INDEX.

• Adultery, punished in Old Saxony, 74.
• Ælla founds the kingdom of Sussex, 92.
• Aimar, bishop of Puy, 363, 365.
• Alcuin, 62;
• his epistles, 66, 79, 84.
• Aldhelm, abbat of Malmesbury, 29;
• made bishop of Sherborne, 35.
• Aldred, abp. of York, crowns William I, 281.
• Aldrey, William de, account of, 340.
• Alexander, bp. of Lincoln, imprisoned, 500.
• Alexius I, emperor of Constantinople, 365.
• Alfwold, king of Northumbria, 68.
• Alfred, king of England, anointed by pope Leo, 99;
• ascends the throne, 113;
• retires to Athelney, ib.;
• assumes the garb of a minstrel, 114;
• routs the Danes, 116;
• his personal bravery, 117;
• his children, ib.;
• founds various monasteries, 118;
• his love of literature, ib.;
• dies, 121.
• Alfred, the son of Ethelred, 207.
• Alfrid, king of Northumbria, 52.
• Alla, king of Northumbria, 41.
• Almodis, countess of Toulouse, 416.
• Ambrosius, monarch of Britain, 11.
• Analaf, 129, 136;
• created king by the Northumbrians, 141.
• Angles and Saxons invited from Germany, 7;
• arrive in Britain, 8.
• Angle-School at Rome, 99.
• Anjou, earls of, account of, 265.
• Anjou, Geoffrey earl of, account of, 261.
• Anlaf, king of Norway, baptized, 168.
• Anselm, abp. of Canterbury, quits the kingdom, 338;
• recalled, 428;
• his contest with king Henry, 448.
• Anschetil, a Norman nobleman, 144.
• Antioch, description and siege of, 378–382.
• Aoxianus, governor of Antioch, 379, 381.
• Arbrisil, Robert de, account of, 471.
• Architecture, new style of at Westminster, 55;
• at Salisbury and Malmesbury, 442.
• Armorica or Bretagne, British settlement of, 6.
• Arthur assists Ambrosius, 11;
• his sepulchre never found, 315.
• Asia Minor, its ancient fruitfulness, 377.
• Ass, a man transformed into one, 180.
• Asser, bishop of Sherborne, account of, 118.
• Assingdon, consecration of church at, 198.
• Athelard, abp. of Canterbury, 82.
• Athelstan, king of Mercia, 128–140.
• Athelwold, the confidant of Edgar, 159.
• Augustine, St., converts the king of Kent to Christianity, 12, 26.
• See Joscelyn.
• Azotus, siege of, 405.
• Babylon in Egypt, formerly Taphnis, 390.
• Badon, Mount, siege of, 11.
• Bayeux, city of, burned, 433.
• Baldred, king of Kent, 17;
• expelled, 96.
• Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem, 395–412.
• Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem, 412.
• Baldwin, earl of Flanders, 206.
• Balista, what, 380.
• Ballads, ancient historical, 138, 148, 315.
• Balso the Short, story of, 145.
• Bangor, monastery of, 44.
• Battles at Aylesford, 194;
• Antioch, 382;
• Ascalon, 391;
• Assingdon, 194;
• Bensington, 38;
• Bruneford or Brumby, 129;
• Degstan, 43;
• Dol, 291;
• Eschendun, 111;
• Gerborai, 291;
• Hastings, 257, 276, 280;
• Hellendun, 96;
• Penn, near Gillingham, 193;
• Sceorstan, ib.;
• Standford-bridge, 256;
• Tenersebray, 433;
• Walesdun, 260;
• Witgeornesbrug, 20;
• Wodensdike, 19.
• Battle abbey, founded by William I, 300.
• Bede, Venerable, 3, 54, 56, 59.
• Belesme, Robert de, 430, 433.
• Benedict Biscop, founder of Wearmouth, 54.
• Benignus, St. 25;
• his epitaph, ib.
• Berefreid, what, 388.
• Berengar of Tours, account of, 311.
• Bernard, abbat of Tyron, account of, 471.
• Bernard, the monk, 385.
• Bernicia, kingdom of, 46.
• Bernulph, king of Mercia, 87, 96.
• Berthwulf, king of Mercia, expelled, 88.
• Bertric, king of Wessex, 40;
• expels Egbert, 95;
• poisoned, 106.
• Bethlehem, church of St. Mary, at, 383.
• Bezants, money so called, 372, 406.
• Bishoprics, extinct or consolidated, 78.
• Extent of, 92;
• removal of, 78, 352;
• precedence of, 22.
• Bishops, seven, story of, 127, 128.
• Blois, Theobald earl of, 438.
• Blois, Henry de, bishop of Winton, and legate, 501;
• his treaty with the empress Maud, 517;
• holds a council at Winton, 518;
• his quarrel with the empress, 523.
• Blois, Stephen earl of, joins the crusade, 366, 408;
• killed at Ramula, 410.
• Blood, its physical effects, 361;
• shower of, 67.
• Boamund, his design in urging the crusade, 356, 365;
• account of, 413.
• Boniface, archbishop of Mentz, 73.
• Boy, Jewish, legendary story of, 314.
• Bracelets exposed by Alfred on highways, 118.
• Briget, St. 25.
• Britons, avarice and rapine of, 67.
• Britons, western, or Cornwallish, 134.
• Brithwin, bishop of Wilton, 247.
• Burgundy, Stephen earl of, 408.
• Killed at Ramula, 410.
• Burhred, king of Mercia, 88.
• Cadwalla, king of the Britons, 46.
• Cædwalla, king of Wessex, 16.
• Baptized, and called Peter, 31.
• Caerleon, or Chester, 43.
• Cæsarea, siege of, 405.
• Cæsar, Julius, subdues Britain, 5.
• Calixtus II, pope, his letter on reducing Sutri, 466;
• accommodation with the emperor Henry V, 467.
• Calne, remarkable accident at, 163.
• Canons, secular, expelled Winchester, 149;
• Attempt to recover their monasteries, 162.
• Canterbury, see of, attempt to remove it to Lichfield, 78;
• controversy with see of York, 319.
• Canterbury, city of, burnt, 16.
• Dreadful outrage at, 218.
• Canute, elected king by the Danes, 190;
• lands at Sandwich, 192;
• divides the kingdom with Edmund Ironside, 195;
• assumes the sovereignty of England, 196;
• conquers the Swedes and Norwegians, 198;
• his epistle from Rome, 199;
• his death, 205.
• Caradoc of Lancarvon, his Life of Gildas, 22, note.
• Ceawlin, king of Wessex, his character, 18.
• Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria, 53;
• becomes a monk, 61.
• Centuries, or hundreds, instituted, 117.
• Cenric, king of Wessex, his character, 18.
• Ceolfrid, abbat of Wearmouth, 51, 55.
• Ceols, vessels so called, described, 8, 18.
• Cerdic, founds the kingdom of Wessex, 17.
• Charles the Great (Charlemagne), 65, 85.
• Charles the Bald, king of France, 125.
• Charles the Simple, king of France, 124.
• Charles the Fat, king of France, 102.
• Charters, Ethelbald’s, 76.
• Ethelwulf’s, 107.
• Edmund’s, to Glastonbury, 141.
• Edgar’s, to Glastonbury, 151.
• To Malmesbury, 155;
• Canute’s, to Glastonbury, 203.
• Stephen’s, 493.
• Chartres, siege of, 125.
• Church of, 204.
• Chasuble, meaning of, 473, note.
• Chester, reduced by Edward the elder, 131.
• Chorges, bishop of, account of, 414, 417.
• Christianity, introduced into Mercia, 71.
• Chronicle, Saxon, 3, 30, 39, 98.
• Churchyards, privileges of, 492, note.
• Circscet, what, 202.
• Cissa, king of Sussex, 92, note.
• Cistertian order, origin of, 347;
• observances of, 349.
• Clergy, vanity of their dress condemned, 76.
• Clerks, two, at Nantes, story of, 268.
• Clermont, council of, its enactments, 356.
• Clock, mechanical, 175.
• Cologne, abp. of, his exemplary conduct, 183.
• Comet, appearance of, 251, 343.
• Complines, what, 350, note.
• Constantine the Great, exhausts Britain, 6.
• Constantine, elected emperor, and slain, 6.
• Constantine, king of Scots, expelled his kingdom, 129;
• killed, 130.
• Constantinople, described, 372.
• Its emperors, 374.
• Corbaguath, or Corbanach, commander of the Persian forces, 381.
• His death, 421.
• Councils, ecclesiastical, civil, &c., 76, 127, 163, 191, 311, 356, 462, 499, 501, 517, 525.
• Court, licentiousness of Rufus’s, 337.
• Courtiers, their insolence to the clergy, 339.
• Crida, king of Mercia, 70, note.
• Cross, part of our Saviour’s, 118, 136, 390, 411.
• Crucifix, said to have spoken, 163.
• Celebrated one at Lucca, 332.
• At Winchester, 523.
• Crusaders, march of, 364.
• Their extreme distress, 377.
• Their admirable conduct, 387–391.
• Cuichelm, king of Wessex, 19, 20.
• Cumberland, assigned to Malcolm, 141.
• Curfew, supposed abolition of, 428, note.
• Cuthbert, St. 52.
• Appears to Alfred, 113.
• His incorruption, 236.
• Cuthburga, abbess of Wimborne, 35.
• Cuthred, king of West Saxons, 37.
• Cynegils, king of Wessex, account of, 20.
• Cynewolf, king of West Saxons, 38.
• Dancers and profane singers punished, 182.
• Danes, invade England, 40, 96.
• Ravages of, 69, 112, 167.
• Butchered by Ethelred, 169.
• Exact tribute, 185.
• Danube, the river, described, 374.
• Daibert, abp. of Pisa, joins the Crusade, 397.
• Made patriarch of Jerusalem, 398.
• Dalmatic, garment so called, what, 85.
• Danfrunt, siege of, 263.
• Castle of, 436.
• David, St. 26.
• David, tower of, at Jerusalem described, 387.
• David, king of Scotland, his character, 434.
• Decennaries, or tithings instituted, 117.
• Deira, province of, 42.
• Den, a monastery so called, 466.
• Denmark, succession of its kings, 292.
• Devices, on armour or shields, 262, 469.
• Devil, visible appearance of, 343.
• Dionysius the Areopagite, 119.
• Domesday-book, account of, 291.
• Drinking by pegs, account of, 148.
• Dunstan, abp. of Canterbury, 141, 167, 245.
• Durham, privileges of the see of, 303.
• Eadbert, king of Northumbria, 61–67.
• Eadburga, daughter of Edward the Elder, 125, 244.
• Eadburga, queen of Wessex, 106.
• Eadbald, king of Kent, 13.
• Eadbert Pren, king of Kent, 17, 87.
• Eadgaring, meaning of, 64.
• Eadmer, the historian, 3, note.
• Ealstan, bishop of Sherborne, 106, 108.
• Earls, their official honours, 496, note.
• Earthquake, terrible, 342.
• East Anglia, kingdom of, 88.
• Extent of, 92.
• Plundered by the Danes, 112.
• Account of, 240.
• Ecclesiastics, their property seized at death, 494.
• Eclipse, terrific, 488, 511.
• Edan, king of Scots, 43.
• Edessa, in Mesopotamia, described, 396.
• Edgar, king of England, 147–162.
• Edgar Etheling, son of Edward the Exile, 253.
• His character, 284.
• Edgitha, wife of the Confessor, 216.
• Edifices, stone, first builders of in England, 54.
• Editha, daughter of Edgar, 161, 245.
• Edmund, St. king of East Anglia, 89.
• Slain, 112.
• His incorruption, 236.
• His boundary, 242.
• Church built in honour of him, 198.
• Edmund, king, 141.
• His death, 143.
• Edmund Ironside, 191–195.
• Edred, king of England, 145.
• Edric, duke of Mercia, 169, 191, 197.
• Edward the Elder, 122.
• His issue, 124.
• Education of his children, 125.
• Edward the Martyr, 162–165.
• Edward the Confessor, 213.
• Crowned at Winchester, 216.
• His character, 247.
• His predictions, 251.
• Dies, 253.
• Edward the Exile comes to England, 253.
• Edwin, king of Northumbria, 45.
• Edwin, brother of Athelstan, 139.
• Edwin, brother of Edmund Ironside, 196.
• Edwin and Morcar, earls of Northumbria, 285.
• Edwy, king of England, 145–147.
• Egbert, king of Kent, 15.
• Egbert, archbishop of York, 61.
• Egbert, king of Wessex, 94–97.
• Egfert, king of Mercia, 86.
• Egfrid, king of Northumbria, 51.
• Eginhard, his life of Charlemagne, 64, note.
• Eisc, son of Hengist, king of Kent, 12.
• Elbert, and Egelbright, 15, 237, 243.
• Eleutherius, bishop of Rome, 21.
• Elfred, the rival of king Athelstan, 128;
• His singular death, 137.
• Elferius, destroys monasteries, 164, 165.
• Elfgiva, concubine of king Edwy, 146.
• Elfthrida, wife of king Edgar, 159, 161;
• Causes the murder of king Edward, 164.
• Elmer, a monk, flies like Dædalus, 252.
• Elphege, archbishop of Canterbury, 168;
• his body translated to Canterbury, 202;
• its incorruption, 236.
• Elward, or Ethelwerd, abridger of the Saxon Chronicle, 3, note.
• Ely, church of, made a cathedral, 476.
• Emma queen of Ethelred, 187;
• her liberality to Winchester, 215;
• story of the ploughshares, ib. note.
• England, divisions of, geographical and ecclesiastical, 91–93;
• oppressed state of after the conquest, 235, 253;
• its lamentable condition in the time of Stephen, 496, 509.
• Erconbert, king of Kent, 14.
• Ercongotha, St. 15, 242.
• Erie, expelled the kingdom by Canute, 197.
• Ermenhilda, St. 242.
• Ethelbald, king of Mercia, 73–77.
• Ethelbald, king of Wessex, 110.
• Ethelbert, king of Kent, 12;
• his answer to Augustine, 14;
• converted to Christianity, ib.
• Ethelbert, St. king of East Anglia, killed, 78.
• Ethelbert, king of Kent, Essex, &c., 110.
• Ethelbert, son of Ermenred, murdered, 15, 237, 243.
• Ethelburga, queen of Ina, her art, 36.
• Etheldrida, St. her incorruption, 242.
• Ethelfrid, king of Northumbria, 43.
• Ethelnoth, archbishop of Canterbury, 203.
• Ethelred, king of Mercia, 72.
• Ethelred, son of Ermenred, murdered, 15, 237, 243.
• Ethelred, or Ethelbert, king of Northumbria, 68.
• Ethelred, king of Wessex, 111.
• Ethelred II, king of England, 165, 186–193.
• Ethelfleda, lady of the Mercians, 123.
• Ethered, earl, governor of Mercia, 116.
• Ethelric, king of Northumbria, 42.
• Ethelwald opposes Edward the Elder, 123.
• Ethelwalch, king of Sussex, 30.
• Ethelwold, bishop of Winchester, 149.
• Ethelwulf, king, 97;
• his grant of tithes, 98;
• marries Judith, 99;
• returns from Rome, 106;
• his charter, 107;
• his descent, 109.
• Euripus, or sea-flood, destroys villages, 191.
• Eustace, earl of Boulogne, his affray, 218.
• Exeter, fortified and walled by Athelstan, 134;
• burnt, 168;
• reduced by Wm. I, 281.
• Famine, ravages England, 170.
• Feudal law, practices connected with, 447, note.
• Fire, sacred, miracle of, at Jerusalem, 384, 404.
• Fitz-Hubert, Robert, 506, 511.
• Fitz-Osberne, William, 288.
• Flanders, Robert earl of, 366, 436.
• Formosus, pope, his pretended epistle, 127.
• Forest, New, account of, 306.
• Franks, origin of, 63;
• their character, 95.
• France, recapitulation of kings of, 64, 99.
• Frea, wife of Woden, 8.
• Frideswide, St. church at Oxford burnt, 191.
• Fulcher of Chartres, on Syrian transactions, 395.
• Fulbert of Chartres, his character, 204, 314.
• Fulda, monastery of, 210;
• disease at, 318.
• Fulk, earl of Anjou, account of, 265.
• Gelasius II, pope, expelled Rome, 464.
• Geoffrey, Martel, account of, 267.
• Gerbert, pope Sylvester II, 172–181.
• German, St. 24;
• his miracles, 116.
• Gildas, the historian, 22, 67.
• Girth, or Gurth, son of Godwin, 222, 275.
• Glastonbury, antiquities of, by William of Malmesbury, 51;
• account of, 21;
• its privileges, 142, 150;
• Canute’s presents to, 203;
• contention at, 303.
• Gosfrith, bishop of Coutances, 328, 329.
• Gloucester, Robert earl of, prefatory epistle to, 1.
• Conclusion of Regal History addressed to, 477;
• his character, 478;
• Modern History addressed to, 480;
• conduct with respect to Stephen, 492;
• with respect to his sister, 497;
• arrives in England, 505–531;
• his death, 1, note.
• Godfrey, duke of Lorraine, account of, 365.
• Godfrey of Boulogne, account of, 392;
• joins the crusade, 394;
• chosen king of Jerusalem, 390, 394;
• dies, 395.
• Godfrey, prior of Winton, account of, 475.
• Godwin, earl, defeats the Swedes, 198;
• supports Emma, 206;
• murders Alfred the son of Ethelred, 207;
• his character and death, 221;
• his family, 223.
• Golgotha, church of, 395, note.
• Gothrun, a Danish king, baptized, 115.
• Gregory I, pope, 42;
• dialogues of, 119, 232;
• his pastoral translated by Alfred, 120.
• Gregory VI, pope, otherwise Gratian, 223–230.
• Gregory VII, pope, otherwise Hildebrand, 298.
• Gregory VIII, pope, otherwise Maurice Bourdin, 464.
• Griffin, king of the Welsh, 214, 256.
• Grimbald, abbat of Winton, 118, 120.
• Guimund, bp. of Avers, his eloquence, 312.
• Guiscard, or Wiscard, Robert, 294, 413.
• Gunhilda, married to Hen. III, 207;
• accused of adultery, 238.
• Gunhildis, sister of Swayne, murdered, 185.
• Handboc, Alfred’s, 120, and note.
• Hardecanute, 205;
• dies at Lambeth, 206.
• Harold, sends presents to Athelstan, 134.
• Harold, son of Canute, 205;
• dies, 206.
• Harold, son of Godwin, 214;
• banished, 220, 254;
• seizes the crown of England, 55, 275;
• his death, 277–280.
• Harold Harfager, king of Norway, 256, 257.
• Harding, founder of Cistertians, 347.
• Hastings the Dane, his ravages, 115.
• Hastings, battle of, 276–280.
• Head, magical, formed by Gerbert, 181.
• Hegesippus, a Greek author, 378.
• Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, 5.
• Helias de la Fleche, 341.
• Hengist, king of Kent, his origin, 8;
• arrives in Britain, 9;
• his son and brother arrive at Orkney, 10;
• settle in Northumbria, ib.;
• his massacre of the British nobles, 11;
• death, ib.
• Henry I, king of England, 425;
• elected king, 427;
• marries Matilda of Scotland, 428;
• gets possession of Normandy, 431;
• his wholesome laws, 434;
• his transactions with the Scots, ib.;
• subdues the Welsh, 435;
• quarrel with earl of Flanders, 436;
• interview with pope Calixtus, 440;
• passion for exotic animals, 443;
• recapitulation of his character, 445;
• his person and habits, 446;
• espouses Adala of Louvain, 454;
• transactions till his death, 483–490.
• Henry III, emperor of Germany, 208–212.
• Henry IV, emperor, excommunicated, 358.
• Henry V, his contest with the pope, 457.
• Hereford, Roger earl of, rebels, 288.
• Herbert, bishop of Norwich, account of, 353.
• Hildebrand, pope Gregory VII, 295;
• his conduct to the emperor Henry V, 298.
• Hildebert of Mans, verses on Berengar, 312, 367.
• Hingwar, the Dane, ravages Northumbria, 240.
• Horsa, brother of Hengist, his death, 10.
• Horæ, what, 350, note.
• Hospital, erected at Jerusalem, 385.
• Hubba the Dane, brother of Hingwar, 240.
• Hugh the Great, brother of Philip, joins the Crusade, 365.
• His death, 408.
• Hugo, abbat of Clugny, his account of Hildebrand, 296.
• Announces the death of Rufus, 344.
• Hugo, abp. of Rouen, his letter, 489.
• Hunting, right of, restricted by Will. II, 339.
• Hyde monastery, Winton, 122;
• burnt, 523.
• Hyrcanus, digs gold from David’s sepulchre, 177.
• Ida, king of Northumbria, 41.
• Ina, king of Wessex, 31.
• Abdicates and dies at Rome, 37.
• His grant to Glastonbury, 32.
• Indract, St. account of, 26.
• Investiture of churches, 298, 447.
• Pope Paschal’s epistle on, 448.
• Contests about, 458.
• Ipres, William de, his perfidy, 495.
• Burns the abbey of Warewell, 523.
• Ireland, converted, 24.
• Its dependence on England, 443.
• Jerusalem, expedition to, or Crusade, 355.
• Approach to by Crusaders, 383.
• Description of, 384.
• Patriarchs of, 385.
• Siege of, 387.
• Capture of, 389.
• Jews, their insolence, 338.
• Jewish youth, anecdote of, 338, note.
• John XIII, pope, his epistle to Alfric, 151.
• Confirms the grants to Glastonbury, 153.
• John XV, pope, makes peace between Ethelred and Richard duke of Normandy, 171.
• John Fitz-Gilbert, 512.
• Joscelyn of St. Bertins, account of, 355.
• His translation of St. Augustine, ib.
• Jothwel, king of the Welsh, 129.
• Joust, meaning of that term, 515, note.
• Jutes, a German tribe, settled in Britain, 9.
• Katigis, son of Vortigern, death of, 10.
• Kenelm, St. 87.
• Murdered by his sister, 238.
• Kenred, king of Northumbria, 53.
• Kenred, or Kinred, king of Mercia, 72.
• Kent. Its conversion to Christianity, 13.
• Annexed to West Saxons, 17.
• Ravaged by Ina, 31.
• Its extent, 91.
• Kentwin, king of Wessex, 30.
• Kenwalk, king of Wessex, 20;
• his death, 30.
• Kenulph, king of Mercia, 79–86.
• Kinad, king of Scots, 147, 158.
• Knights, order of, among the Anglo-Saxons, 131.
• Lambert, abp. of Canterbury, deprived, 78.
• Lamp, perpetual, 234.
• Lanfranc, abp. of Canterbury, 300, 323.
• Lanzo, prior of Lewes, account of, 472.
• Laurentius, abp. of Canterbury, chastized by St. Peter, 13.
• Legion, Theban, account of, 136, note.
• Leo III, pope, 79.
• His epistle, 82.
• Leofa, murders king Edmund, 143.
• Leofric, earl of Hereford, 214.
• Leonard, St. his peculiar power, 415, note.
• Leutherius, bishop, founds Malmesbury, 28.
• Lewis VI, king of France, account of, 438.
• Library, noble one at York, 62;
• at Jerusalem, 385.
• Libraries formerly attached to churches, 120.
• London, ravaged, 97;
• granted by Alfred to earl Ethered, 116;
• besieged by Danes, 167;
• by Canute, 194;
• dreadful tempest at, 342.
• Longinus, St. legend of, 136, note.
• Lothere, king of Kent, 15.
• Lucius, king of the Britons, baptized, 21.
• Luidhard, bishop, exemplary life of, 12.
• Mabil, wife of Robert earl of Gloucester, 1, note; 433, note, 483, 528.
• Malcolm, king of the Cumbrians, 147.
• Malcolm II, king of Scotland, 199.
• Malcolm III, placed on the throne of Scotland, by Edward the Confessor, 214;
• receives the English fugitives, 282;
• slain, 283, 333.
• Malger, archbp. of Rouen, account of, 300.
• Malmesbury, monastery of, founded, 28;
• seized by Offa, 78;
• by Alstan, 98;
• its possessions restored, 86;
• monks expelled by Edwy, 146;
• seized by Roger bishop of Salisbury, 508;
• singular account of one of its monks, 177.
• Malmesbury, John abbat of, his character, 509.
• Malmesbury, William monk of, his motives for writing history, 1;
• his history of Glastonbury, 21;
• his love of learning and fondness for books, 93;
• of Norman and English parentage, 258;
• his diffidence, 414;
• first regular historian of the English after Bede, 477;
• three small volumes of his works supposed to be lost, 480, note;
• residence at Malmesbury, 28;
• indignation at oppression of his monastery, 78, 98, 146, 508;
• his design of writing the lives of the prelates, 148.
• Magus, Simon, legend of, 180, note.
• Mancus, value of, 82, note.
• Manse, signification of, 108, note.
• Marchio, its signification, 517, note.
• Margaret, wife of Malcolm king of Scots, her issue, 253;
• her piety and death, 333.
• Martin, St. his relics cure a leprous person, 116.
• Matilda, wife of William I, 265, 305.
• Matilda, wife of Henry I, account of, 253, 428;
• her piety, learning, and death, 452.
• Matilda, or Maud, married to Henry V, 457;
• returns to England, 481;
• succession of England settled on her, 482;
• married to Fulco earl of Anjou, 483;
• succession again confirmed to her, 487;
• elected queen, 519;
• designs of, 531;
• escape from Oxford, 535.
• Maurilius of Feschamp, account of, 301.
• Mayors of the palace, 64, note.
• Maximus, assumes the empire, 6;
• his expedition to Gaul, and death, ib.
• Mellent, Robert earl of, account of, 441.
• Mercia, kings of, 70;
• extent of, 92;
• Mercians unite with the Danes, 112;
• their noble stand in favour of Ethelred, 192.
• Mice, singular tales concerning, 316, 317.
• Milburga, abbess of Wenlock, 243.
• Miles, ambiguity of that term, 289, note; 499.
• Miracles, Oswald’s, 49;
• of pope Leo III, 65;
• of St. Martin, 116;
• St. Edward’s, 164;
• of St. Magnus, 182;
• of Ethelred and Ethelbert, 238;
• of St. Kenelm, ib.;
• St. Wistan, 239;
• St. Edmund, 240;
• St. Milburga, 243;
• Eadburga, 244;
• Editha, 245;
• of Edward the Confessor, 248.
• Money, debased state of in time of king Stephen, 511.
• Montgomerie, Roger, conspires against William II, 329.
• Morcar, son of Elgar, made earl of Northumbria, 223;
• defeated by Danes, 256;
• his death, 285.
• Moreton, William earl of, rebels against Henry I, 431.
• Mountain, perforated, tale of, 178.
• Murrain, dreadful, 417.
• Necromancy, 180, 232.
• Nice, in Bithynia, siege of, 366, 377.
• Nidering, or Nithing, signification of, 330.
• Normandy, granted to Rollo, 125;
• distracted state of, 260, 331, 422, 431.
• Normandy, William I, duke of, account of, 143.
• Normandy, Richard I, duke of, his pacification with Ethelred, 171.
• Normandy, Richard II, duke of, account of, 188.
• Normandy, Robert I, duke of, account of, 259;
• his expedition to Jerusalem, 189.
• Normandy, Robert II, Curthose, duke of, pawns his duchy, 339;
• joins the crusade, 366, 410;
• account of, 420;
• arrangement with Henry I, 422;
• imprisoned till death, 423.
• Normans, subdue part of Gaul, 8;
• unjust preference of after the conquest, 253;
• dislike to William II, 329;
• feuds of with the English, 217;
• manners and customs of, 280.
• Northumberland, Robert, earl of, 323, 339.
• Northumbria, kingdom of, 41;
• divided into two provinces, 46;
• its extent, 93;
• yields to Egbert, 96;
• unites with Danes, 112;
• subdued by Athelstan, 129.
• Norwegian, singular courage of one, 256.
• Norway, succession of its kings, 292.
• Odo, archbishop of Canterbury, separates Edwy from Elfgiva, 146.
• Odo, bishop of Bayeux and earl of Kent, 307;
• rebels against Rufus and is banished, 328.
• Offa, king of Mercia, his character, 77;
• rapacity, 78;
• treaty with Charlemagne, 84.
• Offa, king of Essex, becomes a monk, 91.
• Ordeal, account of, 22, note.
• Order, monastic, afflicted by Edwy, 146;
• revives under Edgar, 155.
• Organ, hydraulic, account of, 175.
• Orkney, isles of, subdued by Magnus, 343;
• Paul earl of, 443.
• Osberne, precentor of Canterbury, his life of Dunstan, 146;
• his skill in music, 148.
• Osbert, king of Northumbria, 112.
• Osred, king of Northumbria, 68.
• Oswald, king of Northumbria, 46;
• his death, 48;
• miracles, 49, 237.
• Oswin, king of Northumbria, 50.
• Oswy, king of Northumbria, 50, 51.
• Otha, brother of Hengist, settles in Northumbria, 40.
• Otho, the Great, 66.
• Pallas, his body found at Rome, 234.
• Palling, a Danish noble murdered, 185.
• Palms, assumed by pilgrims, and why, 398.
• Palumbus, a priest, 233;
• his death, 234.
• Paschal II, pope, his letter to Henry I, on investitures, 448;
• to Anselm, 450;
• contest with the emperor Henry V, 457.
• Paschasius, his story of the Host, 314.
• Patrick, St. 24.
• Patrician of Rome, its office, 462.
• Paul, of Samosata, 396.
• Paulinus, 26;
• converts the Northumbrians, 45.
• Penda, king of Mercia, his character, 70;
• his death, 71.
• Peter the Hermit, account of, 366, 381.
• Peter-pence, origin of, 98, 202.
• Petrary, meaning of that term, 380, 405.
• Philip I, king of France, 206.
• His infatuated conduct, 437.
• Philip the clerk, account of, 420.
• Places, holy, Bede’s account of, 57.
• Plegmund, abp. of Canterbury, 120.
• Plough-alms, what, 201.
• Poison, antidote against, 415.
• Poitou, Peter, bishop of, account of, 469.
• Poitou, William, earl of, defeated by the Turks, 408.
• His licentious conduct, 469.
• Prodigy, of the double woman, 235.
• Pythagoras, his double path, 172.
• Quendrida, murders her brother Kenelm, 87, 238.
• Ramula, description of, 383.
• Siege of, 409.
• Ranulf, or Ralph, bishop of Durham, his character, 336, 476.
• Imprisoned, 428.
• His escape, 429.
• Raymond, earl of St. Giles, joins the crusade, 365.
• Account of, 416.
• Reading monastery, 447.
• Redwald, king of the East Angles, 41, 88.
• Repasts, custom concerning in England, changed, 441, note.
• Richard, son of Will. I, his untimely death, 306.
• Ring, with Solomon’s impression, 177.
• Ritual, Ambrosian, 350, note.
• Gregorian, ib.
• Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, 217.
• He flies, proceeds to Rome, and dies, 221.
• Robert, bishop of Chester, account of, 354.
• Robert Curthose. See Normandy.
• Robert, earl of Moreton, brother of Will. I, 307.
• Robert Fitz-Hubert, 511.
• Robert Friso, earl of Flanders, account of, 289.
• Robert Guiscard, account of, 295.
• Robert, king of France, his character, 204.
• Robert, son of Godwin, account of, 284.
• Roger, bishop of Salisbury, account of, 441.
• Imprisoned, 500.
• Death and character, 507.
• Rollo the Dane, obtains Rouen, 125.
• His insolence, 126.
• Romans finally quit Britain, 6.
• Rome, dreadful state of, 224.
• Citizen of, singular story of, 232.
• Poetical description of, 367.
• Account of its gates, churches, &c., 368.
• Schism in church of, 484.
• Rome-scot, 98, 202.
• Ross, in Wales, Flemings settled at, 435.
• Rouen, William, archbishop of, account of, 438.
• Sabert, king of East Saxons, baptized, 90.
• Saints, incorruption of several, after death, 48, 236.
• Salisbury, tempest at, 343;
• cathedral, 442.
• Saracens, their learning and divination, 173.
• Defeat of at Ascalon, 407.
• Saxons, invited over from Germany, 7.
• Saxons, East, kingdom of, 90.
• Its extent, 92.
• Saxons, West kingdom of, 17.
• Its extent, 92.
• Schools instituted in East Anglia, 88.
• Scotland, subdued by Canute, 199.
• Scots, defeated by the Angles, 9.
• Characterized, 364.
• Civilized by king David, 434.
• Scotus, Johannes, account of, 119.
• Scotus, Marianus, account of, 317.
• Selsey, monastery of, 92.
• Singular circumstance at, 236.
• Sepulchre, holy, church of, 384, 389.
• Serlo, bishop of Sees, trims the beard of Henry I, 445, note.
• Serlo, abbat of Gloucester, account of, 471.
• Severus, dies in Britain, 5.
• Shift of the Virgin, confounds the Danes, 125.
• Ship, a magnificent, presented to Athelstan, 134.
• Shoes with curved points, 337, note.
• Sibilla, duchess of Normandy, 421, note.
• Sigebert, king of Wessex, 38.
• His death, ib.
• Sigebert, king of East Anglia, 89.
• Sighelm, bishop of Sherborne, sent to India by Alfred, 118.
• Simony, its extensive spread, 357.
• Siric, abp. of Canterbury, 167.
• Sithtric, king of Northumbria, 129, 132.
• Siward, earl of Northumbria, kills Macbeth, 214.
• Supports Edward the Confessor, 219.
• Siward, king of Norway, winters in England, 444.
• His voyage to Jerusalem, ib.
• Slaves, female, prostituted and sent to Denmark, 222.
• Custom of selling, 279.
• Sleepers, seven, story of, 250, note.
• Solyman, sovereign of Romania, his army defeated, 376.
• Defeats the Franks, 408.
• Sow, a warlike engine so called, 388.
• Spear of Charlemagne, which pierced our Saviour, 135.
• Spike, used at the Crucifixion, 135.
• Statue, in the Campus Martius, 176.
• Statue, brazen, at Rome, story of, 232.
• Stephen, earl of Moreton, account of, 482.
• Comes to England and is chosen king, 490.
• Crowned, and goes into Scotland, 491.
• His character, 495.
• His perfidy to Robert, earl of Gloucester, 496.
• His violent conduct, 500.
• Contest with his brother the legate, 504.
• Conflicts with the Empress’s party, 506, 507.
• Besieges Lincoln, 514.
• Defeated and made captive, 515.
• Liberated, 524.
• Plunders Wareham, 533.
• Burns Oxford, ib.
• Stigand, bishop of Winton, 221, 253, 281, 302.
• Sugar-cane, account of, 397, note.
• Suger, abbat of St. Denis, his account of Henry I, 446, note.
• Sultan, meaning of that term, 379.
• Superstition, singular, 122, and note.
• Sussex, kingdom of, 92, note.
• Sweyn, king of Denmark, invades England, 185.
• His conduct, 189, and death, 190.
• Sweyn, son of Godwin, 219, 222.
• Goes to Jerusalem and is killed by the Saracens, ib.
• Swithun, St., bishop of Winchester, 98.
• Sword, miraculous, Athelstan’s, 130;
• Constantine’s, 135.
• Tancred, prince of Antioch, enters Bethlehem, 383;
• his covetousness, 390;
• his conduct and death, 419.
• Tewkesbury, monastery of, 433.
• Thanet, isle of, appropriated to the Angles on their arrival, 9.
• Thanet, monastery of, minster, 15.
• Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, 15, note, 51.
• Thorns, crown of, 136.
• Thurkill, the Dane, invites Sweyn, to England, 185;
• his expulsion and death, 197.
• Time, division of by candle, 121.
• Tirel, Walter, kills W. Rufus, 345.
• Tosty, son of Godwin, expelled by the Northumbrians, 222;
• retires to Flanders, 223;
• his attempts against Harold, 256;
• defeated and slain, 257, 285.
• Tower of London, its origin, 341.
• Truce of God, why so called, 358, note.
• Tudites, or Martel, Carolus, 64;
• his body carried off by evil spirits, 232.
• Turks, their extensive dominion, 360;
• crafty mode of fight, 361;
• cruelty at the siege of Nice, 376;
• at Antioch, 379;
• defeated near Berith, 401;
• bodies burnt to obtain money they had swallowed, 406, note;
• besiege Baldwin at Rama, 284.
• Ulfkytel, earl of Essex, attacks the Danes at Thetford, 69;
• killed at Assingdon, 170, 194.
• Urban II, pope, 299;
• instigates the first crusade, 357;
• his speech at the council of Clermont, 359;
• contests with Guibert, 414.
• Utred, earl of Northumbria, 192;
• defeated and put to death by Canute, 193.
• Vavassour, meaning of, 510, note.
• Vallery, St., his body brought forth to implore a wind, 273.
• Ver, Albric de, his harangue in favour of king Stephen, 502.
• Vindelici, account of, 208.
• Virginity, Aldhelm’s commendation of, 29, 36.
• Visions, of Charles king of France, 102;
• of Athelstan’s mother, 139;
• of Edgar, 156;
• of Edward Confessor, 249;
• of Constantine the Great, 372.
• Vortigern, his character, 7, 11.
• Vortimer, the son of Vortigern, 10.
• Waher, Ralph de, rebels against William I, 287.
• Wales, reduced to a province, 214;
• pays tribute to Athelstan, 134.
• Walkelin, bishop of Winchester, 302.
• Walker, bishop of Durham, murdered, 303.
• Walwin, nephew of Arthur, his sepulchre, 315.
• Waltheof, earl, account of, 386;
• his death, ibid.
• Warewell, or Whorwell, 160;
• monastery of, ib.
• Warwick, Henry earl of, 441.
• Welsh, subdued by Edward the Elder, 123;
• by Harold, 256;
• by Henry I, 435.
• Werburga, patroness of Chester, 72, 236, 243.
• Werefrith, bishop of Worcester, 118.
• Westminster Abbey consecrated, 255.
• West-Saxon kings, geneology of, 109.
• Wight, Isle of, given to Withgar, 218;
• converted to Christianity, 71.
• Wilfrid, bishop of Hexham, expelled his see, 51.
• William I, king of England, 253;
• his early history, 259;
• his conquests, 268;
• is crowned, 281;
• summary of his wars, 282;
• his issue, 305;
• munificence to monasteries, 308;
• death, 310.
• William II, king of England, his birth and education, 327:
• contentions with his nobles, 328;
• seizes castles of Tunbridge and Pevensey, 319;
• contests and treaty with his brother Robert, 330;
• his expedition against Wales and Scotland, 333;
• character, 334, 346;
• calamitous events of his reign, 342;
• singular tokens and manner of his death, 344.
• William of Carilef, bishop of Durham, 304.
• William, earl of Arches, 263.
• William Fitz-Osberne, account of, 289.
• William, son of Henry I, 454.
• Winchelcumb, dreadful tempest at, 342.
• Winchester, church at, 21, 39;
• Canute’s liberality to, 198.
• Windows, glass, first makers of in England, 54.
• Wistan, St. account of, 239.
• Witch, Berkeley, account of, 230.
• Witches, two at Rome, account of, 180.
• Withlaf, king of Mercia, 88, 96.
• Withred, king of Kent, 16.
• Woden, account of, 8.
• Wolves, tribute of, paid to Edgar, 158.
• Woodstock Park, menagerie at, 443.
• Worcester, insurrection at, 207.
• Wulnod, destroys Ethelred’s fleet, 169.
• Wulnod, son of Godwin, 222.
• Wulstan, precentor of Winchester, 149;
• his book on the harmony of sounds, ib.
• Wulstan, archbishop of York, confined by Edred, 145.
• Wulstan, bishop of Worcester, account of, 303.
• Wulfhere, king of Mercia, 71, 72.
• York, city of, burnt, 112;
• besieged, 133;
• destroyed, 282.
• York, see of, controversy with Canterbury, 319;
• with Worcester and Dorchester, 323.
• Youths, from England, exposed to sale at Rome, 42.