Eadblad, king of Kent 32
Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne 49
Eadgifu, sister of Athelstan; wife of Charles the Simple 67
Eadmer (12th century historian) 71, 93, 94, 145, 166
Eadred, king of the English 67, 70
Eadwig, king of the West Saxons 67
Eanbald I, Archbishop of York 55
Eanfled, queen of the Northumbrians 38, 41
Earconbert, king of Kent 37
Eardley, Sir Culling 468
East India Act (1813) 485
East India Company 481, 482
Easter, controversy over dates 37–9
Easter Rising (1916) 518
Eastern Europe 532, 544
Eborius, Bishop of York 15
Ecclesiastical Commissioners
see Church Commissioners
ecclesiastical courts 95
ecclesiastical liberty 101, 103–4, 109–11, 112, 113, 237
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill (1851) 458
Ecclesiological Society 470
Ecgfrith, king of the Northumbrians 42–3, 43, 45, 47, 55
ecumenism 508, 520–1, 533, 542, 550, 564
Eddersheim, Alfred, Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (1883) 475
Eddius (biographer of Wilfrid) 41, 42, 43
Ede, James Chuter 536
Eden, Sir Anthony 537, 543
Edgar aethling 87, 89, 90, 103
Edgar the Peaceful, king of the English 65, 67–8, 70, 72–3, 74
Edict of Milan (313) 13
Edict of Nantes (1598) 304
repeal of (1685) 373
Edinburgh Missionary Conference (1910) 508
Edington, Battle of (878) 62
Edith, Queen 78, 86, 89
Edith, sister of Athelstan; wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor 67
Edmund, king of East Anglia 61
Edmund Crouchback 134
Edmund I, king of the English 67
Edmund Ironside 76
Edmund of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury 175
education
19th century 463
Board Schools 479, 488
charity schools 387
denominational schools 536–7
primary schools 463, 479, 589–90
Ragged Schools 431
Sunday Schools 422
Education Act
(1870) 431, 479, 488
(1944) 535, 536–7
Edward I, King of England (Longshanks) 126, 127–8, 132
Edward II, King of England 127, 134
Edward III, King of England 133, 134
Edward IV, King of England 221, 226–8
Edward of Lancaster 225, 227
Edward the Confessor 46, 75, 78–9, 86
Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons 65–6, 68–9
Edward the Martyr 74
Edward V 221
Edward VI, King of England 254, 269, 270, 280–1, 283
Edward VII, King (‘Bertie’) 467, 496–7, 504
Edward VIII 520, 529
Edwards, Bartholomew 487
Edwin, king of the Northumbrians 27, 30, 32–3, 54
Edwin of Mercia 89–90
Egbert, Archbishop of York 53, 56
Egbert, king of Wessex 56
Egypt 58
Eleanor of Aquitaine 107–8, 114, 117, 118
Eleanor of Castile 148
Eleanor of Provence 124, 125
electoral reform 478, 503
Elgar, Edward 495, 586
Elim Pentecostal Church 509, 527, 550
Eliot, George 464, 476
Eliot, Sir John 334
Eliot, T. S. 582
Four Quartets 539
The Idea of a Christian Society 525
“Little Gidding” 533
Murder in the Cathedral 113, 530
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
birth 253
childhood and youth 294–6
accession 293–4
and the Church 296–9, 302–5
and the Book of Common Prayer 279
excommunication 301, 304
and Mary Queen of Scots 313–14
and the Spanish Armada 313–14
and Cambridge University 155
“Golden speech” 317
succession 305–6
Elizabeth II, Queen
marriage to Prince Philip 537
coronation 538
Christian faith of 540, 577–8
on the Falklands memorial service 559
Elizabeth of Hungary 205
Elizabeth of York 236–7
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (the ‘Winter Queen’) 319, 324–5
Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England 227, 228
Ellicott, Charles, Bishop of Gloucester 473, 474, 476
Elliott, Henry Venn 469
Elrington, Robert 487
Eltham Ordinances 241
Ely 89
Ely Cathedral 51
Elyot, Thomas 251
emigration, 19th century 412
Emma of Normandy 75, 76–7
Empson, Sir Richard 237, 238
England/ English, first appearances of 25, 26, 53
English Catholic Church
see Roman Catholics
English College, Rome 311, 511, 543
English Mystics 198–206
English Revolution 337, 339–45, 351
Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA) 570
Episcopalians 340
Epstein, Jacob 539
Equiano, Olaudah 418
Erasmus 235, 243, 248, 251, 254, 257, 260
Erfurt, Germany 51
Eric Bloodaxe 67
Eriugena, John Scottus 158
Escobar, Samuel 556
Essays and Reviews (1860) 475
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of 305, 317, 343
Ethelberga, queen of the Northumbrians 32
Ethelbert, king of the Southern Saxons 30, 32
Ethelburh, Abbess 59
Etheldreda (Aethelthryth), queen of Northumbria; Abbess of Ely 42–3, 51, 190
Ethelfrid, king of the Northumbrians 31
Ethelred, king of the Northumbrians 55
Ethelred, king of Wessex 61
Ethelwalch, Saxon king 43
Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester 70, 70–1
Eton College 225, 226, 228, 237, 386
Eucharist 192, 271, 273, 274, 276
Euclid of Alexandria 157
Europe, 8th and 9th centuries 56–9
European Union 553, 558
referendum (2016) 574
Eusebius 96
Eustace the Monk 123
Evagrius of Pontus 138
Evangelical Alliance 468
Evangelical Revival, 18th century 391–402, 589
Evangelicalism 248, 249, 269, 299, 507–8, 520, 540–1, 549–51
Evelyn, John 363
Everett, James 459
Evesham Abbey 127
evil, origin of 160
evolution, theory of 471–3
Excise Crisis (1733) 388
Exclusion Crisis 360
existentialism 545
Exsurge Domine (papal bull, 1520) 262
Eynsham 72