The chronicle of Iohn Hardyng. Containing an account of public transactions from the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward the Fourth. Together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty fourth year of King Henry the Eighth. The former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time; the last, with Grafton's duplicate edition. To which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index, by Henry Ellis.

The. lxxxix. Chapiter.

¶ Howe kynge Ethelfryde of Northumberlande had seruyce of Aydan kyng of Scottes, the yere of Christ. vi. hundreth and three, after saynt Bede.

AT Degfastan [Deysaston.] , wher Ethelfryde preuayled, And sette Aydan [Aidon.] in his subiection [subdicion.] , To Bedes dayes y^e Scottes nomore assayled [Homage of the Scottes.] Englande, but aye obeyed his ediccion, And was his man without contradiccion; And held of hym his lande as [as it.] was accorde, By many yeres, thens forth nomore discorde.

¶ This battayl was of Christes incarnacion, Syxe hundreth yere & three, as sayth saynt Bede, And of his reygne, by Bedes computacion, The eleuenth yere it was then, as I rede, That twenty yere and. iiii. reygned there in dede, In all his tyme; to whom the Peightes [Pictes.] obeyed, And Iryshe also [als.] , and nomore hym disobeyed.

¶ In that same yere of Christes incarnacion, The Britons all did sette theyr parliamente At Cairlion, by good informacion, [Cairlegeocestre hight] [Caerlegio that Chestre hight.] , as some men ment, That Westchester is [become of] [be comon̄.] entente; Where they did chose Cadwan vnto there kyng, Theim to defende fro theyr fooes warryng.