Fabyans cronycle newly prynted, wyth the cronycle, actes, and dedes done in the tyme of the reygne of the moste excellent prynce kynge Henry the vii. father vnto our most drad souerayne lord kynge Henry the .viii. To whom be all honour, reuere[n]ce, and ioyfull contynaunce of his prosperous reygne, to the pleasure of god and weale of this his realme amen

THE .LXI. CHAPITER.

SEuer{us} a Romayn at this daye empe¦rour of Rome / be¦gane to rule this lande of Brytayn in the yere of our lordes incarnacy¦on .ii. hūdred and viii. The whych as wytnesseth Gau¦fryde, was before tyme sent from the senate of Rome with two legyons of knyghtes into Brytayne, to appease the warre and stryfe amonge them / and also for to wythstāde the Pictes and other enymyes, whych dayly in¦uaded the land. For dyuers wryters agree, that this Seuer{us} was made emperoure, the yere of Crystes incar¦nacyon a hūdred .lxxx. and .xv / and ruled the sayd empyre after the most wryters .xvi. yeres. By whych rule yt shuld appere that he shuld be takē for gouernour of this realme of Bry¦tayne, the .xii. yere of his empyre.

It is sayde of this man, that after he had subdued the Parthis and the Arabis, he was named Particus / & was sent, as before is sayde, of the se¦nate of Rome into Brytayne / where he causyd to be made at the coste of the commoute, a walle of turues and great stakes of the length, as wytnes syth Policronica of a hundred & .xii. myles / as in the .xviii. chapyter of his .iiii. boke apperyth. This wall af¦ter the exposycyon of the sayde Poly¦cronica, began at the ryuer of Tyne, and enduryd to the Scottyshe see / or from the ende of the lordshyp of Dei¦ra, vnto the sayde Scottyshe see / or after some wryters from Durham, to the see beforesayde.

Then yt foloweth, the Pictes with theyr leder Fulgenius / issued from Albany or Scotlande into the lande of Brytayne / and destroyed myche of y^e coūtre beyonde Durham. wher∣fore this Seuerus with and hoste of Brytons and of Romaynes mette wyth the sayde Fulgenius in a place nere vnto yorke, where after sore fyght the sayd Seuerus was slayn / when he hadde ruled this lande after moste concordaunce of wryters by y^e terme of .v. yeres / and was after bu¦ryed at yorke, leuynge behynde hym two sonnes, that one named Geta, and that other Bassianus.