OFfa, Nephew to Ethelbald succéeded: he ioyned battayle* 1.1 with Kineulfus King of the Weast Saxons, and gote the victorie. He sent for Ethelbert King of the East Angles, pro∣mising great things by flatterie, but when he had got him to his Palace, he caused him to be beheaded, and then vn∣iustly inuaded the Kingdome of the East Angles.
He caused the reliques of S. Albon to be taken vp, and* 1.2 put in a Shrine aborned with golde and precious stones, and builded there a princely Monasterie.
He founded the Abbey of Bathe.
He translated the Archbishops Sea to Lichfield.
He made a dike betwéene Wales and the Kingdome of* 1.3 the Mercies, which ditch extendeth by South from the parts about Bristow, ouer the Mountaynes of Wales, and so North toward Flint, and vnder a hill of coale, euen to the mouth of Dee, or the North Sea. He raigned xxxix. yeares, and dyed at Oflay, and was buryed in a Chappell which then stoode on* 1.4 the bancke of the Riuer Ouse, without the Towne of Bedford.