With #S. Swithun# (852-862), who was first prior and afterwards bishop, we come upon one of the names especially connected with the history of the church. It is, however, to be feared that it is not so much because of his fame in church-building and his acts of humanity that he will be remembered as for the popular superstition which asserts that the weather for forty days after his feast-day on July 15 is dry or rainy according to its state on that day. The legend is said to be based on the fact that the removal of his body from "a vile and unworthy place where his grave might be trampled upon by every passenger and received the droppings from the eaves" to the golden shrine in the cathedral was delayed by a long continuance of wet weather. Similar legends to explain a wet summer are found elsewhere in Europe. "The saint was translated," says Rudborne, "in the 110th year of his rest. And for his glory, so great was the concourse of people and so numerous and frequent the miracles that the like was never witnessed in England." A figure representing S. Swithun seems once to have stood in a niche at the apex of the gable of the west front. He was succeeded by #Alhferth# or Ealhfrith (863-871), translated to Canterbury; #Tunbriht# or Dunbert, whose name was Latinised as Tunbertus (871-879); #Denewulf# (879-909), whom a singularly incredible legend asserts to have been the swineherd in whose cottage Alfred allowed his hostess's cakes to burn; #Frithstan# (909-931); #Byrnstan# (931-934); #Aelfheah# or Elphege (934-951); #Aelfsige# (951-958), who was nominated to Canterbury, but died in the snow while crossing the Alps on his way to Rome for his pall--the only fact which is really known about him; and #Brithelm# (958-963). Next came "the holy #Athelwold#, a great builder of churches and of various other works, both when he was abbot and after when he became bishop of Winchester" (Wolstan). He seems to have moved the bodies of Swithun and other saints to a more suitable resting-place than they had hitherto enjoyed. Of Athelwold's building operations at Winchester Wolstan's account is quoted on page 6. He held the see of Winchester for twenty-one years (963-984), and he was by birth a native of the town. It was said of him that he was "terrible as a lion" to the rebellious, but "gentler than a dove" to the meek. #Elphege# or Aelfheah (984-1005), his successor, to whom Wolstan's account of Athelwold is addressed, was martyred in 1012 by the Danes while Archbishop of Canterbury, where his tomb subsequently received great honours. Aelfheah's great work was spent in the conversion of the "Northmen," or Danish invaders of England. #Cenwulf# or Kenulf (1005-1006) is allowed three years by Rudborne, but apparently wrongly; another #Athelwold# or Ethelwold (1006-1015), and #Aelfsige# (1015-1032) are not of great importance.