[34]and [*] These names are both wrong; we must read Escwin.

[35] Heathfield or Hatfield.


Chap. IX.—Of king Kentwin and his wars.

A. 682. After two years king Kentwin drove the Britons out of their country to the sea.

A. 684. After he had reigned two years[36] Ina became king of the western English. A hundred and eighty-eight years were then fulfilled from the time that Cerdic, his sixth ancestor, received the western part of the island from the Britons.

FOOTNOTES:

[36] There is an error here: Cædwalla is omitted, and three years are lost in the chronology.


Chap. X.—Of Cædwalla's conversion to the faith of Christ.