presided, that the monks who were guilty of this crime, should be thrown into prison by the abbot. Moreover the same year, king William, supported by the assistance of the English, reduced Normandy, which Jbad rebelled against him, to submit to his authority by force of arms. After that, having established peace everywhere, and arranged everything well, and having received the English with the fulness of his affection, he returned to England. Some Priests toko had been guilty of Simony, and who had taken wives, are excommunicated by pope Gregory. Wolstan is restored to his bishopric. A.D . 1074. Gregory, who is also called Hildebrand, held a synod, and anathematized those guilty of simony. Some priests who had taken wives he removed from their holy office, by a new example, and as it seemed to many an inconsiderate prejudice, in contradiction to the opinions of the ancient fathers. The blessed Wolstan, who had been unjustly deposed by archbishop Lanfranc, was restored to his diocese, in consequence of a miracle. After he had fixed his pastoral staff on the tomb of the blessed Edward, no one except himself could draw it out again* But the pope, to punish those priests who had married wives more rigorously, and by punishing them to recall them from those illicit embraces, forbade the laity to hear mass from them, and ordered also the tithes which were due to such priests to be burnt in the fire. The same year, Canute, son of Sweyn, and count Haco, came from Denmark, with a powerful and hostile army, and with two hundred large ships ; but their enterprise was frustrated, by the circumspection and prudence of the most invincible king William. Edith, queen of England, died. The king cursed his son Robert, surnctmed Cortehose. A. D . 1075. Queen Edith died on the fifth of April. The same year, king William gave the daughter of William, the son of Osbert, to earl Badolph, as his wife, and gave him also the government of β orti) folk and ôutf)folk. This Radolph was of British extraction, on his mother's side, and his father was an Englishman. He was born in Norfolk, and there he celebrated his marriage, which was the cause of destruction to many persons. At that wedding there were present earl