[57] Ipsum Augustinum hujus belli non modo conscium sed et impulsorem exstitisse. Wilkins adds, that the expression found in Bede, concerning the death of Augustine, is a parenthesis foisted in by Romanist writers, and not found in the Saxon manuscripts. (Conc. Brit. p. 26.) Augustine himself was not only accessory to that war, but he was even its instigator.
[58] Ad memoratam aciem, peracto jejunio triduano, cum aliis orandi causa convenerant. (Beda, ii, cap. ii.) At the aforesaid engagement, after three days had been spent in fasting, they met together with others for prayer.
[59] Extinctos in ea pugna ferunt de his qui ad orandum venerunt viros circiter mille ducentos. Beda, lib. ii, cap. ii.
[60] Sic completum est presagium sancti pontificis Augustini. Ibid.
[61] Apparuit ei beatissimus apostolorum princeps, et multo illum tempore secretæ noctis flagellis acrioribus afficiens. Beda, ii. cap. vi.
[62] Cum magna nobilium juventute apud Scotos sive Pictos exulabant, ibique ad doctrinam Scottorum cathechisati et baptismatis gratia sunt recreati. (Beda, iii. cap. i.) They were exiled among the Scots or Picts with many youths of noble rank, and there they were instructed in the doctrine of the Scots and were converted by the grace of baptism.
[63] Superveniente cum parvo exercitu, sed fide Christi munito. Beda, lib. iii, cap. i.
[64] Desiderans totam cui præesse cœpit gentem fidei Christianæ gratia imbui. (Ibid. cap. iii.) Desiring that the whole nation over which he ruled might be imbued with the grace of the Christian faith.
[65] Aydanus accepto gradu episcopatus, quo tempore eodem monasterio Segenius abbas et presbyter præfuit. (Beda, lib. iii, cap. v.) Aidan having received the dignity of a bishop at the time when Segenius, abbot and presbyter, presided over that monastery. When Bede tells us that a plain priest was president, he excludes the idea that there were bishops in the assembly. See 1 Timothy, iv, 14.
[66] Evangelisante antistite, ipse Rex suis ducibus ac ministris interpres verbi existeret cœlestis. (Beda, lib. iii, cap. iii.) When the bishop was preaching, the king himself interpreted the heavenly message to his officers and servants.