(sayd he) of kyng Redwaldus, which had before intēded thy destruction, was now altered through the counsell of the Queene, and is fully bent to keepe his promise with you, whatsoeuer shall fall therupon.MarginaliaW. Malmesberiensis. Lib. de Reg. To make the story short, Redwaldus the kyng (although Fabian followyng Henry Huntingtō, sayth it was Edwyne) with all cōueniēt speede assembled an host: wherewith he sodainly commyng vpon Ethelfride, gaue battaile vnto him aboute the borders of Mercia, where Ethelfride kyng of Northumberland, also with Reyner Redwaldus sonne was slayne in the field. By reason wherof Edwyne (his enemies now beyng destroyed) was quietly placed in the possession of Northumberlād. All this while yet Edwyne remained in his old Paganisme: albeit his Queene,MarginaliaThis Queene was Edelburga, daughter to king Ethelbert the Christened king of Kent. beyng (as is aboue declared) kyng Ethelbertes daughter, a Christen woman, with Paulinus the bishop, ceased not to styrre and perswade the kyng to Christiā fayth. But he takyng counsell with his nobles and counsellers vpon the matter, was hard to be wonne. Then the Lord, who disposeth all thynges after his purpose, to bryng all good thynges to passe, sent an other trouble vpon him, by meanes therof to call him.MarginaliaGod calleth cōmōly by afflictiō and trouble. For by afflicti? God vseth commonly to call them whom he will saue, or by whom he wil worke saluatiō vnto other. So his diuine wisdome thinketh good to make them first to know them selues, before they come to know him, or to teach him to other. So it was with Paule, who was stricken downe, before he was lifted vp, with Constantinus, Edwynus, and many moe. How long was Ioseph in prison before he bare rule? How hardely escaped this our Queene now beyng, (Queene Elizabeth) by whom yet notwithstāding it hath pleased God to restore this his Gospell now preached amongest vs? In what cōflictes and agonyes inwardly in his spirite was M. Luther, before he came to preach the iustification of Christ openly? And so be all they most commonly, which come to any liuely feelyng ot sensible workyng of Christ the Lord.

MarginaliaAn other daunger of Edwine
An. 627.
[illegible text] 5 ca 12.
Henr. Hunt. lib. 3. But to returne to Edwyne agayne. The occasiō of his trouble was this: Quicelinus with Kynegilsus his brother, kynges of Westsaxons (as aboue is mentioned in the table of the Saxon kynges) conspiring the death of Edwyne now kyng of Northumberland: vpon enuy and malice sent vpon an Easter day a swordman named Emner, priuely to slay the sayd Edwyne. This swordman or cutthrote came to a Citie beside the water of Darwent in Darbyshyre, there to wayte his tyme, and lastly founde the kyng smally accompanied, and intended to haue runne the king through with a sword inuenemed. But one Lilla the kynges trusty seruaunt, disgarnished of a shield or other weapon, to defend his maister:Marginalia[illegible text]
A part of a trusty seruaunt. start betwene the king and the sword, and was stricken thorough the body and dyed, & the kyng was wounded with the same stroke. And after he wounded also the third which was a knight, and so was taken, and confessed by whom he was sent to worke that treason. The other knight that was secondly wounded dyed, and the kyng lay after long sicke, or he were healed.

After this, about Whytsontyde the kyng beyng scantly hole of his wounde, assembled his hoste, intending to make agaynst the kyng of Westsaxon: promising to Christ to be Christened, if he would geue him the victory ouer his enemies. And in token therof caused his daughter, borne of Edelburge, þ^e same Easter day whē he was woūded, named Eufled to be baptised: with. xij. other of his familie, of Paulinus. Thus Edwyne proceeded to þ^e battaile agaynst Quiceline and Kynegilsus, with his sonne Kenwalcus and other enemyes: who in the same battaile beyng all vāquished and put to flight, Edwyne (through the power of Christ) returneth home victorer.MarginaliaEdwin forgetteth his promise to Christe.
Prosperity forgetfull.
Old custome in matters of religion not to be followed but onely truth. But for all this victory, & other things geuen to him of God, as he was in wealth of the world, forgat his promise made, and had litle mynde thereof, saue onely that he by the preachyng of Paulinus forsooke his maumentry. And for his excuse sayd that he might not clearely denye his old law, whiche his forefathers had kept so long, and sodenly to be Christened without authoritie and good aduise of his counsaile.

MarginaliaOld custome letteth Edwin to be christened. About the same season Pope Boniface the 5. sent also to the sayd Edwyne letters exhortatorie, with sundry presents from Rome to him, and to Edelburge the Queene. But nether would that preuayle. Thē Paulinus seyng the kyng so hard to be conuerted, poured out his prayers vnto God for his conuersion: who the same tyme had reuealed to hym by the holy ghost, the oracle aboue mentioned, whiche was shewed to the kyng, when he was with Redwaldus kyng of the Eastangles.MarginaliaA miracle of God in the conuersion of kyng Edwine. Wherupon Paulinus commyng afterward to the kyng, on a certaine day, and laying his hand vpon the kinges head, asked hym if he knew that tokē. The kyng hearyng this, & remembryng wel the token, was ready to fall down at his feete.MarginaliaThe part of a godly bishop exemplified in Paulinus But Paulinus not sufferyng that, did lift hym vp agayne, saying vnto him: behold, O kyng, you haue vanquished your enemyes, you haue obtayned your kyngdome, now performe the third, whiche you haue promised, that is to receiue the fayth of Christ, and to be obedient to him. Whereupon the kyng conferryng with his counsell, and his nobles,MarginaliaEdwine baptised.
He was baptised in S. Peters Church at Yorke which he first caused to be made of woode, which after by S. Oswald was builded of stone. was baptised of the sayd Paulinus at Yorke, with many of his other subiectes with him: In so much that Coyfi the chief of the Prelates of his old maumentry armed him selfe with his other Idolatrous Byshops, and bestrode good horses, which before by their old law they might not do, nor ryde but onely on a Mare: & so destroyed all the altars of their maumentrie, & their temple of Idoles, which was a Godmundham, nor far from Yorke, and this was the. xi. yeare of his raigne.

Marginalia628.
Note Paulinus christened in ryuers. Frō that tyme forth, during the lyfe of Edwyne, which was the terme of. vj. yeares moe, Paulinus Christened continually in the riuers of Gweny, and Swala, in both prouinces of Deira, and in Bernicia, vsing the sayd riuers for his fountes, and preached in the shyre of Lyncesey, where he builded also a Church of stone at Lincolne.

MarginaliaWhat true iustice of a good prince can do in a realme.
Great peace & truth among the people in the dayes of Edwine. In this tyme was so great peace in the kyngdome of Edwyne after his conuersiō, that a woman laden with gold might haue gone from the one side of the Sea to the other, and no man molest her. Moreouer by the hye waye sides through all his kingdome, he caused by euery well or spring to be chayned a dishe or bole of brasse to take vp water, for the refreshyng of such as went by the way. Which boles of brasse there remained safe, so that no mā touched them, duryng all the lyfe of the sayd Edwyne. Such was then the tender care and study of Christen Princes, for the refreshyng of their subiectes. But that was then the brasen world, which now is growen to yron and leade, called Ætas ferrea or rather plumbea.

This Edwyne, who first brought in the fayth in the North partes, continuyng after his Baptisme. vj. yeares, at length was slayne in battayle by Cedwalla, kyng of the Britaines, and by wicked Penda, king of the Mercians, with his sonne also Offricus, in the fielde called Hatfield.

Marginalia634.
Archbishiop of Canterb. and Yorke the one ordayneth the other. This Paulinus was the first Archbyshop of Yorke, and as he was of Iustus Archbyshop of Canterbury, ordained Archbyshop of the sea of Yorke: so he agayne after the decease of Iustus, ordained Honorius to be Archbyshop of Caunturbury.

MarginaliaEx Flor. dist. Paulinus after the death of godly Edwyne, seyng vnmerciful Cedwalla or Cedwallon with his Britaines, & wicked Penda with þ^e idolatrous Merciās, to spoile þ^e land in such sort, as they made no spare neither of of age, nor sexe, nor Religiō: was compelled to flee with Edelburg the Queene, and Euflede her daughter, by water vnto Kent: where the sayd Archbyshop Paulinus remained Byshop of Rochester the space of. xix. yeares. And so the Churche of Northumberland lacked a Byshop for the space of. xxx. yeares after. Notwythstandyng he left there oneMarginaliaIames a godly deacon. Iames his Deacon, a good man, who continued there baptisingMarginaliaA deacon th? might baptise. and preachyng in the North partes, till that peace beyng recouered, and the number of the faythfull increasing, the Church came agayn to his stay. Hunting. Lib. 3.

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

After the decease of Edwine and his sonne Offrike, both slayne in battaile, raigned Osricus and Eaufridus, the one in Deyra, the other in Bernicia. Osricus was the sonne of Elfricus, which was brother to Ethelfride. Eaufridus was the eldest sonne of Ethelfride (for Ethelfride had iij. sonnes, to wytte: Eaufridus Oswaldus, and Osricus.) These two kynges of Deyra and Bernicia, Osricus, and Eaufride, beyng first Christened in Scotland: after beyng kynges, returned to their old idolatrie: and so in the yeares followyng were slayne, one after the other, by the foresayd Cedwalla, and wicked Penda, as is in the table aboue expressed.

MarginaliaS. Oswalde K. of Northūb.
636.
Galfridus Mamesberiensis,
Polychro. Historia iounalensis.
Fabian.
Strength of prayer ouercommeth enemyes. After whom succeeded in Northumberland, the second sonne of Ethelfride, named Oswaldus hauyng rule on both the Prouinces as well Deyra, as of Bernicia. Whereof when the foresayd Cedwalla (or Cadwallo) the Britaine kyng had vnderstandyng: who before had made hauoke of the Saxons and thought to haue rooted them vtterly out of England: he sent kyng Penda with a mighty host of the Britaines, thinkyng to slea also Oswald, as he had before slayne his brother Eaufride, and kyng Edwine before them. But Oswald when he was warned of the great strength of this Cadwall, and Penda, made his prayers to God, and besought him meekely of helpe to withstand his enemy: for the saluation of his people. Thus after Oswald had prayed for the sauyng of his people, the two hostes met in a field named Denisburne, some saye, Heuēfield, where was faught