The new England was admitted into the older commonwealth of nations.

The civilization, art, letters, which had fled before the sword of the English conquerors returned with the Christian faith.

The fabric of the Roman law indeed never took root in England, but it is impossible not to recognize the result of the influence of the Roman missionaries in the fact that codes of the customary English law began to be put in writing soon after their arrival.
[Sidenote: AEthelfrith] A year passed before AEthelberht yielded to the preaching of Augustine.
But from the moment of his conversion the new faith advanced rapidly and the Kentish men crowded to baptism in the train of their king.

The new religion was carried beyond the bounds of Kent by the supremacy which AEthelberht wielded over the neighbouring kingdoms.

Saeberht, King of the East-Saxons, received a bishop sent in 604 from Kent, and suffered him to build up again a Christian church in what was now his subject city of London, while soon after the East-Anglian king Raedwald resolved to serve Christ and the older gods together.