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But those which I met with either of the days of me, my kinsman, or of Offa, King of Mercia, or of Æ�ٳ����������, who was the first of the English who received baptism—those which appeared to me the justest—I have here collected, and abandoned the others.

Hereof also it came to pass in the end that they were contented to make a choice and insert no small numbers of them into their own volumes, as may be gathered by those of Athelbert the Great, surnamed King of Kent, Inas and Alfred, kings of the West Saxons, and divers other yet extant to be seen.

The Athelwold of the English version is the Adelbrict of Gaimar, the Ekenbright of the French poem, the Athelbert of the Eulogium Historiarum, the Aldebar of Wace, and the Æ�ٳ���������� of Laȝamon, i.e. no other than the celebrated Æthelberht of Kent, who was baptized by St Augustine A.D.

Within this church are buried the Saxon kings, Æthelbald and Æ�ٳ����������, the brothers of King Alfred.

After Æ�ٳ����������'s death Christianity suffered a reverse.604.