Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Capitulum 21 /

THe seconde Leo was emperour thre yere. In his tyme Clo∣doneus kynge of Fraunce deyde. And pupinus made his broder childebertus kyng The men of northumberlond slowghe ostryda / etheldredus wyf that was kynge oswyes doughter Willelmus de pontificibus libro quarto ¶ That yere Cuthlacus the confessour forsoke armes & the boost and pompe of this world and wente to the abbaye of Rypendon / And there vnder the Ab¦besse Alfrida he toke tonsure and habyte of clerk / the xxiiij yere of his age Thenne the thyrdde yere after he wente in to the yle of Crowland / and there he bygan to lyue an Ankers lyf & dyde ma¦ny myracles & had power ouer vnclene spyrites / so grete as the

comyn tale that he made hem buylde many places· and he closed such a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a sethyng erthen pot. there as his hody now lyeth is buylded a•• ••••baye· that neuer was destroyed amonge alle the stryues and chaungynge of tymes. there resteth the confessour neotus that was somtyme the disciple of Erkenwald / Bisshop of london / & though noman may come to that place of Croulond but by ship or by boote / yet that is neuer well nygh without ••••s¦tes Beda That yere bifell in brytayn that myracle that ought to be remēbryd for thelthe of sowle· for one that hete brightwoldus was dede somwhat long tyme and aroos ageyne to lyue and tol¦de many thynges to many men / And departed his catell on thre· And yaue his wyf one dele and his children another / And kep¦te him self the thyrd and deled it to poure men / and ended his lif in thabbay of mailros. the iij tiberi{us} was emperour seuen y••re He aroos ageinst leo and assoylled his kyngdome and helde h••m in warde as longe as he regned. In his tyme Iustinianus that was exyled in Cersona made openly his booste that he shold reco∣uer the empire / therfor the peple was meuyd for loue of tiberius and fonded for to slee Iustinianus / therfor he fledde to the prin¦ce of turkes and spoused his suster and recoueryd themppre at¦te laste by helpe of him and of the bulgares / ¶ And slowe Leo and Tiberius that had assoylled thempire. And as ofte as he wyped of a drope of corrupcion of his nose that somtyme was cut so ofte he made sle somme one of his enemyes The fyfth general Synode was holden in aquilia in sergius tyme ¶ After Sergi∣us the thyrdde leo was pope two yere. he is not acompted in the ordre of bisshops by cause he was wrongfully putte in by patrici¦us Beda libro quinto capitulo 1•• Aboute th at tyme Arnul¦phus bisshop of galles come in to Britayne / he wente in to Ie∣rusalem for to visite the hooly places & yede aboute in al the londe of byheste and came to damaske to Constantinople to Alexan∣dria and to many ylondes of the see and sayled homeward in to his countrey ageyne and was cast by strengthe of tempest to the west clyues of Brytayne. There he fonde goddes seruaunt Ada∣minanus / Abbot of the ylond hij / and tolde him wondres of holy places· And he made anone a booke therof as he hadde herde the wondres and sente it to kynge Alfridus to rede R ¶It semeth that beda toke of that booke afterward suche / as he wrote of ho∣ly places ¶ After leo the sixth Iohan was pope thre yere / ¶That tyme etheldredus kynge of mercia forsoke this worldly

kyngdom & was shorn monke at bardeny / After him regned leu¦redus .v / yere the sone of his broder wylferus· the seuenth iohan was pope thre yere That tyme deyde hedda bisshop of wynches¦tre ¶After hym that bisshoprych was departed a tweyne. For Brythelynus tharchebisshop put danyel at wynchestre at seint al¦delme at shirborne ¶ Seynt Aldelme was to fore honde abbot of maltby that is malmesburye ¶Willelmus de pontificibus li∣bro quarto Also that yere deyde Sexwulfus bisshop of mercia After him hedda helde lychefeld and wylfrydus chestre· but af∣ter two yere Alfridus kyng of northumberlond deyde And wil¦fridus torned ageyne to the bisshopryche of hagustald and was bisshop afterward foure yere. And tho hedda helde both the bissho¦priches of lychefeld and of chestre