A. 601. When he had reigned four years, pope Gregory sent to Augustine the pall of apostleship.
Chap. V.—Of the faith of the East-Saxons, and of the decease of the blessed pope Gregory.
A. 604. After three years, the eastern English[27] also received baptism in the reign of Sigebert [Sabert] their king.
A. 606. Two years afterwards, the blessed pope Gregory departed this world, in the eleventh year after he had bestowed baptism on the English by sending among them Christ's servant Augustine. And the number of years that was completed from the beginning of the world was more than five thousand and eight hundred.[28]
FOOTNOTES:
[27] Orientales Angli is the expression of Ethelwerd, but it should be Orientales Saxones, whose king's name is generally written Sabert. See preceding note.
[28] Ethelwerd adopts that system of chronology which makes 5300 to have elapsed before Christ.