'The noble king, Edred, inferior in no respect to his predecessors, loved the blessed Dunstan with such ardent affection that he entrusted all his treasures to his guardianship. In the meantime the blessed Ælfeg, bishop of the city of Winchester, who had invested Dunstan with the orders of monk and priest, departed this life; and the king, wishing to appoint Dunstan in his place, treated with him on the subject by the intervention of the queen, his mother. But Dunstan replied, "I entreat you, my mistress, to give up entreaties of this kind, and to be assured that I will not be a pontiff in the days of your son." But the man of God said this because he loved the king, and was unwilling to be compelled to absent himself from his councils because of the duties of the pontificate. But on the following night he had a vision, in Which he seemed to himself to have gone to Rome, and, having adored the apostles, to have immediately returned home again; and when he had come to the Mount of Joy, behold, St. Peter met him, with the apostles Paul and Andrew, each of them holding a sword in his hand, and offering it to him with outstretched hands. On the sword of St. Peter was written, "In the beginning was the Word;" and the swords of St. Paul and St. Andrew were inscribed with their own names. Then St. Peter, the apostle, sang to him in a sweet voice, "Take my yoke upon you, and you shall find rest for your souls." Then, reproving him, he lifted up the rod which he held in his hand, and-, striking him a slight blow on the hand, he said, "Take this as a warning not to persist any longer in refusing the yoke of the Lord." On this the man of God woke, and in the morning related the vision to the king, who marvelled at it. And the king said to him,

"As the swords which you have received by the bounty of the apostles denote the armour of the Holy Spirit, you may know for certain by the sword of St. Peter, inscribed as it is with the Word of God, that you are to be presented, by heavenly invention, with the dignity of archbishop; and by the sword of Paul, you may know that you will receive a simple bishopric; and by the sword of Andrew, that you will receive another bishopric, over which you are to exercise the rights of government." And afterwards, in accordance with the interpretation of his dream, he ruled the church of Canterbury, which was dedicated to the Holy Trinity; the church of London, which was dedicated in the name of Paul; and that of Rochester, which had been consecrated in the name of the blessed Andrew.' - Flowers of History.

'By the impiety and injustice of William Rufus, Aiiselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was driven into exile, and remained there till he saw in a vision of the night that all the saints of England were com-plaining to the Most High of the tyranny of King William, who was destroying his churches. And God said, "Let Alban, the proto-martyr of the English, come hither;" and he gave him an arrow which was on fire, saying, "Behold the death of the man of whom you complain before me." And the blessed Alban, receiving the arrow, said, "And I will give it to a wicked spirit, an avenger of sins;" and saying this he threw it down to earth, and it flew through the air like a comet. And immediately Archbishop Anselm perceived in the spirit that the king, having been shot by an arrow, died that night. And accordingly, at the first dawn of the morning, having celebrated mass, he ordered his vestments, and his books, and other movables, to be got in readiness, and immediately set out on his journey to his church. And when he came near it, he heard that King William had been shot by an arrow that very night, and was dead.' - Flowers of History.