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Show The fift Booke of Apere notproutded more largclic thereof, thep tvouln {urelie fpotle the countrie. So that twithout oefervingof time, thep perfornted their iumzds with efted Deeds, beginning in the ealk part of the Fle, ¢ with Whemtfe: of sable deftrnte fire ad finw2 paffen forth,wafting and deftrofeng tion mabe bp the countrie,till thep came to the bttermof part of the arons tichis land, Theftate ofthe Britains tour Leothe fff, md about the firt peare of Cyiloee ticus bing of Jftance, as our common account rune neth, thich is far difagreing from that thereof W. Harifon both fpeake itt bis chronologic, tbo notety Woatigerne fo be depofen in the 8 after, bis eraltafion to the crotune, 454 of Chiff, mds currantat: thelikeattempt..Apothereforebeing the autho2 and rocuret, feuen peares after their fir comming intothisiland, the league yas broken, aid by the {pncenfzo pearesthep fonghtoftentimes togither immanie light tncounters, but foure tintes thep fought pittance againtt putffance in open field; in fhe fir. batfelli they departed inith like ‘fortune, the iueff: fo that front feato fea,the land tuas fwaften fer the comming of the Sarons, which concurreth autd Deffreted in (uch cruel and outragious manner, With the 4.420 of the tyo2ld, and 8 of eroneus,as that netthercitte, totune , nozchurch twas regarded, by his cyonologie duty moze at large appeare. but all committed to the fire : the priefts flaine ano 10 But to proceed, Clortimer being thus abnanecd smurthered cuen afore the altars, and the pzelats ith the people tutthout ante reuerence of their efate o2 degree difpatched with fireand fiom, moft thmentablie to beboln, HPante of the Weltatns feeing the bemeanour of the Sarons, fled tothe mounteins ,of the which ob uers being apebended, were crucllie Maine, and Other Were glad to come forth and pelo themfelues fo to faue themfclues; and others abibing fillin -thitd battell Cloxtimer fought with them nere to a An the otherbattels, then the Cnglifhnten went ~--~ ener atvate tuith the oper hand, at length a peace foas concladed; Duoatimer being taken out of this ~ fuogla bpcourfenf fatall neath; the trhicth mitach differ ting from the fof and milde nature of bis fathers right noblie: tuould haue gouerned the realme, if God han {uffered him to bauelined . Wut thele, bate telsithich Hostimer gane tothe Sarons ( as before is mentioned) thoulb apeare by that hich foime inpiters have recoded, to haue chanced before the ©™* ons x dz0ue them into the Ble of Lenet. The fourth penpone andcraggicrocks, thither they tuere fled, lining -dbattell twas ftricken né&re toa moze called Cole: Colemoye, thereapore iwretdedlife, in great feareans tnqu' © moze, the thich was fore fought by the Sarons, and etnefle of mind. long continued twith areat danger to the MSzitains , Wut after that the Sarons fere neparted and becaufe the forefatd mane inclofed a part of thett Iithozatoneto their holes , the Weitains began to takecourage to them agatne , (fuing fozth of thote Cod thep obfeined viaorie, according to thetrowne tains . Watnow to go forzth with the pittorie, acco5° bing to the order of our dyonicles, as ive do find eaetieee seen of Wortimer that was elected hing(as pe bane beard) to goucrne in place of bis father Woatigerne, : Vortimer is created king in the rome of his father } ‘ortigerne , be giueth the Saxons fore and tharpe bartels | a comba t Sought betweene Catigerne the brother of Vorti- The fourth Chapter. \IA\ aw Sa into the kingdome of 52h VE.) taine, tn the peare of our CERES NES Logo 471. Ail the time ofhis Sx fonnesretgne,be had remat hedintheparties notw called Wales , where (as ning tothecrotune, aboutthe 60) 7 peareafierthe fir comming of the Daronsinte this realnetuith tn Ikentandat Letforin Pozfolkke, alfa nere to 2% _-of certeine gourrnozsfohimapointen ar the totone of Caerlegion , and behaury himfelfe infuchcont »& mendable fort tolvaras bis fonne, tniaiding him Lwithbiscountells and othertife in the meane fea fon tthilebisfonne reine, hat the Weitaitrs bp Concluding. a league toith the Scots: moyits, deathofCozrtimer thep manebint hing againe. Colchetter in Etter: fohelenot till bebad bereft themofthe moze part of ail {uch poffetttons as bee fore time thep bad gat, fo that thep were confraincd - tattempt the fozfune of twarre; andfirttherefoe Upon the fudnen they turned theit tueaporispoints them asthough thepbadrecciuenfomegreat. nay tieattheir hands mb no benefit-at all' She ib {ins meremaruciouflic abathen herewith, percey that twithin a hile the fat Hostimer was poifonen, after be badruled the weitains bp the {pace of 6 03 Wing that thep tyonly hauetodm mith Pengittya MApteine of fe high renowme; andalfe withthe 7 peates and od moncths. § Bythe Waitith bittoteit ouln {ceme, fhat Gov timer before bis Death handled the Sarons fo bare: lic, Keeping them befteged tuithin the Zleof Lenet, the better tobzing this to pas,thep fent Wortigerne, (Rhone thep bad kept Mill with them in all thefe & Paltetomevatle agatit their-enimics:;thoy fled as (cattercd abzoan, fone following:ane ‘tap: ad fone another , getting thent intocte fart eipads and marefh groundsy and mozeonet further difcourte,but the Cugtith Saxons (ct bis fui pnrpote to vziae them forefift their eniinies on ech fives but ibe: being btterlic taken atwaie; as men in Deb tie was in band, thep got them into their thips, an leautng thete tives and chilozen bebind them, retury hedinte Germanic. Zhus far Gal Mon. Wat boto bnilikelie this is to betruc, % twill not make ante it Gefttey of Monmouth, as bp bis tozbs bere gainihbhinibe requires to cometoa communication dziven ontaf= tity Moartigerne,tbich requeft was granten;fo that oSaeechin he PUbtOAight; to that all hope of nefente bp force iof fo the obteiningof their fate. wut while this tres following pe mate perceiue. Cuoztimer , the fount of Wortimer (faith be) thinking not gad long tonib embie the matter , fo: that be fatw bunfelfeand bis Countriemen the Wzitains peuented bp the craft of tardshint.. When engi bapknotwlenge of the PRP i huge hott of the Writains that was comuming & gras neuer Shefimes, and that there tuasmwirenwoie bute + ig to. foeake 5 thep iwere eafilie nifeamfitey and battels) onto bis fonne Wo2timer, to be a meane fafelic giue moft crepit. William Malmef. tuziting of this Tlosthner, 03 uortigerne, and of the warres twbich be bab a& ‘aint theSarons , baricth ina maner altogither ofreturtied into the land tuith amightic-armiecof faith 4000, Harons,trereof Wortigerne being abmionithen, at ic might eas femblenhisiBzitains, and with all {peed made to- oeoe -_ét tuasedncluned,that on Spaie Dap acerteinerinay atlength,tecad of bondage fives bpsmanhbad -_berof Waltains,andas manie.of the Sarons fhoulb fh them sfo-that thepallombled togitberpandboly 5° meet togither bponthe plaine of Salifburie. ene cence to depart home into Germanic infafetie: and Sarons and Wyitains , we maic bndgnbtedite and Shootlic: atter that Gotigerne wasreftored ancient enimics the Scots and Pics; thus 'albat Hertbep tnt fighto: elfchecome lanes ethers till at length thep were conftrained to fue fr lv tthedmatters concerning the doings bettwirt the -rreafonthereof began fotofaunur bimy that attenthe againt the Weitains;. aid. mo crnellie puciied 4° tothe ruledf the kingdom, Pengift aduertifen thers a, wen, the martiall protweffe of Mortimer,the found means onelic refer cucrie manto that merand Horfus the brother of Hengil t " wherein 69 whic in old autentike biftortograybers of the Cw gtith nation is found recozded 9&5 01 Will, Malmef. NeofTenet, Rowenthe daughter of Hengift procure th VorHen, Hunt. Marianus ,anbd others : tnto tobome timer to ' difcomfirchem, = affirmeth,that Gortigerne was kept onder the rule they were both laine , the Britains drewe the Sa rons into the poifoned , che Saxons returne into GermaBie as tome writers report, they ioine with Scous and Pidts againft the Britains dur a" ~ Ay mults enden , Gortigerne 24 Wwas reffozed and fet againe Deceafle the Cnglith Sarons ; of some there was ceivethe greatlofe that the Sarons fuiteined bp fitto Wrtaine. Shushaue Gyldas ¢Bed a(folloiving by likelihan the authozitie of the fame Gyldas) twaitten of thefe fir warres begun betwene the Sarons and Wate (\ KF bnoilesanb tettipettuous tu ‘ih 46r Agreat number theninthe aie ;comming oner dae liclike twarmes of bes yandbauing in pofleften tot onelietkent , but alfo the not) parts of the talme tofvards Scotland ; togither With agreat partof the tueft countrie ,thoughtit now aft time the peare of the fiege of Wadonbill, there gutdlond 493. bout the 44 peareafter the comming of the Sarons Baye Fter all thele blavote =e fent, referring the niutuall laughter of o2usand Catigerne to the 6 pears of Wartianus ;¢€4550f Chnitt, Potubeit Polydor Virgil faith, that Corte merfucceedenbis father,and that after bis fathers to keepe themwithin the le of Xenet » there be of tentimes affailed them twith fuch tips as be then dastnas borne (ashe binrtelfe witnefieth) being ar Theopt Chapter. (apofed time: of Wortimers.og Guortimersvatter Hengit: Andhereto W; Harifon giveth his cary thent ftom time totime, ahether thep loucd bio: 4° bad. Guhen Aonotwent he daughter of Wengitt pers No,bntill thepeare of prifoner,Hengift is ih poffeffion of three provinces ofthis land,a defcription ofKen, bof fo fronglie,that the writains could not app to thent , being beatenoff twith the entmies thot, ale Defites. And fromthence forty 5 one fibile the wBet+ tains, amd an other tibile the Sayons were bicors, Sothatin this wrrtity peopleDod (according to bis Accuftonred maner) as tf were prefent Fraell , tried SoGyldas Afterivards no fall Laughter toas madeof the ent Wasbornein Mies: hich chanced the Caine peare in the fubid) Gyl- Edol gatlaotGlosslecsvorien is taken fomefurite)inthat meanetime be builoed a frong calle called Generon,;o2 Guancren,in the met foe of Wales nere tothe river of Guana,bpora moutts teine called Cloaricus;which fome referre to bebutls dedimbis fecond returne into Wales ,.as thall be thetwed béreatter. Anvit ts fo much the moze libelie, 30 fox that.an ol chzontcle:, trbich Fabian han fight of, places abere thep bad lien hiv, and tvith one confent 3° beit inthe end the Sarons were put fo fight, ¢ mar calling for afd at Gods hand, thatthepmightbe nicof themdzotoned and finallowen bp in the faine prefered from btter veftrucion, thep began bnder spe.Weide thefe foure peinctpall battels, Wort: Fabian the conduct of theit teaver Aurel{us Ambzofe, to merbaddiuers other conflicts with the Sarons, as Cetfopdin prouoke the Sarons tobattell, andbpthebelpe of pointed to meet on Salisburie plaine; the priuie sreafon of‘Hengiit andhispower whereby the Brin xains wereflainelike theepe.the manhood of Gortigerns fonnes. fought with them at a place called Epifo2d, 02 Aglif: throp, tn the hich tncounter Catagrine 02 Catigers hus the brother of Gostimer , and WHorfus the bro the (ca five , abereallo the wWeitains chaten the Sar his fonnes.seigne,Hengift with his Saxons reenter.the land, the Saxons-and Brituns are ap Mt, andithe, Wzitainslof.Catigerne an other of tothe gouernmentof the realme, tnall batt made foxe Wwarre againft the Sarons,and gaue bnto thent agreat battell bponthe riucr of Dertvent,tere be badof thent the byper hand. And the fecond timebe = ther of engiff, after along combat betiotrt thent five , efther of them flue other : but the eitains Dzinke toaMwage their ertremitic of hunger. Some 2. obtetned the field ( as faith the Writith hittorte.) The thet countrie, kept them tithtn the thicke wads in whatplace he abode during' the time of jot, {nbileth the one part, that is tomeane, the Sarons - loftheircapteine Woole. that twas brother to ber to eternall bonvage ,fo2 to haue releefe of meate and other got them out of therealme into ttrangelmps, the hiftoheéfEngland. itiphhangs. hclBi fhempautné the realm; and bindlep bis father to Vortigerneisreftoredro his repinyent, yyy), ) lef foc tones ann fortreffes as were of nome ble 388 a preie bnto their eninites: Zhus faith Polydor Vitgil of thefirtt byéaking of bettvirt the Sarons and the 2Britatits; Hot (as thoulbappearebp that abhich he ‘Uxitetythereof) fill attersthe Deathof Uoztigerne, Bobieit be-nenicth nat thatWengtht at his fick Comming gotfeatestm Hinzand bis people twtthin Secountic of hentamb thtrebegan toiphabit Sushi nse tobe forgotten that king Gaztinter (ad Sgeberus ath wsiten) zettoaee the thaitttan reli: Macree ban banhuithestie Sarons; tr fucy feat ee Caine was neeaico bp theleitimies tevin drift Seas notonelic to onetran the me Violence,butalte tected theirstenelaws Uberties out Lega of clemenctei22! Bice » 4 er : gift haning ceutfed a netw kind of treafon, Hhen the bap of their appointed meting was conte, cduled eucriconeof his allotwecdnuimber fecretli¢ to patin- fo bis bole a long knife (abere tt twas ordcindy that nantanfhould being ante weapon with bint at all) and that at the bevie inffant them this twatdivo20 fhouln be vttered by bim.,..Nempr your fexes, then I thouleuerie of them plucke out bis knife , an flea (ee atog the Weitatre that dancento be next to bint; ercept © the farite Thouild'be Hostiaerne, hom ‘he tilled to be apzebended,but not faine, , -Abthe day alligned, the king with bis. appointed number'o2 traineof the'5ztains, miftrutting no, thing leffe than, ante fad naner, of onfaithfalloea, ling, carte brita the place in. oder before prefcriben, iwithout armo2 02Sueapon, bhere-he found Dengit reabdie with bis Sarons, the thich recetued the king {with amiable countenance and tmott loning fozt: butafter they oere'd Little etifted into communica fion, engi meaning to Seesee piitpote, yane the inatihiase, ; bporrtheSoarons ozets outthetekninedaiotubDery vereiedof _-liefell Bitthe ASyitaings jaw flue thenvas:theepe ber aitaine 450: tngfallen within theDanger bso is ag Galfaith » yitain |
