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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Book IV: XVI. How the Isle of Wight received Christian inhabitants, and two royal youths of that island were

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, ed. by A.M. Sellar, [1907] AFTER Caedwalla had obtained possession of the kingdom of the Gewissae, he took also the Isle of Wight, which till then was entirely given over to idolatry, and by merciless slaughter endeavoured to destroy all the inhabitants thereof, and to place in their stead people from his own province; binding himself by a vow, though it is said that he was not yet regenerated in Christ, to give the fourth part of the land and of the…