Church of St. Saviour, Canterbury

Tradition, I believe, has uniformly represented that an edifice more ancient, but upon the present site of St. Martin's, Canterbury, was used by St. Augustine and his followers in the earliest age of Christianity in this country. St. Martin's has, on that account, been often spoken of as the mother-church of England. Lately, however, in perusing the fourth volume of Mr. Kemble's *Codex Diplomaticus*, p. 1. I find a charter of King Canute, of the year 1018, which states the church of ST. SAVIOUR, *Canterbury*, to be the mother-church of England: "Æcclesia Salvatoris in Dorobernia sita, omnium Æ…