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Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England

by the Venerable Bede

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Editor’s Preface
  3. 3Introduction
  4. 4Life of Bede
  5. 5Letter of Cuthbert to Cuthwin
  6. 6Preface
  7. 7Book I
  8. 8Chap. II — How Caius Julius Caesar Was the First Roman That Came In…
  9. 9Chap. IV — How Lucius, King of Britain, Writing to Pope Eleutherus,…
  10. 10Chap. V — How the Emperor Severus Divided From the Rest by a Rampar…
  11. 11Chap. VI — Of the Reign of Diocletian, and How He Persecuted the Ch…
  12. 12Chap. VII — The Passion of St. Alban and His Companions, Who at Tha…
  13. 13Chap. VIII — How, When the Persecution Ceased, the Church in Britai…
  14. 14Chap. IX — How During the Reign of Gratian, Maximus, Being Created…
  15. 15Chap. X — How, in the Reign of Arcadius, Pelagius, a Briton, Insole…
  16. 16Chap. XI — How During the Reign of Honorius, Gratian and Constantin…
  17. 17Chap. XV — How the Angles, Being Invited Into Britain, at First Dro…
  18. 18Chap. XVI — How the Britons Obtained Their First Victory Over the A…
  19. 19Chap. XVII — How Germanus the Bishop, Sailing Into Britain With Lup…
  20. 20Chap. XX — How the Same Bishops Brought Help From Heaven to the Bri…
  21. 21Chap. XXII — How the Britons, Being for a Time at Rest From Foreign…
  22. 22Chap. XXIII — How the Holy Pope Gregory Sent Augustine, With Other…
  23. 23Chap. XXIV — How He Wrote to the Bishop of Arles to Entertain Them.…
  24. 24Chap. XXVI — How St. Augustine in Kent Followed the Doctrine and Ma…
  25. 25Chap. XXVII — How St. Augustine, Being Made a Bishop, Sent to Acqua…
  26. 26Chap. XXVIII — How Pope Gregory Wrote to the Bishop of Arles to Hel…
  27. 27Chap. XXIX — How the Same Pope Sent to Augustine the Pall and a Let…
  28. 28Chap. XXX — A Copy of the Letter Which Pope Gregory Sent to the Abb…
  29. 29Chap. XXXI — How Pope Gregory, by Letter, Exhorted Augustine Not to…
  30. 30Chap. XXXII — How Pope Gregory Sent Letters and Gifts to King Ethel…
  31. 31Chap. XXXIII — How Augustine Repaired the Church of Our Saviour, an…
  32. 32Chap. XXXIV — How Ethelfrid, King of the Northumbrians, Having Vanq…
  33. 33Book II
  34. 34Chap. III — How St. Augustine Made Mellitus and Justus Bishops; and…
  35. 35Chap. IV — How Laurentius and His Bishops Admonished the Scots to O…
  36. 36Chap. V — How, After the Death of the Kings Ethelbert and Sabert, T…
  37. 37Chap. VI — How Laurentius, Being Reproved by the Apostle Peter, Con…
  38. 38Chap. VII — How Bishop Mellitus by Prayer Quenched a Fire in His Ci…
  39. 39Chap. VIII — How Pope Boniface Sent the Pall and a Letter to Justus…
  40. 40Chap. IX — Of the Reign of King Edwin, and How Paulinus, Coming to…
  41. 41Chap. X — How Pope Boniface, by Letter, Exhorted the Same King to E…
  42. 42Chap. XI — How Pope Boniface Advised the King’s Consort to Use Her…
  43. 43Chap. XII — How Edwin Was Persuaded to Believe by a Vision Which He…
  44. 44Chap. XIII — Of the Council He Held With His Chief Men Concerning T…
  45. 45Chap. XIV — How King Edwin and His Nation Became Christians; and Wh…
  46. 46Chap. XV — How the Province of the East Angles Received the Faith o…
  47. 47Chap. XVI — How Paulinus Preached in the Province of Lindsey; and o…
  48. 48Chap. XVII — How Edwin Received Letters of Exhortation From Pope Ho…
  49. 49Chap. XVIII — How Honorius, Who Succeeded Justus in the Bishopric o…
  50. 50Chap. XIX — How the Aforesaid Honorius First, and Afterwards John,…
  51. 51Chap. XX — How Edwin Being Slain, Paulinus Returned Into Kent, and…
  52. 52Book III
  53. 53Chap. III — How the Same King Oswald, Asking a Bishop of the Scotti…
  54. 54Chap. IV — When the Nation of the Picts Received the Faith of Chris…
  55. 55Chap. V — Of the Life of Bishop Aidan. [635 a.d.]
  56. 56Chap. VI — Of King Oswald’s Wonderful Piety and Religion. [635-642…
  57. 57Chap. VII — How the West Saxons Received the Word of God by the Pre…
  58. 58Chap. VIII — How Earconbert, King of Kent, Ordered the Idols to Be…
  59. 59III, 9
  60. 60Chap. X — How the Dust of That Place Prevailed Against Fire. [After…
  61. 61Chap. XI — How a Light From Heaven Stood All Night Over His Relics,…
  62. 62Chap. XII — How a Little Boy Was Cured of a Fever at His Tomb
  63. 63Chap. XIII — How a Certain Person in Ireland Was Restored, When at…
  64. 64Chap. XIV — How on the Death of Paulinus, Ithamar Was Made Bishop o…
  65. 65Chap. XV — How Bishop Aidan Foretold to Certain Seamen That a Storm…
  66. 66Chap. XVI — How the Same Aidan, by His Prayers, Saved the Royal Cit…
  67. 67Chap. XVIII — Of the Life and Death of the Religious King Sigbert.…
  68. 68Chap. XIX — How Fursa Built a Monastery Among the East Angles, and…
  69. 69Chap. XX — How, When Honorius Died, Deusdedit Became Archbishop of…
  70. 70Chap. XXI — How the Province of the Midland Angles Became Christian…
  71. 71Chap. XXII — How Under King Sigbert, Through the Preaching of Cedd,…
  72. 72Chap. XXIII — How Bishop Cedd, Having a Place for Building a Monast…
  73. 73III, 24
  74. 74Chap. XXV — How the Question Arose About the Due Time of Keeping Ea…
  75. 75Chap. XXVI — How Colman, Being Worsted, Returned Home; and Tuda Suc…
  76. 76Chap. XXVII — How Egbert, a Holy Man of the English Nation, Led a M…
  77. 77Chap. XXVIII — How, When Tuda Was Dead, Wilfrid Was Ordained, in Ga…
  78. 78Chap. XXIX — How the Priest Wighard Was Sent From Britain to Rome,…
  79. 79Chap. XXX — How the East Saxons, During a Pestilence, Returned to I…
  80. 80Book IV
  81. 81Chap. III — How the Above-Mentioned Ceadda Was Made Bishop of the P…
  82. 82Chap. V — Of the Death of the Kings Oswy and Egbert, and of the Syn…
  83. 83Chap. VI — How Wynfrid Being Deposed, Sexwulf Received His Bishopri…
  84. 84Chap. VII — How It Was Indicated by a Light From Heaven Where the B…
  85. 85Chap. IX — Of the Signs Which Were Shown From Heaven When the Mothe…
  86. 86Chap. X — How a Blind Woman, Praying in the Burial-Place of That Mo…
  87. 87Chap. XI — How Sebbi, King of the Same Province, Ended His Life in…
  88. 88Chap. XIII — How Bishop Wilfrid Converted the Province of the South…
  89. 89Chap. XIV — How a Pestilence Ceased Through the Intercession of Kin…
  90. 90Chap. XV — How King Caedwalla, King of the Gewissae, Having Slain E…
  91. 91Chap. XVI — How the Isle of Wight Received Christian Inhabitants, a…
  92. 92Chap. XVII — Of the Synod Held in the Plain of Haethfelth, Archbish…
  93. 93Chap. XVIII — Of John, the Precentor of the Apostolic See, Who Came…
  94. 94Chap. XIX — How Queen Ethelthryth Always Preserved Her Virginity, a…
  95. 95Chap. XX — A Hymn Concerning Her
  96. 96Chap. XXI — How Bishop Theodore Made Peace Between the Kings Egfrid…
  97. 97Chap. XXII — How a Certain Captive’s Chains Fell Off When Masses We…
  98. 98Chap. XXIII — Of the Life and Death of the Abbess Hilda. [614-680 a…
  99. 99Chap. XXIV — That There Was in Her Monastery a Brother, on Whom the…
  100. 100Chap. XXV — Of the Vision That Appeared to a Certain Man of God Bef…
  101. 101Chap. XXVI — Of the Death of the Kings Egfrid and Hlothere. [684-68…
  102. 102Chap. XXVII — How Cuthbert, a Man of God, Was Made Bishop; and How…
  103. 103Chap. XXIX — How This Bishop Foretold That His Own Death Was at Han…
  104. 104Chap. XXX — How His Body Was Found Altogether Uncorrupted After It…
  105. 105Chap. XXXI — Of One That Was Cured of a Palsy at His Tomb
  106. 106Chap. XXXII — Of One Who Was Lately Cured of a Disease in His Eye a…
  107. 107Book V
  108. 108Chap. II — How Bishop John Cured a Dumb Man by His Blessing. [687 a…
  109. 109Chap. III — How He Healed a Sick Maiden by His Prayers. [705 a.d.]
  110. 110Chap. IV — How He Healed a Thegn’s Wife That Was Sick, With Holy Water
  111. 111Chap. V — How He Likewise Recalled by His Prayers a Thegn’s Servant…
  112. 112Chap. VI — How, Both by His Prayers and Blessing, He Recalled From…
  113. 113Chap. VII — How Caedwalla, King of the West Saxons, Went to Rome to…
  114. 114Chap. VIII — How, When Archbishop Theodore Died, Bertwald Succeeded…
  115. 115Chap. X — How Wilbrord, Preaching in Frisland, Converted Many to Ch…
  116. 116Chap. XI — How the Venerable Suidbert in Britain, and Wilbrord at R…
  117. 117Chap. XIII — How Another Contrarywise Before His Death Saw a Book C…
  118. 118Chap. XIV — How Another in Like Manner, Being at the Point of Death…
  119. 119Chap. XV — How Divers Churches of the Scots, at the Instance of Ada…
  120. 120Chap. XVI — The Account Given in the Aforesaid Book of the Place of…
  121. 121Chap. XVII — What He Likewise Wrote of the Place of Our Lord’s Asce…
  122. 122Chap. XVIII — How the South Saxons Received Eadbert and Eolla, and…
  123. 123Chap. XX — How Albinus Succeeded to the Godly Abbot Hadrian, and Ac…
  124. 124Chap. XXI — How the Abbot Ceolfrid Sent Master-Builders to the King…
  125. 125Chap. XXII — How the Monks of Hii, and the Monasteries Subject to T…
  126. 126Chap. XXIII — Of the Present State of the English Nation, or of All…
  127. 127Chap. XXIV — Chronological Recapitulation of the Whole Work: Also C…
  128. 128Continuation

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