AARON, his priesthood no pattern to | ground episcopacy on, 33. Abimelech, remarks on the manner of his death, 357.
Abraham, commanded by God to send away his irreligious wife, 131. His pay- ing tithes to Melchisedec, no authority for our paying them now, 426, 430, 435. Abramites, allege the example of the an- cient fathers for image-worship, 27. Accidence, reasons for joining it and gram- mar together, 457.
Acworth, University-Orator, the memory of Bucer and Fagius celebrated by him, 160. Adam, left free to choose, 110. Created in the image of God, 178. His alliance with Eve, nearer than that of any couple since,
Adda, succeeds his father Ida in the king- dom of Bernicia, 512. Adminius, son of Cunobeline, banished his
country, flees to the emperor Caligula, and stirs him up against it, 488. Adultery, not the only reason for divorce, according to the law of Moses, 125. Not the greatest breach of matrimony, 133. Punished with death by the law, 206. Our Saviour's sentence relating to it, explain- ed, 207.
Eduans, in Burgundy, employ the Britons to build their temples and public edifices,
Aganippus, a Gaulish king, marries Cor- deilla, daughter of King Leir, 480. Re- stores her father to his throne, ib. Agatha, decree of the council there, con- cerning divorce, 214. Agricola, son of Severianus, spreads the Pe- Tagian doctrine in Britain, 505. Aidan, a Scotch bishop, sent for by Oswald, to settle religion, 519. Has his episcopal seat at Lindisfarne, ib. Dies for grief of the murder of Oswin, 520. Alaric, takes Rome from the emperor Ho norius, 501.
Alban, of Verulam, with others, suffers mar- tyrdom under Dioclesian, 409. Albanact, one of the three sons of Brutus, that has Albania, now Scotland, for his share in the kingdom, 478. Albert, said to have shared the kingdom of the East-Angles with Humbeanna after Elfwald, 528.
Albina, said to be the eldest of Dioclesian's 50 daughters, 476. From her the name Albion derived, ib. Albion, the ancient name of this island, 476. Whence derived, ib. Alciat, his opinion concerning divorce, 218. Alcred slaying Ethelwald, usurps the king- dom of the Northumbrians, 525. Aldfrid, recalled from Ireland, succeeds his brother Ecfrid in the Northumbrian king- dom, 523. Leaves Osred, a child, to suc- ceed him, ib.
Aldulf, nephew of Etheldwald, succeeds king of the East-Angles, 528.
Alectus, treacherously slays his friend Ca- rausius, 498. Is overthrown by Asclepio- dotus, and slain, 499. Alemannus, reported one of the four sons of Histion, descended from Japhet; of whom the Alemanni or Germans, 476. Alfage, archbishop of Canterbury, inhu- manly used by the Danes, 547. Killed by Thrun, a Dane, in commiseration of his misery, ib.
Alfred, the fourth son of Ethelwolf, and successor of his brother Ethelred, encoun- ters the Danes at Wilton, 533. Routs the whole Danish power at Edinton, and brings them to terms, 534. He is said to have bestowed the East-Angles upon Gy- tro, a Danish king, who had been lately baptized, ib. A long war afterwards maintained between him and the Danes, ib. 535. He dies in the 30th year of his reign, and is buried at Winchester, 535. His noble character, ib. 536. Alfwold, driving out Eardulf, usurps the kingdom of Northumberland, 528. Algar, earl of Howland, now Holland, Mor- car, lord of Brunne, and Osgot, governor of Lincoln, kill a great multitude of Danes in battle, with three of their kings, 532. Overpowered by numbers, and drawn into a snare, Algar dies valiantly fighting, ib. Algar, the son of Leofric, banished by King Edward, joins Griffin prince of South- Wales, 557. Unable to withstand Harold earl of Kent, submits to the king, and is restored, ib. Banished again, he recovers his earldom by force, ib. Alipius, made deputy of the British pro- vince, in the room of Martinus, 499. Alla, begins the kingdom of Deira, in the south part of Northumberland, 512, 513. Alric, king of Kent, after Ethelbert the 2d, 526. With him dying, ends the race of Hengist, 527.
Ambassador. See French, Spanish, &c. Ambassadors of Christ, who style them- selves so, 435. Not to ask maintenance of those to whom they are sent, ib. Ambrose, his notion of wedlock, 214 Ex- communicated Theodosius, 334. His con- duct to that emperor remarked, 365. Re- sists the higher powers, contrary to his own doctrine, 373. Ambrosius Aurelianus, dreaded by Vorti- gern, 509. Defeats the Saxons, ib. Un- certain whether the son of Constantine the usurper, or the same with Merlin, and son of a Roman consul, ib. Succeeds Vortigern as chief monarch of the isle, ib. Ames, Dr. his definition of marriage, 186. Anabaptists, accused of denying infants their right to baptism, 563. Anacletus, the friend of King Pandrasus, taken in fight by Brutus, 477. Forced by Brutus to betray his countrymen, ib. Andragius, one in the catalogue of ancient British kings, 482.
Andrews, bishop, and the primate of Ar-
magh, maintain that church-government is to be patterned from the law, 32. Their arguments for episcopacy examined, 34, &c.
Androgeus, one of Lud's sons, has London assigned him, and Kent, 492. Forsakes his claim to the kingdom, and follows Cæsar's fortune, 488.
Angels, of the seven Asian churches, whe- ther to be taken collectively, or individu- ally, 67.
Anger, and laughter, why first seated in the breast of men, 55. Animadversions on the Remonstrant's De- fence against Smectymnuus, 55. Anlaf the Dane, with his army of Irish, and Constantine king of Scotland, utterly dis- comfited by King Athelstan, 539. Anna succeeds Sigebert in the kingdom of the East-Angles, 520. Is slain in war by Penda the Mercian, ib.
Antigonus, the brother of King Pandrasus, taken in fight by Brutus, 477. Antinomianism and Familism, considered,
Antioch, had not the name of Theopolis, till Justinian's time, 24.
Antiquity, custom, canons, and councils, no warrant for superstitious practices, 65. Antoninus, sent against the Caledonians, by his father Severus, 498. After whose death he takes hostages, and departs to Rome, ib.
Antony, Mark, quoted by Salmasius for the prerogative royal, 353. Apocalypse, of St. John, the majestic image of a stately tragedy, 43. Apology for Smectymnuus, 75. Apostles, instituted presbyters to govern the church, 38 Appointed a number of grave and faithful brethren to assist the minister of each congregation, 49. Not properly bishops, 316.
Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney's; K. C.'s prayer stolen thence, 279. Archigallo, deposed for his tyranny, 482. Being restored by his brother, he then reigns worthily, ib. Archimailus, one in the number of ancient British kings, 482. Areopagitica, speech for unlicensed print- ing under that title, 103. Areopagus, judges of, condemn the books of Protagoras to be burned, 105. Aretius, his opinion concerning divorce,
218. Argentoco.rus, a Caledonian, his wife's bold reply to the empress Julia, 497. Arians and Socinians, their notions of the Trinity, 563.
Ariminum, synod of more than 400 bishops appointed to assemble there, by Con- stantius, 499.
Aristotle, his definition of a king, 234. Reckons up five sorts of monarchies, 350. Salmasius's extract from his third book of politics, 375. Commends the kingdom of
the Lacedemonians, 385. His definition | Basil, his opinion as to divorce, 214. Calls of a tyrant, 406. Arminians, their tenets, 563.
Armorica in France, peopled by Britons that fled from the Saxons, 508. Army, English, offered the spoil of London, if they would destroy the parliament, 284. Obedience and fidelity to the supreme magistrates recommended to them, 439. Aron, a British martyr under Dioclesian, 499. Arthur, the victory at Badon-hill, by some ascribed to him, which by others is attri. buted to Ambrose, 510. Who he was, and whether the author of such famous acts as are related of him, ib. 511. Artis Logicæ plenior Institutio, 861. Arviragus, engaging against Claudius, keeps up the battle to a victory, by per- sonating his slain brother Guiderius,
489. Ascham, Anthony, sent as agent to Spain, from the English commonwealth, 588. Justice demanded of the king of Spain against his murderers, 591. Assaracus, a Trojan prince, joins with Brutus against Pandrasus, 477. Assembly of divines, Tract of divorce ad- dressed to them, 120.
Athanasius, his notion concerning kings, 365.
Athelstan, the son of King Edward the elder, by a concubine, solemnly crowned at Kingston upon Thames, 538. The con- spiracy of one Alfred and his accomplices against him discovered, ib. He gives his sister Edgith to Sitric the Dane, but drives Anlaf and Guthfert out of their kingdom, ib. The story of his dealing with his brother Edwin, questioned as improba. ble, ib. 539. He overthrows a vast army of Scotch and Irish, under Anlaf and Constantine, king of Scotland, 539. He dies at Gloucester, and is buried at Malmsbury, 540. His character, ib. Athens, their magistrates took notice only of two sorts of writings, 105. Atticots invade the south coast of Britain, 500.
Augustus, libels burnt, and the authors punished by him, 105.
Aulus Plautius sent against Britain by the emperor Claudius, 488. He overthrows Caractacus and Togodumnus, 489. Is very much put to it by the Britons, ib. Sends to Claudius to come over, and joins with him, ib. Leaves the country quiet, and returns triumphant to Rome, ib. Aurelius Conanus, a British king, one of the five that is said to have reigned to- ward the beginning of the Saxon hep- tarchy, 513.
Austin, what he accounted a becoming solace for Adam, 181. Allows fornication a sufficient cause for divorce, 214. His opinion why God created a wife for Adam, 225. A maintainer of the clergy's right to tithes, 429. Sent with others from Rome, to preach the gospel to the Saxons, 514. Is received by King Ethel- bert, who hears him in a great assembly, ib 515. Is ordained archbishop of the English, 515. Hath his seat at Canter- bury, ib. Summons together the British bishops, requiring them to conform with him in points wherein they differed, 516. Upon their refusal, he stirs up Ethelfrid against them, to the slaughter of 1200 monks, 516.
Austria, archduke of, see Leopold. Autarchy, mentioned by Marcus Aurelius, what it is, 354.
Authorities, for the difference of bishops and presbyters, not to be depended on, 28.
Bacon, Sir Francis, his complaint of the bishops' partiality in licensing pamph- lets, 57.
Badiaus, John, letter to, 962. Badon-hill, the ill improvement the British made of their success there, 512. Bangor, monks of, live by their own labour, 516. Go to a conference with Austin, ib. Baptism, sacrament of, seems cancelled by the sign added thereto, 46. Barclay, traduces the English as to their religious tenets, 40. Bardus, one of the first race of kings, fabled to have reigned in this island, 476. De- scended from Samothes, ib.
the bishops slaves of slaves, 317. Bath, by whom built, 479. Its medicinal waters dedicated to Minerva, ib. Bees, the government among them quoted to prove the pope's supremacy, 350. Belfast, representation and exhortation of the presbytery there, 260, &c. Remarks on them, 266, &c.
Belgia, Helvetia, and Geneva, their church- men remarkable for learning, 71. Belinus succeeds his father Dunwallo, 481. His contentions with his brother Bren- nus, ib. Their reconciliation, ib. Built the Tower of London, ib. Beorn, precedes Ethelred in the kingdom of the East-Angles, 528. Bericus, fleeing to Rome, persuades the em- peror Claudius to invade this island, 488. Berinus, a bishop sent by pope Honorius, converts the West-Saxons and their kings to Christianity, 519. Bernicia, kingdom of, in Northumberland, begun by Ida the Saxon, 511.
Bernulf, usurping the kingdom of Mercia from Keolwulf, is overthrown by Ecbert at Ellandune, 528. Fleeing to the East- Angles, is by them slain, ib.
Beza, his interpretation of the word peaßv- Téptov, 66. His opinion, of regulating sin by apostolic laws, not sound, 148. His testimony concerning Martin Bucer, 159. His notion concerning divorce, 218. Bible, put by the papists in the first rank of prohibited books, 108 Bigot, Emeric, letter to, 960. Birthric, king of the West Saxons after Kin- wulf, 526. Secretly seeks the life of Ec- bert, 527. Is poisoned by a cup which his wife had prepared for another, 528. Bishop and deacon, the only ecclesiastical orders mentioned in the gospel, 28. Bishop and presbyter, two names to signify the same order, 27. Equally tyrants over learning, if licensing be brought in, 113. Bishopric, the author's opinion of it, 91. Bishops, have been as the Canaanites and Philistines to this kingdom, 13. By their opposition to King John, Normandy lost, he deposed, and the kingdom made over to the pope, ib. No bishop, no king, an absurd position, ib. Sometimes we read of two in one place, 26. Not an order above presbyters, ib. Elected with con- tention and bloodshed, 37. St. Paul's de- scription of and exhortation to them, 65. Not to be compared with Timothy, 67. If made by God, yet the bishopric is the king's gift, 71. Most potent, when princes happen to be most weak, 316. Bladud, the son of Rudhuddibras, builds Caerbadus, or Bath, 479. Bleduno, one in the number of the ancient British kings, 482. Blegabredus, his excellency in music, 482. Blindness, instances of men of worth af- flicted with, 926.
Boadicea, the wife of Prasutagus, together with her daughters, abused by the Roman soldiers, 491. Commands in chief in the British army against the Romans, 492. Vanquished by Suetonius, supposed to have poisoned herself, 493. Bodin, though a papist, affirms presbyte- rian church-discipline to be best, 48. Bonomattai, Benedict, letters to, 953. Bonosus, endeavouring to make himself emperor, but vanquished by Probus, hangs himself, 498. A sarcasm on his drunkenness, ib.
Books, the heinous crime of killing good ones, 104. Some good, some bad; left to each man's discretion, 107. Those of pa- pists suffered to be sold and read, 565. Bordelloes, author's defence from the ac- cusation of frequenting them, 80. Boris procures the death of the emperor of Russia, and then ascends the throne, 575. His method to procure the people's love, ib.
Bowes, Sir Jerom, ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to Russia, his reception and negociations at that court, 579-581. Bracton, the power of kings limited, ac- cording to him, 400. Bradshaw, John, character of, 937. Bradshaw, Richard, sent as agent from the English commonwealth, to Hamborough, Brandenburgh, Frederic William, marquis of, Oliver's letters to him, 624, 625. Bras, Lord Henry de, letters to, 960, 962. Breme, the Protector's letters to the consuls and senators of that city, 605, 624.
Brennus and Belinus, the sons of Dun- wallo Mulmutius, contend about the kingdom, 481. After various conflicts, reconciled by their mother Conuvenna, ib. They turn their united forces into foreign parts, but Belinus returns and reigns long in peace, ib.
Britain, history of the affairs thereof alto- gether obscure and uncertain, until the coming of Julius Cæsar, 475. Inhabited before the flood probably, ib. By whom first peopled, 476. Named first Samothea from Samothes, ib. Next Albion, and whence, ib. Fruitful of courageous men, but not of able governors, 503. Britomarus, mentioned by Florus, Briton, 481.
Britons, about forty years without a king, after the Romans quitted the island, 396. Stoutly oppose Cæsar at his landing, 484. Offer him terms of peace, ib. Their manner of fighting, 485, 486. A snarp dispute between the Britons and the Romans near the Stour in Kent, 486. De- feated by Cæsar, and brought anew to terms of peace, 487. Their nature and customs, ib. 488. Their massacre of the Romans, 492. This revenged by the Romans, 493. Lived formerly promiscu- ously and incestuously, 497. They are acquitted of the Roman jurisdiction by the emperor Honorius, not able to defend them against their enemies, 501. Again supplicate Honorius for aid, who spares them a Roman legion, 504. And again a new supply, ib. Their submissive let- ters to Etius the Roman consul, 505. Their luxury and wickedness, and cor- ruptions of their clergy, 506, 512. Their embassy to the Saxons for their aid against the Scots and Picts, with the Saxons' answer, 507. Miserably harassed by the Saxons whom they called in, ib. Routed by Kerdic, 510. By Kenric and Keaulin, 512, 513. By Cuthulf, 513. To- tally vanquish Keaulin, ib. Are put to flight by Kenwalk, 521. Brittenburgh, near Leyden, built or seized on by the Britons in their escape from Hengist, 508.
Britto, named among the four sons of His- tion, sprung of Japhet, and from him the Britons said to be derived, 476. Brook, Lord, for toleration, 117. Brownists, who are so, according to Sal- masius, 385.
Brutus, said to be descended from Æneas a Trojan prince, 476. Retiring into Greece after having unfortunately killed his father, he delivers his countrymen from the bondage of Pandrasus, 477. Marries Innogen, the eldest daughter of Pandrasus, ib. Lands upon a desert island called Leogecia, ib. Where he consults the oracle of Diana, ib. Meets with Corineus, 478. Overcomes Goffa- rius Pictus, ib. Arrives in this island, ib. Builds Troja Nova, now London, ib. Dies and is buried there, ib.
Brutus surnamed Greenshield, succeeds Ebrane, and gives battle to Brunchildis, 479.
Bucer, Martin, testimonies of learned men concerning him, 159, &c. His opinion concerning divorce, embraced by the church of Strasburgh, 161. His treatise of divorce dedicated to Edward VI, 164. Remarkable conclusion of his treatise of divorce, 173.
Buchanan, censured as an historian, 501, 515, 538.
Buckingham, duke of, accused of poisoning King James the first, 277. Burhed, reduces the north Welsh to obe- dience, 530. Marries Ethelswida the daughter of King Ethelwolf, ib. Driven out of his kingdom by the Danes, he flees to Rome, where dying, he is buried in the English school, 533. His kingdom let out by the Danes to Kelwulf, ib. Burials, reasons against taking of fees for them, 430.
Cadwallon, see Kedwalla. Casar, the killing him commended as a glorious action by M. Tullius, 382, 330. See Julius Cæsar.
Caius Sidius Geta, behaves himself valiant- ly against the Britons, 489. Caius Volusenus, sent into Britain by Ce- sar, to make discovery of the country and people, 484.
Caligula, a Roman emperor, his expedi- tion against Britain, 488.
Calvin, and Beza, the dissolvers of episco- pacy at Geneva, 25 Calvinists, taxed with making God the author of sin, 563. Camalodunum, or Maldon, the chief seat of Cymbeline, 488. Made a Roman co- lony, 490, 491.
Camber, one of the sons of Brutus, has allotted to him Cambria or Wales, 478. Cambridge, burnt by the Danes, 547. Cambridge University, thought to be founded by Sigebert king of the East- Angles, 520.
Cameron, his explanation of St. Paul's manner of speaking, 210.
Canterbury, by whom built, 479. Partly taken and burnt by the Danes, 547. Canute, son of Swane, chosen king after his father's death by the Danish army and fleet, 548. Driven back to his ships by Ethelred, ib. Returns with a great army from Denmark, accompanied with Lach- man king of Sweden, and Olav of Nor- way, ib. Attacks London, but is re- pulsed, 549. Divides the kingdom with Edmund by agreement, ib. After Ed- mund's death reigns sole king, 550. En- deavours the extirpation of the Saxon line, ib. Settles his kingdom, and makes peace with the neighbouring princes, ib. Causes Edric, whose treason he had made use of, to be slain, and his body to be thrown over the city-wall, ib. Sub- dues Norway, 551. Goes to Rome, and offering there rich gifts, vows amend- ment of life, ib. Dies at Shaftsbury,
and buried at Winchester, ib. His cen- sure, ib. His remarkable instance of the weakness of kings, 552.
Capis, one in the catalogue of the ancient British kings, 482.
Capoirus, another of the same number,
Caractacus, the youngest son of Cunobe- line, succeeds in the kingdom, 488. Is overthrown by Aulus Plautius, 489. Heads the Silures against the Romans, 490. Betrayed by Cartismandua, to whom he fled for refuge, ib. Sent to Rome, ib. His speech to the emperor, ib. By the braveness of his carriage, he obtains pardon for himself and all his company, ib.
Carausius, grown rich with piracy, pos- sesses himself of this island, 498 He fortifies the wall of Severus, ib. In the midst of the great preparations of Con- stantius Chlorus against him, he is slain by his friend Alectus, ib. Carinus, sent by his father Carus the em- peror, to govern Britain, is overcome and slain by Dioclesian, 498. Carlisle, by whom and when built. 479. Cartismandua, queen of the Brigantes, de- livers Caractacus bound to the Romans, 490. Deserts her husband Venutius, and gives both herself and kingdom to Vello- catus, one of his squires, 491. Carvilius, the first Roman who sought di- vorce, and why, 180.
Carvilius, a petty king in Britain, with three others, assaults the Roman camp, 487.
Caryl, Mr. (author of the comment on Job,) remarks on his conduct as a licenser, 221, 222.
Cassibelan, one of the sons of Heli, gains the kingdom by common consent, 482. Generosity to his brother's son, ib. Heads the Britons against Julius Cæsar and the Romans, 486. He is deserted by the Trinobantes, and why, 487. Yields to Cæsar, ib. Dies, and is buried at York, ib.
Cassius, how treated for killing Caligula, 382.
Cataracta, an ancient city in Yorkshire, burnt by Arnred a tyrant, 526. Catellus, an ancient British king, 482. Cathay, description of that country and in- habitants, 572.
Cerdic, a Saxon prince, lands at Cerdic- shore, and overthrows the Britons, 509. Defeats their king Natanleod in a memo- rable battle, 510. Founds the kingdom of the West Saxons, ib. See Kerdic. Ceremonies, oppose the reason and end of the gospel, 45. Frustrate the end of Christ's coming in the flesh, 48. Chancelor, Richard, his arrival at Moscow, and reception there, 578. Chaplains, what they are, 324.
Charity, the fulfilling of the law, 122.--and | Cingetorir, a petty king in Britain, assaults mutual forbearance, means to abate popery, 565.
Charles I. censured for dissolving parlia- ments, 276. Remarks on his devotion, 278, 279. How attended to the house of cominons, 282. His conduct towards the Irish rebels, 306. His indecent behaviour in the playhouse, &c. 371. Charged with poisoning his father, 384 With several irregular actions, 400. His flight to the Isle of Wight, 943.
Charles II. declared he would never pardon those who put his father to death, though this was said to be his father's dying in- junction, 939.
Charles V, how he deceived many German cities, 305.
Charles Gustavus, king of Sweden, letters from Oliver to, 604, 605, 007, 611, 613, 615, 618, 619, 624, 628, 633. From Richard the protector, 634, 635. From the parliament restored, 637.
Chastity, the defence of it recommended,
Chrysostom, St. was an admirer of Aris- tophanes, 105. His explanation of St. Paul's epistle relating to obedience to the higher powers, 362, 396.
Church, of the Reformation of the Disci- pline of, in England, and the causes that have prevented it, I. The likeliest means to remove hirelings out of the, 423. Church, not to be reformed while governed by prelates, 30. Its constitution and fabric set out in the prophecy of Ezekiel, 31. When able to do her great works upon the unforced obedience of men, it argues a divinity about her, 47. Her humility procures her the greatest re- spect, ib. Design of the prelates in call- ing the church Our mother, 72. Demands our obedience when she holds to the rules of Scripture, 329. Excommunicates not to destruction, 422. Will not cease to persecute till it ceases to be mercenary,
Church of England, honours and prefer- ments should not be the incitements to her service, 70, 71. Difference between the church of Rome and her, 330. Main- tains that the word of God is the rule of true religion, and rejects implicit faith,
Church-discipline, dangerous to be left to man's invention, 31. Church-government, its form prescribed in the gospel, 29, 31. Not to be patterned by the law, 32. Its government by pre- lates fosters papists and idolaters, 40. Its corrupted estate both the cause of tumult and civil wars, 41. Its functions to be free and open to any christian man,
Churchmen, sometimes preach their own follies, not the gospel. 92. Time-servers, covetous, &c. ib. Their deficiency in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew learning, ib. 93. Their weakness, in calling on the civil magistrate to assist them, 418. By whom to be maintained, 430. Lived at first upon the benevolence of their hear- ers, 434.
Cicero, an enemy to tyranny, 350. Ap- proves the killing of Cæsar, 382, 390. Af- firms that all power proceeds from the people, 395.
the Roman camp, 487. Is taken prisoner by Cæsar, ib.
Claudius, the emperor, is persuaded by Bericus, though a Briton, to invade this island, 488. Sends Aulus Plautius hither with an army, ib. He comes over him- self and joins with Plautius, 489. feats the Britons in a set battle, and takes Camalodunum, ib. Returns to Rome, leaving Plautius behind, ib. He has ex- cessive honours decreed him by the se- nate, ib.
Clemens Alexandrinus, no authority for bishops being above presbyters, to be found in his works, 26. His counsel to the presbyters of Corinth, 39. Clergy, should be patterns of temperance, and teach us to contemn the world, 53. Advised not to gape after preferments, 69. Their condition in England, 940. Clergy, British, their bad character by Gildas, 512
Cliguellius, an ancient British king, 482. Clodius Albinus succeeds Pertinax in the government of Britain for the Romans, 497. Is vanquished and slain in a battle against Septimus Severus, ib. Cloten, reigned king of Cornwall, 480. Clotenus, an ancient British king, 482. Cloud, one sometimes fiery, sometimes bloody, seen over all England, 544. Coillus, an ancient British king, 482. Coilus, the son of Marius, leaves the king- dom to Lucius, 496.
Colasterion, a defence of the doctrine and discipline of divorce, so called, 220. Comail, and two other British kings, slain by Keaulin, and his son Cuthwin, 513. Comet, one seen in August 678, in manner of a fiery pillar, 522. Two appear about the sun, 524. Portending famine, and the troubled state of the whole realm, 543. Or blazing star, seen to stream terribly over England, and other parts of the world, 559. Comius of Arras, sent by Cæsar to make a
party among the Britons, 484. Commodus, slain by his own officers, de- clared an enemy to his country, 383. Commons, with the king, make a good par- liament, 395, 398. Their grant to K. Richard II., and K. Henry IV., 400. Commonwealth, of England, more equally balanced than any other civil govern- ment, 17. Means proposed to heal the ruptures in it, 439. A free commonwealth delineated, 441. Reasons for establishing one, 442, &c. Comes nearest to the go- vernment recommended by Christ, 444. Preferable to monarchy, 455. Conanus, Aurelius, an ancient British king,
Condidan, a British king, vanquished and slain, 513.
Conscience, not to be forced in religious matters, 413, &c. Constans, the emperor, put to death by the christian soldiers, 373. Of a monk made emperor, 501. Reduces Spain, ib. Dis- placing Gerontius, is opposed by him, and slain, ib.
Constantine, makes war upon Licinius, and why, 373.
Constantine, the son of Constantius Chlorus, saluted emperor after his father's death, 499. His mother said to be Helena the daughter of Coilus a British prince, ib. His eldest son enjoys this island, ib. A common soldier of the same name saluted emperor, 501. By the valour of Edebe- cus and Gerontius, he gains in France as far as Arles, ib. By the conduct of his son Constans, and of Gerontius, he re- duces all Spain, ib. Gerontius displaced by him, calls in the Vandals against him, ib. Besieged by Constantius Comes, he turns priest, is afterwards carried into Italy, and put to death, ib. Constantine, the son of Cador, sharply in- veighed against by Gildas, 513. He is said to have murdered two young princes of the blood royal, ib. Constantine, king of Scotland, joining with the Danes and Irish under Anlaf, is over- thrown by Athelstan, 539. Constantius Chlorus sent against Carausius, 498. Defeats Alectus, who is slain in the battle, ib. Is acknowledged by the Britons as their deliverer, 499. Divides the em- pire with Galerius, ib. Dies at York, ib. Constantius, the son of Constantine, over- comes Magnentius, who contended with him for the sole empire, 499.
Consubstantiation, not a mortal error, 563. Contention, in ministers of the gospel, scarce allowable even for their own rights, 423.
Copulation, no longer to be esteemed matri- monial, than it is an effect of love, 185. Cordeilla's sincere answer to her father, begets his displeasure, 479. She is mar- ried to Aganippus, a king in Gaul, 480. She receives her father, rejected by his other daughters, with most dutiful af- fection, ib. Restores him to his crown, and reigns after him, ib. Vanquished, deposed, and imprisoned by her two sis- ters' sons, ib. Corineus, a Trojan commander, joins forces with Brutus, 478. Slays Imbertus, ib. Arrives with Brutus in this island, ib. Cornwall from him denominated falls to his lot, ib. Overcomes the giant Goema- gog, ib.
Corinthians, governed by presbyters, 36. Schism among them not remedied by episcopacy, ib.
Coronation-Oath, some words said to be struck out of it, 409.
Covenant, what it enjoined, 268. Council, General, what their power and employment, 446. Should be perpetual, ib. Instances of the perpetuity of such a council among other states, ib. Council, Saxon, of little authority, 224 Council of nobles and prelates at Caln in Wiltshire, killed and maimed by the fall- ing in of the room, where they sate, 543. Council of State, their reply to the Danish ambassadors, &c. 597.
Councils and Fathers, an entangled wood, which papists love to fight in, 562. Courland, duke of, Oliver's letter to him, 623.
Craig, John, his opinion of kings, 238. Cranmer, and the other bishops, concur in setting aside the princesses Mary and Elizabeth, 3.
Crida, the first of the Mercian kingdom, 513.
Criminal, more just to try one by a court of justice, than to butcher him without trial, 344.
Crowns, a clerical debate about the right shaving them, 521. Cromwell, his actions compared with those of the earl of Ormond, 265. His state letters, 603, 792. His character, 944. Cuichelm, the West-Saxon, sends Eumerus to assassinate King Edwin, 517. Is bap- tized in Dorchester, but dies the same year, 519. Cullen, council there, voted tithes to be God's rent, 429.
Cunedagius, the son of Regan, deposeth his aunt Cordeilla, 480. Shares the king- dom with his cousin Marganus, is in- vaded by him, meets him and overcomes him, ib.
Cuneglas, a British king, reigns one of five a little before the Saxons were settled, 513.
Cunobeline, see Kymbeline. Cutha, helps his father Keaulin against Ethelbert, 512.
Cuthred, king of the West-Saxons, joins with Ethelbald the Mercian, and gains a victory over the Welsh, 525. He has a fierce battle with Ethelbald the Mercian, which he not long survives, ib. A king of Kent of the same name, 528. Cuthulf, the brother of Keaulin, vanquishes the Britons at Bedanford, and takes seve- ral towns, 513. Cuthwin, see Keaulin. Cyprian, unwilling to act without the as- sent of his assistant laics, 49. Episco- pacy in his time, different from what it been since, 58.
Danaus, the story of him and his fifty daughters, 380.
Danes, first appear in the west, 526. They slay the king's gatherer of customs, ib. Landing at Lindisfarne in Yorkshire, they pillage that monastery, 527. At- tempting to spoil another monastery, they are cut off by the English, ib. Waste and destroy Northumberland, 529. They waste Shepey in Kent, and engage with Ecbert, near the river Carr, ib. Are put to flight by Ecbert, 530. Their various success in the reign of Ethelwolf, ib. &c. Many great battles between them and
the English in the reign of Ethelred, 532. Their whole army being defeated, they are brought to terms by King Alfred, 534 In the same king's reign, several vast fleets of Danes arrive with fresh sup- plies, ib. 535. Many thousands destroyed at Colchester, and in their retreat from Maldon, 537. A vast army of them over- thrown by King Athelstan, 539. Massa- cred by the English in all parts of the land in the reign of King Ethelred, 545. Danish ambassadors, answers to them from the council of state, 597. Danius, reckoned among the ancient Bri- tish kings, 481.
Dantzick, complained of, for imposing a tribute on the English merchants, for re- lief of the king of Scots, 592. Oliver's letter to the consuls and senators of that republic, 623.
David, his exclamation in the 51st Psalm explained, 234. Absolved by God him- self from the guilt of his sin, 355. His conduct towards Saul accounted for, 368. Compared with King Charles, 371. Dedication, remarks on one to our Saviour, 77.
Dee, John, the mathematician, invited to Moscow, 581.
Defence of the people of England against Salmasius, 338. In the original Latin, 649 Second, against an writer, 919. In the original Latin, 707. Of the author against Alexander More, in Latin, 733.
Deira, kingdom of, in Northumberland, set up by Alla, the West-Saxon, 512, 513. Demetrius Evanowich, emperor of Russia, an impostor, dragged out of his bed, and pulled to pieces, 575.
Denmark, king of, see Frederick III. Deodate, Charles, letters to, 952, 954. Deruvianus, see Faganus. Digression, concerning the affairs of church and state, in 1631, 502, &c. Dinothus, abbot of Bangor, his speech to bishop Austin, 516.
Dioclesian, a king of Syria, and his fifty daughters, said to have been driven upon this island, 476.
Dioclesian, the emperor, persecuted his christian subjects, 499.
Diodorus, his account how the Ethiopians punish criminals, 379.-of the succession to kingdoms, 391.
Diogenes, his delineation of a king, 380. Dionysius Alexandrinus, commanded in a vision to read any books whatever, 107.
Dis, the first peopler of this island, as some fabulously affirm, the same with Samo- thes, 476.
Disciples of Christ, their saying relating to marriage, explained, 207. Discipline, in the church, necessary to re- move disorder, 29. Its definitive decrees to be speedy, but the execution of rigour slow, 47.
Dispensation, what it is, 141.
Divines, advice to them not to be disturb- ers of civil affairs, 242. Divorce, arguments for it, addressed to the parliament and assembly, 120, &c. In- disposition, unfitness, or contrariety of mind, a better reason for it than natural frigidity, 125. Reasons for it, 126-130, 133-135. An idolatrous heretic to be di- vorced, when no hope of conversion, 130. To prohibit divorce sought for natural causes, is against nature, 133. Christ neither did nor could abrogate the law of divorce, 136. Permitted for hardness of heart, not to be understood by the common exposition, 137. How Moses allowed of it, 143. The law of divorce not the premises of a succeeding law, 145. A law of moral equity, 146 Not permitted, from the custom of Egypt, 147. Moses gave not this law unwill. ingly, ib. Not given for wives only, 149 Christ's sentence concerning it, how to be expounded, 150. To be tried by conscience, 155. Not to be restrained by law, 157. Will occasion few inconveni- ences, ib. No inlet to licence and con- fusion, 189. The prohibition of it avails to no good end, 192 Either never esta- blished or never abolished, 196. Lawful to Christians for many causes equal to adultery, 216. Maintained by Wickliff, Luther, and Melancthon, 217. By Eras- mus, Bucer, and Fagius, ib. By Peter Martyr, Beza, and others, 217-219. What the ancient churches thought of divorce,
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 120. Judgment of Martin Bucer, concerning, 159. Defence of that tract, 220, &c. Ar- guments against it refuted, 222, &c. Domitian, the killing of him commended by Pliny, 382.
Donaldus, said to have headed the Caledo- nians against Septimius Severus, 498 Donaldus, king of Scotland, brought to hard conditions by Osbert and Ella, kings of Northumberland, 531. Downam, bishop, his opinion of the oppo- sers of the episcopal government, 63. Druids, falsely alleged out of Cæsar to have forbidden the Britons to write their memorable deeds, 475. Uttering direful prayers, astonish the Romans, 491. Their destruction in the isle of Anglesey, an- ciently Mona, ib.
Druis, the third from Samothes, fabulously written the most ancient king in this island, 476.
Drunkenness, how to be prevented, 193. Duina, river, account of its fall into the sea at Archangel, 568. Dunstan, sent by the nobles to reprove King Edwy, for his luxury, 541. Banished by the king, and his monastery rifled, ib. Recalled by King Edgar, ib. His mira- culous escape when the rest of the com- pany were killed by the fall of a house, 543. His saying of Ethelred, at the time of his being baptized, 544. His death and character, ib.
Dunwallo Molmutius, son of Cloten, king of Cornwall, reduces the whole island into a monarchy, 480. Said to be the first British king that wore a crown of gold, ib. Establishes the Molmutine laws, ib. Durstus, king of the Picts, said to be slain by the joint forces of the Britons and Romans, 504.
Dutch, summary of the damages received from them by the East-India company, 602, 603.
Eadwald falls back to heathenism, 516. Runs distracted, but afterwards returns to his right mind and faith, 517. By what means it happened, ib. He gives his sister Edelburga in marriage to Edwin, ib. Leaves his son Ercombert to suc- ceed, 519.
Eadbert, shares with his two brothers in the kingdom of Kent, 524. His death, 525. Eadbert, king of Northumberland, after Kelwolf, wars against the Picts, ib. Joins with Unust, king of the Picts, against the Britons in Cumberland, ib. Forsakes his crown for a monk's hood, ib. Eadbright, usurping the kingdom of Kent, and contending with Kenulph the Mer- cian, is taking prisoner, 527. Eadburga, by chance poisons her husband Birthric, with a cup which she had pre- pared for another, 528 The choice pro- posed to her by Charles the great, to whom she fled, ib. He assigns her a rich monastery to dwell in as abbess, ib. tected of unchastity, she is expelled, ib. And dies in beggary at Pavia, ib. Eandred, son of Earldulf, reigns 30 years king of Northumberland, after Alfwold, the usurper, 528. Becomes tributary to Ecbert, 529.
Eanfrid, the son of Edwin, converted and baptized, 518.
Eanfrid, the son of Ethelfrid, succeeds in the kingdom of Bernicia, 519. Slain, ið. Eardulf, supposed to have been slain by Ethelred, 527. Is made king of the Nor thumbrians, in York, after Osbald, ib. In a war raised against him by his peo- ple, he gets the victory, ib. Driven out of his kingdom by Alfwold, 528. Earth, whole, inhabited before the flood,
East-Angles, kingdom of, by whom erect- ed, 510. Reclaimed to Christianity, 519 East-India Company, English, summary of their damages from the Dutch, 602, 603.
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