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. xcvi. Chapiter.

¶ Cadwalader, kyng of Brytayn, and lorde of all. vii. kynges in Britayne.

CAdwaladrus [Cadwalladre.] after hym gan succede, [Cadwalader kyng.] Both young and fayre in florishyng iuuēt, That Cadwalader [Cadwalladrus.] was called, as I rede, Who of Britayn had all the souerayntee Of Englyshe and [als.] Saxons in eche countree: Of Pyghtes [Pictes.] , Iryshe, & Scottes, [his vnder] [under his.] regēce, [Subiecciō of y^e Scottes.] As souerayne lorde and moste of excellence.

¶ Kentwyne, the kyng of Westsexe, then died, The yere of Christ sixe hundreth. lxxx. and sixe, The mekill [Full much.] warre had made and fortifyed Vpon Britons and felly did [hym wexe,] [theym vexe.] [So combrous he was and cruell gan to wexe;] Whose realme the kyng Cadwalader conquered, And Sussex also [eke.] , and slewe y^e kynge w^t [his] swerde.

¶ In whiche yere then Gatta [Gata.] , byshop, died, Whose sea [cee.] was [then] at Hexham vpon Tyne, That byshop was of Yorke notified, For Wilfryde was hold [holdyn.] out with mekyll [much.] pyne, [And exiled from his benefice that tyme,] From Yorke that tyme, by the kynge Alfride Of Northumberland, whose cure Gatta [Gata.] occuied.

¶ After whose decease then Iohn of Beuerlay [Fol. xciiii.] Was made byshop of Yorke, and had [the sea,] [his cee.] [Then the] [And.] Cathedrall at Hexham so alwaye, For Wylfryde was in Sussex farre countre; But then certayne Alfryde of cruelte, Cōmaunded Iohn to vexe and noye Wylfryde, But tender loue they helde on eyther syde.