Gentry, reafon of their efpoufing prelates, i. 146.
Geography, its ftudy both profitable and delightful, iv. 270. Germanus, in a public difputation at Verulam, filences the chief of the Pelagians, iv. 90. He is intreated by the Britons to head them against the Picts and Saxons, 91. He gains the victory by a religious ftratagem, ibid. His death, 94. Gerontius, a Briton, by his valour advances the fuccefs of Conftan- tine the ufurper in France and Spain, iv. 78. Difplaced by him, he calls in the Vandals against him, ibid. Deferted by his fol- diers, defends himfelf valiantly with the flaughter of 300 of his enemies, ibid. He kills his wife Nonnichia, refufing to outlive him, ibid. Kills himself, ibid.
Geruntius, the fon of Elidure, not his immediate fucceffor, iv. 22. Gildas, his account of the Britons electing and depofing their kings, ii. 290. His bad character of the Britons, iv. 73. 93. After two eminent fucceffes, III.
Gill, Alexander, letters to, I. ii, iii, v.
Godwin, earl of Kent, and the Weft-Saxons, ftand for Hardicnute, iv. 230, 231. He betrays prince Elfred to Harold, 231. Being called to account by Hardicnute, appeafes him with a very rich prefent, 233. Earneftly exhorts Edward to take upon him the crown of England, 235. Marries his daughter to king Edward, 236. Raifes forces in oppofition to the French whom the king favoured, 240. Is banished, 241. He and his fons grow for- midable, 242. Coming up to London with his fhips, a recon- ciliation is fuddenly made between him and the king, 243. Sit- ting with the king at table, he suddenly finks down dead, 244. Gomer, the eldest fon of Japhet, believed the first that peopled these weft and northern climes, iv. 3.
Gonoril, gains upon her father king Leir, by diffimulation, iv. 14. Is married to Maglaunus duke of Albania. 15. Her ingratitude to her father, ibid.
Gorbogudo, or Gorbodego, fucceeds Kinmarcus in the kingdom,
Gorbonian, fucceeds Morindus in the kingdom, iv. 20. His juftice and piety, ibid.
Gofpel, more favourable than the law, ii. 8. Impofes no subjec- tion to tyranny, iii. 161, &c. Not contrary to reafon and the law of nations, 170.
Government, the reafons of its first establishment, ii. 277. Kingly, the confequences of readmitting it, 407.
Grammar, Latin, what it is, iii. 443.
Gratianus Funarius, the father of Valentinian, commander in chief of the Roman armies in Britain, iv. 73.
Gregory, archdeacon of Rome, and afterward pope, procures the fending over of abbot Austin and others to preach the Gospel to the Saxons in this ifland, iv. 119.
Griffin, prince of South Wales, committing great spoil in Hereford,
is pursued by Harold earl of Kent, iv. 245. After a peace con- cluded he breaks his faith, and returns to hoftility, 246. Is again reduced, ibid. Harold brings the Welsh to fubmiffion, 247. Lurking about the country, he is taken and flain by Griffin, prince of North Wales, ibid. Griffith, Dr. brief notes on his fermon, iii. 431, &c. be admitted physician to church and ftate, 431. His the general, ibid. compared to Dr. Manwaring, 434. graphical and historical mistakes, 436. Grotius, his obfervations concerning divorce, ii. 40, 45. nion concerning it, 236.
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His opi-
Guendolen, the daughter of Corineus is married to Locrine the fon of Brutus, iv. II. Being divorced by him, gives him battle, wherein he is flain, 12. Caufes Eftrildis, whom Locrine had married, to be thrown into a river with her daughter Sabra, ibid. Governs 15 years for her fon Madan, ibid.
Gueniver, the wife of Arthur, kept from him in the town of Glaf- ton, by Melvas a British king, iv. 107.
Guiderius, faid to have been the fon of Cunobeline, and flain in a battle against Claudius, iv. 44.
Guitheline, fucceeds his father Gurguntius Barbirus in the kingdom, iv, 20.
Gunbildis, the fifter of Swane, with her husband earl Palingus, and her young fon, cruelly murdered, iv. 211.
Guorangonus, a king of Kent, before it was given to the Saxons, iv. 98.
Guortimer, the fon of Vortiger, endeavours to drive out the Saxons, iv. 98. His fuccefs against them, 99. Dying he commands his bones to be buried in the port of Stonar, 100.
Gurguntius Barbirus, fucceeds Belinus in the kingdom, overcomes the Dane, and gives encouragement to Bartholinus a Spaniard to fettle a plantation in Ireland, iv. 19. Another ancient British king named Gurguntius, 22.
Gurgufiius, fucceeds Rivallo in the kingdom, iv. 17.
Gyrtha, fon of earl Godwin, accompanies his father into Flanders, together with his brothers Tofti and Swane, iv. 241. His noble advice to his brother Harold as he was ready to give battle to duke William of Normandy; 255. Is flain in the battle, with his brother Harold and Leofwin, 256.
Gytro, or Gothrun, a Danish king, baptized by the name of Athel- ftan, and received out of the font by king Alfred, iv. 177. The kingdom of the Eaft-Angles faid to be bestowed on him to hold of Alfred, ibid.
HAMBOROUGH, letters to the senate of that city, iv. 322, 325, 333, 339, 348, 421, 433, 434.
Hanfe Towns, letter to them from the English commonwealth, iv. 347. Hardicnute, the fon of Canute by Emma, called over from Bruges,
and received as king, iv. 233. He calls Godwin and others to account about the death of Elfred, ibid. Enraged at the citizens. of Worcester for killing his tax-gathers, he fends an army against them, and burns the city, 234. Kindly receives and entertains his half-brother Edward, ibid. Eating and drinking hard at a feaft, he dies, and is buried at Winchester, ibid. Was a great epicure, ibid.
Hardness of Heart, permitted to wicked men, ii. 189.
Harold, furnamed Harefoot, the fon of Canute, elected king by duke Leofric and the Mercians, iv. 230. He banishes his mother- in-law Emma, 231. His perfidioufnefs and cruelty towards El- fred the son of Ethelfred, ibid. He dies, and is buried at Win- chefter, 233. Harold, fon of Godwin, made earl of Kent, and fent against prince Griffin of Wales, iv. 245. He reduces him at last to the utmost extremity, 246. Being caft upon the coaft of Normandy, and brought to duke William, he promifes his endeavours to make him king of England, 248. He takes the crown himself, 251. Puts off duke William, demanding it, with a flighting anfwer, 252. Is invaded by his brother Tofti, ibid. By Harold Harfa- ger, king of Norway, whom he utterly overthrows and flays, together with Tofti, 253. Is invaded by duke William of Nor- mandy, 254. Is overthrown at the battle of Haftings, and flain together with his two brothers Leofwin and Gyrtha, 256. Hartlib, Mr., tract of education addreffed to him, i. 273. Hayward, his account of the liturgy in Edward VI's time, i, 163.
Heimbach, Peter, letter to, i. xxx. xlii.
Heli, an ancient British king, iv. 23.
Help-meet, the meaning of that word, ii. 130.
Helvius, Pertinax, fucceeds Ulpius Marcellus in the goverment of Britain, iv. 65.
Hemingius, his definition of marriage, ii. 141. His opinion con- cerning divorce, 234.
Hengift and Horfa, with an army, land in the ifle of Thanet, iv. 97. Hengift gains advantages of Vortigern, by marrying his daughter to him, 98. Takes on him the kingly title, 100. His feveral battles against the Britons, ibid. 101. His treacherous flaughter of three hundred British grandees under pretence of treaty, 101. His death, 103. His race ends with Alric, 155. Henninus, duke of Cornwal, marries Regan, daughter of king Leir,
Henry II, reigned together with his fon, iii. 261.
Henry VIII, on what account he began the reformation in this kingdom, ii. 56.
Herebert, a Saxon earl, flain with most part of his army, by the Danes, at Merefwar, iv. 165.
Herely, according to the Greek, not a word of evil note, iii. 324. The word explained, ibid.
Herefy, or falfe religion, defined, iv. 260. Popery the greatest herefy, ibid.
Heretic, an idolatrous one ought to be divorced, after a convenient space allowed for convertion, i. 361. He who follows the fcripture, to the best of his knowledge, no Heretic, iii. 325. Who properly one, ibid.
Herod, a great zealot for the Mofaic law, ii, 199. Taxed of in- juftice by our Saviour, iii. 162.
Herod and Herodias, the ftory of them from Jofephus, ii. 172. Herodotus, his account of the behaviour of the Egyptians to their kings, iii. 219.
Hertford, built or repaired by king Edward, the son of Alfred, iv. 185.
Heffe, William Landgrave of, Oliver's letter to him, iv. 427. Heth, Richard, i. xxi.
Hewald, two priests of that name, cruelly butchered by the Saxons, whom they went to convert, iv. 145.
Hierarchy, as dangerous to the crown, as a tetrarchy, or heptarchy,
Hinguar, and Hubba, two Danish brethren, how they got footing by degrees in England, iv. 171, 172.
Hirelings, the likelieft means to remove them out of the church, iii. 351, &c. Judas the first, Simon Magus the next hireling, 353. How to be difcovered, 385. Soon frame themfelves to the opinions of their pay -inafters, 389. Are the cause of atheism, 390. Hition, faid to be defcended of Japhet, and to have had four fons who peopled the greateft part of Europe, iv. 4.
Hiftorians, English, defective, obscure, and fabulous, iv. Hiftory, remarks on writing, I. xxxiv.
Holland, states of, abjured obedience to king Philip of Spain, ii. 293. Letters from Oliver to, iv. 416. 442.
Holiein, Luke, letter to, I. xiv.
Honorius, the emperor, fends aid twice to the Britons, against their northern invaders, iv. 88.
Horfa, the brother of Hengift, flain in the Saxons war against the Britons, iv. 100. His burial-place gave name to Horfted, a town in Kent, ibid.
Horfey, Jerom, agent in Ruffia, iv. 310.
Hotham, fir John, proclaimed a traitor by king Charles, ii. 450. Vindicated by the parliament, ibid. The king's remarks on his fatal end, 452-454.
Hull, reafons for the parliament's fecuring that place, ii. 449. Pe- tition to remove that magazine to London, 450.
Humbeanna, and Albert, faid by fome to have shared the kingdom of the Eaft-angles, after one Elfwald, iv. 160.
Humber river, whence named, iv. II.
Hus and Luther, the reformers before them called the Poor Men of Lyons, iii. 373.
Hufband, or wife, deferted, whether at liberty to marry again, 103.
JAGO, or Lago, fucceeds his uncle Gurguftius in the kingdom,
James I, his behaviour after the powder-plot, iii. 17. pared with Solomon, 159.
Icenians, and Trinobantes, rife up in arms against the Romans, iv. 51.
Ida, the Saxon, begins the kingdom of Bernicia in Northum- berland, iv. 110.
Idwallo, learns by his brothers ill fuccefs to rule well, iv. 22. Idolatry, brought the heathen to heinous tranfgreffions, iv. 270. Idols, according to the papists, great means to stir up pious thoughts and devotion, iv. 266.
Jeroboam's epifcopacy, a particoloured and party-membered one, i. 98.
Jerome, St. his opinion, that cuftom only was the maker of prelaty, i. 98. Anfelm of Canterbury, of the fame opinion, 98, 99. Said to be whipped by the devil for reading Cicero, 297. His behaviour in relation to Fabiola, ii. 85. His explanation of Matth. xix, 223.
Jews, had no more right than Chriftians to a dispensation of the law relating to divorce, ii. 17. Did not learn the custom of di- vorce in Egypt, 179. Their behaviour to their kings, iii. 189,
Ignatius, epiftles attributed to him, full of corruptions, i. 65, 67. Directs honouring the bifhop before the king, 67. His opinion no warrant for the fuperiority of bifhops over prefbyters, 76. Ignorance and ecclefiaftical thraldom, caution against them, ii. I 10. Immanuel, duke of Savoy, Oliver's letter to him in favour of his proteftant fubjects, iv. 378.
Immanuentius, flain by Caffibelan, iv. 36.
Immin, Eaba, and Eadbert, noblemen of Mercia, throw off Ofwi, and fet up Wolfer, iv. 138, 139.
Imprimaturs, the number of them neceffary for the publication of a book where the inquifition is established, i. 294, 295. Ina, fucceeds Kedwalla in the kingdom of the Weft Saxons, iv. 144. Marches into Kent to demand fatisfaction for the burning of Mollo, 145. Is pacified by Victred with a fum of money, and the delivering up of the acceffories, ibid. Vanishes Gerent, king
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