Dalfinus, Archbishop of Lyons 41
Dalton, Hugh 536
Danby, Lord (Thomas Osborne) 358, 359–60
Danegeld 74–5, 76
Danelaw 61, 62, 65, 83, 84
Dante, Divine Comedy 182, 184
Darby, John Nelson 462
Dark Ages 23, 158
Darwin, Charles 471–3
Davidson, Randall, Archbishop of Canterbury 496, 498, 505, 507, 508, 520, 522, 530
Davies, D. R. 527
Davies, Sir John 343
Davison, Emily 505, 590
De heretico comburendo (Act of Parliament, 1401) 220
De Montfort, Simon 124–7
De Rosa, Peter 554
Deane, Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury 237
death, medieval beliefs 182–8
death penalty, abolition (1965) 546
Decade of Evangelism 568
Declaration of Breda (1660) 349, 353
Declaration of Indulgence (1672) 354, 355, 358, 370
Defenestration of Prague 325
Defoe, Daniel 383, 384
Deira, kingdom of 27, 32, 33, 37
Deism 382, 391
Delamotte, Charles 395
Delaney, Mrs 435
Denison, George 469, 476
Denman, Thomas 425
Descartes, René 365, 367
Desert Fathers and Mothers 34, 138
Despenser, Henry le, Bishop of Norwich 147
Despenser, Hugh 134
Deusdedit, Archbishop of Canterbury 40
Dickens, Charles 431, 468
Diggers 338, 342, 347
Dimbleby, Richard 538
Dio, Cassius (Roman historian) 7, 9, 13
dioceses/ diocesan ministry 41, 68–9, 94, 146–7, 490, 506, 519
Diocletian, Emperor 3, 13, 14
Dionysius the Areopagite 199, 206
disestablishmentarianism 478
Dispensationalism 462
disputation 160, 165, 174
Disraeli, Benjamin 451, 453, 477–8, 479–80
Dissenters
origins during the Commonwealth 348, 349
persecution of 353–6
and the Toleration Act (1689) 382
growth of (18th century) 387
repeal of the Occasional Conformity Act (1719) 391
campaign for independence (19th century) 441–2
and burial 488–9
see also Non-Conformists
Dissenters’ Chapel Bill (1844) 462
Dissolution of the Monasteries 155, 255–6
Divorce Act (1857) 488
Divorce Law Reform Act (1969) 546
Dodd, C. H. 524, 527
Doddridge, Philip 419
Domesday Book 83, 91–2
Dominic, St 142, 143
Dominicans 142–4, 155, 172, 178, 217
Dominion, Jack 554
Donatist controversy 15
Donatus 173
Donne, John 311, 326, 327–8, 330, 582
Douai, France 310, 311, 402
Douglas-Home, Alec 543
Downey, Richard, Archbishop of Liverpool 526
Drake, Francis 313, 330
Dream of the Rood (poem) 49
Drogheda massacre 343
Druids 6
Dudley, Edmund, Lord 237, 238
Dudley, Guildford, Lord 281, 283
Dudley-Smith, Timothy 586
Duffy, Eamon 196, 280
Dummonii (tribe) 21
Dunbar, Battle of (1650) 344
Duncan-Jones, Arthur 529
Dunn, James 560, 573
Duns Scotus, John 163, 171, 178, 179, 216, 581
Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury; Archbishop of Canterbury 69–70, 72, 73, 94
Durham Cathedral 45
Dykes, J. B. 585