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Fergus’s eldet on ucceeded him in the year 420. When he came of age he followed his father’s teps in haraing the Britons after the departure of the Roman army. He vanquihed them in a pitched battle, in which 14,000 of the Britons and 4000 of the Scots were lain; after which he offered them peace, on conditions of their calling in no ailance from foreign parts; of making neither peace nor war without concurrence of the Scots; the river Humber to be the boundary of their kingdom; and their paying a certain um annually for the ue of the Scots oldiers to repel any invaion of foreigners. The Britons rejected the terms, and invited over the Saxons, by whoe aid, they routed the Scots at Grantham, and Eugenius was drowned in croing the Humber in the 32d year of his reign.