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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	aaron_n	julius_n	noble_a	51	3	6.9140	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00005	Here begynneth a shorte and abreue table on the Cronycles ...; Saint Albans chronicle.	Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364. Polycronicon. English. Selections.; Trevisa, John, d. 1402.	1515 (1515)	STC 10000; ESTC S106695	471,876	302

departeth Englonde Scotlonde but the Alcliud was a right strōge cyte as Beda sayth the cyte standeth fast by a Ryuer that is called Cliud there is no suche Ryuer ī yorkshyre in westmer lond as of the coūtre tell me Some men say that the Ryuer Cliud is now named sulwach Sulwa●che is but .v. myle fro Caerleyl whiche is a cyte in the coūtre of nor●h Enlonde toward the north west hath an other name whiche is Luguball Leyil the .vii. kynge of brytōs buylded caerleyll ¶ R. In this cyte ys sōwhat of the famous wall that passeth northūberlōde ¶ wilhel de pon in this cyte is yet a the● chambred hous made of vawt stones that neuer myght bee destroyed wyth tempeste of weder ne with brennynge of fyre also in the countree fast by westmerlōde in the fronte of a thre chanbre place is writtē in this manere Marii victory what this writtinge is to say I doute somwhat but yf it were some of the Combres laye here some tyme whan the counseyll Mariꝰ had put hym out of ytalye But it semeth better that it is wrytten in mynde of Marius kyng of brytons that was Aruiragus sone This marius ouercome in that place Roderyke kynge of pyctes So sayth Gaufre in his brytysshe booke Wyllyam malmesbury sawe neuer that booke Att Hagustaldes chyrche is a place .lxxx. myle out of yorke Nor westewarde the place is as were dystroyed so sayth wylhel li.iii. de pony That place longed somtyme to the bysshopryche of yorke there were somtyme houses wyth vyce arches and voutes in the manere of Rome Nowe that place is called Hestoldeshame and heglesham also ¶ Beda li.iii ca. i. sayth Than that place is faste by the longe walle of the werke of Rome in the north halfe ¶ R There is dyfference bytwene the pryuynce of Lyndeffare and the chyrche Lyndefarne For the prouynce of Lyndeffare Lyndeseye is alle one and lyethe by eest lyncolne and lyncolne is the hede therof of the whiche saythe Beda li.iiii ca. xi that Sex wulfus was fyrste bysshop there but Beda li.iiii ca. xiii sayth That lyndeffar chyrche is an ylonde that is called holy ylonde in the ryuer of Twede next Barwyke And so it is gadred of Bedaes sawes that twede renneth in to the famous arme of the see that nowe departed Englysshmē and Scottes in the eest half and in that arme bē thre ylondes that one is Maylros that nowe is called menros Then̄e about towarde the west is Lyndeffarn chyrche that is called holy ylonde Thenne the chyrche is aboue vpwarde his the Ilondefarn and is called also ferny ylonde Thenne vp warde aboute that two myle is a ryall Cyte vppon the brynke of twede that somtyme hyght Bebanburgh that is Bobbes cyte and nowe is called Bamburgh and hath a ryght stronge castell ¶ Gir. initenere twoo cytees ther ben eyther is called Charlegyon and caerleon also one ys Demycia in south wales that is named caeruske also there the Ryuer of Vske falyeth into Seuerne faste by glamorgan Bellynus kynge of Brytons somtyme buyled the cytye and was somtyme the chyef cyte of Demecya in south wales Afterwarde in Claudiꝰ cezar● tyme it was called the cyte Legyons whan at prayer of Genius the quene Vespiciauus and Aruiragus were accorded and legyons of Rome were sente in to Irlonde tho was Caerleon a noble cyte and a grete auctoryte by the Romayns ryally buylded and walled about wyth walles of brent tyle Greate nobley that was there in olde tyme is there yet in many places seen as the grete palayses gyauntes toures noble bathes releef of the temples places hyghe and ryall to stande and syte in and to beholde aboute the places were ryally closed with ryall walles that yet somdele stondeth ryght nyghe cloos And within the walles and wythoute is grete buyldynge vnder erthe water conduytes and wayes vnder erthe and stewes ¶ Also thou shalt see wonderly made wyth strayte syde wayes of brethynge that wonderly caste vp heete In this Cytie were somtyme thre noble chyrches one was of saynt Iulius the martyr therin a greate companye of vyrgynes that other was of saynt Aaron that was of the ordre of blacke Chanon that chyrche was ryght nobly adourned The thyrde chyrche was the chyf moder chyrche of all wales and the chyef se But afterwarde the chyef see was tourned out of the cyte into meneuya that is saynt Dauyds londe in west wales In this Caerleon was amphybalus born thaught saynt Albon There the messagers of Rome come to greate Arthurs courte yf it is leefull to trowe Treuisa yf Giraldus was in doubte whether it w●re leefull for to trowe or not ● yt were a wonder shewynge as men wolde went for too haue euermore in mynde euer bee in doubte yf alle his bokes were suche what lorde were therin namely whyle he maketh none euydence for in neyther syde he telleth what meueth hym soo to ¶ R. There is another cyte of Legyons there his Cronycles were by trauaylled as it is clerly knowen by the fyrste chapytre of thys booke ¶ Treuysa That is to vnderstondynge in the latyn wryttynge For he that made it in latyn torned it not into Englysshe ne it was torned into Englisshe in the same place that it was fyrste in latyn· The vnderstondynge of hym that made this Cronycles is thus the begnnyng of this booke ¶ Presentem cronicam compliauit frater Ranulphus Cestrēsis monachus That is to saye in Englysshe Broder Ranuiphe monke of Chestre conpyled and made this Booke of the Cronycles ¶ R. The of Legyons that is chestre stondeth in the marche of Englonde towarde wales bytwene two armes of the see that been namedde and Mersee \ This Cytie in tyme of Brytons was heed and cheyf cyte of all Venedocia that is North wales The foūder of this cyte is vnknowen· For who that seeth the foūdementes of the grete stones wolde rather wene that it were Romayns werke or wercke off Gyauntes than it were sette by werkynge of Brytons This cyte somtyme in brytysshe speche heet Caerthleon Legecestria in latin And Chestre in Englisshe and the cite of Legyons also ¶ Forther delaye a wynter the legyons of knyghten that Iulius Cezar sente for to wynne Irlonde And after Claudius cezar sente legyons out of that cyte for to wynne the ylonde that be called Orcades what euer wyllyam Malmeshury by tellynge of other men mente of this cyte This cyte hathe plente of lyuelode of corn of flesshe of fysshe and specially of pryce of samon This cytie receyueth moche marchaundyse and sendeth oute also Also nyghe this cyte ben salte welles metell and oor Nor thumbres dystroyed thys cyte somtyme But after warde Elfleda lady of Marcia buylded it agayne and made it moche more ¶ In this same cyte ben wayes vnder the erth wyth vowtes and stone werke wonderly ywrought ther chabre werkes grete stones ygrauen wyth olde mennys names ther in There is