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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Suſſex and Eſſex receyue the Chriſtian faith.The South and eaſt Saxons moued with the enſample of the Kentiſh Saxons, ſhortly af|ter alſo renounced theyr olde ſuperſtitious idola|trie, and likewiſe receyued the Chriſtian faith.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Edelfred his diſpleaſure.Edelfred king of Northumberlande moued vnto diſpleaſure herewith, ſente woord vnto theſe Saxons of the ſouth partes (as then all of them generally knowen by the name of Engliſhmen) that ſithe they had forſaken the olde inſtitutions and auncient religion of theyr forefathers, hee woulde ſurely from thence foorth be no leſſe eni|mie vnto them than vnto the Scottes and Bry|tons.

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