A.D. 758. INSURRECTION IN MERCIA. on the twenty-fourth of July. But king Eadbert assumed the garb and tonsure of a monk. He is the eighth of the kings of England who exchanged their temporal kingdom for an eternal one, in order to have, as a reward in heaven, the delight of the eighth beatitude, which is due to voluntary poverty. Oeulf, his son, was succeeded in the kingdom of Northumberland by Ethelwold Mollo, who reigned six years. A.D . 758. A tribe of the kingdom of Mercia rose in insurrection against their king, Beornred, because he was ruling the people, not according to just laws, but tyrannically. And accordingly, all men, both noble and ignoble, met together, and, under the leadership of Offa, a most gallant youth, expelled him from the kingdom. And when this had been done, by the unanimous consent of all men, both clergy and people, crowned the aforesaid Offa as king. For Offa was descended from the royal family, inasmuch as he was the son of Thinferth, who was the sonìjf Ealdulf, who was the son of Oeulf, who was the son of Eoppa, who was the son of Wibba, who was the son of Creodda, who was the son of Kinewold, who was the son of Cnebba, who was the son of Ithel, who was the son of Eomeri, who was the son of Angelthean, who was the son of Offa, who was the son of Weremund, who was the son of Withleig, who was the son of Wagon, who was the son of Frethegeath, who was the son of Woden. To this last the ancients dedicated the fourth day of the week, which waeaUed IBfottnrtttan. And his wife was Frea, to whom the ancients^dedicated the sixth day of the week, which is called dfrnttan.^fiut Woden was the son of Frethewold, who was the son of Fréòlaf, who was the son of Frithewolf, who was the son of Godwolf, who was the son of Geta. The Pagans long ago used to worship this last as God, and Sedulius, a noble poet, makes mention of him in an eastern hymn, where he begins thus :— " Let the Gentile poet strive In loud high-sounding verse to tell Their wicked figments, and in praise Of Geta bid their voices swell/' But Geta was the son of Cethwa, who was the son of Beau, who was the son of Seldua, who was the son of Heremod, who was the son of Itermod, who was the son of Hathra, who was the eon of Wala, who was the son of Bedwi, who was the son