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Caligula, a Roman emperor, his expedi- |
tion against Britain, 488.
Calvin, and Beza, the dissolvers of episco-
pacy at Geneva, 25.
Calvinists, taxed with making God the
author of sin, 563.

Camalodunum, or Maldon, the chief seat
of Cymbeline, 488. Made a Roman co-
lony, 490, 491.

Camber, one of the sons of Brutus, has
allotted to him Cambria or Wales, 478.
Cambridge, burnt by the Danes, 547.
Cambridge University, thought to be
founded by Sigebert king of the East-
Angles, 520.

Cameron, his explanation of St. Paul's
manner of speaking, 210.
Canterbury, by whom built, 479. Partly
taken and burnt by the Danes, 547.
Canute, son of Swane, chosen king after his
father's death by the Danish army and
fleet, 548. Driven back to his ships by
Ethelred, ib. Returns with a great army
from Denmark, accompanied with Lach-
man king of Sweden, and Olav of Nor-
way, ib. Attacks London, but is re-
pulsed, 549. Divides the kingdom with
Edmund by agreement, ib. After Ed-
mund's death reigns sole king, 550. En-
deavours the extirpation of the Saxon
line, ib. Settles his kingdom, and makes
peace with the neighbouring princes, ib.
Causes Edric, whose treason he had
made use of, to be slain, and his body to
be thrown over the city-wall, ib. Sub-
dues Norway, 551. Goes to Rome, and
offering there rich gifts, vows amend-
ment of life, ib. Dies at Shaftsbury,
and buried at Winchester, ib. His cen-
sure, ib. His remarkable instance of the
weakness of kings, 552.

Capis, one in the catalogue of the ancient
British kings, 482.

Capoirus, another of the same number,

482.

Caractacus, the youngest son of Cunobe-
line, succeeds in the kingdom, 488. Is
overthrown by Aulus Plautius, 489.
Heads the Silures against the Romans,
490. Betrayed by Cartismandua, to
whom he fled for refuge, ib. Sent to
Rome, ib. His speech to the emperor,
ib. By the braveness of his carriage, he
obtains pardon for himself and all his
company, ib.

Carausius, grown rich with piracy, pos-
sesses himself of this island, 498. He
fortifies the wall of Severus, ib. In the
midst of the great preparations of Con-
stantius Chlorus against him, he is slain
by his friend Alectus, ib.
Carinus, sent by his father Carus the em-
peror, to govern Britain, is overcome and
slain by Dioclesian, 498.
Carlisle, by whom and when built, 479.
Cartismandua, queen of the Brigantes, de-
livers Caractacus bound to the Romans,
490. Deserts her husband Venutius, and
gives both herself and kingdom to Vello-
catus, one of his squires, 491.
Carvilius, the first Roman who sought di-
vorce, and why, 180.

Carvilius, a petty king in Britain, with
three others, assaults the Roman camp,

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Cataracta, an ancient city in Yorkshire,
burnt by Arnred a tyrant, 526.
Catellus, an ancient British king, 482.
Cathay, description of that country and in-
habitants, 572.

Cerdic, a Saxon prince, lands at Cerdic-
shore, and overthrows the Britons, 509.
Defeats their king Natanleod in a memo-
rable battle, 510. Founds the kingdom
of the West Saxons, ib. See Kerdic.
Ceremonies, oppose the reason and end of
the gospel, 45. Frustrate the end of
Christ's coming in the flesh, 46.
Chancelor, Richard, his arrival at Moscow,
and reception there, 578.
Chaplains, what they are, 324.

Charity, the fulfilling of the law, 122.--and | Cingetorix, a petty king in Britain, assaults
mutual forbearance, means to abate
popery, 565.

Charles I. censured for dissolving parlia-
ments, 276. Remarks on his devotion,
278, 279. How attended to the house of
cominons, 282. His conduct towards the
Irish rebels, 306. His indecent behaviour
in the playhouse, &c. 371. Charged with
poisoning his father, 384 With several
irregular actions, 400. His flight to the
Isle of Wight, 943.

Charles II. declared he would never pardon
those who put his father to death, though
this was said to be his father's dying in-
junction, 939.

Charles V., how he deceived many German
cities, 305.

Charles Gustavus, king of Sweden, letters
from Oliver to, 604, 605, 007, 611, 613, 615,
618, 619, 624, 628, 633. From Richard the
protector, 634, 635. From the parliament
restored, 637.

Chastity, the defence of it recommended,

81.

Chaucer, his character of the priests of his
time, 10, 12.

Cheek, Sir John, his testimony concerning
Martin Bucer, 159.

Cherin, an ancient British king, 482.
Christ, his method of instructing men, 83.
His manner of teaching, 223. Never ex-
ercised force but once, 421.
Christenings, reasons against taking fees
for them, 430.

Christiern, king of Denmark, his bloody

revenge, 242.

Christian faith, received in Britain by King
Lucius, 496. Said to have been preached
by Faganus and Deruvianus, ib. Others
say long before by Simon Zelotes, or
Joseph of Arimathea, ib. Upon what oc-
casion preached to the Saxons, 514.
Christians, primitive, all things in common
among them, 203. Their behaviour to
tyrants, 373.

Christina, queen of Sweden, letter to her
from the English commonwealth, 593.
Her character, 931.
Chrysanthus, the son of Marcianus a bishop,
made deputy of Britain by Theodosius,

500

Chrysostom, St. was an admirer of Aris-
tophanes, 105. His explanation of St.
Paul's epistle relating to obedience to the
higher powers, 362, 396.

Church, of the Reformation of the Disci-
pline of, in England, and the causes that
have prevented it, I. The likeliest means
to remove hirelings out of the, 423.
Church, not to be reformed while governed
by prelates, 30. Its constitution and
fabric set out in the prophecy of Ezekiel,
31. When able to do her great works
upon the unforced obedience of men, it
argues a divinity about her, 47. Her
humility procures her the greatest re-
spect, ib. Design of the prelates in call-
ing the church Our mother, 72. Demands
our obedience when she holds to the rules
of Scripture, 329. Excommunicates not
to destruction, 422. Will not cease to
persecute till it ceases to be mercenary,
947.

Church of England, honours and prefer-
ments should not be the incitements to
her service, 70, 71. Difference between
the church of Rome and her, 330. Main-
tains that the word of God is the rule of
true religion, and rejects implicit faith,

562.

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the Roman camp, 487. Is taken prisoner
by Cæsar, ib.

Claudius, the emperor, is persuaded by
Bericus, though a Briton, to invade this
island, 488. Sends Aulus Plautius hither
with an army, ib. He comes over him-
self and joins with Plautius, 489. De-
feats the Britons in a set battle, and takes
Camalodunum, ib. Returns to Rome,
leaving Plautius behind, ib. He has ex-
cessive honours decreed him by the se-
nate, ib.

Clemens Alexandrinus, no authority for
bishops being above presbyters, to be
found in his works, 26. His counsel to
the presbyters of Corinth, 39.
Clergy, should be patterns of temperance,
and teach us to contemn the world, 53.
Advised not to gape after preferments,
69. Their condition in England, 940.
Clergy, British, their bad character by
Gildas, 512

Cliguellius, an ancient British king, 482.
Clodius Albinus succeeds Pertinax in the
government of Britain for the Romans,
497. Is vanquished and slain in a battle
against Septimus Severus, ib.
Cloten, reigned king of Cornwall, 480.
Clotenus, an ancient British king, 482.
Cloud, one sometimes fiery, sometimes
bloody, seen over all England, 544.
Coillus, an ancient British king, 482.
Coilus, the son of Marius, leaves the king-
dom to Lucius, 496.

Colasterion, a defence of the doctrine and
discipline of divorce, so called, 220.
Comail, and two other British kings, slain
by Keaulin, and his son Cuthwin, 513.
Comet, one seen in August 678, in manner
of a fiery pillar, 522. Two appear about
the sun, 524. Portending famine, and the
troubled state of the whole realm, 543.
Or blazing star, seen to stream terribly
over England, and other parts of the
world, 559.

Comius of Arras, sent by Cæsar to make a
party among the Britons, 484.
Commodus, slain by his own officers, de-
clared an enemy to his country, 383.
Commons, with the king, make a good par-
liament, 395, 398. Their grant to K.
Richard II., and K. Henry IV., 400.
Commonwealth, of England, more equally
balanced than any other civil govern-
ment, 17. Means proposed to heal the
ruptures in it, 439. A free commonwealth
delineated, 441. Reasons for establishing
one, 442, &c. Comes nearest to the go-
vernment recommended by Christ, 444.
Preferable to monarchy, 455.
Conanus, Aurelius, an ancient British king,
513.

Condidan, a British king, vanquished and
slain, 513.

Conscience, not to be forced in religious
matters, 413, &c.
Constans, the emperor, put to death by the
christian soldiers, 373. Of a monk made
emperor, 501. Reduces Spain, ib. Dis-
placing Gerontius, is opposed by him,
and slain, ib.
Constantine, makes war upon Licinius, and
why, 373.

Constantine, the son of Constantius Chlorus,
saluted emperor after his father's death,
499. His mother said to be Helena the
daughter of Coilus a British prince, ib.
His eldest son enjoys this island, ib. A
common soldier of the same name saluted
emperor, 501. By the valour of Edebe-
cus and Gerontius, he gains in France as
far as Arles, ib. By the conduct of his
son Constans, and of Gerontius, he re-
duces all Spain, ib. Gerontius displaced
by him, calls in the Vandals against him,
ib. Besieged by Constantius Comes, he
turns priest, is afterwards carried into
Italy, and put to death, ib.
Constantine, the son of Cador, sharply in-
veighed against by Gildas, 513. He is
said to have murdered two young princes
of the blood royal, ib.
Constantine, king of Scotland, joining with
the Danes and Irish under Anlaf, is over-
thrown by Athelstan, 539.
Constantius Chlorus sent against Carausius,
498 Defeats Alectus, who is slain in the
battle, ib. Is acknowledged by the Britons
as their deliverer, 499. Divides the em-
pire with Galerius, ib. Dies at York, ib.
Constantius, the son of Constantine, over-
comes Magnentius, who contended with
him for the sole empire, 499.

Consubstantiation, not a mortal error, 563.
Contention, in ministers of the gospel,
scarce allowable even for their own
rights, 423.

Copulation, no longer to be esteemed matri-
monial, than it is an effect of love, 185.
Cordeilla's sincere answer to her father,
begets his displeasure, 479. She is mar-
ried to Aganippus, a king in Gaul, 480.
She receives her father, rejected by his
other daughters, with most dutiful af-
fection, ib. Restores him to his crown,
and reigns after him, ib. Vanquished,
deposed, and imprisoned by her two sis-
ters' sons, ib.

Corineus, a Trojan commander, joins forces
with Brutus, 478. Slays Imbertus, ib.
Arrives with Brutus in this island, ib.
Cornwall from him denominated falls to
his lot, ib. Overcomes the giant Goema-
gog, ib.

Corinthians, governed by presbyters, 36.
Schism among them not remedied by
episcopacy, ib.

Coronation-Oath, some words said to be
struck out of it, 409.

Covenant, what it enjoined, 268.
Council, General, what their power and
employment, 446. Should be perpetual,
ib. Instances of the perpetuity of such a
council among other states, ib.
Council, Saxon, of little authority, 224.
Council of nobles and prelates at Caln in
Wiltshire, killed and maimed by the fall-
ing in of the room, where they sate, 543.
Council of State, their reply to the Danish
ambassadors, &c. 597.

Councils and Fathers, an entangled wood,
which papists love to fight in, 562.
Courland, duke of, Oliver's letter to him,

623.

Craig, John, his opinion of kings, 238.
Cranmer, and the other bishops, concur in
setting aside the princesses Mary and
Elizabeth, 3.

Crida, the first of the Mercian kingdom,

513.

Criminal, more just to try one by a court
of justice, than to butcher him without
trial, 344

Crowns, a clerical debate about the right
shaving them, 521.
Cromwell, his actions compared with those
of the earl of Ormond, 265.
letters, 603, 792. His character, 944.
His state
Cuichelm, the West-Saxon, sends Eumerus
to assassinate King Edwin, 517. Is bap-
tized in Dorchester, but dies the same
year, 519.

Cullen, council there, voted tithes to be
God's rent, 429.

Cunedagius, the son of Regan, deposeth
his aunt Cordeilla, 480. Shares the king-
dom with his cousin Marganus, is in-
vaded by him, meets him and overcomes
him, ib.

Cuneglas, a British king, reigns one of five
a little before the Saxons were settled,
513.

Cunobeline, see Kymbeline.
Cutha, helps his father Keaulin against
Ethelbert, 512.

Cuthred, king of the West-Saxons, joins
with Ethelbald the Mercian, and gains
a victory over the Welsh, 525. He has a
fierce battle with Ethelbald the Mercian,
which he not long survives, ib. A king
of Kent of the same name, 528.
Cuthulf, the brother of Keaulin, vanquishes
the Britons at Bedanford, and takes seve-
ral towns, 513.

Cuthwin, see Keaulin.
Cyprian, unwilling to act without the as-
sent of his assistant laics, 49. Episco-
pacy in his time, different from what it
has been since, 58.

D

Danaus, the story of him and his fifty
daughters, 350.

Danes, first appear in the west, 526. They
slay the king's gatherer of customs, ib.
Landing at Lindisfarne in Yorkshire,
they pillage that monastery, 527. At-
tempting to spoil another monastery, they
are cut off by the English, ib. Waste and
destroy Northumberland, 529.
waste Shepey in Kent, and engage with
Ecbert, near the river Carr, ib. Are put
to flight by Ecbert, 530. Their various
success in the reign of Ethelwolf, ib. &c.
Many great battles between them and

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the English in the reign of Ethelred,
532. Their whole army being defeated,
they are brought to terms by King Alfred,
534 In the same king's reign, several
vast fleets of Danes arrive with fresh sup-
plies, ib. 535. Many thousands destroyed
at Colchester, and in their retreat from
Maldon, 537 A vast army of them over-
thrown by King Athelstan, 539. Massa-
cred by the English in all parts of the
land in the reign of King Ethelred, 545.
Danish ambassadors, answers to them

Danius, reckoned among the ancient Bri-
from the council of state, 597.
Dantzick, complained of, for imposing a
tish kings, 481.
tribute on the English merchants, for re-
lief of the king of Scots, 592. Oliver's
letter to the consuls and senators of that
republic, 623

David, his exclamation in the 51st Psalm
explained, 234. Absolved by God him-
self from the guilt of his sín, 355.
conduct towards Saul accounted for,
His
368. Compared with King Charles, 371.
Dedication, remarks on one to our Saviour,

77.

Dee, John, the mathematician, invited to
Moscow, 581.

Defence of the people of England against
Salmasius, 338. In the original Latin,
649. Second. against an
writer, 919.
anonymous

In the original Latin, 707.
Of the author against Alexander More,
Deira, kingdom of, in Northumberland,
in Latin, 733.
Demetrius Evanowich, emperor of Russia,
set up by Alla, the West-Saxon, 512, 513.
an impostor, dragged out of his bed, and
pulled to pieces, 575.

Denmark, king of, see Frederick III.
Deodate, Charles, letters to, 952, 954.
Digression, concerning the affairs of church
Deruvianus, see Faganus.
Dinothus, abbot of Bangor, his speech to
and state, in 1631, 302, &c.
Dioclesian, a king of Syria, and his fifty
bishop Austin, 516.
daughters, said to have been driven upon
Dioclesian, the emperor, persecuted his
this island, 476.
Diodorus, his account how the Ethiopians
christian subjects, 499.
punish criminals, 379.-of the succession
Diogenes, his delineation of a king, 380.
to kingdoms, 391.
Dionysius Alexandrinus, commanded in
a vision to read any books whatever,
107.

Dis, the first peopler of this island, as some
fabulously affirm, the same with Samo-
thes, 476.

Disciples of Christ, their saying relating to
Discipline, in the church, necessary to re-
marriage, explained, 207.
move disorder, 29. Its definitive decrees
to be speedy, but the execution of rigour
slow, 47.

Dispensation, what it is, 141.
Divines, advice to them not to be disturb-
ers of civil affairs, 242.
Divorce, arguments for it, addressed to the
parliament and assembly, 120, &c. In-
disposition, unfitness, or contrariety of
mind, a better reason for it than natural
frigidity, 125.

Reasons for it, 126-130,
133-135. An idolatrous heretic to be di-
vorced, when no hope of conversion, 130.
To prohibit divorce sought for natural
causes, is against nature, 133.
neither did nor could abrogate the law
Christ
of divorce, 136. Permitted for hardness
of heart, not to be understood by the
common exposition, 137.
allowed of it, 143. The law of divorce
How Moses
not the premises of a succeeding law,
145. A law of moral equity, 146 Not
permitted, from the custom of Egypt,
147. Moses gave not this law unwill-
ingly, ib. Not given for wives only,
149. Christ's sentence concerning it, how
to be expounded, 150.
conscience, 155. Not to be restrained by
To be tried by
law, 157. Will occasion few inconveni-
ences, ib. No inlet to licence and con-
fusion, 189. The prohibition of it avails
to no good end, 192 Either never esta-
blished or never abolished, 196. Lawful
to Christians for many causes equal to
adultery, 216.
Luther, and Melancthon, 217. By Eras-
Maintained by Wickliff,
mus, Bucer, and Fagius, ib. By Peter
Martyr, Beza, and others, 217-219. What
the ancient churches thought of divorce,

166. St. Paul's words concerning it, ex-
plained, 168. Commanded to certain
men, ib. Being permitted to God's an-
cient people, it belongs also to Christians,
ib. Allowed by Christ for other causes
beside adultery, 170. For what cause
permitted by the civil law, ib. Allowed
by christian emperors, in case of mutual
consent, 172. Why permitted to the Jews,
224. Why Milton wrote on the subject,
934.

Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 120.
Judgment of Martin Bucer, concerning,
Domitian, the killing of him commended
159. Defence of that tract, 220, &c. Ar-
guments against it refuted, 222, &c.
Donaldus, said to have headed the Caledo-
by Pliny, 382.
nians against Septimius Severus, 498.
Donaldus, king of Scotland, brought to
hard conditions by Osbert and Ella, kings
of Northumberland, 531.
Downam, bishop, his opinion of the oppo-
sers of the episcopal government, 63.
Druids, falsely alleged out of Cæsar to
have forbidden the Britons to write their
memorable deeds, 475. Uttering direful
prayers, astonish the Romans, 491. Their
destruction in the isle of Anglesey, an-
Druis, the third from Samothes, fabulously
ciently Mona, ib.
written the most ancient king in this
Drunkenness, how to be prevented, 193.
island, 476.
Duina, river, account of its fall into the sea
at Archangel, 568.

Dunstan, sent by the nobles to reprove
King Edwy, for his luxury, 541. Banished
by the king, and his monastery rifled, ib.
Recalled by King Edgar, ib. His mira-
culous escape when the rest of the com-
pany were killed by the fall of a house,
543. His saying of Ethelred, at the time
Dunwallo Molmutius, son of Cloten, king
of his being baptized, 544. His death and
character, ib.
of Cornwall, reduces the whole island
into a monarchy, 480. Said to be the first
Durstus, king of the Picts, said to be slain
British king that wore a crown of gold,
ib. Establishes the Molmutine laws, ib.
by the joint forces of the Britons and
Romans, 504.

Dutch, summary of the damages received
from them by the East-India company,
602, 603.

E

Eadwald falls back to heathenism, 516.
Runs distracted, but afterwards returns
to his right mind and faith, 517. By what
means it happened, ib.
sister Edelburga in marriage to Edwin,
He gives his
ib. Leaves his son Ercombert to suc-
ceed, 519.

Eadbert, shares with his two brothers in
the kingdom of Kent, 524. His death,
525. Eadbert, king of Northumberland,
after Kelwolf, wars against the Picts, ib.
Joins with Unust, king of the Picts,
against the Britons in Cumberland, ib.
Eadbright, usurping the kingdom of Kent,
Forsakes his crown for a monk's hood, ib.
and contending with Kenulph the Mer-
Eadburga, by chance poisons her husband
cian, is taking prisoner, 527.
Birthric, with a cup which she had pre-
pared for another, 528
posed to her by Charles the great, to
The choice pro-
whom she fled, ib. He assigns her a rich
monastery to dwell in as abbess, ib.
tected of unchastity, she is expelled, ib.
De-
Eandred, son of Earldulf, reigns 30 years
And dies in beggary at Pavia, ib.
king of Northumberland, after Alfwold,
the usurper, 528. Becomes tributary to
Ecbert, 529.

Eanfrid, the son of Edwin, converted and
baptized, 518.

Eanfrid, the son of Ethelfrid, succeeds in
Eardulf, supposed to have been slain by
the kingdom of Bernicia, 519. Slain, ib.
Ethelred, 527. Is made king of the Nor-
thumbrians, in York, after Osbald, ib.
In a war raised against him by his peo-
ple, he gets the victory, ib.
Earth, whole, inhabited before the flood,
of his kingdom by Alfwold, 528.
Driven out

475.

East-Angles, kingdom of, by whom erect-
East-India Company, English, summary of
ed, 510. Reclaimed to Christianity, 519.
their damages from the Dutch, 602, 603.

East-Saxon, kingdom, by whom began, |
510. The people converted by Melitus,
515. They expel their bishop, and re-
nounce their faith, 516, 517. Are recon-
verted by means of Oswi, 520.
Ebrane, succeeds his father Mempricius, in
the kingdom of Britain, 479. Builds Caer-
Ebrane, now York, and other places, ib.
Ecbert, succeeds his father Ercombert, in
the kingdom of Kent, 521. Dying, leaves
a suspicion of having slain his uncle's
sons, Ecbert and Egelbright, ib.
Ecbert, of the West-Saxon lineage, flees
from Birthric's suspicion to Offa, and
thence into France, 527. After Birthric's
decease is recalled, and with general ap-
plause made king, ib. He subdues the
Britons of Cornwall and beyond Severn,
528

Overthrows Bernulf at Ellandune
or Wilton, ib. The East-Angles yield to
his sovereignty, ib. Drives Baldred,
king of Kent, out of his kingdom, and
causes Kent and other provinces to sub-
mit, ib. Withlaf, of Mercia, becomes
tributary to him, 529. Gives the Danes
battle by the river Carr, ib. In another
battle he puts to flight a great army of
them, together with the Cornish men,
530. He dies, and is buried at Winches-
ter, ib.

Ecclesiastical Causes, Treatise of Civil
Power in, 412.

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, a pure tyranni-
cal forgery of the prelates, 47.
Ecferth, the son of Offa, the Mercian, with-
in four months ends his reign, 527.
Ecfrid, Oswi's eldest son, succeeds him in
the kingdom of Northumberland, 521.
Wins Lindsey from Wulfer the Mercian,
522. He wars against Ethelred, the bro-
ther of Wulfer, ib. He sends Bertus with
an army to subdue Ireland, 523. March-
ing against the Picts, is cut off with most
of his army, ib. His death revenged by
Bertfrid a Northumbrian captain, ib.
Eclipse of the sun, followed by a pestilence,
521. Another, obscuring almost his
whole orb, as with a black shield, 524.
Edan, a king of the Scots in Britain, put to
flight by Ethelfrid, 515.
Edelard, king of the West-Saxons, after
Ina, molested with the rebellion of his
kinsman Oswald, 525. Overcoming those
troubles, dies in peace, ib.
Edgar, the brother and successor of Edwy,
in the English monarchy, calls home
Dunstan from banishment, 541. His
prosperous reign, and favour towards the
monks, ib. His strict observance of
justice, and care to secure the nation
with a strong fleet, ib. He is homaged and
rowed down the river Dee, by eight
kings, 542. His expostulation with Ke-
ned, king of Scotland, ib. He is cheated
by the treacherous duke Athelwold of
Elfrida, ib. Whom, avenging himself
upon the said duke, he marries, 542.
Attempting the chastity of a young lady
at Andover, is pleasantly deceived by
the mother, 543. Buried at Glaston ab-
bey, 542.

Edgar, surnamed Atheling, his right and
title to the crown of England, from his
grandfather Edmund Ironside, 557, 559.
Excluded by Harold, son of Earl God-
win, 559.

Edilhere, the brother and successor of Anna,
in the kingdom of the East-Angles, slain
in a battle against Oswi, 521.
Edilwalk, the South-Saxon, persuaded to
Christianity by Wulfer, 522.
Edith, Earl Godwin's daughter, eminent
for learning. 554. Is married to Edward
the Confessor, ib. Is harshly divorced
by him, 555.

Edmund, crowned king of the East-Angles,
at Bury, 531. His whole army put to
flight by the Danes, he is taken, bound to
a stake, and shot with arrows, 532.
Edmund, the brother and successor of Athel-

stan, in the English monarchy, frees
Mercia, and takes several towns from the
Danes, 540. He drives Anlaf and Suth-
frid out of Northumberland, and Dun-
mail out of Cumberland, ib. The strange
manner of his death, ib.
Edmund, surnamed Ironside, the son of
Ethelred, set up by divers of the nobles
against Canute, 549. In several battles
against the Danes, he comes off for the
most part victorious, ib. At length con-
sents to divide the kingdom with Canute,
ib. His death thought to have been vio-
lent, 550.

Edred, third brother and successor of
Athelstan, reduces the Northumbrians,
and puts an end to that kingdom, 541.
Dies in the flower of his age, and buried
at Winchester, ib.

relation of his conversion to Christianity,
518. He persuades Eorpwald, the son of
Redwald, to embrace the christian faith,
ib. He is slain in a battle against Ked-
wallay, 519.

Edric, the son of Edilwalk, king of South-Edwin, duke of the Mercians. See Morcar.
Saxons, slain by Kedwalla, the West- Egyptians, their conduct toward kings,
Saxon, 522.
378.

Eric, a descendant of Ermenred, king of
the South-Saxons, 522. Died a violent
death and left his kingdom in disorder,
ib. 523.

Edric, surnamed Streon, advanced by King
Ethelred, marries his daughter Edgitha,
546. He secretly murders two noblemen
whom he had invited to his lodging, 548.
He practises against the life of prince
Edmund, and revolts to the Danes, ib.
His cunning devices to hinder Edmund
in the prosecution of his victories against
Canute, 549. Is thought by some to have
been the contriver of King Edmund's
murder, 550. The government of the
Mercians conferred upon him, ib. Put to
death by Canute, and his head stuck upon
a pole, and set upon the highest tower in
London, ib.

Education, of youth, rules for the method
and progress of it, 98, &c. That of the
clergy generally at the public cost, 436.
Edward the Confessor, his law relating to
the king's office, 397. Said to be the first
that cured the king's evil, 558. To have
cured blindness with the water wherein
he washed his hands, ib.
Edward VI. a committee appointed by him
to frame ecclesiastical laws, 219 Di-
vorce allowed by those laws for other
causes beside adultery, ib. Acknow-
ledges the common-prayer book to be
chiefly a translation of the mass book,
Edward, the elder, son and successor of
King Alfred, 536. Has war with Ethel-
wald his kinsman, who stirs up the Danes
against him, ib. Builds Witham in Es-
sex, 537. He proves successful and po-
tent, divers princes and great command-
ers of the Danes submitting to him, ib.
538. The king and whole nation of Scot-
land, with divers other princes and peo-
ple, do him homage as their sovereign,
538 Dies at Farendon, ib. And buried
at Winchester, ib.

314.

Edward, surnamed the younger, Edgar's
son, by his first wife Egelfleda, advanced
to the throne, 543. The contest in his
reign between the monks and secular
priests, ib. Great mischief done by the
falling of a house where the general
council for deciding the controversy was
held, ib. Inhumanly murdered by the
treachery of his step-mother Elfrida, ib.
Edward, son of Edmund Ironside, heir ap-
parent to the crown, dies at London, 557.
Edward, surnamed the Confessor, the son
of King Ethelred, by Emma, after Hardic-
nute's death is crowned at Winchester,
554. Seizes on the treasures of his mother
Queen Emma, ib. Marries Edith, Earl
Godwin's daughter, ib. Makes prepara-
tion against Magnus, king of Norway, ib.
But next year makes peace with Harold
Harvager, ib. He advances the Normans
in England, which proves of ill conse-
quence, ib. He is opposed by Earl God-
win, in the cause of Eustace of Boloign,
banishes the earl, and divorces his
daughter whom he had married, 555.
Entertains Duke William of Normandy,
ib. He sends Odo and Radulph, with a
fleet, against Godwin and his sons exer-
cising piracy, 556. Reconciliation at
length made, he restores the earl, his sons
and daughter, all to their former digni-
ties, ib. He is said to have designed
Duke William of Normandy his suc-
cessor to the crown, 558. Buried at West-
minster, ib. His character, ib.
Edwi, the son and successor of Edmund, is
crowned at Kingston, 541. He banishes
bishop Dunstan, for reproving his wan-
tonness with Algiva, ib. The Mercians
and Northumbrians set up his brother
Edgar, ib. With grief whereof he ends
his days, and is buried at Winchester, ib.
Edwin, thrown out of the kingdom of Deira,
by Ethelfrid, 513, 517. Fleeing to Red-
wal, the East-Angle, for refuge, is defend-
ed against Ethelfrid, 517. He exceeds in
power and extent of dominion all before
him, ib. Marries Edelburga, the sister of
Eadbald, ib. He is wounded by an as-
sassin from Cuichelm, ib. The strange

Eikon Basilike, whether written by King
Charles, 276. Answers to the several
heads of that tract: On the king's call-
ing his last parliament, ib. Upon the
earl of Strafford's death, 280. Upon his
going to the house of commons, 282.
Upon the insolency of the tumults, 284.
Upon the bill for triennial parliaments,
287. Upon his retirement from West-
minster, 289. Upon the queen's depar
ture, 293. Upon his repulse at Hull, and
the fate of the Hothams, ib. Upon the
listing and raising of armies, 296. Upon
seizing the magazines, 299. Upon the
nineteen propositions, 302. On the re-
bellion in Ireland, 306. Upon the calling
in of the Scots, 309. Upon the covenant,
311. Upon the many jealousies, &c. 312.
Upon the ordinance against the com-
mon-prayer book, 314. Upon the differ-
ences in point of church government,
315. Upon the Uxbridge treaty, &c. 318.
Upon the various events of the war, 319.
Upon the reformation of the times, 321.
Upon his letters taken and divulged, 322.
Upon his going to the Scots, 323. Upon
the Scots delivering the king to the Eng-
lish, 324. Upon denying him the attend-
ance of his chaplains, ib. Upon his pe-
nitential vows and meditations at Holm-
by, 325. Upon the army's surprisal of the
king at Holmby, 327. To the prince of
Wales, 328. Meditations on death, 332.
Eikonoclastes, Baron's preface to that tract,
271. The author's preface, 273. Reason
of calling it so, 275.
Elanius, reckoned in the number of ancient
British kings, 481.
Eldadus, 482.
Eldol, 482.

Eledaucus, 482.

Elfled, the sister of King Edward the elder,
her army of Mercians victorious against
the Welsh, 537. Takes Derby from the
Danes, ib. She dies at Tamworth, 538.
Elfred, the son of King Ethelred, by Emma,
betrayed by Earl Godwin, and cruelly
made away by Harold, 552.

Elfwald, succeeding Ethelred in Northum-
berland, is rebelled against by two of his
noblemen, Osbald and Athelheard, 526.
He is slain by the conspiracy of Siggan,
one of his nobles, ib.
Elfwin, slain in a battle between his bro-
ther Ecfrid and Ethelred, 523.
Elidure, his noble demeanour towards his
deposed brother, 482. After Archigallo's
death, he resumes the government, ib.
Eliud, reckoned in the number of ancient
British kings, 482.

Elizabeth, Queen, against presbyterian
reformation, 450.

Ella, the Saxon, lands with his three sons,
and beats the Britons in two battles, 509.
He and his son Cissa take Andredchester,
in Kent, by force, ib. Begins his king-
dom of the South-Saxons, ib.

Ella, a king in Northumberland, 531.
Elmer, a monk of Malmsbury, fitted wings
to his hands and feet, with which he flew
more than a furlong, 559.
Elwold, nephew of Ethelwald, reigns king
of the East-Angles, after Aldulf, 528.
Embassador. See Ambassador, also French,
Spanish, &c.

Emeric, succeeds Otho in the kingdom of
Kent, 512.

Emma, the daughter of Richard, duke of
Normandy, married first to King Ethel-
red, 545. Afterwards to Canute, 550. Ba-
nished by her son-in-law Harold, she re-
tires to Flanders, and is entertained by
Earl Baldwin, 552. Her treasures seized
on by her son King Edward, 554. She
dies, and is buried at Winchester, 555.
A tradition concerning her questioned, ib.
Emperors, of Rome, their custom to wor-
ship the people, 363
England, history of, 475.

English nation, their pronunciation of the
Vowels censured, 99. Its character, 115.
The wits of Britain preferred before the
French by Julius Agricola, ib. Had been
foremost in the Reformation, but for the
perverseness of the prelates, ib. Have
learnt their vices under kingly govern.

ment, 302. When they began to imitate
the French in their manners, 555. Their
effeminacy and dissoluteness made them
an easy prey to William the Conqueror,
561. Their putting Charles the First to
death defended, 338, 919.
Englishmen, to be trusted in the election

of pastors, as well as in that of knights
and burgesses, 17. Their noble achieve-
ments lessened by monks and mechanics,
43

Enniaunus, an ancient British king, de-
posed, 482.

Eorpwald, the son of Redwald, king of the
East-Angles, persuaded to Christianity
by Edwin, 518. He is slain in fight by
Ricbert, a
519.
pagan,
Epiphanius, his opinion of divorce, 214.
Episcopacy, answers to several objections
relating to the inconveniences of abolish-
ing it, 18, 19. Insufficiency of testimonies
for it from antiquity, and the fathers, 22
Not to be deduced from the apostolical
times, 28. A mere child of ceremony,
33. Not recommended to the Corinthians
by St. Paul, as a remedy against schism,
38. See Prelacy, and Prelatical Episco-

расу.

Erasmus, writes his treatise of divorce, for
the benefit of England, 174.
Erchenwin, said to be the erector of the
kingdom of the East-Saxons, 510.
Ercombert, succeeds Eadbald in the king-
dom of Kent, 519. Orders the destroying
of idols, ib. The first establisher of Lent
here, ib. Is succeeded by his son Ecbert,

521.

Eric, see Iric.

Ermenred, thought to have had more right
to the kingdom than Ercombert, 519.
Errours, of service to the attainment of
truth, 107.

Escwin, and Kentwin, the nephew and son
of Kinegil, said to have succeeded Ken-
walk in the government of the West-
Saxons, 522. Escwin joins battle with
Wulfer at Bedanhafde, ib.

Estrildis, beloved by Locrine, 478. With
her daughter Sabra thrown into a river,
479.

Ethelbald, king of Mercia, after Ina, com-
mands all the provinces on this side
Humber, 524. He takes the town of
Somerton, ib. Fraudulently assaults
part of Northumberland in Eadbert's ab-
sence, 525. His encounter at Beorford
with Cuthred the West-Saxon, ib. In a
fight at Secandune is slain, ib.
Ethelbald, and Ethelbert, share the English
Saxon kingdom between them after their
father Ethelwolf, 531. Ethelbald marries
Judith his father's widow, ib. Is buried
at Sherburn, ib.
Ethelbert, succeeds Emeric in the kingdom
of Kent, 512 He is defeated at Wibban-
dun by Keaulin and his son Cutha, ib.
Enlarges his dominions from Kent to
Humber, 514. Civilly receives Austin
and his fellow preachers of the gospel, ib.
Is himself baptized, 515. Moved by Aus-
tin, he builds St. Peter's church in Can-
terbury, and endows it, ib. He builds
and endows St. Paul's church in London,
and the cathedral at Rochester, ib. His
death, 516.

Ethelbert, Eadbert, and Alric, succeed their
father Victred, in the kingdom of Kent,
524.

Ethelbert, or Pren. See Eadbright.
Ethelbert, the son of Ethelwolf, enjoys the
whole kingdom to himself, 531. During
his reign, the Danes waste Kent, ib. Is
buried with his brother at Sherburn,
532.

Ethelfrid, succeeds Ethelric in the kingdom
of Northumberland, 514.
Britons, 515. Overthrows Edan, king of
He wastes the
Scots, ib. In a battle at Westchester,
slays above 1200 monks, 516.
Ethelmund, and Weolstan, in a fight be-
tween the Worcestershire men and Wilt-
shire men, slain, 527.
Ethelred, succeeding his brother Wolfer in
the kingdom of Mercia, recovers Lindsey,
and other parts, 522. Invades the king-
dom of Kent, ib. A sore battle between
him and Ecfrid the Northumbrian, 523.
After the violent death of his queen, he
exchanges his crown for a monk's cowl,
Ethelred, the son of Mollo, the usurper Al-
cred being forsaken by the Northum-
brians and deposed, crowned in his stead,
526. Having caused three of his noblemen

ib.

6

to be treacherously slain, is driven into
banishment, ib. After ten years' banish-
ment restored again, ib. He cruelly and
treacherously puts to death Oelf and
Oelfwin, the sons of Elfwald, formerly
king, ib. And afterwards Osred, who,
though shaven a monk, attempted again
upon the kingdom, ib. He marries Elfled
the daughter of Offa, 527.
rably slain by his people, ib.
And is mise-
Ethelred, the son of Eandred, driven out in
his 4th year, 530.
Ethelred, the third son of Ethelwolf, the
slain the 4th year after, ib.
Is reinstated, but
third monarch of the English-Saxons, in-
fested with fresh invasions of the Danes,
532. He fights several great battles with
them, ib. 533 He dies in the 5th year of
Ethelred, the son of Edgar by Elfrida,
his reign, and is buried at Winburn, 533.
crowned at Kingston, 543. Dunstan at
his baptism presages ill of his future
reign, 544. New invasions of the Danes,
and great spoils committed by them in
his reign, ib. &c. Being reduced to straits
by the Danes, he retires into Normandy,
547 Is recalled by his people, and joy.
fully received, 548 Drives Canute the
Dane back to his ships, ib. He dies at
London, 549.

Ethelric, expels Edwin the son of Alla out
Ethelwald, the son of Oswald, taking part
of the kingdom of Deira, 513.
with the Mercians, withdraws his forces
Ethelwald, succeeds Edelhere in the king-
from the field, 521.
dom of the East-Angles, 521.
Ethelwald, surnamed Mollo, set up king of
the Northumbrians in the room of Os-
wulf, 525. He slays in battle Oswin, but
is set upon by Alcred, who assumes his
Ethelrolf, the second monarch of the Eng-
place, ib.
lish Saxons, of a mild nature, not war-
like, or ambitious, 530. He with his son
Ethelbald gives the Danes a total defeat
at Ak-Lea, or Oat-Lea, ib. Dedicates the
tenth of his whole kingdom towards the
maintenance of masses and psalms for his
success against the Danes, ib. Goes to
Rome with his son Alfred, ib. Marries
Judith the daughter of Charles the Bald
of France, 531. He is driven by a con-
spiracy to consign half his kingdom to
his son Ethelbald, ib. Dies and is buried
Ethelwolf, earl of Berkshire, obtains a vic-
at Winchester. ib.
tory against the Danes at Englefield, 532.
Ethildrith, wife of Ecfrid, turns nun, and
In another battle is slain himself, ib.
Ethiopians, their manner of punishing
made abbess of Ely, 523.
Eumerus attempts to assassinate King Ed-
criminals, 379.
Euripides, introduces Theseus king of
win, 517. Is put to death, ib.
Athens speaking for the liberty of the
Eusebius, thought it difficult to tell who
people, 385.
were appointed bishops by the apostles,
23. His account of Papias, and his in-
fecting Gunæus and other ecclesiastical
Eustace, count of Boloign, revenging the
writers with his errors, 25.
death of one of his servants, is set upon
by the citizens of Canterbury, 555. He
complains to King Edward, who takes
his part against the Canterburians, and
commands Earl Godwin against them,
Excommunication, the proper use and de-
but in vain, ib.
sign of it, 19. Left to the church as a
rough and cleansing medicine, 51.
Exhortation, to settle the pure worship of
God in his church, and justice in the
state, 17.

F

Faganus and Deruvianus said to have
Factor for religion, his business, 113.
preached the gospel here, and to have
Fagius Paulus, his opinion concerning
converted almost the whole island, 496.
divorce, 155 Testimonies of learned
men concerning him, 160. In the same
sentiments with the author as to divorce,
Famine, discord, and civil commotions
162. Agrees with Martin Bucer, 217.
among the Britons, 505.
Fashions, of the Romans imitated by the
Swane driven
by famine out of the land, 546.
Britons, a secret art to prepare them for
bondage, 494.

Fathers, primitive, in what manner they
interpreted the words of Christ concern-
Faustus, incestuously born of Vortimer
ing divorce, 212, &c.
and his daughter, lives a devout life in
Fencing and wrestling recommended to
Glamorganshire, 508.
youth, 101.

Ferdinand 11, grand duke of Tuscany, let-
ters from the English republic to him,
592, 596, 598, 599. From Oliver, 625, 628,

631.
Fergus, king of Scots, said to be slain by
the joint forces of the Britons and the
Romans, 504.

Ferrer, the son of Gorbogudo, slain in fight
Flaccus, the printer, account of him, 923.
by his brother Porrex, 480.
Flattery, odious and contemptible to a gene-
Fletcher, Dr. Giles, ambassador from Queen
rous spirit, 552.
Forms of Prayer, not to be imposed, 93.
Elizabeth to Russia, 581.
Fornication, what it is, 152. 153. A lawful
cause of divorce, 152 Why our Saviour
uses this word, 153. The Greek deficient
in explaining it, 205. To understand
rightly what it means, we should have
recourse to the Hebrew, ib.
Fortescue, his saying of a king of England,
France, see Lewis, king of
401. Quotation from his Laud. Leg. Ang.
402.
Francus, named among the four sons of
Histion, sprung of Japhet, and from him
the Francs said to be derived, 476.
Frederic III., king of Denmark, letters to
him from the council of state. 595, 599
From Oliver, 609, 612, 621.
Frederic, prince, heir of Norway, &c. letter
parliament restored, 637.
From the
from the council of state to him, 600.
Freedom of writing, the good consequences
From Oliver, 625.
of it, 57. Not allowed while the prelates
had power to prevent it, 85. See Li-
censing.

French, according to Hottoman, at the first
institution of kingship, reserved a power
of choosing and deposing their princes,
374. Their manners and language when
introduced into England, 555.

French ambassador, Oliver's letter to the,
626.

Friars, dying men persuaded by them to
Fulgenius, reckoned among the ancient
leave their effects to the church, 65.
British kings, 482. The commander in
chief of the Caledonians against Septi-
mius Severus, so called by Geoffrey of
Monmouth, 498.

G

Galgacus, heads the Britons against Julius
Agricola, 495.

Galileo, imprisoned by the inquisition, for
his notions in astronomy, 112, 113.
Garden and Gardener, an allegorical story
applied to the prelates, 69.
Geneva, Oliver's letter to the consuls and
Genesis ii. 24. explained, 183.
Gentry, reason of their espousing prelates,
senators of that city, 610.
53.

Geography, its study both profitable and
delightful, 567.

Germanus, in a public disputation at Veru-
lam, silences the chief of the Pelagians,
505. He is entreated by the Britons to
head them against the Picts and Saxons,
ib. He gains the victory by a religious
Gerontius, a Briton, by his valour advances
stratagem, ib. His death, 506.
the success of Constantine the usurper in
France and Spain. 501.
him, he calls in the Vandals against
Displaced by
him, ib. Deserted by his soldiers, de-
fends himself valiantly with the slaugh-
ter of 300 of his enemies, ib. He kills his
wife Nonnichia, refusing to outlive him,
ib. Kills himself, ib.
Geruntius, the son of Elidure, not his im-
mediate successor, 482.

After

Gildas, his account of the Britons electing
and deposing their kings, 237. His bad
Gill, Alexander, letters to, 950, 951.
character of the Britons, 499, 506.
two eminent successes, 512.
Godwin, earl of Kent, and the
stand for Hardicnute, 552.
prince Elfred to Harold, ib.
to account by Hardicnute, appeases him
with a very rich present, 553

West-Saxons,
He betrays
Being called

Earnestly

exhorts Edward to take upon him the|
crown of England, ib. Marries his daugh-
ter to King Edward, 554. Raises forces
in opposition to the French whom the
king favoured, 555. Is banished, ib. He
and his sons grow formidable, 556.
Coming up to London with his ships, a
reconciliation is suddenly made between
him and the king, ib. Sitting with the
king at table, he suddenly sinks down
dead, ib.

Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet, believed
the first that peopled these west and
northern climes, 476.

Gonorill, gains upon her father King Leir,
by dissimulation, 479. Is married to
Maglaunus duke of Albania, 480. Her
ingratitude to her father, ib.
Gorbogudo, or Gorbodego, succeeds Kin-
marcus in the kingdom, 480.
Gorbonian, succeeds Morindus in the king-
dom, 481. His justice and piety, ib.
Gospel, more favourable than the law, 139.
Imposes no subjection to tyranny, 358,
&c. Not contrary to reason and the law
of nations, 361.

Government, the reasons of its first esta-
blishment, 233. Kingly, the consequences
of readmitting it, 279.

Grammar, Latin, what it is, 457.

Gratianus Funarius, the father of Valen-
tinian, commander in chief of the Roman
armies in Britain, 499.

H

Hamborough, letters to the senate of that
city, 587, 588, 590, 592, 595, 630, 624, 625.
Hanse Towns, letter to them from the
English commonwealth, 595.
Hardicnute, the son of Canute by Emma,
called over from Bruges, and receive as
king, 553. He calls Godwin and others
to account about the death of Elfred, ib.
Enraged at the citizens of Worcester for
killing his tax-gatherers, he sends an
army against them, and burns the city,
ib. Kindly receives and entertains his
half-brother Edward, ib. Eating and
drinking hard at a feast, he dies, and is
buried at Winchester, ib. Was a great
epicure, ib.

Hardness of heart, permitted to wicked
men, 202.

Harold, surnamed Harefoot, the son of
Canute, elected king by Duke Leofric
and the Mercians, 552. He banishes his
mother-in-law Emma, ib. His perfidious-
ness and cruelty towards Elfred the son
of Ethelfred, ib. He dies, and is buried
at Winchester, 553.

Harold, son of Godwin, made earl of Kent,
and sent against prince Griffin of Wales,
557. He reduces him at last to the ut-
most extremity, ib. Being cast upon the
coast of Normandy, and brought to Duke
William, he promises his endeavours to
make him king of England, 558. He takes
the crown himself, 559. Puts off Duke
William, demanding it, with a slighting
answer, ib. Is invaded by his brother
Tosti, ib. By Harold Harfager, king of
Norway, whom he utterly overthrows
and slays, together with Tosti, ib. Is
invaded by Duke William of Normandy,
560. Is overthrown at the battle of Hast-
ings, and slain together with his two
brothers Leofwin and Gyrtha, ib.
Hartlib, Mr. tract of education addressed
to him, 98.

Hayward, his account of the liturgy in
Edward VI's time, 59.

Gregory, archdeacon of Rome, and after-
ward pope, procures the sending over of
abbot Austin and others to preach the
gospel to the Saxons in this island, 514.
Griffin, prince of South Wales, committing
great spoil in Hereford, is pursued by
Harold earl of Kent, 557. After a peace
concluded he breaks his faith, and re-
turns to hostility, ib. Is again reduced,
ib. Harold brings the Welsh to sub-
mission, ib. Lurking about the country,
he is taken and slain by Griffin, prince of
North Wales, ib.
Griffith, Dr. brief notes on his sermon, 453,
&c. Moves to be admitted physician to
church and state, 453. His address to
the general, ib. compared to Dr. Man-Heimbach, Peter, letters to, 959, 963.
waring, 454. His geographical and his- Heli, an ancient British king, 482.
torical mistakes, 455.
Help-meet, the meaning of that word, 182.
Grotius, his observations concerning di- Helvius, Pertinax, succeeds Ulpius Mar-
vorce, 150, 152. His opinion concerning cellus in the government of Britain, 497.
it, 219.
Hemingius, his definition of marriage, 186.
Guendolen, the daughter of Corineus, is
His opinion concerning divorce, 218.
married to Locrine the son of Brutus, Hengist and Horsa, with an army, land in
478. Being divorced by him, gives him the Isle of Thanet, 507. Hengist gains
battle, wherein he is slain, 479. Causes advantages of Vortigern, by marrying
Estrildis, whom Locrine had married, to
his daughter to him, ib. Takes on him
be thrown into a river with her daughter the kingly title, 508. His several battles
Sabra, ib. Governs 15 years for her son against the Britons, ib. 509. His treache-
Madan, ib.
rous slaughter of three hundred British
Gueniver, the wife of Arthur, kept from grandees under pretence of treaty, 509.
him in the town of Glaston, by Melvas His death, ib. His race ends with Alric,
a British king, 511.

Guiderius, said to have been the son of
Cunobeline, and slain in a battle against
Claudius, 489.

Guitheline, succeeds his father Gurguntius
Barbirus in the kingdom, 481.
Gunhildis, the sister of Swane, with her
husband Earl Palingus, and her young
son, cruelly murdered, 545.
Guorangonus, a king of Kent, before it was
given to the Saxons, 507.
Guortimer, the son of Vortigern, endeavours
to drive out the Saxons, 508. His suc-
cess against them, ib. Dying he com-
mands his bones to be buried in the port
of Stonar, ib.
Gurguntius Barbirus, succeeds Belinus in
the kingdom, overcomes the Dane, and
gives encouragement to Bartholinus a
Spaniard to settle a plantation in Ireland,
481. Another ancient British king named
Gurguntius, 482.
Gurgustins, succeeds Rivallo in the king-
dom, 480.

Gyrtha, son of Earl Godwin, accompanies
his father into Flanders, together with
his brothers Tosti and Swane, 555. His
noble advice to his brother Harold as he
was ready to give battle to Duke William
of Normandy, 560. Is slain in the battle,"
with his brother Harold and Leofwin,

ib.

Gytro, or Gothrun, a Danish king, baptized
by the name of Athelstan, and received
out of the font by King Alfred, 534 The
kingdom of the East-Angles said to be
bestowed on him to hold of Alfred, ib.

527.

Henninus, duke of Cornwal, marries Re-
gan, daughter of King Leir, 480.
Henry II., reigned together with his son,

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Heresy, according to the Greek, not a word
of evil note, 415. The word explained, ib.
Heresy, or false religion, defined, 562.
Popery the greatest heresy, ib.
Heretic, an idolatrous one ought to be di-
vorced, after a convenient space allowed
for conversion, 130. He who follows the
Scripture, to the best of his knowledge,
no heretic, 415. Who properly one, ib.
Herod, a great zealot for the Mosaic law,
206. Taxed of injustice by our Saviour,
358.

Herod and Herodias, the story of them
from Josephus, 196.

Herodotus, his account of the behaviour of
the Egyptians to their kings, 378.
Hertford, built or repaired by King Ed-
ward, the son of Alfred, 537.
Hesse, William, Landgrave of, Oliver's
letter to him, 622.
Heth, Richard, 957.
Hewald, two priests of that name, cruelly
butchered by the Saxons, whom they
went to convert, 523.

Hierarchy, as dangerous to the crown as a
tetrarchy, or heptarchy, 16.
Hinguar and Hubba, two Danish brethren,
how they got footing by degrees in Eng-
land, 532.

Hirelings, the likeliest means to remove
them out of the church, 424, &c. Judas
the first, Simon Magus the next hireling,
425. How to be discovered, 436. Soon
frame themselves to the opinions of their
paymasters, 437. Are the cause of athe-
ism, ib.

Histion, said to be descended of Japhet,
and to have had four sons who peopled
the greatest part of Europe, 476.
Historians, English, defective, obscure,
and fabulous, 524.

History, remarks on writing, 961.
Holland, states of, abjured obedience to
King Philip of Spain, 238. Letters from
Oliver to, 619, 627.

Holstein, Luke, letter to, 954.
Honorius, the emperor, sends aid twice to
the Britons, against their northern in-
vaders, 504.

Horsa, the brother of Hengist, slain in the
Saxons' war against the Britons, 508. His
burial-place gave name to Horsted, a
town in Kent, ib.

Horsey, Jerom, agent in Russia, 580.
Hotham, Sir John, proclaimed a traitor by
King Charles, 294. Vindicated by the
parliament, ib. The king's remarks on
his fatal end, 295.

Hull, reasons for the parliament's securing
that place, 294. Petition to remove that
magazine to London, ib.

Humbeanna and Albert, said by some to
have shared the kingdom of the East-
Angles, after one Elfwald, 528.
Humber river, whence named, 478
Hus and Luther, the reformers before them
called the Poor Men of Lyons, 431.
Husband, or wife, whether at liberty to
marry again, 172.

Jago, or Lago, succeeds his uncle Gurgus-
tius in the kingdom, 480.
James I., his behaviour after the powder-
plot, 307. Compared with Solomon, 357.
Icenians, and Trinobantes, rise up in arms
against the Romans, 492.

Ida, the Saxon, begins the kingdom of
Bernicia in Northumberland, 511.
Idwallo, learns by his brother's ill success
to rule well, 482.

Idolatry, brought the heathen to heinous
transgressions, 566.

Idols, according to the papists, great means
to stir up pious thoughts and devotion,

564.

Jeroboam's episcopacy, a particoloured and
party-membered one, 35.

Jerome, St. his opinion, that custom only
was the maker of prelaty, 36. Anselm of
Canterbury, of the same opinion, ib.
Said to be whipped by the devil for read-
ing Cicero, 107. His behaviour in rela-
tion to Fabiola, 166. His explanation of
Matth. xix. 214.

Jews, had no more right than Christians to
a dispensation of the law relating to di-
vorce, 142. Did not learn the custom of
divorce in Egypt, 199. Their behaviour
to their kings, 368, &c.
Ignatius, epistles attributed to him, full of
corruptions, 24. Directs honouring the
bishop before the king, ib. His opinion
no warrant for the superiority of bishops
over presbyters, 28.

Ignorance and ecclesiastical thraldom, cau-
tion against them, 174.
Immanuel, duke of Savoy, Oliver's letter to
him in favour of his protestant subjects,
606.

Immanuentius, slain by Cassibelan, 487.
Immin, Eaba, and Eadbert, noblemen of
Mercia, throw off Oswi, and set up Wol-
fer, 521.
Imprimaturs, the number of them neces-
sary for the publication of a book where
the inquisition is established, 106.
Ina, succeeds Kedwalla in the kingdom of
the West-Saxons, 523. Marches into Kent
to demand satisfaction for the burning of
Mollo, ib. Is pacified by Victred with a
sum of money, and the delivering up of
the accessories, ib. Vanquishes Gerent,
king of Wales, ib. Slays Kenwulf and
Albright, and vanquishes the East-Angles,
524. Dies at Rome, ib.
Independents, their tenets, 342. Commend-
ed for their firmness, 404 Reflected on
by Salmasius, ib. Their superiority over
the other parties, 937.
Inniaunus, deposed for his ill courses, 482.

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