 Only three more public acts are known . In 980 , Dunstan joined Ælfhere of Mercia in the solemn translation of the relics of King Eadward II , soon to be known as St Edward the Martyr , from their grave at Wareham to a shrine at Shaftesbury Abbey . In 984 , in obedience to a vision of St Andrew , he persuaded King Æthelred to appoint Ælfheah as Bishop of Winchester in succession to Æthelwold . In 986 , Dunstan induced the king , by a donation of 100 pounds of silver , to stop his persecution of the See of Rochester . 
