Le livere de reis de Brittanie - 1865 Author:Peter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LE LIVERE DE REIS DE ENGLETERE. i Nus devoms paver al comencement ke le isle de Bretaingnie, ki hom apelle ore Engleterre, si ad de denz li le reaume de Engl... more »etere e Wales, e tut Escoce. Si lul en lungur viii. c. lues, de 2 Penwarstrete, ki est en Cornewaille, utre le mont Seint Michel a xv. lues, [dekes al isle de Cathenes utre Eschoce ; en lam. ad ccc. lues] de Seint Davi en Gales dekes a Douere. Si ad xxxii. countees hors pris Northummerlaunde, c 10 Loenes, e Westmorland, e Cumberland, e Cornewaille, hu sunt vii. contees; e hors pris Wales, e Escoce, e le hylde de Wyth. r)E En ces xxxii. contees sunt establis iii. leis. Le une Col.ntes. est apelle West[s]axenelawe, lautre Deneglawe, la tercc 15 Merchenelauue. A la primere sunt purtenanz ix. coi,- tees, cest adire, Kent, Suthsexe, Suthreie, Barchsire, 3 Wylcestresire, Suthhamptone, Sumersete, Dorsete, De- veneschire. A lautre wunt purtenanz xv. contees, Euerewyk, 20 Notingham, Derbi, Leicestre, Esex, Middelsex, Suth- folke, Northfolke, Cantebrige, Staunford, Bukingham, Norhamptoun, Huntedone, Hertefordeschire, departie en deus meitez. A la terce sunt purtenanz viii. countees, Gloucestre, 25 Wyrecestre, Hereforde, Warewyk, Oxeneford, Stafford, Schropisbyri, Cestre. i MS. ins. e. - Warstrete. s Wilcuchire. GENEALOGY OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND. At the beginning we ought to know that the island Geography of Britain, which is now called England, contains .j within itself the kingdom of England and Wales, and and eccle- all Scotland. It is eight hundred miles in length Engid.f from Land's End, which is in Cornwall fifteen miles Varr. beyond St. Michael's Mount, to the isle of Caithness, beyond Scotland. In breadth it is three hundred miles from Saint David's in Wales to Dover. It contains thirty-two counties bes...« less