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THE VARIOUS ROMAN YOKES.
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nosis Many a Saxon would have filled a drunkard's grave, but wabbled so in his gait that he walked past it and missed it.
To drink from the skulls of their dead enemies was a part of their religion, and there were no heretics among them. [1]
Christianity was introduced into Britain during the second century, and later under Diocletian the Christians were greatly persecuted. Christianity did not come from Rome, it is said, but from Gaul. Among the martyrs in those early days was St. Alban, who had been converted by a fugitive priest. The story of his life and death is familiar.
The Bible had been translated, and in 314 A.D. Britain had three Bishops, viz., of London, Lincoln, and York.
- ↑ The artist has very ably shown here a devoted little band of Saxons holding services in a basement. In referring to it as "abasement," not the slightest idea of casting contumely or obloquy on our ancestors is intended by the humble writer of pungent but sometimes unpalatable truth.
