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Epistle Dedicatory. be no less agreable to Your, to consider, That the Introduction of the Christian Faith, into the Roman Empire, was Effected by the Ever Glorious Helena, and the Conversion of the English much promoted, by the Endeavours of the First English Christian Queen Berhta: than seasonable, to remind Your , of her being congratulated on that Occasion, by the same Holy Bishop, whose Kindness to this Nation, is recommended to the Knowledge of Your People, in this small Treatise, under the Patronage of Your Royal Favour. On which