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AFter this / his sone kynge Coill regned / a good man and a wor∣thy / and of good condycyons / and well gouerned his londe. And of all men he hadde loue and peas. And in his tyme was neuer contake / debate / nor warre in Brytayne. And he regned & was kynge
in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 all his lyues tyme. And whan he had regned .xi. yere he deyed & lyeth at Yorke.
CLaudius was Emperour at Ro∣me next after Gai••s. And he reg¦ned .xiiij. yere & .viij. dayes. This man came in to grete Brytayne now called Englonde / for to chalenge the trybute whiche they dyde denye vnto ye Romay∣nes. And after grete bataylles ther was bytwene the Emperour Claudius & Ar¦mager kyng of Brytayne. And after ac¦cordement made / y• this armager sholde wedde Claudius doughter / & after they two sholde euer lyue in peas. In token wherof / this Claudius named the cyte where they were wedded after hym / and called it Claudicestre / where we now it calle Gloucestre. ¶This Claudi{us} had thre wyues. And on Petiua the fyrst wyf he gate a doughter that hyght Antonia The fyrst wyf decessed / and he wedded Messalinam / & gate a sone that hyght Britanicus / and Octauia a doughter. The thyrde he wedded Agrippina / ha∣uynge a sone that hyght Nero. Claudi∣us wedded his doughter Octauia to Ne to his wyues sone. This Claudius for loue that he had to Agrippina his laste wyf / he slewe Messalina his fyrst wyf / leest she sholde haue holpe Britanicus her sone & his to ye Empyer. Yet Agrip∣pina the laste wyf of Claudius dradde / leest her husbonde wolde haue proferred Britanicus / & haue deposed Nero her sone / therfore she poysoned her husbon∣de Claudius / and Nero was promoted to the Empyre. And this same Nero ya¦ue his moder suche a rewarde ayen. For he poysoned Britanicus and slewe his owne moder & his wyf Octauia. ¶Ia¦mes the more the apostle this tyme was slayne of Herode Agrippa / & Peter was prysoned (Vt pʐ ac•• .xij.) The body of saynt Iames was brought by myracle in Galeciam of Spayne. ¶Nero after Claudius was Emperour / & he regned xiij. yere & .vij. monethes. This Nero was a cursyd man / & made grete waste in the Empyre. He wolde not fysshe but with nettes of golde & ropes of sylke. A grete parte of the lordes of Rome he sle¦we. He was enemye to noo men but to good men. He slewe his broder & his wyf his moder & his mayster. He slewe also Peter & Poule / he wolde neuer were one cloth two tymes. All his hors & his mu∣les were shod with syluer / & at the laste he dyde sette a grete parte of Rome on fyre / some saye / the Romayns complay∣ned the stretes were to narowe. And as he had brent a grete parte of Rome. ••. c¦ro sayd there is space to buylde the she∣tes wyder. Thenne the Senatours with the comyn people came vpon hym to sle∣we hym / & he fledde by nyght in to the subarbes of the cyte & hyde hȳ / & he her¦de karles & beggers sayenge. And they wyst where the Emperour were he shol∣de neuer scape theym. Nero thought it sholde be grete derogacion to his name & he were slayne of karles. And on a gre¦te stake he ranne hymself to the herte & deyed / & there was buryed. And deuylles kept his body many a daye after & dyd grete hurte to the people / tyll by a myra¦cle of our lorde the body was foūde & ta¦ken awaye / & thenne ye deuylles boyded. ¶Seneca was this tyme mayster to Ne¦ro. ¶Iuuenalis poeta. ¶Lucan{us} poeta. ¶Iames the lesse the apostle bysshop of Ierusalem was slayne of the Iewes the .vi. yere of Nero. Marcus the euāgelyst was martred the fyrst yere of hym.