prived of all pastoral consolation, for three years, ever since the death of bishop Aldhun ; having convened an assembly of bishops, in order to discuss the election of a bishop, a certain priest of one of the religious orders, by name Edmund, came among them, and said jestingly, " Why do you not elect me bishop ? " And those who were present did not take his words as a joke, but unanimously elected him, and proclaimed a fast for three days, to take àie will of Saint Cuthbert, the old bishop, on the matter. Accordingly, when the priest was celebrating mass at the head of the Saint's tomb, in the middle of the canon, a voice was heard as if from the tomb of the father himself, which thrice named Edmund as bishop. The same year, Canute, king of England and Denmark, having built a royal monastery, with suitable offices, in the place which is called Bedericeswirthe, where the most blessed king and martyr, Edmund, awaits the day of the blessed resurrection, with an uncorrupt body, by the advice of Emma, his queen, and also of the bishops and barons of England, placed monks in it, and appointed an abbot to govern it, whose name was Wido, a humble, modest, gentle, and pious man. And all the priests who had lived there in an irregular manner, he either, if he allowed them to remain there, advanced to a much higher degree of religion, or else gave them other means of providing for themselves with food and raiment to a more plentiful extent than they were accustomed to, and made them remove to other places. Ile also enriched the monastery of the blessed king and martyr Edmund with such numbers of estates and other revenues, that, as to its temporal affairs, it is deservedly set at the head of all the other convents. This year also, he adorned with churches all the places in which he had fought battles, and especially Assendune, placing ministers in them who were to celebrate divine offices for the salvation of those who had been slain there. A.D. 1021. King Canute took occasion against TurkiU and Iric, two Danish nobles, to banish them from England and outlaw them. And they went to Denmark, their native country ; but the moment that they reached the shore, TurkiU, who had been the prompter of the death of the blessed iElpheg, was slain by the dukes of the country. The same year, Algar, bishop of Helmham, died, and was succeeded by Ealwin. A.D. 1022. The English and Danes held a conference at Oxford, and agreed on the subject of keeping the laws of