¶How saynt Austyn baptysed and con∣uerted kynge Adelbryght and the bysshop¦pes that he made his felowes.
AS saynt Austyn came fyrste in to. En∣glonde / he arryuen in the yle of Tenet and so passed forth & came vnto Caunterbury and there soyourned. And kynge Adelbryght of Kent that was the lygnage of Engist good∣ly receyued saynt Austyn & hys felowes wyth moche honour / and them foūde all that them neded. And more ouer he yaue theym a fayre place / that now is called the abbay of. Shynt Austyn / in whiche place he lyth hym self shry∣ned. ¶This kynge Adelbryght was a good man & wyth good wylle herde saynt Austyns predycacyons / and yaue hym leue to preche thrughout all hys londe before sayd of Kente / to torne and conuerte to hym all ye people that he myght. ¶It befelle soo after thorugh god∣des grace / that in lytell tyme the kynge hym∣self was conuerted to god / and all hys peop of his londe were baptysed. And in the meane whyle the peple torned them to god. ¶Saynt Austyn came to. Rochestre / & there he preched the worde of god. And the paynems therfore hym scorned / and caste vpon hym reygh tayl∣les / so that all his mantell was hanged full of these reygh tayles / and for more dyspyte / they caste vpon hym the guttes of reyghes & other fysshe. wherfore the good man Saynt Austyn was sore anoyed and greued. And prayed to god that all tho chyldern of that cyte that shol¦de be borne after warde / that is for to saye in the of Rochestre / myght haue taylles and soo they hadde And whan the kynger herde of this vengeaunce that was falle thrugh saynt Au∣styns prayer. He lete make an house in the ho∣nour of almyghty god / wherin wymmen shol¦de be delyuered of theyr childern at the bryges ende / In the whiche hous yet wymmen of the cyte ben delyuerde of chylde. ¶whan that sa∣ynt Gregory hadde hrede tell how the Englys¦she people were torned to god & comuerted he sente vnto saynt. Austyn his pallyon by a b••s∣shop / that was called Paulin and made hym Prymate & Archebysshop of Englonde And sente worde that he sholde ordeyne & make dys¦posynge the londe. And anone Austyn had the pallyon of the dygnyte of the Archebysshyp. He made two bysshops of his felowes that ca∣me with hym fro Rome & one was called Mel∣lite & he dwelled at London & that other was called Iustin that helde the dygnyte at. Roche¦stre. And this bysshop Mellite tho went to pre¦che in to Estsex and erystened the kynge of the countree that was called Sicwith that was kynge Adlebrytes cosyn hys systers sone. ¶Thys Iustyn wente to preche in Southse•• and torned moche of the people to god. And Saynt Austyn hymselfe preched thorugh out Englonde.