Athelstan, king of the West Saxons, panegyrics on, in Chronicle and
Laws, 12;
William of Malmesbury’s special sources for reign of, 62;
investiture of, by Alfred, 196.
Augustine, St., bishop of Hippo, his Soliloquies, 194;
Alfred’s translation of, 10, 11, 128, 191-6;
relation of, to the Boethius translation, 194-5;
not identical with Alfred’s Handbook, 141, 192;
his De Ciuitate Dei, 157;
used by Alfred, 191;
a favourite book with Charles the Great, 191-2;
his De Videndo Deo, used by Alfred, 191.
Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury, complaints of, in regard to Welsh
baptisms, 42.
Bardney, Lincs, St. Oswald’s body removed from, 35.
Basing, Hants, battle of, 93, 95.
Bede, the Venerable, his Eccl. Hist., 8, 157;
style of, influenced by Gregory’s Dialogues, 170 _n._;
his bitterness on the Easter Controversy, 173;
Anglo-Saxon translation of, 8, 166-75;
relation of, to the Orosius translation, 156-9;
to the translation of the Dialogues, 169, 170.
Bel, _see_ Elias.
Benfleet, Essex, Danes fortify themselves at, 113-4;
captured by the English, 115.
Beorhtric, king of the West Saxons, 39 _n._;
Eadburh, wife of, 16, 17;
dies, 802, 17 _n._
Beornred, king of the Mercians, annexes monastic property, 66.
Bergues, dép. Nord, France, St. Winnoc’s body translated to, 35.
Berhtwulf, king of the Mercians, 109.
Berkshire, ealdorman of, _see_ Æthelwulf.
Bernard, Frankish monk, pilgrimage of, to Jerusalem, 132-4.