In the year 685, Egfrid, king of the Northumbrians, was slain. The same year Hlothere, king of Kent, died. [[IV, 26].]
In the year 688, Caedwald, king of the West Saxons, went to Rome from Britain. [[V, 7].]
In the year 690, Archbishop Theodore died. [[V, 8].]
In the year 697, Queen Osthryth was murdered by her own nobles, to wit, the nobles of the Mercians.[1037]
In the year 698, Berctred, an ealdorman of the king of the Northumbrians, was slain by the Picts.[1038]
In the year 704, Ethelred, after he had reigned thirty-one years over the nation of the Mercians, became a monk, and gave up the kingdom to Coenred. [[V, 19].][1039]
In the year 705, Aldfrid, king of the Northumbrians, died. [[V, 18].]
In the year 709, Coenred, king of the Mercians, having reigned five years, went to Rome. [[V, 19].]
In the year 711, the commander Bertfrid fought with the Picts.[1040]
In the year 716, Osred, king of the Northumbrians, was killed; and Ceolred, king of the Mercians, died; and the man of God, Egbert, brought the monks of Hii to observe the Catholic Easter and the ecclesiastical tonsure. [[V, 22].]