This Withlacus in the beginning of hys raigne was vanquished by Egrid kyng of Westsex, to whom hee became tributary with his successors here foflowing.

¶ After this Elfride the kingdome of the Mercians was translated vnto the Westsaxōs, in the latter tyme of king Alfred, or in the beginning of Edwardus Senior, & so was adioyned to the Westsaxons, beginnyng an. 561. It endured the space of. 250. yeares, tyl about the latter end of Aluredus, by whom it was ioyned to the kingdome of Westsaxons. This kingdome stretched out to Hūtingtonshere, Hertfordshere, Glocestershere, Woceter, Warwicke, Lichfield. Couentrye, Chester, Darbyshiere, Staffordshiere, Shrosbury, Oxforde, Buckyngham, Dorcester, Lincolne, Lecester. &c.

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Eastsaxsōs
The king of the East saxons.

¶ This Swithred⁹ was subdued vnto Egbert kyng of Westsaxons. Albeit London remayned vnder the Mercians to the tyme that they also were subdued to the Westsaxons. Thys kyngdome began an. 561. and so continued tyll the tyme of Egbertus. Some stories say it continued to the tyme of Edward sonne of Aluredus, about the commyng of the Danes, and contayned vnder it the Lordship of Mydlesex & Londō. The Metropolitane sea of thys prouince of Essex was Londō, where the famous church of S. Paul was builded by Ethelbert kyng of Kent & Sigebert kyng of Essex, whom Ethelbert had lately before turned to Christes faith: whereof the fyrst bishop was Mellitus, the secōd bishop was Cedd⁹, the third came in by Symonie, whose name was Wine. Malmesb. de vitis pont. After him was Erkēwaldus, of whō writeth Bede, that he being diseased in hys legges that he could neyther go nor ryde, yet would be caried about in a litter to preach in hys Dioces. &c.¶ Although W. Malmesb. writing of the bishops of Londō in his boke De vitis ponti. saith that Mauritius first the kings Chauncelor, then byshop there, dyd fyrst begyn thys so large and famous building of S. Paule in London: Which work after him Richardus his successor did prosecute, bestowing al the rentes of hys bishopricke vpon the same, & yet was scarsely sene: yet herein may be answered peraduenture, that the church builded before by kyng Ethelbert, and kyng Sigebert, might be ouerthrown by the Danes, and afterward was reedified by these bishops aboue mencioned.

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Eastanglis
The kings of the Eastanglis.

¶ After the death of Saynt Edmund, being slaine of the Infidel Danes, the kyngdome remayned wyth the Danes. 50. yeares, tyl at length Edward kyng of the Westsaxons expulsed the Danes, and ioyned it to his kingdome. It began about the yeare of our Lord. 561. & continued neare about 377. yeares. Fabian numbreth but. xij. kynges, but in other I fynde mo.The Metroplitane sea of this prouince of Eastanglis, was fyrst at a towne called Dunmoke, where the first Bishop was Felix, a Burgundian. After this, vnto the time of Egbert kyng of Westsaxe, this prouince was euer ruled by two bishops, wherof the one had hys sea at Dunmoke, which towne after the name of Felix the bishop, was called Felixstow, or Felstow: The other at Hemaham, wher. xij. sat, one after an other. From thence it was translated to Thetford, wher sat. iij. bishops. At last by bishop Herbert it was remoued to Norwych, where he erected a monasterye of Moonkes.And thus standeth the order & rase of the Saxon kyngs, raigning together with the Britanes in this Realme. Now foleweth the description of the Britaine kynges, raygning wyth the Saxons in lyke maner.