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From The Biographical Writings and Letters of Venerable Bede, translated from the Latin, by J. A. Giles; James Bohn, London, 1845; pp. 296-312.



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A


Abacue and Micha’s reliques are found,  275.

Abbe, Abbess of Coldingham, sister of King Oswy,  23,  205.

Abdon,  234.

Abel,  222.

Abendune,  215.

Abgarus, King of Edessa,  264.

Abimelech,  232.

Abraham,  228,  229.

Acca, Bishop,  100,   205.

Acephali, Heresy of the, revived,  286.

Acheldemach,  163.

Achilleus seizes on Egypt,  269.

Adam,  220; created on the 23rd of March, on which day also Christ was crucified,  222.

Adamnan,  ix,  179.

Adrian, changes the name of Jerusalem to Ælia,  159,  261; builds a Wall in Britain,  261, builds the Library at Athens,  261.

Adrian, Abbot of St. Peter’s, Kent,  85,  288.

Æcgfrid, King of Northumberland, grants to Biscop,  86,  88,  89.

Ædilwald, Abbot of Melrose,  57.

Ægialeus, King of the Sicyonians,  228.

Ælfled, the Abbess, cured by means of St. Cuthbert’s girdle,  44; Cuthbert foretells, at her request, that he will be raised to the Bishopric of Landisfarne,  47; requests St. Cuthbert to consecrate her church,  60.

Æneus,  234.

Æneas Sylvius,  235.

Æthilwald succeeds St. Cuthbert,  80,  81,  193.

Ætius defeats Attila at Chalons,  279; the Britons apply to him,  278; he is killed by Valentinianus,  280.

Agamemnon, King of Mycenae,   233.

Agatho, Pope,  xxii,  xxiv,  87,  288.

Ages of the World. — The First Age,  221; the Second,  225; the Third,  229; the Fourth,  235; the Fifth,  242; the Sixth,  256.

Agrippa (Herod) cast into prison by Tiberius,  257; made King of Judea,  257; succeeded by his Son,  257.

Agrippa,  257.

Aidan carried to Heaven,  13,  14; Bishop of Lindisfarne,  32,  203.

Alaric, King of the Goths,  275.

Alban (St.), Aaron and Julius, British Martyrs,  270.

Albinus succeeds Festus,  259.

Albinus, Abbot, Bede’s letter to,  137.

Alboin, King of the Lombards,  283.

Alchfrid, son of King Oswyn, accompanies Benedict Biscop to Rome,  83.

Alcmund, Bishop,  205.

Alcuin, not a pupil of Bede, xxxiii,  l; his letter to the University of Cambridge,  xlv.

Aldfrid, the Bastard,  47; succeeds King Æcgfrid,  48,  91,  96,  148.

Aldhun, Bishop, succeeds Elfsig; his noble lineage,  202; conveys the remains of St. Cuthbert to Ripon,  203; his death,  204.

Aldred, Bishop, succeeds Sechelm,  202; his death,  202.

Alemanni, or Germans,  116,  117.

298

Alethis, King of Corinth,  235.

Alexander the Great,  249; builds Alexandria,  249.

Alexander, Bishop of Rome, beheaded,  261.

Alexander, Emperor,  264.

Alexander, Bishop of Cappadocia,  264; Bishop of Jerusalem,  266.

Alexandria,  177,  249.

Alexandria, Pharos of,  157,  250.

Alfred, King, flees from the Danes,  184; seeks shelter in the marshes of Glestingia,  184; St. Cuthbert appears to him,   184; Battle of Assandene (Eddington),   187; restored to his Throne,   187; confirms the grant of King Guthred to the followers of St. Cuthbert,   195; succeeds Guthred in the crown of Northumbria,   196; his death,   196.

Ambrosius Aurelianus,  281.

Ambrosius, St., recommends the frequent repetition of the Apostles’ Creed, and Lord’s Prayer,  142.

Ambrosius,  273,   274.

Ammo, now the Oasis of Siwah,  249.

Amram, the father of Moses,  230.

Anastasius, the Emperor, killed by lightning,  281.

Anastasius, Saint,  285; his reliques,  285.

Anastasius, Abbot in Jerusalem,  285.

Anastasius (Artemius) favours the Christians,  293.

Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicea,   268.

Ancus Martius,  240.

Andrew, Saint; his bones, and those of St. Luke,  250.

Antioch, and other Selucidian towns,  250; synod of, under Jovian,  272.

Antiochus, King of Syria,  251.

Antipater, son of Herod,  254,  256.

Antoninus Pius,  262.

Antoninus Verus,  262.

Antony, St.,  282.

Antony, Mark,  255.

Apes, King of the Argives,  230.

Apollinaris, Bishop of Hierapolis,  263.

Apollinaris of Laodicea,  273.

Apollotaneus, Bath of,  158.

Appius Claudius,  250.

Aquileia, Synod of,  291.

Aratus,  250.

Arbaces,  238.

Arcadius, Emperor of the Romans,  274,  275.

Archelaus, son of Herod,  256; banished to Vienne,  256.

Archelaus, Bishop of Mesopotamia,  269.

Arculph, Bishop,  179.

Arimathea,  165.

Aristobulus,  252,  253.

Aristotle,  248.

Arphaxed,  226.

Arras, City of,  123; its ancient churches,  124,  130.

Artaxerxes, Mnemon,  248.

Arthur, King,  281; Prince,  281.

Asa destroys the Idols in the Temple,  236.

Ascanius,  234.

Asclepiodotus recovers the Province of Britain,  269.

Asphalte Plains,  170,  172,  173; curious recipe for dissolving Asphalte,  173.

Athanasian Creed,  273.

Athanasius is cruelly tortured,  272.

Athenodorus, Bishop of Pontus,  265.

Attila, King of the Huns,  278.

Attrebata. —  See Arras.

Augustine, St., cures by the touch,  70; his relics,  295.

Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, dies,  277.

Augustus,  255.

Aulon, the Great Plain,  170.

Aurelian, death of,  268.

Aurelius, Emperor,  262.

Aurelius, Alexander,  265; his mother Mammea sends for Origen,  265.

Auxentius,  273.








B


Barak,   232.

Barwic, killed by a miracle,  208.

299

Babylas of Antioch,  266.

Babylon,  156 note.

Babylus,  263.

Baldholm [Baldhelm], quoted by Bede as a witness of the miracles of St. Cuthbert,  49.

Balthen, the Hermit,  205.

Beclinthum,  211.

Bede the Elder, the Servant of St. Cuthbert,  68.

Bede, Venerable, his Birth, Anno, 673,  xvii, — Mabillon, Simeon Dunelm., Stubbs Acts Pontif., Sparke and Surtees place it Anno, 677; Gehle gives the year 672; whilst Pagus and Stevenson consider 674 as the true date,  xviii; born at Jarrow,  xix-xxi, — After the building of the Monastery of Jarrow he retires to it, under Abbot Ceolfrid,  xxi.  His youth,  xxii; his thirst for study,  xxiii; instructed by Trumbert,  xxiii; is taught the art of chanting, by John, Archd. of St. Peter’s, at Rome,  xxiii; becomes a pupil of John of Beverley,  xxiv; his skill in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew,  xxiv; his Ars Metrica,  xxiv; Life of St. Anastasius, &c.,  xxiv; account of himself,  xxv; his admission to holy orders, by John, Bishop of Hexham  xxvi; deacon at the age of 19,  xxvi; priest at 30,  xxvii; becomes an author,  xxvii; he excels in History, Astrology, Orthography, Rhetoric, and Poetry,  xxvii; his pupils,  xxxiii; his supposed journey to Rome,  xxxiv; Mr. Stevenson’s argument examined,  xl; his pretended residence at Cambridge,  xliv; visits Archbishop Egbert,  xlvii; on terms of intimacy with King Ceolwulph,  xlviii; Bede’s disciples,   xlviii; Huetbert,  xlix; Cuthbert,  l; Constantine,  l; Nothelm,  l; his death,  l; its cause,  li; buried at Jarrow,  lviii; his epitaph, quoted by Willliam of Malmesbury,  lviii; his relics removed to Durham,  lix,  205; enclosed within a shrine, by Bishop Hugh Pudsey  lx; scattered by the Puritanical spirit of the Reformation,  lxi; the Durham inscription,  lxi.

Bedesfield,  57.

Belerophon, the figure of,  157.

Belisarius,  282.

Belshazzar,  243; his feast,  244.

Belus, King of Assyria,  228.

Benedict, St.,  30,  40,  92,  282.

Bethlehem,  167.

Bethsaida, Pool of,  162.

Bilfrid, the Hermit, a cunning workman in gold and silver,  193,  205.

Biscop, Benedict, Abbot of Weremouth,  xx,  xxi; his character,  xxii; performs the menial offices in his Monastery,  xxv; of noble lineage,  83; Minister of King Oswin,  83; builds a Monastery at the mouth of the River Were,  83; his first journey to Rome,  84; second journey,  84; third journey,  84; accompanies Theodore and Adrian to Britain,  85; rules the Monastery of St. Peter’s, Kent,  85; fourth journey to Rome,  86; collects a library,  86; receives a grant of 70 hides of land from King Æcgfrid, Anno. 674, to build the Monastery of Weremouth,  86; visits Gaul, and brings over on his return masons and artificers in glass, to teach the English,  87; also, the necessary vestments and sacred vessels for his church,  87; his fifth journey to Rome, from whence he brought home all other requisites for his church,  87; also, the privilege of Pope Agatho for his Monastery,  87; and John, the Arch-chanter of St. Peter’s at Rome, and Abbot of St. Martin, to teach the English,  87; he also brought pictures,  88; he obtains a second grant from the King of 49 hides, and builds the Monastery of Jarrow,  88; makes Ceolfrid its first Abbot,   88; and chooses Eosterwine to be his Assistant Abbot of St. Peter’s,  88; his sixth journey to Rome,  90; he approves of Sigfrid’s succession on the death of Eosterwine,  91; falls sick of the palsy,  91; his last moments,  92; final instructions prior to the death of Sigfrid,  93-4; places Ceolfrid over both Monasteries,  93; and dies January 14th, 690,  95. 300

Blaedla, or Blaeda, King of the Huns,   278.

Boadicea,  259.

Boisil receives St. Cuthbert at Melrose,  16,  17; instructs Cuthbert,  20; particularly in the Gospel of St. John,  21; dies of the Pestilence, which he had foretold three years before,  21; succeeded by St. Cuthbert,  22; Cuthbert’s testimony to his piety,  43; his bones removed from Melrose by the priest Elfred,  205.

Boniface, the Apostle of the Germans, his praise of Bede,  lix.

Boniface, Pope,  277,  284.

Brennus sacks Rome,  248.

Britain, invaded by the Danes and Fresons,  183; discovered by Julius Cæsar,  254; invaded by Clausius,  258; by Vespasian,  259; by Adrian,  261; by Severus,  264; by Asclepiodotus, under Maximinianus,  269; part of the Western Empire,  275; invaded by the Picts and Scots,  275,  276; final departure of the Romans,  277; the Scots take possession of the Northern parts,  277, invaded by the Saxons  278.

Brunanburgh, Battle of,  2011.

Brutus, the Elder,  246.

Brutus, the Younger,  255.








C


Cæsar, Julius, conquers Gaul and invades Britain,  254; at the Battle of Pharsalia,  254; murdered,  255.

Cain,  222.

Cainan,  222.

Caligula befriends Agrippa,  257; prophanes the Holy places of the Jews,  258.

Cambyses,  245.

Cantelupe, Hist. of Cambridge,  xliv.

Canterbury,  85,  288.

Capernaum,  175.

Caracalla,  269.

Carausius,  269.

Carthage, founded by Chalcedon, or Dido,  235; the Punic War,  248; taken by the Vandals,  277; recovered by Belisarius,  282.

Carinus,  269.

Carlisle. — See Lugubalia, or Luel.

Carthage, founded by Chalcedon, or Dido,  235; the Punic War,  248; taken by the Vandals,  277; recovered by Belisarius,  282.

Carus,  269.

Cassius,  255.

Cayster River,  158.

Ceadda, Bishop of Lichfield,  xxiii.

Cecrops, King of Attica,  234.

Ceolfrid, first Abbot of Jarrow,  xxi; accompanies Biscop to Rome,  88; appointed Abbot of both Monasteries of Weremouth and Jarrow,  93; his Character,  95; resigns his office from old age,  97; departure for Rome,  97,  294; his death at the Ligones, Sep. 25, Anno, 716,  101,  294; buried in the Monastery of the Twins,  102,  294.

Ceolwulph, King of Northumberland,  xlviii ,  144.

Chalcedon,  280,  285.

Chalons, Battle of,  279.

Chares,  157.

Chosroes, King,  285.

Christ, Birth of,  256; his Preaching,  257; Crucifixion,  257.

Churchyards not to be in towns,  129.

Cicero,  253.

Claudius,  257; his expedition into Britain,  258; adds the Orkneys to the empire,  258; expels the Jews from Rome,  258.

Claudius II.,  267.

Clemens Alexandrinus,  263.

Cleopatra,  253,  254. 301

Clodius Albinus, the Emperor,  263; slain,   264.

Clothaire,  126.

Clotilda, Queen of Clovis,  116.

Clovis, King of the Franks,  115,  116; receives the Faith,  118,  280, defeats Attila at Poictiers  280.

Conwalh, King of the West Saxons,  86.

Commodus, brother of Antoninus,  263.

Commodus, Antoninus,  263.

Communion, daily, recommended to the Clergy,  151.

Constans,  271.

Constantine the Great, made Emperor in Britain,  270; embraces Christianity,  270; builds Churches,  271; builds Helenopolis,  271; builds Constantinople,  271; closes the Heathen Temples,  271.

Constantine II,  271.

Constantine, son of Constantine,  287,  288.

Constantine, son of the last,  288.

Constantine, a pupil of Bede,  xxxiii,  l.

Constantinople, description of,  178; Church of St. Sophia,  178; council of,  288.

Constantine and Gal. Maximian,  69.

Constantius, dies in York,  270.

Constantius II dies at York,  271,  273.

Cornelius, Bishop of Rome,  266; disinters the bodies of St. Paul and St. Peter,  267.

Cospatrick,  213,  214.

Council of Heathfield,  289.

Council of Hertford,  xvi.

Councils of the Church: — Nice,  271, Antioch,  272; Augusta,  274, Chalcedon  280; Rome,  283; Rome,  288; Constantinople,  288; the Six General Coucils enumerated,  289.

Crassus,  254.

Creation, the,  221.

Creca, village of,  193.

Cudda, the Abbot, presents St. Cuthbert with a Sarcophagus,  66.

Cumin, Robert,  211.

Cuncacester, Chester-le-Street,  194,  202.

Cure of souls,  150.

Cuthbert, St. — See Analytical Table of Contents, xi-xiii; his abode at Melrose,  16; at Lindisfarne,  32; his residence at Farne Island,  35; elected to the Bishopric,  48; his manner of life in his Bishopric,  50; his death,  70; his reliques,  75; translation of his body from Linsfarne to Durham,  183,  203; removed from Durham to Lindisfarne,  211; carried back again,  212; miracles performed,  218; alluded to in Bede’s Chronicle,  291.

Cuthbert, pupil of Bede,  xxxiii,  l; whom he attends in his last illness,  li; his letter to Cuthwin,  lii.

Cutheard, Bishop of Cuncacester,  197,  199.

Cynemund, Bede’s oral authority respecting a Miracle of St. Cuthbert,  64.

Cyprian of Carthage,  267.

Cyrene, founded,  232.

Cyrus, King of Persia,  243; takes Babylon,  244; restores the Jews from Captivity,  244.

Cyrus, Bishop of Alexandria,  286








D


Daltun,  97.

Damascus,  176,  276.

Damasus, Pope,  273,  274.

Danes and Fresons arrive in Britain,  183.

Daniel,  241,  244.

Darius, King of the Medes,  243.

Darius, Nothus,  248.

David, King of the Jews,  235.

Dead Sea,  172.

Deborah,  232.

Decius persecutes the Christians,  266.

Deluge, the,  225.

Demosthenes,  248.

Derwent, River,  54.

302

Diocletian,  269; persecutes the Church,  269.

Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth,  263.

Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria,  266.

Dionysius computes Easter,  282.

Dioscorus, Bishop of Alexandria,  280.

Domitianus,  260; banishes St. John to Patmos,  260.

Dunstan, St., born A.D. 919,  200.

Durham See Bede ,  Cuthbert.

Dyrwent, River,  189








E


Eadbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne,  72,  75,  77.

Eadfield, Bp. of Lindisfarne, to whom Bede dedicates his Life of Cuthbert,  3,  81. — He is styled Eadrith by Smith. He was bishop from 698 to 721, and is the writer of the celebrated copy of the Gospels preserved in the Brit. Mus. Nero D. iv.; which MS. is mentioned in the Legend of St. Cuthbert,  193.

Eadfrith. — See Eadfield.

Eadred, Abbot,  194.

Eardulf, Bishop of Landisfarne,  188; first Bishop of Cuncacester,  194; his death,  196.

Eared, Abbot,  188.

Eata, Bishop of Lindisfarne,  17,  18,  20,  21,  32,  49.

Ebba, Abbess,  205.

Eber,  226.

Ecgbercht, King of Kent,  85.

Ecgfrid, King of Northumberland,  xix,  xx,  46; killed in a battle with the Picts,  48,  51.

Ecgfrid. — See Æcgfrid.

Eclipse, Solar, Anno, 664,  288.

Edmund, King,  201; his death,  202.

Edmund, Priest of Lindisfarne,  190; succeeds Bishop Aldhun,  204; his death,  206.

Edred, King,  202.

Edward, succeeds King Alfred,  196,  197; his death,  199.

Edwin I., King of Northumbria, baptized,  286.

Egbert, Archbishop of York, Anno, 732; to whom Bede addresses his letter on Ecclesiastical Discipline,  138; on the conduct of a Bishop,  138; preaching, and example inculcated,  139; to avoid idle talk,  139; St. Gregory’s pastoral rule recommended,  139; Parochial Clergy,  141; to teach the Lord’s Prayer and Creed in the vulgar tongue,  141; not to covet the Temporalities of the Church,  143; but to follow Samuel’s example,  143; to divide the See of York into twelve Bishoprics,  145; General Council to be holden for this purpose,  146; Monastic Institutions which had got into disuse to be appropriated,  146; also, the Lay Monasteries and Convents,  147; although for the sake of lucre the Pontiffs themselves have encouraged these abuses in the Church,  149; Bede exhorts Egbert to observe the duties of a Bishop, which he explains,  149; his authority over the Clergy,  150; his Cure of Souls,  150; daily Communication recommended,  151; the measure of Continence in the Married state,  151; in a religious community, all things should belong to the community,  152; Love of the World incompatible with the Love of God,  154.

Egilric, Bp., succeeds Edmund,  206.

Eglewin, Bishop, succeeds Egilric,  207; removes the body of St. Cuthbert from Durham to Lindisfarne,  211; carries it safely back again, after a miraculous journey,  212; his imprisonment, and death,  215.

Egypt,  230.

Ehud,  232.

Elfred, Bishop of Durham,  204; his good and religious life,  205; removes the reliques of Venerable Bede and others,  lix,  205.

Elfsig, Bishop,  202.

303

Elge, village of,  290.

Elig, town of,  215.

Elijah, the Tishbite,  236.

Elisha, the Prophet,  238.

Ella, King,  284.

Elon of Zebulon, not mentioned in the LXX.,  233.

Enoch,  223; the Book of Enoch spurious,  224.

Enos,  222.

Eosterwine, Co-abbot with Benedict Biscop,  88; of noble birth,  89; an attendant on King Æcgfrid,  89; his humility,  89; he dies on March 9, 685,  90,  91.

Ephesus, founded by Andronicus,  235.

Esau,  230.

Esdras,  247.

Eteligitha, Abbess,  205.

Ethelbert, King of Kent, embraces the Christian Faith,  284.

Etheldrida, Queen, becomes a nun,  290.

Ethelfrid, King of Northumbria,  284.

Ethelred, King,  200.

Ethelstan succeeds Edward, King,  199; the first king who governed all Britain,  199; his expedition into Scotland,  200; his gifts to the Cathedral of Durham,  200; defeats Oswin, King of Cumberland,  201; and Constantine, King of Scots,  201; and subdues the whole of Scotland,  201.

Ettrunnanwerc,  201.

Eudoxia, wife of Theodosius,  278.

Eudoxius,  273.

Eurystheus, King of Lacedæmon,  235.

Eusebius, — See Huetbert.

Eutyches, Bp. of Alexandria,  280.

Eutychian, Bishop of Rome,  268.

Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople,  283.

Evilmerodach, King of Babylon,  242.

Evitus, Presbyter,  276.

Ezechiel,  242.








F


Fabian, Bishop of Rome,  266.

Farne, the Island of, taken possession of by St. Cuthbert,  36.

Felgeld, the Hermit of Farne,  80,  81.

Felix,  258.

Felix, Saint,  103; born at Nola in Campagnia,  103; devotes himself to the service of God,  103; becomes reader and exorcist,  104; seized by the unbelieveing persecutors,  104; delivers Bishop Maximus,  105; consoles the citizens of Nola,  107; denies his identity,  107; the spider’s web,  108; provided with food by a poor woman,  109; returns to Nola after the persecution had ceased,  110; refuses the Bishopric,  110; imitates the conduct of St. Martin,  111; restores by prayer the Oxen of the poor man,  112.

Festus,  258.

Florian, the Emperor,  268.

Fleoccher, a priest of Durham,  206.

Florus succeeds Albinus in Judea,  259.

Forth, Frith of,  xx.

Fresca, the River,  96.








G


Gaius, Bishop of Rome,  269.

Gallienus, the Emperor,  267.

Gallus persecutes the Christians,  266.

Gamelo,  205.

Gaul conquered by the Romans,  248.

Gelismer, King of the Vandals,  282.

Gennesar, Sea of,  172.

Genseric,  277.

George, Patriarch of Constantinople,  289.

Germanus, Bishop,  279.

Geve, Abbot,  193.

Gideon,  232.

Gillo, Michael,  212, his vision,  213,  214.

Gisulph, the Lombard,  291.

Glass, the manufacture of, introduced into Britain,  87.

Golgotha, the centre of the Earth,  163.

304

Gordian, the Emperor,  265.

Goths conquer the troops of the Emperor Valens,  273; they invade Italy,  275; are expelled by the Huns,  273.

Gratian, the Emperor,  273; his death,  274.

Gregorius Thaumaturgus,  265; by his prayers removes a Mountain to make room for a Church,  267; confutes the Doctrines of Eutychius,  283.

Gregory, Pope,  85; holds a Synod in Rome,  283; sends St. Augustine and Mellitus to Britain,  284; creates London and York into Metropolitan Sees,  284; his death,  284; his Pastoral Rule,  139; his letter to St. Augustine,  145.

Gudfrid,  5.

Guthred, King,  194; his grant to the followers of St. Cuthbert,  195,  196.








H


Habita,  129.

Hadwald falls from a tree, &c.,  60.

Hagulstad, Acca and Alcmund, Bishops of,  205.

Haldanhamal,  207.

Halduine,  211.

Halfdene, King of the Danes,  183; his death,  193.

Ham,  227.

Hardecnut,  194.

Heathfield, Council of,  289.

Hebron, City of,  168.

Heliogabalus,  264.

Heraclea, the Theatre of,  157.

Heraclius, the Emperor,  285,  288.

Heraclonas, the Emperor,  286.

Hercules sacks Troy,  232.

Herculius Maximian,  269.

Herebert, the Hermit,  54,  55.

Herebert, King of the Lombards,  292.

Herefrid, Abbot of Lindisfarne,  3; the cure of St. Cuthbert by the prayers of the brotherhood, narrated by him,  20; his narrative of the death of St. Cuthbert,  65.

Hermes fixes Easter,  262.

Hermias, father of St. Felix,  103.

Hermias, brother of St. Felix,  103.

Herminigild, the Martyr, son of the King of the Goths,  283.

Herod of Ascalon,  254.

Herod, son of Antipater, made King of the Jews,  255; his miserable death,  256.

Herod, his son, made Tetrarch,  256; builds Tiberias and Libias,  256; deprived of his office,  258.

Herodias,  258.

Herodotus,  247.

Hertford, Council of,  xvi.

Hieropolis,  285.

Hilary, St., of Poictiers,  272,  273.

Hilderic, King of the Vandals,  282.

Hildmer, Prefect of King Æcgfrid,  31; his miraculous cure,  57.

Hippo, town of,  172.

Hippocrates,  248.

Hippolytus,  264.

Histrus, town of, founded,  240.

Hocirus, friend of Clothaire,  127.

Honoric, King of the Vandals, an Arian,  281.

Honorius, the Emperor,  274.

Honorius, Pope,  286.

Huetbert [Hwaetberht], a pupil of Bede,  xxxii,  xxlix; succeeds Ceolfrid, A.D., 716,  98; sends a letter to Pope Gregory,  99; his deeds,  100; removes the bones of Eosterwine and Sigfrid,  101.

Humber, River,  xx.

Hunred,  190,  191,  192.

Huns, expel the Goths,  273.

Huvitern, or the White House,  192.








I


Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, martyred,  261.

Inachus, King of Argos,  230.

Inguald, Monk of Weremouth,  16.

Innocent, Bishop of Rome,  275.

Io, or Isis,  230.

305

Inrhypum, (Ripon), granted to Abbot Eata, by King Alfred, to build a Monastery thereon,  18; body of St. Cuthbert,  203.

Ireland. — See Scots and Picts.

Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons,  263.

Isaac,  230.

Ismael,  229.








J


Jacob,  230; Jacob’s Well,  175.

Jauddua, the High Priest,  248.

James, the brother of the Lord, first Bishop of Jerusalem,  257; stoned,  259.

James, of Nisibis,  272.

Japhet,  227.

Jareth,  223.

Jarrow, Monastery on the mouth of the River Tyne, built by Benedict Biscop on land granted by King Æcgfrid, two years after the birth of Bede,  xix,  xx; — See Æcgfrid, Bede, Biscop, Ceolfrid, Eosterwine, Hwaetbehrt [Huetbert], Sigfrid.

Jehoniah,  243.

Jehoahaz,  241.

Jehoiachin,  241.

Jehoiakim,  241.

Jehoram,  237.

Jehoshaphat,  236.

Jehu,  237.

Jephthah,  233.

Jeremiah,  242.

Jericho,  169.

Jeroboam,  236.

Jerome, St., writes his book, “de Illustribus Ecclesiæ Viris,”  275; dies,  277.

Jerusalem,  159; the surrounding country,  165; building of the Temple,  235; the Temple destroyed,  241; the Temple rebuilt,  246; the Walls rebuilt,  247; taken by Pompey,  254; Cassius spoils the Temple,  255; destroyed by Titus,  259; taken by the Persians,  285; by the Saracens,  285.

Jesus Syrach,  251.

Joash,  237.

John the Baptist,  279; his Bones dispersed and removed,  272; Monastery on the River Jordan,  174; fountain of, ,  174.

John, St., the Evangelist, returns to Ephesus,  260; writes his Gospel,  260; dies,  260.

John, Pope, visits Constantinople,  281; imprisoned by Theodoric,  281; builds Churches,  283.

John, Pope, succeeds Severinus,  286.

John, Pope, succeeds Agatho,  288.

John, Pope, ransoms the captives from Gisulph,  291; another Pope John,  291.

John, the Priest to whom Bede dedicates his metrical Life of St. Cuthbert,  1.

John, the Arch-chanter of St. Peter’s at Rome, instructs Bede,  xxxiii, visits Britain along with Benedict Biscop,  87; teaches in the Monastery of Weremouth,  87.

John of Beverley,  xxiv; Bishop of Hexham,  xxvi.

Jonadab,  237.

Jordan, River,  169,  171,  231.

Josephus,  247.

Joshua,  231.

Josiah,  240.

Jovian,  273.

Judith, wift of Tosti, Countess of Northumberland,  207.

Julian slays Pertinax,  263.

Julian, the Apostate,  272.

Julius, town of,  172.

Julius Cæsar conquers Britain,  254.

Julius Africanus,  264,  265.

Jupiter Olympus,  156 note.

Justin, the Emperor,  281.

Justin, the Younger,  282.

Justin Martyr,  262

Justin, the Emperor,  282; Codex Justinianus,  282.

Justinian, younger son of Constantine,  290; recovers his Throne,  292.








K


Koath, son of Levi,  230.



306





L


Lamech,  224.

Leander, Bishop of Seville,  283.

Leo, the Emperor,  280.

Leo, another Emperor in the East,  291.

Leo, another Emperor in the East,  294.

Leonella, Mother of the Twin Martyrs,  102.

Lerins, Island of,  84.

Licinus, the Emperor,  270.

Lindisfarne.  —See the Analytical Table to the Life of St. Cuthbert, &c,  xi,  xiii; Cuthbert’s residence and rule at,  32; a Bishopric,  32.

Lithbrand, King of the Lombards,  293; removes the bones of St. Augustine from Sardinia to Pavia,  295.

Locusts and Wild Honey described,  174.

Lombards, under Albuinus, invade Italy,  283.

London reduced to ashes by the Britons,  259; created into a Metropolitan See,  284.

Lucianus of Antioch,  270.

Lucianus Presbyter, gives an acco8unt of his discovery of the holy relics of St. Stephen, &c.,  276.

Lucina,  266.

Lucius, first christian King of Britain,  262.

Luel (Carlisle),  51.

Lugubalia (Carlisle),  51; its Roman fountain,  51,  54.

Lupus Bishop of Troyes,  279.

Lysis, son of Herod,  256.








M


Macarius, Bishop of Antioch,  289; is anathematized and deprived of his See,  289.

Maccabees, Judas and Jonathan,  252; Simon Hyrcanus,  252; John,  253.

Macedonia founded by Caranus,  239.

Macedonian Empire divided after the death of Alexander,  249.

Macrinus,  264.

Mahomet,  285.

Malchion disputes with Paul of Samosata,  268.

Malelel,  223.

Mammea, the mother of Alexander Aurelius, listens to Origen,  265.

Manesseh,  240.

Manichæan Heresy,  268.

Marcellinus of Ancona,  30.

Marcianus, Emperor,  279.

Mark, St., journies into Egypt,  258; his Tomb,  177.

Mark, the first Gentile Bishop of Jerusalem,  262.

Martin, Pope, assembles a Synod at Rome against the Acephali,  287, banished to Chersonesus,  287.

Marzabanes,  285.

Mattathias, the High Priest,  252.

Matthew, St.,  258,  280.

Maurice, Emperor,  283.

Mausoleum of Artemisia,  156 note.

Maxentius Augustus,  270.

Maximian,  269; persecutes the Church,  269.

Maximin persecutes the Christians,  265.

Maximin, Bishop of Treves,  272.

Maximinus and Severus,  270.

Maximus elected Emperor in Britain,  274.

Maximus, Bishop of Nola,  104,  105; his death,  110.

Melito, Bishop of Sardis,  262.

Melrose,  16,  205.

Memphis,  230.

Mercia, occupied by the Danes,  183.

Methuselah,  224.

Miletus, City of, founded,  232.

Monasteries. — See Jarrow, Lindisfarne, Melrose, Weremouth, &c.

Monasteries which had fallen from their Rule, to be suppressed,  146; Lay Monasteries an abomination in the Church,  147,  148.

Moses,  230; brings the Children of Israel out of Egypt,  230.

Mozarabic Liturgy used in Britain,  xxii.



307





N


Nabor,  228.

Napkins, the Holy,  164.

Narcissus, Bishop of Jerusalem,  263.

Narseus, King of Persia,  269.

Narsis overcomes Totila, King of the Goths,  282; he invites the Lombards into Italy,  282.

Nazareth,  176.

Neapolis. — See Sichem.

Nebuchadnezzar,  241.

Nehemiah,  247.

Nero, the Emperor,  258; he persecutes Christians,  259.

Nerva, the Emperor,  260; liberates St. John,  260.

Nicopolis built,  264.

Niduari, a territory of the Picts,  25.

Nile, River,  177.

Ninus,  229.

Noah,  224.

Nothelm [has Northelm], Archbishop of Canterbury, a pupil of Bede,  xxxiii,  xxxiv,  l,  137.

Northumberland, Bede’s letter to Bishop Egbert gives a curious Picture of the debased state of Ecclesiastical discipline in Northumberland in his time,  138,  155.

Numa Pompilius,  240.

Numerianus,  269.








O


Odoacer,  280.

Olives, Mount of,  166.

Olympiad, the first B.C. 776,  239.

Olympic Games instituted,  233.

Omri builds Sammaria,  236.

Onias,  250,  251.

Onlaf ,  201.

Onlafbald accompanies Reingwald,  197; his death,  198.

Opobalsam, how produced,  170.

Origen,  265; writes against Celsus,  266; dies,  266.

Orkney Islands subdued by Claudius,  258.

Orosius removes the reliques of St. Stephen to the West,  276.

Oscetil, Archbishop,  202.

Osred, King of Northumbria,  96.

Oswald, King,  204.

Oswin, King,  83,  205.

Oswulf,  209.

Oswy’s Mount,  194.

Othniel, first of the Judges,  232.








P


Palladius, the first bishop in Scotland,  278.

Pamphylus the Martyr,  270.

Panium, City of,  171.

Pantænus,  263.

Parochial Clergy in England,  141.

Paschasinus Lilybetanus,  277.

Paul, St., sent prisoner to Rome,  258; his body disinterred,  266.

Paul of Samosata, Bishop of Antioch,  268.

Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople,  287.

Paulinus, Archbishop of York,  286.

Paulinus, Suetonius, overruns the Isle of Anglesey, and destroys the Druidical worship,  259.

Paulinus, Bishop,  103,  112; stays the flames by throwing in a fragment of the Holy Rood,  113,  114; writes the Life of St. Felix,  114.

Pelagius’ Heresy,  275,  279.

Peleg,  227.

Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrdom of,  264.

Persians take Jerusalem,  285.

Pertinax, Emperor,  263.

Peter, St., founds the church of Antioch,  258; Journey to Rome,  258.

Peter’s, St., Isle of Thanet,  85.

Peter and Paul, Monastery of, at Weremouth and Jarrow,  86,  88.

Peter Alexandrinus,  270.

Phiale, Fountain of,  171.

Philip, the Tetrarch, discovers the Source of the Jordan,  171.

Philip, the first Christian Emperor,  265.

Philippicus, the Emperor,  292,  293.

308

Philistines,  233.

Phocas, the Emperor, places the See of Rome over all,  284; he dedicates the Pantheon to Mary, and all martyrs,  284.

Phoroneus, King of the Argives,  230.

Picts and Scots invade Britain,  275.

Pictures of Saints introduced into the British Church,  88.

Pierius of Alexandria,  269.

Pilate, Pontius,  256; dies by his own hand,  258.

Pius, Bishop of Rome,  262.

Placidia,  277,  287.

Plague in Britain,  278.

Plato,  248.

Pliny,  261.

Polycarp,  262,  263.

Pompey,  254.

Pontian and Anther, Martyrdom of,  265.

Pontius writes the Life of St. Cyprian,  267.

Priam,  233.

Priest, the office of,  xxix; its duties and responsibilities,  xxx,  xxxii.

Probus, the Emperor,  268.

Ptolemy Euergetes,  251 Philopater,  251; Epiphanes,  251; Philometer,  252; Euergetes, II.,  252; Physcon,  253; Alexander,  253; Lathyrus,  253; Dionysius,  254;

Ptolemy Philadelphus,  250; the Bible translated into Greek, by the LXX.,  250.

Ptolemy Soter,  249,  250.

Pyramids of Egypt,  156 note.

Pyrrhus, Patriarch of Constantinople,  286.

Pythagoras,  245.








Q


Quinquegentiana ravage Africa,  269.

Quintus, Bishop of Nola,  110.








R


Ranulf sent to collect Tribute by William the Conqueror,  216.

Rape of the Sabines,  239.

Rehoboam,  236.

Reingwald invades Britain,  197.

Remedius, St.,  117; Archbishop of Rheims,  120.

Remus,  239.

Reu,  228.

Rhabanus Maurus, not a pupil of Bede,  l.

Rheims, Town of,  117.

Rhine, River,  116.

Rhodes, the Colossus of,  157.

Richard, King of the Goths,  283.

Ripon. — See Inrhypum [has Inhrypum].

Roman Wall, Adrian’s,  261; Trench of Severus,  264; Rampart of Sods,  276; the Stone Wall,  277.

Roman mode of Chanting introduced into Britain,  97.

Roman Empire divided between Arcadius and Honorius,  275.

Rome built,  239; Capitol of,  156,  240; Pantheon burnt,  261; taken by the Gauls,  248; taken by the Goths,  275,  280; by the Lombards,  283; Inundated,  294.

Romulus,  239.

Romulus Ausgustulus,  280.








S


Saint Paul’s Cathedral built by Ethelbert, A.D. 604,  284.

Saleh,  226.

Sambuce, Village of,  96.

Samos founded,  236.

Samson,  234.

Samuel,  234.

Sapor, King of Persia,  267.

Saracens, the, invade Sicily,  288; besiege Constantinople,  294.

Sardanapalus,  238.

Saul, King of the Jews,  235.

Saxons, or Angles,  278,  279.

Scopilio, Secretary to Bishop Vedast,  129.

Scots and Picts invade England,  275; converted to Christianity,  277; settle in the Northern part of Britain,  278.

309

Scotland, subdued by King Ethelstan,  201.

Scula, oppresses the inhabitants of the country between Eden and Billingham,  197.

Sebaste,  272.

Seleucus,  250.

Semiramis,  229.

Sepulchre of Our Lord,  160.

Sergius, Patriarch of Constantinople,  286.

Sergius, Pope,  xxxiv; his letter to Ceolfrid,  xxxvii,  96.

Serug,  228.

Servius,  242.

Sesac,  236.

Seth,  222.

Severus, the Emperor,  263; invades Britain,  264; dies at York,  264.

Sexhelm succeeds Bishop Uthred,  201; deprived of his Bishopric,  202.

Shalmanesar,  239.

Shem,  226,  227.

Sibert, King of the East Saxons,  284.

Sichem, now Neapolis,  175.

Sicyon,  234.

Sigfrid, Abbot of Weremouth,  91; his character,  91; affecting scene between him and Benedict Biscop,  93; his death, A.D. 689,  94.

Sigfrid, a Priest, quoted by Bede as authority in his Life of Cuthbert,  17.

Simeon, Bishop of Jerusalem, crucified,  261.

Sion, Mount,  159,  162.

Smyrna,  236.

Socrates,  247.

Sodom and Gomorrha,  172.

Solomon, King of the Jews,  235; builds the Temple,  235; visited by the Queen of Sheba,  236.

Sostratus,  157,  250.

Sparta, built by Spartus,  230.

Speusippus,  248.

Stephen, St., stoned,  257.

Stephen, Bishop of Rome, martyred,  267.

Stithard,  190.

Suetonius. — See Paulinus.

Sylla spoils Athens,  253.

Symmachus, Pope,  281.

Sylvius, Posthumus, son of Æneas,  234.








T


Tabor, Mount,  176.

Tacitus, Emperor,  268.

Tanaus, King of the Scythians,  228.

Tarquinius Priscus,  240.

Tarquinius Superbus,  245.

Temple of Diana, at Ephesus,  158.

Terah,  228.

Terbellus, King of the Bulgarians,  292.

Tertullian,  264.

Theodore, Archbishop,  xxiv; accompanied by Adrian and Benedict Biscop, arrives in England, A.D. 669, and ascends the Episcopal throne of Canterbury,  85,  288; he consecrates St. Cuthbert,  48.

Theodore, the Exarch,  287.

Theodore, Pope,  286; excommunicates Bishop Pyrrhus and the Acephali,  286.

Theodoretus writes his Church History &c.,  280.

Theodoric, King of the Goths,  280.

Theodosius made Emperor by Gratian,  274; subdues the Scythian nations,  274; slays Maximus, and restores Valentinian,  275.

Theodosius II.,  275.

Theodosius III., son of Arcadius,  277; Codex Theodosianus,  277.

Theodosius (Adramyttenus),  293.

Theon, Bishop of Alexandria,  269.

Theophanus, Bishop of Antioch,  289.

Theophilus of Alexandria computes Easter,  274.

Theophilus, Bishop of Caesarea,  263.

Thrasamund, King of the Vandals,  281.

Tiber, the River,  237.

Tiberias, City of,  172,  175.

Tiberius, the Emperor,  256,  257.

Tiberius, Emperor of the East,  288.

Tiberius, Constantine,  283.

Tilgath Pileser, King of Assyria,  239.

310

Tilred, Bishop, succeeds Cutheard,  199; dies,  200.

Timothy,  270.

Titus takes Jerusalem,  159,  and n. 259; he becomes Emperor,  260.

Tola judges Israel,  233.

Tosti, Count of Northumberland,  207.

Trajan,  260; persecutes the Christians,  261.

Translation of the Body of St. Cuthbert,  183.

Troy, sacked by Hercules,  232; taken by the Greeks,  233,  234.

Trumbert instructs Bede,  xxiii.

Trumwine, Bishop, the friend of St. Cuthbert,  8,  48.

Tughala,  211.

Tullum, the town of Tulle,  117.

Tullus Hostilius,  240.

Twin-martyrs, Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus,  102.

Tyne, River,  xix,  xx,  62,  193,  194.

Tyre, founded,  232.








U


Ubba, Duke of the Fresons,  183.

Ucthred, Count of Northumberland,  203.

Urban, Pope,  265.

Uthred, succeeds Bishop Wigred,  201; his death,  201.








V


Valens, the Emperor,  273.

Valentinian, the Emporer,  273.

Valentinian, the Younger,  273.

Valentinian, son of Constantius,  277.

Valerian, the Emperor,  267; taken prisoner by the Persians,  267.

Vandals, the, invade Gaul,  275; invade Africa,  277.

Vedast, St., Life, by Alcuin,  115; restores the Blind to sight,  119; commended to Archbishop Remedius by King Clovis,  121; his residence at Rheims,  121; Bishop of Arras,  123; builds Churches,  126; his Death,  128; his Funeral,  129; the Homily preached on the Anniversary of his Birth,  130.

Verea, Abbess,  62,  66.

Verus, Emperor,  262.

Vespasian conquers the Isle of Wight,  260; takes many of the Jewish towns,  259; becomes Emperor,  259.

Vestina builds the church of Protosus and Gervase,  275.

Victor, Bishop of Capua, computes Easter, and points out the errors of Victorius,  282.

Victor, Bishop of Rome, fixes Easter,  263.

Victorius computes Easter,  280.

Vienne,  86,  256.

Virgil,  254.

Vitalian, Pope,  84,  288.

Volusianus,  266.

Vortigern,  278.

Vulgar Tongue to be used for the Lord’s Prayer, and the Apostles’ Creed,  141.








W


Wahlstod, servant of St. Cuthbert,  68,  69.

Walcher, first Bishop of Durham,  215; his murder avenged by William the Conqueror,  216.

Weondune,  201.

Werdelan, Body of St. Cuthbert rests there 3 days,  203.

Were, River,  xix,  83,  86,  91,  194.

Weremouth,  xx,  83.

Westminster Abbey built, Anno, 611, by Sibert, King of the East Saxons,  284.

Wighard,  85.

Wight, Isle of, conquered by Vespasian,  260.

Wigred, Bishop, succeeds Tilred,  200; dies,  201.

Wilbrord, Bishop,  290.

Wilfrid, Dr.,  xliv.

311

William the Conqueror,  211; goes with an army to York,  211; returns with his army from Scotland to Durham,  215; sends an army to avenge the death of Bishop Walcher,  216.

Witmaer, Abbot; death of,  97. ,  101.

Wonders of the World,  155.








X


Xenocrates,  249.

Xerxes,  245,  246.

Xistus, Bishop of Rome,  267,  278.








Y


York, occupied by the Danes,  183; taken by Reingwald,  197; William the Conqueror enters,  211; made an Archiepiscopal See,  284.








Z


Zedekiah,  241; taken into Captivity,  241.

Zeno,  280.

Zeuxis,  247.



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