Pulsus est autem ab episcopatu suo Vilfrid, et multa diu loca pervagatus, Romam adiit, Brittaniam rediit; et si propter inimicitias memorati regis in patria sive parochia sua recipi non potuit, non tamen ab evangelizandi potuit ministerio cohiberi: siquidem divertens ad provinciam Australium Saxonum, quae post Cantuarios ad austrum et ad occidentem usque ad Occidentales Saxones pertingit, habens terram familiarum septem millium, et eo adhuc tempore paganis cultibus serviebat; huic verbum fidei et lavacrum salutis ministrabat.
Now when Wilfrid was put out of his bishopric, he wandered through many places a long time, and came to Rome, and returned into Britain; and if, because of the displeasure of the said king, he could not get into his own country or diocese again, yet he could not be kept from doing the office of preaching the gospel: for he turned aside to the province of the South Saxons, which from Kent reached southward and westward as far as the West Saxons, containing 7000 hides of land, and was yet at that time in bondage to paynim worship, and to this province he ministered the word of faith and the laver of salvation.
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