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Abbacy Æthelbald Æthelred Æthelstan afterwards Alderman Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishoprick army battle besieged bishoprick body lieth Britons brother built buried burned calends castle Ceawlin Cenwalh Ceolwulf Cerdic Christ Christmas church commanded consecrated Cuthred Cynegils Cynewulf Cynric Danes died Eadbald Earl of Anjou Earl Robert East Anglia Easter Edgar Edgar Ætheling Egbryht England English fleet fortress fought Freawine heathen held his Court hostages Kent King Alfred King Cnut King Edward King gave King Henry King of France King of Mercia King of Wessex King sent King William King's kingdom of Wessex land Lanfranc London Lord marched Medeshamstede Michaelmas monastery monks named night Normandy Northumberland oaths Offa pall peace Penda Peter Peterborough plundered Pope possession received reigned returned Robert Earl Rome sailed Saxulf seized ships slain slew soon succeeded Swegn synod Thames Thanes thence thither took town troops Wales wards West Saxons Westminster Winchester winter Witan Wulfere
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Page 316 - all the towns, so that well mightest thou walk a whole day's journey nor ever shouldest thou find a man seated in a town, or its lands tilled. Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land— wretched men starved with hunger—some lived on alms who had been erewhile rich : some fled the
Page 316 - was there more misery, and never acted heathens worse than these. At length they spared neither church nor churchyard, but they took all that was valuable therein, and then burned the church and all together. Neither did they spare the lands of Bishops, nor of Abbots, nor of Priests; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man
Page 240 - against his will, and he kept in prison those Earls who acted against his pleasure. He removed Bishops from their sees, and Abbots from their offices, and he imprisoned Thanes, and at length he spared not his own brother Odo. This Odo was a very powerful Bishop in Normandy, his see was that of
Page 316 - sleep, but that he must bear all the iron. Many thousands they exhausted with hunger. I cannot and I may not tell of all the wounds, and all the tortures that they inflicted upon the wretched men of this land; and this state of things lasted the
Page 267 - and Abbacies, the incumbents of which died in his reign, he either sold them outright, or kept them in his own hands, and set them out to renters; for he desired to be the heir of every one, churchman or layman, so that the day on which he was killed he had in his own hands the
Page 173 - and they assured him that no one was dearer to them than their natural Lord, if he would govern them more righteously than he did before; So the King sent his son Edward hither with his deputies, and commanded him to greet all his people, and said that he
Page 305 - of Peterborough, and in all the woods from the same town to Stamford ; and the monks heard the blasts of the horns which they blew in the night. Men of truth kept in the night their watch on them, and said that there might well be about
Page 315 - enough to do to carry. The Sachentege was made thus: it was fastened to a beam, having a sharp iron to go round a man's throat and neck, so that he might no ways sit, nor lie, nor
Page 273 - took arms against the King, on which the King confiscated all his possessions and estates in this country. It is not easy to describe the misery of this land, which it suffered at this time through the various and manifold oppressions and taxes that never ceased or slackened
Page 280 - King's will. This was a year of much distress from the taxes which the King raised for his daughter's dowry, and from the bad weather by which the crops were greatly injured, and nearly all the fruit on the trees destroyed throughout the country.—