CHAPTER III

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_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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