Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the dayes of this Aydan there was ſente into Albion from Gregory the Pope of Rome,Auguſtinus & Mellitus ſonne into Albion. diuers learned men (amongſt whom were Au|guſtinus and Mellitus) to inſtruct the Engliſh people in the faith of Chriſt, whiche as yet they had not receyued. By the earneſt trauell and ex|hortation of theſe inſtructors,Ethelbert is baptiſed. Etherbert king of the Kentiſhe Saxons was baptiſed with all his people. The Brittiſhe prieſts nor their doctrine the Saxons could in nowiſe abide,The Saxons hatred toward the Brittiſhe Prieſtes. bicauſe (as is ſuppoſed) the one nation through a naturall ha|tred, ſtill ſought the deſtruction of the other.

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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Suſſex and Eſſex receyue the Chriſtian faith.The South and eaſt Saxons moued with the enſample of the Kentiſh Saxons, ſhortly af|ter alſo renounced theyr olde ſuperſtitious idola|trie, and likewiſe receyued the Chriſtian faith.