Adrian I., Pope, 148
Aëtius, 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 Rome, 200; struggle
with the Danes, 205-14; as a
ruler, 215-21; his learning,
220-3; character, 224
Alfred (Atheling), 313, 314, 318,
334
Alphage (Archbishop), death of,
284-5
Ambrosianus Aurelius, 96
Amund, Danish king, 203
Angles, 95, 101-3, 117
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, 80
Aurelius, M., 76
Babred, King of Kent, 182
Badbury, 225
Badon Hill, battle of, 100
Baldwin of Flanders, 313, 315,
324, 325, 343, 363
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,
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
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
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
Sandwich, battle of, 289
Saxons, 80, 98 et seq.
Saxons, East, see Essex
Saxons, Middle, 101
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