Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury, 127, 139;
attends the conference of Chelsea, 111;
letter of Fulk of Rheims to, 128;
a Mercian, 136;
helps Alfred with the Pastoral Care, 138, 143 _n._
Psalter, Alfred’s fondness for, 16, 140, 153;
said to have translated part of, 147-9.
Reading, Berks., battles of, 93, 98;
Danes abandon, 99.
Relics, passion for, in ninth century, 71, 144-5.
Repton, Derbyshire, Danes winter at, and destroy monastery of, 100.
Rheims, dép. Marne, archbishop of, _see_ Fulk.
Rhys, father of Howel, king of Glewissig, 19, 42, 44.
Richard I, king of England, character of, by Stubbs, 2.
Rochester, Kent, besieged by the Danes, and relieved by Alfred, 107, 108;
captured Danish ships brought to, 115.
Roger of Wendover, 25;
uses a life of St. Neot, 54;
his mistakes and confusions, 65, 76 _n._
Rome, Werthryth goes to, 13;
Howel ap Rhys dies at, 19, 44;
English School at, _see_ Saxones;
St. Neot visits, 56;
visits of Alfred to, 70-6;
Æthelwulf’s visit to, 74-6;
intellectual poverty of, 71;
pilgrimages to, 71;
attacks of the Saracens on, 77;
Leonine suburb of, 77;
Burgred dies at, 98 _n._, 100, cf. 199;
Alfred sends missions and alms to, 12, 99, 134-5;
three ‘Scots’ go to, 132;
dangers of a pilgrimage to, 134.
Rotri Mawr, king of North Wales, slain in 877, 19, 43;
sons of, 9, 42;
Anaraut, son of, 42;
avenged, 43.
Roughthorn Farm, possibly marked the site of battle of Ashdown, 94.