The chronicles of England from Brute vnto this present yeare of Christ. 1580. Collected by Iohn Stow citizen of London.
About this Item
Title
The chronicles of England from Brute vnto this present yeare of Christ. 1580. Collected by Iohn Stow citizen of London.
Author
Stow, John, 1525?-1605.
Publication
Printed at London :: By [Henry Bynneman for] Ralphe Newberie, at the assignement of Henrie Bynneman. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis,
[1580]
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
Great Britain -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13043.0001.001
Cite this Item
"The chronicles of England from Brute vnto this present yeare of Christ. 1580. Collected by Iohn Stow citizen of London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13043.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
Pages
AEThelred or Etheldred who was before deposed, now re∣ceyued* 1.1 the Kingdome, and when he had ruled foure yeares, was also miserably slayne. After his death, thys Kingdome decayed, and was pitifully ransacked by ciuill sedition, and foraigne inuasions, for the space of 30. yeares, in whiche space, there ruled héere withoute title of Kings
¶ Osbert, which two last, were slaine at Yorke, by the Danes, in a place yet to this day called Elle Crafte.
This Osbert rauished a Lady of his Countrey, wife to Bernebokard, in reuenge whereof, the same Bernebokard
descriptionPage 113
fléeing into Denmarke, returned againe with the Danes Hin∣guer and Hubba, and ariued in holy Iland, and so came to Yorke, and there slew King Osbright.