856. Ethelwolf divides the kingdom, and gives Wessex to his eldest son Ethelbald, reserving Kent, Essex, and Sussex for himself. p. 63.

858. Ethelwolf dies on the 13th of January. p. 63.

858. Ethelbert succeeds his father in Kent, Essex, and Sussex. p. 65.

860. Ethelbald dies, and Ethelbert becomes king of all the southern states. p. 67.

860. Ethelbert dies in the beginning of the year, and is succeeded by Ethelred. p. 71.

862. Osbert is expelled from Northumberland, and Ella substituted in his place. p. 75.

867. Osbert and Ella both slain by the Danes, and Egbert placed over Northumberland as king, tributary to

the Danes. p. 96.

870. Edmund, king of East Anglia, defeated at the battle of Thetford, tied to a tree, and shot to death. p. 113.

871. First invasion of Wessex, p. 119.-Battles of Englefield, p. 120. Reading, p. 121. Ashdown, p. 122. Basing, p. 125. and Merton, p. 125.-Ethelred dies April 23, and is succeeded by ALFRED. p. 131. Battle of Wilton. p. 134.

872. Burrhed leaves his kingdom, and goes to Rome. The Danes make Ceolwolf king, subordinate to themselves. 873. Egbert, king of Northumberland, dies, and is succeeded by Rigsig. p. 140.

876. Rigsig, king of Northumberland, dies, and is succeeded by a second Egbert. p. 141.

876. Second invasion of Wessex, capture of Wareham and Exeter. p. 161.

878. Third invasion of Wessex, p. 169. Battle of Chippenham. p. 186. Retreat of Alfred to Athelney. p. 211. Battle of Ethandune. p. 234.

878-893. Peace for fifteen years. p. 252, 3. 893-897. Four years' campaign of Hasting. 901. Alfred dies on the 26th of October.

INDEX.

ABBO FLORIACENSIS, his life of St. Edmund, 110.

Abel, patriarch of Jerusalem, his correspondence with Alfred, 327.
Abingdon, battle of, 187.

Adam of Breinen, quoted, 35.

Adrian III. in 884, succeeds to the Popedom, 329.

Ecglea, now Lea, Higley, or Clay Hill, 234.

Ella, first Bretwalda, 6.

Esceng, Eashing, App. 11.

Æsctune, Ashton, App. 11.

Agamund, a monk of Peterborough, 107.

Alchere, Alderman, 47, slain by the Danes, 49.

Alcuin, in France, 86.

Alcuin, an Anglo-Saxon, 17.

Alderman or Earl, dignity of, 341.

Alfred, born in 849 at Wantage, 51. his first visit to Rome, 51.
anointed and crowned by Pope Leo, 63. his genealogy, 80. his
second visit to Rome, 80. his juvenile years, 81. learns a Saxon
book of poems, 82. his mother's care of her children, 83. afflicted
with a continual disease, 88. never in Ireland, 89. his boldness
in the chase, 89. cured of his complaint in Cornwall, 90.
marries Elswitha, 98. accompanies his brother Ethelred to
Nottingham, 98. with his brother Ethelred in the battles of
Reading, 121. Ashdown, 122. Basing, 125. Merton, 125. elected
king after Ethelred's death, 131. defeated by the Danes at Wilton,
135. takes one Danish ship, 160. besieges the Danes in Wareham,
162. makes peace with them, 162. hangs his hostages, 163. follows
the Danes to Exeter, 163. turns his attention to maritime affairs,
164. makes another treaty with the Danes, who leave Wessex,
166. his dominions still entire in 876, 167. an exile in 878, and
statement of historical difficulties concerning the same, 170-192.
defeated at Chippenham, 186. his disease, 193. his alleged faults,
195. St. Neot reproves him, 197. escapes to the marshes in

Somersetshire, 210, &c. anecdote of the cakes, 215-217. Sallies
from Athelney against the Danes, 223. Anecdote of the poor man
and St. Cuthbert, 227. Goes as a gleeman to reconnoitre the
Danish army, 232. defeats the Danes at Ethandune, and takes their
camp, 235. Alfred's Gem found at Athelney, 237. his treaty with
Guthrum, 243. his son Edward joins in the treaty with Guthrum, 253.
minor skirmishes with the Danes, 255. relieves Rochester, 257. sur-
named the Great, 263. commands Werfrith to translate Gregory's Pas-
toral Care, 269. receives Asser at Dene, 271. again at Leonaford, 273.
improves the art of ship-building, 277. rebuilds London, 285. his
devotion, 289. builds a monastery at Athelney, 288. places John
of Corbey there as its first abbat, 290. builds a monastery for his
sister Ethelgiva at Shaftesbury, 293. builds the new Minster at
Winchester, 294. his children, 296. his mind too enlightened for
the Church of Rome, 302. his translations from Latin into Saxon,
303. his avocations enumerated and reviewed, 309. begins to
learn Latin, 316. his Enchiridion, Hand-book, or Manual, 318.
his preface to Gregory's Pastoral Care, 320. his translation of
Boethius, 321. his translation of Orosius, 322. supposed translations
of the Bible, Psalms, &c. 325. sends various embassies to Rome, 329.
his laws, 333. his impartiality, 337. he teaches the earls and
judges, 339. his severity against unjust judges, 339. his division of
income, 344. his division of his time, 346. he forms a camp in Kent,
353. his courage against the enemy, 356. relieves Exeter, 357. his
death in 901, on the 26th of October, 367.

Algar, alderman of Hoiland, resists the Danes, 101.

Alhune, bishop of Worcester, 295.

Aller, near Athelney, 235.

Alstan, bishop of Sherborne, 27, 44. defeats the Danes in Somerset-
shire, 47. conspires with Ethelbald, 63. his death, 97.

Ambresbury, monastery of, 274, App. 10.

Amund, a Danish king, 139.

Anarawd, son of Rotri, 267.

Anderida, or Andred, forest of, 4, 350.

Angles, or English, their origin, 38.
Angmæring, Angmering, App. 3, 12.
Ankaring, wood near Croyland, 104.

Appledore, Danish camp at, 352.

Ardwolf, king of Northumberland, expelled, 21, 29.

Armoricans, in Alfred's service, 279.

Ashdown, battle of, 121.

Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, 236.

Asker, prior of Croyland, 105.

Assandune, same as Ethandune, 238.

Asser, quoted, 50, &c. his first introduction to Alfred, 271.

Athelney, isle of, 211. described, 212. monastery at, built by Alfred,

289.

Avon, river at Chippenham, 170.

Aweltune, Aulton, App. 9.

Axanmouth, Exmouth, App. 10.

Bagseg, a Danish king, 102. slain at Ashdown, 124.

Baldwin I. surnamed Bras de fer, count of Flanders, 84.

Banwell, monastery of, 274.

Bardney, abbey of, burnt by the Danes, 101.

Basing, battle of, 125.

Beadinghamine, Bedingham, App. 11.

Beading, Beden, App. 11.

Beaduherd, officer of Bertric, slain by the Danes, 15.

Beccanlea, Beckley, App. 12.

Bede, kindled a great love of learning in England, 287. his history,

translated by Alfred, 322.

Bedewind, Beduin, App. 9.

Bedrigsworth, or Bedricscourt, in East Anglia, 116.

Bemfleet, Danish camp at, 355.

Bensington, battle of, 9.

Berne, the huntsman, 76.

Berneich, or Bernicia, 7.

Bernhelm, abbat, in 890. carries Alfred's gifts to Rome, 329.

Bernwolf, king of Mercia, 17.

Bernwolf invades East Anglia, 27. is slain, 27.

Bernwolf, governor of Winchester, 366.

Bertwolf, earl or alderman of Essex, 281, 366.

Bertric, king of Wessex, 12. his death, 15. poisoned by Edburga, 20.
Beocca, the alderman, in 888, carries Alfred's gifts to Rome, 329.
Bible, said to have been translated by Alfred, 323.

Bilfrid, a hermit, 151.

Boethius, his Consolations of Philosophy, translated by Alfred, 320.
Bocland, i. e. land held by deed or writings, 335.

Boston, town in Lincolnshire, 101.

Brancescumbe, Branscomb, App. 10.

Bratton castle, a Danish camp in Wiltshire, 239.
Bretwaldas, the eight, 6.

Bridgenorth, 361.

Britain, Wales so called, 273.

Britain, a peculiar appanage of the Apostolic See, 23.

Britons of Cornwall rebel, 26.

Brixton Deverill, formerly Egbert's stone, 237.

Brocmail, son of Mouric, 267.

Brompton, quoted, 25, 73. &c. his errors in chronology, 188.
Bruern Brocard, insult offered to his wife, 73.

Brunne, in Lincolnshire, 101.

Burnhamme, Burnham, App. 9, 11.

Burrhed, king of Mercia, reduces North Wales, 49. marries Ethels-
witha, daughter of Ethelwolf, 72. asks Ethelred's assistance against
the Danes, 97. a charter of, 99. makes terms with the Danes,
abdicates the throne, and goes to Rome, 137. his wife dies at
Ticino, 137.

Buttington, occupied by the Danes, 358.

Cadwine, hanged for injustice, 339.

Cæsar, first conqueror of Britain, 2.

Camelford, [Gavelford,] battle of, 27.

Canterbury, ravages of the Danes at, 46. sacked by the Danes,

48.

Cantuctune, Quantock, App. 9.

Carlisle destroyed by the Danes, and rebuilt by William the Con-
queror, 141.

Carumtune, Carhampton, App. 8.

Ceaulin, second Bretwalda, 6.

Cendefer, Preston Candever, or Chilton Candever, App. 11.

Cent, Kent, App. 9.

Ceolmund, alderman of Kent, 366.

Ceorl, alderman of Devonshire, 47.

Ceodre, Cheddar, App. 9.

Ceolmund, earl in Kent, 281. præfect of London, 295.

Ceolwolf made king of Mercia by the Danes, 137. oppressed the

people, 138. is deposed by the Danes, 139.

Charles the Bald, 59, 274.

Charmouth, Ethelwolf defeated at, 46.

Charlemagne, king of France, 13. his death, 22.

Chester, occupied by the Danes, 359.

Chippenham, in 878, surprised by the Danes, 169. battle at, recorded

by J. Brompton, 184, App. 11.

Chronicle, Saxon, quoted, 19, 21, 25, 26, et passim.

Cilfantune, Chilhampton, App. 9.

Ciseldene, Chiseldon, App. 9.

Ciwtune, Chewton, App. 9.

Clay Hill, same as Ecglea? 238.

Cleare, King's Clere, App. 11.

Codrin, a corruption for Guthrum, 74.

Coit-Mawr, British name of Selwood, 233.

Coldingham, conduct of the Nuns of, 100.

Columtune, Columbton, App. 10.

Cornwall, bishopric of, 303.

Cornwall, long occupied by the Britons, 3.

Counties, formed or arranged by Alfred, 341.

Creca, à village and monastery, 152.

Cridda, bishopric of, 303.

Croyland abbey sacked, 104.

Cruærn, Crewkerne, App. 10.

Crundell, Crundal, App. 11.

Cumberland, long in occupation of the Britons, 3.

Cumbra, or Cumbran, murdered by Sigebert, 8.

Cumtune, Compton, App. 11.

Cuthbert, St. legend of the translation of his body, 143. privileges of

his Church, 155. legend of his helping Alfred, 225.

Cuthred, king of Wessex, his death, 8.

Cuthred, king of Kent, 16. his death, 21.

Cyneard, brother of Sigebert, 9. slain at Merton, 12.
Cynewolf, king of Wessex, 8. slain at Merton, 11.