21. Hatton 38 is noted as being written in the latest Kentish form of West Saxon . 22. In 635, he persuaded the West Saxon king Cynegils to allow him to preach. 23. The Vikings then campaigned against the West Saxons and destroyed the kingdom of the Mercians. 24. *" By this point Surrey had clearly passed out of West Saxon control. 25. Earlier, J . Brownbill had suggested they were one branch of the West Saxons . 26. He appears to have been in constant dispute with the West Saxons over land boundaries. 27. Four days later, the main West Saxon army, led by first Battle of Reading. 28. One of the purposes of the chronicle was to provide genealogies of the West Saxon kings. 29. The high diphthongs and were not present in Late West Saxon , having merged into and. 30. When �thelbald died childless in 860, the kingship of the West Saxons also passed to �thelberht.
