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Outline of English History, B.c. 55-A.d. 1886
Outline of English History Bc 55Ad 1886 Author:Samuel Rawson Gardiner General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Great Britain Fiction / Classics History / Europe / Great Britain History / Europe / Ireland Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original... more ». It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THE CONVERSION OF ENGLAND. 1. A Missionary sent to England by the Pope. -- Soon after the Roman soldiers left Britain, the Roman Empire came to an end in the West of Europe. Its place was taken by a number of German nations who had conquered it. These conquerors, however, were not heathens like the English who conquered Britain, and the Bishop of Rome had a great influence over them. He was generally looked up to, and was called the Pope; that is to say, the Papa, or Father of Christians. About 150 years after the English began to come into Britain there was a Pope named Gregory. The English conquerors were heathens. Long before Gregory was Pope he had seen some fair-haired boys from Northumberland in the slave-market at Rome. He had asked what nation they were of. He was told that they were Angles. ' Not Angles,' he said,' but Angels. Who is their king ?' he further asked. ' His name,' said the merchant, who Wanted to sell the boys, ' is Ella.' ' Allelujah,' answered Gregory, ' shall be sung in the land of Ella.' Many years afterwards, when he had become Pope, he remembered his meeting with the boys. He sent Augustine as a missionary to convert the English. 2. Augustine at Canterbury. -- In 597 Augustine landed, on his mission of love, in the Isle of Thanet, where Hengist and Horsa had landed 148 years before to ravage and to slay. Followed by a band of missionaries, he made his way...« less