Here begynneth a shorte and abreue table on the Cronycles ...

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Here begynneth a shorte and abreue table on the Cronycles ...
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[Enprynted at Londo[n] :: In powlys chyrche yarde at the west dore of powlys besyde my lorde of londons palays by me Iulyan Notary,
In the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.xv. [1515]]
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¶How foure kynges curtously helde all Brytayne / and what were ther na¦mes ye shall here after.

AS the two brethern were deed they le¦fte not behynde them nother sonne ne dougter / ne none other of the kynred that my∣ghte haue the herytage. And for as moche as the strōgest mē droue & descomfyted the febleit & toke all ther lōdes so that ī euery coūtre they had grete ware and stryfe vnder them but a¦monge all other thynge / there were amonge them in the counther / that ouercame all the o∣ther / and though ther myghte and strengthe they toke all the londes / and euery of them to∣ke a certayne countree / & in hys contree lete calle hym kyng / & one of thē was called Sca∣ter / & he was kyng of Soctlonde / & that other was called Dawalier / & he was kynge of Loe¦gers / & of al ye lōde that was Lotris / that was Brutes sone / the thyrde was called Ruda / & he was kīge of walys / & the fourth was called Cloten / & was called kynge of Cornewayle. But this Cloten sholde haue had all the londe by reson for by cause that there was no man that wyste none so ryght an heyre as he was. But they that we strongest sette lytel by them that were of lesse estate / and therfore this Clo¦ten hadde noo more londe amonge them but Cornewaylle

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