Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 386 of 400
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose text—specifically page 364 from what appears to be a historical chronicle or reference work. The text is an "Epitome of the whole" (as the header states) documenting the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It describes the origins, rulers, and durations of various Saxon territories, including Essex (the East-Saxons), Mercia (the Middle-Angles), and their subsequent conquests. The author cites approximate dates from the 600s-900s AD, including references to kings like Eldred, Sebert, Penda, and Edward the Elder. The text is dense, in Early Modern English with old spelling conventions, and appears to be a systematic historical enumeration rather than narrative fiction.
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364 An Epitome of thewhole = a vito about 474.954. when Eldred King of the Weft-Saxous alfo fubdued it to hiskingdome: —4delred holding then for — ~—s the Saxons,and Hyrews forthe Danes, So,it may feeme,from a the firft co the laft,that this ioyntly and feuerally , as before, gouerned endured 4.09.yeeres, But this Hyrews is faide of {ome to be appointed to that gouernment in the raigne of : Canutus: which began long time after, thatis, aboutasme | Iolg9. The fixt was of Efex, or of the Ea/f-Saxons , containing Efiex, Middlefex, and in it London, and part of Hertford- | fheir. More difftingly & doubtingly than of the other fixeis > itthat Authors fet downe of the beginning and progreffe of i this dominion: being for the moft part but provincial, fome- Z times to CMercia,and fometimes to Kent Howbeit thofe Au- | thorities that carrie moft probabilitie write , that the begin- | ning thereof was about ama. 614. that the firft Chriftian | Prince there about 474,603.01 624.was Sebert, the laft there | raigning Sarhred, the fucceflion of Gouernors 17, the yeeres ; of the continuance 281. and thatthe Subdewer of the fame | alfo to the Ve/f-Saxons was Egbert. Hs : The feauenth, and greatett, was of Mereza, or the Midle- 4 Angles: including the Sheires of Gloucefter, Hereford, Worcefter, Warwicke,Leicefter, Roteland,Northampton, Lincolne, Huntington, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxenford, Stafford, Salop, Nottingham, Chefter,and the other part of Hertfordiheir. Itbegan about avv.62 6.in the raigne of Cad- = wane ouet the Welch-Britons,vnder a Saxon called Penda.The | firft Chriftian King thereof about aun.6.47.was Peada the laft ofthe kings there Cexophe. About ann.876.Alured{ubdewed itto the Weft-Saxons : after che continuance thereof yvnder18_— - Saxon Kings 250. yeeres. After which the Danes, and Jaftly Elfleda a Saxon Princefle gouerned there, vntill Edward the: elder about ann. 91 7.recouered the fame againe to the Wef- Saxons. Adding which latter Rulers and yeares to the for- a | ir ie | CORMICELOO HCO }