Chronicles 1 (Of 6): the Historie of England 5 (Of 8)
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]About the same time, or rather about 14 yeares after, one Ella aSaxon also reigned as king in Deira, which kingdome began at the saidriuer of Tine in the north, & ended at the riuer of Humber toward thesouth. These two kingdomes were sometime gouerned by two seuerallkings, and afterwards at other times they were ioined in one, andgouerned by one onelie king, and named the kingdome of Northumberland, which in processe of time was much inlarged, so that it included theshires of Yorke, Notingham,... Darbie, Lancaster, the bishoprike ofDurham, Copland, and other countries betwixt the east and the west[Sidenote: The riuer of Mersie. ]seas, euen vnto the riuer of Mersie. The foresaid Ella was sonneto Iffus, being descended from Woden, as the 12 in succession fromhim, though not by right line as William Malmesburie hath noted. Ida(as the same Malmesburie dooth testifie) reigned 14 yeares. Now Ella who was successor to Ida (as he saith) reigned thirtie[Sidenote: _Matth. West. _]yeares, and verie valiantlie inlarged his kingdome.
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