (perhaps Campodonum), [120] n., [131].

Dooms, of Edric, [287] n.;

of Ethelbert, [95] n.;

of Hlothere, [287] n.;

of Ini, [231] n., [251] n.

Dorchester (Oxfordshire), See at, [xxvi], [148], [272] n., [273].

Dorchester, Bishop of, see [Aetla], [Agilbert], [Birinus].

Dorsetshire, [343] n.

Dorubrevis, see [Rochester].

Doruvernis, see [Canterbury].

Double Procession of the Holy Spirit, Doctrine of, [256].

Doulting, [343] n.

Dreams, see [Visions].

Driffield, or Field of Deira, [342] n.

Drought, An excessive, [391].

Drythelm, a Northumbrian, his visions of Death, Hell and Judgement, [xxx], [325-331];

retires into the monastery of Melrose, [326], [331];

death, [332].

Ducange, editorial references to, [77], [90], [135] n., [266] n., [305] n., [340] n.

Dudden, F. Homes, his “Gregory the Great,” editorial references to, [75] n., [81] n., [133] n.

Dugdale's “Monasticon,” editorial references to, [18] n., [275] n.

Dumbarton, Alcluith, or Dúnbrettan, [9], [24], [25].

Dumnonia, [344] n.

Dumnonia, King of, see [Geraint].

Dunawd, see [Dinoot].

Dunbar, [352] n.

Dúnbrettan, see [Dumbarton].

Dunchad, Abbot of Iona, [376].

Dunnechtan, see [Nechtansmere].

Dunnichen, [285] n.

Dunod, see [Dinoot].

Dunwich, or Dommoc, Diocese of, [122] n., [172] n.

Dunwich, Bishop of, see [Aecci], [Aldbert], [Bisi], [Boniface].

Durham, [xl], [161] n., [190], [204] n., [288] n., [302];

Cathedral, [295] n.

Durham, Reginald of, see [Reginald].

Durrow, see [Dearmach].

Dysentery, [393].

Eabae, daughter of Eanfrid, wife of Ethelwalch, baptized, [246].

Eadbald, King of Kent, son of Ethelbert, [xxiv], [xxvi], [95], [99], [127], [348] n.;

his wickedness, [95];

marries his stepmother, [95], [97];

gives her up, [97];

converted by Laurentius, [97], [98], [101], [105] n., [107], [110];

recalls Mellitus and Justus, [98];

builds the Church of the Mother of God, [98];

his letters to Pope Boniface, [101];

gives his sister in marriage to Edwin, [102], [103];

welcomes Paulinus back to Kent, [132];

death, [151], [384].

Eadbert, King of Kent, son of Wictred, [377].

Eadbert, King of Northumbria after Ceolwulf, [391], [392], [393].

Eadbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, [192], [296], [297], [353] n.;

illness and death, [297];

buried with Cuthbert at Lindisfarne, [297], [302] n.;

posthumous miracles, [297], [298].

Eadbert, Abbot of Selsey, afterwards Bishop of Selsey, [345].

Eadbert, (unknown), slain, [391].

Eadbert, Mercian Chief, [191], [192].

Eadfrid, Bishop of Lindisfarne, [331] n.

Eadfrid, son of Edwin, baptized, [119];

killed by Penda, [131].

Eadgyth, a nun of Barking, [234].

Eadhaed, Bishop of Lindsey, [207], [243];

translated to Ripon, [244], [385].

Eadwulf, usurps the throne of Northumbria, [342] n., [391] n.;

besieges Bamborough, [385] n.

Eafa, Mercian Chief, [191], [192].

Eanfled, daughter of Edwin, wife of Oswy, [xxv], [165] n., [167], [189] n., [191];

her birth, [104];

baptism, [104], [384];

taken by her mother and Paulinus into Kent, [xxv], [132], [167];

observes the Catholic Easter, [193];

receives a cross from Pope Vitalian, [211];

befriends Wilfrid, [347], [348];

joint Abbess of Whitby with her daughter Elfled, [189] n., [286], [306] n.;

buried at Whitby, [190];

her relatives, [348].

Eanfrid, King of Bernicia, son of Ethelfrid, [134].

Eanfrid, King of the Hwiccas, [246].

Eanred, [392].

Eappa, a priest of Wilfrid's, afterwards Abbot of Selsey, [245], [248], [249], [250].

Earconbert, King of Kent, son of Eadbald, [xxvi], [151], [261];

suppresses idolatry, [xxvi], [151];

sends Wilfrid and Benedict Biscop to Rome, [348];

death, [213], [384].

Earcongota, daughter of Earconbert and granddaughter of Anna, [xxvi], [149] n., [151], [152], [153].

Earconwald, St., Bishop of London, [xxviii], [231], [232], [239].

Earpwald, King of East Anglia, [pg 411] son of Redwald, [xxv], [171];

converted by Edwin, [xxv], [120], [121];

slain by Ricbert, [121].

East Angles, The, [30], [45] n.

East Anglia, History of, [xxvi], [3], [112] n., [177], [220], [271];

establishment of Christianity in, [xxv], [121], [122];

diocese of, [xxviii], [231], [379] n., [380].

East Anglia, King of, see [Aldwulf], [Anna], [Earpwald], [Ecgric], [Ethelhere], [Ethelwald], [Redwald], [Sigbert], [Tytilus], [Uuffa].

East Anglia, Bishop of, see [Bisi], [Boniface], [Thomas].

Easter Controversy, The, [xxiv], [xxv], [xxvi], [xxviii], [xxx], [xxxi], [xxxviii], [xxxix], [84], [85], [87], [91], [128], [129], [138], [139], [143], [170], [171], [192-201], [210], [216], [228], [336], [337], [344], [350], [359-370], [374-376], [381], [386].

Easter kept twice in one year, [193].

Eastern Church, see [Greek].

East Lothian, [325] n.

East Saxons, [30], [45], [191] n.;

diocese of, see [London];

province of, see [Essex].

Eata, Abbot of Melrose, afterwards Bishop of Hexham, [194] n., [243], [244] n., [288], [290], [318], [385];

ordained at York in Wilfrid's place, [244];

Bishop of Lindisfarne, [202], [244] n., [288];

death, [302].

Eata Glinmaur, father of Eadbert of Northumbria, [391] n.

Ebbsfleet, [45] n.

Ebchester, Monastery of, [260] n.

Ebroin, Mayor of the Palace to Clothaire III, [192] n., [349];

plots against Wilfrid, [192] n., [351] n.;

detains Hadrian and Theodore, [215], [216];

murdered, [215] n.

“Ecclesiastes,” quoted, [220].

Ecclesiastical Arithmetic, [217].

“Ecclesiastical History,” Bede's, MSS. of, [xix], [277] n.;

sources of, [xxi], [xxii], [5] n.;

editions of, [xix], [xx];

translations of, [xx], [xxi], [249] n., [321] n.;

date of, [379] n.;

Bede's own account of, [386];

and passim.

Ecgric, King of East Anglia, after Sigbert, [172].

Eclanum, Bishop of, see [Julianus].

Eclipses of the Moon, [390], [392];

of the Sun, [203], [213], [383], [384], [390], [392].

Eddi, or Eddius, surnamed Stephen, editorial references to, his “Life of Wilfrid,” [189] n., [217] n., [218] n., [244] n., [252] n., [267] n., [346] n., [347] n., [348] n., [349] n., [350] n., [351] n., [353] n.;

teaches the Northumbrians to sing in church, [217].

Edessa, Bishop of, see [Ibas].

Edgar, Bishop of Lindsey, [243].

Edilhart, King of Wessex, [391].

Edinburgh (perhaps Urbs Iudeu), [23] n., [189] n.

Edric, King of Kent, [287].

Edwin, King of Deira, afterwards of Northumbria, 5th Bretwalda, [109], [127], [147], [164], [243] n., [348] n.;

his early history, [xxv], [112], [115], [130] n.;

marries Ethelberg of Kent, [xxiv], [102], [103];

conquers the Mevanian Islands, [94], [102];

his dominion, [102];

his vision, [112], [113], [114], [115];

his conversion and baptism, [xxv], [102], [105], [110], [111], [115], [116], [118], [131], [270], [271], [384];

allows his daughter to be baptized, [104], [384];

his children, [104], [119], [132];

receives letters from Pope Honorius, [124], [125];

converts Earpwald, [xxv], [120], [121];

Eumer's attack on his life, [103], [104];

his war against the West Saxons, [104], [105];

builds St. Peter's, York, [118], [119], [131];

bestows the see of York upon Paulinus, [118];

marries Quenburga, [119];

his glorious reign, [123], [124], [130];

Caedwalla rebels against him, [130];

defeated and killed at the battle of Hatfield, [pg 412] [xxv], [119], [130], [131], [134], [135] n., [154], [167], [384];

buried at Whitby, [131] n., [190];

his head laid in St. Gregory's Chapel in St. Peter's, York, [131], [190] n.;

his Cross and Chalice preserved at Canterbury, [132].

Edwin's Cliff, [393] n.

Edwinspath, see [Ouestraefelda].

Egbert, Bishop of York after Wilfrid II, afterwards Archbishop, pupil of Bede, [xxxvi], [273] n., [342] n., [390], [391];

founder of the School of York, [xxxvi];

Bede's “Epistola ad Ecgbertum” addressed to, [xxxvi], [390] n.;

Bede visits, [xxxvi], [xxxix];

death, [393].

Egbert, English monk in Ireland, probably bishop, [xxx], [xxxi], [143], [203], [205], [316];

account of, [143] n.;

seized with the plague, [204];

his vow and recovery, [205];

his attempted mission to Frisland, [161] n., [316];

dissuaded by a revelation, [317], [318];

sends Wilbrord instead, [320];

saved from shipwreck, [319];

his good example, [205], [206];

his account of Ceadda's death, [223], [224];

advises Egfrid against the war with the Scots, [286];

his mission to the Columban monasteries, [318], [319], [375], [376], [386];

death, on Easter Day, [205], [376], [377], [378], [386].

Egbert, King of Kent, after Earconbert, [xxvii], [213], [287], [377];

consults with Oswy on Church matters, [208];

sends Wighard to Rome, [208], [213];

sends Raedfrid to meet Theodore, [215];

death, [226], [230], [384].

Egfrid, King of Northumbria, son of Oswy, [xxviii], [xxix], [137] n., [207], [227], [254], [260], [266] n., [302], [352] n., [353];

hostage with Queen Cynwise, [188], [189], [227] n.;

defeats Wulfhere and annexes Lindsey, [191] n., [243], [244];

his conquests, [226] n.;

defeated by Ethelred at the battle of the Trent, [267];

reconciled to Ethelred by Theodore, [267];

gives Benedict Biscop land for the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, [xxxiv], [258];

his dispute with Wilfrid, [242], [245], [385];

marries Ethelthryth, [259];

his relations with her, [259], [260];

appoints Cuthbert Bishop of Lindisfarne, [288], [293];

at the Synod of Twyford, [292];

at the Synod of Hertford, [384];

his death foretold by Cuthbert, [189] n., [285] n.;

sends an army to ravage Ireland, [285];

his expedition against the Picts and Scots, [244] n., [285], [286];

defeated and killed at the battle of Nechtansmere, [247], [285], [286], [288], [342] n., [381] n., [385];

buried at Iona, [285] n.

Egwin, St., Bishop of Worcester, [380] n.

Egypt, [67], [361], [362], [363], [368];

churches of, [196].

Egyptians, their skill in calculation, [366].

Elafius, British Chief, his son cured of his lameness by Germanus, [39], [40].

Elbe, The river, [317] n.

Eleutherus, or Eleuther, Pope, [12], [382].

Elfled, daughter of Oswy, dedicated to religion by her father, [xxxiii], [188], [189];

account of, [189] n.;

trained at Whitby, [190];

enters the Monastery of Hartlepool, [190];

joint Abbess of Whitby with her mother, Eanfled, [189] n., [190], [285] n., [286], [306] n.;

her friendship with Trumwine, [286], [287];

death, [190];

buried at Whitby, [190].

Elford-on-Trent, [267] n.

Elfred the priest, carries Bede's bones to Durham, [xl].

Elge, see [Ely].

Elizabeth, Queen, “The Ecclesiastical History,” translated for her benefit, [xxi].

Ellmyn, Celtic name for the English, [317] n.

Elmet Wood, [120].

Elmham, Bishop of, see [Badwin], [Hadulac].

Ely, Isle of, [260] n., [261], [263];

Monastery of, [260], [261], [262];

St. Audrey's Fair at, [263] n.

Ely, Abbess of, see [Ermingild], [Ethelthryth], [Sexburg].

Emme, Emmo, or Haymo, Bishop of Sens, [215].

Ems, The, [317] n.

End of the World, [71].

English, The, come to Britain, [383];

idolatry among, [67], [70];

called Garmans, [317];

Saxons, [317] n.;

Ellmyn, [317] n.;

Church, [xxiii], [xxvii], [xxix], [53], [65];

language, [6], [45] n.;

religious poetry, [277].

“English Historical Review, The,” editorial reference to, [32] n.

Eni, father of Anna, [172].

Ennereilly, see [Inver Daeile].

Eolla, Bishop of Selsey, [345].

Eormenburg, second wife of Egfrid, [242] n., [352] n.;

warned by Cuthbert of Egfrid's death, [285] n.

“Ephesians, Epistle to the,” quoted, [110].

Ephesus, Council of, [255] n.

Epigrams, [389].

“Epistola ad Ecgbertum,” see [Bede].

Epternach, Wilbrord's monastery at, [324] n.

Equinox, the Vernal, [84] n., [366], [388].

Ercinwald, Mayor of the Palace to Clovis II, [178], [215] n., [349] n.

Ermingild, daughter of Sexburg, and wife of Wulfhere, [149] n., [261] n.;

Abbess of Ely and Sheppey, [261] n.

Ermynge, or Ixning, [266] n.

Erneshow, or Herneshaw, now St. John's Lee, Hexham, [303] n.

Ernianus, Irish priest, [129].

Esi, Abbot, [3].

Esquiline, The, Rome, [257] n.

Essex, History of, [xxiv], [xxvii], [xxx], [3], [10] n., [89], [150] n., [182], [183], [212], [245] n., [380], [383];

diocese of, see [London].

Essex, King of, see [Offa], [Sabert], [Sebbi], [Sigbert], [Sighard], [Sighere], [Suefred], [Suidhelm].

Estrefeld, Council of, see [Ouestraefelda].

Etaples, [215].

Eternal punishment, [51], [53].

Ethelbald, King of Mercia, son of Alweo, [346] n., [380], [386];

account of, [380] n.;

ravages Northumbria, [391];

murdered, [392].

Ethelberg, daughter of Anna, Abbess of Brige, [149] n., [151], [152], [153], [232] n.

Ethelberg, or Tata, daughter of Ethelbert of Kent, wife of Edwin of Northumbria, [xxiv], [102], [103], [104], [119], [348] n.;

receives a letter and gifts from Pope Boniface, [109], [111];

her piety, [110];

after Edwin's death, returns with her children and Paulinus into Kent, [xxv], [131], [132];

sends Wusfrea and Yffi to King Dagobert, [132].

Ethelbert, King of Kent, third Bretwalda, [xxiv], [45], [83], [89], [94], [102];

his wife Bertha, [46];

converted by St. Augustine, [45], [46], [47], [90], [94];

receives a letter and gift from Gregory, [69];

builds St. Paul's, London, and St. Andrew's, Rochester, [89], [163];

endows the bishoprics of London, Rochester and Canterbury, [89];

receives a letter from Boniface, [93];

account of his reign, [93], [94];

his “dooms,” [94];

death, [xxiv], [93], [94], [95], [384];

burial, [94];

genealogy, [95];

his second wife marries his son Eadbald, [95], [97].

Ethelbert, King of Kent, son of Wictred, [377].

Ethelburg, St., sister of Earconwald, Abbess of Barking, [xxviii], [232], [233];

her miracles, [232], [233], [236], [237];

death, [235], [236], [237];

burial, [236];

her spirit appears to Tortgyth, [237];

“Life of,” [xxii], [237] n.

Ethelfrid, King of Northumbria, [xxiv], [112], [134];

defeats the Britons at Legacaestir, [xxiv], [87], [88];

defeats the Scots at Degsastan, [xxiv], [73], [74];

his genealogy and reign, [73], [74];

his persecution of Edwin, [112], [113];

killed in battle by Redwald, [115];

his wives, [147] n.;

his sons, [163].

Ethelhere, King of East Anglia, [121] n., [185] n., [260] n., [271] n.;

occasions the war between Penda and Oswy, [189];

slain at the Winwaed, [189].

Ethelhild, Abbess, [158].

Ethelhun, son of Edwin, [119].

Ethelhun, brother of Ethelwin, [204], [205].

Ethelred, King of Mercia, son of Penda, [xxix], [254], [268], [332], [346], [352] n., [353], [385];

account of, [241] n.;

defeats Egfrid at the battle of the Trent, [267];

reconciled to Egfrid by Theodore, [267];

recovers Lindsey, [207] n. [244], [267];

ravages Kent, [241], [242], [385];

his veneration for Bardney Monastery, [157];

appoints Oftfor Bishop of Worcester, [274];

reconciled to Wilfrid, [355], [356];

resigns his throne to Coinred, and becomes a monk, [355], [356];

Abbot of Bardney, [355], [356];

reconciles Coinred to Wilfrid, [356].

Ethelric, King of Northumbria, son of Ida, [73] n., [270] n.

Ethelthryth, St. (of Audrey), daughter of Anna, wife of Tondbert and of Egfrid, [xxix], [149] n., [220], [263], [269];

her history, [266];

her virginity, [259], [260], [264], [267];

her virtues, [260], [261];

her gift of prophecy, [261];

gives land for a church at Hexham, [137] n.;

obtains a divorce and retires into the Monastery of Coldingham, [260];

founds the Monastery of Ely, [260], [263];

dies of a tumour, [261], [262], [263];

her flesh preserved from corruption, [260], [262], [266];

her posthumous miracles, [262], [263];

her bones translated by Sexburg, [261], [262], [263];

Bede's hymn in her honour, [264-267].

Ethelthryth, daughter of Edwin, baptized, [119].

Ethelwalch, King of the South Saxons, [245], [247], [251].

Ethelwald, or Oidilwald, sub-king of Deira, son of Oswald, [xxvii], [185];

rebels against his uncle Oswy and supports Penda, [163], [189];

gives Cedd land for a monastery at Lastingham, [185], [186].

Ethelwald, King of East Anglia, [185].

Ethelwald, King of Northumbria after Oswulf, [393].

Ethelwald, Abbot of Melrose and Bishop of Lindisfarne, [331], [379] n., [381];

his death, [391];

his gifts to Lindisfarne, [331] n.

Ethelwald, Hermit, [301], [302].

Ethelward, of the Hwiccas, [243] n.

Ethelwin, Bishop of Lindsey, [158], [204], [243].

Ethelwulf, [143] n.

Ethilwin, Oswy's reeve, [164].

Eucharist, The, see [Communion].

Eucherius, [340] n.

Eudoxius, heretic Bishop of Constantinople, [255] n., [256].

Eugenius I, Pope, [349] n.

Eulalia, St., [265].

Eumer, attempts to murder Edwin, [103], [104].

Euphemia, St., [265].

Europe, [5].

Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Caesarea, [369].

Eusebius, name in religion given to Huaetbert, [389] n.

Eutropius, quoted, [xxii], [19].

Eutyches, founder of Eutychianism, [78] n., [254] n., [256].

Eutychius, heretic patriarch of Constantinople, [78].

Eve, [266].

Excommunication, [184].

“Excursus on Paschal Controversy,” see [Plummer].

“Exodus,” quoted, [361], [362].

Exorcism of Evil Spirits, [311] n.

“Ezekiel, Commentary on,” by Gregory, [79].

“Ezra,” [387], [388].

Fainéant, Roi, see [Clothaire III].

Famines, [26], [27], [28].

Fara, or Burgundofara, foundress of the Monastery of Brige, [151], [215] n.

Faremoûtier-en-Brie, or Farae Monasterium in Brige, see [Brige].

Farne, Isle of, or House Island, [xxix], [168], [288], [295], [301], [302].

Faro, or Burgundofarus, Bishop of Meaux, [215].

Fasting, [145], [151], [206], [282], [307] n.

Feliskirk, Yorkshire, [121] n.

Felix, St., [388].

Felix III, Pope, [75].

Felix IV, Pope, [75].

Felix, Bishop of Dunwich, [xxv], [121], [122], [193];

his school, [172];

death, [122], [178].

Felixstowe, [121] n.

Fen Country, The, [179] n.

Fergus, father of Oengus, [392] n.

Field-of-Oaks, see [Dearmach].

Fina, mother of Aldfrid, [287].

Finan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, after Aidan, [169], [201], [204];

baptizes Peada, [180];

ordains Diuma, [181];

baptizes Sigbert, [182];

ordains Cedd, [183];

builds a church at Lindisfarne, [192];

his controversy with Ronan on the Easter question, [193];

death, [193].

Finchale, [204] n.

Fire, future punishment by, [175].

Fire of London, [240] n.

Fish of Britain, [5].

Fiskerton, [123] n.

Flintshire, [86] n.

Florence of Worcester, editorial references to, [191] n., [218] n., [231] n., [241] n., [244] n., [272] n., [273], [274], [301] n., [377] n., [380] n.

Foillan, see [Fullan].

Folcard, his Life of St. John of Beverley, editorial references to, [303] n., [305] n.

Fontaines, Monastery of, [92] n.

Forfar, [285] n., [360] n.

Forth, the, or Sea of Giudan, [23] n., [24] n., [142] n., [285] n., [286] n.

Forthere, Bishop of Sherborne after Aldhelm, [344], [345], [379] n., [380].

Forthhere, Edwin's thegn, [104].

Fortunatus, Venantius, Bishop of Poitiers, [14], [265] n.;

his “Praise of Virgins” quoted, [15].

Fosite, the god, son of Balder, [323] n.

Fosse, monastery of, [177] n.

Fosse, Abbot of, see [Ultan].

France, [5].

Franks, the, [13], [22], [92] n.;

their language, [45] n.;

Church of, [51], [54], [55];

and see [Gaul].

Franks, King of the, see [Carloman], [Charles Martel], [Charibert], [Childebert], [Chilperic], [Clothaire III], [Clovis], [Dagobert], [Pippin], [Theodebert], [Theoderic].

Franks, Duke of the, see [Pippin of Heristal].

Freeman's “Norman Conquest,” editorial references to, [32], [246] n.

Frigyth, Prioress of Hackness, [276].

Frisia, or Frisland, [317], [353] n.;

Wictbert's mission to, [319];

conquered by Pippin, [320];

Wilbrord's mission to, [320];

Wilfrid's mission in, [351].

Frisland, Archbishop of, see [Wilbrord].

Frisland, King of, see [Aldgils].

Frisland, Bishop of, see [Suidbert].

Frithbert, Bishop of Hexham, [391], [393].

Frithonas, see [Deusdedit].

Frithwald, Bishop of Whitern, [391].

Fullan, or Foillan, brother of Fursa, [177].

Fuller, his story about Bede's epitaph, [xxxiv].

Fünen, [317] n.

Fursa, St., [xxvi], [173-178].

“Fursa, Life of St.,” [xxii], [173] n., [174], [178].

Gaels, see [Goidels].

“Galatians, Epistle to the,” quoted, [371].

“Gallican Martyrology,” editorial reference to, [322] n.

Galloway, [141] n.

Garmans, English so-called by the Britons, [317].

Gateshead-on-Tyne, or At-the-Goat's Head, [180].

Gateshead, Abbot of, see [Utta].

Gaul, history of, [xxxi], [5], [7], [10], [14] n., [19], [20], [22], [33], [44] n., [55], [92] n., [96], [98], [150], [178], [214], [378], [382];

Church of, [51], [54], [55], [196];

schools of, [121] n., [172].

Gaul, Archbishop of, see [Annemundus], [Godwin].

Gaul, Bishop of, see [Arculf].

Gauls, [9].

Gebmund, Bishop of Rochester, [241], [242], [316].

Genesis, quoted, [73], [110], [366], [370].

Genlade, the river, [315].

Genoa, Bishop of, see [Asterius].

Geraint, or Gerontius, Count, [22].

Geraint, or Gerontius, King of Dumnonia, [336] n., [344] n.

Germans, [9], [22] n.

Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre, sent to Britain to confute the Pelagians, [xxii], [xxiii], [14] n., [32], [33], [34];

church dedicated to, [33] n.;

stills a tempest, [33], [34];

casts out evil spirits, [34];

converts the heretics, [34], [35], [36], [39], [40], [41];

heals a blind girl, [35];

at St. Alban's tomb, [35], [36];

quenches a fire, [36], [37];

healed of lameness by a vision, [36], [37];

assists the Britons in battle, [37], [38];

goes to Ravenna, [41];

Duke of Armorica, [41] n.;

returns to Britain, [39], [40];

his death, [41].

“Germanus, Life of,” see [Constantius].

Germany, [xxiii], [xxx], [5], [161], [392] n.;

English missions to, [316], [317], [319], [320].

Gerontius, see [Geraint].

Gertrude, St., [177] n.

Gessoriacum, see [Boulogne].

Geta, son of Severus, [13].

Gewissae, see [West Saxons].

Gidley, Rev. L., his translation of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xxi].

Gildas, historian, editorial references to, [xxii], [5] n., [19] n., [25] n., [42] n.;

his “De Excidio Liber Querulus,” quoted, [42].

Giles, Dr., his translation of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [v], [xx], [xxi].

Gilling, [165] n.

Gilling, Abbot of, see [Trumhere], [Tunbert].

Giudan, Sea of, i.e., Firth of Forth, [23] n.

Giudi (probably Inchkeith), [23].

Glen, the river, [120].

Glendale, [119] n.

Gloucestershire, [84] n.

Goat's Head, At the, see [Gateshead].

Gobban, one of Fursa's priests, [177].

Godmunddingaham, or Goodmanham, [118].

Godwin, Archbishop of Lyons, [316].

Godwine, [246] n.

Goidels, or Gaels, [7] n., [24] n.

Golgotha, [339], [340] n., [341] n.

Goodmanham, see [Godmunddingaham].

Gordianus, father of Gregory, [75].

Gore's “Bampton Lectures,” editorial references to, [19] n., [255] n.

Goths, The, [22], [382].

Grampians, the, [141].

Grantacaestir, or Grantchester, [261], [262].

Gratian, Emperor, [20];

slain by Maximus, [382].

Gratian, or Gratianus, tyrant in Britain, [22].

Greece, churches of, [196].

Greek, or Eastern Church, practices of the, [214], [215].

Green, J. R., his “Making of England,” editorial references to, [32] n., [84] n., [188] n.

Gregorian Music, [77] n., [133], [358].

“Gregorian Sacramentary,” see [“Liber Sacramentorum.”]

Gregory the Great, St., Pope, [xxiv], [xxv], [xxxviii], [2], [3], [45], [93], [122] n., [126], [213] n., [218];

account of, [42] n., [75-83];

his genealogy, [75], [76];

his character, [75];

his pontificate, [75], [81];

sent to Constantinople, [77], [83] n.;

confutes the heresy of Eutychius, [78];

his learning and literary works, [77], [78], [79], [80], [81];

his connection with Church music, [133] n.;

his meeting with the Anglian slaves, [82];

sends Augustine on a mission to Britain to convert the English, [42], [43], [45], [49], [75], [80], [83], [131], [383];

letter recommending Augustine and Candidus to Aetherius, [44];

letters to Augustine and the English mission, [43], [64], [65], [68], [69], [290];

letter to Vergilius, [63], [64];

letter to Mellitus, [66], [67], [68];

sends the pall to Augustine, [64], [65], [383];

letter to Ethelbert, [69-72];

his gifts to Ethelbert, [69], [71];

his answers to Augustine's questions on discipline, [xxiv], [49-63], [79], [84] n., [85] n.;

private letters, [79];

sends Paulinus to Britain, [64], [383];

his weak health, [79];

death, [75], [81], [384];

burial, [81];

epitaph, [81], [82];

altar dedicated to him at SS. Peter and Paul's, Canterbury, [90];

quoted, [333], [334];

his disciples, [348], [358];

lives of, [75] n., [83] n.;

and see [Dudden], [Whitby].

Gregory, St., Martyr, [210].

Gregory II, Pope, [2], [314].

Gregory III, Pope, [2] n.

Guest, editorial reference to, [32] n.

Guthfrid, Abbot of Lindisfarne, [301], [302].

Guthlac, St., his Hermitage, [380] n.

Gwynedd, King of, see [Caedwalla], [Cadvan].

Habakkuk, quoted, [368].

Habetdeus, [179] n.

Hackness, or Hacanos, Monastery of, [275], [276].

Hackness, Abbess of, see [Hilda].

Hackness, Prioress of, see [Frigyth].

Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents,” editorial references to, [84] n., [87] n., [306] n., [315] n., [316] n., [319] n., [343] n., [345] n., [379] n., [380] n., [391] n.

Haddenham, [220] n.

Hades, [326], [327], [329], [330].

Hadrian, Pope, [219] n.

Hadrian, Emperor, his wall, [13] n., [25], [26], [136] n., [137].

Hadrian, Abbot of Niridanum and later of St. Augustine's Monastery, [pg 418] Canterbury, [xxviii], [xxx], [214], [316] n., [343] n., [377];

refuses the English Archbishopric, [2], [214];

recommends Andrew, [214];

recommends Theodore, [2] n., [214];

accompanies Theodore on his journey to Britain, [2] n., [213], [214], [215];

detained by Ebroin at Quentavic, [216];

his arrival in Britain, [216], [357];

made Abbot of St. Augustine's, [216];

his learning, [216], [217], [357];

accompanies Theodore in his pastoral visitations, [216], [217];

death, [357];

buried in St. Augustine's, [357].

Hadulac, Bishop of Elmham, [379] n., [380].

Haedde, Bishop of Winchester after Leutherius, [148], [241];

supposed to be identical with Aetla, [272] n.;

his character, [342];

resists Bertwald's division of the Bishopric, [343] n.;

death, [342], [343];

posthumous miracles, [343].

Haemgils, a monk, [330].

Haethfelth (Hatfield Chase, near Doncaster), Battle of, [xxv], [131].

Haethfelth (Hatfield, Hertfordshire), Synod of, [xxix], [254], [255], [256], [259], [385].

Hagustald, see [Hexham].

Hallelujah, or Allelujah, [80], [83].

Hallelujah victory of Germanus, [38], [39].

Hallington, [136] n.

Halydene, [136] n.

Hamble, or Homelea, The River, [253].

Hampshire, [253] n., [343] n.

Harold, [246] n.

Hartlepool, Heruteu, or the Island of the Hart, Monastery at, [190], [271].

Hartlepool, Abbess of, see [Heiu], [Hilda].

“Hateful Year, The,” in Northumbria, [xxv], [135].

Hatfield, see [Haethfelth].

Hatfield Chase, see [Haethfelth].

Haverfield, editorial reference to, [13] n.

Haymo, see [Emme].

Healaugh, Monastery of, [271] n.

Heavenly Field, the, see [Hefenfelth].

“Hebrews, The Epistle to the,” quoted, [79].

Hebron, [341], [342].

Hecana, see [Hereford].

Hedda, Bishop of Lichfield, [379] n.

Hefenfelth, or The Heavenly Field, [136], [137].

Heiu, first Northumbrian nun, [271], [275] n.;

founds the monastery of Hartlepool, [271];

retires to Calcaria, [271], [272];

her gravestone, [271] n.

Helen, [264].

Helena, mother of Constantine, [19];

legality of her marriage, [19] n.;

her Finding of the True Cross, [339], [340] n.

Heliand, The, [277] n.

Heligoland, [323] n.

Hell, [51], [327], [328], [335].

Hengist, leader of the Anglo-Saxons, [30], [45] n., [95].

Henry VIII, [275] n.

Heracleonas, or Heraclius, Emperor, son of Heraclius, [127].

Heraclius, Emperor, [127] n.

Herbert, see [Herebert].

Herebald, Abbot of Tynemouth, [309], [310], [311].

Herebert, St., a hermit, the friend of Cuthbert, [294], [295].

Hereford, See of, [218] n., [380] n.

Hereford, Bishop of, see [Putta], [Tyrhtel], [Torthere], [Wahlstod].

Herefrid, [391].

Hereric, nephew of Edwin, and father of Hilda, [270];

poisoned by Cerdic, [274].

Heresuid, sister of Hilda, and wife of Ethelhere, [271].

Heriburg, Abbess of Watton, her daughter healed by John of [pg 419] Beverley's prayers, [305], [306], [307].

Hermit, a British, lays a trap for Augustine, [86].

Hertford, Synod of, [xxviii], [226], [227], [384].

Hertfordshire, [10] n., [18] n., [255] n.

Heruteu, see [Hartlepool].

Herutford, see [Hertford].

Hewalds, The Two (Black and White), martyrs, [320], [321], [322].

Hexham, or Hagustald, [xxx], [136] n., [137], [243] n., [303] n.;

diocese of, [137] n., [353] n.

Hexham, Bishop of, see [Acca], [Eata], [Frithbert], [John], [Tunbert], [Wilfrid].

Hiddila, priest to Bernwin, [252].

Hii, see [Iona].

Hilarus, arch-presbyter, [129].

Hilda, St., daughter of Hereric, Abbess of Hartlepool and afterwards of Whitby, [xxix], [190], [270], [271], [272];

account of her life, [270-275];

builds the monastery of Streanaeshalch or Whitby, [190], [272];

her attitude on the Easter question, [195];

her opposition to Wilfrid, [195] n.;

her character, [272];

her pupils, [272], [273], [274];

illness and death, [270], [275], [385];

friendship for Aidan, [272].

Hildilid, pupil of Aldhelm, Abbess of Barking after Ethelburg, [237], [344] n.

“History of the Abbots,” Anonymous, see [Abbots];

Bede's, see [Bede].

Hlothere, King of Kent after Egbert, [xxviii], [xxix], [230], [254], [269];

Edric's revolt against, [287];

grants Bertwald land in Thanet, [315];

death, [285], [287], [385].

Holder, editor of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xx].

Holmhurst, [18] n.

Holy Island, see [Lindisfarne].

Holy Housel, [275].

Homelea, see [Hamble].

Honorius, Emperor, [21], [22], [26].

Honorius, Pope, [xxv], [105] n., [124], [132];

sends the Pall to Paulinus, and to Archbishop Honorius, [124], [125], [126], [127];

his letters, [124-130];

sends Birinus to the West Saxons, [xxvi], [147], [148].

Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury after Justus, [xxv], [123], [125], [126], [132], [163], [164], [193];

ordained by Paulinus, [126];

receives the Pall from Pope Honorius, [125], [126];

sends Felix to East Anglia, [122];

a disciple of Pope Gregory, [348];

death, [178], [179].

Horsa, brother of Hengist, [30].

Horse, miraculously cured at Oswald's death-place, [155].

Horsted, [30].

House Island, see [Farne].

Hreutford, see [Redbridge].

Hrof, [89].

Hrofaescaestrae, see [Rochester].

Huaetbert, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, [xxxiv], [xl], [389].

Huddersfield, [120] n.

Hugh de Puisac, erects a shrine at Durham, for the bones of Bede and others, [xl].

Hull, The River, [303] n.

Humber, The River, [30], [45], [82] n., [89], [94], [102], [122], [164], [320], [380].

Hunt, Dr., his “History of the English Church,” editorial references to, vi, [84] n.

Huntingdonshire, [179] n.

Huns, The, [27], [317].

Hunwald, betrays Oswin, [164].

Hurst, W., his translation of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xxi].

Hussey, his edition of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xx], [392] n.

Hwiccas, The, [84], [243] n.;

diocese of, see [Worcester].

Hwiccas, King of the, see [Aenhere], [Eanfrid].

Hwiccas, sub-king of the, [377] n.;

and see [Osric].

Hygbald, Abbot of Bardney, [223], [224].

Hymns, [264-267], [389].

I (Iona), [140] n.

Ibas, Bishop of Edessa, his heresy, [255] n., [256].

Ida, first King of Bernicia, [73] n., [383], [391];

account of, [383] n.;

founds Bamborough, [147] n., [383] n.

Idle, the Battle of the, [115].

Idols, destruction of, [67], [70], [151].

Ii (Iona), [140] n.

Imma, [268], [269], [270].

Immersion, Single, [87] n.

Immin, Mercian chief, [191], [192].

Importunus, Bishop of Paris, [194] n.

In Berecingum, see [Barking].

In Brige, see [Brige].

In Compendio, see [Compiègne].

Incuneningum, [325].

Inderauuda, see [John of Beverley].

Indictions, [227], [254].

Indulgences, [294] n.

Infeppingum, [181].

Ingetlingum, monastery of, [164], [165], [191].

Ingwald, Bishop of London, [379], [380], [391].

Ingyruum, [359], and see [Jarrow].

Inhrypum, see [Ripon].

Ini, or Ine, King of Wessex after Caedwalla, [xxx], [314];

conquers Sussex, [251];

his “Dooms,” [231] n., [251] n.;

Aldhelm's influence with, [343] n.;

his abdication and pilgrimage to Rome, [314], [345] n.

Inisboufinde, see [Innisboffin].

Inishmahee, Bishop of, see [Cronan].

Inlade, the river, [315].

Inlitore, now Kaiserwerth, Monastery at, [324].

Innisboffin, Inisboufinde, or The Island of the White Heifer, [225], [226].

Intiningaham, see [Tininghame].

Inundalum, see [Oundle].

Inver Daeile, or Ennereilly, Bishop of, see [Dagan].

Inverness, [140] n.

Iona, Hii, I or Ii, the island of, included in Ireland, [xxv], [xxvi], [92] n., [191] n., [201], [225];

given to Columba by Bridius or by Conall, [xxvi], [142];

its monastery founded by Columba, [xxvi], [142], [383];

its constitution and jurisdiction, [xxvi], [139] n., [140], [142], [169], [181], [183] n., [318];

its monks converted to Catholic usages, [xxvi], [xxxi], [xxxix], [337], [373], [374], [375], [376], [377];

piety of its Abbots, [143];

derivation of the name, [140] n.

Iona, Abbot of, see [Adamnan], [Columba], [Segeni].

Ireland, History of, [xxix], [5], [7], [8], [9], [91], [92], [94], [161], [177], [191] n., [204], [285], [306] n., [337], [373], [383];

description of, [7], [8], [9];

its hospitality to the English monks, [204].

Irish, or Scots, Bishop of the, see [Palladius].

Irish Annals, editorial reference to, [337] n.

Irish Church, [xxiii], [xxv], [xxx], [xxxix], [87] n., [138], [139], [142] n., [143], [144], [193-201], [336], [374-377].

Irminric, father of Ethelbert, King of Kent, [95].

Isaac, [387];

his tomb, [341].

Isaiah, quoted, [186], [209].

Ishmael, [378] n.

Isle of Wight, see [Wight].

Israel, [67], [341] n.

Itala, the, [366], [368].

Italian Sea, the, [132].

Italy, [6], [20], [79], [92] n., [93], [196].

Itchen, the river, [252] n.

Ithamar, Bishop of Rochester, [164], [178] n., [179].

Iudeu, [23] n., [189] n.

Ixning, see [Ermynge].

Jacobsburgh, see [Akeburgh].

Jacob's Tomb, [341] n.

James, St., quoted, [197], [372].

James the Less, St., [215] n.

James the Deacon, companion of Paulinus, [xxv], [123];

left at York when Paulinus flees into Kent, [132];

a village named after him, [132];

teaches Church music, [132], [133], [217];

observes the Catholic Easter, [193], [195];

at Whitby, [195];

death, [133].

Jarrow, see [Wearmouth and Jarrow].

Jarrow, Abbot of, see [Benedict Biscop], [Ceolfrid], [Huaetbert].

Jaruman, Bishop of Mercia, [xxviii], [192], [206] n., [351] n.;

his mission to the East Saxons, [212], [245] n.;

death, [218].

Jerome, [21] n., [387].

Jerusalem, [337], [339], [340], [341].

Jet, [6].

Jezebel, [349] n.

Job, quoted, [80], [370];

his tonsure, [370];

“Commentary on,” see [Gregory].

John the Baptist, St., his martyrdom, [53].

John the Deacon, author of “Life of Gregory,” [75] n., [81] n., [83] n.

John the Evangelist, St., [xlii], [304];

his celebration of Easter, [196], [197], [198];

quoted, [335], [363].

John IV, Pope, consecrated, [128] n.;

his letter to the Scots, [128], [129], [130], [144] n.

John VI, Pope, Wilfrid's cause tried before, [353].

John, Archbishop of Arles, [215].

John, Chief of the Papal notaries, [129].

John of Beverley, Bishop of Hexham after Eata, [xxix], [302], [353] n.;

a pupil of Hilda, [273];

of Theodore, [305] n.;

appointed Bishop of York, [305], [356] n.;

ordains Bede, [xxxiii], [386];

his miracles, [302], [303], [304], [305], [306], [307], [308], [309], [310], [311];

at Erneshow, [303], [304];

at Watton, [305], [306];

consecrates churches, [307], [308];

resigns the bishopric of York and retires to Beverley, [312];

ordains his successor, Wilfrid II, Bishop of York, [312];

death, [311], [312];

buried at St. Peter's, Beverley, [311], [312].

John, a martyr, [210].

John, the precentor, brought into Britain to teach Church music, [258];

Abbot of St. Martin's Monastery, [257];

at the Synod of Haethfelth, [257], [258], [259], [385];

dies on his way back to Rome, [259];

buried at Tours, [259].

Jonah, quoted, [319].

Joseph, [341] n., [370].

Julianus of Campania, heretic Bishop of Eclanum, [21].

Julius, British martyr, [18].

Julius Caesar, see [Caesar].

Justin II, Emperor, [140].

Justinian I, Emperor, [140], [203] n., [256].

Justinian II, Emperor, [314].

Justus, Bishop of Rochester, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, [xxiv], [89], [92], [100];

sent by Gregory to Augustine, [64];

takes refuge in Gaul, [xxiv], [96], [97];

ordains Romanus Bishop of Rochester, [100];

ordains Paulinus, [103], [384];

sends Romanus on a mission to Pope Honorius, [132];

death, [123], [125].

Jutes, the, [30], [31], [245] n., [252].

Jutland, [30], [317] n.

Kaelcacaestir, see [Calcaria].

Kaiserswerth, [324] n.

Katwyk, [320] n.

Kent, history, [xxii], [xxix], [2], [5] n., [30], [89], [93], [94], [96], [102] n., [127] n., [130], [152], [166], [172], [179], [217], [241], [242], [245], [261], [269], [273], [316] n., [385];

language of, [45] n.;

settlement of Christianity in, [xxii], [xxiv], [xxix], [95], [193], [290];

diocese of, [323], [379] n., [380];

and see [Canterbury] and [Rochester].

Kent, king of, see [Alric], [Eadbert], [Earconbert], [Egbert], [Ethelbert], [pg 422] [Hlothere], [Irminric], [Mul], [Octa], [Oeric], [Suaebhard], [Wictred].

Kerslake, T., his “Vestiges of the Supremacy of Mercia,” editorial reference to, [255] n.

Kyle, Plain of, conquered by Eadbert, [392].

Labienus, the Tribune, slain in battle with the Britons, [10].

Laestingaeu, see [Lastingham].

Lagny-on-the-Marne, or Latineacum, [178].

Laistranus, Irish priest, [129].

Lammermuir Hills, [288] n.

Lancashire, [204] n.

Lanfranc, Archbishop, rebuilds Canterbury Cathedral, [72] n.

Langres, [257] n.

Laodicea, Bishop of, see [Anatolius].

Lastingham, or Laestingaeu, Monastery of, [xxvii], [xxxv], [3], [185], [186], [187], [207], [218], [220], [351].

Lastingham, Abbot of, see [Ceadda], [Cedd].

Lateran Councils, [256] n., [352].

Latin Language, [6];

poetry, [264] n.

Latineacum, see [Lagny].

Laurentius, St., Deacon and Martyr, [210].

Laurentius, second Archbishop of Canterbury, [xxiv], [49], [64] n., [91], [92], [93], [96];

sent by Augustine to Gregory, [49];

consecrates the Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Canterbury, [90];

his letters to the Scots and Britons, [91], [92];

rebuked and scourged by St. Peter in a dream, [97];

converts King Eadbald, [97];

death and burial, [98].

Leah's Tomb, [341] n., [342].

Leeds, or Loidis, [120], [189] n.

Leeds, or Loidis and Elmet, King of, see [Cerdic].

Legacaestir, see [Chester].

Legions, City of, see [Chester] and [Caerleon-on-Usk].

Leicester, Diocese of, [148] n., [379] n.

Leicester, Bishop of, [274] n.

Leicestershire, [179] n.

Leinster, [92] n., [141] n., [142] n.

Lent, [38], [151], [186], [206].

Leptis in Tripolis, [12].

Lérins, [33].

Leutherius, or Hlothere, Bishop of Wessex, nephew of Agilbert, [147], [150], [151];

consecrated by Theodore, [151];

at the Hertford Synod, [228];

ordains Aldhelm, [343] n.;

death, [241].

Leviticus, quoted [279], [364].

“Liber Sacramentorum,” or Gregorian Sacramentary, attributed to Gregory, [81] n.

“Liber Eliensis,” editorial reference to, [266] n.

Lichfield, Diocese of, [xxviii], [219] n.;

Cathedral, [224] n.

Lichfield, Bishop of, see [Aldwin], [Ceadda], [Hedda], [Sexwulf], [Wynfrid].

Liddesdale, [73] n.

Liège, [177] n.

Light, Supernatural, [157], [232], [233], [234], [322].

Lilla, gives his life for Edwin's, [104].

Lincoln, [122], [123], [126].

Lincolnshire, [122] n., [123] n., [157], [179] n., [219] n.

Lindisfari, [245] n.

Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, Monastery of, [xxv], [xxxvi], [1] n., [4], [139], [169], [186], [202], [203], [225], [290], [347];

Church of, [xxiii], [4], [183], [192], [295], [302];

diocese of, [xxv], [243] n., [325] n., [351] n., [353].

Lindisfarne, Abbot of, see [Aidan], [Guthfrid].

Lindisfarne, Bishop of, see [Aidan], [Colman], [Conwulf], [Cuthbert], [Eadbert], [Eadfrid], [Eata], [Ethelwald], [Finan], [Tuda].

Lindsey, history, [xxv], [3], [4], [157], [191], [207] n., [243] n., [244], [267] n., [353] n.;

diocese of, [225], [243] n., [380] n.

Lindsey, Bishop of, see [Alwic], [Ceadda], [Cynibert], [Diuma], [Eadhaed], [Edgar], [Ethelwin].

Linlithgow, [32], [189] n.

Littleborough, [123] n.

Liudhard, Bishop, Chaplain to Bertha, [46], [51] n.

Loidis, see [Leeds].

Lombards, [148] n.;

King of the, see [Perctarit].

London, metropolis of the East Saxons, [89], [241];

diocese of, [49] n., [65], [183] n.

London, Bishop of, see [Earconwald], [Ingwald], [Mellitus], [Waldhere], [Wini].

Looking-glass, sent by Pope Boniface to Queen Ethelberg, [111].

Lord's Day, the, [197].

Lothians, the, [189] n.

Louth, County, [204] n.

Lucius, King of Britain, his conversion, [xxiii], [12], [149] n., [382].

Lucius Bibulus, Consul, [9].

Lucius Verus, Emperor, see [Aurelius].

Lugubalia, see [Carlisle].

Luke, St., quoted, [78].

Lul, Archbishop of Mainz, [392] n.

Lupus, Bishop of Troyes, [40];

sent to Britain to confute the Pelagians, [xxiii], [32], [33], [34];

churches dedicated to, [33];

casts out evil spirits, [34].

Luxeuil, Monastery of, [92] n.

Lyccidfelth, see [Lichfield].

Lyons, [194], [316] n.

Lyons, Archbishop of, see [Aetherius], [Annemundus], [Godwin].

Lyons, Count of, see [Dalfinus].

Maas, the, [317] n.

Maban, or Mafa, a teacher of Church music, [358].

Macedonia, [6].

Macedonius, Heretic Bishop of Constantinople, [255] n., [256].

Maelduib, see [Maildufus].

Maeldum, see [Meaux].

Maelmin, Northumbria, [120].

Maestricht, [177] n.

Maes-y-Garmon, or Field of Germanus, said to be the scene of the Hallelujah Victory, [38] n.

Mafa, see [Maban].

Mageo, see [Mayo].

Maildufus, or Maelduib founds the Monastery of Malmesbury, [343] n., [344].

Mailros, see [Melrose].

Maintz, Bishop of, see [Boniface], [Redger], [Lul].

“Making of England, The,” see [Green].

Malachi, quoted, [367].

Malmesbury, or City of Maildufus, [343], [344];

perhaps Augustine's Ác, [84] n.

Malmesbury, Abbot of, see [Aldhelm].

Malmesbury, William of, see [William].

Mamre, Hill of, [342].

Man, Isle of, [94], [102];

and see [Mevanian Islands].

Mandubracius, see [Androgius].

Marcellinus, his “Life of Suidbert,” [323] n.

Marcian, Emperor, [29], [41], [383].

Marcus, Emperor in Britain, [22] n.

Marcus Antoninus Verus, or Marcus Aurelius, Emperor, [12].

Marigena, see [Pelagius].

Mark, St., quoted, [110];

his observance of Easter, [364].

Market Weighton, [118].

Maro (Vergil), [264].

Marriage, of the lower clergy, [50];

lawful and unlawful, [52], [53], [95], [97], [184];

customs of, [54];

rules and discipline of, [56], [57], [59], [60], [61], [230].

Marseilles, [215].

Martial, editorial reference to, [264] n.

Martin, St., Bishop of Tours, [48], [141], [257] n., [259] n.

Martin, Pope, [256], [258].

Martyrium Church at Jerusalem, [339], [340].

“Martyrology,” Bede's, see [Bede].

Martyrs, Church of the Four Crowned, Canterbury, [99].

Mary, the Virgin, [264], [266], [355];

churches of, [224], [339].

Maserfelth, Battle of, [xxvi], [154], [155].

Masses, [51], [81], [96], [268], [269], [270];

and see [Communion].

Mason, Dr., his “Mission of St. Augustine,” editorial references to, [vi], [45] n.

Matthew, St., quoted, [100], [101], [110], [126], [127], [173], [200], [211], [371], [393].

Matthew of Westminster, editorial reference to, [345] n.

Maurice, or Mauritius, Emperor, [42], [43], [44], [64], [66], [68], [71], [72], [81].

Maximian, surnamed Herculius, Emperor, [13], [14].

Maximus, Emperor in Britain, [20], [382].

Mayo, Mageo or Muigeo, [225] n., [226].

Mayor and Lumby's edition of Books III and IV of the “Ecclesiastical History,” editorial references to, [vi], [xx], [xxxv] n., [220] n., [261] n.

Mayor of the Palace, see [Ebroin], [Ercinwald].

Meanware, [245].

Meaux, or Maeldum, [355].

Meaux, Bishop of, see [Faro].

Medeshamstead, see [Peterborough].

Medeshamstead, Abbot of, see [Cuthbald].

Meilochon, father of Bridius, King of the Picts, [142].

Meldi, the, [215].

Melfont, or Mellifont, [204] n.

Mellitus, Bishop of London and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, sent by Gregory to Augustine, [xxiv], [64], [66], [89], [92], [231] n., [383];

account of, [64] n.;

goes to Rome, [92], [93];

expelled by the East Saxons, takes refuge with Justus in Gaul, [96], [97], [182];

returns from Gaul, [98];

succeeds Laurentius as Archbishop of Canterbury, [98], [99];

suffers from gout, [98];

death and burial, [99], [100];

his character, [98], [99].

Melrose, or Mailros, Monastery of, [194] n., [202], [288], [290], [318], [326].

Melrose, Abbot of, see [Eata], [Ethelwald];

Provost of, see [Boisil].

Menapia, Belgium, [13] n.

Meon, East and West, [245] n.

Meonstoke, [245] n.

Mercia, history of, [xxvii], [xxix], [xxx], [3], [45], [115], [122] n., [163], [172], [179] n., [226] n., [323], [352] n., [353] n., [379], [380] n., [385];

its conversion, [xxvii], [xxviii], [177], [190], [384];

diocese of, [148] n., [218] n., [219] n., [243] n., [244] n., [272] n., [273] n., [379] n., [380].

Mercia, King of, see [Beornred], [Cearl], [Ceolred], [Coenred], [Ethelbald], [Ethelred], [Offa], [Penda], [Wulfhere].

Mercia, Bishop of, see [Aldwin], [Ceadda], [Jaruman], [Sexwulf], [Wilfrid], [Wynfrid];

and see [Mid-Anglia].

Mercians, [30].

Merivale, editorial reference to, [18] n.

Metals of Britain, [6].

Metrical Art, the, [217].

Mevanian Islands (Man and Anglesea), conquered by Edwin, [94], [102].

Michael, the Archangel, appears to Wilfrid in a dream, [355].

Mid-Anglia, conversion of, [xxvi], [xxvii], [30], [179], [181], [384].

Mid-Anglia and Mercia, Bishop of, see [Diuma], [Ceollach], [Trumhere].

Middlesex, [10] n.

Milan, [132] n.

Milan, Archbishop of, see [Asterius].

Millfield (perhaps Maelmin), [120] n.

Miracles, [xxix], [xxxix], [232], [233], [237], [238], [268], [269], [270], [325];

of Aidan, [167];

of Augustine, [81], [83];

of Cedd, [187];

of Cuthbert, [291], [292], [297], [300];

of Earcongota, [152], [153];

of Earconwald, [232];

of Ethelthryth, [262], [263];

of Ethelwald, [301], [302];

of Haedde, [343];

of the Hewalds, [322];

of John of Beverley, [302-311];

of Oswald, [xxvi], [136], [137], [138], [154-160], [162], [163], [248], [249], [250];

of Paulinus, [122];

of Sebbi, [240].

Miracles, Gregory on, [68], [69].

“Mission of St. Augustine,” see [Mason].

Moberly, his edition of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xx].

Moinenn, name for Ninias, [141] n.

Moll, King of Northumbria, [393].

Monasteries, in England, [xxvi], [151];

in Gaul, [xxvi], [151];

double or mixed, [151] n., [177] n., [190], [233], [260] n., [273], [283], [284];

rules for, [229];

constitution of, [142] n.;

hereditary succession in, [306] n.

“Monasticon,” see [Dugdale].

Monk, an ungodly, his wicked life and miserable death, [334], [335];

his visions of hell, [335].

Monophysite Heresy, the, [254] n.

Monothelitism, [xxix], [214] n., [254] n., [258], [352].

“Monumenta Historica Britannica,” [xx].

Moore, Bishop, his MS. of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xix], [xx].

Moray Frith, [360] n.

Mopsuestia, Bishop of, see [Theodore].

Morgan, see [Pelagius].

Morini, The, [5], [9].

Mosaic Law, [196], [198], [361].

Mount of Olives, [340], [341].

Mount Sion, [340].

Muigeo, see [Mayo].

Mul, usurper in Kent, [287] n.

Music, Church, [133], [217], [218], [258], [265] n., [358], [386];

supernatural, [221].

Naiton, or Nechtan mac Derili, King of the Picts, [xxx], [xxxi];

adopts Catholic usages, [359], [360], [374];

asks Ceolfrid for advice and builders, [359];

builds a stone church, [359];

expels the Columban clergy, [359] n.;

receives Ceolfrid's letter, [374].

Namur MS. of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xix].

Naples, [214].

Nativity of our Lord, see [Christmas].

Nechtan mac Derili, see [Naiton].

Nechtansmere, or Dunnechtan, battle of, [285].

Nendrum, or Inishmahee, Bishop of, see [Cromanus].

Nennius, editorial references to, [23] n., [147] n., [188] n., [189] n., [391] n.

Nero, Emperor, [11], [14].

Nestorius, Bishop of Constantinople, his heresy, [255] n., [256].

Neustria, King of, see [Chilperic], [Clothaire III], [Clovis II].

Neustrians defeated by Pippin, [320] n.

Newark, [123] n.

Newcastle, [180] n.

Nicaea, Council of, [19], [128], [198], [227] n., [255], [369] n.

Nicene Creed, [256] n.

Nidd, Synod of the, [356], [385] n.

Ninian, Ninias or Moinenn, Bishop of Whitern, [48] n., [141];

his mission to the Southern Picts, [141].

Niridanum, monastery of, [214].

Nisan, the month, [84] n., [365] n.

Nivelles, monastery of, [177] n.

Nola, Campania, [388] n.

Nola, Bishop of, see [Paulinus].

Norfolk, Bishopric of, [231] n.

“Norman Conquest, The,” see [Freeman].

Northamptonshire, [179] n., [180], [268] n., [346] n.

North Burton, [308].

North Pole, the, [6].

Northumberland, [4] n., [292] n.

Northumbria, Bede's acquaintance with its history, [xxii], [xxiii];

history of, [xxiv], [xxv], [xxvii], [xxix], [82] n., [122] n., [127] n., [131], [164], [168], [185], [190] n., [195], [204], [226] n., [286], [325], [352] n., [380] n., [393] n.;

establishment of Christianity in, [xxiv], [xxv], [102], [104], [117], [118], [119], [120], [132], [133], [139], [381];

diocese of, [xxvii], [xxix], [3], [4], [137] n., [219], [242], [351] n., [379] n., [381].

Northumbria, King of, see [Aldfrid], [“Alfrid,”] [Aluchred], [Ceolwulf], [Coenred], [Eadbert], [Eadwulf], [Edwin], [Egfrid], [Ethelfrid], [Ethelwald], [Moll], [Osred], [Osric], [Oswald], [Oswulf], [Oswy].

Northumbria, Bishop of, [143] n.;

and see Bishops of [Lindisfarne] and [York].

Northumbrians, [30].

North Wales, [86] n.

Norwich, the diocese of, [122] n., [231] n.

Nothelm, Archbishop of Canterbury, [xxii], [2], [390];

his research, [xxii], [2];

his questions to Bede answered, [387] n.;

death, [391].

Nottinghamshire, [115] n.

Numbers, quoted, [362].

Oak, the (possibly Augustine's Ác), [84] n.

Octa, grandfather of Ethelbert, King of Kent, [95].

Oder, the river, [317] n.

Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury, [346] n.

Oecumenical Councils, see [Councils].

Oengus, Angus or Ungust, King of the Picts, son of Fergus, [392] n., [393].

Oeric, Oisc, son of Hengist, [95].

Offa, King of Essex, son of Sighere, his abdication and pilgrimage to Rome, [xxx], [345] n., [346].

Offa, King of Mercia, [18] n., [219] n., [392].

Offerings at the Altar, divisions of, [49], [50].

Oftfor, Bishop of Worcester, [273], [274], [380] n.

Oiddi, a priest of Wilfrid's, [245].

Oidilwald, sub-king of Deira, see [Ethelwald].

Oil calms a storm, [167].

Oisc, see [Oeric].

Oiscings, the, [94].

Olivet, Mount, see [Mount of Olives].

Old Saxons, The, [317], [320], [321], [322].

Old Sarum, [343] n.

Opus Paschale, see [Sedulius].

Orcades, The, see [Orkneys].

Ordination of bishops, [49], [50], [53], [54].

Orkneys, The, [5], [11], [142] n., [382].

Orosius, [xxii], [5] n., [25] n.

Orthography, [389].

Osfrid, son of Edwin, baptized, [119];

slain in battle, [131];

his son, [132].

Osred, King of Northumbria, after Aldfrid, [xxx], [342], [345], [346] n., [356], [357], [377] n., [385] n.;

besieged in Bamborough by Eadwulf, [385] n.;

killed in battle, [375], [386].

Osric, sub-king of the Hwiccas, [273] n.

Osric, King of Deira after Edwin, son of Aelfric, [134], [135], [164].

Osric, King of Northumbria after Coenred, [xxxi], [1] n., [273] n., [375] n., [377];

his parentage, [377] n.;

death, [378], [386].

Osthryth, daughter of Oswy, wife of Ethelred, King of Mercia, [157], [267], [352] n.;

her love for Bardney Monastery, [157], [158];

murdered by her nobles, [385].

Oswald, King of Northumbria after Eanfrid and Osric, and sixth Bretwalda, [xxv], [94], [131], [132], [135], [185], [189], [243] n.;

unites Bernicia and Deira, [xxvi], [134], [164] n., [383] n.;

extent of his dominions, [146];

his mother, [147] n.;

his victory over Caedwalla at Hefenfelth, [xxv], [135];

erects a cross at Hefenfelth, [136];

invites Aidan to restore Northumbria to Christianity, [xxv], [134], [138], [145];

baptized, [138];

appoints Aidan Bishop of Lindisfarne, [138], [139];

his relations with Cynegils, [148];

marries Cynegils' daughter, [148];

makes Birinus Bishop of Dorchester, [148];

finishes building St. Peter's, York, [119];

his piety, [136], [146], [147], [154], [160];

church built in his honour, [137];

length of his reign, [135], [154];

slain at Maserfelth, [xxvi], [137], [154], [160], [163], [164] n., [384];

burial and translation of his remains, [157], [158], [160], [161];

his arms miraculously preserved from corruption, [147];

his posthumous miracles, [xxvi], [154], [155], [156], [157], [158], [159], [160], [161], [162];

averts a pestilence by his posthumous prayers, [248], [249], [250];

legend connected with his name, [154] n.;

the day of his death celebrated, [250], [251];

“Life of,” see [Reginald].

Oswald's Tree, Oswestry, or Croes Oswallt (Cross Oswald), [154] n.

Oswin, King of Deira, son of Osric, [xxvi], [164], [181] n., [185] n.;

his love for Aidan, [165], [166];

his character and appearance, [164], [165], [166];

his reign, [164];

murdered by Oswy, [xxvi], [164], [166], [191], [384];

monastery built in his memory, [165].

Oswin, an Aetheling, killed by Moll, [393].

Oswinthorp, [120] n.

Oswulf, King of Northumbria, son of Eadbert, [393].

Oswy, King of Bernicia and afterwards of Northumbria, seventh Bretwalda, son of Ethelfrid, [xxvi], [xxvii], [xxviii], [94], [157], [179] n., [201], [218], [224] n., [257] n., [260] n., [287], [377] n.;

murders Oswin, [xxvi], [163], [164];

buries Oswald's head and arms, [160], [161];

his reign, [163];

his dominions, [218], [219];

attacks upon him, [163];

his struggle with and defeat of Penda of Mercia, [181], [188], [189], [190], [191], [243] n.;

marries Eanfled, daughter of Edwin, [167];

dedicates his daughter Elfled to a religious life, [xxxiii], [188], [189];

his daughter Alchfled married to Peada, son of Penda, [180], [191];

sends Cedd to convert the East Saxons, [182], [183];

endows monasteries, [188], [189], [190], [191];

instructed by the Scots, [194];

converted to Catholic usages, [200], [201], [226];

at the Whitby Synod, [195], [200], [201];

at Lindisfarne, [202], [203];

sends Ceadda into Kent, [207];

his conference with Egbert, [208];

sends Wighard to Rome, [208], [213];

his treatment of Wilfrid, [350], [351];

Pope Vitalian's letter to, [208], [209], [210], [211];

intends to go to Rome, [226], [227];

sickness and death, [226], [384];

buried at Whitby, [190].

Othona, [183] n.

Ouestraefelda (Estrefeld), Aetswinapathe, or Edwins-path, Synod of, [343] n., [353] n., [356] n.

Oundle, or Inundalum, Monastery at, [346], [356].

Oundle, Abbot of, see [Cuthbald].

Ovid, editorial reference to, [264] n.

Owini, [220], [221];

his narrative of Ceadda's death, [221], [222], [223], [224].

Oxford, [148] n., [260] n.

Oxford, Bishop of, see [Paget].

Padda, a priest of Wilfrid's, [245].

Paegnalaech, or Paegnalech, Monastery of, [204].

Paget, Dr., Bishop of Oxford, his “Studies in the Christian Character,” quoted, [xxxviii].

Palestine, [338].

Pall, the, [49] n., [54], [100], [101], [124], [132], [273] n., [383], [390].

Palladius, Bishop, sent by Pope Celestine to the Christian Irish, [xxiii], [26], [27], [33] n., [382], [383].

Pallinsburn, [120] n.

Palsy, girl miraculously cured of the, [155].

Pamphilus, Martyr, [369].

Pancras, or Pancratius, St., [210] n.

Pant, The River, afterwards the Blackwater, [183].

Pantheon, The, given by Phocas to the Church, [93].

Paris, [152] n.

Paris, King of, see [Charibert].

Paris, Bishop of, see [Agilbert], [Importunus].

Parker, editorial reference to, [48] n.

Parochial system, The, [183] n.

Partney, or Peartaneu Monastery, [123].

Partney, Abbot of, see [Aldwin], [Deda].

Paschal, Pope, [265] n.

Paschal Controversy, see [Easter].

Paschal Cycles, see [Cycles].

Passover and Easter, [84] n., [361], [362], et seq.

“Pastoral Care, The,” see [Gregory].

Patriarchs, The, their tonsure, [370].

Patriarchs' tombs, The, [341], [342].

Patrick, St., Missionary to the Irish, [27] n., [48] n.

Paul, St., [72], [81], [196], [197], [210], [211], [240], [265] n.;

quoted, xli, [60];

his tonsure, [215];

appears to a Saxon boy, [248], [249], [250].

Paul a Martyr, [210].

Paul the Deacon, his “Life of Gregory,” [75] n., [83] n.

Paulinus, Archbishop of York, [xxv], [118], [193], [391];

sent by Gregory to Augustine, [64], [383];

goes to Northumbria with Queen Ethelberg, [102], [103];

his conversion of Edwin, [102], [104], [112], [115], [116], [270], [271];

converts the Northumbrians, [103], [120], [124];

his ordination, [103], [105] n., [384];

baptizes Edwin's daughter Eanfled, [104];

teaches and baptizes in Northumbria, [119], [120];

preaches in Lindsey, [122], [123];

converts Blaecca of Lincoln, [122];

builds St. Paul's, Lincoln, [122];

consecrates Honorius, [123], [126];

his appearance, [123];

receives the pall from Pope Honorius, [124], [125];

converts Osric, [134];

converts Hilda, [270], [271];

on Edwin's death takes Ethelberg and her children back to Kent, [130], [131], [132], [384];

made Bishop of Rochester, [130], [132];

death and burial, [132], [163], [384].

Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, his poems, [388].

Peada, son of Penda, [xxvii], [231] n.;

his conversion, [179], [180], [384];

made King of the South Mercians by Oswy, [179] n., [180], [191];

his character, [180];

marries Oswy's daughter Alchfled, [180];

slain by the treachery of his wife, [191].

Peanfahel, or Penneltun, [24], [25].

Pearls of various colours, [5].

Peartaneu, see [Partney].

Pechthelm, Bishop of Whitern, [334], [343], [379] n., [381].

Pelagians, The, [xxiii], [xxv], [128], [129], [130], [368];

in Britain, [21], [32], [39];

at the conference of St. Albans, [34], [35];

their teachers confuted and expelled by Germanus, [40], [41].

Pelagius II, Pope, [83] n.

Pelagius, the heretic, [20], [21] n., [32] n., [35];

his doctrine, [21] n.;

refuted by St. Augustine, [21] n.

Penda, King of Mercia, [xxv], [xxvii], [179], [180], [190] n., [241] n., [380] n.;

his war against Edwin, [130], [131];

treacherously slays Eadfrid, [131];

his attitude towards Christianity, [131], [181];

his sister married to and divorced by Coinwalch, [149];

deprives Coinwalch of his kingdom, [149];

kills Oswald, [154], [188];

kills Sigbert and Ecgric in battle, [172];

conquers Lindsey, [243] n.;

invades and ravages Northumbria, [168], [169], [188];

attempts to burn Bamborough, [168];

burns the church where Aidan died, [170];

his children, [180];

slain by Oswy at the Battle of Winwaed, [181], [188], [189], [191], [384].

Pentecost, see [Whitsuntide].

Perctarit, King of the Lombards, [351] n.

Perrona, or Péronne, Church at, [178];

Monastery of, [177] n., [178] n.

Péronne, Abbot of, see [Ultan].

Persia, King of, see [Chosroes].

Peter, St., [71], [72], [81], [109], [127], [196], [200], [201], [210], [211], [304], [356], [372], [373];

his tomb, [54] n.;

founds the Church of Rome, [91];

said to have consecrated Clement, [91];

his observance of Easter, [198], [364];

monastery dedicated to, [231] n.;

appears in a vision to a Saxon boy, [248], [249], [250];

his wife's mother, [308];

church built by Naiton dedicated to, [360];

preaching at Rome, [364];

his tonsure, [371], [374].

Peter, Gregory's Deacon, [76], [79].

Peter, first Abbot of St. Augustine's Monastery, [49], [72], [73].

Peter, name given to Caedwalla in his baptism, [312], [313].

Peterborough, or Medeshamstead, Monastery founded by Sexwulf, [231].

Peterborough, Abbot of, see [Cuthbald], [Sexwulf].

Phase, or Passover, [362].

“Philippians, Epistle to the,” quoted, [144].

Phocas, Emperor, [42] n., [74], [81], [93].

Phrygia, [78] n.

Picardy, [215] n.

Pickering, [3] n.

Picts, the, [xxiii], [xxvi], [xxix], [xxx], [xxxi], [7], [9], [205], [219], [385], [391];

their law of succession, [8];

their incursions, [7], [8], [20] n., [23], [26], [28], [30];

subdued by Oswy and made subject to Northumbria, [94], [191], [244], [381] n.;

regain their Independence, [244] n., [286], [381] n.;

defeat Egfrid at Nechtansmere, [285];

at peace with the English, [381];

their conversion, [141], [359] n., [383];

attitude towards Easter question, [196], [359], [374].

Picts, King of, see [Bridius], [Bruide Mac Bili], [Naiton], [Oengus].

Picts, Bishop of, see [Trumwine].

Pilgrimages, [294] n., [312], [313], [314], [345], [346], [385].

Pilgrim of Bordeaux, The, [340] n.

Pincahala, [204] n.

Pippin of Heristal, Duke of the Franks, account of, [320];

his kindness to Wilbrord, [320], [324];

buries the Hewalds, [322];

gives Suidbert land for a monastery at Inlitore, [324].

Pippin the Short, King of the Franks, son of Charles Martel, grandson of Pippin of Heristal, [320] n., [391], [392] n.

Placidia, Mother of Valentinian, [41].

Plague, The, [xxvii], [xxviii], [xxxv], [28], [162], [179] n., [186], [187], [201] n., [203], [204], [212], [213], [220], [233], [234], [237] n., [288] n., [289], [350] n., [384].

Plato, quoted, [360].

Plectrude, see [Blithryda].

Pliny, [xxii], [5] n.

Plummer, editorial references to his edition of the “Ecclesiastical History” and Historical Works of Bede, [v], [xix], [xx], [2] n., [pg 430] [13] n., [32] n., [68] n., [84] n., [90] n., [226] n., [277] n., [305] n., [324] n., [326] n., [387] n., [390] n.

Poetry, English Religious, [277], [278], [279];

Latin, [246] n.

Poitiers, Bishop of, see [Fortunatus].

Pontifical System of Indictions, The, [227] n., [254] n.

Pontus, The, [317] n.

Praetorian Guards, The, [14].

“Praise of Virgins, The,” see [Fortunatus].

Priestfield, Rochester, [89] n.

Primacy, The, [49], [65], [66].

Priscilla, [197].

Promised Land, The, [338].

Prosper of Aquitaine, [xxii], [33] n.;

account of, [21] n.;

quoted, [21].

Prosper Tiro, [21] n.

“Psalms, The,” quoted, [101], [107], [174], [223], [334].

Puch, a thegn, his wife healed by John of Beverley, [307], [308].

Putta, Bishop of Rochester, [216], [218];

at the Hertford Synod, [228];

leaves Rochester for Mercia, [242];

his unworldliness, [242];

teaches Church music, [242];

death, [242].

Putta, Bishop of Hereford, [218] n., [380] n.

Purgatory, [326], [327], [329], [330].

Quartodecimans, [84] n., [129] n., [143] n., [196] n.

Quenburga, daughter of Cearl, first wife of Edwin, [119].

Quentavic, Quentae vicus, or Etaples, see [Etaples].

Quodvultdeus, [179] n.

Quoenburg, daughter of Heriburg, healed by the prayers of Bishop John of Beverley, [305-307].

Racuulfe, see [Reculver].

Raedfrid, Egbert's reeve, [215].

Raegenheri, son of Redwald, [115].

Rameses, [362].

Ramsbury, Diocese of, [343] n.

Rathbed, King of Frisland, [319], [320].

Rathmelsigi, Monastery of, [204].

Ravenna, [41].

Rebecca's Tomb, [341] n., [342].

Reculver or Racuulfe, Monastery of, [315].

Reculver, Abbot of, see [Bertwald].

Redbridge, Ford of Reeds, or Hreutford, Monastery of, [253].

Redbridge, Abbot of, see [Cynibert].

Redger, Archbishop of Maintz, [392].

Redwald, King of the East Angles, fourth Bretwalda, [94], [112], [120], [171];

his protection of Edwin, [112-115];

leads an army against Ethelfrid, [115];

banishes Sigbert, [121], [172];

his conversion and perversion, [121];

his genealogy, [121];

his Queen, [114], [115], [121].

Reeves, Dr., editorial reference to his “Culdees,” [23] n.;

to his edition of Adamnan's “Life of St. Columba,” [140] n., [142] n.

Reginald of Durham, editorial references to his “Life of St. Oswald,” [148] n., [154] n.

Religious Orders, [202], [203].

Rendlesham, Rendlaesham or Rendil's Dwelling, [185].

Reppington, see [Repton].

Reptacaestir, see [Richborough].

Reptiles, their absence from Ireland, [8].

Repton or Reppington, [181] n.

Responsa, Gregory's, see [Gregory's Answers].

Restennet, near Forfar, [360].

Resurrection, Doctrine of the, [78].

Retford, [115] n.

Reuda, leader of the Scots, [8].

Rhine, the River, [9], [22], [322], [324].

Rhŷs, Dr., editorial references to his “Celtic Britain,” vi, [7] n., [8] n., [23] n., [29] n., [73] n., [86] n., [317] n.

Riada, see [Reuda].

Richard of Hexham, editorial references to, [244] n., [303] n.

Richborough, Reptacaestir or Rutubi Portus, Kent, [5], [45] n.

Richmond, Yorks., [120] n.

Ricula, sister of Ethelbert, [89].

Ricbert kills Earpwald, [121].

Ripon, or Inhrypum, [120] n.;

Monastery of, [161] n., [194], [218] n., [244], [257] n., [295] n., [301], [320] n., [346], [350], [353] n., [356];

diocese of, [244] n., [353] n.

Ripon, Bishop of, see [Eadhaed].

Ripon, Abbot of, see [Wilfrid].

Ritual, [51], [85].

Rochester, Dorubrevis, Hrofaescaestrae or The Kentish Castle, [163], [228], [229] n., [242];

diocese of, [89], [132], [179].

Rochester, Bishop of, see [Aldwulf], [Cuichelm], [Damian], [Gebmund], [Ithamar], [Justus], [Paulinus], [Putta], [Romanus], [Tobias].

Roger of Wendover, editorial references to, [252] n., [321] n.

Roman Law, [52].

Roman remains at Grantchester, [261].

Romans, The, in Britain, [xxiii], [9-23], [25], [26], [382].

Rome, [9], [11], [54] n., [78], [92], [93], [99] n., [133] n., [161], [194], [196], [214], [226], [241], [245], [257], [273], [312], [313], [317], [324], [343] n., [345], [348], [351], [353], [358], [364], [368], [385];

Bede's alleged visit to, [xxxvi];

taken by the Goths, [23], [382];

Apostolic see of, [75], [83], [91];

councils held at, [254] n., [256], [258], [352], [353] n., [354].

Romanus, Bishop of Rochester after Justus, [100];

drowned on his way to Rome, [132].

Romanus, a priest of Queen Eanfled's, [193], [195].

Romulus, [313].

Romulus Augustulus, Emperor, [41] n.

Ronan, [193].

Rosemarkie, on the Moray Frith, [360] n.

Rowley Water, [135] n.

Rufinianus, Abbot of St. Augustine's Monastery, [64].

Rügen, [317] n.

Rügenwalde, [317] n.

Rugii, the, [317] n.

Rugini, the, [317].

Rutubi Portus, see [Richborough].

Saba, or Sabert, King of Essex, [xxiv], [89], [96], [383];

his pagan sons, [95], [96];

death, [xxiv], [93], [95].

Sacrarium, Signification of, [158].

Sacrilege, [51], [52], [95].

Sacrifice of Animals, [67].

Saethryth, Abbess of Brige, step-daughter of Anna, [149] n., [152].

Saewulf, quoted, [341] n.

St. Abb's Head, [260] n.

St. Agnes' Convent, Rome, [54] n.

St. Alban's, Vaeclingacaestir, Verlamacaestir, or Verulam, [18];

Monastery of, [18] n.;

conference at, [34] n.

St. Amphibalus, Church of, at Winchester, [149] n.

St. Andrew's Church, Hexham, [358].

St. Andrew's, Rochester, built by Ethelbert, [89], [163], [377], [378].

St. Andrew's Monastery, Rome, [42] n.

St. Audrey's Fair, Ely, [263] n.

St. Audrey's Lace, or Tawdry Lace, [263] n.

St. Augustine's Monastery, (Monastery of SS. Peter and Paul), founded by Augustine, at Canterbury, [xxx], [2] n., [64] n., [72], [90], [121] n., [216], [357];

Augustine and subsequent archbishops buried there, [90], [98], [216], [391] n.

St. Augustine's, Abbot of, see [Albinus], [Benedict], [Hadrian], [Peter], [Rufinianus].

St. Bees, [271] n.

St. Boswells, [288] n.

St. Cecilia in Trastevere, [324].

St. Cunibert's Church, Cologne, [322].

St. Ebbe's Church, Oxford, [260] n.

St. Gallen, Monastery of, [75] n.;

its MS. of Cuthbert's Letter to Cuthwin, see [Cuthbert].

St. Gregory's Chapel in St. Peter's, York, [131].

St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater, [294].

St. John's Lee, Hexham, [303] n.

St. Lawrence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon, [210] n.

St. Martin of Tours, [48], [141], [259].

St. Martin's Church, Canterbury, [48], [51] n.

St. Martin's Church, Tours, [259] n.

St. Martin's Church, Utrecht, [324] n.

St. Martin's Church, Whitern, [141].

St. Martin's Monastery, Rome, [257], [259].

St. Martin's, Rome, Abbot of, see [John].

St. Mary's Church, Bethlehem, [339].

St. Mary's Church, Lichfield, [224].

St. Michael's Church, Malmesbury, [343] n.

St. Michael's Oratory, Erneshow, [303].

St. Oswald's, near Hexham, [137].

St. Pancras Church, Canterbury, [210] n.

St. Paul's Cathedral, London, [89], [240].

St. Paul's Church, Rome, [81].

St. Peter, the patrimony of, in Gaul, [44] n.

St. Peter's Church, Bamborough, [147].

St. Peter's Church, Lindisfarne, [169], [192], [295], [302].

St. Peter's Church, Ripon, [346], [356].

St. Peter's, Rome, [81], [257], [313].

St. Peter's Church, Whitby, [190].

St. Peter's Church, York, now York Minster, [118], [119].

SS. Peter and Paul, Church and Monastery of, Canterbury, [94], [98] n., [314];

and see [St. Augustine's].

SS. Peter and Paul, Church of, at Dorchester, [148] n.

SS. Peter and Paul, Church of, at Winchester, [149].

SS. Peter and Paul, monastery of, at Wearmouth and Jarrow, [386];

and see [Wearmouth].

St. Saviour's Church, Utrecht, [324].

St. Stephen's Church, Faremoûtier-en-Brie, [153].

Santi Quattro Coronati, Church of, at Rome, [99] n.

S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome, [210] n.

Saracens, The, [xxxi]; origin of, [378].

Sarah's Tomb, [341] n., [342].

Saranus, or Saran Ua Critain, Irish Ecclesiastic, [129].

Saul, [73], [387].

Saxon, the name, [317] n.

“Saxon Chronicle, The,” editorial references to, [125] n., [231] n., [241] n., [342] n., [385] n.

Saxons, The, [xxiii], [13];

called in to help the Britons, [29];

conquer Britain, [29], [30], [31];

settled in Britain, [37], [42].

Saxony, Old, [30].

Scandinavia, [7] n., [317] n.

Scarborough, [275] n.

Scarlet Dye made from snails, [5].

Scellanus, Irish priest, [129].

Schleswig, [30] n.

Schools, founded by Sigbert, [172];

in Gaul, [121] n., [172];

in Kent, [121] n., [172].

Scotland, see [Ireland].

Scottia, signification of, [92] n.

Scottish Language, [6].

Scots, i.e., Irish, [xxiii], [xxxi], [7], [8], [9], [91], [191];

incursions of, [20] n., [23], [26];

Christianity among, [8], [26], [pg 433] [27];

their observance of Easter, [91], [92], [128], [129];

expelled from England, [28], [73], [74], [94];

of Dalriada, [8], [73], [142] n., [286], [381].

Scots, King of, see [Aedan], [Conall].

Scott, Sir W., editorial reference to his “Antiquary,” [25] n.

Scylla, [365].

Scythia, [7].

Seals in Britain, [5].

Sebbi, Joint King of Essex, brother of Sigbert the Little, [xxviii], [212], [232], [316] n.;

his piety, [212], [238], [239];

his queen, [238], [240];

retires into a monastery, [238], [239];

his vision, [239], [240];

death, [212], [239], [240];

burial, [240];

posthumous miracle, [240].

Sedulius, author of “Carmen Paschale,” and “Opus Paschale,” [344].

Segeni, Abbot of Iona, [144].

Segenus, Irish priest, [129].

Selaeseu, see [Selsey].

Selred, King of the East Saxons, [346] n.

Selsey, Selaeseu, or the Island of the Sea-calf, monastery at, [247];

diocese of, [251] n., [345], [379] n.

Selsey, Bishop of, see [Eadbert], [Eolla], [Sigfrid].

Selsey, Abbot of, see [Eappa], [Eadbert].

Senlis, Bishop of, see [Liudhard].

Senones, [215].

Sens, Archbishop of, see [Emme], [Wulfram].

Sepulchre, The Holy, [339], [340].

Sergius I, Pope, [xxxvi], [312], [313], [314], [323], [343] n.

Serpent, the Devil, [266].

Severianus, St., [99] n.

Severianus, Pelagian Bishop, [32].

Severinus, Pope, [128], [129].

Severn, The river, [84] n., [380].

Severus, Emperor, divides Britain by a rampart, [12], [13], [25], [382];

his government of Britain, [12];

death, [12], [13].

Severus, Bishop of Trèves, accompanies Germanus to Britain, [39], [40].

Sexbald of Essex, [184].

Sexburg, daughter of Anna, wife of Earconbert, [149] n., [152], [269];

Abbess of Ely and of Sheppey, [261];

acts as regent, [261] n.;

translates Ethelthryth's bones, [261], [262].

Sexburg, wife of Coinwalch, reigns in Wessex, [241] n.

Sexwulf, Abbot of Medeshamstead, afterwards Bishop of Mercia, in place of Wynfrid, [218] n., [231], [242], [244], [356] n.;

account of, [231] n.;

expelled from Mercia, [244] n.

Sheppey, Monastery of, [261] n.

Sheppey, Abbess of, see [Ermingild], [Sexburg].

Sherborne, Diocese of, [xxx], [343] n.

Sherborne, Bishop of, see [Aldhelm], [Forthere].

Sidnacaestir, [4], [243] n.

Sigbert, King of East Anglia, half-brother to Earpwald, [xxv], [xxvi], [121], [171], [182] n.;

driven into exile by Redwald, [121] n., [172];

returns home, [172];

restores Christianity in East Anglia, [121];

his piety and good works, [171], [172];

abdicates and retires into a monastery, [172];

drawn out to lead his people against the Mercians, and killed in battle, [172].

Sigbert the Good, King of Essex, [xxvii], [182], [183], [184].

Sigbert the Little, King of Essex, [182], [212] n.

Sigfrid, Bishop of Selsey, [345] n., [390].

Sighard, King of Essex, son of Sebbi, reigns jointly with his brother Suefred, [240].

Sighere, Joint King of Essex, son of Sigbert the Little, [212], [232], [346].

Simeon of Durham, editorial references to, [xxxiv], [xl], [204] n., [244] n., [288] n., [294] n., [295] n., [309] n., [325] n., [377] n., [391] n.

Simoniacs, [372].

Simon Magus, his tonsure, [371], [372], [373].

Sinai, Mount, [60].

Sirmium, [20].

Sister-in-law, marriage with a, [52], [53].

Skene, editorial references to his “Celtic Scotland,” [32] n., [73] n., [140], [325] n.

Slack (perhaps Campodonum), [120] n.

Slave Market at Rome, [82].

Slaves, [82], [145], [202] n., [248], [349] n.

Smith, his edition of the “Ecclesiastical History,” editorial references to, [xix], [xx], [125] n., [303] n., [305] n., [322] n.

Snails, dye made from, [5].

Snakes, [8].

Soissons, [194] n.

Solent, or Solvente, The, [253].

Solinus, [xxii], [5] n.

Solvente, see [Solent].

Solway, The, [13] n., [136] n.

Somerset, [343] n.

Southampton, [252] n.

Southampton Water, [245] n.

South Brabant, [177] n.

South Burton, now Bishop Burton, [307].

South Downs, the, [245].

Southern Gyrwas, locality of, [259] n.;

ealdorman of, see [Tondbert].

South Mercia, King of, see [Peada].

South Saxons, [30], [45];

diocese of, see [Selsey];

kingdom of, see [Sussex].

South Wales, [84] n.

Southwell, [123] n.

Spain, [5], [7], [19];

Church of, [87] n., [256] n.

Springs, salt and hot, [5], [6].

Staffordshire, [267] n.

Stamford, Lincs., [350] n.

Stamford Bridge, Yorks., [350] n.

Stanford, [350].

Stapleton, Thomas, his translation of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xxi], [249] n.

Stephen, St., [153], [335].

Stephen III, Pope, [324] n., [392].

Stephen, surname of Eddius, [217].

Stepmother, marriage with a, [52], [53], [95], [97].

Stevens, John, his translation of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [v], [xxi].

Stevenson, editorial references to his edition of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xx];

to his “Church Historians,” [xl], [246] n.

Stevenson, W. H., editorial reference to, [32].

Stigmata, [176].

Stokes, Margaret, editorial reference to her “Three Months in the Forests of France,” [173] n.

Stonar, [45] n.

Stone, used in building churches, [119], [141], [142], [359].

Stoneham, or At the Stone, [252].

Stour, the river, [45] n.

Stow, [243] n.

Strathclyde, [141] n., [286] n., [325] n., [336] n., [392] n.

Streanaeshalch, [195], and see [Whitby].

Stubbs, editorial references to his “Constitutional History,” [267] n., [321] n.;

to his articles in “Dictionary of Christian Biography,” [237] n., [377] n.;

and see [Haddan and Stubbs].

“Studies in the Christian Character,” see [Paget].

Suaebhard, Joint King of Kent, [240] n., [287] n., [315], [316] n.

Sudergeona (Surrey), [232].

Suefred, or Swefred, King of Essex, son of Sebbi, reigns jointly with his brother Sighard, [240], [316] n.;

grants land at Twickenham to Waldhere, [239] n.

Suevi, the, [22], [92] n.

Suffolk, [112] n., [122] n., [174] n., [185] n., [266] n.;

bishopric of, [231] n.

Suidbert, Abbot of Dacre, [299].

Suidbert, St., [319], [323], [324].

Suidhelm, King of Essex after Sigbert, son of Sexwald, [xxvii], [184], [185], [212].

Supernatural Appearances, [234], [235], [236], [237];

fragrance, [237], and see [Visions].

Surnames, [179].

Surrey, [232] n., [343] n.

Sussex, History, [xxix], [3], [179] n., [245] n., [246], [343] n.

Sussex, King of, see [Aelli], [Ethelwalch].

Swale, the river, [120].

Swefred, see [Suefred].

Sylvester, St., [257] n.

Symmachus, Pope, [257] n.

Synods, or Councils, [xxvii], [xxviii], [xxix], [33], [34], [84], [86], [87], [92], [93], [151], [194] n., [195-201], [227], [254], [255], [292], [305] n., [343] n., [350] n., [356], [384], [385];

rules for, [229].

Synodical Epistle, see [Gregory].

Syria, [11], [255] n.

Tacitus, editorial references to, [11] n., [317] n.

Tadcaster, [271] n.

Tanfield (perhaps Campodonum), [120] n.

Tarsus, Cilicia, [2] n., [214].

Tata, see [Ethelberg].

Tatfrid, bishop elect of the Hwiccas, [274].

Tatwine, a priest of Bredon, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, [xxxi], [379], [386], [390].

Tawdry, [263] n.

Tecla, St., [265].

Tees, the river, [82] n.

Temples, Heathen, to be converted into churches, [67];

to be destroyed, [70];

half Christian and half heathen, [121].

Testry, battle of, [320] n.

Thame, the river, [148] n.

Thames, the river, [10], [84] n., [148] n., [183].

Thanet, Isle of, [32] n., [45], [315] n.

Theft, Sacrilegious, see [Sacrilege].

Theium, [78] n.

Theodbald, brother of Ethelfrid, [73], [74].

Theodebert, King of Austrasia, [45] n.

Theoderic, King of Burgundy, [45] n.

Theodore, of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, [xxviii], [xxix], [xxx], [122] n., [151], [207] n., [273], [316] n., [351] n., [357], [377];

account of, [2] n., [214];

his journey to Britain, [215], [216];

arrival, [216], [226];

ordination and consecration, [213], [214], [215], [216], [384];

his learning, [2], [216], [217];

his subdivision of bishoprics, [137] n., [218] n., [219] n., [231], [244], [343] n.;

dedicates St. Peter's, Lindisfarne, [192];

his tonsure, [214], [215];

his visitation, [216];

his teaching, [216], [217];

bishops consecrated by him, [217], [218], [224], [225], [230], [231], [232], [241], [242], [244], [293];

presides at the Synod of Hertford, [226-231], [384];

of Hatfield, [254], [255], [256], [385];

of Twyford, [292];

his quarrel and reconciliation with Wilfrid, [228] n., [231] n., [352] n., [353] n.;

reconciles Egfrid and Ethelred, [267];

on blood-letting, [306];

his decrees of 678, [353] n.;

length of his episcopate, [216];

foretells the length of his life, [314];

death, [314], [323], [385];

burial, [90], [314];

his epitaph, [315];

his character, [315].

Theodore, or Theodorus, Bishop of Mopsuestia, heretic, [255] n., [256].

Theodore, the name, [179] n.

Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus, heretic, [255] n., [256].

Theodorus, [340] n.;

and see [Theodore].

Theodosius the Great, Emperor, [20], [22], [369].

Theodosius, father of Theodosius the Great, [20] n.

Theodosius the Younger, Emperor, [26].

Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria, his Paschal computation, [369].

Thetford, Diocese of, [231] n.

Theudor, King of the Britons of Strathclyde, [391], [392].

Thomas, Bishop of East Anglia after Felix, [178] n., [179].

Thomas of Elmham, editorial references to, [287] n., [316] n.

Thrace, [20].

“Three Months in the Forests of France,” see [Stokes].

Thruidred, Abbot of Dacre, [300].

Thuuf, or Tufa, a banner, [124].

Thrydwulf, Abbot, [120].

Tiberius Constantine, Emperor, [78].

Tiburtina, Via, Rome, [210] n.

“Tighernach, Annals of,” editorial references to, [140] n., [337] n.

Tilbury, or Tilaburg, [183], [187] n.

Till, The River, [120] n.

Tilmon, his vision of the Hewalds, [322].

Timothy, [197];

“The Epistle to,” quoted, [50].

Tininghame, or Intiningaham, [325] n.

Tiowulfingacaestir, [123].

Titillus, Theodore's notary, [230].

Tobias, Bishop of Rochester, disciple of Theodore and Hadrian, [xxxi], [314], [316], [377], [387];

account of, [316] n.;

his learning, [377];

death, [316] n., [377];

burial, [377], [378].

Toledo, Council of, [256] n.

Tomene, or Tomianus, Abbot and Bishop of Armagh, [128], [129] n.

Tondbert, first husband of Ethelthryth, [259], [266] n.

Tondhere, Oswin's thegn, [164].

Tonsure, the, [85] n., [201], [214], [215], [370-373], [386].

Tours, [141] n., [259];

battle of, [378] n.

Tours, Bishop of, see [Martin].

Torksey, [123] n.

Tortgyth, a nun of Barking, [235], [236], [237].

Torthere, Bishop of Hereford, [380] n.

Tovecester, or Towcester, [268] n.

Trajectum, see [Wiltaburg].

Trent, The River, [45], [115] n., [123];

the battle of the, [xxix], [267], [268].

Trèves, or the Treveri, [40], [324] n.

Trèves, Bishop of, see [Severus].

Trinity, Invocation of the, [xxxiv], [87] n.

Trinovantes, [10].

Tripolis, [12].

Troyes, Bishop of, see [Lupus].

Trumbert, one of Bede's teachers, his account of Ceadda, [xxxv], [222], [223].

Trumhere, Abbot of Gilling, Bishop of Mid-Anglia and Mercia, [181], [191], [192], [212].

Trumwine, Bishop of the Picts, [xxix], [244];

account of, [244] n.;

retires to Whitby, [244] n., [286];

assists Elfled with his counsels, [287];

at the Synod of Twyford, [292];

death and burial at Whitby, [286].

Tuam, Archbishopric of, [226] n.

Tuda, Bishop of Lindisfarne after Colman, [201];

dies of the Plague, [204], [206], [350] n.;

buried at Paegnalaech, [204].

Tunbert, Abbot of Gilling, Bishop of Hexham, [244];

appointed and deposed by Theodore, [244], [293].

Tunna, Abbot of Tunnacaestir, his prayers miraculously release his brother Imma, [268], [269], [270].

Tunnacaestir, [268].

Tweed, The River (“Tuidi flumen”), [202] n., [288], [326].

Twickenham, [239] n.

Twyford, Adtuifyrdi, or At the Two Fords, Synod at, [292].

Tyne, The River, [13] n., [82] n., [136] n., [303], [309], [359].

Tynemouth, Monasteries at, [309].

Tynemouth, Abbot of, see [Herebald].

Tyrhtel, Bishop of Hereford, [380] n.

Tytilus, father of Redwald, King of East Anglia, [121].

Ulster, [8] n.

“Ulster, the Annals of,” editorial references to, [225] n., [385] n.

Ultan, a hermit, Abbot of Fosse and Péronne, brother of Fursa, [177].

Undalum, see [Oundle].

Urbs Giudi, [23] n.

Urbs Iudeu, [23] n.

Utrecht, [320] n., [324] n.

Utrecht, Archbishop of, see [Wilbrord].

Utta, Abbot of Gateshead, [166], [180];

sent to fetch Eanfled from Kent, [166], [167];

calms a storm with oil, [167].

Uuffa, grandfather of Redwald, King of East Anglia, [121].

Uuffings, i.e., Kings of East Anglia, [121].

Uurtigern, see [Vortigern].

Vaeclingacaestir, see [St. Albans].

Valens, Emperor, [20].

Valentinian II, Emperor, [20];

expelled from Italy, [20];

restored, [20];

kills Maximus, [20].

Valentinian III, Emperor, [29], [383];

murders Aetius, [27] n., [41];

murdered, [41].

Valerian, Emperor, [388] n.

Vandals, the, [22].

Vecta, [30].

Venantius Fortunatus, see [Fortunatus].

Venta, see [Winchester].

Vergil, quoted, [113], [118], [159], [286], [327].

Vergilius, Archbishop of Arles, [49] n., [54], [55], [63], [64].

Verlamacaestir, or Verulam, see [St. Albans].

Vespasian conquers the Isle of Wight, [11].

Vestments, Ecclesiastical, [65].

Viaticum, the, [249] n., [275], [280].

Victgilsus, Father of Hengist and Horsa, [30].

Victorinus, St., [99] n.

Victorius, or Victorinus of Aquitaine, his Paschal Cycle, [369] n.

Vienne, [22].

Vines in Britain, [5];

in Ireland, [9].

Virgil, see [Vergil].

Virginity, poem in honour of, [264], [265], [266], [267];

Aldhelm's work on, [237] n., [344].

Visions, [xxx], [248], [249], [250], [332], [333], [334], [335], [336];

seen by Adamnan, [281], [282], [283], [284];

by Begu, [275], [276];

by a nun at Whitby, [277];

by Bregusuid, [274];

by Caedmon, [278], [279];

by Drythelm, [325-331];

at Barking, [232-237];

by Earcongota, [152], [153];

by Edwin, [112], [113], [114];

by a disciple of Boisil, [224], [317], [318], [319];

by Fursa, [173-177];

by Sebbi, [239];

by Theodore, [314];

by Tilmon, [322];

by Wilfrid, [355].

Vitalian, Pope, [xxvii], [2] n., [216];

his letter to Oswy, [208], [209], [210], [211];

seeks a suitable Archbishop for Canterbury, [213], [214];

ordains Theodore, [215];

sends Theodore and Hadrian to Britain, [357].

Vitta, [30].

Voyage Provision, i.e., the Viaticum, [249], [275].

Vortigern, or Uurtigern, King of Britain, calls in the Saxons, [29], [95].

Vulgate, the, quoted, [80], [107], [174], [209], [282], [361-372].

Wagele, perhaps Whalley, [204] n.

Wahlstod, Bishop of Hereford, [379] n., [380].

Walbottle, [180] n.

Waldhere, Bishop of London, [239].

Wales, [33] n.

Wall, At the, [180], [182].

Walls, Roman, [12], [13], [24], [25], [26], [183].

Wallsend-on-Tyne, [25] n.

Walton, near Newcastle, [180] n.

Wantsum, the River, [45].

Wash, the, [3].

Watling Street, [18] n., [120] n.

Watton, Betendune, or Wetadun, Monastery of, [305].

Watton, Abbess of, see [Heriburg].

Welsh, The, [7] n., [336] n.

Wear, The River, [271], [359].

Wearmouth and Jarrow, Monastery, of, [xxiii], [xxx], [xxxiii], [xxxiv], [xxxv], [137] n., [167], [177], [257], [284], [359];

its library, [xxxv].

Wearmouth and Jarrow, Abbot of, see [Benedict], [Ceolfrid], [Cuthbert], [Huaetbert].

Went, the River, [189] n.

Wergild, the, [267].

Wessex, History of, [xxix], [xxx], [3], [45], [84], [96], [97], [147], [148], [179], [191] n., [206], [241], [245] n., [247] n., [251], [336] n., [342], [344], [352] n., [380], [392] n.;

diocese of, [xxx], [3] n., [149], [150], [251], [342], [343], [344], [345], [350], [379] n., [380].

Wessex, King of, see [Aescwine], [Caedwalla], [Caelin], [Centwine], [Coinwalch], [Cuichelm], [Cuthred], [Cynegils], [Cyniwulf], [Edilhart], [Ini].

Wessex, Bishop of, see [Agilbert], [Birinus], [Daniel], [Haedde], [Leutherius], [Wini].

Westphalia, [317] n.

West Saxons, called Gewissae or Gewissi, [30], [96], [147], [148];

history and province of, see [Wessex].

Wetadun, see [Watton].

Whales in Britain, [5].

Whalley, [204] n.

Wharfe, The River, [271] n.

Whelock, Abraham, his edition of the “Ecclesiastical History,” [xix].

Whitby, Bay of the Lighthouse or Streanaeshalch, [xxix], [195], [275] n., [349] n.;

monastery of, built by Hilda, [190], [243] n., [244] n., [270], [272-281], [286], [306] n., [385];

Synod of, [xxvii], [xxviii], [84] n., [194] n., [195], [196-201], [350] n.

Whitby, Abbess of, see [Eanfled], [Elfled], [Hilda].

Whitby, a monk of, editorial references to his “Life of Gregory,” [75] n., [190] n.

Whitern or White House, [141], [244] n.;

diocese of, [381] n.

Whitern, Bishop of, see [Frithwald], [Ninian], [Pechthelm].

Whitsuntide, [xli] n., [206].

Whittingham, [292] n.

Wicklow, [92] n.

Wictbert, Irish hermit, his unsuccessful mission to Frisland, [319], [320], [323] n.

Wictred, King of Kent, son of Egbert, [xxix], [xxxi], [287], [315], [316] n.;

his sons, [377];

death, [377], [386].

Wighard, a disciple of Gregory's, sent to Rome to be ordained Archbishop, dies there, [xxvii], [208], [210], [211], [213].

Wight, Isle of, history, [xxix], [3], [11], [30], [245], [252], [253];

Christianity introduced into, [252], [253];

described, [253];

bishopric of, [380].

Wight, the Isle of, King of, see [Arwald].

Wigton Bay, [141] n.

Wilbert, a boy to whom Bede dictates the last sentences of his translations, [xliii].

Wilbrord, Missionary, Archbishop of Frisland, [xxx], [143] n., [161], [319] n.;

account of, [161] n., [320] n.;

at Rome, [323];

his mission to Frisland, [320], [321] n., [323], [351], [375] n.;

destroys idols and kills the sacred cattle of Fosite, [323];

his consecration, [324];

given the name of Clement in religion, [324];

his see at Utrecht, [324];

his monastery near Trèves, [324] n.;

calendar said to contain an entry by him, [324] n.;

builds St. Saviour's, and rebuilds St. [pg 439] Martin's Church, Utrecht, [324] n.;

date of his death, [325] n.;

“Life of,” see [Alcuin].

Wilfaraesdun or Wilfar's Hill, [164].

Wilfrid, St., Bishop, [xxx], [137] n., [161], [163] n., [227], [257] n., [343] n.;

account of his life and character, [347-357];

his birth and family, [347] n.;

educated at Lindisfarne, [347];

sent to the Court of Oswy, [347] n.;

to Lindisfarne, [347];

resolves to go to Rome, [347];

assisted by Queen Eanfled, [347], [348];

starts with Benedict Biscop, [348];

detained at Lyons by Annemundus, [348];

in Rome, [348], [349];

on his way home stays at Lyons, [349];

his fidelity to Annemundus, [349];

wins the friendship of Alchfrid, [194], [350];

given land at Stanford, [350];

made Abbot of Ripon, [194], [350], [351] n.;

at the Whitby Synod, [xxvii], [195-200], [217] n.;

made Bishop of Northumbria, [xxvii], [218], [219], [350], [351], [384];

consecrated in Gaul by Agilbert, [206], [218], [350];

superseded by Ceadda, [xxvii], [207] n., [351];

returns to Britain, [351];

shipwrecked on the coast of Sussex, [351] n.;

discharges episcopal functions for Mercia and Kent, [218], [219] n., [351] n.;

restored by Theodore, [351];

his relations with Ethelthryth, [242] n., [260], [262];

his relations with Theodore, [228] n., [229] n., [231] n., [244] n., [353] n.;

represented at Hertford by proxy, [228];

his Catholic teaching, [xxvii], [208], [217];

invites Eddi from Kent to teach church singing, [217];

expelled from his see by Egfrid, [242], [243] n., [244], [245], [267] n., [351], [385];

foretells the battle of the Trent, [267] n.;

demands an explanation from the King and Archbishop, [242] n.;

goes to Rome to plead his cause, [243] n., [245], [351];

Ebroin's plot against his life, [192] n., [351] n.;

on his way to Rome driven by the wind to Frisland, [351];

visits Dagobert II of Austrasia, and Perctarit, King of the Lombards, [351] n.;

acquitted by Agatho and the Lateran Council, [352];

his confession of faith on behalf of the English Church, [254] n., [352];

returns to Britain, [352], accused of bribery, [352] n.;

imprisoned at Bromnis, [352] n.;

at Dunbar, [352] n.;

released at Aebba's request, [260] n., [352] n.;

takes refuge in Mercia, [267] n., [323], [352] n.;

expelled from Mercia, [267] n., [352] n.;

converts the South Saxons and the Isle of Wight, [179] n., [245-248], [252], [352], [353];

founds the Monastery of Selsey, [247], [345];

his restoration to York, Hexham, and Ripon, [243] n., [247] n., [296], [353] n., [356] n.;

administers Lindisfarne, [296];

his second expulsion, [274] n., [296] n., [323], [353];

second sojourn in Mercia, [353] n.;

consecrates Oftfor, [274];

consecrates Suidbert, [323];

excommunicated by the Council of Ouestraefelda, [353] n.;

second visit to Frisland, [161];

again goes to Rome to plead his cause, [353];

acquitted by Pope John and the Council, [353], [354];

taken ill at Meaux on his way back to Britain, [354], [355];

his vision, [355];

arrives in Britain, [355];

reconciled to Bertwald, Ethelred and Coenred, [355], [356];

Aldfrid refuses to receive him, [356];

Elfled's influence in his favour, [189] n.;

restored to his bishopric of Hexham by the Synod on the Nidd, [356];

dies at Oundle, [346], [356], [391];

buried at St. Peter's, Ripon, [346], [356];

his epitaph, [356], [357];

length of his episcopate, [346];

his relics, [346] n.;

his character, [347];

churches built by him, [351];

“Life of,” see [Eddius].

Wilfrid II, Bishop of York, [273], [346] n., [379] n., [380] n., [381], [390];

account of, [273];

ordained by John, [312].

Wilfrid, Bishop of Worcester, [379] n., [380].

Wilgils, father of Wilbrord, [320] n.

William III, [xix].

William of Malmesbury, editorial references to, [xxxvi], [86] n., [87] n., [125] n., [232] n., [239] n., [287] n., [346] n., [377] n., [392] n.

Wiltaburg, Wiltenburg, the Town of the Wilts, or Trajectum, now Utrecht, [324].

Wiltshire, [343] n.

Wincanheale, [204] n.

Winchester, Venta, or Wintancaestir, [228] n.;

churches at, [149];

diocese of, [xxvi], [xxx], [3] n., [148], [149], [150], [251], [343] n., [345].

Winchester, Bishop of, see [Daniel], [Haedde], [Leutherius], [Wini].

Winfrid, see Boniface.

Wini, Bishop of Winchester, [150], [241];

consecrates Ceadda, [207];

expelled from Winchester, purchases the bishopric of London, [150], [231] n.;

returns to Winchester, [228] n.

Wintancaestir, see [Winchester].

“Winter's Tale, The,” editorial reference to, [263] n.

Winwaed, Battle of the, [xxvii], [185] n., [188], [189].

Winwaed, The River, [189].

Witberg, daughter of Anna, [149] n.

Witenagemot, The, [xxv], [94], [95], [116], [151] n., [231] n., [242] n., [251] n., [316] n.

Woden, [30];

the sons of, [83] n.

Wooler, [119].

Worcester, diocese of the Hwiccas, [273] n., [379] n., [380].

Worcester, Bishop of, see [Bosel], [Egwin], [Oftfor], [Tatfrid], [Wilfrid].

Worcestershire, [84] n., [379] n.

Worr, see [Aldwin].

Wulfhere, King of Mercia, son of Penda, [xxvii], [xxviii], [149] n., [150], [181], [218], [226] n., [241] n., [261] n., [332] n.;

account of, [191] n.;

with the aid of Immin, Eafa, and Eadbert, recovers Mercia from Oswy, [191];

his reign, [192];

his realm, [225];

conquers Lindsey, [243] n.;

sends Jaruman to the East Saxons, [212], [245] n.;

brings about the conversion of Ethelwalch, [245];

endows monasteries, [219], [346] n.;

invades Northumbria, [191] n.;

defeated by Egfrid, [191] n.;

death, [191] n., [384] n., [385].

Wulfram, St., Archbishop of Sens, [319] n.

Wuscfrea, son of Edwin, baptized, [119];

taken by his mother into Kent, and sent into Gaul, where he dies in infancy, [132].

Wynfrid, Bishop of Lichfield, [192], [224], [225];

account of, [192] n.;

deacon under Ceadda, [225];

at the Hertford Synod, [228];

deposed by Theodore, [231], [244] n.;

retires to Ad Barvae, [231];

death, [231].

Yeavering or Adgefrin, [119], [120].

Yellow pest, a bubonic plague, [203], [204].

Yffi, first King of Deira, [83] n.

Yffi, son of Osfrid, [119], [132].

York, [xxxvi], [13], [118], [131], [132], [135], [244], [293], [354];

diocese of, [xxv], [65], [66], [243] n., [351] n.;

Cathedral, [119].

York, Archbishop of, see [Egbert], [Paulinus];

Bishop of, see [Bosa], [Ceadda], [John], [Wilfrid], [Wilfrid II].

Yorkshire, [3] n., [118] n., [204] n., [305] n., [342] n.

Ythancaestir, Monastery of, [183], [187].

Zacharias, Pope, letter to Boniface, [87] n.

Zeuss, his “Die Deutschen und die Nachbarstämme,” [317] n.

Zozimus, Pope, [21] n.

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