e of their language, 258.

Eorls, distinguished from Ceorls, 29;
their relation to Gesiths, 30.

Erse, a Goidelic language, 7.

Eskimos, compared with palaeolithic men, 3.

Essex, Saxon settlement in, 28;
is dependent on Kent, and accepts Christianity, 40;
relapses into heathenism, 41;
comparative weakness of, _ib._

Eustace, Count of Boulogne, visits Eadward the Confessor, 87.

Eustace, son of Stephen, death of, 137.

Evesham, battle of, 203.

Exchequer, the, organised by Roger of Salisbury, 127;
disorganised under Stephen, 134;
reorganised under Henry II., 140;
establishment of a separate Court of, 212.

Exeter taken by William I., 102.

Faddiley, battle of, 35.

Falaise, Treaty of, 154;
abandoned by Richard I., 159.

Falkirk, Wallace defeated at, 222.

Faukes de Breaute, banishment of, 187.

Ferdinand V., king of Aragon, marries Isabella of Castile, 349.

Ferry Bridge, skirmish at, 429.

Feudality, early forms of, 81;
after the Norman Conquest, 104;
organised by William I., 113;
Flambard's further organisation of, 116;
ideas of Edward I. on, 214.

Fitz-Osbern, William, oppresses the English, 102.

Five Boroughs, the, 62.

Flambard, Ranulf, tyranny of, 116;
imprisonment of, 122;
escapes, 124.

Flanders, commercial intercourse with, 211;
Edward I. in, 221;
alliance of Edward III. with, 235;
falls under the control of France, 278.

Flemings emigrate to Wales, 128;
introduced as weavers by Edward III., 236.

Folk-moot, functions of the, 33.

Fountains Abbey, 129.

France, social condition of, 235;
miserable state of, 251, 252;
friendship of Richard II. with, 282.

Francis of Assisi, St., 190.

Franciscans, the, constitution of, 190;
arrive in England, 191.

Frederick I., Barbarossa, Emperor, supports an anti-pope, 145.

Frederick II., Emperor, excommunication of, 194;
death of, 195.

Freemen, gradual disappearance of, 69.

French, the, Dukes of, 63;
Hugh Capet, king of, 80.

Friars, the, orders of, 190;
arrive in England, 191.

Fyrd, the, a general army of the villagers, 30;
AElfred reforms, 60;
comparative disuse of, 69;
retained after the Norman Conquest, 106;
_see_ Assize of Arms.

Gaelic a Goidelic language, 7.

Gainas, the, settlements of, 28.

Gainsborough, origin of the n