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, 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. , 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, 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 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 and Maximian, 14-19;
under Nero, 14.

Christmas, 206.