to corneus and buyld a Cyte & called it Trinouantuin as it were new troy that cyte now is cal¦led london and is vpon Temse Brute bigate thre sonnes Lo∣trinus camber and albanactus and dyed whan he hadde regned four
this molyūci¦us had regned fourty yere he dyed & was buryed by the tem∣ple in the Cyte Trinouantum that is london ¶This is be that gafe priuelege & fredome to temples to plowes to cytees & to we∣yes that ledeth
Seuarne ¶ And he bylde belius gate that englysshmen callen now Byllyngsgate vpon Temyse in the cyte trinouantum that is london / ¶And he bylde a tour aboue that yate therinne were the askes of his body were done after
shro∣wesbury and so forth to Brystow / and estward toward the see And southward to temse and so forth to London and northward to humbre and torned dounwarde and westward to the Ryuer mersea and soo forth to the west
were slayne four dukes and four thousand of other mē And he chaced the other dele oute of kente vnto london / and they neuer tourned afterward in to kente· for his broder hosus was dede with categirnus to fore
prouynce. and coutreyes with new saxons· and was crowned at wynches¦tre in the maner of misbileuyd mē / but at london mordredus was crowned kynge of britons / but the yle of wyght lefte to withga∣ras the neuew of cerdicus-But
perce deyde in Englond ¶ Beda libro primo That yere Austin by commaundement of gregorie made two archebisshops one at London and another at york / In the mene tyme by helpe of ethelbertus gadred hisshops and doctours of brytons
he ordeyned mellitus bisshop of estsaxons / The Ryuer thamyse departeth bytwene hem and kente / her chyef Cyte was london in the whiche Ethelbertus kynge of kente buylded seynt paulus chirche / for to be cathedrall chirche and the
this wyn after the two yere of his prelacye was putte oute by the kynge. and boughte the see of london of the kynge of mercia of Wolferus / And helde it while he was alyne / And soo the
stryues and chaungynge of tymes. there resteth the confessour neotus that was somtyme the disciple of Erkenwald / Bisshop of london / & though noman may come to that place of Croulond but by ship or by boote / yet
atte scole of saxons and was bu¦ryed at seynt mary chirche / Also that after that the danes hadde spoylled london & kente / & chaced king bertulphus they were ou{er} comen and beten a doune in suthrey at oclea
coneuaunt / that they shold wende from hem / and so they dyde / for that yere they dwel¦lid at london / and the nexte yere after at lindesaye / And the mer¦ces made pees with the danes also at
mer¦cia deyde / & his wyf elfleda kyng Edwardes suster regnd no¦bly longe tyme in al mercia / oute take london and oxnford / the whiche the kynge helde to hym selfward / she buylde many cytees & townes and
at wynchestre in the newe abbay / ¶ Capitulum sextumEDelstan kynge edwardes oldest sonne was made kynge at kyngeston besydes london in southrey / e regned sixten yere In his fyrst yere the noble childe dunstan was borne in the
edwynus was kyng edmundus oldest sone / and was enoynted kyng of englond in the Royal town kyngeston be side london of Odo tharchebisshop / the fyrst day of his sacrynge he fyll in to an vnlawfull lechery / therfor
so grete a charge / he went ageyne to wynchestre by comaundemēt of the kyng / & Dunstan bisshop of london & of wyrcetre was made archebisshop of caunter¦bury / and wente to rome / & receyued the palle of
petrocus abbaye in Cornewayle / & the prouynce of chestre were destroyed by the∣ues of danes / the cyte of london was brente with fire of the same Cyte / Seynt ethelwold bisshop of wynchestre is deed / he was
elfricus come ayene / but he fayled ayene / Thenne the danes spoylled and robbed al northumberlond / and besieged london / and made the kynge pay trybute by strengthe / The mene tyme elphegus the bisshop of wynchestre yaue
a drope of the blode it wax grene ageyn / Than the nexte daye after his bodye was brought to london / and buryed worshipfully in seynt paulus chirche / But afterward by graunte of kanutus kyng of danes he
nyght / ¶ By nyght canutus wente to london warde / But Edmonde folowed after / and saued the cyte and passed temse / the thyrd tyme / and ouercome the danes at brentford / Than duc Edrycus swar few∣te