Book, Chapter
1 0, Int | so called, because, after being sold by auction in the reign
2 0, Int | critical edition, the text being based on the Moore MS. collated
3 0, Int | converted, their prince, Peada, being persuaded chiefly by his
4 0, Int | is carried out, Aldhelm being appointed to Sherborne and
5 0, Life | writing Bede’s epitaph, and being unable to complete the verse, "
6 0, Life | little boy is described as being, at the time the History
7 0, Life | bewailed his own loss in being forced by his office to
8 0, Life | the sleep of the soul; and being learned in our native poetry,
9 0, Life | doemid uueorthae.~Which being interpreted is: ‘Before
10 I, I | fire, drives away serpents; being warmed with rubbing, it
11 I, I | a few ships of war, and being driven by the winds beyond
12 I, I | Welsh, Cornish, and Britons, being probably nearest to Cornish.
13 I, I | brought out of Ireland, being put into water, and given
14 I, II | over into Britain; where, being first roughly handled in
15 I, II | bottom of the river. This being perceived and avoided by
16 I, III | fourth emperor from Augustus, being desirous to approve himself
17 I, III | was emperor after Nero, being sent into Britain by the
18 I, III | twelve from north to south; being six miles distant from the
19 I, V | reigned seventeen years. Being naturally of a harsh disposition,
20 I, VI | great ability and energy, being appointed to guard the sea-coasts,
21 I, VIII | writes that Constantine, being created emperor in Britain,
22 I, IX | reign of Gratian, Maximus, being created Emperor in Britain,
23 I, IX | for Maximus the tyrant, being shut up in Aquileia, was
24 I, X | assistance of the Divine grace, being seconded therein by his
25 I, X | nay, more, their madness being rebuked was rather increased
26 I, XI | forty-fourth from Augustus, being emperor, two years before
27 I, XI | crossed over into Gaul, where being often imposed upon by the
28 I, XII | CHAP. XII. How the Britons, being ravaged by the Scots and
29 I, XII | exposed to rapine, the people being altogether ignorant of the
30 I, XII | not on account of their being seated out of Britain, but
31 I, XII | evident to beholders. This being presently finished, they
32 I, XII | torn by wild beasts. Thus, being expelled from their dwellings
33 I, XV | CHAP. XV. How the Angles, being invited into Britain, at
34 I, XV | forty-sixth from Augustus, being made emperor with Valentinian,
35 I, XV | of the Angles, or Saxons, being invited by the aforesaid
36 I, XV | number of men, and these, being added to the former army,
37 I, XV | not unlike that which, being of old lighted by the Chaldeans,
38 I, XV | of the miserable remnant, being taken in the mountains,
39 I, XVII | spiritual leader and bishop, being spent with weariness, had
40 I, XVII | argument put before them, not being able to reply, confessed
41 I, XVIII | their adversaries, who, being rebuked by their own conscience,
42 I, XVIII | bishops.~This damnable heresy being thus suppressed, and the
43 I, XVIII | shelter in one tomb. These being honourably bestowed, and
44 I, XIX | How the same holy man, being detained there by sickness,
45 I, XX | insomuch that the people being instructed by daily sermons,
46 I, XXI | Armoricans, where, after being very honourably received
47 I, XXII | XXII. How the Britons, being for a time at rest from
48 I, XXIII | months and ten days. He, being moved by Divine inspiration,
49 I, XXIII | which you have set about; being assured, that great labour
50 I, XXV | Augustine, and his companions, being, as is reported, nearly
51 I, XXVI | to what they taught, and being always ready to suffer any
52 I, XXVII | XXVII. How St. Augustine, being made a bishop, sent to acquaint
53 I, XXVII | England. London and York being doubtless the most important
54 I, XXVII | consecrated without other bishops being present, if there be so
55 I, XXVII | is no sin to eat; yet our being hungry proceeds from the
56 I, XXVII | doing them. As very often by being angry we correct faults,
57 I, XXVII | thinks that by his mind being agitated, he hag incurred
58 I, XXVII | our Lord, which he, who being placed in the fire cannot
59 I, XXVII | till the evening, after being washed with water. Which,
60 I, XXVII | it were in a dream, who, being tempted with uncleanness,
61 I, XXVII | the mind is guilty, not being acquitted even in its own
62 I, XXVII | and does not consent, yet being bound by delight, it grievously
63 I, XXVII | delight, it grievously laments being so bound. Wherefore that
64 I, XXX | turned to that use from being temples, and celebrate the
65 I, XXX | aforesaid brother, that he, being placed where he is at present,
66 I, XXXI | not to incur the danger of being puffed up by the number
67 I, XXXII | many gifts of divers sorts; being desirous to glorify the
68 I, XXXIII | was the priest Peter, who, being sent on a mission into Gaul,
69 I, XXXIV | Scots that dwell in Britain, being alarmed by his success,
70 II, I | finished it at Rome after being made pope. Whilst he was
71 II, I | to have it done. But not being then able to perform this
72 II, II | should be present.~ This being decreed, there came, it
73 II, II | hear him submissively, being assured that he is the servant
74 II, II | more rightly Car-legion. Being about to give battle, he
75 II, II | monks, that the monastery being divided into seven parts,
76 II, II | barbarians. King Ethelfrid being informed of the occasion
77 II, III | Archbishop of Canterbury, who, being of old sent hither by the
78 II, IV | his successor. Laurentius, being advanced to the rank of
79 II, IV | that, the company of devils being expelled, the blessed company
80 II, V | father was Hengist, who, being invited by Vortigern, first
81 II, V | refreshed by that bread." And being often earnestly admonished
82 II, V | depart from their kingdom. Being driven thence, he came into
83 II, VI | CHAP. VI. ~LAURENTIUS, being about to follow Mellitus
84 II, VI | the faith of Christ, and being baptized, promoted and supported
85 II, VII | to the see of Canterbury, being the third archbishop from
86 II, VII | the city of Canterbury, being set on fire through carelessness,
87 II, VII | carelessness, was in danger of being consumed by the spreading
88 II, VII | most fiercely. The bishop, being carried thither by his servants,
89 II, VIII | the hearts of unbelievers, being cleansed from their natural
90 II, IX | the true God." This answer being brought to Edwin by his
91 II, IX | that religion himself, if, being examined by wise men, it
92 II, IX | chaste virgin to Christ."' Being come into that province,
93 II, IX | then a royal township, and being admitted as if to deliver
94 II, IX | of the slaughtered thegn. Being then attacked on all sides
95 II, IX | At that time, the king, being recovered of the wound which
96 II, IX | be done in that case. And being a man of great natural sagacity,
97 II, X | bounds of the law of his being, his substance should be
98 II, X | end that, believing and being released from the bonds
99 II, X | stone fixed in one place, being so formed, and having no
100 II, X | from original sin, that being delivered from the power
101 II, X | and deceitful enemy, and being born again of water and
102 II, XII | propose, and be guilty of being the first to break the compact
103 II, XII | preaching of Paulinus, and being wont for some time, as has
104 II, XIV | the holy day of Easter, being the 12th of April, in the
105 II, XIV | called Loidis. But the altar, being of stone, escaped the fire
106 II, XV | ignoble in his actions, being the son of Tytilus, whose
107 II, XVII | shines out far and wide, and, being reported throughout the
108 II, XVIII | this life, the survivor, being of the same degree, shall
109 II, XIX | successor to the same Honorius, being yet but Pope elect, sent
110 II, XIX | sin; for all other men, being born in original sin, are
111 II, XX | Britons, rebelled against him, being supported by the vigorous
112 II, XX | success.~ A great battle being fought in the plain that
113 II, XX | the year of our Lord 633, being then forty-eight years of
114 II, XX | sprung up among them; it being to this day the custom of
115 II, XX | affairs of the Northumbrians being thrown into confusion at
116 II, XX | Romanus, the bishop thereof, being sent on a mission to Pope
117 II, XX | of the Cantuarians. And being old and full of days, as
118 III, I | retrieved both. [633 A.D.]~EDWIN being slain in battle, the kingdom
119 III, I | put Osric to death; for, being rashly besieged by him in
120 III, II | cross, which King Oswald, being ready to engage against
121 III, II | veneration, where Oswald, being about to engage in this
122 III, II | are told, that the cross being made in haste, and the hole
123 III, III | he ascended the throne, being desirous that all the nation
124 III, III | island belongs to Britain, being divided from it by a small
125 III, IV | Easter, by reason of their being so far away from the rest
126 III, IV | first day of the week; but being rude and barbarous, they
127 III, V | meeting with no success, not being gladly heard by the people,
128 III, V | debated what was to be done, being desirous that the nation
129 III, V | more easy doctrine, till, being by degrees nourished with
130 III, VI | nation which he governed, being instructed by the teaching
131 III, VI | his hands with the arms being cut off from his body, when
132 III, VII | instruction as a catechumen, was being baptized together with his
133 III, VII | king of the Northumbrians, being present, received him as
134 III, VII | Winchester) Agilbert, being highly offended, that the
135 III, VII | returned into Gaul, and being made bishop of the city
136 III, VII | city of Paris, died there, being old and full of days. Not
137 III, VII | perceived that his kingdom, being deprived of a bishop, was
138 III, VIII | into the monastery, and being asked by her what they wanted,
139 III, IX | into use, that the earth being carried away by degrees,
140 III, IX | rider observing this, and being an intelligent man, concluded
141 III, X | were feasting at supper. Being received by the owners of
142 III, X | roof of the house, which being made of wattles and thatch,
143 III, X | house, which was rapidly being destroyed. Wherefore the
144 III, X | shed. These wonderful works being made known and reported
145 III, XI | Accordingly, the bones, being washed, were put into a
146 III, XI | with an unclean spirit; he being hospitably entertained,
147 III, XI | distort his limbs. None being able to hold or bind him,
148 III, XI | with her to the sufferer. Being come thither, and seeing
149 III, XIII | say that in Ireland, when, being yet only a priest, he led
150 III, XIII | a long time after; and, being entirely converted to God
151 III, XIV | 644-651 A. D.]~OSWALD being translated to the heavenly
152 III, XIV | years with much trouble, being attacked by the pagan nation
153 III, XIV | father of the wretched. This being told to the king, when they
154 III, XVI | formerly its queen. Not being able to take it by storm
155 III, XVI | kindled them, so that some being hurt, and all afraid, they
156 III, XVII | all about it. This miracle being noised abroad, the church
157 III, XVII | appointed, or, if he knew it, being prevailed on by the authority
158 III, XVIII | he ascended the throne, being desirous to imitate the
159 III, XIX | remarkable for singular virtues, being desirous to live as a stranger
160 III, XIX | neither the day nor the hour." Being confirmed by this vision,
161 III, XIX | shall be seen in Sion." Being restored to his body, and
162 III, XIX | repented in the hour of death.~Being afterwards restored to the
163 III, XIX | priests Gobban and Dicull,and being himself free from all worldly
164 III, XIX | sailed over into Gaul, and being there honourably entertained
165 III, XIX | days after, and the body being taken from the porch, to
166 III, XX | Gyrwas,in his place; and he being taken from this life when
167 III, XXI | mysteries of the truth. Being an excellent youth, and
168 III, XXI | should not obtain the maiden; being chiefly prevailed on to
169 III, XXI | as also of the Mercians, being ordained by Bishop Finan;
170 III, XXII | did this wicked deed; and being asked what had moved them
171 III, XXII | light of this command, and being invited by the noble, went
172 III, XXII | horseback, had also alighted. Being much incensed, he touched
173 III, XXIII | less devoted to God, who, being a priest, was wont to administer
174 III, XXIII | monastery came thither, being desirous either to live
175 III, XXIII | die and be buried there. Being gladly received by their
176 III, XXIII | his spiritual father. For being alive long after, and giving
177 III, XXIII | the water of Baptism, and being then cleansed in the layer
178 III, XXIV | liberty and their lands; and being thus free, together with
179 III, XXV | the meantime, Bishop Aidan being taken away from this life,
180 III, XXV | baptized by the Scots, and being very perfectly skilled in
181 III, XXV | forasmuch as they afterwards, being left to their choice, preferred
182 III, XXV | was Agatho. The question being raised there concerning
183 III, XXV | interpreter."~Then Wilfrid, being ordered by the king to speak,
184 III, XXV | Peter preached at Rome, being mindful that our Lord arose
185 III, XXV | rather fulfil it; the command being to keep the passover from
186 III, XXV | be none to open them, he being my adversary who is proved
187 III, XXVI | CHAP. XXVI. How Colman, being worsted, returned home,
188 III, XXVI | 664 A.D.]~THE disputation being ended, and the assembly
189 III, XXVI | gave it to the poor; there being no need to gather money,
190 III, XXVII | into his own country, and being made bishop in the province
191 III, XXVII | governed the Church. These two being in the monastery which in
192 III, XXVII | upon his past actions, and, being full of compunction at the
193 III, XXVII | the year of our Lord 729, being ninety years of age, he
194 III, XXVIII | fourteenth to the twentieth moon, being called in to assist at the
195 III, XXVIII | except Wini.~So Ceadda, being consecrated bishop, began
196 III, XXIX | behoves your Highness, as being a member of Christ, in all
197 IV, I | which also Bishop Colman, being overcome by the united effort
198 IV, I | character and venerable age, being sixty-six years old. Hadrian
199 IV, I | as also, to the end that, being his fellow labourer in teaching,
200 IV, I | where he presided. Theodore, being ordained subdeacon, waited
201 IV, I | they could. King Egbert, being informed by sure messengers
202 IV, III | had been said to him; for being presently seized with bodily
203 IV, III | our Lord, his saintly soul being delivered from the prison
204 IV, III | the weather became calm. Being asked by his brethren why
205 IV, III | the heavens and the earth being on fire, He will come in
206 IV, IV | by English inhabitants; being the same that, grown from
207 IV, V | the year of our Lord 670, being the second year after Theodore
208 IV, V | own wife.~"These articles being thus discussed and defined
209 IV, VI | CHAP. VI. How Wynfrid being deposed, Sexwulf received
210 IV, VI | of women devoted to God. Being put into the government
211 IV, VIII | reason of his tender age, was being brought up among the virgins
212 IV, VIII | his lessons. This child being seized by the aforesaid
213 IV, VIII | the same handmaids of God, being smitten with the same disease,
214 IV, IX | and lifted up on high, being taken out of the house in
215 IV, IX | manner of one praying; which being done, she spoke to her as
216 IV, IX | her prayer was heard: for being delivered from the flesh
217 IV, IX | night." Having so said, and being asked by those about her
218 IV, X | conceived in her mind: for being conducted by her maids to
219 IV, XI | death to be drawing near, being a man of a royal disposition,
220 IV, XIII | fishes of divers sorts, which being divided into three parts,
221 IV, XIV | Blood of our Lord, and so being set free from sickness and
222 IV, XVI | ordered to be killed. This being made known to a certain
223 IV, XVI | Saxons and the Gewissae, being separated from it by a sea,
224 IV, XVII | Haethfelth, Archbishop Theodore being president. [680 A.D.]~ABOUT
225 IV, XVII | ABOUT this time, Theodore being informed that the faith
226 IV, XVII | the city of Canterbury, being president, and the other
227 IV, XVII | with him, the holy Gospels being laid before them, at the
228 IV, XVIII | Wherefore, Pope Agatho, being desirous to be informed
229 IV, XIX | miracle whereby her flesh, being buried, could not suffer
230 IV, XIX | by the former pains, and being soon snatched out of the
231 IV, XIX | of the grave, a pavilion being spread over it, and all
232 IV, XX | Him Who gave the world its being; Mary, the gate of God,
233 IV, XXII | King Ethelred’s nobles. Being asked by him who he was,
234 IV, XXII | either by him, or as he was being led thither. But when his
235 IV, XXIII | For she was nobly born, being the daughter of Hereric,
236 IV, XXIII | allied to the king there; being desirous to cross over thence
237 IV, XXIII | vows and habit of a nun, being consecrated by Bishop Aidan;
238 IV, XXIII | the handmaid of Christ, being set over that monastery,
239 IV, XXIII | the Abbess Hilda,at length being desirous to attain to greater
240 IV, XXIII | God in that same light, being carried to heaven attended
241 IV, XXIV | Father of glory. How He, being the eternal God, became
242 IV, XXIV | all wondrous works, Who being the Almighty Guardian of
243 IV, XXV | find Him merciful." But he, being oppressed with great grief
244 IV, XXV | community. She with good cause being much troubled at that prediction,
245 IV, XXV | to know it. He answered, "Being engaged one night lately
246 IV, XXV | your days." This vision being made known, the inhabitants
247 IV, XXVI | succeeded Egfrid in the throne, being a man most learned in the
248 IV, XXVI | narrower bounds.~The same year, being the 685th from the Incarnation
249 IV, XXVI | died whilst his wound was being dressed. After him, this
250 IV, XXVI | Wictred, the son of Egbert, being settled in the throne, by
251 IV, XXVII | first bishop of the place, being himself a monk, brought
252 IV, XXVIII | water, corn, and trees; and being infested by evil spirits,
253 IV, XXVIII | encompassed his dwelling being so high, that he could see
254 IV, XXVIII | duties of the episcopate; being chiefly prevailed upon by
255 IV, XXIX | his island and hermitage,being warned of God that the day
256 IV, XXIX | of a long sickness, that being thus made equal in grace
257 IV, XXIX | buried in the church.This being done, the venerable Bishop
258 IV, XXX | but marvellous to behold, being fresh and bright as at the
259 IV, XXX | what they had found; he being then alone in a place remote
260 IV, XXXI | strangers resorting thither, of being a man of much piety and
261 IV, XXXII | in the monastery, which, being built near the river Dacore,
262 V, II | the church of Hagustald, being about a mile and a half
263 V, III | had been let blood, and being told that it was on the
264 V, III | swelling; and the maiden being thus delivered from pains
265 V, IV | of the same water. This being done, the woman immediately
266 V, V | death.~AT another time also, being called to consecrate the
267 V, VII | kingdom, and went to Rome, being desirous to obtain the peculiar
268 V, VII | obtain the peculiar honour of being cleansed in the baptismal
269 V, VII | hoped at the same time, that being made clean by Baptism, he
270 V, VII | year of our Lord 689, and being still in his white garments,
271 V, VII | succeeded to the kingdom, being of the blood royal; and
272 V, VII | time when Gregory was pope, being desirous to spend some part
273 V, VIII | memory, departed this life, being old and full of days, for
274 V, VIII | Theodore in the archbishopric, being abbot of the monastery called
275 V, IX | called Columcille, the name being compounded from "Columba"
276 V, X | and preach to the nations, being withheld for the sake of
277 V, X | name as in devotion, Hewald being the name of both, with this
278 V, X | befell; and their bodies being found, were buried with
279 V, XI | ordained bishop for them. He, being sent into Britain, was consecrated,
280 V, XI | bishop at that time, Theodore being dead, and Bertwald, his
281 V, XI | see.~The said Suidbert, being made bishop, returned from
282 V, XI | truth; but the Boructuari being not long after subdued by
283 V, XII | the poor. Not long after, being set free from the cares
284 V, XII | they assayed to terrify me. Being thus on all sides encompassed
285 V, XII | abhorred returning to the body, being delighted with the sweetness
286 V, XII | but only to those who, being terrified with the dread
287 V, XIII | shall die, and the devils being ready to snatch me away,
288 V, XIII | they have leisure, lest, being prevented by sudden death,
289 V, XIV | another in like manner, being at the point of death, saw
290 V, XIV | will into the gate of Hell, being damned. For he falling sick,
291 V, XIV | For he falling sick, and being brought to extremity, called
292 V, XIV | Stephen, the first martyr, being about to suffer death for
293 V, XIV | province of the Bernicians, and being noised abroad far and near,
294 V, XV | his monastery, yet without being able to achieve his end;
295 V, XV | of Christ, Adamnan, and being found to be learned in the
296 V, XV | and chiefly to those who, being far removed from those places
297 V, XVI | all sides with valleys, being a mile in length from west
298 V, XVI | the floor; the entrance being on the south side, where
299 V, XVII | place where He ascended being open to the sky; and though
300 V, XVII | retains the same appearance, being marked by the impression
301 V, XVII | trunk of Abraham’s oak, being twice as high as a man,
302 V, XVIII | beasts; so that the holy dust being frequently carried away,
303 V, XVIII | wrote some other books, being a man most instructed in
304 V, XVIII | is living at this time, being likewise a man very learned
305 V, XIX | forty-five years. His body, being laid in a coffin, was carried
306 V, XIX | things which were done. Being a boy of a good disposition,
307 V, XIX | monastic purity and piety; and being of a ready wit, he speedily
308 V, XIX | received the tonsure, but being in no small measure marked
309 V, XIX | years in that monastery, and being a youth of a good understanding,
310 V, XIX | the blessed Apostles. She, being pleased with the youth’s
311 V, XIX | there for a space, and, being a youth of an active spirit,
312 V, XIX | nobility, arrived there, being likewise desirous to go
313 V, XIX | where he was to be beheaded, being very desirous, though the
314 V, XIX | forasmuch as they afterwards, being given the choice, had rather
315 V, XIX | above-mentioned, the king being desirous that a man of so
316 V, XIX | of age, the same Agilbert being then bishop of the city
317 V, XIX | to Rome, where his cause being tried before Pope Agatho
318 V, XIX | came; and he and his people being found orthodox in their
319 V, XIX | to the Apostolic see, and being by that authority acquitted
320 V, XIX | against him or not, and being appointed to sit in judgement
321 V, XIX | Nevertheless, five years after, being again accused, he was deprived
322 V, XIX | For the acts of that synod being, as the case required, read,
323 V, XIX | to the Apostolic see, and being by that authority acquitted
324 V, XIX | rest as above stated. This being read, the hearers were amazed,
325 V, XIX | tried by the Apostolic see, being accused by his people, and "
326 V, XIX | contention of both parties being heard and examined, was
327 V, XIX | and an upright mind." This being heard, the Pope and all
328 V, XIX | means to be condemned, but being altogether cleared of the
329 V, XIX | the hands of his servants. Being thus come to the city of
330 V, XIX | was. This man, straightway being called, came in, and seeing
331 V, XX | his own monastery, this being the forty-first year after
332 V, XX | the church of Hagustald, being likewise a man of zeal and
333 V, XXI | where the people of Israel, being about to be delivered out
334 V, XXI | reason of this observance being thus explained, the unreasonable
335 V, XXI | darkness of sin, and on which being also buried, He gave us
336 V, XXI | full before the equinox, being on the fourteenth or fifteenth
337 V, XXI | occurrence of the fourteenth moon being regularly set forth in its
338 V, XXI | cycles of eighty-four years being everywhere blotted out.
339 V, XXI | thus reformed, rejoiced, as being newly put under the guidance
340 V, XXII | honourably and joyfully received. Being a most gracious teacher,
341 V, XXII | things which he taught, and being willingly heard by all,
342 V, XXII | the most reverend father being assured of their amendment,
343 V, XX III| the year of our Lord 725, being the seventh year of Osric,
344 V, XX III| Sunday, the 10th of June, being a man renowned for piety
345 V, XX III| earth rejoice; and Britain being one with them in the joy
346 V, XXIV | our Lord, 46, Claudius, being the second of the Romans
347 V, XXIV | our Lord 167, Eleuther, being made bishop at Rome, governed
348 V, XXIV | of our Lord 189, Severus, being made emperor, reigned seventeen
349 V, XXIV | In the year 381, Maximus, being made emperor in Britain,
350 V, XXIV | In the year 449, Marcian being made emperor with Valentinian,
351 V, XXIV | whose time the English, being called in by the Britons,
352 V, XXIV | teachers arrived in Britain; being about the 150th year from
353 V, XXIV | under King Sabert, Mellitus being bishop. [II, 3.]~In the
354 V, XXIV | the year 633, King Edwin being killed, Paulinus returned
355 V, XXIV | Eadbert, with his army, being employed against the Picts.
356 V, XXIV | moon suffered an eclipse, being covered with a gloomy, black
357 V, XXIV | own thegns; and Ethelwald, being chosen the same year by
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