He also restored an old Roman church in the city.

The pope sent him sacramental vessels, altar cloths, ornaments, relics, and, above all, many books.

Ten years later, Augustine enlarged his missionary field by ordaining two new bishops--Mellitus, to preach to the East Saxons, "whose metropolis," says Baeda, "is the city of London, which is the mart of many nations, resorting to it by sea and land;" and Justus to the episcopal see of West Kent, with his bishop-stool at Rochester.

The East Saxons nominally accepted the faith at the bidding of their over-lord, AEthelberht; but the people of London long remained pagans at heart.

On Augustine's death, however, all life seemed again to die out of the struggling mission.