cupied it two years and nine months. The same year, Saint Genevieve, a virgin of Paris, being eighty years old, departed to the Lord. A.D. 514. The grandsons of Cedric, Scnpha and Wihgarus, arrived in Britain with two ships, and landed on the western side of the island. Therefore, the generals of the Britons came forth against them to battle, bat their forces were routed in a moment. The prowess of Cedric was very terrible ; and though he passed through the whole island in a hostile manner, he scarcely found any one to resist him : so that the magnificence of the pagans increased every day. The same year, Ella, whom all the Saxons obeyed as their king, died ; and Cissa, his son, reigned in his stead ; from whom the city which he founded derived its name of Chichester. A.D. 515. Felix was elected pope, and occupied the Roman chair four years, two months, and thirteen days. He separated the clergy from the people in the church ; as the two bodies had previously been accustomed to sit together. A.D. 516. When Uther Pendragon, king of the Britons, was lying, weighed down by infirmities, at Verulamium, the Saxona agreed together, and sent some wicked men, disguised in the dress of the poorest class, to take off the king by poison. So they came to Verulamium, and carefully began to examine into the means of killing the king. At length they selected this device in preference to any other, as the best by which to effect their design. There was, outside the city, a fountain of very clear water, which the king used to drink, because he was disinclined to any other liquid. Therefore, these wicked traitors attacked the fountain itself, and imbued it thoroughly with the most deadly poison ; to such a degree, that even waters at a distance which proceeded from it were corrupted. And, when the king had drank of it, he speedily died, and several other persons beside him, till the wickedness was discovered, and the fountain blocked up and covered with a mound of earth. This is believed to have been the very fountain which the invincible martyr, Alban, produced for the thirsty people out of the dry soil of the steep hill, when he was being led to martrydom. But, when the king was dead, the priests met together with the clergy of the kingdom and the people, and buried him in royal fashion within the Giant's Dance ; and, after this had been