PART I.FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO BRITAIN TO THE.
CONSUMMATION OF THE PAPAL DOMINION.
334.

_St.Paul never in Britain_.
'Did holy Paul,' &c.

[Sonnet II.l.

6.] Stillingfleet adduces many arguments in support of this opinion, but they are unconvincing.

The latter part of this Sonnet (II.
'Conjectures') refers to a favourite notion of Roman Catholic writers, that Joseph of Arimathea and his companions brought Christianity into Britain, and built a rude church at Glastonbury; alluded to hereafter in a passage upon the dissolution of monasteries.
335.