Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 380 of 400
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose text from what appears to be a historical narrative or chronicle. The visible text discusses early British history, specifically the Saxon invasion and settlement of Britain. It describes how Ambrosius and Uther pursued the Saxon leader Vortigern to his castle in Wales, and how the Saxons subsequently founded their kingdoms in Britain. The passage traces the decline of British (Celtic) kingdoms and their gradual confinement to Wales by Saxon forces, mentioning various rulers including Arthur and Malgo. The text uses period typography with italicized names and archaic spelling conventions typical of early modern English printing.
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i et: shim diamee = < fupporta valiant people ji ianineal called Saxons: :of whom | a {hall be anone more largely {poken. i « Ambrofe ard Vier, the two brethren of Confbance as be- fore sourthered having now gotten an Armie,purfued /orti- : ger voto his Caftel, which he had built in he parts afterwards 3 arid now called / Vales, whether the Saxons had debelled him. 2 Who therefore may be faid the laft Monarche of Britaine of a the Britti{b blood, forthat atthe chafing of him thither, the at Saxons founded the firft of their Kingdomes heere: ang the BS Kingdome of the Brettdh Kings hiny fucceeding (though - divers of them indeed valiant Princes) & mauger the Saxons delating their dominion,andall of them retayning the title of Kings of Britaine) extended no farther, or to little more than that which is now called Vales. Vortigers Cattell,and heim it burned by Ambrofe and ter, they then fucceedingly raig- ned,who with 4rthar (fi urnamed the Worthy)fonne of Yrer, and two or three more of that Streene, of whom c%lzo the ninth and Jaft King of the linage of the aforelaid Con/lantine ‘ the Armorican, was one; in their feyerall Raignes awed nota little the Saxowsby armor and Stratagems. To cMalgo fuc- ceeded in Raigne ve me anvnknowen Pedegree: who, 4 through his euill soucrnment , grew fo disfauoured of his 1D Subiecis, thatthe Saxe mahi at feuerall tines, in feuerall places, Faia their firft intertayoment heere by Yorriger had: planted themfelues in this Land)got opportunity of fo many victories, that Caritick with his Britons (in their Countrie fee- king thema Countrie) were laftly chafed and boundedby them froavoutal} parts into the mountanous WVelterne Re- gions of this Land, where he died. Thence, for the fpace of about 24. yeeres after (in which time was an intermifiion of Brittifh, Kings ) the Velch-Britons, as before hence debelled, made diucrs more valiant than gainefull Out-roades, art diners their Leaders , againft. the Saxons. Laftly Cadwane> Liuna of EP enedocia ster called North-Wales,Cadwallyne Eomicaoo oe