Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THESE ISLANDS BEFORE THE COMING OF AUGUSTINE. _Three Lectures delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894_ BY THE REV. G. F. BROWNE, B.D., D.C.L., CANON OF ST. PAUL'S, AND FORMERLY DISNEY PROFESSOR OF ARCHÆOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE. LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.; 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C. NEW YORK: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO. 1894. CONTENTS. LECTURE I. PAGE Importance of the anniversaries connected with the years 1894-1897.--Christianity in Kent immediately before Augustine.--Dates of Bishop Luidhard and Queen Bertha.-- Romano-British Churches in Canterbury.--Who were the Britons.--Traditional origin of British Christianity.-- St. Paul.--Joseph of Arimathea.--Glastonbury.--Roman references to Britain 5 LECTURE II. Early mentions of Christianity in Britain.--King Lucius.--Origin and spread of Christianity in Gaul.-- British Bishops at Councils.--Pelagianism.--British Bishops of London.--Fastidius 54 LECTURE III. Early Christianity in other parts of these islands.-- Ninian in the south-west of Scotland.--Palladius and Patrick in Ireland.--Columba in Scotland.--Kentigern in Cumbria.--Wales--Cornwall.--The fate of the several Churches.--Special rites &c. of the British Church.-- General conclusion 107 _The Christian Church in these Islands before the coming of Augustine._ LECTURE I. Importance of the anniversaries connected with the years 1894-1897.--Christianity in Kent immediately before Augustine.--Dates of Bishop Luidhard and Queen Bertha.--Romano-British Churches in Canterbury.--Who were the Britons.--Traditional origin of British Christianity.--St. Paul.--Joseph of Arimathea.--Glastonbury.--Roman references to Britain.