The pastyme of people The cronycles of dyuers realmys and most specyally of the realme of Englond breuely co[m]pylyd [and] empryntyd in chepesyde at the sygne of the mearemayd next to pollys gate. Cum priuilegio.

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Title: The pastyme of people The cronycles of dyuers realmys and most specyally of the realme of Englond breuely co[m]pylyd [and] empryntyd in chepesyde at the sygne of the mearemayd next to pollys gate. Cum priuilegio.
Author: Rastell, John, d. 1536.
Publication: [London :: Printed by John Rastell,; 1530?]
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Subject terms: Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 -- Early works to 1800.; Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Early works to 1800.
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Graciā

[ B] amōg y^e pagā people where on Gwan{us} beīg king & melga his brother seīg theyr bew••e wold haue deuoured thē & because Vrsula & her maydens wolde not cōsent therto they were therfore put to deth at a place where now y^e cyte of Coleyn is sett / but other storyes as Iacobus Philip{us} & anthoni{us} sey y^t they shuld not be sent furth of gret Bryttayne nor martired about y^e tyme but in the time of Mercianus Em{per}our. This Gwanus & Melga were sent by the sayd em{per}ours Gracian & Valentinian into grete bryttayne which there dystroyd churches of crystys fayth & slew y^e people wherof Maximiā hauīg knolege sēta knyght of his thider callyd Gracian{us} which droue out Gwanus & Melga & deffendyd & kept the land to the vse of Maximian In his time Theodosius ē∣perour of the Est with a grete power drofe Maxymian in to a towne in Italy callid aquil••a where he was takī & he did aft whos deth gracian{us} beīg in britayn herīg therof a non made hī self there kīg. ¶Graciā after y^e deth of Maximiā was made kyng of bryttayne the yere of cryste .CCCxc. & after that was so cruell & vsid sich tirranny & execucōn vppō the britteyns y^t at the last they rose agaynst hym by one assent & slew hym after that he had reynyd there .iiii yere. [ B]