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by suche bloodie treacherie, possessed themselves of the said iii. Countreys in Brutaine, Hingist, willinge to putt in practise every Mischieffe he could devise against the Brutaines, and perceavinge Vortiger the Kinge to be viciouslie given, brought with him his faier vicious Pagan Witche and whorishe Daughter Rowan, called of Brutaines Ronwen, who, with her whorishe beawtie, witchcrafte and sorcery, by the Sutteltie of her Father Hengist, so wrought with the Kinge Vortiger, that he divorced himself from his Christen Wieffe, by whom he had 3. noble sonnes, and married the Pagan Witch Ronwen, which afterward was the Cause of his Destruction. Moreover, Ronwen and her Father Hingist caused theire Graundfather Waden, and theire Grandmother Fria, to be theire God and Goddesse, and caused twoe Daies in the Weeke to be called after theire Names, Waden daie, nowe called Wensdaie, and Fria Daie, nowe called Fridaie. Which Daies the Brittaines and other Nations call, after the Plannetts, Dies Mercurii, and Dies Veneris. Likewiese they caused the Ymages of Waden and Fria to be sett up and worshipped in all the Saxons Churches in Brutaine. Scithence which tyme the Saxons, Normaines and Brutaines, have those two Idolatrouse Daies in Reverence, above all other Daies of the Weeke (the Sabboathe onlie excepted.) Also the Pagan Saxon Kings Ethelfride of Northumberland, and Alured Kinge of Kente, with Gormundus Kinge of Ireland, beinge sett forward by the proud Romishe Monke Augustine, anno Christi 585, cruellie slewe and murthered of the auncient Brutaines Bretheren of Bangor in Powys, not beinge Monckes, as Romaines and Saxons called them, but, as the Brutaines called them, yr Brodder fowth lin Cristinogen a fregeth wier feithe ac evengell akusers Jesy grist ac gwithweir er egllosy ar ssarney druweynys, Brutaines havinge the true lawe and religion, which they had first receaved and learned from Josephe of Arimathea, a Disciple of our Saviour Christe, who buried him, and was conversaunte withe the Appostles and Disciples, and came to this Realme of Brutaine within 17. yeres after our Saviour’s Ascention, to teache the Brutaines the Faithe and Religion, that he had learned of Jesus and his Disciples, and to baptize them. His first abode was
