is driuen out of the land; Ardulfe king of Northumberland, duke Wade
raiseth warre against him and is discomfited; duke Aldred is slaine;
a sore battell fought in Northumberland, the English men aflict one
another with ciuill warres; king Ardulfe deposed from his estate;
the regiment of the Northumbers refused as dangerous and deadlie by
destinie, what befell them in lieu of their disloialtie; the Danes
inuade their land and are vanquished; the roiall race of the Kentish
kings decaieth, the state of that kingdome; the primasie restored to
the see of Canturburie, Egbert (after the death of Britricus) is sent
for to vndertake the gouernement of the Westsaxons, his linage._

THE EIGHT CHAPTER.


[Sidenote: OSRED. 788.]
When Aswald king of Northumberland was made away, his brother
Osred the sonne of Alred tooke vpon him the rule of that kingdom anno
788, and within one yeere was expelled, and left the kingdome to
[Sidenote: _Wil. Malm._ _Matth. West._ _Hen. Hunt._
_Simon Dun._]
Ethelbert or Edelred as then reuoked out of exile, in which he had
remained for the space of 12 yéeres, and now being restored, he
continued in gouernement of the Northumbers 4 yéeres, or (as some say)
[Sidenote: Duke Ardulf taken and wounded.]
7 yéeres; in the second yéere whereof duke Eardulfe was taken and
led to Ripon, and there without the gate of the monasterie wounded
(as was thought) to death by the said king, but the moonks taking his
bodie, and laieng it in a tent without the church, after midnight he
was found aliue in the church.