The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. XXXVII. The Language of Britain near a thousand years ago. Ex Beda lib. 1. de Hist. Angl. Cap. 1. (Book 37)

BRitania in praesenti juxta numerum librorum, &c. Britain in my time (saith Bede) doth search and confess one and the same knowledge of the High Truth, and true subli∣mity in five Tongues, according to the five Books wherein the Law of God was written: name∣ly, in the English, Britain, Scotish, Pict and Latine Tongues: And in the nineteenth Chap∣ter of the same Book, he saith, that when Austen the Monk came from Gregory the great to Preach the Gospel in England, he brought with him Interpreters out of France to speak to the English: That Language it seems was then usual in England, but whether the French that France speaks now, is a question. William the Conqueror took great care and pains to have brought in his Tongue with his Conquest, but could not prevail.