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Show 84 ‘The fiftBooke'of::!: HountErie godSurinerer. Ofthe building ofthis cattell, and of he calleth itin the hinderance in erecting the fame, toffhthemons oue place ot .. freusbirthof.werlin and hishuowlenge in proyhebis booke, forth, as there pe maic fee: but for that the Tame {ee methnotofdudycreditas deferucth to be regifires inaniefounabitterie, tue haue with Mlence patted tt QUMandsads : i f 303) tex prepared a nanie offhips;-and an armie of amon, by belpecf {uch their hinfmenand freends as thep found in $zitaine Armozthe; and fo patted the HTN Fie ? Tzgit } Pa 750)" Constantius created king of Britaimeybe incountereth with the Saxohs, Hetipift cheit ken ofoi Salisburie plaine,the'exploits of Pafcentius Vort- gernsyorigeft fonne,Aurelius lieth ficke, Veer goeth againit Pafcentius and giueth him the ouerthrow , Aurelius ispoifoned ofacounterfet moonke,the place ofhis buriall,Polydor Virgils report of the aéts and deeds ofAurelius againft the Saxons,Hengift is Naine;Ofca and cca'? hisewo fonnes make a fowle fpeile of the weft © + pars ofthe land, Vorsimerdieth,the dif. perceiued that they tvere fufficientlie furnifhen of 20 people, they marched forth towards WHlales agatntt Diortigerne CAortigerne,thohauing knowledge of thetraypzoch, burnttodeath, han foptifien hiscattell berie ftrongly with men,munition and bittels, but yet all anatlea bin nothing, fox inthe end after bis cninties bad gtuem: dtuers wild nee affaults to the fatd caftell,, they found meartes toith ° The eight Chapter. thatmight be, When Aurelinsandbis beother Giter > Girelius Ainbeole, the tes Awrelins ‘ y cond fonne of Bing Coriftan Ambrofirtebother to Conffaritins, <"" = (eaves; 3 7S md-murthered by the trea: fius. eS inner Gortigerie (as ‘be fore < pe baue beard') twas mane bing of Wattaitie in the perce fumedit bpfire togither totth the king, and all other POI CAINS SF of ont Loyd 487, ‘thich twas Matt Welt that were within tt, about the third péere of the'teigne of the emperout faith 466 Thus did Tortigerne end bis life (as in the Wet 3° Zeno, and the 23 of Ghildericus king of France, fithbifterte is recorded.) Mud) eutil ts reported of bint bp the famtebiftozie , and alto by other twziters, and among other things it is tuztttenthat be fhoulp lie by bis ofune daughter, adoef bir beget a fonne, Polychron. Bfcined tale in bope that kings thould comeof bim,ann therefore be was ercommuntcaten by S.Germane, atts ab fo fai,that oben the fame , Germane came into MDoocet king of the Werultans then dfurping the government of Ffalie. When this Aurelius Ambo. fins bad difpatchen Moptigerne, and vas now eftablithen king of the Weltains , he made towards Gal.Moa Porke,and palling the river of umber,iitconntred iwith the Saronsat a place callen Paetbell, and ouerthzety them in a ftrong battell, from the trhich as of &.Ger= Wutaine (as before pe haue heard) this Uoztigerne mane. ona time Mhould penie the fame ,Germane bars Bcaluilh narration, bour ; but one that kept the kings beards of cat: 40 Ghetter, and by him led to Conningfbozrotw,ubcre tell veceiucd biminto his houfe, and longed hina be was bebcaded bp the counfell of Clsan then flucacalfe forbis upper,tchtch calfe atter {upper twas ended, &, Germane reftored againe to life : ann onthe morrow bp the ndinance of God, be canter Uortigerne to be vepofed from bis kinglic eftate, andtoke the bearoman and made bim king. at Ranulfe Hig. tn hts Polychronicon,allenging-Gy!- das fay bis autho: , faith that this chand toa ceking that ruled in Powwlep, tole name foas Wulie,and THune Hengiff was fleeing to haue faucd imfelfe,be toas Boenoilt feet an being there befteged,at length was conttreined will not beate the bucthent o: lode of a tie, fit the fameis to beanie sothertuife they wouly bane Depo fc matters canfpicing with the truth. Then (faith he\the Sarons hauing alreadie gotten the thole rule of the Sle, peactifed their ontragtons Gon the kings bother, tho eiting battell pnts Gil Heceffitie, 302 behold, Aurelius Ambiofius was at Bano, hho had to feortercaufen the trunspet to founa foatmor, but euerie mam for himfelfe prepared and Tepalted onto him, pratengrs befechinig him tobelpe fodefend thent,and that tt inight and thith bis plea, = on onieh outof bis countricoifcom#fited mt and peopte,and fo/mangre bis hart) beought the Monesatwap with bim, iar Shocrtlic fore pe haue beard.) Wut there is (uch contrarieticin atigerne, initers touching the wings betiwirt the Wrttains and Saronsin thofe dates, as twell in account of Peeres,as in report of things bone, that fetting af fection afive, bard it ts to tudge to fhich part a man Should gite crevit. Jfo2 Fabian and other authors turffe, that Aurel 5° usAmbzofius began bis reigne ouer the W2itains abont the perc of our Low 481, and orlus was Hofius went againtt them, and valiantlic.atfatten flaine about the peere 45 8, during the reiqne-of > © that withif the (pace of afete' dates thep bttine battels with great fiertenefe on both S,intriall of theirhigh difpleatures and btter: Moll forces.in which at length the Watains put the atons to Hightapoitus the brother of engi be Mg Taine with a great numberof bis people. 1But Pettiotivithtanvirig the enimics rage waslittle w N Mortimer, as aboue is mentioned, fo thatif care _458 not ffand tifthe truth of the Wetitith biftortes the thich Fabianfolloweth) that 1302fus was fainebp Aurelius Ambzofius , tfaccording to the fanie bitte tics hereturned notinto WBiitaine,till the time there faypofed ; But diuerfe fuch maner of contrarietics thailpe find, in perufing of thofe twriters that haue bated bereby,foriwityina fetw daics after recciuing 6° twritten the chioniclesof the Writains aid Daron, Sutof Germaniea wet fupplic of mett,: they beake the thich in eucrie point to recite,twould be tw tedt: tie Spon the S5zitains with gteat confivence of ous and comberfome a matfer;ahd therefore we ate . ote. Aurelius Ambotus tag no fmrcr aduerforced to pale the fame ouer , not knotving bow' to thereof, burhar without velaie he fet fortvare biinigthem to anie tuft acco2d for the fatiffieng of all thissee Porke, from tyence the entuics thouln mens minds{peciallie the eurtotis, hich map with AND bearing by the wap that bengill was ww ore:about fencw ettwentic miles Diftant from diligent fearch fatiffic themfelucs haypitie much bets tet, thaante other (hall be able fo dw in Dtfethig bethhe Yetihedont of bis Wate , and marched bis opinion Hence fo much atlarge, andagrecable ts Birth © MHS therefore hane the thought gad as tf torre bp the Wate' to tonch Aiyat-dinerfe authors‘ dp > Neete-fo the bank?'of avinerat this dap ne , th the place ‘bhere' Doncalter now lomanus king of Ireland that went abont to refit the Wettainsjand would not permit them fo fetch a- brother of Hengitt was flaine,bp the report of Polychronicon,and others,the Sarons bad the victorte tt fais; fo the end thatthe fain princes being ouers that reincounter ; and William of Malmesburie toneanddeffroien , thepmight with moze cate ob- 4° faith,that thepseparted from that batell toith equall Wil.Malm, feine poffettion ofthetole Fle, which thing thep ow fortune, the Saronslofing their capteine to2fus,lie fought. "But the fauour of alntightie Gon twas and the Writains their capteine Ikatigerie ( ashes bid Aurelius Amb:ofus put the Sarons out of all Fifhenethoufand men (as Galitid faith) tere fent Wet us Ambiofius, notnanting bim tobe king of 15:1 faine, and differing in Ded tn fandzie points in this bebalfe from dinerfe ancient writers of the Cnglith biffortes ; for therebe attributeth the bidozte to the MWritains ix the battel fought, Hberein W02fus the Thus an atinie being aemblen, Antelius Anis fo} thofe ttones, tnder the teabing of Uiter Pend~ ture of an bidtoric defined to be ter vere evila memoria) ads atchiued by the forefatd AureliusAmbeofins, to go forth with them agatnt:theenimies in fant o2 credalous would be ted atwap inith 9 dowing Which kind of nen knew not (belibe ) that the na- Biltains, Wut Gyldas and Beda report bint to be a Romanebp defcent, as before is mentioned, Polydor Viroil tuatteth in thts fort of the bictozfous all fren, that fangbter was committed, and called the place Stonebong, ubieh nante continucth nto this dap, 2% Sremteof wads void of reafon and commton fonfe, foxevimintth the power of the Sarons, infomuth thetr profit to fit in ref twith that aithonour, than to make anic nettwarres fo their great vifaouantage and libclihod of paefent Ioffe, fitis lap ficke at Tinchetter , and being notable to Wengitt left bebind him tipo fonnes, Dica and gofasth bimfelfe,nefired his bother Wter pendzaamd Deca ohteh as mer mofk fozotwfall for the overs gon foafemble an armieof iBzitains, wath togo a: ro {ot of late receiued atfembied hich potver as they gaint Patcentins and bis adherents. Titer, accoy could togither, and reinoued thetetwith towards the ding to bis beothers requett, gathering his people, left part of the Zefurypofinig tf fo be better for them went forth,and incounteritig with the eninties gaue to draw that tuap forth, thantoreturne into ihent, them the ouerthzolw,flue Pafcentins anv Gillomare fibere thep thought was alreanic'a {nfficient numo2 Gilloman bing of Jreland , that twas come oner beroftheir people to reff the iBzitains on thatfide. With him in afd againtt the Bettains. SPolw therefore then. thep came into the twetk parts Gn the meane hbile,a Saron 02 fome other fraw of the land,thep tnaffed the countrte,burnt billages, gethofe name vas Copa o2 Copa,not lority before and abffetiten fiom no maner of crucltte that might procured thereto bp Walcentins, fained himfelfe to be Metved, Thefe things being repoetes puto Aurebea iBeitaine, and for a colour counterfetting hin 20 lius Ambzoltus, heltraightinates batted thither to felfe a mantke, and fo hatte great knolwleage in hp: refiff thofe eniimics, and fo giuing them battell, eff fiche , 'tpas admitted fo miniffer as it Were intedt> fones difcomfited the: but he himfelfe recetning Aurcling bt cits to Aurelius : but it ffead of that hich tould a {vound,died thereof within a fetv dairs after. The eth of a wound hatiehpought him health he gaue himpoiton,uberot Englith Sarons having thus fulfeined fo mante he died thortlic after at Celinchelfer aforefaid, ten loffes within afew moncths togither, were conten: hebab refgited after inott accozd of writers nintene fed to be quiet notu that the Baltains firred nothing petes :bisbodie was conuciedto Sforeberg and again them ,-bp reafon thep iwere brought into thereburied, ¢ Thus find te in the ziti} and conv fone trouble by the death of {uch a noble capteine mon Englith hiffories of the doings of Aurelius as thep had now loff. 3n the meanetinte Mortimer Costimer deAmbiofins who(as pehane hard) makes hint a Wet 3° died, ahonte Titer furnanwed Pendzagon fucceedeD, Fart this faite Boteand defended of the bloudof the ancient Thus hatPolydor wattten cf the forfatd Aurelt; ~ Hot toanting to the miferable Writatistt that great bed Mulfulnede to cai qlozions colours bponlies , hat the readers (bomthepprefuppoled cither igno- that thep began now te thinke tt fhoulo be mozeifty béthop of Colehetter, ‘ Hotwbeit there be fome that tiite,boww that Wer Manb. Web gif was takenat another battell fought pon the tiuer of Dune,in the peere of our Ao 48o,and not be would haue intteudey bin, one night. there fell other parts of the land, ¢ repaired {udcities towwnes fire from beanen bponthe caftell uberein the king andalfe churches, as bp them bad bene deftroied 03 was lodged, and fo the hing being Dettroied with the defacedand placed againe prrits, and (neh other as fall of the boufe and thefire fogtther', twas nener af: fhould attendon the ntiniftetie and fermce of God ferfoene. ¢ Wutthele are fables,and therfore 3 pafle thenrouck, boping that it (hall faftice to et bere 60 tn the fame churches, Alfo for a perpetual memtozic of thofe Mzitains twith tbat fufie our old billoxograsbers haue far: that were laine on the plaine of Saltfburic by the ced bp theithuge bolames., not fo indy tegarding treafon of Bengitt,be taufer tones tobe fetchrd out the crenit of an bitoaie , as fatilfteig the hanitic of Zreland, andto be fet bp ii the fame place bere of theit oboe foud fantafics, Mndieng with poetens GuteliusAmbrofius cane into Wpitaine)veterncd foith a great potuerof ftrange nations arid twke the ttuelties fpeciallic againtt the potnices-of the tn the chafe of the battell trhich was fought at Back bell in the peere 487 ,a8 the fame authors do alledge, Meca the fon of Iengttt bp Hight efcaped to #o2ke, Dect. 85 & lydor) ts. hab tiv memorie twtth the inhabitants of, thofe parties cuen onto this day, tbich bictozte pin taken by Coll earle of Glocetter,o2 (as fome fap) ano sedeare not to Mortigerne : fo that the ficeeto2s of that Yar so topelo bimfelfeto Aurelius + ‘tho oealing fauow lie reigning in that fioe'of Gales, cameof the tt rablée tuith bim, aMgned tito bimanpother of the nage of the fame bearomeart. Sarons acountrie boeritig nere to the Scots, HPorcouct it hath biene fad (as ore wetter res tbid(as fome affirme) was Galloway, Kbere the cozdeth) that taben Wortigerne refuted to beare the {aid Deca andthe Saroris began to inbabit, Then preaching of faint Germane., ano fied from bim as the-hiftorie ofEngland, Sportlie after,atcentings that twas Tootigerns porgel fone, andhadelcaped tito Trelao (aber Danids, and dfd much hurt it the conntrie With fire and fivm2d. At irbich tinte the fame Anrelitts Ambi0- oxtt of the land, repasrethplaces decaied; dndrefforethreligion, the memorable monument ofthe ftones tharare fo takGo. preement ofwriters touching matters innterchangeablic paffed berwene the Britains and'Saxons, enttrthe Britifhkingss citinof Peneuia in Wales afertwards called faint tethhimfelfe to Aurelius, thé pittettrall the Saxons fea,ann landed iat Lotnefie : thereof: taben the wel tains were aduertilen, the thichiwere {cattered a b2oad and feurred in Diuers parties and countries, thep rein bnito the faid ting, beethgen with all fpen ierauk {wildfire ta burneit dotwneto the earth , and: fo con 7X general's beheaded , Otca bisfonne fubmmit. WyleGortigerne, wuns byficdin buildingof 1° Genipatos fhiscattelts-the tho forcfaid teethzen Aurelinsand returne into Byitaine. 5 Aurclius.Ambrofius; the brother. to ©? flengy the Writtlh bittories tella long pjoceffe , the &° ghidh in Caxton, amd in Galfridesbokesis alfo tet Theflateofithe Britains Pseastat placefanw the nertvapfet on theent imrite, leaning it foto cucrie mans {eidgentenets ie cotittruethtrenk) as his affectiot leavethy hii) ie firid tr the wwettinasof thofethat Hane reqittrew HE Sigebereus. Doitigs oF theletimes, that Auttlins-hauing' par it thenDim, Bengt at the fire mee ~ attell Being Hat he, toftia greatnuniber Scanans, The fameof this vicozie(fatth Po- Ds. quithen |