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 .CXXXIII. CHAPITER.

CAdwallus or Cadwalyne the sonne of Cadwan lastely spo∣ken of in y^e cronycle of mych Britayn as testyfyeth Guydo, Gaufryde, and other / beganne hys reygne ouer the Brytons in the yere of Crystes incar¦nacyon .vi. hundred & .xxxv / & y^e fyrst yere of the fyrst Dagobert then kyng of Fraunce / and also the .xii. yere of Kyngilsus & Quichillinus then kyn¦ges of westsaxon. This Cadwallus was stronge and myghty, & warryd strongly vpon the Saxōs nere vnto hym / and wanne from them both cas¦tels and townes, and droue theym backe into the lande towarde Lon∣don. wherof herynge Penda kynge of Mercia / he assembled his Saxōs and made towarde Cadwall. But he was in the ende dystressyd / and fayn to seche and purchace the fauoure of Cadwal, and lyue vnder his tribute. This Penda after this was in great fauour with Cadwall / in so myche y^t he toke parte wyth Cadwall agayne his other Saxon kynges, as after shall appere. About thys tyme Kyn∣gylsus one of the kynges of westsa∣xons

/ was by the doctryne of y^e bles∣syd man Berin{us} cōuertyd to y^e ryght beleue, and cristyned of hym at the ci¦tye of Dortyke or Dorchester. And Oswald kynge of Northumberland was hys godfather / and weddyd his doughter afterwarde. And then that cytye was geuen to the byshop, to the ende that he shuld there ordeyne hys see / where the sayde Berin{us} sat .xiiii. yeres after, & there was buryed / tyll Beda bishop of wynchester trāslatyd his body to y^e citye of wynchester: all be it y^t the chanōs of Dorchester sayē, that the sayd bodye of holy Beryne was not taken thens but a nother in the stede of hym. And yet in tokē ther¦of / a beers of wonder worke stādyth at this day ouer that graue / where y^e holy man was fyrst buryed. It shuld seme that this cytye of Dorchester is now called Dorset. Thys see was in the tyme of wyllyam conqueroure chaunged to Lyncolne.

About thys tyme Sigebertus or after some Segebertus kynge of Eestenglande or Norfolke, whyche reygned there next his brother Corp¦waldus / ordeyned letters to be ler∣nyd, and set scolys in dyuerse places of his kyngdome / and ordeyned ouer thē schole maysters & pedagoges, as he somtyme hadde seen in Fraunce. The whyche Sygebert was conuer¦tyd to Crystes fayth by the doctryne of an holy man named Felix / y^e which he was fyrste acqueynted wyth in Fraūce or in Burgoyne. The whych Felix came soone after that acqueyn¦taunce into Eestanglia or Norfolke / where the kynge made hym byshop of Dūwyche nowe called Thetford. Lastelye the kynge betoke hys kyng¦dome vnto hys neuew Egritus / and became a munke in an abbay whych he hym selfe buyldyd.

But when Penda kynge of Mer∣cia warryd after in that coūtrey / the sayde Sygebert was agayne hys wyll pulled oute of the sayde mona∣stery, and went in armes, or as some testyfye vnarmyd wyth a whyte rod in hys hande nycely, & so was slayne, and well nere all his hoste of knygh∣tes that came wyth hym to that feld.

By this rehersayll apperyth here dyscorde of wryters of the begyn∣nyng of this sayd kyngdome of Eest¦anglis. For yf yt were true that this beganne as wytnessyth Policrony∣con in the .iiii. chapyter of hys fyfte boke, in the yere of grace .iiii. hūdred lxxx. and .xii, as before also I haue shewed in the .lxxx. and .xvi. chapyter of this worke: then myght yt not a∣gree wyth conuenyency of tyme, that this Sygebert or Sebert shulde rey¦gne as kynge at those dayes nowe mynded. wherfore y^e sayenge of Guy¦do is more concordaunte / whyche shewyth this kyngdome to haue his begynnynge in the yere of grace .v.C. & .lxx, as in the ende of the forsayd chapyter yt is there shortly touched.

Then yt foloweth in the story / af∣ter the deth of this Sigebert, Anna was made kyng of Eestanglis.

And durynge the reygne of Sige∣bertus, befell the wōder y^t is tolde of that holy man Furce{us} / as is shewed at lēgth in the .xiii. chapiter of the .v. boke of Policronicon aforesayd / and in the .xiii. tytle of the .vi. chapyter of the .ii. parte of y^e famous worke cal∣led Summa Antonini.

And about this season reygned or began to reygne the cursyd secte of y^e detestable & false prophete Macho∣met / y^e which syns y^e tyme hath so en¦fected / y^t it hath enfectyd .ii. prīcipall {per}tes of y^e world, as Asia, & Affrica / & the more part of y^e third named Eu¦ropa / & dayly wynneth vpon the cry¦sten peple great lādes & possessions. Aboute the .vii. yere of thys forena∣med Cadwall kynge of Britons / rey¦gned

in Kent a Saxon kyng named Ercombertus, the whyche had that pryncypate .xx. yeres nobly.

And amonge other of hys famous dedys / he reuyued and quyckened agayne the fayth of Cryste, that in some places of hys kyngedome was sore appallyd. For he destroyed the temples of false goddes thorough all that countrey / and ordeyned by the aduyse of his clergye, the tyme of lente to be fasted. He wedded the dou¦ghter of Anna kynge of Eestanglis named Sexburga / of whom he recey¦uyd a doughter and named her Eu∣kengoda / y^e whyche after was a men¦chon or nunne in the abbey of Bryd¦gence in Fraunce before mynded, where Ethelburga y^e wyfe somtyme of Edwyn kynge of Northoumber∣lande serued god, as in the hundred and .xxx. chapyter precedynge yt ys shewed / and eyther of them was ab∣besse of the same place. And though at those dayes there were many ab∣beys in thys yle of myche Brytayne / yet many both of men and of women sayled into other landes / as Fraūce, and Burgoyne and other places, be∣cause the conuersacyon and lyuynge of those countres were of more fame and perfeccyon then was then vsyd in thys yle of Brytayne.

About thys tyme as yt were about the .viii. yere of Cadwall / dyed kyn¦gylsus kyng of westsaxons, when he had reygned with his brother and a∣lone .xxxi. yeres. And Kenwalcus his sonne was kynge after hym / y^e which in y^e begynnyng of his reygne wolde not be crystyned / & forsoke hys wyfe the doughter of Pēda, & toke to hym a nother. wherfore Penda in aduen∣gynge hys doughter / gatheryd hys hoste, and chasyd Kynwalcus out of his kyngdome / & kept hym thens .iii. yeres. By whyche season was Anna kynge of Eestanglis / & there conuer¦tyd to the feyth of Cryste, & cristyned of Felix aforenamed then byshoppe of Dūwyke or Thetforde / and after he recoueryd hys kyngdome, by the ayde and assystence of the sayde An∣na. when Kenwalcus was restoryd to hys lande / he made a byshoppes see at Kaerguent or wynchestre / and ordeyned there a byshop named Agil¦bert a frenche man of byrthe, but he was called out of Irlād. The which when he had sytten there a certayn of tyme / he was put thēs I ne wote for what cause / and in his place was set an other named wyn. Of this wyn, as sayeth Policronicon, the towne of wynchester toke y^e name, as he de∣claryth in y^e .liii. chapyter of his fyrst boke / as yt were wynnes cytye. But he was also putthens / and then was Leutherius byshop, and after Leu∣therius succedyd Cedda. And after Theodorus the archbyshop of Caun¦terbury ordeyned two byshoppes to that prouynce of westsaxō. That one at wynchester / & to that was subiecte two coūtreys Southrey and South hampshyre. And that other see he or∣deyned at Shyreborne, to the which were subiecte .vi. coūtreys, that is to saye Berkshyre, wyltshyre, Somer∣setshyre, Dorsetshyre, Deuenshyre, & Cornewayll. But in wyllyam the cō¦querours tyme y^e see of Shyreborne was tourned to Salysbury with the see of Rāmysburye.

It was not longe after that Ken∣walcus was warreyd with the kyng of Brytons / the whyche fought with hym at a place called wyght Gosne∣borough, and were of him there ouer¦comyn. Then Cadwall assembled a newe hoste of Brytons / and mette wyth Kenwalcus at a place called the hyll of Pent / where after longe fyghte the Brytons were putte to flyghte.