[y] Gildas, Saxon Chron.

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Hunting.lib.

2] While the Saxons made this progress in the south, their countrymen were not less active in other quarters.

In the year 527, a great tribe of adventurers, under several leaders, landed on the east coast of Britain; and after fighting many battles, of which history has preserved no particular account, they established three new kingdoms in this island.

Uffa assumed the title of King of the East Angles in 575; Crida that of Mercia in 585 [z] and Erkenwin that of East Saxony, or Essex, nearly about the same time, but the year is uncertain.