Tlbe  notes  contain  nHioh  infonaation,  and  we  baTe
only  one  cavil  to  raise.    Tbe  old  fable^  tbat  Chris-
danity  was.irst  planted  in  Britain  by  Aognstine  re-
ottves  coanteQ«&oe  from  one  of  tbese  notes,  by  tbe
repetition  of  tbat  anecdote  wberein  is'  immortalioed
tbe  felicitous  panning  of  tbe  bisbop  of  Rome,  on
seeing  some  of  onr  aneestora  exposed  for  sale  in  tlie
great  city  wbieb  nombers  among  ber  merebandizes
tbe  ^*  soals  of  men."'   On-tbis  occasion  their  bodies
only  were  pat  op  to  sale:  tbey  bad  a  pure  scriptural
ebnreh  in  tbeir  own  country  ;  so  pare  and  so  scrip-
toral  jtbat  it  must  needs  be  a  heatben  religion  in  tbe
eyes  of  tbe  Pope,  wbo  finding  so  goodly  a  beritage
If boUy  independent  of  bis  lorldly  sway,  lost  no  time
in  de8|»tobing  Augustine  to  bring  it  witbin  tbe  papal
nile»    How  toogbly  be  was  opposed  by  tbe  British
andJcish  bishops  at  lona,  tbe  venerable  Bede,  and
otbor.  bistoiians  have  recorded ;  but  Popery,  when
aseendant  h^re,  got  *  a  good  grip '  of  the  historic  pen,
and  throngb  the  ignorance  or  indolence  of  those  wbo
have  eince  wielded  it,  many  of  ber  most  impudent
lies  bave  been  allowed  to  pass  current  as  solemn
facts*    To  tbe  apostles,  or  to  tbeir  immediate  success
9018,  do  we  owe  tbe  planting  of  tbat  cborcb  which  tbe
n>yal  vassal  of  Rome,  Augustine's  boasted  convert,
saeceeded  in  banting  into  tbe  mountainous  retreats
of  Wales^  and  there  in  one  day  exemplified  his  holy
Catholic  spirit  by  barbarously  massacreing  at  Bangor
1000  ministers  of  that  early  independent  church*
Those  tmtbs  cannot  be  too  often  or  too  strongly
biiHight  forwards  half  the  advantages  that  Popery
obtains  and  enjoys  among  us  result  from  her  uncon-
iradioted  perversions  of  bistorical  fact,  and  unex-
posed fabrication  of  things  that  never  occurred.
