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Updated: May 14, 2025

Among the books he translated or edited were The Handbook, a collection of extracts on religious subjects; The Cura Pastoralis, or Herdsman's book of Gregory the Great, with a preface by himself which is the first English prose; Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English; The English Chronicle, which, already brought up to 855, he continued up to the date of writing; it is probably by his own hand; Orosius's History of the World, which he adapted for English readers with many historical and geographical additions; the De Consolatione Philosophiæ of Boethius; and a translation of some of the Psalms.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature