A principio itaque voluminis huius usque ad tempus quo gens Anglorum fidem Christi percepit, ex priorum maxime scriptis hinc inde collectis ea quae promeremus didicimus.
So that from the beginning of this book unto the time that the English nation received the faith of Christ we learned such things as to publish, the same being gathered from divers quarters out of the works chiefly of such as had wrote thereof before our time.
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