1 Idols were not, however, destroyed in Kent, until 640, when Erconbert, then king, issued orders for that purpose, being the first of English sovereigns who did so.-BED. 1. 3. c. 8.

2 Paulinus was the missionary.-(BED. 1. 2. c. 16.) His success was, probably, not more lasting, than on the northern side of the Humber.

3The date is uncertain, being ascribed to A. D. 633, by the Annals of Winchester, to 634, by the Saxon Chronicle, and Florence of Worcester, with whom agree Wharton and Smith, and to 635, by Rudborne."-STEVENSON's Bede. Lond. 1838, p. 169.

• Peada's visit to the Northumbrian court is referred to 653. He is thought to have been baptised at Walbottle, near Newcastle. He returned into his own dominions, accompanied by four missionaries, of whom Diuma was one. Mr. Stevenson considers that clergyman to have been consecrated bishop of Mercia, in 655.Bede. 206.

5 Mr. Stevenson, with great probability, refers Wilfrid's Sussex mission to 681.-Ib. 275.

6 Mr. Stevenson adopts 603, as the most probable date of this conference. Other writers have taken 599, 601, 602, and 604. Cambden thought the place, Aust, or Aust-clive, the usual spot for passing the Severn into Wales.Ib. 99.

Deusdedit

Wighard

Theodore

arrives, May 27

re-consecrates Chad, Sept. 669

7 This is the council, omitted in the Concilia of Spelman and Wilkins, but now represented as real, and a legislative authority for the tripartite division of tythes. Mr. Goode thus renders the decree relating to this matter: "And respecting tythes, the king and the wise men have resolved and enacted, as is right, that a third part of those tythes which belong to a church must be given to (implying no more than towards) the repair of the church, and the second part to God's ministers, the third to God's poor, and needy slaves."—(Brit. Mag. Ap. 1838, p. 368.) Mr. Goode considers this no injunction for an equal division, but merely for a due consideration of both charity and churchrepair.

8 This date is adopted by Smith, the learned editor of Bede, "in which he is supported by Thorn, a writer whose local information entitles him to some credit."-STEVENSON's Bede. 105.

A.

ABINGDON abbey, foundation of, 184. dissolved, 186.

Absolution, the doctrine taught taken from St. Jerome, and subsequently adopted by Tyndale, 237. Accidia, or Acedia, 330. Acolyte, 270.

Addi, a church founder, 85.

Adrian, Pope, receives messengers from Offa, 116. transmits the deuteroNicene decrees to Charlemain, 120.

Adrian, the friend and companion of Archbishop Theodore, 79. a spy upon his actions, 85. personally engaged in tuition, 86. taught Aldhelm, 99.

Ædilwalch, king of Sussex, conversion of, 71.

Elfric, archbishop of Canterbury, obtains authority for ejecting the secular canons from his cathedral, 206. sometimes identified with the great Elfric, 241, 244.

Elfsius, 243.

Æthelmar. See Ailmer. Agatho, Pope, interferes unsuccessfully for Wilfrid, 82.

Agilbert, second bishop of Dorchester, 70. leads the Roman party in the Whitby conference, 72. translated to the see of Paris, 77. consecrates Wilfrid at Compeigne, Ib.

Agilulfus said to have stolen the bones of St. Benedict, 178.

Aidan, first bishop of Lindisfarne, a member of the ancient British church, 68. great excellence of, attested by the Roman party, 75.

Ailmer endows the monastery of Cerne, 219.

Alban, St., martyrdom of, 28. abbey in honour of, founded by Offa, 118. its domains exempted from Rome-scot, Ib. Alchfrid, king of Northumbria, sends Wilfrid for consecration into Gaul, 77. Alcuin, list of books by, in the York library, 105. birth of, 108. becomes a celebrated instructor, 109. goes to Rome for Eanbald's pall, Ib. introduced to Charlemain, Ib. becomes his instructor, 110. preferred to two abbeys, Ib. ne

re

Alfred, stipulates for church payments with the Danes, 7. taken to Rome, 141. date of his birth, 143. applies to learning, 144. comes to the throne, 146. unfortunate and unpopular, Ib. concealed, 147, 163. proached by the neatherd's wife, 147. comes forward and gains a decisive victory, 148. admits the Danes as colonists, 149. his literary works, Ib. his infirmities, 151. his economy of time, 152. his clocks, 153. his economy of money, and his foundations, 154. his mutilated Decalogue, 156. his religious opinions, 157. nature of his monastic societies, 168.

Alms-fee, 181.
Anchorites, 272.

Andover, council of, 191, 304.

Angles, continental home of, 36. English settlements of, Ib. final conquest of Mercia by, 38.

Anglia, East, conversion of, 67, 69. Antichrist, belief in the temporary ascendency of, 251.

Antioch, legend respecting, 254.
Antiquity against Romanism, 173.
Apocrisiaries, 42.

Appeals to Rome begun by Wilfrid, 82, 88. their event injurious to the principle, 89. resorted to by Offa, 116. by a nobleman against Dunstan, 207. Apulia, 214.

Archbishops publish legislative decrees, 212.

Architecture, Anglo-Saxon, 282. Arianism, introduction of, into Britain, 29.

Aristobulus said to have been consecrated by St. Paul, bishop of Britain, 22.

Arthur, King, buried at Glastonbury, 171.

Ashes, benediction of, 334.

Asser, 144, 163.
Assingdon, 282.

Athelm, Archbishop, 175.
Athelney, the place of Alfred's re-
treat, 147. monastery founded there,
154.

Athelstan, vigorous reign of, 164.
grants privileges to founders of
churches, 3, 165. guards the payment
of tythes, 7, 164. date of his accession,
170. fond of Dunstan, 175. desires his
retirement from court, 176. said to
have been the first sovereign over the
whole island, 198.

Attrition, doctrine of, 87, 237.
Audrey. See Etheldred.

Augustine, first archbishop of Can-
terbury, recommended to use the qua-
dripartite division of oblations, 8, 53.
despatched as a missionary to Eng-
land, 48. assumes episcopal functions,
50. claims miraculous powers, 51. al-
lowed a latitude as to religious usages,
54. receives the pall, 55. holds con-
ferences with the native clergy, 55, 57.
unsuccessfully, 58. claims the archie-
piscopate of Britain, Ib. dies, 59. con-
secrations by, 59, 60. said to have pro-
cured the slaughter of 1200 British
monks, 59. legend respecting, 95. all
his successors said to have been monks,

182.

Augustine's oak, 55.

Austin, St., controversy of, with
Pelagius, 31.

Avalon. See Glastonbury.
Aylesford, battle of, 37.

B.

Banchor, or Bangor, slaughter of the
British monks from, 58. situation of
the monastery, Ib.
Bapchild, 91.

Baptism, legislative care of, 90, 277.
not to be administered by affusion,
278. sponsors and promises exacted
at, Ib. the great time for, 313.

Bede, 100. one great repository of
English religious tradition, 101. tes-
tifies the extensive services of British
missionaries, 102. dies, 103. translation
of his remains, 104.

Bell-tower, 165.

Benedict Biscop, 84. taught Bede,
100. imported glass, 153.

Benedict of Nursia, founder of the
Benedictines, birth and death of, 97.
popularity of his order abroad, 168.
his remains falsely said to have been
furtively removed to Fleury, 178.

Benedictine order said to have been
introduced by Wilfrid, 97, 168. really
introduced by Dunstan, 179. over-
thrown by Edwy, 186. restored, Ib.
considerably indebted for success to
supposed miracles, 198. its triumph
and overthrow aided by libels, 218.

Beornhelm, advocate for the canons
at Calne, 203.

Berenger, or Berengarius, an early
controversialist against transubstantia-
tion, 161. opposed by Lanfranc, 228.
Berghamsted, 91.

Bertha, marriage of, 40. her daughter
married into Northumbria, 62.
Bertram. See Ratramn.

Birinus converts Wessex, 70.

Bishops, British, at early councils,
27. seven met Augustine, 57. Anglo-
Saxon, election of, 261. profession of,
Ib. functions of, 266. regular members
of the legislature, 262. concurrent
judges in the county-court, 263. pro-
vision for their souls, 266.

Blood and strangled animals forbid-
den food, 126, 259.

Bodmin, see of, founded, 264.
Bondage of the will maintained, 249
Boniface, originally Winifrid, arch-
bishop of Mentz, dates respecting, 93,
112. testifies the payment of tythes,
93. recommends the prohibition of
English female pilgrimages, 99. stre-
nuous in procuring the submission of
Germany to Rome, 112. fails of in-
ducing England to follow his example,

Canterbury Cathedral, 169. hardships
imposed upon, 195. resist Oswald,
197. yield, and thus establish a pre-
cedent, Ib. bring forward no mira-
cles, 198. supported by a majority of
the upper classes, 200. disappointed
of legislative protection, 201. restored,
202. again oppressed, 203. their for-
tunes at Canterbury, 206. libelled, as
monks eventually were, 218. placed
by Harold at Waltham, 236.

Canute, law of, respecting church-
repair, 12, 232. apparently promoted
Elfric, 225, 231. holds a council at
Winchester, 231. makes a pilgrimage
to Rome, Ib. builds a stone church,

282.

Caroline Books, 121.

Carpwald, conversion of, 67.
Catechumens, 309.

Cedwalla, tything of spoils by, 95.
Celestius, the friend of Pelagius, 30.
Celibacy, clerical, provision favour-
able to, 180, 231. legend to secure, 269.
Cellach, 68.

Ceolfrid, instructor of Bede, 100.
Ceolwulf, 104.

Cerdic, landing of, 38.
Cerne Abbey, 219.

Chad, St., made bishop of Lindis-
farne, 77. resigns, 79. made bishop of
Mercia, 80. properly at the head of
the York episcopal series, 265. induced
by Theodore to use a horse-wain, 290.
Chad, made bishop of Essex, 69.
pleads the British cause at Whitby, 72.
brother to the saint, 290.

Charlemain invites Alcuin, 109. his
neglected education, 110. instructed by
Alcuin, Ib. confers abbeys upon him,
Ib. communicates the deutero-Nicene
canons to Offa, 120. publishes the Ca-
roline Books as an authentic decla-
ration against the worship of images,

121.

Charles the Bald employs Erigena
and Ratramn to examine the doctrine
of Paschasius Radbert, 159.

Chester-le-Street, see of, founded,

265.

Chrism, 309.

Christ's death, Anglo-Saxon date of,

252.

Chronology, Anglo-Saxon, 345.
Church, nature of, 250.

Church building, admonition to, 213.
deemed a satisfaction for sin, 288.
Church repair, 181, 232.

279.

Constantine, bishop of Cyprus, speech
made by, in favour of images, exagge-
rated in the West, 123.

Continence, thought to be proved by
resistance to decompositon, 291.

Corbie, instructors from, obtained
for the monastery at Abingdon, 184.
Corfe Castle, 204.

Cornwall, contempt of the papacy
by, 163.

Coronation oath, 276.
Corporal, 315.

Councils, Sardica, 27. Ariminium,
16. Verulam, 31. Augustine's Oak,
55. Second under Augustine, 57.
Whitby, 72. Hertford, 80. Constan-
tinople, 83. Roman, Ib. Hatfield, Ib.
Nidd, 89. under Ina, 90. Bapchild, 91.
Berghamsted, Пb. Aix-la-Chapelle, 103.
Orleans, 107. Cloveshoo, 113. Calcuith,
117. Nice, second, 120. Celychyth, 129.
Vercelli, 161. under Archbishop Pleg-
mund, 162. Grateley, 164. London,
180. Andover, 191. Wihtbordestane,
Ib. Winchester, 200. Kirtlington, 203.
Amesbury, Ib. Calne, Ib. Eanham, 209.
Haba, 213. Winchester, under Canute,
231. Neo-Cæsarea, 280. Chalcedon,
281. Mentz, 285.

Crayford, battle of, 37.

Crediton, see of, founded, 264.
Creed to be explained, 251.
Cross, outward veneration for, al-
lowed by the Caroline Books, 123.
Croyland, 295.

Crucifix, speaking, 201.

Cuthbert, St., alleged miracle of,
287. particulars of, 290. unfavourable

rial in, 280.

coffin with Bede, 104.