Alle were þei nere slayn, & þo þat þer left [Iuor & Ini fugiunt.]
Fled vnto Wales vnto þer schippes eft.
Whan þise Bretons tuo were fled out of þis lond,
Ine toke his feaute of alle þat [L. helde lond.] 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 þam a skulkyng, on þe Englis eft to ride.
Bot Ine had þe 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 þam to þe sand.
þe fled out of Wales away tilleI reland.
THE Englis [See pag. 12, 13. of a most rare Book, be|ing Mr. Thomas Ellis's imper|fect Edition (with great Im|provements) of Dr. Powell's History, to which is prefix'd Sir John Prise's Description of Wales. Oxon. 1653. 4to. I call it imperfect, because it was never near compleated by Mr. Ellis, as will appear from the following Remark, which I have written at the beginning of my Copy that I happen'd to purchase in the Year 1722. "The following Description of Wales was published by Mr. Thomas Ellis, A. M. and Fellow of Jesus Coll. Oxon. but 'tis much altered from the Edition which Dr. Powell set out, with the His|tory of Cambria, now call|ed Wales, at Lond. in 1584. 4to. The said Mr. Thomas Ellis was a learned Man, and a very great Antiquary. He began also to reprint the said History of Cambria, which was grown (and is now) very scarce. In order to which that great Antiquary, Rob. Vaughan of Hengwort in Merionethshire, Esq. (who was diverted by other Business from publishing this Work, as he otherwise designed) com|municated to him his Correc|tions and Additions. But Mr. Ellis finding, that a paul|try, illitterate Author, called Percie Enderbie, had been be|fore hand with him, and some way or other had got Mr. Vaughan's Notes also, and was so bold, as, without Mr. Vaughan's leave, to print them in his Book (which is but a poor thing) in Folio call'd, Cambria Triumphans: or, an|cient and modern British and Welsh Histories, he laid by his Design, and so no more was printed than 128. Pages, all which are here. After he had desisted (for which all curious and learned Men were very sorry, he being so very capa|ble of doing great Matters) the Copies, all but a very few, were sold for wast Paper. upon which account the Book is now a wonderfull Rarity, and highly valuable. Dr. Powell's Additions are marked thus …. Mr. Vaughan's thus ¶. This Book belong'd to the Revd. Mr. Josiah Pullen, M. A. and Vice-Principal of Magd. Hall Oxon." What I have here observ'd about Mr. Ellis & Percie Enderbie is con|firm'd by Mr. Wood, Ath. Oxon. Vol. II. col. 248, 249. But the chief reason of my referring here to Mr. Ellis's imperfect Ed. of Dr. Powell's Hist. of Cambria is upon account of a Passage that is there published, (as 'tis also in Dr. Powell's own genuine Ed.) out of John Castoreus or Bever, which will very much illustrate this Place of Langtoft.] kynges turned, þei mot do nomore,
Bot soiorned þam a while in rest a Bangore,
