The chronicles of England from Brute vnto this present yeare of Christ. 1580. Collected by Iohn Stow citizen of London.

SEbert the sonne of Sledda by Ricula, ruled this kingdome* 1.1 after his father. The seconde yeare of hys raigne, by the perswasion of Ethelbert hys vncle, and preaching of Mile∣tus first Byshoppe of London, he embraced Christianitie, and was baptised by Miletus, and (immediately to shewe him∣selfe a Christian,) builte a Churche to the honour of Saint Peter, on the West side of London, in a place, whiche bycause it was ouergrowen with Thornes and enuironed wyth Waters, the Saxons at that time called it Thorney, and* 1.2 nowe of the Monasterie and West scituation is called West∣minster.

In this place long before was a Temple of Apollo, (as Sulcardus writeth,) whyche being ouerthrowne wyth an Earthquake, Eucius builte a Churche for the Christi∣ans,* 1.3

Sebert (when he had raigned thirtéene yeres) dyed, and was entombed in the Church which he builte, with his wife Acthelgod, whose bodies many yeares after, in the the time* 1.4 of Richarde the seconde, were translated from the olde Churche to the newe at Westminster: and there enterred.

Notes

• * 1.1

  602
• * 1.2

  VVestminster built.
• * 1.3

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• * 1.4

  T. Walsingham.