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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. , 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.