[1] The king with this voyce being ſtryken into great dread and terror,The king con|feſſeth his ſinnes. paſſed that night without any ſleepe comming in his eyes. Wherefore in the morning he got him vnto Biſhop Mouean, a man of great holyneſſe of life, vnto whom he con|feſſed his heynous and moſt wicked offence, beſee|ching him of counſell, which way hee might ob|taine pardon and forgiueneſſe at Gods handes by worthie penance. Mouean hearing how the king bemoaned his offence committed, he willed hym to bee of good comfort. For as the wrath of al|mightie God was prouoked by ſinne and wicked offences, ſo was the ſame pacified againe by re|pentance,The king ta|keth great re|pentance. if ſo be we continue penitent and wil|ling to amend. King Kenneth being confirmed in hope of forgiueneſſe by theſe and ſundrie other [page 221] the like comfortable wordes of the Biſhop, ſtudi|ed vnfeynedly to doe worthie penaunce, leauing nothing vndone which hee thought might ſerue for a witneſſe of his penitent heart, thereby to a|uoyde the vengeance which he ſtoode in feare of to be prepared for him, by reaſon of his heynous and wicked cryme.