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Divided into five books ( about 400 pages ), the Historia covers the history of England, ecclesiastical and political, from the time of Julius Caesar to the date of its completion ( 731 ).

The first twenty-one chapters, covering the period before the mission of Augustine, are compiled from earlier writers such as Orosius, Gildas, Prosper of Aquitaine, the letters of Pope Gregory I, and others, with the insertion of legends and traditions.