EDWIN OF NORTHUMBERLAND a.d. I 



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Another testimonie alledged by Beda to the same 



purpose. Lib. 2. cap. 9. i 



ANno ab incarnatione Domini sexcentesimo vicesimo ! 



quarto, gens Nordanhumbrorum, hoc est, ea natio i 



Anglorum quae ad aquilonarem Humbri fluminis plagam , 



habitat, cum rege suo Eduino, verbum fidei (prasdicante " 



Paulino, cujus supra meminimus) suscepit : cui videlicet | 



regi in auspicium suscipiendae fidei, & regni coelestis ) 



potestas, & terreni creverat imperii : ita ut (quod nemo ' 



Anglorum ante eum fecit) omnes Britanniae fines, qua vel j 



ipsorum vel Britonum Provinciae habitabantur, sub ditione ; 



acceperit. Quin & Menavias insulas (sicut & supra ' 



docuimus) imperio subjugavit Anglorum. Quarum prior H 

 quas ad austrum est, & situ amplior, & frugum proventu 



atque ubertate foelicior, nongentarum sexaginta familiarum J 



mensuram, juxta aestimationem Anglorum, secunda tre- | 



centarum & ultra spatium tenet. ^ 



i 

 The same in English. [I. 4] 



IN the yeere from the incarnation of our Lord, sixe I 



hundreth twentie and foure, the people of Nor- ' 



thumberland, to wit, those English people which inhabit ! 



on the North side of the river of Humber, together with j 



their king Edwin, at the Christian preaching and per- * 



swasion of Paulinus above mentioned, embraced the ' 



Gospel. Under which king, after he had once accepted 4 

 of the Christian faith, the power both of the heavenly 



& of his earthly kingdome was inlarged ; insomuch, that j 

 he (which no English king had done before him) brought 



under his subjection all the provinces of Britaine, which ] 



were inhabited either by the English men themselves, or i 



by the Britons. Moreover, he subdued unto the crowne ' 



of England (as we have above signified) the Hebrides, ■ 



commonly called the Westerne Islands. The principall j 



wherof being more commodiously and pleasantly seated : 

 towards the South, and more abounding with corne then 

 the rest, conteineth according to the estimation of the 



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