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brought up her strength and besieged them, till there was so great a famine in the town, they could endure it no longer. Then stole they out and fled, and the besiegers were aware of them, and followed them, and they took Robert earl of Gloucester and led him to Rochester, and imprisoned him there and the empress fled into a monastery. Then wise men, friends of the king and of the earl, interfered between them, and they settled that the king should be let out of prison for the earl, and the earl for the king; and this was done. After this the king and earl Randolph were reconciled at Stamford, and they took oaths and pledged their troth, that neither would betray the other: but this promise was set at nought, for the king afterwards seized the earl in Northampton through wicked counsel, and put him in prison, but he set him free soon after, through worse, on condition that he should swear on the cross, and find hostages that he would give up all his castles. Some he did deliver up, and others not; and he did worse than he should have done in this country. Now was England much divided, some held with the king and some with the empress, for when the king was in prison the earls and the great men thought that he would never more come out, and they treated with the empress, and brought her to Oxford, and gave her the town. When the king was out of prison he heard this, and he took his army and besieged her in the tower, and they let her down from the tower by night with ropes, and she stole away, and she fled and she went on foot to Wallingford. After this she went over sea, and all the Normans turned from the king to the earl of Anjou, some willingly, and some against their will; for he besieged them till they gave up their castles, and they had no help from the king. Then the king's son Eustace went to France, and took to wife the sister of the king of France: he thought to obtain Normandy through this marriage, but little he sped, and that of right, for he was an evil man, and did more harm than good wherever he went he spoiled the lands, and laid thereon heavy taxes: he brought his wife to England, and put her into the castle of ; *she was a good woman but she had little bliss with him, and it was not the will of Christ that he "The MS. is here deficient ; but .... b for 'byrig' is discernible.” -INGRAM.

should bear rule long, and he died, and his mother also. And the earl of Anjou died, and his son Henry succeeded him; and the queen of France was divorced from the king, and she went to the young earl Henry and he took her to wife, and received all Poitou with her. Then he came into England with a great army and won castles; and the king marched against him with a much larger army, howbeit they did not fight, but the archbishop and wise men went between them and made a treaty on these terms: that the king should be lord and king while he lived, and that Henry should be king after his death, and that he should consider him as his father, and the king him as his son, and that peace and concord should be between them, and in all England. The king, and the earl, and the bishop, and the earls, and all the great men swore to observe these and the other conditions that were then made. The earl was received with much honour at Winchester and at London, and all did homage to him, and wore to keep the peace, and it soon became a very good peace, such as never was in this land. Then the king was more powerful here than ever he was; over sea, and all the people loved him, because he did good justice, and made peace.

and the earl went

A. 1154. This year king Stephen died, and he was buried with his wife and his son at Faversham; they had built that monastery. When the king died the earl was beyond sea, and no man durst do other than good for very dread of him. When he came to England he was received with much honour, and was consecrated king at London on the Sunday before Christmas, and he held a great court there: and on the same day that Martin abbat of Peterborough should have gone thither he sickened, and he died on the 4th before the Nones of January. And that day the monks chose another abbat from among themselves. He is named William de Walteville, a good clerk, and a good man, and well beloved of the king and of all good people: and they buried the abbat honourably in the church, and soon afterwards the abbat elect and the monks went to the king at Oxford, and the king gave him the abbacy, and he departed soon afterwards to Peterborough, where he remained with the abbat before he came home. And the king was received at Peter

borough with great respect, and in full procession; so he was also at Ramsey, at Thorney, and at .... and Spalding, and ....

The MS. is defective. Ramsey and Thorney are elicited from some faint traces in the Laud MS. which seem to have escaped the penetration of Gibson. The last paragraph, if Gibson's reading be correct, appears to relate to some building which the abbat and monks of Peterborough had begun about this time. See Gunton's History of Peterborough Minster, and Cont. Hug. Candid. ap. Sparke, pp. 92, 93.

END OF ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE.

INDEX.

Aaron, martyr, 15.

Abercurnig (Abercorn) monastery, 20, 224.
Abon, ealdorman, 324.

Acca, bishop of Hexham, 129, 196, 274, 276,
292, 293, 333, 335.

Acha, sister to king Edwin, 118.

Acley, synod of, 342.

Alfwold, king of Northumbria, 340, 341.
Alhmund, bishop of Hexham, 339, 340.
Alla, king of Northumbria, 312-314.

| Allectus, usurps authority in Britain, 11, 12.
Alric killed, 344.

Alwy, bishop of London, 405.

Alwyn, bishop of Winchester, 413, 418, 420.

Adamnan, abbat of Iona, 262-266, 287, 288. Ambrosius Aurelius, 26.

Adamnan, monk of Coldingham, 220.

Androgeus, commander of Trinovantum, 8.
Anlaf Curran, 379.

Anlaf, king of Northumbria, 376-378
Anlaf, son of Sihtric, 378.

Adgefrin, Northumberland, a royal seat, 97. Anna, king of the East Angles, 119, 138,

Ad Barve, 174, 184.

Adda, abbat of Gateshead, 144.

Addi, earl, 241.

Adrian, emperor of Rome, 307.

Adrian, pope, 341, 342.

Adrian, abbat. See Hadrian.

Adrian, legate, in England, 328.

Ædan, king of the Scots, 61.

Ella, king of the South Saxons, 68, 310.
Eila, usurper of Northumbria, 351.
Esc, king of Kent, 310.

Ætherius, bishop of Lyons, 35, 36, 40, 53
Etius, groans of the Britons to him, 22, 33.
Agelric, bishop of Selsey, 435.

Agilbert, bishop, 120, 155, 156, 160, 165, 271,
320, 325.

Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne, 112-117, 132
-137, 153, 160, 161, 320.

Albinus, abbat of St. Augustine's, xxxviii,
2, 276.

Alban (St.) 12-15, 307.

Alban's (St.) monastery, 485.
Alcluith, a British city, 7, 19, 20.

Alcred, king of Northumbria, 300, 339.
Alcuin. See Albinus.

Aldbert, bishop of Dunwich, 292.
Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne, 267, 333.
Aldred, bishop, 420, 425, 428, 431, 434, 436,
446.

Aldulf, abp. of York, 382, 383, 390, 396.
Aldwich, bishop of Sidnacester, 300.
Aldwin, abbat of Pearteneu, 127.
Aldwin, bishop of Lichfield, 293.

Aldwulf, bp. of Rochester, 291, 292, 334, 335.
Aldwulf, king of the East Angles, 98, 212.
Alexander, bishop of Lincoln, 492.
Alexander, king of Scotland, 482, 493.

Alfric, archbishop of Canterbury, 391-398.

Alfric, ealdorman, 389.

ALFRED, king of England, 349-366.

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139, 320.

Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, 450, 468,

473, 474, 477-479, 482.

Anselm, abbat of Bury St. Edmund's, 485.
Anwind, a Danish king, 355.

Arculf, a French bishop, 203
Arianism spreads in Britain, 16.

Arles, the principal see of Gaul, 36, 40, 44, 53.
Asclepiodotus, captain of the pretorian
bands, 11.

Asser, bishop of Sherborne, 368.

Athelard, abp. of Canterbury, 342-345.
Athelred, abp. of Canterbury, 352, 359.
Athelstan, bishop of Hereford, 434.
Athelstan, king of Kent, 347, 348.
Athelstan, king of Mercia, 374-377.
At the Wall, a regal village, 144, 146.
Attila, king of the Huns, 22, 308.
Athulf, bishop, 383.

Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury, 34-
74, 314, 315.

Augustine's abbey, 60, 73.

Baccancelde (Beckenham) council, 331.
Badwin, bishop of North Elmham, 183.
Bagsac, a Danish king, killed, 353.
Baldred, king of Kent, 346.

Baldulf, bishop of Whitherne, 342.
Baldwin V. earl of Flanders, 422, 438.

Baldwin VI. earl of Flanders, 452.
Baldwin VII. earl of Flanders, 484-488.
Bambrough (Bebba), a royal city, 112, 134,
312, 472.

Bancornburg (Bangor-Iscoed), 70, 71.
Barking monastery, 184-189.
Barton monastery, 174.

Bassianus, son of Severus, 11, 307.

Alfrid, king of Deira, 144, 154, 164, 224, 263, Bass, mass-priest, 326.

266, 274, 329, 332.

Alfun, bishop of Dunwich, 344.

Alfwold, bishop of Sherborne, 387.

Bassus, a soldier of king Edwin, 107.
Battle Abbey founded, 461, 470.
Beardney (Beardeneu) monastery, 126.

Bede (Venerable), his life, vi-xxiii; Eccle- | Cassibellaun's town St. Alban's?), 9.
siastical History, xxiii-xxx; his other
works, 297; death, xxi, 300, 335.
Bega, abbess, 215.

Benedict Biscop, abbat, vii-ix, 202, 270, 297.
Benedict (St.) 310, 311, 461.

Beonna, abbat of Peterborough, 340.
Beorn, earl, 419, 423-425.

Beornmod, bishop of Rochester, 344.
Beort, ealdorman, 329, 332.

Bernard, bishop of St. David's, 491.
Bernred, king of Mercia, 300, 338.
Bernulf, king of Mercia, 346.

Bertgils, or Boniface, bishop of Dunwich,
143, 183.

Bertha, queen, 37, 38, 41, 77.
Berthun, abbat of Beverley, 237.

Cataract (Catterick), 98, 108, 132.
Cearl, king of the Mercians, 97.

Ceawlin or Celin, king of Wessex, 76, 312
-314.

Cedd, bishop of the East Saxons, 3, 144

149, 155, 160, 165.

Celin, priest, 148.

Cenbert, father of Cadwalla, 325.

Ceolfrid, abbat of Wearmouth, 202, 277, 299
Ceol, king of Wessex, 314.

Ceollach, bishop of Repton, 145, 152.
Ceolnoth, abp. of Canterbury, 347, 352.
Ceolred, king of Mercia, 268, 333
Ceolwulf, bishop of Lindsey, 342, 343.
Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria, xvii, 1, 292,
293, 300, 334, 335, 338.

Berthwald, archbishop of Canterbury, 73, Ceolwulf, king of Wessex, 311, 315.

246, 292, 297, 331, 334, 335.

Bethwegen, monk, 233.

Berthwulf, king of Mercia, defeated, 348.
Bertric, king of Wessex, 341, 344
Beverley monastery, 237.

Bieda arrives in Britain, 311.
Birinus, bishop, 119, 318-320.
Bisi, bishop of Dunwich, 183.

Blecca, governor of Lincoln, 100, 318.
Bledla, king of the Huns, 22.
Boisil, abbat, 225, 226, 248.

Boniface, pope, 75, 80, 81, 85, 88, 90.

Ceowulf, king of Mercia, 345, 346.
Cerdic, king of Wessex, 311.

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Chad, bishop of Lichfield, 3, 149, 153, 165.
173, 174-178, 325.

Chalk-hythe synod, 341.

Charles, earl of Tlanders, 488, 496.
Charles (the Fat), 358, 359.

Chelles monastery, 121, 212.
Chertsey monastery, 184, 483.
Chester bishopric, 490.

Chiche (St. Osythe) monastery, 490.
Cissa, king of the South Saxons, 310.

Bosa, bishop of York, 192, 193, 276, 329, Claudius invades Britain, 9, 305.
330.

Bosanham monastery, 194.

Bosel, bishop of Worcester, 214.
Bothelm, a monk at Hexham, 111.
Bregowin, abp. of Canterbury, 338, 339.
Bridius, king of the Picts, 114.
Brie monastery, 121.

Brihtege, bishop of Worcester, 413, 414.
Brinstan, bishop of Winchester, 375.
Britain, its geography described, 4, 303;
under the Romans, 7-18; 304-308.
Brithmar, bishop of Lichfield, 415.
Brithwin, bishop of Sherborne, 411, 417, 418.
Britnoth, abbat of Ely, 381.

Briudun monastery, 292.

Brocmail, 72, 74, 315.

Burhred, king of Mercia, 349-354.

Burton Abbey, 443.

Cloveshoo synod, 336, 346.

Cnobheresburg or Cnobher's town, 139.
Coenred, or Kenred, king of Mercia, 259,
268, 289, 332, 333.

Coifi, 94-96.

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Cadwalla, king of the West Britons, 103, Cuichelm, bishop of Rochester, 192.

109, 318.

Cædmon the poet, 217.

Cadwalla, king of Wessex, 191, 198, 244-
246, 329, 330.

Caerleon-upon-Usk, a Roman city, 15
Cæsar's, Julius, invasion, 7-9, 304.
Campodonum, 98.

Canterbury cathedral, 60, 499.

Canute, king of England, 404-415.
Canute, king of Denmark, 458, 463.
Canute, prince of Denmark, 455.
Carlegion (Chester), 71.

Carausius, a British general, 11, 12.
Cassibellaun, a British king, 8.

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