• ashed and half eaten, in a precious tomb ; and collecting • hat had been left by the pigs, they placed it with all honour in a gold and silver chest, beautifully wrought, and related that the angels of God would scarcely leave his body on earth, and had carried off his soul with joy to the delights of heaven. Moreover, he taught that those who kill their enemies, or • ho are killed by their enemies, enter paradise ; and that there is a choice refection of meat and drink, and a river flowing with wine, milk, and honey; and a carnal commerce with •omen, not such as exists at present, but of a different kind, and abundant pleasure of all sorts. He appointed four governors in the kingdom of the Saracens, whom he called admirals, and he caused the book which contained his law to be called the Protosymbolum. The same year, Honorius became the sixty-eighth pope ; he eat in the Roman chair twelve years, eleven months, and seventeen days. And the see was vacant seven months and eighteen days. A.D. 623. Saint Romanus, archbishop of Rouen, flourished, in great eminence for sanctity and virtue. At the same time, after the brothers Sexred and Siward Sigebert, surnamed the little,-the son of Siward, reigned over the East Saxons ; and afterwards, by the just judgment of God, he and his brother Sibert were slain by Kineguf, king of the West Saxons, and Quichelin, his son. For after the death of their father, they returned to the worship of idols, and expelled Mellitus, bishop of London. And now they were so completely destroyed, that not an individual of their whole army escaped to tell of the disaster. A.D. 624. Redwald, king of the East Angles, died, and Eorpenwald took the helm of the kingdom in his place, and, having made a good beginning, finished with a glorious end. A.D. 625. Paulinus was ordained archbishop of York by archbishop Justus. And it happened that Edwin, king of Northumberland, having sent ambassadors to woo her, asked for Ethelburga, daughter of Ethelbert, the deceased king of Kent, for bis wife. But he received for answer from the brother of the maiden, who was then king, that it was not lawful to unite a Christian maiden to a pagan, lest the worship of the true God should be profaned by commerce with an unbeliever. And when his messengers brought back this any