Englands old religion faithfully gathered out of the history of the Church of England, as it was written by Venerable Bede, almost a thousand years agoe (that is) in the year 698 after the passion of our Saviour : Bede saith he ended this history in the year 731 after the incarnation : we have not altered any part of this Fathers own words in any point concerning faith : only here and there is omitted what belongeth not to that purpose / by H.B.
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Englands old religion faithfully gathered out of the history of the Church of England, as it was written by Venerable Bede, almost a thousand years agoe (that is) in the year 698 after the passion of our Saviour : Bede saith he ended this history in the year 731 after the incarnation : we have not altered any part of this Fathers own words in any point concerning faith : only here and there is omitted what belongeth not to that purpose / by H.B.
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Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
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At Antwerp :: [s.n.],
1658.
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Great Britain -- Church history -- 449-1066.
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"Englands old religion faithfully gathered out of the history of the Church of England, as it was written by Venerable Bede, almost a thousand years agoe (that is) in the year 698 after the passion of our Saviour : Bede saith he ended this history in the year 731 after the incarnation : we have not altered any part of this Fathers own words in any point concerning faith : only here and there is omitted what belongeth not to that purpose / by H.B." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69547.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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descriptionPage 95
Chap. 7.
Relates, How the West-Sax∣ons with their King, receiv'd the Faith, by Bishop Birinus his preaching, who came into Britany by Pope Honorius his appointment, promising to sow the seeds of the holy Faith in the remotest parts of Eng∣land. By the same Popes com∣mand, the Bishop of Genua con∣secrated him.
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The Apostle of the West-Saxons, sent from the Pope.