The conquest of the Isles of Anglesey and Man by Edwin the Saxon king of
Northumberland written in the second Booke and fift Chapter of Beda his
Ecclesiasticall historie of the English nation.

Eduinus Nordanhumbrorum gentis, id est, eius qua ad borealem Humbri
fluminis plagam inhabitat, maiore potentia cunctis qui Britanniam incolunt,
Anglorum pariter & Britonum populis prafuit, prater Cantuarios tantum,
necnon & Menauias Britonum insulas, qua inter Hiberniam & Britanniam sita
sunt, Anglorum subiecit potestati.

The same in English.

Edwin king of the people Northumberland, that is to say of them which
inhabit to the North of the riuer Humber, being of greater authontie then
any other potentate in the whole Isle of Britaine, bare rule as well ouer
the English as the British nation, except onely the people of Kent: who
also brought in subiection vnder the English, the Isles of Man and
Anglesey, and the other Northwesterne Isles of the Britons, which are
situate betweene Britaine and Ireland.

Another testimonie alledged by Beda to the same purpose. Lib 2. cap 9.

Anno ab incarnatione Domini sexcentesimo vicesimo quarto, gens
Nordanhumbrorum, hoc est, ea natio Anglorum qua ad aquilonarem Humbri
fluminis plagam habitat, cum rege suo Eduino, verbum fidei (pradicante
Paulino, cuius supra meminimus) suscepit: cui videlicet regi in auspicium
suscipienda fidei, & regni coelestis potestas & terrem creuerat imperij:
ita vt (quod nemo Anglorum ante eum fecit) omnes Britannia fines, qua vel
ipsorum vel Britonum Prouincia habitabantur, sub ditione acceperit. Quin &