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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Thus Augustine and a party of forty mostly monks but includin a number of English youths bought by Gregory in the slave marke of Marseilles departed from Rome probably in June 596. None them could have expected to see Italy again. The journey was to te both their endurance and courage. They had not long set out word according to the Venerable Bede author of that remarkable in of historical writing The Ecclesiastical History of the English Pople they panicked and ‘paralysed with terror… began to conte??????? returning home rather than going to a barbarous fierce and on- believing nation whose language they did not even understand Augustine retraced his footsteps but Gregory sent him back to bar- post rallying his followers by making it clear that the minion had- behind it the unequivocal support of his apostolic office. At the same time he increased Augustine’s authority by making him an add Recovering their nerve the party finally reached the Channel co where taking ship northward they sailed past the old Roman fort at Dover into the mouth of the Stour. They were now about twelve miles from the town of Durovernum modern Canterbury this being situated at the point where Watling Street forded the river Durovernum was already distinguished by a long history. When Julius Caesar came to Britain he found the site already in occupation by Belgic invaders and the Roman surveyors erected there the capital city of Eastern Kent. Modern archaeology has made possible the reconstruction of its main outlines which reveal the conventional (MP)