152 KÒGEIC OF WENDOVER. [A.D. 772. the attack made by king Offa on the church of Canterbury. In the same year, Frithebert, bishop of Hagustald, was succeeded by Alcmund. Bishops of Leicester. • In the year of our Lord 768, Werebert, fourth bishop of Leicester, ended his days, and was succeeded by Unwona. Leicester is an old city, named from Leir king of the Britons. Its first English bishop was Totta, the second Eadbert, the third Werebert, the fourth Unwona, who with Offa king of the Mercians, and Hunbert archbishop of Lichfield, who, by the transposition of the syllables, is called by some Berthun, is recorded to have been present with other bishops at the finding of the blessed proto-martyr Alban ; but of this hereafter. In the year of our Lord 769, the town of Cataracta was burned with fire by Beornred, the deposed king of the Mercians ; but himself miserably perished by fire the same year by the just judgment of God. Charles, king of the Franks, overthrows the Saxons. In the year of our Lord 770, Charles, king of the Franks, attacked the Saxons with a strong force, and, after slaying many of their chiefs, returned home in triumph. In the same year stars were seen to fall from heaven in a most fearful manner. In the year of our Lord 771, Offa, king of the Mercians, reduced the English nation by his arms. In this year also, Charles, king of the Franks, was cut off by sudden death ; his brother Charles, who before possessed half his father's kingdom, now acquired the sovereignty of the whole, with the acclamation of the people. Adrian pope. ' In the year of our Lord 772, on the death of pope Stephen, A drian the first succeeded him, and continued twenty-three years, ten months, and eighteen days. In the year of our Lord 773, Ealred, king of the Northumbrians, departed this life, and was succeeded by Ethelred. In the same year, Offa, king of the Mercians, fought with the people of Kent at Ottanford; and, after a fearful slaughter on each side, Offa gained a signal victory, and returned in triumph.