Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses
CHAPTER III.
THE FOUNDATION OF THE ENGLISH KINGDOMS AND THEIR CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY.
The Jutes, Angles, and Saxons--Their Village Communities--Larger Combinations, Gradations of Rank--Morality and Religion--Hengist and Horsa found the Kingdom of Kent--The Kingdoms of Sussex, Wessex, and Essex--The Anglian Kingdoms--Mercia--The Welsh--Gregory and St. Augustine--Augustine and Kent--Conversion of Northumbria--England becomes Christian--The Greatness of Mercia--King Offa 25