Siquidem Penda cum omni Merciorum gente idolis deditus, et Christiani erat nominis ignarus: at vero Caedualla, quamvis nomen et professionem haberet Christiani, adeo tamen erat animo ac moribus barbarus, ut ne sexui quidem muliebri, vel innocuae parvulorum parceret aetati, quin universos atrocitate ferina morti per tormenta contraderet, multo tempore totas eorum provincias debacchando pervagatus, ac totum genus Anglorum Brittaniae finibus erasurum se esse deliberans.
For king Penda with all the nation of the Marchmen was given over to idolatry and was ignorant of the Christian name: but indeed Cadwallon, although he had the name of a Christian and professed that life, yet was he in mind and manners so much a savage, that he spared not even the sex of women or the harmless infancy of young children, but delivered them all to death with torments according to his beastly cruelty, wasting a long time and raging over all the provinces, purposing, moreover, with himself to exterminate out of the borders of Britain the whole race of Englishmen.
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