And so on for many years, king after king resigned his kingship, and submitted, in his latter days, to the Church.

Within two centuries, no less than thirty kings and queens are recorded to have embraced a conventual life: and far more probably did so, but were passed over in silence.

Baeda tells us that many Englishmen went into monasteries in Gaul.
[2] He was buried at St.Peter's, and his tomb still exists in the remodelled building.

Baeda quotes the inscription in full, and quotes it correctly; a fact which may be taken as an excellent test of his historical accuracy, and the care with which he collected his materials.
On the other hand, it cannot be denied that while Christianity made great progress, many marks of heathendom were still left among the people.

Well-worship and stone-worship, devil-craft and sacrifices to idols, are mentioned in every Anglo-Saxon code of laws, and had to be provided against even as late as the time of Eadgar.