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 cxviii PEEFACE. " parte regno Anglorum." This falls under the year 658. Subjection of Oswy had now completed the subjugation of byoawy. the Britous of Strathclyde, the Scots of Dalriada, and a considerable part of the Picts ; and the mutual relations of these four nations to each other were so far altered that the Angles had, tem- porarily at least, established their supremacy over the other thi'ee. Tighernac records, in 657, the death of Tolargan, son of Ainfred, king of the Cruithne ; and the "Annals of Ulster" record, in 658, the death of Gureit, or Guxiad, king of Alclyde. The Irish annalists do not record any king of Dal- riada after the death of Donald Brec in 642. Tolargan, the king of the Picts, was no doubt the son of that Ainfred, son of Ethelfred, king of Ber- nicia, who had remained in exile among the Picts during the reign of Edwin, and succeeded him in Bernicia as king for one year. Tolargan must have obtained the Pictish thi'one through his mother, according to the Pictish law of succession ; but Oswy thus stood to him in the relation of father's brother, and may have made this the pretext for invading the kingdom of the Picts. Oswj main- tained possession of the Pictish territory he had conquered during his life, as Bede records that, in 669, WUfrid not only presided over the church of York and of all Northumbria, " sed et Picto- " rum, quousque rex Osuiu imjDerium protendere " poterat " (Lib. iv. c. iii.) Oswy died, according