Agriculture, state of, among the Anglo-
Saxon monks, 272.

Aidan, bishop, 71, 72.224

Aids, demanded from the ecclesiastical
treasuries, 423.

Alban, the first British martyr, 6. 153.

Alban's, St., 6; abbey and church of, 7.
153.

Alberic, bishop of Ostia, 313.

Albigenses, 440.

Albinus, Flaccus. See Alcuin.

Alcuin, or Flaccus Albinus, 137-139. 211.
Aldfrid, king of Northumbria, 96. 98.
Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne, 128. 131.

Aldred, archbishop of York, 202

Alfere, duke of Mercia, 194.

Alfred, King, reference to, 133. 163. 165-
177; ecclesiastical laws of, 331.

Alfrid, prince and afterwards king of Ber-
nicia, 74. 77, 78. 87.

Algar, caldorman of Lincolnshire, 164.
Alienation of estates of the clergy, 428.
Allectus, 6.

Allegiance, oath of, Anselm's refusal to
take, 303.

Alms-dealing by bishops, 226.
Alms-deeds, 219.

Alms, Wycliffe's use of the word, 450.
Alswithe, Queen, 174.

Altars, consecrated by the Anglo-Saxons,

Anglo-Saxon kings, their munificence to
the Church, 127; their piety, 128.
Anglo-Saxons, the, converted by Augus
tine, 44; their immorality, 146.
Anicetus, 22, 23.

Annals, the, of Wales, 14.
Annates, or first fruits, 407.

Anne of Bohemia, 455.

Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, 287-
318.

Antony the Cœnobite, 108.

Antichrist, the term applied by Wycliffe

to the Pope, 452.

Antioch, rank of the Church of, 34.

Apiarius, 30, 31.

Apostasy, punishment for, 480.
Apostolic succession, 22.

Appropriation of benefices, 429.
Aquinas, Thomas, 413. 434 441. 483.
Arbitrative jurisdiction amongst early
Christians, 330.
Archdeacons, 426.

Architecture, ecclesiastical, among the
Anglo-Saxons, 251, 250. 271; improve-
ment in, 438; the Early English style,
438; the Decorated style, 438; the
Perpendicular style, 438.

Arius, heresy of, 8.

Arles, Council of, 7; see of, 30.
Arnulf, count of Flanders, 184.

Arthur, duke of Brittany, 382.
Arthur, King, 12.

"Articuli Cleri," statute, 419.
Arundel, Archbishop, 455. 476. 482.
Ascetics, 107.

Ash-Wednesday, discipline of, 241.
Asia Minor, Churches of, 22.
Ασκηταί, 107.

Asser, bishop of Sherborne, 166.
Aston, John, 476.

Athanasius, 109.

Bacon, Roger, 413.

B.

Badby, a tailor, burnt, 482.

Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury, 379.
Balliol College, 444.

Bangor Iscoed, monastery of, 15. 18. 55.
Banns, 247.

Bapchild, laws of, 105.

Baptism, as administered by heretics, 25;
the office of, to be explained in En-
glish, 148; how administered in early
times, 247; infant, 246.

Bardney monastery destroyed, 164.
Bari, Council of, 297.

Basil, archbishop of Cæsarea, 109. 113.
Basilides, 25.

Battle Abbey, 205.

"Battle of the Standard," 322.

Bavaria converted, 141.

Beaufort, Cardinal, 503.

Bec, monastery of, 277; conference at,
308.

Becket, Thomas, 321-367; canonised,
375; shrine of, 375.

Bede, 5.9. 15. 17. 47, 48. 54. 56, 57. 64, 65.

71. 86. 101. 119. 132-136. 211. 216. 218.
224.

Benefices, sale of, 300; impropriation of,
429.

Benedictine rule, restored in England,
183.

Benedictines, the, 114 et seq.
Benedict of Nursia, 114.
Benedict I., Pope, 40.
Benedict X., Pope, 202.

Benedict Biscop, 77. 129; monastery of
at Wearmouth, 101.
Beornheim, Bishop, 195.
Berengarius, 216. 283. 432.
Berkshire, clergy of, 380.

Bernard, St., 319. 433.

Bernicia, kingdom of, 42. 67.

Berstead, laws of, 105.

Bertha, queen of Ethelbert, 42.

Berthwald, archbishop of Canterbury, 96.
128.

Berton, William de, 459.
Beverley, 492.

Bible, the, copies of, brought into Britain,
52, division of the, into chapters, 417;
translated into the Irish tongue, 443;
Wycliffe's translation of, 453; forbidden
to be even possessed by laymen, 455.
Birinus, 73.

Bishops, British, 7. 14; their temporal
position amongst the Anglo-Saxons,
125; right of appointment of, how li-
mited, 126; appointment of, by the
sovereign, 207; popular election of, 207;
royal mandate for consecration of, 207;
Anglo-Saxon notion of, 224; their juris-
diction in matters of conscience, 233;
precedence of, settled, 285; military,
415; politicians and statesmen, 416.
Bisi, bishop of East Anglia, 89.
Black friars, 411.

Bobbio, monastery of, 19.

Bodleian library, 53.

Bondmen protected by the laws of Ine,
254.

Boethius, Alfred's translation of, 168.
Boniface, apostle of Germany, 141–144.;
his letters to Ethelbald, king of Mercia,
145.

Boniface, Pope, 30. 63.

Boniface VIII., 402, 403. 414. 423.
Boniface, the archdeacon, 77.
Bookland or bocland, 124 note.
"Book of Llandaff," the, 14.

Bosa, archbishop of York, 93. 96. 98.
Bosham, monastery at, 81.
Bourchier, Archbishop, 503.

Britain, her conversion to Christianity, 4.
Bradwardine, Archbishop, 442.
Brantfield, Elias de, 384. 386.

Breakspeare, Nicholas. See Adrian IV.
"Bretwalda," the, 42.

British Church, origin of the, 4.
Brito, Richard, 364.

Bull "Unam Sanctam," 414.
Bure, in Normandy, $63.

Burning, the punishment for apostasy and
heresy, 480.

Byrthelm, bishop of Sherborne, 185.

Calixtus II., Pope, 315.
Calne, Council of, 195.
Candidus, 41.

Canon law, the, 332.

Canons, origin of, 119; residence of, 227;
secular, 380.

Canons, giving appellate jurisdiction to
Rome, 28.

"Canons of Elfric," the, 212.

Canossa, castle of, 301.

Canterbury, Church at, 42, 43; see of,
established, 54; monastery of, 54; Au-
gustine's library at, 87; see of, par-
titioned, 150; restored, 151; cathedral
destroyed by the Danes, 199; rebuilt
by Lanfranc, 285; see of, vacant, 287;
its metropolitan authority over Scotland
and Ireland, 316; revenues of see of,
confiscated, 349; cathedral restored
after its desecration, 374; Hall, founded,
444.

"Capitula," the, of archbishop Theodore,

120. 123.

Carausius, 5.

Carlisle, see of, 317.

"Caroline Books," the, 158.
Carmelites, 410.

Carthage, Councils of, 26.
Carthusians, 319.

Cathari, 440.

Cashel, Synod of, 371.

Ceadda. See Chad.

Cedd, bishop of the West Saxons, 75. 78.
80. 101.

Celestine, Pope, 9. 31.

Celibacy, clerical, 188. 284; tyranny of,
compulsory, 197.

Ceolwulph, king of Northumbria, 136.
Chad, 87. 119. 126.

Chalcedon, Council of, 32.

Chanting, practice of, among the Anglo-
Saxons, 246.

Chantries, foundation of, 435.

Chapters, election of, interfered in by the
Pope, 401.

Charlemagne, 158. 149; laws of, 330.

Charters of exemption to aboeys, 207.

Charter, the, of Henry I. to the Church,

origin of the, 1; first endowed with
lands, 118.

Church property, origin and date of, 106.
Church-shot, 179.

Churchwardens, first mentioned, 426.
"Circumspecte agatis," statute, 419.
Cistercians, 319.

Civil war, in England, 321.
Clarendon, Council of, 336;

"Constitu-

tions of," 337. 348. 351. 354. 373. 427.
Claudius, bishop of Turin, 439.
Claydon, John, burnt, 494.

Clergy, orders of the, 106; state of the,
during the reign of Edgar, 186; dis-
putes of, with the monks, 194; mar-
riage of the, 317; exempted from crimi-
nal prosecutions, 333; punished by King
John for obeying an interdict, 389; tem-
poral condition of, 415; exemption of,
from jurisdiction of State, 418; outlawed,
423; moral state of the, 436.
Clement of Rome, 4.

Clement, bishop of Utrecht, 140.
Clement III., 290.
Clement IV., 403.

Clement V., 403.

Clifford, Sir Lewis, 449.

Cloveshoo, Council of, 89. 147. 151. 218.
227.239. 244.254.

Clugny, monks of, 319.

Cnut, king of Denmark, 127. 199-201;
ecclesiastical laws of, 331.

Cobham, Lord, 487.

Coedwalla, king of Wessex, 95.
Cœnobites, 108. 114.

Coenred, king of Mercia, 98.

Coifi, the heathen priest, 65, 66.

Coinwalch, king of Wessex, 73.

Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne, 78, 79, 80.
Columba, 17. 79; monastery of, 355.
Columbanus, 18.

Commandment, the second, omitted, 170.
432.

Commendams, 410.

Communion, the Holy, Anglo-Saxon
canons respecting, 245.
Compline, 245.

Compurgation, 421.

Conception, the Immaculate, festival of,
instituted, 434.

Confession, auricular, amongst the Anglo-
Saxons, 235.

Confessions, he, of Wycliffe, 466.

Confirmation among the Anglo-Saxons,
247.

Constance, Council of, 474. 495.

Constans, the Emperor, 27.

Constantine Copronymus, 156.

Constantine, the Emperor, 7, 8. 27.

Constantinople, rank of the see of, 29;

Councils of, 29. 36. 157. 188.

Constantius Chlorus, 7. 27.

Constitutions of archbishop Arundel, 484.

"Constitutions of Clarendon," 337. 343.
Convocation, its origin, 424; at Oxford,

466,

Cornelius, bishop of Rome, 25.

Corpus Christi College library, 53.
Corpus Christi, festival of, 432.

Edward the Confessor, 201-203; laws of,
397.

Edward the Elder, 178; ecclesiastical
laws of, 331.

Edward the Martyr, 194.

Edwin, king of Northumbria, 62. 64. 68.
69, 70.

Edwy, king of England, 183.

Egbert, Archbishop, 121. 128. 136, 137.
Egbert, first king of England, 160.
Egferth, king of Mercia, 150.
Egfrid, king of Northumbria, 91.

Egypt, the birthplace of monachism, 108.
Eleutherius, bishop of Rome, 5.

Eleutherius, bishop of Wessex, 74. 89
Elfgiva, Queen, 183-185.

Elfsy, bishop of Winchester, 185.
Elipandus, doctrines of, 139.
Elizabeth, Queen, reference to, 1.
Elmham, see of, 102.

Elphege, bishop of Winchester, 181.
Elphege, archbishop of Canterbury, 199.
Ely, abbey of, 165. 187.316; see of, 317.
Endowments, church, Wycliffe's opinion
on, 450.

England, placed under an interdict, 388;
the interdict revoked, 396; kingdom of
surrendered by King John to the Pope,
393.

Eoban, Bishop, 143.

Eorpwald, king of East Anglia, 67.

Ephesus, Council of, 23.

Erasmus, 435.

Eremites, Augustinian, 411.

Erigena, 168 note.

Ermenburga, queen of Northumbria, 91.
Ermenfrid, papal legate, 276.
Essex settled by the Saxons, 11.

Ethelbald, king of Mercia, 145. 147. 149.
Ethelberga, 62. 67. 70.

Ethelbert, King, and " Bretwalda,"42-60.
Etheldrida, queen of Northumbria, 91.
Ethelflede, 182.

Ethelfloed, 178.

Ethelfrid, king of Northumbria, 58.
Ethelgeove, abbess, 174

Ethelnoth, archbishop of Canterbury, 127.
Ethelred, king of Mercia, 97.

Ethelred I., king of England, 164, 165.

Ethelred II., 195; ecclesiastical laws of,
124. 331.

Ethelwalch, king of Sussex, 81.

Ethelwold, bishop of Winchester, 185.
191.

Ethelwulf, king of England, 162.

Euchites, the, 113.

Europe ravaged by the Northmen, 161.
Eusebius, 24.

Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, his clerical
monasteries, I11.
Eutyches, 32.

"Excerptions," the, of archbishop Egbert,
123.

Excommunication, sentence of, against

King John, 389; against Grostete,
bishop of Lincoln, 408; for what of-
fences imposed, 421; consequences, 421;
the greater and lesser, 456 note.
Exemption of the clergy, fiscal, 422.