¶How Vortimer that was Vortigers so∣ne was made kynge / & Engist dryuen out. And how Vortimer was slayne.
THis Engist wente in to Kente and sea∣sed all ye londe in to his honde for hym and for his men / & bycame with a lytyll why¦le of soo grete power and so moche people had¦de / that men wyste not lytell tyme whyche we∣re the kyng{is} men and whyche were Engistes men. wherfore all the Brytons hadde of hym dredde / and sayd amōges theym. But yf that they ne toke other counseyll bytwene them all the londe sholde be bytrayed thrugh Engist & his people. ¶Vortiger the kyng had begoten on his fyrst wyf thre sones. The fyrst was cal∣led vortimer. The seconde Catagien / and the thyrde Passent. ¶The Brytons euerychont by one assent chose vortimer to be theyr lod & souerayne / and counseyler in euery batayll / & crowned hym and made hym kynge / & wolde not suffre vortiger no lenger to regne / for cau∣se of the alyaunce betwixt Engist and hym. ¶The Brytons ordeyned a grete host to dry∣ue out Engist and his company of the londe / and yaue hym thre bataylles. The fyrste was in Kente there he was lorde / the seconde was at. Tetforde / and the thyrde in a shyre a thys half Colchestre in a more. And in this batayll theym mette. Catagien and. Horne. Engistes brother / so that eche of thym slewe other· but for as moche as the countree was yeuen lon∣ge befor to horne thrugh vortiger tho ••e spow¦sed his cosyn / there he made a fayr castell that is called Horne castell after his owne name. And vortiger was so anoyed for his brothers dethe / that anone he lete fell downe the castell to the grounde. And after he ne lefte nyght ne daye tyll he had dryuen out. Engist & his peo∣ple of the londe. And then̄e Ronowen his dou∣ghter made sorow ynogh. And quen••ely spa∣ke to them that were nexte the kyng vortimer and pryuyest with hym. And so moche she ga∣ue hym of gyftes / that he was enpoysoned & deyed at London the fourth yere of hys regne and there he lyeth