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EUGENIUS II.
Eugenius II. Fergus’s eldeſt ſon ſucceeded him in the year 420. When he came of age he followed his father’s ſteps in haraſſing the Britons after the departure of the Roman army. He vanquiſhed them in a pitched battle, in which 14,000 of the Britons and 4000 of the Scots were ſlain; after which he offered them peace, on conditions of their calling in no aſſiſlance from foreign parts; of making neither peace nor war without concurrence of the Scots; the river Humber to be the boundary of their kingdom; and their paying a certain ſum annually for the uſe of the Scots ſoldiers to repel any invaſion of foreigners. The Britons rejected the terms, and invited over the Saxons, by whoſe aid, they routed the Scots at Grantham, and Eugenius was drowned in croſſing the Humber in the 32d year of his reign.
