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Gentry, reafon of their efpoufing prelates, i. 146.

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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,

iv. 17.

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,

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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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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.

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HAMBOROUGH, letters to the senate of that city, iv. 322, 325,
333, 339, 348, 421, 433, 434.

Hanfe

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,

iv. 15.

Henry II, reigned together with his fon, iii. 261.

Henry VIII, on what account he began the reformation in this
kingdom, ii. 56.

Herebert,

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,

i. 44.

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.

148.

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,

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.

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JAGO, or Lago, fucceeds his uncle Gurguftius in the kingdom,

iv. 17.

James I, his behaviour after the powder-plot, iii. 17.
pared with Solomon, 159.

Com-

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,

&c.

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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