thrée yéeres after was banished the land. About the eight yéere of
his reigne, Egelred maried one Elgina or Ethelgina, daughter of earle
Egbert. In the ninth yeere of his reigne, vpon occasion of strife
betwéene him and the bishop of Rochester, he made warre against
the same bishop, wasted his lordships, and besieged the citie of
Rochester, till Dunstan procured the bishops peace with paiment of an
hundred pounds in gold. And bicause the K. would not agrée with the
bishop without moneie at the onelie request of Dunstane, the said
Dunstane did send him woord, that sithens he made more account of gold
than of God, more of monie than of S. Andrew, patrone of the church of
Rochester, and more of couetousnesse than of him being the archbishop,
the mischiefs which the Lord had threatned would shortlie fall and
come to passe, but the same should not chance whilest he was aliue,
who died in the yéere following, on the 25 of Maie, being saturdaie.

[Sidenote: _Vita Dunstani._]
Of this Dunstane manie things are recorded by writers, that
he should be of such holinesse and vertue, that God wrought manie
miracles by him, both whilest he liued heere on earth, and also
[Sidenote: _Iohn Capgr._ _Osborne_. _Ran. Higd._]
after his deceasse. He was borne in Westsaxon, his father was named
Heorstan, and his mother Cinifride, who in his youth set him to
schoole, where he so profited, that he excelled all his equals in age.
Afterward he fell sicke of an ague, which vexed him so sore that it
draue him into a frensie: and therefore his parents appointed him to
the cure and charge of a certeine woman, where his disease grew so on
him, that he fell in a trance, as though he had béene dead, and after
that he suddenlie arose, & by chance caught a staffe in his hand, and
ran vp and downe through hils and dales, and laid about him as though
he had béene afraid of mad dogs. The next night (as it is said) he gat