ES·TU S.Gribelin Sculp. TO THE QUEEN. MADAM, Tmight feem too great a Prefump tion to approach Your Royal Pre fence in fo un ufual a manner, to addrefs Your MAJESTY in a Language so outA 2 dated dated and, antiquated, which few Men, none, I believe, of the other Sex have ventured to converse with, fince the time when it was the current Language; did not Your MAJESTY'S moft wife Judgment, and great Clemency, allow to it a favourable Audience, as the Language, in which Your Earlieft Royal, and Pious Progenitors, both laid the Foundation of thofe Laws, by which You fo happily Govern, and in which They received that Orthodox Faith, of which You are the undoubted Defender. And it is humbly prefumed, that it will be be no lefs agreable to Your MAJESTY, to confider, That the Introduction of the Chriftian Faith, into the Roman Empire, was Effected by the Ever Glorious Helena, and the Converfion of the English much promoted, by the Endeavours of the First English Chriftian Queen Berhta: than feasonable, to remind Your MAJESTY, of her being congratulated on that Occafion, by the fame Holy Bishop, whose Kindness to this Nation, is recommended to the Knowledge of Your People, in this small Treatife, under the Patronage of Your Royal Favour. On which account account it is hoped, it may not be unpardonable to infert, that Part of the Holy Father's Letter, which regards the present Subject, and which is to this Effect. * GREGORY Bishop To BERHTA Queen of the English. "We give thanks to Almighty "GOD, who hath graciously "vouchfafed, to reserve the Converfion of the English Peo"ple for Your Reward. For as by Helena, the never to be forgotten Mother of the moft "Pious Conftantine, Emperor "of the Romans, the Hearts of "the |