bellarunt. Rex namq; Ine, miles validissimus, illuc progredi non tardavit, Snaudonem obsedit, Hibernes & Britones ad naves fugere compulit, & totam sibi Walliam subjugavit. Festum vero Sancti David rex Ine tenere volens, cum suis regibus & Walliæ magnatibus apud Bangor accessit, ubi die septimo post festum proclamare fecit, quod omnes reges ad suas redire[nt] regiones, moraturi donec mandatum haberent, ut iterum convenirent. Regibus itaque repatriatis, Rex Ine cum Adelardo suo cognato, & tota Regia familia, suam civitatem Mamecestriam petivit, Ethelburgam suam reginam, suumq; filium Adellum ibidem invenit, cum quibus vix tribus mensibus repausavit. Adellus quoq;, filius regis unicus, præsentem vitam terminavit eo tempore, dolorem patri non modicum propinando. Adelardus interea, Walliam cupiens circuire, tres exploratores obviam habuit, quibus captis & scrutatis, concepit, quod Iuorius & Henyhinus venturi sunt Angliam cum tanta populi multitudine, quod omnes Anglorum reges eorum viribus resistere non valebant. Adelardus igitur ad regem Anglorum Ine rediens, eidem retulit quod audivit. Rex autem Ine, suis statim regibus exspressa causa, mandavit, quod indilate venirent Cestriæ, in equis & armis parati contra suos hostes, suas defendere regiones. Reges namq; mandatum hujusmodi pari

pariter acceptantes, Cestriæ convenerunt, vexillum regium sectantes, percussoq; bello cum Britonibus, in fugam converterunt adversarios, qui infra sequens biennium Angliam sepcies invadebant, civitates & villas spoliabant, & cum spoliis repedabant. Interea rex Ine optenta victoria remeavit, & annis triginta sex super regno Westsexiæ peractis, Adelardo cognato suo regnum suum legavit.

PETER LANGTOFT'S

CHRONICLE.

ON Saynt Bede bokes writen er stories olde.
Sex hundreth & four score & nien zere mo er
tolde

Sen þat Jhesu Criste of Mary was born,

& pe kyng Cadwaladre pis lond had alle lorn.
For Englis & Sessons he went to lesse Bretaýn,
To speke with his cosyne, his name was kyng Alayn.
& fro pien he went vnto be courte of Rome,

For to tak his penance & of his synnes dome.
Whan he was asoyled of pe pape Sergie,
He died & was biried in Rome solemplie.
In þe gere after nouper lesse ne more

Kom his & his kosyn Ini & Iuore,

In schip out of Irelond, in Wales gan þei vpryue, porgh out Chestreschire werre gan pei drýue.

Had þei no styntyng, bot þorgh alle þei ran,

Unto Winchestre, alle pe loud bei wan.

Vol. I.

B

In

De Rege de IN Westsex was þan a kyng, 'his was Sir Ine.

Westsexe.

Whan he wist of pe Bretons, of werre ne wild he fine.
Messengers he sent þorghout Inglond

Unto pe Inglis kynges, þat had it in þer hond,
& teld how pe Bretons, men of mykelle mýght,
be lond wild wynne ageýn þorh force & fyght.
Hastisly ilkone þe kynges com fulle suythe,
Bolde men & stoute, per hardinesse to kiþe.
In a grete Daneis felde þer þei samned alle,
þat euer sipen hiderward Kampedene men kalle.
Of all po Inglis kynges, þat þan comen wore,
Sigbert, kyng of Estsex, in elde was he more.
He bigan to speke tille alle pe chiualrie:

"We be comen alle of kynde of Germenic,

þat chaced has pe Bretons here of þer kýthe.

"Now ere hei comen to clayme it, & mykelle force pam with. "Oiper bihoues vs defend it, or gelde vp our righ.

2

"I rede we chese a hede, þat vs to werre kan dight,

" & to pat ilk hede I rede we vs bynde.
"For werre withouten hede is not wele, we fynde.

þe barons gede to conscile, & teld it sipen on hie,
Ine kyng kyng" of Westsex was a knyght worpie,

3

Alle were þei nere slayn, & po pat per left

Fled vnto Wales vnto per schippes eft.

Whan pise Bretons tuo were fled out of his lond,

I

Ine toke his feaute of alle pat lond helde.

At the fiftend day þei samned at Southamptone,
With joy alle at ons þei went tille Snawdone
On Iuor & Ini, þat tapised by þat side,

To purueie pam a skulkyng, on þe Englis eft to ride.
Bot Ine had pe Inglis euerilkon at wille,

Bot Segbert of Estsex at home left stille.
He was of grete elde, & myght not trauaile,
Bot Iuor & Ini þe Englis gan þam assaile.
þe Englis were bolde, & drofe pam to be sand.
be fled out of Wales away tillel reland.

THE Englis2 kynges turned, þei mot do nomore,

Bot soiorned þam a while in rest a Bangore,

'L. helde lond. 2 See pag. "Wales was published by Mr. 12, 13. of a most rare Book, be- "Thomas Ellis, A. M. and ing Mr. Thomas Ellis's imper-"Fellow of Jesus Coll. Oxon. fect Edition (with great Im-"but 'tis much altered from provements) of Dr. Powell's "the Edition which Dr. History, to which is prefix'd" Powell set out, with the HisSir John Prise's Description" tory of Cambria, now callof Wales. Oxon. 1653. 4to."ed Wales, at Lond. in 1584. I call it imperfect, because it" 4to. The said Mr. Thomas was never near compleated by "Ellis was a learned Man, and Mr. Ellis, as will appear from" a very great Antiquary. Ile the following Remark, which I began also to reprint the have written at the beginning" said History of Cambria, of my Copy that I happen'd to purchase in the Year 1722. "The following Description of

"which was grown (and is
"now) very scarce. In order to
"which that great Antiquary,

Iuor & Ini fugiunt.