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the like his princelée dooings, he was both beloued of his people and also feared. He nei|ther fauoured the
Picts nor Saxons of Northum|berland, for that the one nation being ethniks, per|sisted in their infidelitie,
and the other cassed not by all maner of means to support them; but yet taking a truce with them both, he
firmelie caused the same to be obserued. In the tenth yeare of his reigne Ci|nigell Cadwall van|quished. king of Westsaxons & Elfred king of Nor|thumberland, with aid of the
Picts, vanquished Cad|wallo king of Britains, and chased him into Scot|land, where he remained not long,
sailing from thence into Britaine in France, and purchasing aid Cadwall is restored vnto
his kingdome. of the king there named Cadoall, returned into Wales, where vanquishing his enimies
the Sar|ons, and sleaing manie thousands of them, he was Sée more [...] in Eng|land. restored againe vnto his kingdome. About the same time was Edelfred king of
Northumberland slaine in battell, at a place called Wintringham, not far from the riuer of Humber, by
Redwald and Ethel|breth, King [...] sla [...]e. the one being king of the cast Angles, and the other of the middle Angles; in reuenge of
such iniu|ries as the same Edelfred had doone vnto the Sax|ons of the countrie called Mercia, conteining (as
in the English historie more plainelie may appeare) all those shires from the riuer of Thames vnto the riuer
of Mersée in Lancashire. Then was one Edwine a right christian prince appointed to reigne Edwine. in his place, by the assignement of the two forsaid kings Redwald and Ethelbreth.
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things were a dooing, there were seuen sonnes of the aforesa [...]d Edelfred, that dete|sting the vntrue dealing of the Picts, which refused to aid their father in his
necessitie, and doubting to fall into the hands of Edwine, got them to Euge|nius the Scotish king for more
suertie of their liues. Their names were Eufreid, Oswald, O [...]aws, Os|win, Offas, Osmond, and Osike. Ebba the onelie daughter of Edelfred being taken amongest other
prisoners, and escaping from hir taker, miraculous|lie got a bote in the riuer of Humber, and with the same
taking the sea alone, without all humane helpe (as hath béene reported) she sailed foorth, & at
length safelie arriued at the point of land which stretched foorth into the sea, in the mouth of the Forth,
called euen vnto this day after hir name, saint Ebbes S. Ebbes head. head, where
being receiued by the bishop of that dio|cesse, she was professed a nun, and after continuing in great
perfectnesse of obseruing that profession, she was instituted abbesse of hir house, shewing still in trade
of life an orderlie example for hir flocke to fol|low.
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Scotish king did louinglie receiue the sonnes of Edelfred, though their father had euer béene a cruell
enimie against the Scotish nation; and within a while after their comming into Scot|land, hearing oftentimes
the godlie sermons and preachings of the bishops and moonks (who in those daies continuallie gaue themselues
vnto that exer|cise) they finallie abhorred their superstitious idola|trie, and receiued baptisme, that
salutiferous signe and sacrament of our christian religion. Those chur|ches also, which the Saxons in time
of the warres had ouerthrowen and destroied in Galloway and other countries thereabouts, Eugenius caused to
be re|pared; moreouer also he reedified sundrie castels in those marches, and placed in them garisons of
soul|diers, to defend them against all inuasions that might happen. Thus continuing his reigne the space of
fiftéene yeares or thereabouts in honorable peace, to the great aduancement of the commonwealth of his
subiects, he lastlie died in the yeare 620, and was 620 buried amongest his elders
in the Ile of Iona, with|in the monasterie of Colmekill.
