after, are thus noticed by Cressy:-"The year following (744) the Reverend and Holy Bishop of Winchester, Daniel, having spent forty-three years in the administration of that diocese, to the end he might conclude his long lasting age in quiet repose, surrendered his Bishopric and became a monk of Malmesbury, from the ancient tradition of his own monastery. But his repose on earth continued a short time, for the year following he happily attained to an eternal repose in heaven. Though by his great virtues he well deserved a name among our saints, yet we do not find him recorded in our calendar." -Bk. 23. ch. 13. p. 601.

There is the usual discrepancy among the old writers as to chronology, respecting Daniel. The Saxon Chron. says, "Forty-three winters had then elapsed (viz. in 744) since he received the episcopal function." Rudborne has these words:-"Daniel qui post beatissimum Patrem Heddam in Wyntoniensi Ecclesia annis 34 (probably a mis-print for 43) strenue pontificavit, senio confectus Meldunum rediit, cujus monasterii monachus fuerat: ubi residuum vitæ sub monastica religione consumpsit et sanctus reputatur." These latter words are directly conflicting with the assertion of the accurate Cressy on that subject. Vid. sup. Vossius says, "Decessit sub Sigeberto Visi Saxonum rege, anno episcopatus sui 42.""

Malmesbury asserts that this prelate was buried at Malmesbury, which seems probable, although he admits that the Wintonians claim him; but he adds they are unable to shew any tomb to his memory, whether real or fictitious.

Wharton thus sums up the dates with which Daniel was connected:-" Daniel sedem Wint. adeptus post Heddæ mortem, anno 703, tenuit annis 42, anno 721 Roman adiit; anno 731 Tatwinum Arpum consecravit; anno 744 Episcopatu cessit; anno 745 defunctus est. Ista tradit Chronologia Saxonica; cui de cessione convenit Florentius, de obitu, Huntindoniensis.

tamen in anno 746. Mailrosensis cum Florilego collocavit; et umum plus justo annum Malmsburiensis Pontificatui dedit.'

SUCCEEDED A. D. 744.-DIED A. D. 754.

The Saxon Chronicle states the dates of his succession and death, but nothing more. Rudborne tacet. Malmesbury merely says, "Čujus, memoria fit in concilio Cuthberti Archpi." Cressy says, "His (Daniel's) successor was Humfrid, whose name. we find among the subscriptions to a synod assembled at Cloveshoe, the second time, shortly after."-Cressy ut. sup.

Of this prelate and several of his successors, nothing whatever is to be gleaned beyond the dates of their succession and death.

VI. CYNCARD.

SUCCEEDED A. D. 754.-SAX. CHRON.

VII. ATHELARD.

SUCCEEDED A. D. 754. WHARTON.-TRANSLATED A. D. 790 TO DOVER.

Rudborne records that he had been a monk of Malmesbury.

VIII. EGBLADUS or EGBALDUS.

I find nothing of him except his subscription: charter given by King Offa to Croyland, in 793. Ingulphus.

IX. DUDDA or CUD.

X. CYNBERT.

The Saxon Chronicle records his journey to Rome with Archbishop Ethelbert, in 799. In 806, he appears signing a charter of King Kenulph to Croyland, in Ingulph, but the monastic charters are so frequently not genuine, that we can place but little reliance on them in a chronological point of view.

XI. ALMUND.

SUCCEEDED A. D. 803.

He was at the Council of Cliff in that year. He is also said to have been at that of Bapchild, in 798.Wilkins's Concil.

XII. WIGBERT, WIGHTIN, or WYDERGIN.

Had been a monk of Glaston. He went to Rome with Wilfred, in 812.-Sax. Chr.-Died before 829.

XIII. HEREFRID.

SUCCEEDED in or BEFORE A. D. 829.-DIED A. D. 833.

I have thus placed his succession, because he made his profession to Archbishop Wilfred, who died in that year. He was killed in battle with the Danes, together with Sigelm, Bishop of Sherborne, in 833.-Saxon Chron.Bishop Godwin erroneously has it 834.

The three first of these, says Richardson, are buried in the crypt and the four last in the nave of the church. Edmund near the entrance of the choir, as says Vigilantius. -MS. Barlow.

XV. HELMSTAN.

SUCCEEDED A. D. 833.-DIED 852.

He appears signing a charter to Croyland, in Ingulph, in 833. Rudborne says, that he had been a monk of Winchester, and that King Egbert entrusted to him as a pupil, his son Atulph, p. 199. Godwin places his death at A. D. 837, but Rudborne says 852. He was buried according to a MS. of Barlow, quoted by Richardson, in his own church before the high altar. He adds, "Sed modo in locello plumbeo positus, ex boreali plaga altaris supra tumulum Ric. Toclivii Epi." Godwin says he lies buried with Kenulph, who succeeded him at the distance of 200 years, and quotes the following lines:

Pontificis hæc capsa duos tenet incineratos,
Primus Helmstanus, huic successorque Kenulphus.

XVI. ST. SWITHUN.

SUCCEEDED A. D. 852.-DIED A. D. 861.

Of the imbriferous St. Swithun, who has not heard? But it is perhaps not so generally known that the establishment of TITHES in this country was effected during his prelacy by his pupil King Ethelwolf, the father of the illustrious Alfred, in which there can be but little doubt that St. Swithun bore a part. See Wilkins's Concilia, vol. 1. page 183. A.D. 855. Concilium Wintoniense.

Bishop Swithun was born at Winchester (in pago Wintoniensi. Higden) the 26th. of King Egbert. He became a monk* and afterwards a prior of the old monastery there. His learning and piety induced King Egbert to take especial notice of him, and to place under his care his son Ethelwolf, as well as to make use of his counsels in the government of his kingdom. Upon the death of Bishop Helmstan, Ethelwolf appointed him to this see, to which he was consecrated by Ceolnoth,

Early in life he took the religious habit amongst the regular clergy of the cathedral.-Capgrave, Leg. Sanct. fol. cclxxviii.

Archbishop of Canterbury, in 852. His profession of faith may be read in Rudborne, p. 203.

He appears to have been indefatigable in promoting the good of the whole kingdom, but particularly of the city and diocese of Winchester, insomuch that a great part of the merit in whatever was well or wisely done by his pupil, was justly ascribed to him. (Will. Malm. de Pont.) He built many churches in those parishes where none had before existed, (Capgrave in life of Swithun,) and he also, as the same author records in his Legenda Sanctorum, built the bridge at the east end of Winchester. This fact is recorded in the very ancient lives of the Saints, in verse, quoted by the Rev. Thomas Wharton. -Hist. Engl. Poetry, vol. I.

Seynt Swithan his bushopricke to al goodnesse drough
The towne also of Wynchestre be amended inough
Ffor he lette the stronge bruge withoute the towne arere
And foud thereto lym & ston & the workmen that there were.
[f. 93. MS. Vernon.)

William of Malmesbury, Capgrave, and other early writers, represent him as a treasury of virtues, but those by which he was most distinguished were his mildness and humility. ("Solitariæ sanctitatis amator, nulla pompa bona sua prostituebat"). When called on to consecrate any new church, however distant, it was his custom to go to it on foot, (not "bare-foot," as Butler in his lives of the Saints ornamentally tells the story) and that he might neither be exposed to ridicule or eulogy, he always travelled to it by night. His affection for humility he carried, as Bishop Milner has it, beyond the grave, giving orders in his last sickness, that his body should not be buried with marks of distinction in the cathedral itself, but among the common people in the church-yard; where it lay at the north-west end of it for more than a century.

It is recorded of Bishop Swithun, by Rudborne, that Ethelbald (son of Ethelwolf and brother of Alfred) having contracted an incestuous marriage with Judith, the late King's widow, such was the effect of St. Swithun's eloquence and sanctity, that he not only induced the young monarch to dissolve this unnatural connexion, but also publicly to repair the scandal he had given by his licentious conduct, and perceiving how much the city of Winchester, and particularly the cathedral was exposed