Auctor ante omnes atque adiutor opusculi huius Albinus abba reverentissimus vir per omnia doctissimus extitit; qui in ecclesia Cantuariorum a beatae memoriae Theodoro archiepiscopo et Hadriano abbate viris venerabilibus atque eruditissimis institutus, diligenter omnia quae in ipsa Cantuariorum provincia vel etiam in contiguis eidem regionibus a discipulis beati papae Gregorii gesta fuere, vel monimentis literarum vel seniorum traditione cognoverat: et ea mihi de his quae memoria digna videbantur, per religiosum Lundoniensis ecclesiae presbyterum Nothelmum, sive literis mandata sive ipsius Nothelmi viva voce referenda, transmisit.
The chiefest author and aider I had in compiling this small work was the most reverend abbot Albinus, a man instructed in all manner of knowledge; which being brought up in the church of Canterbury under archbishop Theodore, of blessed memory, and abbot Hadrian, men of great worship and learning, hath diligently procured and sent unto me all such things as were done by the disciples of the blessed pope Gregory in the province of Canterbury itself, either also in other places adjoining and bordering upon the same: which things the said abbot had learned partly by writings, partly also by tradition of elders; and such of these things as seemed deserving of record he hath sent unto me by the hands of Nothelm, a devout priest of the church of London, to be received either in writing, either by mouth and relation of the said Nothelm.
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