the parliament and assembly, iii. 171.| Indisposition, unfitness, or contrariety of mind, a better reason for it than na-Druids, tural frigidity, 185. Reasons for it, 187, 191, 193, 194, 197, 206, 208, 209, 210. An idolatrous heretic to be di- vorced, when no hope of conversion, 199. To prohibit divorce sought for natural causes, is against nature, 206. Christ neither did nor could abrogate the law of divorce, 214. Permitted for hardness of heart, not to be understood by the common exposition, 217. How Moses allowed of it, 232. The law of Duina, river, account of its fall into the divorce not the premises of a succeed- ing law, 238. A law of moral equity, 241. Not permitted, from the custom of Egypt, 242. Moses gave not this law unwillingly, 243. Not given for wives only, 247. Christ's sentence con- cerning it, how to be expounded, 251. To be tried by conscience, 263. Not to be restrained by law, 268. Will occa-
posers of the episcopal government, iii. 63. 64.
falsely alleged out of Cæsar to have forbidden the Britons to write their memorable deeds, v. 165. Utter- ing direful prayers, astonish the Ro- mans, 207. Their destruction in the isle of Anglesey, anciently Mɔna, ib. Druis, the third from Samothes, fabu- lously written the most ancient king in this island, v. 166.
sion few inconveniences, ib. No inlet to licence and confusion, 351. The pro- hibition of it avails to no good end, 361. Either never established or never abo- lished, 369. Lawful to Christians for many causes equal to adultery, 425. Maintained by Wickliff, Luther, and Melancthon, ib. 426. By Erasmus, Bu- cer, and Fagius, 426, 427. By Peter Martyr, Beza, and others, 427-431. What the ancient churches thought of divorce, 292. St. Paul's words concern- ing it, explained, 296. Commanded to certain men, 297. Being permitted to God's ancient people, it belongs also to Christians, ib. Allowed by Christ for other causes beside adultery, 301. For what cause permitted by the civil law, ib. Allowed by Christian emperors, in case of mutual consent, 308. Why per- mitted to the Jews, iii. 444. Why Mil- ton wrote on the subject, i. 259. When permitted, on grounds of equity and justice, iv. 243. Passages of Scripture on, considered, ib. 246. Commanded for religious reasons, ib. For other causes, 248, 249.
Doctrine, no novelties of, taught by Mil- ton, iv. 11.
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, iii. 169. Judgment of Martin Bucer, concerning, 274. Defence of that tract, 434, &c. Arguments against it refuted, 439. Domitian, the killing of him commended! by Pliny, i. 132.
Donaldus, said to have headed the Cale- donians against Septimius Severus, v. 224.
Donaldus, king of Scotland, brought to hard conditions by Osbert and Ella, kings of Northumberland, v. 313. Downham, bishop, his opinion of the op-
Drunkenness, how to be prevented, iii. 363.
sea at Archangel, v. 396.
Dunstan, sent by the nobles to reprove king Edwy, for his luxury, v. 340. Banished by the king, and his monas- tery rifled, ib. Recalled by king Ed- gar, ib. His miraculous escape, when the rest of the company were killed by the fall of a house, 345. His saying of Ethelred, at the time of his being baptized, 347. His death and cha- racter, ib.
Dunwallo Molmutius, son of Cloten, king of Cornwall, reduces the whole island in- to a monarchy, v. 178. Said to be the first British king that wore a crown of gold, 179, Establishes the Molmutine laws, ib. Durstus, king of the Picts, said to be slain by the joint forces of the Britons and Romans, v. 243.
Dutch, summary of the damages received from them by the East-India company, ii. 241, 242.
Duties towards God, v. 18. Towards men, 76. Of man towards himself, 83, 97. Which regard our neighbour, 109, 113, 128, 134. Of private duties, 134. Of hus- band and wife, 135. Of parents, 137. Of children, 138. Of guardians, 140. Of wards, ib. Of pupils, ib. Of the elder, ib. Of the younger, ib. Of supe- riors, 141. Of inferiors, 142. Of breth- ren and kinsmen, ib. Of masters, ib. Of servants, 143. Of duties exercised towards strangers, 144. Of public du- ties, 149. Of the magistrate to the people, ib. 154. Of the people towards the magistrate, ib. Of magistrate and people towards their neighbours, 156. Of ministers towards the church in ge- neral, 160. Of the whole church and individual believers towards their mi- nisters, 162.
Eadbald, falls back to heathenism, v, 274. Runs distracted, but afterwards re- turns to his right mind and faith, 275. By what means it happened, ib. fle gives his sister Edelburga in marriage
to Edwin, 276. Leaves his son Ercom-] bert to succeed, 282. Eadbert, shares with his two brothers in the kingdom of Kent, v. 294. Ilis death, 297. Eadbert, king of North- umberland, after Kenwolf, wars against the Picts, ib. Joins with Unust, king of the Picts, against the Britons in Cum- berland, 298. Forsakes his crown for a monk's hood, ib.
Eadbright, usurping the kingdom of Kent, and contending with Kenulph the Mer- cian, is taken prisoner, 303. Eadburga, by chance poisons her hus- band, Birthric, with a cup which she had prepared for another, v. 304. The choice proposed to her by Charles the Great, to whom she fled, ib. He as- signs her a rich monastery to dwell in as abbess, ib. Detected of unchastity. she is expelled, 305. And dies in beg- gary at Pavia, ib.
Eandred, son of Eardulf, reigns 30 years king of Northumberland, after Alfwold, the Usurper, v. 305. Becomes tribu- tary to Ecbert, 308.
Eanfrid, the son of Edwin, converted and baptized, v. 279.
Eanfrid, the son of Ethelfrid, succeeds in the kingdom of Bernicia, v. 281. Slain, ib.
Eardulf, supposed to have been slain by Ethelred, v. 303. Is made king of the Northumbrians, in York, after Osbald, ib. In a war raised against him by his people, he gets the victory, ib. Driven out of his kingdom by Alfwold, 305.
Earth, whole, inhabited before the flood, v. 166.
East-Angles, kingdom of, by whom erected,
v. 257. Reclaimed to Christianity, 282. East-India Company, English, summary of their damages from the Dutch, ii. 241, 242.
East-Saxon kingdom, by whom began, v. 257. The people converted by Me- litus, 272. They expel their bishop, and renounce their faith, 274, 275. Are reconverted by means of Oswi, 284. Ebranc, succeeds his father Mempricius, in the kingdom of Britain, v. 174. Builds Caer-Ebranc, now York, and other places, ib.
Ecbert, succeeds his father, Ercombert, in the kingdom of Kent, v. 288. Dying, leaves a suspicion of having slain his uncle's sons, Ecbert and Egelbright, ib. Ecbert, of the West Saxon lineage, flees from Birthric's suspicion to Offa, and thence into France, v. 303. After Birth- ric's decease is recalled, and with ge- neral applause made king, ib. He sub- dues the Britons of Cornwall and be- yond Severn, 305. Overthrows Ber-
nulf at Ellandune or Wilton, 306. The East Angles yield to his sovereignty, ib. Drives Baldred, king of Kent, out of his kingdom, and causes Kent and other provinces to submit, ib. Withlaf, of Mercia, becomes tributary to him, 307. Gives the Danes battle by the river Carr, 309. In another battle he puts to flight a great army of them, together with the Cornish men, ib. He dies, and is buried at Winchester, 310.
Ecclesiastical Causes, Treatise of Civil Power in, ii. 520. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, a pure tyran- nical forgery of the prelates, ii. 488. Ecfert, the son of Offa, the Mercian, within four months ends his reign, v. 302.
Ecfrid, Oswi's eldest son, succeeds him in the kingdom of Northumberland, v. 288. Wins Lindsey from Wulfur, the Mer- cian, ib. He wars against Etheldred, the brother of Wulfer, ib. 291. sends Bertus with an army to subdue Ireland, 291. Marching against the Picts, is cut off with most of his army, ib. His death revenged by Bertfrid, a Northumbrian captain, 293. Eclipse of the sun, followed by a pesti- lence, v. 287. Another, obscuring almost his whole orb, as with a black shield,
Edan, a king of the Scots in Britain, put to flight by Ethelfrid, v. 271. Edelard, king of the West-Saxons, after Ina, molested with the rebellion of his kinsman, Oswald, v. 296. Overcoming those troubles, dies in peace, ib. Edgar, the brother and successor of Edwy, in the English monarchy, calls home Dunstan from banishment, v. 340. His prosperous reign, and favour towards the monks, 341. His strict observance of justice, and care to secure the nation with a strong fleet, ib. He is homaged, and rowed down the river Dee, by eight kings, ib. His expostulation with Ke- ned, king of Scotland, 342. He is cheated by the treacherous duke Athel- wold, of Elfrida, 313. Whom, avenging himself upon the said duke, he mar- ries, ib. Attempting the chastity of a young lady at Andover, is pleasantly deceived by the mother, 344. Buried at Glaston abbey, ib.
Edgar, surnamed Atheling, his right aud title to the crown of England, from his grandfather, Edmund Ironside, v. 382, 386. Excluded by Harold, son of Earl Godwin, 386.
Edilhere, the brother and successor of Anna, in the kingdom of the East- Angles, slain in a battle against Oswi v. 286.
Edilwalk, the South-Saxon, persuaded to Christianity by Wulfer, v. 289. Edith, Earl Godwin's daughter, eminent for learning, v. 373. Is married to Ed- ward the Confessor, ib. Is harshly di- vorced by him, 377.
Edmund, crowned king of the East-Angles, at Bury, v. 313. His whole army put to flight by the Danes, he is taken. bound to a stake, and shot with arrows, 316, 317.
Edmund, the brother and successor of Athelstan, in the English monarchy, frees Mercia, and takes several towns from the Danes, v.338. He drives An- laf and Suthfrid out of Northumber- land, and Dunmail out of Cumberland, ib. The strange manner of his death, ib. Edmund, surnamed Ironside, the son of Ethelred, set up by divers of the nobles against Canute, v. 360. In several bat- tles against the Danes, he comes off for the most part victorious, ib. At length consents to divide the kingdom with Canute, 362. His death thought to have been violent, ib. Edred, third brother and
successor of Athelstan, reduces the Northumbrians, and puts an end to that kingdom, v. 339. Dies in the flower of his age, and buried at Winchester, ib.
Divorce allowed by those laws for other causes beside adultery, ib. Acknow ledges the common-prayer book to be chiefly a translation of the mass book, i. 430.
Edward the Elder, son and successor of king Alfred, v. 327. Has war with Ethelwald his kinsman, who stirs up the Danes against him, ib. Builds Witham in Essex, 328. He proves suc- cessful and potent, divers princes and great commanders of the Danes sub- mitting to him, ib., 330. The king and whole nation of Scotland, with divers other princes and people, do him homage as their sovereign, 331. Dies at Farendon, 332. And buried at Win- chester, ib.
Edward, surnamed the younger, Edgar's son, by his first wife Egelfleda, advanced to the throne, v. 345. The contest in his reign between the monks and se- cular priests, ib. Great mischief done by the falling of a house where the general council for deciding the con- troversy was held, ib. Inhumanly mur- dered by the treachery of his step- mother Elfrida, 346.
Edward, son of Edmund Ironside, heir apparent to the crown, dies at London, v. 382.
Edric, the son of Edilwalk, king of South-Edward, surnamed the Confessor, the son Saxons, slain by Kedwalla, the West- Saxon, v. 290.
Edric, a descendant of Ermenred, king of the South-Saxons, v. 290. Died a vio- lent death and left his kingdom in dis- order, ib.
Edric, surnamed Streon, advanced by king Ethelred, marries his daughter Edgi- tha, v. 352. He secretly murders two noblemen whom he had invited to his lodging, 357. He practises against the life of prince Edmund, and revolts to the Danes, 358. His cunning devices to hinder Edmund in the prosecution of his victories against Canute, 361. Is thought by some to have been the contriver of king Edmund's murder, 362. The government of the Mercians conferred upon him, 364. Put to death by Canute, and his head stuck upon a pole, and set upon the highest tower in London, ib.
Education, of youth, rules for the method and progress et it, iii. 462, &c. That of the clergy generally at the public cost, 35.
Edward the Confessor, his law relating to the king's office, i. 174. Said to be the first that cured the king's evil, iii. 386. To have cured blindness with the water wherein he washed his hands, ib. Edward VI. a committee appointed by him to frame ecclesiastical laws, iii. 432.
of king Ethelred, by Emma, after Har- dicnute's death is crowned at Win- chester, v. 373. Seizes on the trea- sures of his mother Queen Emma, ib. Marries Edith, earl Godwin's daughter, ib. Makes preparation against Mag- nus, king of Norway, ib. But next year makes peace with Harold Harvager, 374. He advances the Normans in Eng- land, which proves of ill consequence, 375. He is opposed by earl Godwin, in the cause of Eustace of Boloign, ba- nishes the earl, and divorces his daughter whom he had married, 376. Entertains duke William of Normandy, 378. He sends Odo and Radulph, with a fleet, against Godwin and his sons exer- cising piracy, ib. Reconciliation at length made, he restores the earl, his sons and daughter, all to their former dignities, 379. He is said to have de- signed Duke William of Normandy his successor to the crown, 385. Buried at Westminster, ib. His character, ib. Edwi, the son and successor of Edmund, is crowned at Kingston, v. 339. banishes bishop Dunstan, for reproving his wantonness with Algiva, 340. The Mercians and Northumbrians set up his brother Edgar, ib. With grief whereof he ends his days, and is buried at Winchester, ib.
Edwin, thrown out of the kingdom of
Deira, by Ethelfrid, v. 266, 275. Fleeing to Redwal, the East-Angle, for refuge, is defended against Ethelfrid, 275, 276. He exceeds in power and extent of do- minion all before him, 276. Marries Edelburga, the sister of Eadbald, ib. He is wounded by an assassin from Cui- chelm, 277. The strange relation of his conversion to Christianity, ib. He per- suades Eorpwald, the son of Redwald, to embrace the Christian faith, 279. He is slain in a battle against Ked- wallay, 280
Edwin, duke of the Mercians. See Morcar. Egyptians, their conduct toward kings,
Eikon Basilike, whether written by king Charles, i. 315. Answers to the several heads of that tract: On the king's call- ing his last parliament, 317. Upon the earl of Stafford's death, 331. Upon his going to the house of commons, 337. Upon the insolency of the tumults, 341. Upon the bill for triennial parliaments, 351. Upon his retirement from West- minster, 357. Upon the queen's depar- ture, 368. Upon his repulse at Hull, and the fate of the Hothams, 370. Upon the listing and raising of armies, 378. Upon seizing the magazines, 389. Upon the nineteen propositions, 397. On the rebellion in Ireland, 407. Upon the calling in of the Scots, 417. Upon the covenant, 422. Upon the many jealou- sies, &c., 425. Upon the ordinance against the common prayer book, 430. Upon the differences in point of church government, 434. Upon the Uxbridge treaty, &c., 440. Upon the various events of the war, 445. Upon the re- formation of the times, 450. Upon his letters taken and divulged, 452. Upon his going to the Scots, 456. Upon the Scots delivering the king to the En- glish, 457. Upon denying him the at- tendance of his chaplains, 458. Upon his penitential vows and meditations. at Holmby, 462. Upon the army's sur- prisal of the king at Holmby 466. To the prince of Wales, 472. Meditations on death, 483.
Eikonoclastes, Baron's preface to that tract, i. 304. The author's preface, 307. Rea- son of calling it so, 313.
Elanius, reckoned in the number of an- cient British kings, v. 181. Eldadus, v. 183.
Elder, her army of Mercians victorious against the Welsh, v. 328. Takes Derby from the Danes, 329. She dies at Tam- worth, 331.
Elfred, the son of king Ethelred, by Emma, betrayed by earl Godwin, and cruelly made away by Harold, v. 368, 369.
Elfwald, succeeding Ethelred in Northum- berland, is rebelled against by two of his noblemen, Osbald and Ethelheard, v. 299. He is slain by the conspiracy of Siggan, one of his nobles, 306. Elfwin, slain in a battle between his bro- ther Ecfrid and Ethelred, v. 291. Elidure, his noble demeanour towards his deposed brother, v. 182. After Archi- gallo's death, he resumes the govern- ment, ib.
Eliud, reckoned in the number of ancient British kings, v. 181.
Elizabeth, Queen, against presbyterian reformation, ii. 134.
Ella, the Saxon, lands with his three sons, and beats the Britons in two bat- tles, v. 255. He and his son Cissa take Andredchester, in Kent, by force, ib. Begins his kingdom of the South- Saxons, 256.
Ella, a king in Northumberland, v. 313. Elmer, a monk of Malmsbury, fitted wings to his hands and feet, with which he flew more than a furlong, v. 387. El Shaddai, a name applied to the Deity, iv. 24.
Elwold, nephew of Ethelwald, reigns king of the East-Angles, after Aldulf, v. 306.
Embassador. See Ambassador, also French, Spanish, &c.
Emeric, succeeds Otho in the kingdom of Kent, v. 262.
Emma, the daughter of Richard, duke of Normandy, married first to king Ethel- red, v. 350. Afterwards to Canute, 364. Banished by her son-in-law, Ha- rold, she retires to Flanders, and is en- tertained by earl Baldwin, 368. treasures seized on by her son, king Edward, 373. She dies, and is buried at Winchester, 378. A tradition con- cerning her questioned, ib. Emperors, of Rome, their custom to wor ship the people, i. 77. End, the, when it will be, iv. 487. England, history of, v. 164. English nation, their pronunciation of the vowels censured, iii. 468. Its cha- racter, ii. 90. The wits of Britain pre- ferred before the French by Julius Agricola, 91. Had been foremost in the Reformation, but for the perverse- ness of the prelates, ib. Have learnt their vices under kingly government, i. 74. When they began to imitate
the French in their manners, v. 375. Their effeminacy and dissoluteness made them an easy prey to William the Conqueror, 392. Their putting Charles the First to death defended, i. 3, 216.
Englishmen, to be trusted in the election! of pastors, as well as in that of knights and burgesses, ii. 408. Their noble achievements lessened by monks and mechanics, 478.
Enniaunus, an ancient British king, de- posed, v. 183.
Eorpwald, the son of Redwald, king of the East-Angles, persuaded to Chris- tianity by Edwin, v. 280. He is slain in fight by Ricbert, a pagan, ib. Epiphanius, his opinion of divorce, iii.
Episcopacy, answers to several objec-| tions relating to the inconveniences of abolishing it, ii. 410, 412. Insufficiency of testimonies for it from antiquity," and the fathers, 421. Not to be de- duced from the apostolical times, 436. A mere child of ceremony, 451. Not recommended to the Corinthians by St. Paul, as a remedy against schism, 459. See Prelacy, and Prelatical Epis-
Erasmus, writes his treatise of divorce. for the benefit of England, iii. 314. Erchenwin, said to be the erector of the kingdom of the East-Saxons, v. 257, Ercombert, succeeds Eadbald in the king- dom of Kent, v. 282. Orders the de- stroying of idols, ib. The first estab-| lisher of Lent here, ib. Is succeeded by his son Ecbert, 288. Eric, see Iric.
Ermenred, thought to have had more right to the kingdom than Ercombert, v. 282.
Errours, of service to the attainment of truth, ii. 65.
Esau, taught the true worship of God, iv. 71. His reprobation not to last for ever, 72. How God evinced his ha- tred, ib. Escwin, and Kentwin, the nephew and son of Kinegil, said to have succeeded Kenwalk in the government of the West-Saxons, v. 288. Escwin joins battle with Wulfur at Bedanhafde, ib Estrildis beloved by Lochrine, v. 173. With her daughter Sabra thrown into a river, 174,
Eternal counsel of God, iv. 285. See Pre- destination.
Eternal death, the punishment of the damned, iv. 284.
Eternal life, offered equally to all, iv. 50. Only those excluded whose hearts are hardened, 74.
Eternity, an attribute of God, iv. 22. Words]
used in Scripture to denote, often sig- nify a limited period, 23.
Ethelbald, king of Mercia, after Ina, com- mands all the provinces on this side Humber, v. 294. He takes the town of Somerton, 296. Fraudulently as- saults part of Northumberland in Eadbert's absence, ib. His encounter at Beorford with Cuthred, the West- Saxon, ib. In a fight at Secandune, is slain, 298.
Ethelbald, and Ethelbert, share the Eng- lish Saxon kingdom between them after their father, Ethelwolf, v. 314. Ethel- bald marries Judith his father's widow, ib. Is buried at Sherburn, ib. Ethelbert, succeeds Emeric in the king- dom of Kent, v. 262. He is defeated at Wibbandun by Keaulin and his son Cutha, ib. Enlarges his dominions from Kent to Humber, 268. Civilly receives Austin and his fellow preachers of the Gospel, 269. Is himself bap- tized, 270. Moved by Austin, he builds St. Peter's church in Canterbury, and endows it, 271. He builds and endows St. Paul's church in London, and the cathedral at Rochester, 272. His death, 274.
Ethelbert, Eadbert, and Alric, succeed their father Victred in the kingdom of Kent, v. 294.
Ethelbert, or Pren. See Eadbright. Ethelbert, the son of Ethelwolf, enjoys the whole kingdom to himself, v. 314. During his reign the Danes waste Kent, 315. Is buried with his brother at Sherburn, ib.
Ethelfrid, succeeds Ethelric in the king- dom of Northumberland, v. 267.
wastes the Britons, 271. Overthrows Edan, king of Scots, ib. In a battle at Winchester, slays above 1200 monks, 274.
Ethelmund, and Weolstan, in a fight be- tween the Worcestershire men and Wiltshire men, slain, v. 304. Ethelred, succeeding his brother Wolfer in the kingdom of Mercia, recovers Lind- sey, and other parts, v. 288. Invades the kingdom of Kent, 289. A sore battle between him and Ecfrid the Northumbrian, 291. After the violent death of his queen, he exchanges his crown for a monk's cowl, 293. Ethelred, the son of Mollo, the usurper Alcred being forsaken by the Nor- thumbrians and deposed, crowned in his stead, v. 299, Having caused three of his noblemen to be treacherously slain, is driven into banishment, ib. After ten years' banishment restored again, 300. He cruelly and trea he- rously puts to death Oelf and Oelfwin, the sons of Elfwald, formerly king,
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