<i>‘There was a historian in the time of the Britons, Gildas, who wrote about their misdeeds, how they exasperated God with their sins so much that He finally allowed the English army to conquer their land … Let us take warning from this: it is true what I say, we know of worse deeds among the English than we have heard of among the Britons.’</i><p>Note the use of "English" to equal Anglo-Saxons, and "Britons", the original inhabitants, at a time when they were arch-enemies.