the Kyng was with that stroke wounded throughe the bodye of his faithfull seruaunt.
The same night the Quéene his wife was deliuered of a daughter, whyche vppon Whitsondaye nexte after, was the firste that was baptized of Paulinus the Byshop, and named Eanfleda.
In the yeare of Christ. 628. Edwine, the most mighty king of the Northumbers, and his people, receiued the word of God, at the preaching of Paulinus the Bishoppe: this was done in the xj. yeare of hys raigne, and in the 230. yeare after the ar∣riuall of the Angles in Brytaine.
Edwine gaue vnto Pauline a Byshops Sea in the Citie of Yorke, and began the Cathedrall Church of S. Peter there, whiche Church was after finished by King Oswald his suc∣cessor, after this, in encreasing of the Christian Faith and heauenly kingdome, his earthly possessions did wonderfully encrease, for he first of al the Angles broughte Brytaine wholy vnder his subiection, sauing the Kingdome of Kent.
Edwine in the xvij. yeare of his raigne, and xlviij. of hys age, was slaine in a battel whiche he fought at Headfeld, with the moste valiant Painime Penda King of the Mercies, and Ceadwalla Kyng of the Brytaines. Paulinus the Bishop buyl∣ded the great Church at Lincolne. In the raigne of King Ed∣wine, suche was the peace and tranquilitie throughe all Bry∣taine, whiche way soeuer King Edwines dominions lay, that a weake woman mighte haue walked with hir newe borne babe ouer all the I and without any domage. Moreouer, for the refreshing of wayfaring men, he ordained cuppes of yron or brasse, to be fastned by such cleare Wels and Fountaines as did runne by the wayes side, whych Cuppes no man durst touch further than to his owne present vse & necessity, for the loue & good wil they bare to their prince, who was for ye time of his raigne so honored and loued, that the triumphant ban∣ners were borne before him, not in war only, but in peace to, wheresoeuer he went abroad.
After the death of Edwine, the Kingdome of Northumber∣land