from his example in not regarding the poor ; and appeared a fourth time to him, reproaching him so severely and threatening him, and at last he smote him on the head, by which Sabinianus was greatly afflicted, and soon after died. A.D. 608. Boniface became pope, and sat in the Roman chair six years, eight months, and twenty-nine days. And the same year, the blessed Augustine, first archbishop of Canterbury, died on the twenty-sixth day of May. He was succeeded by Laurentius, who was a Roman by birth, and who he himself had ordained in his lifetime, in order that the church in its tender state might not be in want of a shepherd. And he was buried near the church of the Apostles Peter and Paul, which had not yet been completed or dedicated ; and in that church the bodies of many archbishops are said to be buried. A.D. 609. Boniface the Fifth succeeded to the Roman chair, and occupied it six years, eight months, and twelve days ; and the see was vacant seven months and twenty-five days. And Phocas the emperor, at his request, ordered that the Roman church should from henceforth be the head and mistress of all the churches. For up to this time the church of Constantinople had been used to write itself the first of all the churches. The same pope also procured from the same prince the temple at Borne, which had been in ancient times called the Pantheon, because in it the worship of all the (I will not say gods, but) daemons was celebrated. And when he had obtained this, he expelled from it all the multitude of different images, and made it a church of Almighty God and the Holy Virgin Mary, and all the saints ; so that in the same place where formerly the worship of all the devils was celebrated, the memory of all the saints should be preserved for the future. A.D. 610. Ceulf, king of the West Saxons, died, and Cinegilf, the son of Ceola, reigned in his stead, and reigned thirtyone years. At this time, Penda was king of Mercia, Redwald king of the East Angles, Ethelbert king of Rent, Sebert king of the East Saxons, and Ethelred, a proud man, and one covetous of vain-glory, king of Northumberland. A.D. 611. Pope Boniface, having convoked a synod in Italy, in the month of March, on the third day of the month, ordained many things for the advantage of the church. And there was present at this council Melfi tus, bishop of London, who had been sent thither by Laurence, archbishop of Can