POpe Gregorie moued of godly instinction in the hundred* 1.1 fortie and seuen yeare after the arriuall of the Angles in Brytaine, sent Augustine, Melitus, Iustus, & Iohn, with sun∣dry other Monkes that liued in the feare of God, to preach the Gospell, to the nation of the Angles in Brytaine, whi∣che* 1.2 landed in the Ile of Thanet, and were first receyued by E∣thelbert king of Kent, whom they conuerted to the Christi∣an Faith with diuerse of his people in the. xxxiiij. yere of his raigne: and king Ethelbert delaying no time, gaue vnto Augustine the Cittie of Canterbury, who furthered thus by the King, receiued at his handes an old Church, sometyme founded there by the faythfull Romaines, and dedicated y• same to our sauiour Jesus Christ, whiche since was called Saint Austins.
Augustine consecrated Melitus and Iustus Bishops, and* 1.3 appointed Melitus to preach vnto y• East Saxons, who wyth theyr King Sebert the nephew of Kyng Ethelberte, at the preaching of Melitus receyued the worde of lyfe.