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¶ Exe Castellum factum est, cui dedit nomen Þongcastre.

When Þongcastre [thuang castell.] was al closed, Þe name y-gyuen, [giffen.] oueral alosed, Line 7524 Of þo þat Hengyst sente his sonde, Þer comen sexten schipe [xiij. schippis. (dix huit nés, Wace, i. 327, l. 7087; decem et octo naues, Galf. Mon. vi. 12.)] [Petyt folio 45a:2] to londe, Wyþ mikel folk, knyghtes, swaynes, & oþere þat were of his demaynes. Line 7528 ¶ In a schip wyþ gentil [geentill. The second scribe wrote this column and the next two: see his q, -it, -is, -in, in the notes¹⁰, p. 266; ¹³, p. 264; ¹¹, p. 266; ¹, ¹², p. 265.] men Com Hengiste doughter þat hight Ronewen, [Roven, Wace, i. 328, l. 7091.] A ȝong woman & louely, [a fair woman & a loueli.] Auenaunt, & fair & semly; [auenaunt gret & fair was hi.] Line 7532 Bot þis lewed men sey & synge, & telle þat hit was mayden Inge. [and tellit it was a may din ȝinge.]

Wryten of Inge, [writin of Ingge. Robert Man|ning poohpoohs this Inge notion again, when writing of King Engel, near the end of the first part of his Stori.] no clerk may kenne, [Nota de nomi|ne Engelond. (In a later hand.)] Bot of Hengiste doughter, Ronewenne. Line 7536 Al þe folk Hengist fore sent; To Þoncastre [thuang castell. P. leaves out the next four lines, 7539-42.] ilkon þey went. (ffro Angle, a contre in Saxonye, Comen alle Hengistes compaynie; Line 7540 So þat for Angle, y vnderstond, Bretayne was cald Engelond.) Þen Hengiste faste hym purueyd, [A day Hengest him purueid.] & sente unto þe kyng, & seyd, Line 7544 ' Preyenge, [Praid him.] as he loued his griþ, ' Þat he wolde ony night herberwe [A night herber.] him wyþ, ' A day to ete a sop, & drynke, ' & se his werk, how þat hym þynke; Line 7548 ' & of his folk, how þat hym þought, ' & wyþholden [& held.] þo þat to hym dought.' Hengystes [þe king his.] werk fayn wolde he se; He ȝede þider al in pryuete. Line 7552 Whan he hit saw, wel he hit preised, & þat þer myght be folk wel aysed; [þat þus myght folk be wele asaied.] & þo knyghte [knightes.] þat late cam, ffor þer sonde wyþ hym þey nam. Line 7556 Hengist þat day dide his myght Þat al was [wer.] glad, kyng & knyght; & als þey were best in gladyng, & wel cuppe-schoten, [cop schotin. (enivré, Wace, i. 239, l. 7108.)] knyght & kyng, Line 7560