CHAPTER III.

_The Roman Mission to England, pages 13-19._

Landing of Augustine in England, 13. Cordial reception by King of

Kent, 17. Christianity established in his kingdom, 14. Creation of

Archbishopric of Canterbury, and Bishoprics of London and Rochester,

15. Augustine’s questions to Pope Gregory and his reply, 16, 17. How

Bishops and their Clergy were at first maintained in England, 17.

Brewer’s and Dibdin’s translation of “portiones,” 17. Quadripartite

division, 17. Blackstone’s opinion, 18. Bishops’ churches, and

chapels of ease, 18. Did Augustine preach payment of tithes? 19.

King Ethelbert’s grant of tithes a fiction, 19. Fuller’s misleading

statements in “Our Title Deeds,” 19.

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