Ferunt autem quia cum de provincia Scottorum rex Osuald postulasset antistitem, qui sibi suaeque genti verbum fidei ministraret, missus fuerit primo alius austerioris animi vir, qui cum aliquandiu genti Anglorum praedicans nihil proficeret, nec libenter a populo audiretur, redierit patriam, atque in conventu seniorum retulerit, quia nil prodesse docendo genti ad quam missus erat, potuisset, eo quod essent homines indomabiles, et durae ac barbarae mentis.
Now the report is that when king Oswald desired first to have a prelate out of the province of the Scots, who might preach the word of faith to him and his people, another man of a more austere stomach was first sent, who (when after a while preaching to the English people he did nothing prevail nor was willingly heard of the people) returned to his own country, and so in the assembly of the elders he made relation that in teaching he had been able to do the people no good, to whom he had been sent, forasmuch as they were folk that might not be tamed, and of a hard capacity and fierce nature.
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