. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . 40 tlie street that runs near the town wall, this willbring us to the most considerable object ot-cu-riosity in the whole suburb, and show us thegreat gate of St. Augustines monastery, to whichwe go through a little square, called Lady Wot-tons 41 CHAP. VJJ. Of St. Augustine s MoiLastcry. Mr. Somner says, Augustine the monk, theApostle of the English, obtained from Ethelhert,the first Christian king of Kent, a certain pieceof ground, on which, with the kings help
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . 40 tlie street that runs near the town wall, this willbring us to the most considerable object ot-cu-riosity in the whole suburb, and show us thegreat gate of St. Augustines monastery, to whichwe go through a little square, called Lady Wot-tons 41 CHAP. VJJ. Of St. Augustine s MoiLastcry. Mr. Somner says, Augustine the monk, theApostle of the English, obtained from Ethelhert,the first Christian king of Kent, a certain pieceof ground, on which, with the kings help, hehuilt this abbey, and dedicated it to St. Peter andvSt. Paul; but St. Dunstan afterwards dedicated itanew, to the honour of those apostles, and of , in the year 978; and from thence itwas called St. Augustines. Here we should observe, that when the Papistscall Augustine the Apostle of the English, it isnot that they look on him as the first preacher ofChristianity in our island. In their service for May 26, the festival of , one of the lessons says, Lucius, aBritish king, wrote to him, desiring that lie andhis might be numbered among the Christians. Who had converted him so far as to occasionthis request, is not said ; but tliat he sent thelearned and pious Fugatius and Damian intoBritain, by whom the king and the rest receivedthe truth.
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