sten Princes, for the refreshing of their subiectes. But that was then the brasen world, which nowe is growen to yron and leade, called ætas ferrea or rather plumbea.

This Edwine, who first brought in the fayth in the North parts, continuing after his baptisme. vj. yeares, at length was slayne in battayle by Cedwalla, kyng of þ^e Britains, & by wicked Penda, king of the Mercians, with his son also Offricus, in the fielde called Hatfield.

MarginaliaAnno. 634.
Archbish. of Cāterb. and Yorke, the one ordeyned the other.This Paulinus was the first Archbishop of Yorke, and as he was of Iustus Archbishop of Canterburye, ordayned Archbishop of the sea of Yorke: so he agayne after the decease of Iustus, ordayned Honorius to be Archbishop of Canturbury.

MarginaliaEx Flor. dist.Paulinus after the death of godly Edwyne, seyng vnmerciful Cedwalla or Cedwallō with his Britains, and wicked Penda with the idolatrous Mercians, to spoyle the land in such sorte, as they made no spare neyther of of age, nor sexe, nor religion: was compelled to flee with Edelburg the Quene, and Euflede her daughter, by water vnto Kente: where the sayde Archbishop Paulinus remayned bishop of Rochester þ^e space of. xix. yeares. And so the church of Northumberland lacked a bishop for the space of. xxx. yeares after. Notwythstanding he left there one MarginaliaIames a godly deacon.Iames hys Deacon, a good man, who continued there baptisingMarginaliaA deacon thē might baptise.and preachyng in the North partes, tyll that peace being recouered, and the number of the faythfull increasyng, the church came agayne to his stay. Hunting. lib. 3.

MarginaliaErpwaldus otherwyse named Corpwaldus, kyng of Eastangles conuerted to the faith of Christ.By the meanes of thys Edwine, Erpwaldus kyng of the Eastangles, sonne to Redwaldus aboue mentioned, was reduced to Christes fayth.

After the decease of Edwine and hys sonne Offrike, both slaine in battaile, reigned Osricus and Eaufridus, thone in Deyra, the other in Bernicia. Osricus was the sonne of Elfricus, whiche was brother to Ethelfride. Eaufridus was the eldest sonne of Ethelfride (for Ethelfride had iij. sonnes, to wyt: Eaufridus, Oswaldus, and Osricus.) These ij. kynges of Deyra and Bernicia, Osricus, and Eaufride, being first christened in Scotlād: after being kyngs, returned to their old idolatrie: and so in the yeares folowing were slayne, one after the other, by the foresayd Cedwalla, and wicked Penda, as is in the Table aboue expressed.

MarginaliaS. Oswalde kyng of Northumberland.
Anno. 636.
Galfridus Mamesberiensis,
Polychro, Historia iounalēsis.
Fabian,After whom succeded in Northumberland, the secōd sonne of Ethelfride, named Oswaldus hauyng rule on both þ^e Prouinces as wel Deyra, as of Bernicia. Wherof when the foresayde Cedwalla (or Cadwallo) the Britaine king had vnderstanding: who before had made hauoke of the Saxons & thought to haue rooted thē vtterly out of England: he sent K. Pēda w^t a mighty hoste of the Britaines, thincking to slea also Oswalde, as he had before slayne his brother Eaufride, & kyng Edwine before thē. But Oswald whē he was warned of þ^e great strēgth of this Cadwall, & Penda made his prayers to God, & besought him mekely of helpe to w^tstand hys enemie, for þ^e saluation of his people. Thus after Oswald had prayed for þ^e sauing of his people, þ^e two hostes met in a field named Denisburne, some saye, Heuenfield, where was faught a strōg battail. MarginaliaStrength of prayer ouercommeth armies.But finally þ^e army and power of Pēda & Cedwal, which wer far exceding þ^e nōber of Oswaldus host, was chased & most part slayne by Oswaldus, MarginaliaPenda beaten in the field.after he had reigned ouer the Britaines xxij. yeares leauyng after hym a sonne, whom Gaufridus calleth Cadwaladrus, the last kyng of the Britaines.

MarginaliaThe commendation of kyng Oswald.Of this Oswalde, much prayse & cōmēdacion is writē in autors, for his feruēt zeale in christes Religion, & mercifull pitie towarde the poore, with other great vertues mo. As touchyng the miracles of S. Oswalde, what it pleased the people of that tyme to reporte of him, I haue not here to affirme: This I find in stories certeine, that he beyng well & vertuously disposed to the settyng forth of Christes faithe and doctrine, sente into Scotlandefor a certeine Bishop, there called Aidanus, whiche was a famous preacher. The kynge what tyme he was in Scotland banished, had learned the Scottish tongue perfectly: MarginaliaKyng Oswald disdayned not to expound & preach the Gospel to hys people.wherfore as this Aidanus preached in his Scottish tongue to the Saxons, the kyng himself interpreting that which he had said, disdayned not to preach & expoūd the same to his nobles & subiects in the English tongue.

MarginaliaThe goodnes and charitie of Oswald toward the people.
Historia iornalensis. Polychronicon. lib. 5. cap. 12.Moreouer toward the poore and nedy, his pitie & tendernes was suche, beyng notwithstanding of so heygh & princely callyng: that vpon a tyme (beyng thē Esterday) he settyng with the sayd Aidanus at meat, and serued after the maner of kynges in Siluer: there commeth to hym one of the seruitures bryngyng hym worde, þ^t there was a greate multitude of poore people sittyng in the streete, which desired some almes of þ^e kyng. He hearing this, commaundeth not onely the meat prepared for his owne Table to be caried vnto them, but also takyng a Siluer platter which stode before him, brake it in peeces and sent it emong thē: And so releued his poore subiectes not onely with þ^e meat of his Table, but with his dishes also. Aidanus the Bishop seyng this, & maruelyng therat, taketh hym by the hand, wishing and praying in this wise: This hand, sayth he, I praye God may continue & neuer putrefie. What the stories say more concernyng this hand of Oswald, I entend not to medle farther thē simple, true, and dew probabilitie, will beare me out. In those dayes, & partly by the meanes of the said Oswald, MarginaliaRinegilsus king of the Westsaxōs couerted to christes fayth.
Polychronicō lib. 5. cap. 13.Kinigilsus kyng of the Weastsaxons was conuerted to Christes fayth: especially through the godly labour of Birinus, which was sente by Pope Honorius to preach in England, and was then made Byshop of Dorchester. To whom Quicelinus brother of the foresayd Kinigilsus, after he had also receaued Baptisme of the said Berinus: gaue to hym the sayd Citie to make there his sea. And as Guydo witnesseth, MarginaliaFabiā. part. 5
Landes geuen to Winchester.the said Quicelinus gaue after to the Byshop of Winchester, seuen miles compasse of land, to buylde there the Bishops sea: the whiche was accomplished and finished by Kenwalcus his sonne.

MarginaliaMalmes beriensis lib. de pōtific. Angl. Cestrensis. lib. 5. Histor. iornalensis.
Huntyngton. lib. 3.Of this Berinus, Mamesbery, Polychronicon, with diuers other writers do reporte, a thyng straunge & miraculous: which if it be a fable, as no doubt it is, I cānot but maruell that so many autors so constantly agree in reportyng & affirming the same. The matter is this: This Berinus beyng sente as is sayde, by Honorius to preache in Englande, promiseth hym to trauayle to the vttermoste borders thereof: and there to preache the Gospell where the name of Christ, was neuer hard. Thus he settyng forward in hys iorney passeth through Fraūce, and so to the sea side, where he found a passage ready, and the wynd serued so fayre, that he was called vpon in such hast that he had no leysure to remēber him selfe to take all things with hym, whiche he had to cary. At length as he was on the sea sailing, and almost in the midle course of his passage, remembred him self of a certeine relique left behynd hym for hast: whiche Honorius had geuē hym at his cōmyng out. Malmesberiensis calleth it Corporalia. Historia Iornalensis, calleth it Pallulam super quam Corpus Christi consecraret, whiche we call a Corporas, or suche a lyke thyng, and what elles inclosed within it I can not tell. Here Birinus in greate sorow could not tell what to do, if he should haue spoken to the heathen mariners, to turne their course bake again, they would haue mocked him, and it had bene in vayne. Wherfore as the stories write, MarginaliaBirinus walkyng on the sea with lye and al.he boldly steppeth into þ^e sea, & walkyng on foote backe agayne, taketh with hym that whiche was left behynd, & so returneth to hys company agayne, hauyng not one thriede of hys garmentes wete. Of this miracle, or whether I should cal it a fable rather, let þ^e reader iudge therof, as he thinketh: because it is not writen in the Scripture, we are not bound to beleue it. But if it were true, it is then to be thought to be wrought of God not for any holynes in the man, or in þ^e