A.D. 586.] CARETITJS KING OF BRITAIN. composed his books of morals on Job, and, in the presence of the emperor, confuted Eutychius the bishop of Constantinople, who taught erroneously respecting the resurrection, asserting that in the glory of the resurrection the human body will be impalpable, and more subtile than the winds and air. Eutychius dying shortly after, the heresy became extinct. In the year of grace 583, at Tours, real blood flowed from the bread of the altar when broken. Maurice emperor. In the year of grace 584, Tiberius lost his reason and died, and was succeeded by Maurice, who reigned twentytwo years. The same year, Ccaulin, king of the West-Saxons, and his brother Cuthwin engaged in battle with the Britons at Frithenleia (Frethern), in which Cuthwin was overpowered and slain. The Angles were thereupon beaten and put to the rout. Beginning of the kingdom of the Mercians, whose first king was Credda. In the year of grace 585, began the kingdom of the Mercians, whose first king was Credda. At this time then, all the kingdoms of the Angles or Saxons were completed, to the number of eight ; that is to say, the kingdom of Kent, whose capital city is Canterbury ; the kingdom of the South-Saxons, or Sussex, whose capital is Chichester ; the kingdom of the East-Saxons, or Essex, whose capital city is London ; the kingdom of the East-Angles, or East-Anglia, whose capital city is Norwich ; the kingdom of the West-Saxons, whose capital city is Winchester ; the kingdom of Mercia, or Middle-Anglia, whose capital city was Dorchester, hut now Lincoln ; the kingdom of the Northumbrians, whose capital city is York. The last kingdom was divided into two, as has been said above. The Britons abandon their country, and take refuge in Wales. In the year of grace 586, Malgo, king of the Britons, was succeeded by Caretius, who loved civil wars, and was odious to God and to his subjects. The kings of the Angles and of the Saxons, remarking his unsteadiness, attacked him with one consent, and after many battles drove him from city to city, till at last they chased him beyond the Severn into Wales. The clergy and the priests, alarmed by the gleam of weapons and the crackling of the flames in the churches, fled from their E2