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AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



580. 



The same in English. 



Algo succeeded Vortiporius which was the goodliest 

 man in person of all Britaine, a prince that expulsed 

 many tyrants. He was strong and valiant in warre, taller 

 then most men that then lived, and exceeding famous for 

 his vertues. This king also obteined the government of 

 the whole Island of Britaine, and by most sharpe battailes 

 he recovered to his Empire the sixe Islands of the Ocean 

 sea, which before had bene made tributaries by king 

 Arthur, namely Ireland, Island, Gotland, Orkney, Norway, 

 and Denmarke. 



The conquest of the Isles of Anglesey and Man 

 by Edwin the Saxon king of Northumberland 

 v^ritten in the second Booke and fift Chapter 

 of Beda his Ecclesiasticall historic of the English 

 nation. 



Duinus Nordanhumbrorum gentis, id est, ejus quas 

 ad borealem Humbri fluminis plagam inhabitat, 

 majore potentia cunctis qui Britanniam incolunt, 

 Anglorum pariter & Britonum populis praefuit, praeter 

 Cantuarios tantum, necnon & Menavias Britonum insulas, 

 quae inter Hiberniam & Britanniam sitae sunt, Anglorum 

 subjecit potestati. 



The same in English. 



EDwin king of the people of Northumberland, that is 

 to say, of them which inhabit to the North of the 

 river Humber, being of greater authoritie then any other 

 potentate in the whole Isle of Britaine, bare rule as well 

 over the English as the British nation, except onely the 

 people of Kent : who also brought in subjection under 

 the English, the Isles of Man and Anglesey, and the other 

 Northwesterne Isles of the Britons, which are situate 

 betweene Britaine and Ireland. 



