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A Summarie of the afore∣said Hystorie.
IN the former part of this Hystorye it may ap∣pere vnto you (that after the opinion of most wryters) Brute did first inhabite this land, and called it then af∣ter his awne name Briteyn, in the .2855. yere after the creation of the Worlde, and in the .1108. yere be∣fore the birth of our sauiour Christ. And the same land of Briteyn was conquered by C. Iulius Cesar, and made tributarye to the Romaynes in the fiftie yere be∣fore Christes Incarnation, and it so continued .483. yeres. And the Briteynes reigned without Tribute, and vnder Tribute, from Brute vntill the fourth yere of the reigne of King Cadwalader, which was in the yere of our Lorde .686. And so the Briteynes had con∣tinuance of the Gouernement of this land the space of 1794. yeres. And then was the kingdome of Briteyn deuided into seuen kingdomes. And Briteyn receyued the fayth of Christ in the seuenth yere of the reigne of King Lucy, which was in the .C.lxxxvii. yere after the birth of Christ. And after the Britons, entered the Sax∣ons in the third yere of Vortiger, and in the yere of our. Lord .450. and they gouerned vn∣till the last yere of king Athelstane, which was in the .938. yere of Christ. And so the tyme of the Saxons first entraunce into this Realme, and the tyme of their Gouernement, was the space of .487. yeres. But yet in the time of the Gouernement of the Saxons, that is to say, in the .ix. yere of the reigne of king Brithricus, which was in the yere of our Lord 787. The Danes entered into the Realme, and spoyled and persecuted the people therein most grieuously: And at the last Sweno, or Swayn the Dane, obteyned the possession and kingdome of this Realme, in the yere of our Lord .1012. and he reigned thrée yeres. And after him reigned Canutus his Sonne .xix. yeres. And after him Harold his sonne thrée yeres. And after him Hardikenitus the sonne of Canutus, who reigned thrée yeres, and was the last king of the Danes, for then the Danes were vtterly expulsed and dryuen out of the Realme, which was in the yere of our Lorde .1042. And thus it may apere that the Danes reigned kinges of this Realme the space of .xxviii. yeres. And it maye also apere, that from the time of the first entery of the Danes into this Realme, vnto their last expulsion, was .CC.lv. yeres. And finally, the Normanes entered this lande, and made a Conquest of this Realme, as before is expressed, in the yere of our Lord .1067. Which is sithen vnto this present yere of our Lorde .1568. the number of fiue hundreth yeres.