n island in the
ocean, once inhabited by giants, now indeed desert, fit for thy
tribes. This seek, for it shall be to thee a perpetual abode; Hence
shall arise another Troy to thy sons; Here from thine offspring shall
Kings be born, and to them shall all the earth be subject."

Brutus, comforted with such a reply, and having prepared a fleet,
steered with his people into the Island Albion which is now called
England, and began to reign therein, in the xxxv^{th} year of his age;
who in the xxiiij^{th} of his reign is buried at London. In the year
one thousand two hundred and forty five, after the death of Brutus,
king Lucius flourishes. In the year of grace cxxiiij was the
coronation of Lucius the first Christian king, who after reigning
lxvij years, was buried at London. From the death of Brutus until the
reign of Arthur, there reigned in England separately C kings, of whom
sixteen were Christians. In the year dxvj, was the coronation of king
Arthur, who reigned xxvj years; concerning whose death or burial,
histories do not relate anything certain. In the year diiij^{xx}vj
from the Angles, Albion is called Anglia, divided into eight kingdoms;
that is, Kent, Suthsex, Westsex, Mercia, Estsex, Estanglia, Derram,
and Bervic. In the year dc and one, began to reign king Sebert the
renovator of the church of Westminster, which he then dedicated to the
blessed Peter, in which the king himself in the xv^{th} year of his
reign is entombed. In the year dcxxxv, the coronation of king Oswald,
who after reigning nine years is crowned with martyrdom. In the year
dcxxxvj the coronation of king Oswyny, who in the ix^{th} year of his
reign being martyred, lies at Tynmouth. In the year dcclxxvj the
coronation of king Ethelbrist, who in the viij^{th} year of his reign
being made a martyr, was buried at Hereford. In the year dcccxxj the
coronation and martyrdom of king Kenelm, who was buried at
Wynchecombe. In the year dccclv the coronation of king Edward at
Bures, who after xv years obtaining the laurels of martyrdom, rests in
the same place. In the year dccclxxj the coronation of king Alfred,
the first monarch of England; who in the xxix^{th} year of his
government was buried at Wynton. In the year dcccc and one, the
coronation of Edward the first, son of Alfred, at Kyngeston; he
governed xxiiij^{or} years, and is buried at London. In the year
dccccxxiiij, the coronation of king Athelstan at Kyngeston; he after
xvj years was buried at Ma