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After Kyng Coel, regnede Lucie his sone, þat was a gode man to God and to al þe peple. he sent to Rome, to Apostle Eulenchie, þat þo was, and seide þat he wolde bicome a cristen man, and resceyue baptisme in þe name of God, and turne to þe
ryȝt bileue. ¶ Eulenchie sent ij legates, þat me callede Pagan and Elibrayne, into þis lande, and baptisede þe kyng and alle his menye, and after went fro [MS Rawlinson B 171 15b] toune to toune, and baptisede þe peple til al þat Lande was baptisede, and þis was in þe c. lvj ȝere after þe Incarnacion of Ihesu Crist. and þis kyng Lucye made þo in þis lande ij erchebisshoppes, on at Kaunterbery and anoþere at Ȝork, and oþere meny bisshopes þat ȝit bene in þis lande. ¶ And when þise ij legates hade baptisede al þe lande, þai ordeynede prestes forto baptisen childern and forto make þe Sacrament; and after, þai went aȝeyne to Rome, and þe kyng duellede in his lande, and regnede with michel honour xiij ȝere, and after deide, and liþ at Gloucestre.