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Whyle thys Locrinus gouerned Lo∣giers, his brother Albanact ruled in Albania, as is sayde, and there was finally slayne in a bataile by a King of the Hunnes or Scythi∣ans, called Humber, which inuaded that part of Britain, & got possessiō therof, til Locrinus with his brother Cāber, in reuēge of their other
brothers death, and for the recouery of the king∣dome, gathered their powers togither, and com∣ming against the said King of the Hunes, by the valiancie of their people they discomfited hym in battell, and chased him so egrely, that he himselfe and a greate number of his men were drowned in the Gulfe that then parted Loegria and Alba∣nia, which after tooke name of ye sayd king, & was called Humber, and so continueth vnto this day.
Moreouer, in this battell against the Hunes [ 10] were three yong Damosels taken of excellente beauty, specially one of them, whose name was Estrild, daughter to a certayne king of Scithia. With this Estrild king Locrine fel so far in loue, notwithstāding a former contract made betwixt him & the Lady Guendoloena, daughter to Co∣rineus Duke of Cornewall, yt he meant yet with all speede to marrie the same Estrild. But beyng earnestly called vpon, and in manner forced ther∣to by Corineus, hee chaunged his purpose, and [ 20] married Guendoloena, keeping neuerthelesse the foresayde Estrild to paramor still after a secrete sort, during ye life of Corineus his father in lawe. But after yt Corineus was departed this world, Locrine forsooke Guendoloena, and maried E∣strild. Guendoloena therfore being cast off by hir husband, gote hir into Cornewall to hir friendes and kinrede, and there procured them to make warre against the sayde Locrine hir husbande, in the whiche warres hee was slaine and a battayle [ 30] foughte neere to the riuer of Sture, after he hadde raigned (as writers affirme) twenty yeeres, and buried by his father in the Citie of Troynouant, leauing behinde him a yong sonne (begotten of his wife Guendoloena) named Madan, as yet vn∣meete to gouerne.
Guendoloena or Guendoleyn the wife of Lo∣crinus, & daughter of Corineus Duke of Corne∣wall, for so muche as hir sonne Madan was not of yeeres sufficient to gouerne, was by common [ 40] consent of the Britons made ruler of the Isle, in the yeere of the world .2894. and so hauing ye ad∣ministration in hir handes, she did right discretly vse hir selfe therein, to the comforte of all hir sub∣iects, till hir sonne Madan came to lawfull age: and then she gaue ouer the rule and dominion to him, after shee had gouerned the space of fifteene yeeres.
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