Chapter VI: Part II: The Printer’s Advertisement 347

_The Authour’s Epistle. Blenerhasset_ 348

_The Induction. Blenerhasset_ 353

LEGENDS.

41 How _Guidericus_ refused to paye tribute vnto _Claudius Cæsar_:
how he subdued _Galba_: how hee became desirous to winne
all the worlde: spoyled France, Germany, and a great part of
Italy: and lastly how hee was miserably slayne in a tempest of
Thunder. _Blenerhasset_ 355

42 How _Carrassus_ a Husbandman’s son, slewe _Lodrike_ the
King of the Pictes, and howe the Emperour made him a captayne.
Then howe he obtayned the Britayne crowne and how suspition
brought him to decay. A. D. 293. _Blenerhasset_ 369

43 How Queene _Helena_ was Empresse of all the world. A. D.
289. _Blenerhasset_ 384

44 How _Vortiger_ destroyed the young King _Constantine_, and
howe he obtyned the crowne: & how after many miseries he
was miserably burnt in his Castle by the brethren of _Constantine_.
A. D. 446. _Blenerhasset_ 396

45 How _Vter Pendragon_ was inamoured with Duke _Garelus_
wife: and howe by lawlesse loue he lost his kingdome. A. D.
500. _Blenerhasset_ 409

46 How _Cadwallader_ the last King of the Britaynes, after he
had behaued very valiantly against the Saxons, resigned his
crowne, and went to Rome, where he liued in a religious house.
_Blenerhasset_ 419

47 How _Sigebert_ was thrust from his throne and miserably
slayne by a heardman. A. D. 755. _Blenerhasset_ 428

48 How Ladie _Ebbe_ dyd flea her nose and vpper lippe away to
saue her virginitie. A. D. 870. _Blenerhasset_ 443

49 How _Alurede_ was brought vnto disease and vnto
vntimely death, being inclined vnto the sinne of the fleshe.
_Blenerhasset_ 449

50 How _Egelred_ for his wickednesse was diuerslye
distressed by the Danes, and lastly died for sorrow. A. D. 1016.
_Blenerhasset_ 458

51 Howe _Edricus_ destroyed the valiant King _Edmunde Ironsyde_,
hoping to haue greate preferment for his labour of _Canutus_
the Dane, and howe the same _Canutus_ caused him to be be-headed
for his labour. A. D. 1018. _Blenerhasset_ 466

52 How King _Harrold_ raynyng but niene monthes had continuall
warre with the Danes, with the Norway King, with his
brother _Tosto_, and with Duke _William_, who partely by hys
strength but chiefly by policie, ouercame hym, and by killyng
him in the feelde obteyned the kingdome of England. A. D.
1095. _Blenerhasset_ 470

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