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Laupentiur. Perpuf. Jo-
hannej*. Juftuj* :• Dsef la-
peopaf afenbe fc eabi^a
papa Gpejopiuf mb ma-
nijum o^purn munecum
ro Kngelcynne. ;j hi |)i-
f uni popbum to }>^pe pa-
pe tihte, Ne beon ge a- "
j^yphre ))uph ^^ej-pmc J>2er
- Jan5yumej-pa))ele)e]"o])'5e
lan^ruman. C H.
rentius, g Petrus, Johannes,
Juſtus. Theſe Doctors the
Holy Pope Gregory ſent,
with many other Monks,
to the Engliſh People , and
he perſuaded them to the
Voyage in theſe Words :
"h Be not ye afraid thro'
the Fatigue of ſo long a
Journey, or thro' what
Non. of February and was buried near St. Augustine in the Church of
St. Fe^er and St. Paul^ without the Walls of the City oi Canterbury.
He was fucceeeed by Mellitus^ who was tranflaccd from London^ ruled
the See five Years, dyed the viii^'^ Cal. May^ and was buried with his
PredecefTors. Juflus Biftiop of Roche f^er fucceeded him, to whom
Pope Boniface writes in this manner. By the Authority of St, Peter we
firmly enjoin^ that the City of Canterbury flmll be the Metropolis of all
Britain. This 7/(/?^j' 'ordain'd F^wZ/nw^ A rchbifliop of the Northum-
brians y by whofe Preaching King £^tt?7« and his People having received
Baptifm, Edvpin in the Eleventh Year of his Reign gave Paulinus the
City of Tork for the Seat of his Arclibifhoprick. See Stephen Birching-'
tons Lives of the ArchbiHiDps of Canterbury^ AtigL Sacr, Fart. i.
p. 2. Bede's Ecclef Uij}. and the reft of our Church Hiftorians,
5 Petrus was the firifl Abbot of the Monaftery of St. Peter and
St. Paul, in the Suburbs of Canterbury, Bede EccL Hijl. lib. i . cap. 93.
^ Augufline and his Followers, after they had made feme progrefs
on their Journey, being fore afraid, and difcouraged, chofe rather to
return home, than to venture among a favagc, barbarous, and unbe-
lieving People, with whofe Manners they were unacquainred, and
whofe Language they did not fo much as underftand ; And (b refol-
ving on a Retreat, they immediately difpatch Auguftine, (who was de-
fign'd to be their Bifhop in cafe the EngUfl) fhould receive them) to
St. Gregory, with all humility to befeech him, that he wou'd aoc
oblige them to undertake fo dangerous, laborious, and uncertain an
Expedition ; to whom he fends Letters of Exhortation to encourage ,
them in the Work they had begun ; Which Letters arc to the effei^ ■
above fpecified. See Bedc^ EccL Kift* lib. ?. ca^. 22» '
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