William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England

BOOK I.

CHAP. I.

_Of the arrival of the Angles, and of the Kings of Kent._ [A.D. 449.]

In the year of the incarnation of our Lord 449, Angles and Saxons first came into Britain; and although the cause of their arrival is universally known, it may not be improper here to subjoin it: and, that the design of my work may be the more manifest, to begin even from an earlier pe...