Hitherto yee haue heard of the time, wherein idolatrie reigned and blinded the harts of such as dwelled in this Iland. Now let vs sée the successe of the gospell, after the death and passion of Iesus Christ our sauiour. And euen here would I begin with an allegation of [Sidenote: _Theodoret._] Theodoret, wherevpon some repose great assurance (conceiuing yet more [Sidenote: _Sophronius._] hope therein by the words of Sophronius) that Paule the Apostle should preach the word of saluation here, after his deliuerie out of captiuitie, which fell as I doo read in the 57. of Christ. But sith I cannot verifie the same by the words of Theodoret, to be spoken more of Paule than Peter, or the rest, I will passe ouer this coniecture (so far as it is grounded vpon Theodoret) and deale with other authorities, whereof we haue more certeintie. First of all therfore let vs see what Fortunatus hath written of Pauls comming into Britaine, and afterward what is to be found of other by-writers in other points of more assurance. Certes for the presence of Paule I read thus much: Quid sacer ille simul Paulus tuba gentibus ampla, Per mare per terras Christi præconia fundens, Europam & Asiam, Lybiam, sale dogmata complens, Arctos, meridies, hic plenus vesper & ortus, Transit & Oceanum, vel qua facit insula portum, Quásq; Britannus habet terras atque vltima Thule, &c. [Sidenote: Iosephus.] That one Iosephus preached here in England, in the time of the Apostles, his sepulchre yet in Aualon, now called Glessenburg or Glastenburie, an epitaph affixed therevnto is proofe sufficient. Howbeit, sith these things are not of competent force to persuade all men, I will ad in few, what I haue read elsewhere of his arriuall here. First of all therefore you shall note that he came ouer into Britaine, about the 64. after Christ, when the persecution began vnder Nero, at which time Philip and diuers of the godlie being in France (whether he came with other christians, after they had sowed the word of God in Scythia, by the space of 9. yeares) seuered themselues in sunder, to make the better shift for their owne safegard, and yet not otherwise than by their flight, the gospell might haue due [Sidenote: _Philip. Freculphus. To. 2., lib. 2. cap. 4._] [Sidenote: _Nennius. Nicephorus lib. 2. cap. 40._] [Sidenote: _Isidorus lib. de vita & obit. dict. patrum._] [Sidenote: _W. Malmes. de antiq. Glasconici monast._] furtherance. Hereby then it came to passe, that the said Philip vpon good deliberation did send Iosephus ouer, and with him Simon Zelotes to preach vnto the Britons, and minister the sacraments there according to the rites of the churches of Asia and Greece, from whence they came not long before vnto the countrie of the Galles. Which was saith Malmesburie 103. before Faganus and Dinaw did set foorth the gospell amongst them. Of the c[=o]ming of Zelotes you may read more in the second booke of Niceph. Cal.