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Ecclesiastical History of the English People

St. Bede the Venerable

Bede's history of the Church among the English, finished at Jarrow in 731: from Roman Britain and St. Alban through Augustine's mission, the conversion of the English kingdoms, the Easter controversy and Whitby, Theodore, Cuthbert and Wilfrid, to Bede's own day, closing with his account of himself and his works. Latin text of Charles Plummer (Oxford, 1896); English translation of A. M. Sellar (London, 1907), a revision of Giles, with Sellar's notes. The Continuation is a later set of annals.

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Source: Tier A: Plummer's edition was published in 1896 and he died in 1927. Some forty OCR slips the transcription shares with Wikisource (agerc, sacpius, suac, nequc…) were corrected against Plummer's printed text; the chapter titles were read from the OCR of Plummer's capitula and checked against his chapter headings. · Tier A: published in London in 1907; Project Gutenberg releases it as public domain, and the translation is more than a century old.