Excerpt from Select Translations From Old English Prose I formerly, at your request, most readily transmitted to you the Ecclesiastical History of the' English Nation, which I had newly published, for you to read, and give it your approbation; and I now send it again to be tran scribed, and more fully considered at your leisure. But to the end that I may remove all occasion of doubting what I have written, both from yourself and other readers or hearers of this history, I will take care briefly to inti mate from what authors I chiefly learned the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.