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PEEFACE. cxvu found of the name of Uinuaed having been applied to a river in that district. Bede, however, does not say that the battle of Uinwaed was fought there. He first describes the battle, and then adds after- wards that the war was brought to a conclusion by the slaughter of Penda within that district. In the additions to the " Historia Britonum," this battle is termed the " Strages Gai Campi " and the thirty kings are said to have been kings of the Britons, who had gone out with King Penda in an expedi- tion as far as the city which is called Judiu, and this city appears from the same passage to have been either within or in the neighbourhood of Manau or Manann. The battle, therefore, proba- bly took place in the extreme north of the territo- ries of Bernicia, and Penda appears to have fled after his defeat into Deira, where he was slaui near the town of Leeds.^ By this defeat the Britons of Strathclyde appear to have fallen into the power of Oswy, and the Scots of Dahiada seem to have shared the same fate. Three years afterwards Oswy is said by Bede to have subjected " Gentem Pictorum, maxima ex 1 The view that the battle was fought in Scotland was first broached by Mr. Nash, in a very ingenious paper in the "Cambrian "Joiu-nal" for 1861, p. 1. The Editor has been driven to the same conclusion, but he cannot adopt Mr. Nash's view, that Bede's regio Loidis was Lothian. This is inconsistent with the language of Bede in another place ; but he thinks Bede's meaning has been misunderstood, and that it does not foUow that the battle and the slaughter of Penda were the same event. He has come to be of opinion that the river Uinuaed of Bede is the Carron, the old forms of which were Caruin and Cauin.