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Excerpt from The History of Early English Literature, Vol. 2 of 2: Being the History of English Poetry From Its Beginnings to the Accession of King lfred The books Augustine brought to England were a Bible in two volumes, a Testament, a Psalter, an exposition Of the Gospels and Epistles, a book of martyrs and some apocryphal lives Of the Apostles. Fresh books arrived in 601, and it is said that two Of these mss. Of the Gospels still exist - one at Corpus, Cambridge, the other at the Bodleian.1 Shortly after the baptism of persons in the Swale on Christmas Day 597, the place where the cathedral rose was occupied, and the abbey Of ss. Peter and Paul (st. Augustine's) was founded. It became the seat Of the first learning and literature that Rome carried to this land, and the books Augustine brought over were enshrined in it. The first library was begun, and with it the first schools. We cannot, however, say for certain that the Latin Mission at once founded schools in Kent, though Baeda says, speaking of thirty years later, that the wish of Sige berht to have schools in East Anglia, such as he had seen in Gaul, was carried into effect by Bishop Felix, after t/ze fiatfemz of Me sc/zools in Kiwi. What is interesting is a conjecture Of Earle's that there may have been Roman schools Of grammar still existing in Canterbury when Augustine arrived. If Canterbury was not wholly destroyed by the invaders, it is just possible that the Roman schools may have been spared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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