comes off victorious, 59-61. He is commanded home by Do- mitian, 62.
Julius Cæfar, has intelligence that the Britons are aiding to his enemies the Gauls, iv. 26. He fends Caius Volufenus to dif- cover the nature of the people, and strength of the country, 27. After him Comius of Arras, to make a party among the Bri- tons, 28. The ftout refiftance he meets with from them at his landing, ibid. He receives terms of peace from them, 30. Lofes a great part of his fleet, ibid. Defeats the Britons, brings them anew to terms of peace, and sets fail for Belgia, 32. The year following he lands his army again, 33. He has a very harp difpute with the Britons near the Stowre, in Kent, ibid. Paffes the Thames at Coway flakes, near Oatlands, 36. He re- ceives terms of peace from the Trinobantes, ibid. He brings Caffibelan to terms, ibid. He leaves the island, 37. Offers to Venus, the patronefs of his family, a corflet of British pearls, ibid. The killing him approved of by the best men of that age, iii. 231.
Julius Frontinus, the emperor's lieutenant in Britain, iv. 55. Tames the Silures, a warlike people, ibid.
Julius Severus, governs Britain under Hadrian the emperor, iv. 63. Divides his conquefts here by a wall eighty miles long, as his ufual manner was in other frontiers, ibid.
Julius of Caerleon, a British martyr under Dioclefian, iv. 72. Junius, his wrong interpretation of a text, ii. 146.
Jure, Thomas, Milton's tutor, letters to, I. i. iv.
Jurifdiction, in the church, moft truly named ecclefiaftical cenfure, i. 130. The nature and design of it, 191.
Justice, how perverted by a train of corruptions, ii. 457. Above all other things the strongest, iii. 90. Not in the king's power to deny it to any man, 278.
Juftin Martyr, his ftory of a Roman matron, ii. 219.
Justin, the hiftorian, his account of the original of government, iii. 256.
Juftinian's law, the three general doctrines of it, ii. 180.
KEARLE, furrenders the kingdom of Mercia, to his kinfman Penda, iv. 131.
Keaulin, fucceeds his father Kenric, in the kingdom of the Weft- Saxons, iv. 110. He and his fon Cuthin flay three British kings at Deorham, 115. Gives the Britons a very great rout at Fe- thanleage, ibid. Routed by the Britons at Wodenfbeorth, and, chafed out of his kingdom, dies in poverty, 116.
Kedwallay, or Cadwallon, a British king, joining with Penda the. Mercian, flays Edwin in battle, iv. 132.
Kedwalla, a Weft-Saxon prince, returned from banishment, flays in fight Edelwalk, the South-Saxon, and after that Edric his fuc- VOL. VI.
ceffor, iv. 142. Going to the Isle of Wight, he devotes the fourth part thereof to holy ufes, ibid. The fons of Arwald, king of that ifle, flain by his order, ibid. He haraffes the country of the South-Saxons, 143. Is repelled by the Kentish men, ibid." Yet revenges the death of his brother Mollo, ibid. Going to Rome, to be baptifed, he dies there about five-weeks after his baptifm, 144.
Kelred, the fon of Ethelred, fuceeeds Kenred in the Mercian king- dom, iv. 146. Poffeffed with an evil fpirit, dies in despair, ibid. Kelwulf, reigns king of the Weft-Saxons after Keola, iv. 121. Makes war upon the South-Saxons, 125. Leaves the kingdom to his brother's fons, ibid.
Kelwulf, adopted by Ofric the Northumbrian, to be his fuc- ceffor in the kingdom, iv. 147. Becomes a monk in Lindif- farne, 149.
Kened, king of the Scots, does high honour to king Edgar, iv. 200. Receives great favours from him, ibid. Is challenged by him upon fome words let fall, but foon pacifies him, 201.
Kenelm, fucceeding in the kingdom of Mercia, is murdered by order of his fifter Quendrid, iv. 159, 160.
Kenred, the fon of Wulfer, fucceeds Ethelred in the Mercian king- dom, iv. 145. He goes to Rome, and is there fhorn a monk, 146. Another Kenred fucceeds in the kingdom of Northum- berland, 80.
Kenric, the fon of Kerdic, overthrows the Britons that oppofe him, iv. 104. Kills and puts to flight many of the Britons at Searef- birig, now Salisbury, 110. Afterward at Beranvirig, now Ban- bury, ibid.
Kentwin, a West Saxon king, chases the Welsh Britons to the sea- fhore, iv. 142.
Kenulf, has the kingdom of Mercia bequeathed him by Ecferth, iv. 156. He leaves behind him the praise of a virtuous reign, 159. Kenwalk, fucceeds his father Kinegils in the kingdom of the Weft Saxons, iv. 134. He is faid to have discomfited the Britons at Pen, in Somersetshire, 139. And giving battle to Wulfer, to have taken him prifoner, ibid. Leaves the government to Sex- burga his wife, 140.
Kenwulf, entitled Clito, flain by Ina the Weft Saxon, iv. 147. Kenwulf king of the Weft Saxons. See Kinwulf.
Keola, the fon of Cuthulf, fucceeds his uncle Keaulin in the West Saxon kingdom, iv. 116.
Keolwulf, the brother of Kenulf, the Mercian, after one year's reign driven out by Bernulf, a ufurper, iv. 160.
Keorle, overthrows the Danes at Wigganbeorch, iv. 166. Kerdic, a Saxon prince, lands at Kerdichore, and overthrows the Britons, iv. 104. Defeats their king Natanleod in a me- morable battle, ibid. Founds the kingdom of the Weft Saxons,
105. He overthrows the Britons twice at Kerdic's Ford, and at Kerdic's Leage, 106.
Kimarus, reckoned among the ancient British kings, iv. 20. Kinegils, and Guichelm, fucceed Kelwulf in the kingdom of the West Saxons, iv. 125. They make truce with Penda the Mercian, 131. Are converted to the Chriftian faith, 133. Kinegils leaves his fon Kenwalk to fucceed, 134.
King, his ftate and perfon likened to Sampfon, i. 149. King and a tyrant, the difference between them, iii. 286. vi. 368. King of England, what actually makes one, ii. 294. Has two fuperiors, the law and his court of parliament, 443. As he can do no wrong, fo neither can he do right but in his courts, iii. 2, 3.
Kings and Magiftrates, Tenure of, ii. 271. Kings, to fay they are accountable to none but God, overturns all law and government, ii. 279. Their power originally conferred on them, and chofen by the people, 281, 284. Though strong in legions, yet weak at arguments, 392. Their office to fee to the execution of the laws, 442. Firft created by the parlia- ment, 471. Examples of kings depofed by the primitive British church, iii. 93. Chrift no friend to the abfolute power of kings, 161.
Kings, Hebrew ones, liable to be called in question for their ac- tions, iii. 144, 145.
Kings, Scottish, no less than fifty, imprisoned or put to death, iii. 234.
Kings, turning monks, applauded by monkish writers, iv. 149. Kings-evil, by whom firft cured, iv. 250.
Kinmarcus, fucceeds Sifilius in the kingdom, iv. 17.
Kinwulf, or Kenwulf, (Sigebert being thrown out, and flain by a fwineherd,) faluted king of the Weft Saxons, iv. 151. Behaves himself valouroufly in feveral battles against the Welth, 152. Put to the worst at Befington, by Offa the Mercian, ibid. Is routed and flain by Kineard, whom he had commanded into banish- ment, 153.
Knox, John, his depofing doctrine, ii. 291, 378.
Kymbeline, or Cunobeline, the fucceffor of Tenuantius, faid to be brought up in the court of Auguftus, iv. 41. His chief seat Camalodunum, or Maldon, ibid.
LACEDEMON, mufelefs and unbookish, minded nothing but the feats of war, i, 291.
Lactantius, his opinion of divorce, ii. 221.
Laity, by confent of many ancient prelates, did participate in church offices, i. 136.
Language, its depravation portends the ruin of a country, I. xii. Laughter, the good properties of it, i. 234.
Law, of God, agreeable to the law of nature, iii. 209. Law, cannot permit, much less enact, permiffion of fin, ii.4. That given by Mofes, juft and pure, 180. Law defigned to prevent not reftrain fin, 183. Superior to governors, iii. 170. No- thing to be accounted law that is contrary to the law of God, 275.
Laws, common and civil, fhould be fet free from the vaffalage and copyhold of the clergy, i. 48, 49. The ignorance and iniquity of the canon law, 351.
Lawyers, none in Ruffia, iv. 278.
Laymen, the privilege of teaching anciently permitted to them, i. 136.
Learning, what fort recommended to minifters, iii. 387.
Learning and Arts, when began to flourish among the Saxons, iv.
Leda, marquis of, letter from the council of ftate to him, iv. 366. Leil, fucceeds Brute Greenfhield, and builds Caerleil, iv. 13. Leir, king, his trial of his daughters affection, iv. 14. Is reftored to his crown by his daughter Cordeilla, 16. Lent, its firft eftablishment in Britain, iv. 134.
Leo, emperor, his law concerning divorce, ii. 227. Leo of Aizema, letter to, I. xxvi.
Leof, a noted thief, kills king Edmund, iv. 196. Is hewed to pieces, 197.
Leofric, duke of Mercia, and Siward of Northumberland, fent by Hardecanute against the people of Worcester, iv. 234. By their counfel king Edward feizes on the treafures of his mother, queen Emma, 236. They raife forces for the king against earl God- win, 240. Leofric's death and character, 246.
Leofwin, fon of earl Godwin, after his father's banishment, goes over with his brother Harold into Ireland, iv. 241. He and Harold affift their father with a fleet against king Edward, 242. He is flain with his brothers Harold and Girtha in the battle against William duke of Normandy, 256.
Leontius, bishop of Magnesia, his account of bifhops not to be de- pended on, i. 61, 63.
Leopold, archduke of Auftria, letters to him from the parliament, iv. 330. From Oliver, 461.
Letters, familiar, from the author to his friends, i. i.-xliii. The fame in Latin, vi. 109-143.
Letters of State, in the name of the Parliament, iv. 323. v. 9. The fame in Latin, v. 390. vi. 88. In the name of Oliver the protector, iv. 371. The fame in Latin, vi. 1. In the name of Richard the protector, v. 1. The fame in Latin, vi. 80. Lewis, king of France, Oliver's letters to him, iv. 386, 392, 400, 405, 418, 422, 446, 452, 454, 456. Letters to him from Richard the protector, v. 1,6.
Liberty, fit only to be handled by juft and virtuous men, i. 82.
True, what, 286. A lefs number may counfel a greater to re- tain their liberty, iii. 423. Can be preserved only by virtue,
Liberty, Chriftian, not to be meddled with by civil magiftrates, iii. 320, 331, 337.
Libraries, public, recommended, iii. 388.
Licenfers, the inconveniencies attending their office, i. 308. Licenfing, of books, crept out of the inquifition, i. 290. Hiftorical account of licenfing, ibid. 295. Not to be exempted from the number of vain and impoffible attempts, 302. Conduces no- thing to the end for which it was framed, 303. Not able to re- strain a weekly libel against parliament and city, 307. Italy and Spain not bettered by the licenfing of books, ibid. The mani- feft hurt it does, 308, &c. The ill confequences of it, and dif- couragement to learning, 316. First put in practice by anti- chriftian malice and mystery, 319.
Linceus, faid to be the husband of one of the feigned fifty daughters of Dioclefian, king of Syria, iv. 4. The only man faved by his wife, when the reft of the fifty flew their husbands, ibid. Litany, remarks on it, i. 261.
Liturgy, confeffes the fervice of God to be perfect freedom, i. 146. Reflections on the use of it, 163. Remarks on the arguments. brought in defence of it, 165-174. Detefted as well as pre- lacy, 172. Reafon of the use of liturgies, 173. Arguments against the use of them, 259. The inconveniences of them, ibid. Taken from the papal church, 261. Neither liturgy nor directory fhould be impofed, iii. 39.
Livy, praifes the Romans for gaining their liberty, ii. 282. A good expofitor of the rights of Roman kings, iii. 228.
Locrine, the eldest son of Brutus, has the middle part of this island called Lægria for his fhare in the kingdom, iv. 11.
Logica, Artis, plenior Inftitutio, vi. 195.
Lollius Urbicus, draws a wall of turfs between the Frith of Dun- britton and Edinburgh, iv.63.
London, first called Troja Nova, afterward Trinovantum, and faid to be built by Brutus, iv. 11. Tower of, by whom built, 19. Enlarged, walled about, and named from king Lud, 23. New named Augufta, 75. With many of her inhabitants by a fudden fire confumed, 157. Danes winter there, 175. The city burnt, 206.
Loneliness, how indulgently God has provided against man's, ii. 129. Lothair, fucceeds his brother Ecbert in the kingdom of Kent, iv,
140. Dies of wounds received in battle against Edric, 142. Love, produces knowledge and virtue, i. 225. The fon of Penury, begot of Plenty, 355. How parabled by the ancients, ibid. Lubec, Oliver's letter to the fenators and confuls of that city, iv. 434.
Lucius, a king in fome part of Britain, thought the first of any king
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