Flor.Wigorn.

[s] Hen.Hunting.lib.

2.] These Saxons, from the situation of the country in which they settled, were called the West Saxons, and landed in the year 495, under the command of Cerdic, and of his son Kenric [t].

The Britons were, by past experience, so much on their guard, and so well prepared to receive the enemy, that they gave battle to Cerdic the very day of his landing; and though vanquished, still defended, for some time, their liberties against the invaders.

None of the other tribes of Saxons met with such vigorous resistance, or exerted such valour and perseverance in pushing their conquests.