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Number j THE CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH Bede. Ecclesiastical History
of the English Aration, Lib. I, c. 25; Lib. II, c. 13. Translated
by J. A. Giles. Bede has been called the " Father of English
History." His Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, written
in the first part of the eighth century, is the chief source of
information for the early history of the English people. I THE
MISSION OF AUGUSTINE Augustine, thus strengthened by the
confirmation of the blessed Father Gregory,1 returned to the work
of the word of God, with the servants of Christ, and arrived in
Britain. The powerful Ethelbert was at this time king of Kent; he
had extended his dominions as far as the great river Humber, by
which the Southern Saxons are divided from the Northern. On the
east of Kent is the large Isle of Thanet containing according to
the English way of reckoning, 600 families, divided from the other
land by the river Wantsum, which is about three furlongs over, and
fordable only in two places, for both ends of it run into the sea.
In this island landed the servant of our Lord, Augustine, and his
companions, being, as is reported, nearly forty men. They had, by
order of the blessed Pope Gregory, taken interpreters of the nation
of the Franks, and sending to Ethelbert, signified that they were
come from Rome, and brought a joyful message, which most
undoubtedly assured to all that took advantage of it everlasting
joys in heaven, and a kingdom that would never end, with the living
and true God. The king, having heard this, ordered them to stay in
that island where they had landed,and that they should be furnished
with all necessaries, till he should consider what to do with them.
For he had before heard of the Christian religion, having a
Christian wife of the royal family of ...
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