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GENERAL INDEX.

Aaron, a British martyr, 261, 242, 303, 466 Asser, archbishop of St. David's, Life of
Ella, king of the South Saxons, 1.
Eila, usurper of Northumbria, 52.

Alfred, vi. 43-86; visits king Alfred, 70.
Athelred, archbishop of Canterbury, 34.

Aneas, the Trojan, marries Lavinia, 91, Athelstan, king of Kent, &c. 22, 23, 45.
387.

Esc, king of Kent, 7.

Aetius, a Roman general, 307, 450.

Aganippus, king of the Franks, 116.

Athelstan, king of Mercia, 39, 40.

Angusil, king of Albania, 238, 249, 269.
Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury, 9-11,
275, 438, 444.

Agricola, Roman governor, 443, 448, 450, Aulus Plautius visits Britain, 469.

466, 470.

Aidan, king of the Scots, 285.

Alan, king of Armorica, 290.

Alban, St. his martyrdom, 161, 303, 445,
466.

Albanact, a son of Brutus, killed, 109.
Aldhelm, bishop, 14.

Aldroen, king of Armorica, 177.
ALFRED, ASSER'S LIFE OF, 43-86, some
further notices of, 1, 2, 27-37, 132; his
children, 2, 68.

Alfrid, king of Northumbria, 14, 286.
Alifantinam, king of Spain, slain, 264.
Alla [Ella] king of Northumbria, 8.
Allectus, emperor in Britain, 159, 160.
Alleluiatic victory, 406.

Allobroges, in Switzerland, 126.
Amalgaid, king of Connaught, 410.
Amatheus consecrates St. Patrick, 410.
Ambrius, founder of a monastery, 190.
Ambrosius [Emrys Wledig], 182, 207--
219, 396, 403, 407, 416.
Amphibalus, St. 161.

Anacletus taken prisoner by Brutus, 94-96.
Andragius, a king of Britain, 136.
Androgeus, duke of Trinovantum, 137.
Anglia, East, genealogy of the kings, 412.
Antenor, Trojan, 102.

Antigonus taken prisoner by Brutus, 94.
Antoninus's wall, 450.

Anwind, a Danish king, 30, 58.
Archflamins made archbishops, 155.
Arianism spreads in Britain, 304.
Arthgallo deposed, 134, 135.
Arthmail, a king of Britain, 136.
Arthur, king, not noticed by Gildas or
Bede, 89; his exploits, 225-271,
coronation, 243-245, death, 271.
Arviragus, a king of Britain, 149-153.
Ascanius, son of Æneas, 91, 387, 388.
Aschillius, king of Dacia, slain, 271.
Asclepiodatus frees Britain om the
Romans, 160-162, 466.

408;

Assa (Cissa), king of the South Saxons, 7.
Assaracus joins Brutus against the Gre-
cians, 82,

Assaracus, king of Germany, 113

Aurelius Antoninus' victories in Britain,

466.

Auxilius, a bishop of Ireland, 410.

Bagsac, a Danish king, slain, 56.
Baldulph, a Saxon chief, 230-234.
Bards, the British poets, 434.
Bassianus kills his brother Geta, 157-159,
449, 466.

Battles between the Romans and the
Britons at the invasion, 138-153; on
the Grampian hills, 451.

Battles between the Britons and Saxons at
Anderida, 7; Badon-hill, 313, 409; the
river Bassas, 498; Beandune, 12; Bedan-
ford, 8; Berin-byrig, 8; Breguoin, 409;
Cat Coit Celidon, 408; Cerdic's-ore, 7;
Cirencester, 12; the river Darent, 404;
Deorhamme, 9; the river Duglas, 230, 270,
408; Fethanleage, 9; the river Gleni, 408;
Gurnion castle, 408; Hengeston, 22;
Mearcrædsburn, 7; Scarburh, 8; Stone,
404; Trat Treuroit, 409; Verulam, 228.
Battles between the English and the Danes
at Ac-lea, 45; Ascendune, 27, 54;
Basing, 27, 56; Brumby, 39; Cambridge,
38; Canterbury, 44; Charmouth, 21,
22; Devonshire, 30, 44, 61; East An-
glia, 22, 26, 32, 56; Edington, 62; Ethun-
dune; 31; Exeter, 59; Hampshire, 25,
50; Holme, 38; Kent, 22, 25, 45, 50, 61;
Mercia, 26; Merton, 27; Nottingham,
53; Port, 22; Reading, 29, 54; South-
ampton, 22; the Stour, 65; Surrey, 23,
44; Swanwich, 59; Wareham, 58; Wes-
sex, 26; Wilton, 56; York, 52.
Beadaherd, reve of the shire, 19.
Bede noticed, 15, 89.

Bedver, governor of Neustria, 241, 244,
252-264.

Belinus, king of Britain, 122-135, 392.
Belinus, general of Cassibelaun's army, 123
Benlli, king of Powys, 397.
Bernheim, abbat, 34.

Bernicia, genealogy of the kings, 412.
Bernulf, king of Mercia, 21.
Berth wulf, king of Mercia, 23, 44.

Bertric, king of Wessex, 18, 19, 48.
Birinus, bishop, 12.

Bladud, king of Britain, 114.
Blederic, killed by Ethelfrid, 276.
Bleduno, a king of Britain, 136.
Blegabred, a king of Britain, 136.
Boadicea, or Bonduca, queen of the Iceni,
301, 445, 447, 465, 469.

Boccus, king of the Medes, 263.

Borellus, consul of the Cenomanni, 259.
Boso's gallantry against the Romans, 255.
Brennius quarrels with Belinus, 122-130.
Brian, nephew to Cadwalla, 278 - 284.
Bridget, an Irish saint, 390, 460.
Britael, king of Demetia, 139.
Britain, described, 3, 90, 106, 133, 244, 289,
299, 386, 419-422, 435; its original in-
habitants, 90, 386, 422-428, 464; invaded
by Julius Cæsar, 3, 301, 445, 468; Chris-
tianity introduced into, 302, 466; di-
vided into provinces, 436; boundary of
the Roman empire in Britain, 453;
finally quitted by the Romans, 2,
305, 396, 467, 468; occupied by Saxons,
3; invaded by the Danes, 19--39, 50-66.
British cities, ancient. 90, 155.
Brocmail defeated by Ethelfrid, 276.
Brutus, xiv, his history, 91-109, 386-388,
391.

Brutus, surnamed Greenshield, 113.
Bryto supposed to have built London, 464.
Budes, king of Armorica, 182.
Buile settles in Eubonia, 389.

Burhred, king of Mercia, 23, 26, 45, 53, 57.¦

Cador, duke of Cornwall 231, 235, 246.
Cadwan, makes a treaty with Etheifrid,
277.

Cadwalla, a British king, 277-288, 415
Cadwallader, a British king, 199, 288-290,

415.

Cadwalla, king of Wessex, 14.
Cæsar, Julius, invasion, 138-150, 392,
393, 465, 468.

Caius, governor of Andegavia, 241-244.
Caliburn, the sword of Arthur, 234, 241.
Cap, one of the kings of Britain, 136.
Capoir, one of the kings of Britain, 136.
Caracalla. See Bassianus.
Caractacus (Caradog), 442, 443, 465.
Caradoc, duke of Cornwall, 165-168.
Carausius, governor of Britain, 158-160,
394, 437, 466.

Careticus (Ceredig), a British king, 273
Cartismandua, queen of Brigantia, 443.
Cassibellaun (Caswallon) 136-148, 445,
465, 468.

Catellus, a British king,

Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria, 15.
Ceolwulf, king of Mercia, 20, 30.
Cerdic, king of Wessex, 7, 8, 44.
Corealis, Roman governor of Britain, 448,
466, 470.

Cheldric arrives from Germany, 231, 235
assists Modred against Arthur, 268, 271.
Chelianus, appointed archbishop of Dole,
245

berdich, a Saxon chief, 187.

Cherin, an ancient British king, 136.
Cheulphus repulsed by Brennius, 123.
Chasm-loosing, what, 63

Claudius invades Britain, 149,-152, 393,
445, 448, 465, 468.

Cledaucus, an ancient British king, 136.
Cletonus, an ancient British king, 1.6.
Cligueillus, a king of Britain, 136.
Clodius Albinus, Roman governor
Britain, 471.

Cloten, king of Cornwall, 121.
Coei rebels against Asclepiodotus, 162.
Cogibundus, a British regulus, 465, 469.
Coillus, a British king, 136.
Coillus, a British king, 154.
Colgrin, a Saxon chief, 230-234.
Columba, St. 8, 460.

Comet appeared, 13, 35, 220.
Conan kills Constantine, 199, 272.
Conan Meriadoc, 166-171.
Conanus (Aurelius), 316.

Constans, a monk, king of Britain, 179-
182, 208.

of

Constantine the Great, 163, 248, 394, 437,
467.

Constantine the Armorican, made king,
178, 208.

Constantine, Arthur's successor, 271, 272,
314.

Constantius, governor of Britain, 162, 394,
395, 466.

Councils, ecclesiastical, at Heathfield, 13;
Cloveshoo, 20; Constantinople, 395; Caer
Guorthegirn, 401.

Conwenna's speech to Brennius, 127.
Cordeilla, daughter of Leir, 114-119.
Corineus, duke of Cornwall, 102-110.
Cridious, king of Albania, 139,

Crocea mors, the name of Cæsar's sword
141.

Cuichelm, king of Wessex, 12.
Cunedagius kills his brother, 119.
Cuneglasse, a British prince, 317.
Cutha, 8.

Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, 415.
Cuthred, king, 12.

Cuthred, king of Wessex, 15.
Cuthred, king of Kent, 20

Catel Drunluc, or Cadell Deyrnllug, prince Cynegils, king of Wessex, 12.

of Powys, 399.

Catigern, son of Vortigern, 188.

Ceawlin, king of Wessex, 8, 9.

Celestine, pope, 409, 410.

Cenric, king of the West Saxons, 7, 8, 44.
Ceolnoth, abp. of Canterbury, 26, 54.
Ceolred, king of Mercia, 14.

Coolwulf, king of Wessex, 11.

Cynewulf, king of Wessex, 16-18.

Dabutius reproaches Merlin, 192.

Danes arrive in England, 19-36, 50-66
Danius, an ancient British king, 132.
David, St. archbp. of Menevia, 245, 271.
Diana's answer to Brutus, 100.
Dianotus, king of Cornwall, 171.

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Edgar, king, 40.

Ethered, [Ethered] king of Wessex 25,
27, 50-56.

Ethelwald rebels against Oswy, 286.
Ethelswitha, daughter of Alfred, 2.
Ethered, earl of Mercia, 34-39, 74.
ETHELWERD'S CHRONICLE, 1-40; account
of the author, v. vi.

Ethelwulf, king of Wessex, 22-25, 44-49.
Evander, king of Syria, killed, 258.
Evelinus, nephew of Androgeus, 143, 144.
Eventus, king of Albania, 269.

Faganus sent to convert the Britons, 155.
Famine in Britain, 53

Fergusius emigrates from Ireland, 467.
Ferrex killed by his brother Porrex, 120.
Flamens made bishops, 155.

Flollo, a Roman tribune, 240, 241.
Friday, so called from the goddess Frea, 184
Frontinus, a Roman gov. 443, 466, 470.
Fulgenius, a British king, 136.
Fulgenius wars against Severus, 157.
Funeral rites of the ancient Britons, 428.

Gabius, a Roman consul, 130.

Galgacus, king of the Caledonians, 466, 470

Edmund, (St.) king of East Anglia, 26, 46, Gallus, Livius, besieged in London, 160, 469.

50, 54.

Edmund, king, 40.

Edred, king, 40.

Edward (the elder,) king, 37-39.

Edwin, king of Northumbria, 277, 279, 284,

414.

Edwy, king, 40.

Egbert, king of Wessex, 20-22.

Egbert, bishop, 15.

Egfert, king of Mercia, 19.

Egfrid, king of Northumbria, 13, 415.
Eisc, king of Kent, 11.

Elbotus, or Elvod, bp. of Bangor, 383, 384.
Eldad, bishop of Gloucester, 191, 212-214.
Eldadus, an ancient British king, 136.
Eldol, duke of Gloucester, 191, 210-213.
Eldol, an ancient British king, 136.
Eledanius, bishop of Alclud, 246.
Eleutherius, pope, 155, 393.
Elfgiva, king Edmund's queen, 40.
Elidure, surnamed the pious, 134, 135.
Eliud, an ancient British king, 136.
Elsingius, king of Norway, 123.
Enniaunus, king of Britain, 136.
Eohric, a Danish king, 38.

Estrildis, concubine of Locrin, 110, 111.

Escwin, king of Wessex, 13.

Ethelard, king of Wessex, 15.

Ethelbald, king of Mercia, 15, 17.

Genuissa, daughter of Claudius, 151, 152.
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH'S BRITISH HIS-
TORY; 89-292. Some account of the
author, viii. 89.

Gerion, the augur, 100.

Germanus, St. bishop of Auxerre, 75, 187,
397-407.

Geruntius, an ancient British king, 136.
Geta, son of Severus, killed, 157, 158.
Giant, killed by Arthur, 252. /
Giant's Dance, its removal, 215-219, 229.
GILDAS' WORKS, 293-380; notices of th
author, vii, 89, 108, 121, 126.
Gillomanius, king of Ireland, 216-221.
Godbold, king of the Orkneys, killed, 285.
Goëmagot, a giant killed, 107.

Goffarius, king of Aquitaine, 102-105.
Gombert, king of Norway, 164.

Gonorilla, one of Leir's daughters, 114-116.
Gorbogudo, a British king, 120.
Gorbonian, a British king, 133.

Gorlois, duke of Corwall, 222, 226.

Gormund, king of the Africans, 273.
Gothrun, a Danish king, 30, 34, 58, C3.
Gratian, emp. slain by Maximus, 394-306
Gratian Municeps, a British king, 172, 173
Gregory I, pope, 10, 11.

Grimbald, abbat of Hyde Abbey, 70, 74, 75
Guanhumara, wife of Arthur, 238, 268, 268

Ethelbald, king of Wessex, 25, 45-47, 49, Guanius, king of the Huns, 172, 175.

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Guendolona, wife of Locrin, 111.
Guerthaeth, king of Venedotia, 139.

Guethelin, archbp. of London, 174, 177

Grichthlac, king of Dacia, 123, 125.
Guiderius, a British king, 149.

Guillamurius, king of Ireland, 236, 238.
Guitard defeated by Hoel, 241, 258.
Guithelin, a British king, 132.

Guitolinus quarrels with Ambrosius, 418

Gunfasius, king of the Orkneys, 238.

Guoyrancgonus, a king of Kent, 400.
Gurgintius, a British king, 136.

Gurgiunt Brabtruc, king of Britain, 131.

Gurgustius, a British king, 120.

Guthfrid, king of Northumbria, 37.

Hadrian's wall, 466, 471.

Lavinia, the wife Eneas, 91, 387, 388.
Leil, a good king of Britain, 113.
Leir, king of Britain, 114-119.
Leo III. pope, 19, 20.

Leo IV. pope, anoints king Alfred, 45.
Lepidus, Marius, a Roman senator, 264.
Liethali settles in South Wales, 389.
Locrin, son of Brutus, 109-111.

Halfdene, a Danish chieftain, 30, 31, 39, Logiore, an Irish king, 410.

58, 61, 62.

Hamo, Leuis, a Roman general, 149.

Hasten, invades England, 35, 36.

Heahmund, bishop, 27.

Lot, a British chief, 226, 238, 239.

Lucius, the first Christian king of Britair,
154-156, 393.

Lucius Tiberius, 245, 250, 259–266.

Helena, mother of Constantine, 162, 444- Lucullus, Roman governor of Britain, 470.
446, 467.

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Hirelgas, Bedver's nephew, 264.
Hirelgas, Cassibellaun's nephew, 143.
Hingwar, Danish chief, 25, 26, 39, 61, 62.
Hoctor settles in Ireland, 389.

Hoel, king of Armorica, 231, 241, 248, 264.
Holdin, king of the Ruteni, 264.
Horsus, brother of Hengist, 4, 6, 183, 188.
Hudibras, king of Britain, 114.
Humber, king of the Huns, 109, 110.
Humbert, bishop of the East Angles, 50.

Ida, king of Northumbria, 8, 409.
Idwallo, a just king of Britain, 136.
Igerna, wife of Gorlois, 223-226.
Ignone, daughter of Pandrasus, 98.
Imbertus, ambassador, 102.
Ina, king of Wessex, 13, 14, 43.
Inbaltus, commander of the Gauls, 169.
Ireland, its first inhabitants, 389, 390, 464;
description of, 457-462.

Isembard renounces Christianity, 273.
Isserninus, a bishop of Ireland, 410.
Istereth settles in Dalrieta, 389.
Ivor and Ini, Britlsh chiefs, 290, 291.

Jago, an ancient British king, 120.
John, abbat of Athelney, 70, 79-81.
Judith, Alfred's queen, 46-51, 65.
Julius, a British martyr, 161, 242, 466.

Kamber, son of Brutus, 109.

Kent, genealogy of the kings, 412.
Kentwin, king of Wessex, 13.
Kenulf, king of Mercia, 19, 20.
Kenwalk, king of Wessex, 12, 13.
Kimarus, a British king, 132.
Kinmarcus, a British king, 120.

Kinocus, (Cynog), archbp. of Menevia, 271.
Kymbelinus, king of Britain, 148.

Lambienus, a Roman tribune, 140.

Lantern made by zing Alfred, 84.
Latian law, wha, 457.

Lud, beautifier of London, 136.
Lumond, a wonderful lake, 235.
Lupus, bishop of Troyes, 187.

Madden advanced to the throne, 111.
Magicians, 91, 192-194, 388.
Maglaunus, duke of Cornwall, 116.

Malgo, or Malgocune, a British king, 272,
318.

Malim murdered by Mempricius, 112.
Marcellus, Roman gov. of Britain, 471.
Marcellus Mutius killed, 256.
Margadud, king of Demetia, 286.
Margan, duke, 119.

Margan, king of Britain, 136.
Marinus, pope, died, 33, 65
Marius, king of Britain, 153.

Mark, editor of Nennius's History, viii, 386.
Martia, qn., author of the Martian law, 132.
Martin, bishop of Tours, 395.

Matilda, daughter of Otho the Great, v, 1.

Mauganius, bishop of Silchester, 246.

Maugantius, a philosopher, 193.

Mauricius, son of Caradoc, 165–167.

Maxentius, Roman emperor, 163.

Maximian invited to Britain, 164-173.

Maximianus Herculius, 161.

Maximus (Macsen Wiedig), usurper, 304,
394-396, 467.

Mellobaudes, Gratian's general, slain, 395
Mempricius's advice to the Trojans, 98.
Mempricius, a British king, 112.
Merianus, a British king, 136.

Merlin's history and prophecies, 192-224.
Mermenus, a king of Britain, 390.
Mervin, a British king, 384.

Milcho, St. Patrick's master, 409.
Micipsa, king of Babylon, 264.

Milvius, Quintus, Roman senator, 264.
Mistletoe, a sacred plant, 432, 433.
Modred, Arthur's nephew, 238, 268-272.
Molmutine laws, 121, 125.

Monasteries, Amesbury, 73, 190, 229; Athel.
ney, 79; Banwell, 73; Hyde Abbey, 75;
Menevia, 271; Salisbury, 214; Shaftes
bury, 82; Wareham, 58; Wembury, 44
Morvid, consul of Gloucester, 266.
Morvidus, a tyrant of Britain, 133.

Natan-leod, king of the Britons, 7.
NENNIUS'S HISTORY OF THE BRITONS, vil,
383-416,

Nennius, brother of Cassibellaun, 135, 140, Rivallo, king of Britain, 120.

141.

Neot, St., vi, 60, 61, 66.

Nimech settles in Ireland, 389.
Novis, abp. of St. David's, 72.

Oak, peculiarly sacred to the Druids, 432.
Octa, son of Hengist, 187, 212, 213, 221-
228, 400.

Octavius (Eudav), rebels against the Ro-
mans, 164-168.

Offa, king of Mercia, 17-19, 47.

Ordinal of the British Church quoted, 375.
Osbert, king of Northumbria, 25, 52.
Osburga, king Alfred's mother, 44.
Oskytel, a Danish king, 30, 58.
Osric, king of Northumbria, 15, 285.
Ostorius, Roman governor, 443, 446, 448,
453, 469.

Oswald, king of Northumbria, 15, 285, 415.
Oswy, king of Northumbria, 13, 285-287.
Oxford university, 74.

Palladius, bishop, sent to the Scots, 6, 409.
Pandrasus, king of Greece, 92-99.
Parthlud, Ludgate, in London, 137.
Partholoim settles in Ireland, 131, 389.
Pascentius, son of Vortigern, 218-221.
Patrick, St., 271, 390, 407, 410, 411, 460.
Pelagian heresy, 187.

Penda, king of Mercia, 12, 284-288, 415.
Peredure deposes Elidure, 135.

Pertinex, Roman gov. of Britain, 471.
Pestilence among the birds, 13.
Petreius, Cotta, a Roman general, 256.

Petronius Turpilianus, a Roman governor
of Britain, 469.

Philænian altars in Africa, 101.

Pictavians, inhabitants of Poictou, 104.
Picts and Scots, 3, 39, 153, 159, 182-184,
305-308, 390, 394, 396, 467, 468.
Pir, an ancient British king, 136.
Plegmund, abp. of Canterbury, 38, 70.
Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, 353.
Polytetes, king of Bithynia, 266.
Porrex, king of Britain, 120.

Porrex, another king of Britain, 136.
Porsena, a Roman consul, killed, 130.
Port arrives in Britain, 7.

Posthumus, brother to Brutus, 387, 388.
Præsulagus, a British king, 446, 447.

Priwen, the name of Arthur's shield, 234.
Pyrannus, abp. of York, 237.

Quintilianus killed by Walgan, 255.

Raven, the Danish standard, 62.

Rederchius, an ancient king of Britain, 136.
Redion, an ancient king of Britain, 136.
Regau, daughter of king Leir, 116.
Reuda, king of the Picts, 466.
RICHARD OF CIRENCESTER'S HISTORY OF

BRITAIN, 419; account of the author,
xviii, 455, 456; discovery of his work, xx.
Riculf, king of Norway, defeated, 239..
Ritho, the giant, 252.

Robert, earl of Gloucester, 89, 90.
Rodric, king of the Picts, 153.
Rollo, duke of Normandy, 58, 59.
Roman governors of Britain, 465-471
Rome taken by Belinus, 129.

Ron, the name of Arthur's lance, 234.
Rowena, daughter of Hengist, 186-190.
Roy's Commentary on the campaigns of
Agricola, 450.

Rudaucus, king of Cambria, 121.

Runno, an ancient king of Britain, 136.

Sabre, daughter of Estrildis, 111.
Salomon, king of Armorica, 281.
Samuilpenissel, king of Britain, 136.
Samson, abp. of Dole, 245.
Sanxo, abp. of York, 217.

Saturninus, prefect of the Roman fleet, 471.
Saxons settle in Britain, 3-9, 183-191,
232-235, 272-274, 285-290, 396.
Scæva, son of Androgeus, 145.
Scots, their origin, 389, 459, 461.
Scots and Picts. See Picts.

Segerus consecrated with St. Patrick, 410.
Seginus, duke of the Allobroges, 126.
Sertorius, king of Libya, 266.

Severus, gov. of Britain, 156, 393-395, 471.
Severus's wall, 393, 448, 406.

Sexburga, queen of Wessex, 13.

Sigebert, king of the East Saxons, 11.
Sigebert, king of Wessex, 15.

Sisilius, name of three British kings, 120,
132, 136.

Staterius, king of Albania, 121.
Stilicho builds a wall, 467.
Stipendiary cities, 457.

Stuf, lord of the Isle of Wight, 7, 44.
Suard, king of the Franks, 120.
Suetonius, Roman British consul, 447, 466

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