131. Bede has enumerated seven kings - two Saxons, a Jute,
and four Angles - who successively acquired in the heptarchy
an indefinite supremacy of power and renown. But their reign
was the effect, not of law, but of conquest; and he
observes, in similar terms, that one of them subdued the
Isles of Man and Anglesey; and that another imposed a
tribute on the Scots and Picts (Hist. Eccles. 1. ii. c. 5,
p. 83).