[Sidenote:  Hen.  Hunt.  Anno Christie 919.] Finallie, this martiall ladie and manlie Elfleda, the supporter of hir countriemen, and terrour of the enimies, departed this life at Tamwoorth about the 12 of Iune, in the 18 or rather 19 yeere of [Sidenote:  Matt.  West. Simon Dun.] hir brother king Edwards reigne, as by Matth.  West it should appeere.  But Simon Dunelm. writeth, that she deceassed in the yeere of Christ 915, which should be about the 14 yeere of king Edwards reigne.  Hir bodie was conueied to Glocester, and there buried within the monasterie of S. Peter, which hir husband and she in their life time had builded, and translated thither the bones of saint Oswill from Bardona.  The same monasterie was after destroied by Danes.  But [Sidenote:  Ranul.] Aldredus the archbishop of Yorke, who was also bishop of Worcester, repared an other in the same citie, that was after the chiefe abbeie there.  Finallie, in memorie of the said Elfleds magnanimitie and valorous mind, this epitaph was fixed on hir toome.

O Elfleda potens, o terror virgo virorum, O Elfleda potens, nomine digna viri.  Te quoque splendidior fecit natura puellam, Te probitas fecit nomen habere viri.  Te mutare decet sed solum nomina sexus, Tu regina potens rexque trophea parans.  Iam nec Caesareos tantum mirere triumphos, Caesare splendidior virgo virago, vale.

  [Sidenote:  Translated by Abraham Fleming.]
  O puissant Elfled, o thou maid
    of men the dread and feare,
  O puissant Elfled woorthie maid
    the name of man to beare. 
  A noble nature hath thee made
    a maiden mild to bee,
  Thy vertue also hath procurde
    a manlie name to thee. 
  It dooth but onelie thee become,
    of sex to change the name,
  A puissant queene, a king art thou
    preparing trophes of fame. 
  Now maruell not so much at Caesars
    triumphs [trim to vieu;]
  O manlike maiden more renowmd
    than Caesar was, adieu.

[Sidenote:  This Alfwen was sister to Edelfled, as H.  Hunt. saith.] After the deceasse of Elfleda, king Edward tooke the dominion of Mercia (as before we haue said) into his owne hands, and so disherited his neece Alfwen or Elswen, the daughter of Elfleda, taking hir awaie with him into the countrie of Westsaxons.  By this meanes he so amplified the bounds of his kingdome, that he had the most part of all [Sidenote:  Stratcluid or Stretcled, a kingdome in Wales.] this Iland of Britaine at his commandement:  for the kings of the Welshmen; namelie the king of Stretcled, and of the Scots, acknowledging him to be their chiefe souereigne lord, and the Danes in Northumberland were kept so short, that they durst attempt nothing [Sidenote:  K. Edward a great builder and reparer of townes.] against him in his latter daies:  so that he had time to applie the building and reparing of cities, townes, and castels, wherein he so much delighted.  He builded a new