GREAT TRAFFIC OF LONDON a.d. 



604. 



The same in English. 



BUt Suetonius with wonderfull constancie passed 

 through the middest of his enemies, unto London, 

 which though it were not honoured with the name and 

 title of a Romane Colonie, yet was it most famous for [i, 125.] 

 multitude of Marchants and concourse of people. 



A testimonie out of Venerable Beda (which died ^^'^^ Ealesi- 

 in the yeere of our Lord 734.) prooving centis Jngh- 

 London to have bene a Citie of great traffike rum lib. 2. 

 and Marchandize not long after the beginning '^^^' ^' 

 of the Saxons reigne. 



Nno Dominies incarnationis sexcentesimo quarto 

 Augustinus Britanniarum Archiepiscopus ordinavit 

 duos Episcopos, Mellitum videlicet & Justum : 

 Mellitum quidem ad praedicandum provinciae Orientalium 

 Saxonum, qui Tamesi fluvio dirimuntur a Cantia, & ipsi 

 Orientali Mari contigui, quorum Metropolis Londonia 

 Civitas est, super ripam praefati fluminis posita, & ipsa 

 multorum emporium populorum, terra marique venien- 

 tium. 



The same in English. 



IN the yeere of the incarnation of Christ 604. Augus- 

 tine Archbishop of Britaine consecrated two Bishops, 

 to wit Mellitus and Justus. He appoynted Mellitus to 

 preach to the East Saxons, which are divided from Kent 

 by the river of Thames, and border upon the Easterne 

 sea, whose chiefe and Metropolitane Citie is London, 

 seated upon the banke of the aforesayd river, which is 

 also a Marte Towne of many nations, which repayre 

 thither by sea and by land. 



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