Nam tempore episcopatus eius, hostilis Merciorum exercitus, Penda duce, Nordanhymbrorum regiones impia clade longe lateque devastans, pervenit ad urbem usque regiam, quae ex Bebbae quondam reginae vocabulo cognominatur, eamque quia neque armis, neque obsidione capere poterat, flammis absumere conatus est:
For in the time of his bishopric the army of the Marchmen that were enemies, with Penda for captain, wasting the country of the Northumbrians with cruel destruction far and wide, came even to the royal city which is called after the name of Bebba, one time queen, and forasmuch as he was not able neither by battle nor by siege to win it, Penda endeavoured to destroy it by fire:
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