Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England
ed. by A.M. Sellar
[1907]
Book I
I. Of the Situation of Britain and Ireland, and of their ancient inhabitants
II. How Caius Julius Caesar was the first Roman that came into Britain. [54 AD]
III. How Claudius, the second of the Romans who came into Britain, brought the islands Orcades
IV. How Lucius, king of Britain, writing to Pope Eleutherus, desired to be made a Christian.
VI. Of the reign of Diocletian, and how he persecuted the Christians. [286 AD]
VII. How, when the persecution ceased, the Church in Britain enjoyed peace till the time of the
XI. How the Britons, being ravaged by the Scots and Picts, sought succour from the Romans,
XIII. How the Britons, compelled by the great famine, drove the barbarians out of their territories
XV. How the Britons obtained their first victory over the Angles, under the command of
XVI. How Germanus the Bishop, sailing into Britain with Lupus, first quelled the tempest of the
XX. How, when the Pelagian heresy began to spring up afresh, Germanus, returning to Britain
XXI. How the Britons, being for a time at rest from foreign invasions, wore themselves out by civil
XXII. How the holy Pope Gregory sent Augustine, with other monks, to preach to the English
XXIII. How he wrote to the bishop of Arles to entertain them. [596 A.D.]
XXV. How St. Augustine in Kent followed the doctrine and manner of life of the primitive Church,
XXVI. How St. Augustine, being made a bishop, sent to acquaint Pope Gregory with what had
XXX. How Pope Gregory, by letter, exhorted Augustine not to glory in his miracles. [601 A.D.]
XXXI. How Pope Gregory sent letters and gifts to King Ethelbert. [601 A.D.]
XXXII. How Augustine repaired the church of our Saviour, and built the monastery of the blessed
XXXIII. How Ethelfrid, king of the Northumbrians, having vanquished the nations of the Scots,
Book II
I. Of the death of the blessed Pope Gregory. [604 A.D.]

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