30 ROGEE OF AVENDO VER. [A.D. 504. Laurentius. And when no small dissension arose at Home from that cause, the Roman senate decreed that both should go to Theodoric, king of Italy, which they according did; and the king adjudged that he who was first ordained, and whom the majority of the people favoured, should hold the apostolic see. On which, Symmachus, being confirmed in the see, ordained Laurentius bishop in the church of Micena; but at the end of three years, Symmachus was accused, and Laurentius recalled. Whereupon Symmachus, having called a synod of a hundred and fifteen bishops, cleared himself before all of the charge that was brought against him, on which Laurentius was again removed and Symmachus recalled. A new bishopric. In the year of grace 500, Clovis, king of the Franks, made a grant of many manors to the church of Rheims. Remigius bestowed great part of them on the church of Laon, and made it a bishop's see. Origin of Portsmouth. In the year of grace 501, Port and his sons, Bleda and Magia, landed in Britain with two ships, at a place which from him has been called " Portsmouth." And driving out the governor of that district, they took possession of the sea coast, and settled in the place which the natives had forsaken. In the year of grace 502, Symmachus the Patrician, and his son-in-law, Boethius, translated out of Greek into Latin books on all the liberal arts. Vengeance of the Trinity. In the year of grace 503, a mad man in Africa, named Olympus, was smitten with a fiery dart from heaven and consumed, whilst blaspheming the holy Trinity in the baths. Baptism by a heretic. In the year of grace 504, at Constantinople, while Deuterus, an Arian bishop, was baptizing a certain man, name Barba, and was making an improper distinction in the persons of the Trinity, saying, " I baptize thee, Barba, in the name of the Father, by the Son, in the Holy Ghost," the water disappeared.