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He should haue defended) to be murthered through the enimies swoord.
Thus was the prophesie of Augustine fulfilled, though he was long before
departed this life (as Beda saith.) [Sidenote: _Henr. Hunt._] ¶ Heere is
to be noted, if this battell was fought in the seuenth yeere of Ceowlfe
king of Westsaxon (as some haue written) and that Augustine liued 12
yeeres after his entrance into the gouernment of the see of Canturburie
(as some write) it is euident that he liued foure yeeres after this
slaughter made of the British priests and moonks by Edelferd (as before
is recited.) For Ceowlfe began his reigne (as before is mentioned) about
the yeere of our Lord 596, and in the seuenth yeere of his reigne the
battell was fought at [Sidenote: _W. Harison_.] Degsastane betwixt the
English & the Scots, which chanced in the yeere of our Lord 604, as Beda
himselfe recordeth. A late chronographer running vpon this matter, and
preciselie setting downe his collection, saith that Athelbright, or
Edelfride, K. of the Northumbers, & Ethelbert K. of Kent, hauing
Augustine in their companie, in the eight yeere after his arriuall, made
warre vpon such Britains as refused to obserue the canons of