Procopius, de Bell. Vandal. 1. i. c. 2, p.
181 [ed. Paris; tom. i. p. 318, ed. Bonn]. Britannia
fertilis provincia tyrannorum , was the expression of Jerom
in the year 415 (tom. ii. p. 255, ad Ctesiphont. [Epist.
cxxxiii. c. 9, tom. i. p. 1032, ed. Vallars.]). By the
pilgrims who resorted every year to the Holy Land, the monk
of Bethlem received the earliest and most accurate
intelligence.