Successit autem Theodoro in episcopatu Berctuald, qui erat abbas in monasterio quod iuxta ostium aquilonale fluminis Genladae positum Racuulfe nuncupatur: vir et ipse scientia Scripturarum imbutus, sed et ecclesiasticis simul ac monasterialibus disciplinis summe instructus, tametsi praedecessori suo minime comparandus: qui electus est quidem in episcopatum anno Dominicae incarnationis sexcentesimo nonagesimo secundo, die primo mensis Iulii, regnantibus in Cantia Victredo et Suaebhardo; ordinatus autem anno sequente tertio die kalendarum Iuliarum Dominica a Goduine metropolitano episcopo Galliarum:
Now Bertwald succeeded Theodore in the bishopric, who was abbot in a monastry called Raculf, which lieth hard by the north entry of the river Yenlade: a man who was too himself well travailed in the knowledge of the Scriptures and moreover fully instructed in ecclesiastical as well as monastical discipline, yet nothing to be compared to his predecessor: who was chosen indeed to be bishop in the 692nd year after the Lords incarnation, the first day of the month July, when Witred and Swebhard were kings of Kent; but he was ordained the next year after upon a Sunday, being then the 29th of June, by Godwin, metropolitan bishop of France:
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