He was not discouraged by this first check. Proud of the pallium which Rome had sent him, and relying on the swords of the Anglo-Saxons, he convoked in 601 a general assembly of British and Saxon bishops. The meeting took place in the open air, beneath a venerable oak near Wigornia (Worcester or Hereford), and here occurred the second Romish aggression. Dionoth resisted with firmness the extravagant pretensions of Augustine, who again summoned him to recognize the authority of Rome.[49] Another Briton protested against the presumption of the Romans, who ascribed to their consecration a virtue which they refused to that of Iona or of the Asiatic churches.[50] "The Britons," exclaimed a third, "cannot submit either to the haughtiness of the Romans or the tyranny of the Saxons."[51] To no purpose did the archbishop lavish his arguments, prayers, censures, and miracles even; the Britons were firm. Some of them who had eaten with the Saxons while they were as yet heathens, refused to do so now that they had submitted to the pope.[52] The Scotch were particularly inflexible; for one of their number, by name Dagam, would not only take no food at the same table with the Romans, but not even under the same roof.[53] Thus did Augustine fail a second time, and the independence of Britain appeared secure. [49] Dionothus de non approbanda apud eos Romanorum auctoritate disputabat. Wilkins, Conc. M. Brit. 24. [50] Ordinationesque more asiatico eisdem contulisse. Ibid. 24. [51] In communionem admittere vel Romanorum fastum vel Saxonum tyrannidem. Ibid. i, 26. [52] According to the apostolic precept, 1 Cor. 5, 9. 1. [53] Dagamus ad nos veniens, non solum cibum nobiscum, sed nec in eodem hospitio quo vescebamur, sumere, noluit. (Beda, lib. ii, cap. iv.) Dagam coming to us, not only refused to eat with us, but even to take his food in the same house where we were entertained. [Sidenote: PRIDE OF ROME.]