Here begynneth the kalendre of the newe legende of Englande

¶De sancto Kynedo confessore.

THe fader and moder of seynt Kynede were of ly∣tell Brytayne / but seint Kyned was borne in gre¦at Brytayne in the tyme when kynge Arthur rey¦gned and his lyfe is so full of the meruaylous gre¦te power and goodnes of almyghty god that I leue to wry¦te of it in this lytell kalendre / & refer it to them y^t lyste to rede the hole Legend how he was immediatly after his byrthe caste into the water preserued in a lytell crybbe in the great wawes of the see / and was taken vp out of the see by birdes and in his youth dyd souke on a belle that had a lytell thyn∣ge lyke to a tete / which sauoured to hym of dyuers maners as Manna dyd to the children of Israell: and howe he had nat the fylth y^t other children naturally haue / & how a man & his wyfe founde hym & brought hym to their house / wher¦fore y^e byrdes destroyed their house & their best{is} so y^t they we¦re fayne to bere hym agayn / how he was aft fed w^t a hynde y^t fylled y^e sayd bely w^t her mylke / & how an aūgell apperyd

ofte to hym and tolde hym what mete he shuld vse and that the harder that it was the better it was for hym / And howe he went fro that place by monycion of an Aungell after he had kept an Heremytes lyfe there .xviii. yeres / and how his seruaūt forsware hym self vpon the bell wherupon he went madde & went vpon the water to seynt Dauides then called Meniuia where he lyued lyke a beest .vii. yere with herbes and rotes his heere couerynge hym lyke a beest whiche af∣ter by prayers of seynt Kyned was made hole agayne and many other thynges appere in the Legende / whiche be he∣re omytted he went to our lorde in the kalend of August.