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

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Title: 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
Author: Fabyan, Robert, d. 1513.
Publication: Prentyd at London :: by wyllyam Rastell,; 1533 [31 Dec.]
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THE .CXXI. CHAPITER.

DUrynge also the foresayde persecu∣cyon of y^e Brytōs, or any ruler of thē were specyally na¦med / beganne the reygne of Eestsa∣xons as wytnessyth Policronicon, vnder Sebertus theyr fyrste kynge / nere about the yere of our lordes in∣carnacyon .vi. hundred and .xiiii. All be yt that Guydo de Columna sayth that yt beganne nere about the tyme and season, when the kyngdome of Eestanglys beganne. But I folowe Polycronicon / for he leyeth holy Be¦da for his Authour in myche of his worke. This kyngdome whych is to meane Essex / hadde in the eest syde the see / in the weste Myddelsex and London / in the southe the cyuer of Thamys / & in the north Suffolke / and endured after moste wryters by the terme of two hundred and odde yeres. But by y^• sayeng of Policroni¦ca yt shuld not endure ouer two hun¦dred yeres. Neuerthelesse yt shulde appere by the storye of Edwarde the elder sonne of Aluredus, y^t yt shulde cōtynue vnder the Danys and other wyse, tyll the .viii. yere of his reygne. And by that reason yt shulde endure two hundred .lxxx. & .xiii. yeres. The contynuaūce therof is more doutfull to be iustly determyned, for so myche as wryters be of dyuers opynyons of the begynnyng therof. All be it y^e Polycronycon in the .li. chapyter of hys fyrste boke, sayth that yt began vnder Sebertus, and vnder .x. kyn∣ges / tyll Egbertus kynge of westsa∣xons subdued yt and ioyned yt to his owne kyngedome.

The fyrste crysten kynge of thys lordshyppe was the forenamed Se∣bertus, conuertyd by meanes of Mel¦litus byshoppe of London, as sayth Guydo. But after hys sayeng thys Sebertus shulde be the thyrd kynge of Essex. All wryters agreen that the kynges of thys lordshyp were more comynly named vnder kynges, and were more subiecte to other kyn∣ges / and chefely vnto the kynges of Mercia or Mercheryke.

Then to retourne agayn vnto the Brytons, whyche by all this season occupyed a parte of Cornewayl and the countres of Cambria / as Uene∣docia, whyche now is called North∣walys, ad Demecea whych now is called Southwalys / and there held them in makynge assautes vpon the Saxons, as before is touchyd, some whyle in one coste, and some whyle in that other, vnder sondrye dukes, as witnessyth Gaufryde and also the englysh cronycle. The whych so con¦tynued after moste accorde of tyme, and to accorde thys hystorye wyth other, by the terme of .xxiiii. yeres / ouer and aboue thre yeres alowed for the reygne of Careticus aforesayd. So that from the fyrste yere of Care¦tycus, to the laste of these .xxiiii. ye∣res. / expyryd or flowyd .xxvii. yeres. At whyche tyme the Brytons of one assent chase for theyr hedde or ruler, y^• duke of Uenedocia, or Southwa∣lys, named Cadwanus.