KENELM.

KENELM the Son of Kenwolf, a Child of seven years, was left under * the Tuition of his elder Sister Quendrid, but she ambitious to Rule her self caused him to be made away by one Askbert, who alluring him to the Woods on pretence to hunt there, slew him and secretly buried his body, the murther is said to be miraculously discovered by a Dove dropping a written Note on the Altar at Rome; it was this,

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Mr. Milton thus renders it:

Soon after the death of this Prince the Kingdom of Mercia became Tributary to Egbert the West-Saxon Monarch, though not without some strugling on both sides; but the Actions of suceeding Princes in this Kingdom, as they were but few and happened all in the life of that Monarch, so I shall reserve them to be told there in their due place, for in this Heptarchy I design not to write any further than to his daies, who by degrees united the divided States, and moulded them into one entire Dominion.