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 and by the most auncient decaied Cittie Caer Souse or Caer Souswen throughe Redewen in Powys, and so to Sallop, and from thence to Rockcestre, to Bridgenorth, to Bewdley, Worcestre, Gloucestre, and not farr from the Cittie of Gloucestre it ebbeth and floweth. Betwixte Walshe, Devonshire and Cornewall it beareth the name of Seavrne or Hafren Sea, and was the olde division or partition betwixt Lloiger and Cambria from Roccestre or Caer Belin to the Sea at Cornewall. In the old tyme of the Brutaines Goverment all the land above the Ryver belonged to Camera, nowe called Walshe, of Idwall, sonne to kinge Caddwalader, and was enjoyed by the Canmer Brutaines, and all under the River was called Lloyger. The Towne of Sallop was repayred by the fiftie Christian brethren, which were of the Christian Fraternity of Bangor in old Powies; which fiftie Christian bretheren escaped from the wicked pagan kinges of Saxons, called Ethelridus kinge of Northumberland and Alured kinge of Kente, and Gurmundus the Irishe African, which pagan kings were in mortall warrs with the Christian Browchwell, kinge or prince of Old Powys and Bangor, did kill and murther a thowsand Christian brethren of the Fraternitie of Bangor, bicause they praied for the prosperous successe of the prince Broughwell, and for his preservation from the forenamed pagan kinges. For as longe as the Christian brethren praied for prince Broughwell, the pagan kings could not obtaine aine victory against him: therefore the foresaid pagan kings divelishlie and most cruellie commaunded theire armed men, to kill and murther the unarmed Christian brethren, beinge kneelinge upon their knees at prayer, and some of them barefooted, wearinge next theire skins shirts of haire. Some of them escaped to Lichfield, and there were murdered by the pagan Saxons, and Irishe pagans, and the rest of the thowsand were in like cruell manner slayne, without mercy, of the forenamed enemies at Westchester and Bangor. All which furious pagan enemies, sett on by the bloudy Romaines, destroied the Towne and Universitie of Bangor, and burnte theire most auncient Brittaine librarie, more precious then gould. The bookes therein were the workes of the learned