Afterwards Cynegils received the kingdom of the West-Angles, and, in conjunction with Cuichelm, he fought against the Britons at a place called Beandune,[30] and having defeated their army, slew more than two thousand and forty of them.
A. 629. Fourteen years after, Cynegils and Cuichelm fought against Penda at Cirencester.
A. 635. After six years bishop Birinus came among the Western Angles, preaching to them the gospel of Christ. And the number of years that elapsed since their arrival in Britain out of Germany, was about one hundred and twenty. At that time Cynegils received baptism from the holy bishop Birinus, in a town called Dorchester.
A. 639. He baptized Cuthred also four years after in the same city, and adopted him as his son in baptism.
FOOTNOTES:
[29] Should be West-Saxons.
[30] Most probably Bampton in Oxfordshire. This battle took place in 614. See the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for that year.
Chap. VII.—Of the reign of Kenwalk, and of his actions.
A. 648. When nine years were fulfilled, Kenwalk gave to his relation, Cuthred, out of his farms, three thousand measures, adjacent to a hill named Esc's dune, [Aston?]