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

Anglia. THE .LXXXVIII. CHAPITER.

UOrtimerus the eldest sonne of Uortiger / was by assent of the Brytōs made kyng of Brytayn, in the yere of our lorde .iiii. hundred lxiiii / and the .iiii. yere of Chylderic{us} than kynge of Fraunce. The whych in all hast pursued the Saxons, and gaue vnto them a great batayle vp∣pon the ryuer of Darwent / where he hadde of them vyctory. And secunda¦ryly he faught wi••h them vppon the foord called Epi••••ord or Agliffhorp. In the whych fyght Catrignus the brother to Uortimer, & Horsus bro∣ther to Hengyst or Cosyn, after long fyght attwene them .ii. eyther of thē slewe other / in whyche fyght also the Brytons were vyctours.

The thyrd batayle he faught with them nere vnto the see syde / where also the Brytons chasyd y^e Saxōs, and compelled them to take the yle of wyghte for theyr suertye.

This batayle as wytnesseth Alfre¦dus; was more wonne by vertue of the prayers of the holy byshop saynt Germayne, than by myght of y^e Bry¦tons. For when the holy man sawe y^e Brytons gyue backe / he helde hys handes towarde heuen, and cryed thryse alleluya / whyche is to our vn¦derstādyng as mych to saye, as saue vs good lorde. Thorough whyche

prayer the Britons by dyuyne helpe obteyned y^e victory of theyr enimyes.

The fourth batayll was nere vnto a moore called Cole moore. The whych was long and sore foughten by the Saxons / by reason that the sayde moore closyd a parte of theyr hoste so strongly, that the Brytons myght not winne vnto them for daūger of theyr shot / All be yt that fynal¦ly they were chasyd, and many of thē of cōstraynt drowned and swalowed in the sayde moore

And ouer and besyde these foure pryncypall bataylles: Uortimerus had wyth the Saxons dyuers other conflictes / as in Kent, at Thetfoord in Northfolke, and in Essex nere vn¦to Colchestre / & lefte not tyll he had byrafte from them the more parte of such possessyons as before tyme they had wonne / and kepte them onely to the yle of Thanet, the whych Uorty¦mer oftē greuyd by such nauy as he then hadde.

when that Ronowen doughter of Hengiste apperceyued the great mys¦chy••f, that her fader and the Saxōs were in, by the mraciall knyghthode of Uortymer: she sought suche mea∣nes, that shortly after, as testyfyeth Gaufryde and other, Uortimer was poysoned / when he had ruled the Bri¦tons after moste concorde of wry∣ters seuen yeres.