Moreouer in this battell against the Hunnes were three yong damsels taken of excellent beautie, specially one of them, whose name was Estrild, daughter to a certeine king of Scythia.  With this Estrild king Locrine fell so farre in loue, notwithstanding a former contract made betwixt him and the ladie Guendoloena, daughter to Corineus duke of Cornwall, that he meant yet with all speed to marie the same Estrild.  But being earnestlie called vpon, and in manner forced thereto by Corineus, hee changed his purpose, and married Guendoloena, keeping neuertheles the aforesaid Estrild as paramour still after a secret sort, during the life of Corineus his father in law.

Now after that Corineus was departed this world, Locrine forsooke Guendoloena, and maried Estrild.  Guendoloena therefore being cast off by hir husband, got hir into Cornewall to hir friends and kinred, and there procured them to make warre against the said Locrine hir husband, in the which warres hee was slaine, and a battell fought neere to the riuer of [Sidenote:  Mat.  West.] Sture, after he had reigned (as writers affirme) twentie yeares, & was buried by his father in the citie of Troinouant, leauing behind him a yoong sonne (begotten of his wife Guendoloena) named Madan, as yet vnmeete to gouerne. [Sidenote:  Shee is not numbred amongst those that reigned as rulers in this land by Mat.  West.]

Guendoloena or Guendoline the wife of Locrinus, and daughter of Corineus duke of Cornewall, for so much as hir sonne Madan was not of yeeres sufficient to gouerne, was by common consent of the Britons made ruler of the Ile, in the yeere of the world 2894, and so hauing the administration in hir hands, she did right discreetlie vse hir selfe therein, to the comfort of all hir subiects, till hir sonne Madan came to lawfull age, and then she gaue ouer the rule and dominion to him, after she had [Sidenote:  Gal.  Mon.] gouerned by the space of fifteene yeares.

[Sidenote:  MADAN THE THIRD RULER] Madan the sonne of Locrine and Guendoline entred into the gouernement of Britaine in the 2909, of the world.  There is little left in writing of his doings, sauing that he vsed great tyrannie amongst his Britons:  and therefore after he had ruled this land the tearme of 40. yeares, he was deuoured of wild beastes, as he was abroad in hunting.  He left behind him two sonnes, Mempricius and Manlius.  He builded (as is reported) Madancaistre, now Dancastre, which reteineth still the later part of his name.

[Sidenote:  MEMPRICIUS THE FOURTH RULER. Fabian.  Manlius is slaine. Gal.  Mon. Slouth engendred lecherie] Mempricius the eldest sonne of Madan began his reigne ouer the Britons in the yeare of the world 2949, he continued not long in peace.  For his brother Manlius vpon an ambitious mind prouoked the Britons to rebell against him, so that sore and deadly warre continued long betweene them.  But finallie, vnder colour of a treatie, Manlius was slaine by his