Α

Adrian I., Pope, 148
Aetius, 88

Agricola, campaigns in Britain,
57-65

Agrippina, wife of Claudius, 43
Aidan, St., 120, 136
Albinus, Clodius, 76; death of,
77

Alcuin, 145, 146
Alfgar (Aelfgar), 337
Alfred (King), his birth, 199;
visit to Kome, 200; struggle
with the Danes, 205-14; as a
ruler, 215-21; his learning,
220-3; character, 224
Alfred (Atheling), 313, 314, 318,
334

Athelstan (King), birth of, 229;
character, 231; supremacy, 233;
defeats the Danes at Brunan-
burgh, 234-5; foreign alliance,
237; death, 238

Athelstan (Sub-King of Kent), 188
Aylesford, battle of, 95

Augustine (Archbishop of Canter-
bury) sent to England, 121;
lands in Thanet, 122; converts
Ethelbert, 123; quarrel with
the British Churches, 123 4
Augustus (Emperor of Rome), 31,
32 note
Aurelian, So
Aurelius, M., 76

B

Babred, King of Kent, 182
Badbury, 225

Badon Hill, battle of, 100
Baldwin of Flanders, 313, 315,

324, 325, 343, 303

Bangor, monks of, 123 4 note

Batavian cavalry, 35, 60

Bede (Baeda), the Venerable,
157 60; quoted, 102; his ac-
count of Caedmon, 154

Bedwin, battle of, 141

Belisarius, 88

Benedict (Anti-pope), 336

Benedict (Bishop), Abbot of Wear-
mouth and Jarrow, 157

Benson (Bensington), battle of,
144

Bericus (? Veric), 34

Bernicia, kingdom of, 103

Bertha, wife of Ethelbert of Kent,
116

Bignor, Roman remains at, 91
Boadicea (Boudicea), 50-5
Boisil, Prior of Melrose, 163
Bolanus, Vettius, 56
Boroughs, the Five, 240, 286
Bradon, district of, 226
Brehtric, King of West Saxons,
148

Bretwalda, meaning of word, 112–
114

Brice, St., massacre on the day
of, 273-4
Brigantes, 40, 57

Brithnoth, Alderman of East
Anglia, in command at Mal
don, 262-3

Britric, brother of Edric, 279
Brunanburgh, battle of, 233-6
Brutus, legend of, 92

Buhred, sub-king of Mercia, 203
Burford, battle of, 143

Cadwalla, 134-5

C

Caedmon, account of, 151-7
Cæsar, Julius, 13-30; lands in
Britain, 13; his first expedition
to Britain, 13-21; second ex-
pedition, 22-30
Calgacus the Caledonian, 64
Caligula, pretended conquests of,
33

Camalodunum, 36, 40, 50, 51
Camden, the historian, quoted, 70
Cangi, 40

Canterbury, 123, 148, 282-4
Canute, named king, 287;
crowned, 290; struggle with
Edmund Ironsides, 290-4; his
reign and character, 295-310
Caracalla, 78

Caradoc (Caractacus), 35-42
Carausius, 82-5

Cartismandua, 42

Cassiterides, the, or Tin Islands, 7
Caswallon (Cassivelaunus), 27–9

Coifi, 126-7

Commius, 13, 17
Commodus, 76

Constantine the Great, 85

Constantine, usurper of Britain, 88
Constantine, sub-king of Scots,
233

Constantius I., 83, 85

Constantius II., 86

Corfe Castle, 258

Cornwall, tin mines of, 7
Crayford, 95

Croyland, 149, 191-3 (but see
Preface)

Crida, King of Mercia, 133

Cuckamley Hill, 277

Cumbria, kingdom of, 107; con-

quered by Egferth, 138

Cunobelin (Cymbeline), 33-4
Cuthbert, 161-6; wanderings of
his remains, 266

Cuthred of Wessex, 143

Danegelt, 297, 317; repealed,
328

Danes, first mentioned, 80; ap.
peared in England, 186
Deal, Cæsar's landing at, 14-17
Deorham (Dereham), battle of,
104

Dio Cassius, historian, quoted, 33,

36, 37, 38, 53
Diocletian, Emperor of Rome, 82
Domitian, Emperor, 65, 67
Dover, 14, 329
Druids, 7-10, 48
Duncan, 315

Dunstan, aims and policy of, 245-6;
his career, 247 et seq. ; his death,
261

Edmund, son of Edward the Elder,
239-40; death of, 241

Edmund, Sub-King of East Anglia,

193
Edred, 241-4

Edric, 289, 290, 293 seq.

Edward the Confessor, his reign,
320-54

Edward the Elder, his reign, 210-

Harold, Hardrada, 356; defeated
and slain at Stamford Bridge,
359-60

Harold, son of Godwin, Earl of
East Anglia, 324; fall into
hands of William of Normandy,
340; chosen king, 354; his
reign, 355-75
Hasting, 209, 210
Hastingas, 144, 146
Hengist, 92-6

Herodotus, quoted, 7

Hexham, battle of, 135; bishopric
of, 164

Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 151-2
Hingvar, 193

Honorius, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 128

Honorius, Emperor of West, 88
Horsa, 93-6

House Carles, 302

London, 52, 86, 103, 148, 207,
227; burnt, 266; defeats Olaf,
266; 276, 278
Lothan, 326

Lucullus, Sallustius, 66

Lugdunum (Leyden), 76

Lugdunum (Lyons), 87

Magnentius, 85

M

Magnus of Sweden, 315
Marcellus, Ulpius, 76

Marcus, Usurper in Britain, 87
Marius, Usurper in Gaul, 80
Massilia (Marseilles), 1, 36
Maximianus, 82, 85
Maximus, Emperor, 87

Maximus, Trebellius, 56

Mellitus, 124, 127

Melrose, Monastery of, 163

Mercia, 128; rises into power,

133; supremacy of, 141-9;
decline, 150

Mercred's-Burnsted (Lye), 98
Middle Saxons, IOI

Mona (Anglesey), 48, 49, 60

Morcar, murdered by Edric, 289

381

Rutupiae (Richborough), 87

S

Sandwich, battle of, 289
Saxons, 80, 98 et seq.
Saxons, East, see Essex
Saxons, Middle, 101