are pursuing us with their unfriendly imprecations.'' Therefore he orders his troops to turn their arms against them first, and in this way he destroyed the other bodies in this wicked warfare, not without great loss to his own army. In that battle it is said that of these men who had come only to pray, there were about twelve hundred men slain, and that only fifty escaped by flight. Brochimallus, too, fled with his men, at the flrst onset of the enemy, and left those whom he ought to have defended, unarmed and exposed to the swords of their slayers. And thus the prophecy of the blessed pontiff Augustine was fulfilled. A.D. 604. The blessed Augustine built a church to Saint Andrew the Apostle, by the liberality of king Ethelbert, in the city which from some primitive name Rof was called Rofecester, or the city of Rof. And he enriched it with many ample possessions, and ordained Justus as bishop of that city. The same year, the same Augustine consecrated Mellitus as pontiff in the city of London. And thus the dignity of the city of London, which in the times of the Britons had always had an archbishop, was transferred to Canterbury, in order that the prophecy of Merlin might be fulfilled, when he said, " Religion shall be destroyed in the island, and a change of the principal sees shall take place. The dignity of London shall adorn Canterbury," &c. The same year, Mellitus having been sent by the blessed Augustine into the province of the East Saxons to preach the gospel, converted king Sebert, with the whole of his nation, to the true faith. And the same Sebert was nephew of Ethelbert, the great king of Rent, being the son of his sister Ricula, and was placed under his power ; for he governed all the nations of the Angles as far as the boundary of the river Humber. The same year, the emperor Maurice, a man who feared God, was continually in his prayers entreating the divine mercy to grant to him to expiate the guilt of his crimes in this life. Therefore, one night, while he was lying in his bed, a voice came to him from heaven, saying, " Maurice, deliver yourself, and your wife Constantia, and your children, to the soldier Phocas." So, when he awakened, he asked his servants whether they knew of any soldier in his army called Phocas. And they answered, " We do." And he asked, " Of what character is he ?" And they said, " He is a proud and rash young man." Then Augustus related his dream, and