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Donewald king of Scot|land.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane time Cadwallo King of the Brytons, and Penda king of thoſe Engliſhmen which inhabited that part of England auncient|ly called Mertia,King Edwyn is ſlayne. ioyning their powers togither againſt Edwine king of Northumberland, de|priued him both of life and kingdome.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 3 After this, paſſing through y^e whole countrey, and entring into the confynes of Pictland, they tooke a great part of the ſame by force of armes from Brudeus king of the Pictes, who in vaine had ſued for ayde vnto Donwald king of Scot|land, for that his vntroth had bin notifyed more than ynough in times paſt. But Donwald be|ing certifyed of Edwines death, made meanes vnto Cadwallo king of the Brytaynes by hys Ambaſſadors, that Eufred y^e ſonne of Edelfred might be reſtored vnto his fathers kingdõe, whi|che Edwin had wrongfully vſurped. This being graunted, Eufred leauing his brethren ſtill in Scotland, came into Northumberland, wher by authoritie of Cadwallo and Penda he was in|ueſted king of Beruitia, that is, of the countrey, which is nowe called the Marches. For at the ſame tyme they hadde deuided the kingdome of Northumberland into .ij. kingdomes,Eufred. appoyn|ting Eufrede (as is ſayde) to reigne ouer the one called Beruitia, and one of Oſryke ouer the other called Deira, a man of great wickedneſſe, as by his workes moſt playnly appeared. For certayn yeares after his aduancement to that dignitie,Oſrycke an infidell. he found meanes to marie one of his daughters vn|to the foreſaid Eufred, perſuading the ſame Eu|fred to conſente with him in reſtoring again the heatheniſh religion throughoute their whole do|minions, and vtterly to renounce the chriſtian faith, which they had lately before receiued by y^e inſtructiõs of the .ij. biſhops Conane & Pauline. But they enioyed not lõg in felicity after ſo wic|ked & moſt diueliſh a purpoſe: for the Princes of Albion, vnder the leading of Caduallo king of y^e Britons, and Penda king of Mertia, with a great armie aſſembled of Saxons, Britons, and Pictes, entring into Northumberland, and in|countring in battaile with Oſrike & Eufred, diſ|comfited their power, & toke thẽ priſoners, who being put into a cõmon priſon, ſlewe eche other to auoyd ſharper tortures, which by due extentiõ they dayly looked for. Then was the kingdom of Northumberland giuen vnto Oſwalde brother to Eufred, both in reſpect of the right whiche he had therto, and alſo of the zeale whiche he bare to the aduancement of Chriſtes religion, ſhewing him ſelf in conſideration therof, an earneſt enimy to his brother Eufred, and al his partakers, in ſo much that in the day of the battaile, he was one of the forwardeſt captaines againſt them vnto this Oſwalde was ſente a Scottiſhman calle [...] Corman, to inſtruct the Northumberland men in the faith, & after him Aydan, as in the engliſhe hiſtorie ye may reade more at large: Finally he was ſlain by Pẽda king of Mertia, as in y^e ſame hiſtorie appereth. His death chanced in y^e third yere of Donnewald the Scottiſh king,12. H.B. who ſore lamented the ſame, as of that prince whõ he lo|ued right entierly. Neither lyued king Donne|walde anye long tyme after the deathe of hys deare freende. For that in the fifteenth yeare of EEBO page image 147 of his reigne, being got into a boate to fiſh in the water called Lochtay for his recreatiõ, his chãce was to be drowned, by reſon the boate ſoonk vn|der him.

Donwald the Scottiſh king drowned.

645. H.B.