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.
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[ B] prophesyes wheron they gretely beleue But other clerkis and grete lernyd men gyue lyttyll credēce to them / & also they sey that those stonis were neuer brought out of yreland by merlion but y^t they were made by craft of men as of semēt & morter made of flynt stonys / one reasō they alege therto because those stonis be so hard that no yryn tole wyll cut them without grete bysynes and also they be of one facyon and bygnes saue only there be .ii. sortis / & so most lykly to be caste and made in a molde & that men thynke it a thyng almoste vnpossyble to get so many grete stonys owte of anny quarre or rokk that shold be so herd so equall of bygnes & fassyon / a nother reason they ley y^t it is not well possyble to haue so many gret stonis to be all of one color & of one greyn thorow and in euery place but that some stone shuld be more darker of colour in one place or a nother or at the lest haue some vaynys of other colours in them as grete stonis of merbell and other gret stonis commynly haue / But these stonis at stonehenge be all of one gryt without chaunge of colour or vayne & all of one facyon therfore many grete wysemen suppose them to be made of a morter of flynt or other stonys·

¶Vter pendragon broder to Aurelyus was next made kyng of brytteyn the yere of Cryste .v.C. He louyd one Igwarne or Igorne wyfe to Garloys duke of cornewall & therfore made war vppō hym and slew hym and after maryed the sayde Igwarne and by her had a son callyd Arthur & after this [ B] vter was poysonyd.

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[ F] Croytyll dougter and heyre to Chelperyk kyng of Borgoyn / this Croytell exortyd her husband to be crystenyd but he euer refusyd tyll at the last at a battell that he had agaynst the allmayns he made pro∣myse to cryst that if he wan the victory he wold be crystenyd & so he had ther the victory & then accor∣dyng to hys {pro}myse he reyseyuyd baptysme of seynt Reny archbyshop of Reynys & there ānoyntyd hym as a sacryd kynge / Hyt is seyd that .iii. flowre delyse in a feld of asure was sent to kyng Clouys [ F]