Excerpt from The Churches in Britain Before A D. 1000 UR knowledge of the history of Christianity in the British Isles during the first centuries of its existence is very meagre. We know some thing oi it before the year a.d. 400; and we know a great deal of it after a.d. 600. But about its origin we know nothing, and about the two cen turies which followed the departure of the Roman legions in 409 we know very little. Let us look at the twilight which precedes their departure before attempting to penetrate the darkness which followed it. 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.