( 790 ) 
In the three Accounts ‘ above-mention’J ’tis agreed, 
--that in the Year 477. ElU^ with his Three Sons Cj~ 
me)7, Wlencing^ and Cijfa^ landed his Forces at Cjmenes- 
Ora ( which from a Charter of King Cedmllas to the 
Church of Stlfe-^ the learned ^ Catr.bdetJ proves to be 
-about Witterir;^^ near S£lfejj) not far from which he 
routed the Britons y and drove them into the Weald 
- ( 3 nt);eDfnetee ) : Their farther Progrefs is moft di- 
flindly and naturally deliver’d by the Archdeacon of 
Ziuntingdon y in thele Words; Saxones autem occuparunt 
littora Maris in aucrtjt, magis magifque fthi regionis 
fpatia capejfentes, ufque ad nonum annum advent us eorum. 
Tunc vero cum audacius regiomm in longinquum capeffe^ 
rent ; convenerunt Reges & Tyanni Brittonumjpud 
■XCft)f| 3 bUtnC) & pugnaverunt contra File ^ filios fuos, ^ 
,fere duhia fuit viZloria. Uterque enim Exercitus valde 
Ufus ^ minoratuSy alterius congrfjfum devovens, ad pro- 
^pria remearunt. Mi fit igitur Elle ad compatriotas fuos au~ 
X Hi urn fag! tans. 
This County having been invaded in the moft Wc- 
ilern part of it by the Saxons ; if what they did after- 
wards, was to poftefs themfelves of it ; their Progrefs 
mu ft have been from Weft to Eaft. And fo much 
Henr. Huntingdon^ Words plainly imply. He fays 
farther, they were Eight Years about it; which, if 
we coufider the Circumftances of the Country, ’twill 
-be no great wonder it fliould take up fo much Time ; 
unlefs their Forces had been very great, which we have 
-no warrant from any Hiftory to fuppofe : For the Weald 
then uncultivated, muft have been moft difficult to pafs, 
even in the drieft Summers. The Downs y like a Wall 
X with a Terras-Walk on the top) have a very fteep 
Defeenc 
'■f Ethel ward Hilt. Lib.I. Cap. 5. 
Hen. Hunt, Hift, Lib. IT. 
Chronic. Saxon. Ann. CCCCLXXVII , 
* Camden Brit. Suflex. 
