ACCA 42 13. 118 5. styled in both places reuerentissimus antistes, was bp of Hexham, a pupil of Wilfrid and one of Beda's authorities, see Will Malmsb de pont lib III. ACHA 30 6. a sister of Aeduini (Eadwine) king of Northumbria. ADAMNANVS 145 21. a monk in the monastery of Coludi Urbs. ADBARVÆ 94 15. 104 30. Barrow near Goxhill in Lincolnshire. Cod Dipl 568. 575-579. AD CANDIDAM CASAM 25 3. Whitherne in Galloway. AD CAPRAE CAPVT 59 11. Sax Hregeheafod, Gateshead near Newcastle-on-Tyne.

ADDA 59 9 10. a priest, brother of Vtta the abbat of Ad Capræ Caput.

AD LAPIDEM 122 6. Stoneham between Southampton and Winchester.

AD MVRVM 59 5. 61 3. Walbottle
near Newcastle-on-Tyne.
AD NEMVS 94 15. iq Adbaruæ.
ADTVIFYRDI 154 21. Twyford on

the Alne, in Northumberland. AEANFLED 67 11 28. mother of the abbess Hild.

AEBBA 127 26. 147 10. paternal aunt of king Ecgfrid and abbess of Coludi Urbs. AEBBERCVRNIG 149 30. a monastery in the Angle territory, but close to the frith which separates the Angles from the Picts, therefore

on the south side of the Frith of Forth.

47 12.

AECCI 104 19. bishop of the East Angles, successor to Bisi. He was made bishop of Dunwich in 673 when the East Anglian diocese was divided into the two sees of Dunwich and Helmham. AEDAN (Aidan) 23 2. 24 7. 26 28. 28 16. 45 27. 46 32. 48 19. 68 26. 69 28. 77 4. 80 26. 82 17. 136 28. 137 12. 152 29. originally a monk of the monastery of Hii (Iona) and sent, on the request of King Oswald, to help to convert the Angles. His virtues and holy life are fully narrated in Beda's history. He died near Bamborough 651 AD. Many miracles are said to have been wrought by him in his life, and by his relics after his death. AEDDI 92 30.

a master of cathedral singing in the churches of Northumbria. He had a second name Stephanus. He is better known by his Latinised name Eddius. He wrote a life of bishop Wilfrid whose chaplain he was, and the work is a very curious piece of biography. See Fasti Eboracenses Dixon-Raine p 82.

AEDGILS 148 17. a fellow priest with Beda, and one of his authorities.

Brige). AEDILFRID 19 7 9. (Ethelfrith) a king of the Angles in Bernicia (ob 617). He was father of

Eanfrid, who in 633 on the death of Edwin became king of Bernicia.

AEDILHERI 66 17. brother of Anna king of the East Angles. AEDILHILD 39 18. sister of Aediluini, the bishop of the province of Lindissi. AEDILRED 38 19. 113 28. 115 11.

123 17. 132 29. 133 3 24. 138 22. (Aethelred) king of Mercia. He resigned his kingdom 704 AD, and became first a monk and then abbat of Bardney and died 716 A D.

AEDILTHRYD 95 9. 127 2. 131 30. 135 9. (Etheldreda) a daughter of Anna king of the East Angles. She was first married to Tondberct, a chieftain of the South Gyrvii, and after his death, to Ecgfrid king of Bernicia. Her history is fully narrated by Beda and an abstract of it will be found P 344. AEDILVACH 115 24. 117 10.

120

30. king of the South Saxons, converted to Christianity 661 A D. AEDILVALD 62 31. (Aethelwold)

king of the East Angles (655664). He was a brother of Anna. AEDILVINI 39 18. bishop of the province of Lindissi, and brother of Alduini abbat of Peartaneu. AEDVINI 19 19. 30 6. 35 28. 47

9. 67 11. (Edwine) king of Northumbria, born 585 AD. He

began to reign 616 AD, and was killed in 633 A D at the battle of Hatfield (in the W Riding of Yorkshire). AELBFLED

150 8. abbess of Streaneshalch (Whitby). AELFFLEDA 66 25. daughter of king Oswy, of Bernicia. She was devoted to a monastic life when only a year old by a vow of her father. She died 713 A D. AELFRIC 19 3. uncle of Aeduini the king of Northumbria. AELFVINI 132 30. brother of Ecgfrid

king of Bernicia. He was killed in a battle near the river Trent. AENHERVS 116 4. brother of Eanfrid, and uncle of Eaba who was wife of Aedilualch king of the South Saxons.

AESICA 107 3. a little boy, who

died in infancy at the monastery of Barking, where he was being brought up by the sisterhood. AETLA 138 2. one of the five bishops from Hilds' monastery at Streaneshalch, perhaps the same as Hæddi, bp of the West Saxons,

but see notes.

AFER 89 22. an African. Ha

drian who accompanied archbp

Theodore was a native of Africa.

AGATHE 131 21. St Agatha, died 5 Feb 251 AD, a prisoner in the time of the Decian persecution. AGATHO 71 2 9. one of the presbyters present at the synod of Whitby, of the party of Agilberct and Wilfrid.

AGATHO 125 6 13. 126 14. pope of Rome 679-682 A D. AGILBERCTUS 31 20. 32 I 17. 70 28. 71 8. 30 32. 76 21. 81 17. 91 4. 113 15. bishop of the West Saxons, an influential member of the synod of Whitby. AGNES 131 25. St Agnes, sup

son of

He sided

13. 30 32. 81 15. Oswy king of Bernicia. with the Mercians against his father, and married Cyneburh, daughter of Penda king of Mercia. ALDFRID 150 12 (see note p 245). son of Oswy. He came to the throne of Bernicia after Egfrid A D 685 and died in 705 A D. ALDVINVS 39 19. abbat of Peartaneu (Partenay in Lincolnshire). ALDVVLF 123 II. 136 24. king of the East Angles 663-713 A D. ALNE 154 20. river Alne in Northumberland. ANATOLIVS 23 II. 74 18 29.

a

bishop of Laodicea in Syria in the third century. He is quoted in Beda as a writer of authority on the Easter controversy, of which work St Jerome says "ingenii magnitudinem de uolumine quod super pascha composuit intelligere possumus."

ANDILEGVM 33 19. Audeley near Rouen.

ANDREAS 44 14. St Andrew the apostle.

ANDREAS 90 7. a monk mentioned

by Hadrian to pope Vitalian as a fit person to be archbishop of Canterbury. He pleaded the infirmity of age as an excuse. ANNA 31 15. 33 20. 52 17. 53 16. 62 32. 66 17. 127 3. king of the East Angles 635-644 A D. AQVILA 72 30. the tent maker with whom St Paul worked at Corinth.

ARHELAS 90 32. Arles, anciently the capital of Neustria (Normandy).

431

Arius, the origi

ARRIVS 124 12. nator of the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of the Son. Against him and his party the Council of Nicaea was assembled 325 A D. ARVALD 122 2. king of the island of Vecta (Wight). ASTERIVS 30 16.

the bishop of Genoa by whom, at the order of pope Honorius, bp Birinus was consecrated before his mission to Britain.

AVGVSTINVS 152 32. St Augustine the evangelist of England. He was sent by pope Gregory the great 596 AD, and died as archbishop of Canterbury 607 A D.

Wight, and nephew of the bishop. BETTI 59 9. one of the four priests taken by Peada, son of Penda king of Mercia, to instruct the Middle Angles in Christianity. BIRINVS 30 12. 113 15. a missionary bishop sent by pope Honorius to preach among the Britons. He remained among the West Saxons and was made first bishop of Dorchester.

BISCOPVS BENEDICT 125 67. 126 IO. an Englishman who, quitting a military life, retired to Rome and became so much trusted by pope Agatho, that he was sent to England along with archbishop Theodore, and took great share in the religious reforms of that prelate. He founded the monastery of Wearmouth and died toward the close of the seventh century. See h a. BISI IO 26. 104 12. bp of the East Angles, present at the synod of Hertford.

BOISIL 151 II 31. 155 3. provost of Lindisfarne, a priest who was endowed with power of prophecy.

see

BONIFATIVS 58 2. 104 14 16. Berctgilsus. BOSA 114 23. 115 5. 138 2. a monk of Whitby who was made bp in Deira, after Wilfrid's expulsion and the division of his diocese. His cathedral city was York. See Dixon-Raine, p 83. BOSAN HAMM 116 9. Bosham in Sussex. Sax Chron ann 1048 1049. Cod Dipl Bodesham 1338. BOSEL 138 18 27. bp among the Huiccii (Worcester) 689-69 t A D. He resigned his episcopate from infirm health, and was succeeded by Oftfor one of the monks of Whitby.

BOTHELM 22 2. one of the bre

thren of the church of Hexham.

His broken arm was cured by some moss from king Oswald's

cross.

BREGVSVID 139 6. mother of Hild the famous abbess of Whitby. BRETTONES 19 19. 20 7 12. 24 28. 25 4. 29 8. 35 21. 37 13. 56 25. 72 14. 82 8. 139 7. 149 24. the Britons, the inhabitants of Britain driven into the West by the incursion of the Saxons.

BRIDIVS 25 5.

king of the Picts at the date of Columba's visit to Britain. BRIGENSIS 33 23. belonging to the

monastery of In Brige (Faremouster-en-Brie).

BRITTANIA 79 5. 80 14. Britain. BVRGHELM 116 1. a priest who

aided in the conversion and baptism of the people of the South and West Saxons in the time when bp Wilfrid was labouring in those provinces.

CAECILIA 131 26. St Caecilia celebrated in Beda's hymn on virginity. CAEDMON 142 18. a lay brother in Hild's monastery at Whitby. He was miraculously endowed with the gift of poesy, and to him are ascribed some of the earliest Anglo-Saxon sacred poems. CELIN 63 14. 64 28. a brother of Cedd, bishop of the East

Saxons.

82 12. 93 5 31. 94 12. 98 15 24 32. a brother of bishop Cedd and himself for a time bishop at York and afterwards in Mercia, at Lichfield. CEADVALLA 113 22. 120 28.

121

4 6 13. king of the Geuissae, a supporter of bp Wilfrid. CEADVALLA 19 19. a king of the Britons, who exercised great

cruelties on the Saxons.

82

CEDD 59 8. 61 11 14. 62 27. 64 28. 71 12. 76 27. 81 28. 18. 98 27. a missionary preacher and afterwards bishop of the East Saxons.

CELLACH 67 22. a Scottish presbyter, consecrated second bishop among the Mercians. He afterwards resigned his episcopate and retired to Scotland. CEOLFRID 125 11. coadjutor and afterwards successor of Benedict Biscop as abbat of Wearmouth. CEOLLACH 59 32. iq Cellach. CERDIC 139 7. king of the Britons. CEROTAESEI 105 17. Chertsey in Surrey. Sax Chron Ceortesig, Ceorteseg, Certeseg. Cod Dipl 222 317 318 et saepe. CEROTVS 105 17. It was from the insula Ceroti that Chertsey derived its name.

CHORINTVS 72 30.

Corinth in Greece on the isthmus of Corinth. CILICIA 90 14. a province in the south-east corner of Asia Minor.

433

CLOFESHOCH 103 12. Tewkesbury (?) Kemble. Cod Dipl. 87. 164. 167 et saepe. Abingdon, Gibson. Cliff near Rochester, Thorpe Sax Chron. CNOBHERESBVRG 53 15. Burgh Castle in Suffolk.

CNOBHERI 53 15. from being urbs Cnobheri, Cnobheresburg had its

name.

COINVALCH 31 10 19. 113 16. son and successor of Cynigilsus king of the Geuissae

76 4 22. 77 6

100

COLMANVS 70 6. 71 21 22. 72 17. 73 30. 74 18. 13. 79 13. 89 2. 99 26. 12. a Scot who succeeded Finan as bishop of Lindisfarne. He afterwards retired to Scotland and subsequently to Ireland in consequence of the decisions of the council of Whitby.

COLVDI VRBS 127 27. 145 12. Coldingham (Berwick), Coludesburh, Sax Chron anno 679. COLVMBA 24 20. 25 5 74 22. 75 8 30. 76 7. the famous Irish monk missionary to the Northern Picts. He was the founder of the celebrated monastery at Hii (Iona). CONSTANTINOPOLIS 123 4. 124 13 17. 12612. Constantinople, the ancient Byzantium. Here were held the second and the fifth general councils, 381 and 553 A D. CONSTANTINVS 124 22. Constan. tinus IV, emperor 641-688 A D. He was son of Heraclius Constantinus and is frequently named Constans II. CVDBERCT CVTHBERCT 149 11. 150 31. 151

13 15. 1524. 153 10. 155 15. 157 14 25. 158 3 25. 159 15. 160 10 29. 161 16. bp of Lindisfarne. Beda wrote a life of Cudberct and a digest of it will be found in the notes pp 377 seqq.