adric, ealdorman of Mercia, i. 142-144

Eadward the Elder, King, i. 117-119, 305

Eadward the Martyr, King, i. 139

Eadward the Confessor, King, i, 149-153, 158, 160;
his Laws, 150, 199, 340;
_Life of_, 6

Eadwig, King, i. 136, 137

Eadwig, son of AEthelred II., i. 144

Eadwine, king of Northumbria, i. 62-64, 66

Eadwine, earl of Mercia, i. 160, 165, 167, 170

Eadwulf, earl of Northumbria, i. 146

Ealdorman, the,
his office, i. 48, 49;
becomes a delegate of the king, 131;
rises again to independence, 134;
replaced by the earl, 146

Ealdred, Archbishop of York, i. 166

Earl, the, i. 11, 50;
superseded by the thegn, 51

Earldoms,
the four great, i. 146;
abolished, 185

Earls supersede ealdormen, i. 146

East Anglia,
its conquest, i. 36;
Christianity in, 59;
subject to Mercia, 91;
revolts, 102;
conquered by the northmen, 104;
bridled by Eadward the Elder, 117, 118;
earldom of, 146;
Protestant martyrs in, iv. 96

"Easterlings," i. 303

Eastern Counties, Association of the, vi. 8, 13

East India Company, iv. 284; vii. 63, 232

East-Saxons,
their settlement, i. 35;
conversion, 59

Ebbsfleet, i. 31, 32, 58

Ecclesiastical Courts separated from civil Courts, i. 188

Ecgberht, king of Wessex, i. 101-103

Ecgfrith, king of Northumbria, i. 86-89

Ecgwine, Bishop of Worcester, i. 86

Eddi's _Life of Wilfrid_, i. 4

Edgecote, battle of, iii. 134

Edgehill, battle of, vi. 3

Edinburgh
founded, i. 63;
seat of the Scot kings, 147;
won by Bruce, ii. 191;
burnt by the English, iv. 28;
castle of, besieged by Henry IV., iii. 9;
treaty of, iv. 176;
riot at, against the new Liturgy, v. 328;
the Covenant signed at, 333;
rises against James VII., vii. 50;
"James the Eighth" proclaimed at, 228

_Edinburgh Review_, the, viii. 195

Edington, battle of, i. 107

Edith. _See_ Matilda

Edmund Rich, St., i. 287-289;
Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 33;
obtains dismissal of Peter des Roches, _ib._;
dealings with Llewelyn ap Jorwerth, 58;
retires to Pontigny, 42

Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III., ii. 59, 82,
87, 187, 188

Edmund, Earl of Woodstock, ii. 293

Edward (I.), son of Henry III.,
defeated by the Welsh, ii. 59;
joins Earl Simon, 64, 65;
rejoins