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Arthur. About this time lived King Arthur (if the whole story be not a fable) who was so famous for beating the Saxons in several battles. A.D.600.
Austin. The Britons received Christianity very early, and, as is reported, from some of the Disciples themselves: So that, when the Romans left Britain, the Britons were generally Christians.
But the Saxons were heathens, till Pope Gregory the Great sent over hither Austin the monk, by whom Ethelbert king of the South-Saxons, and his subjects, were converted to Christianity; and the whole island soon followed the example. A.D.819.
Egbert. [Footnote 4: The edition of 1765 gives the date as 819, but according to Dr.Stubbs, Egbert became _bretwalda_ in 828.
[W.S.J.]] After many various revolutions in this island among the kingdoms of the Saxons, Egbert, descended from the West-Saxon kings, became sole monarch of England. Angles. The language in Britain was British, (now called Welsh) or Latin; but, with the Saxons, English came in (although extremely different from what it is now).
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