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.