A chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans goverment [sic] unto the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Charles containing all passages of state or church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle / faithfully collected out of authours ancient and moderne, & digested into a new method ; by Sr. R. Baker, Knight.

The fourth Kingdome being of the East Saxons.

THe fourth Kingdom of the Heptarchy was of the East Saxons, & began by Erchenwyn, in the yeare 527. containing Essex and Middlesex, and continued 281 years, during the Raignes of foureteene Kings; of whom the third was Sebert, who first built the Cathedrall of St. Paul London, which had formerly beene the Temple of Diana: He likewise Founded the Church of St. Peter in the West of London, at a place called Thorny, where some time stood the Temple of Apollo, which being overthrowne by an Earthquake, King Lucius new built for the service of God; & that againe being decayed, this King restored to a greater beauty, & with

his Queene Athelgarda was there buried. The ninth King was Sebba, who after thirty yeares peaceable Raigne relinquished the Crowne, & tooke upon him a Re∣ligious habit, in the Monastery of St. Paul London; where dying, his body was In∣tumbed in a Coffin of gray Marble, the cover coaped, and as yet standeth in the North wall of the Chancell of the same Church. The twelveth was Offa, famous for the beauty of his countenance, who both enlarged with buildings, and enrich∣ed with lands the Church of Westminster, and after eight yeares Raigne went to Rome, and was there shorne a Monke, and in that habit died. The fourteenth was Suthred, whom Egbert King of the West Saxons subdued, and made his Kingdome a Province to his owne. And thus besides the former Shires, these two also were lopped off from the Britaines Dominion, and this was a fourth impairing.