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 Eadbald, king of Kent, 13. Eadbert Pren, king of Kent, 17, 87. Eadgaring, meaning of, 64. Eadmer, the historian, 3, note. Ealstan, bishop of Sherborne, 106, 108. Earls, their official honours, 496, note. Earthquake, terrible, 342. East Anglia, kingdom of, 68. Extent of, 92. Plundered by the Danes, 112. Account of, 240. Ecclesiastics, their property seized at death, 494. Eclipse, terrific, 488, 511. Edan, king of Scots, 43. Edessa, in Mesopotamia, described, 396. Edgar, king of England, 147—162. Edgar Etheling, son of Edward the Exile, 253. His character, 284. Edgitha, wife of the Confessor, 216. Edifices, stone, first builders of in England, 54. Editha, daughter of Edgar, 161, 245. Edmund, St. king of East Anglia, 89. Slain, 112. His incorruption, 236. His boundary, 242. Church built in honour of him, 198. Edmund, king, 141. His death, 143. Edmund Ironside, 191—195. Edred, king of England, 145. Edric, duke of Mercia, 169, 191, 197. Edward the Elder, 122. His issue, 124. Education of his children, 125. Edward the Martyr, 162—165. Edward the Confessor, 213. Crowned at Winchester, 216. His character, 247. His predictions, 251. Dies, 253. Edward the Exile comes to England, 253. Edwin, king of Northumbria, 45. Edwin, brother of Athelstan, 139. Edwin, brother of Edmund Ironside, 196. Edwin and Morcar, earls of Northumbria, 285. Edwy, king of England, 145— 147. Egbert, king of Kent, 15. Egbert, archbishop of York, 61. Egbert, king of Wessex, 94—97. Egfert, king of Mercia, 86. Egfrid, king of Northumbria, 51. Eginhard, his life of Charlemagne, 64, note. Eisc, son of Hengist, king of Kent, 12. Elbert, and Egelbright, 15, 237, 243. Eleutherius, bishop of Rome, 21. Elfred, the rival of king Athelstan, 128; His singular death, 137. Elferius, destroys monasteries, 164, 165. Elfgiva, concubine of king Edwy, 146. Elfthrida, wife of king Edgar, 159, 161; Causes the murder of king Edward, 164. Elmer, a monk, flies like Dædalus, 252. Elphege, archbishop of Canterbury, 168; his body translated to Canterbury, 202; its incorruption, 236. Elward, or Ethelwerd, abridger of the Saxon Chronicle, 3, note. Ely, church of, made a cathedral, 476. Emma queen of Ethelred, 187; her liberality to Winchester, 215; story of the ploughshares, ib. note. England, divisions of, geographical and ecclesiastical, 91—93; oppressed state of after the conquest, 235, 253; its lamentable condition in the time of Stephen, 496, 509. Erconbert, king of Kent, 14. Ercongotha, St. 15, 242. Erie, expelled the kingdom by Canute, 197. Ermenhilda, St. 242. Ethelbald, king of Mercia, 73—77. Ethelbald, king of Wessex, 110. Ethelbert, king of Kent, 12; his answer to Augustine, 14; converted to Christianity, ib. Ethelbert, St. king of East-Anglia, killed, 78. Ethelbert, king of Kent, Essex, &c. 110. Ethelbert, son of Ermenred, murdered, 15, 237, 243. Ethelburga, queen of Ina, her art, 36. Etheldrida, St. her incorruption, 242. Ethelfrid, king of Northumbria, 43. Ethelnoth, archbishop of Canterbury, 203. Ethelred, king of Mercia, 72. Ethelred, son of Ermenred, murdered, 15, 237, 243. Ethelred, or Ethelbert, king of Northumbria, 68. Ethelred, king of Wessex, 111. Ethelred II, king of England, 165, 186—193. Ethelfleda, lady of the Mercians, 123. Ethered, earl, governor of Mercia, 116. Ethelric, king of Northumbria, 42. Ethelwald opposes Edward the Elder, 123. Ethelwalch, king of Sussex, 30. Ethelwold, bishop of Winchester, 149. Ethelwulf, king, 97; his grant of tithes, 98; marries Judith, 99; returns from Rome, 106; his charter, 107; his descent, 109. Euripus, or sea-flood, destroys villages, 191. Eustace, earl of Boulogne, his affray, 218. Exeter, fortified and walled by Athelstan, 134; burnt, 168; reduced by Wm. I, 281.

Famine, ravages England, 170. Feudal law, practices connected with, 447, note. Fire, sacred, miracle of, at Jerusalem, 384, 404. Fitz-Hubert, Robert, 506, 511. Fitz-Osborne, William, 288. Flanders, Robert earl of, 366, 436. Formosus, pope, his pretended epistle, 127. Forest, New, account of, 306. Franks, origin of, 63; their character, 95. France, recapitulation of kings of, 64, 99. Frea, wife of Woden, 8. Frideswide, St. church at Oxford burnt, 191. Fulcher of Chartres, on Syrian transactions, 395. Fulbert of Chartres, his character, 204, 314.