Prolicionycion [sic]

¶De partibus brytannye principalibus ¶ Capitulum 34

AFter the firste brutes tyme thr Ilonde of brytayn bygan for· to haue the principal partyes· that ben beogria· Cambria that is wales / And albania that is now scotland· Loegria had that name of locrinus that was brutes oldest sone / and heet Lo∣egria as it were locrinus londe / but now loegria is called Eng¦lond / the boundes & merkes were therof somtyme the frenssh see bothe by est and by southe / Beda libro primo capitulo visesimo And by north two armes of the see that breketh fer in to the lon¦de eyther ayenst other. but they reche not to gyders· the est arme of

thylk tweyn begynneth about a two lytil mile fro the mynstre / of ebburcuring. in the west side of penultō in that arme is a toun that is called guydy. the weste arme of thylk tweyne hath in the rightside a strōg cyte that heet alcliud which in her langage is cal¦led clintstone / & standeth vpon a ryuer that is called Clynt also. ¶R Somme men wold mene that loegria endeth at humber / and stretcheth no ferther northward. the second partye of brytayn is called Albania that is scotland· and hath that name of alba∣nactus bruytes sone and stretcheth fro the forseyd two armes of the see northward vnto the see of norwaye. Netheles the south par¦tye of albania where as pyctes dwellyd somtyme lyeth from the water of twede vnto the scottysshe see / Al that longed somtyme to the kyngdom of Northumberland. brenycorn / the northside of northumberland fro the first tyme of englysshe kynges to that ty¦me whan kynadyus kyng of scotland that was alpin{us} sone did away the pyctes and so ioyned that contray to the kyngdom of scotland / the thyrdde partye of brytayn is wales. wallia. that heet Cambria also. And hath that name cambria of camber brutes so¦ne / For he was prynce of wales· In the est s••de seuarn departed somtyme bytwene englond and wales / But now in the northside the Ryuer dee at chestre and in the south the ryuer that is named vaga at the castel of strygelyn departeth englond. and wales· Also kyng Offa for to haue a distinction for euermore bytwene the kynges of Englond and of wales made a longe dyche that stretcheth forth out of the southside by briston vnder the hilles of wales / northward and passeth the Ryuers Seuarn and dee al¦most to the heedes and vnto the mouth of the Ryuer dee by yonde chestre fast by the castel it renneth bytwene cobehill and the myn∣stre of basyngwerke in to the see· This dyche is yet in many pla¦ces seen In seynt edwards tyme walsh men shold not passe that dyche with wepen vpon a greet payne. and that was at erle beral¦des procuryng as it shal be sayd here after / but now in eyther si∣des bothe ayond half and a this half the dyche & specially in the shyres of chestre of shrousbury and of herford· in many places ben englysshe men & walsshmen medled to gyders