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Compare 1587 edition: 1 By theſe and the like his princely doings, he was both beloued of his people and alſo dred. He neither fauoured the Picts nor Saxons of Nor|thumberland, for that the one nation being Eth|nikes perſiſted in their infidelitie, and the other ceaſſed not by all maner of meanes to ſupporte them but yet taking a truce with them bothe, he firmely cauſed the ſame to be obſerued.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the .x. yeare of his reygne Cinigell king of Weſtſaxons and Edelfred king of Northum|berlande with ayde of the Pictes,Cadwalle van|quiſhed. vanquiſhed Cadwallo king of Brytons, and chaſed him in|to Scotlãd, where he remained not long, ſayling from thence into Brytain in Fraunce, & purcha|ſing ayde of the king there named Cadoal, retur|ned into Wales,Cadwalle is re+ſtored vnto his kingdome where vanquiſhing his enimies the Saxons, & ſleaing many thouſands of them, he was reſtored againe vnto his kingdome.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Aboute the ſame time was Edelfred king of Northumberland ſlaine in battell,See more hereof in En|gland. at a place cal|led Wintringham, not far from the riuer of Hũ|ber, by Redwald & Ethelbreth,King Edel|fred ſlaine. the one being king of the eaſt Angles, & the other of the middle An|gles, in reuenge of ſuche iniuries as the ſame E|delfred had done vnto the Saxons of the coũtrey called Mertia, conteyning as in the Engliſh hi|ſtorie more plainly may appeare) al thoſe ſhyres from the riuer of Thames vnto the riuer of Mer|ſec in Lancaſhyre. Then was one Edwine a right Chriſtian prince,Edwyne. appoynted to reygne in his place, by the aſſignement of the two foreſayd kings Redwald and Ethelbreth.

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