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Nearly 1,600 years ago foreigners from western Europe started to invade Britain. They came from pagan tribes known as the angles,the saxons and the jutes. At this time very few people could read or write. most of the writing was done by monks. Some of the books the monks wrote still survived to this day. a monk called bede,who lived from AD 673 to 735 wrote a history of england. in 597 pope gregory sent a monk named augastine from rome to britian.He landed in kent with 40 monks. his task was to convert the anglo saxons to crihstianaty. ethelbert the king of kent and queen bertha.