-tide, Harald went with his ships from Bristol about ales; and the people made a truce and delivered hostages; Tosty went with a land-force against them: and they dued the land. But in this same year, during harvest, s king Griffin slain, on the Nones of August, by his own n, by reason of the war that he warred with Harold the 1. He was king over all the Welsh race: and his head s brought to Harold the earl, and Harold brought it to the ■g, and his ship's head, and the rigging therewith. And g Edward committed the land to his two brothers, Blethat and Rigwatle; and they swore oaths, and delivered stages to the king and to the earl, that they would be thful to him in all things, and be everywhere ready for , by water and by land, and make such renders from the d as had been done before to any other king.

■. 1063. This year went Harold the earl, and his brother Tosty the , as well with a land-force as a ship-force, into Wales, and they subd the land; and the people delivered hostages to them, and submitted; went afterwards and slew their king Griffin, and brought to Harold his d: and he appointed another king thereto.

A. 1064.

A. 1065. In this year, before Lammas, Harold the earl lered a building to be erected in Wales at Portskeweth, er he had subdued it; and there he gathered much good; I thought to have king Edward there for the purpose of nting. But when it was all ready, then went Caradoc, iffin's son, with the whole force which he could procure, slew almost all the people who there had been building; 1 they took the good which there was prepared. We wist who first devised this ill counsel. This was done on St. rtholomew's mass-day. And soon after this, all the thanes Yorkshire and in Northumberland gathered themselves ether, and outlawed their earl, Tosty, and slew his housed men, all that they might come at, as well English as nish and they took all his weapons at York, and gold, d silver, and all his treasures which they might any where ere hear of, and sent after Morkar, the son of Elgar the l, and chose him to be their earl: and he went south with the shire, and with Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire, d Lincolnshire, until he came to Northampton and his other Edwin came to meet him with the men who were

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in his earldom, and also many Britons came with him. There came Harold, the earl, to meet them; and they laid an errand upon him to king Edward, and also sent messengers with him, and begged that they might have Morkar for their earl. And the king granted it, and sent Harold again to them at Northampton, on the eve of St. Simon's and St. Jude's mass; and he made known the same to them, and delivered a pledge thereof unto them: and he there renewed Canute's law. But the northern men did much harm about Northampton whilst he went on their errand, inas much as they slew men and burned houses and corn; and took all the cattle which they might come at, that was many thousand and many hundred men they took and led north with them; so that that shire, and the other shires which there are nigh, were for many years the worse. And Tosty the earl, and his wife, and all those who would what he would, went south over sea with him to Baldwin, the earl, and he received them all; and they were all the winter there. And king Edward came to Westminster at midwinter, and there caused to be consecrated the minster which himself had built to the glory of God and of St. Peter, and of all God's saints; and the church-hallowing was on Childer mass-day. And he died on Twelfth-day eve, and him they buried on Twelfth-day eve, in the same minster, as it hereafter sayeth.

Here Edward king,
of Angles lord,
sent his stedfast

soul to Christ,
in God's protection,
spirit holy.

He in the world here
dwelt awhile
in royal majesty
mighty in council.
Four-and-twenty,
lordly ruler!

of winters numbered,
he wealth dispensed;
and he a prosperous tide,
ruler of heroes,

distinguished governed,
Welsh and Scots,
and Britons also,
son of Ethelred,
Angles and Saxons,
chieftains bold.
Where'er embrace
cold ocean-waves,
there all to Edward,
noble king!
obeyed faithfully,
the warrior-men.
Aye was blithe-mind
the harmless king,
though he long erst
of land bereaved,

exile dwelt

He o'er the earth,

ce Canute o'ercame
race of Ethelred,
1 Danes wielded
dear realm

Angle-land,
ht-and-twenty
winters numbered,
alth dispensed.
cer forth-came,
vestments lordly,

g with the chosen good,
ste and mild,
ward the noble :

realm he guarded,

d and people,

il suddenly came

| death the bitter,

and so dear a one seized.
This noble, from earth
angels carried,
stedfast soul,

into heaven's light.

And the sage ne'ertheless,
the realm committed
to a highly-born man,
Harold's self,
the noble earl!
He in all time
obeyed faithfully
his rightful lord
by words and deeds,
nor aught neglected
which needful was

to his sovereign-king.

d this year also was Harold consecrated king; and he with e quiet abode therein, the while that he wielded the

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. 1065. And the man-slaying was on St. Bartholomew's mass-day. then, after Michael's-mass, all the thanes in Yorkshire went to York, there slew all earl Tosty's household servants whom they might of, and took his treasures: and Tosty was then at Britford with the . And then, very soon thereafter, was a great council at Northampand then at Oxford on the day of Simon and Jude. And there was old the earl, and would work their reconciliation if he might, but he could : but all his earldom him unanimously forsook and outlawed, and all with him lawlessness upheld, because he robbed God first, and all e bereaved over whom he had power of life and of land. And they then to themselves Morkar for earl; and Tosty went then over sea, and his with him, to Baldwin's land, and they took up their winter residence t. Omer's.

A. 1066. In this year king Harold came from York to stminster, at that Easter which was after the mid-winter which the king died; and Easter was then on the day, h before the Kalends of May. Then was, over all Engd, such a token seen in the heavens, as no man ever ore saw. Some men said that it was cometa the star, ich some men call the haired star; and it appeared first the eve Litania Major, the 8th before the Kalends of May,

and so shone all the seven nights. And soon after came in Tosty the earl from beyond sea into the Isle of Wight, with so great a fleet as he might procure; and there they yielded him as well money as food. And king Harold, his brother, gathered so great a ship-force, and also a land-force, as no king here in the land had before done; because it was made known to him that William the bastard would come hither and win this land; all as it afterwards happened. And the while, came Tosty the earl into Humber with sixty ships; and Edwin the earl came with a land-force and drove him out. And the boatmen forsook him; and he went to Scotland with twelve vessels. And there met him Harold king of Norway with three hundred ships; and Tosty submitted to him and became his man. And they then went both into Humber, until they came to York; and there fought against them Edwin the earl, and Morkar the earl, his brother: but the Northmen had the victory. Then was it made known to Harold king of the Angles that this had thus happened: and this battle was on the vigil of St. Matthew. Then came Harold our king unawares on the Northmen, and met with them beyond York, at Stanford-bridge, with a great army of English people; and there during the day was a very severe fight on both sides. There was slain Harold the Fairhaired, and Tosty the earl; and the Northmen who were there remaining were put to flight; and the English from behind hotly smote them, until they came, some, to their ships, some were drowned, and some also burned; and thus in divers ways they perished, so that there were few left: and the English had possession of the place of carnage. The king then gave his protection to Olave, son of the king of the Nor wegians, and to their bishop, and to the earl of Orkney, and to all those who were left in the ships: and they then went up to our king, and swore oaths that they ever would observe peace and friendship towards this land; and the king let them go home with twenty-four ships. These two general battles were fought within five days. Then came William earl of Normandy into Pevensey, on the eve of St. Michael'smass and soon after they were on their way, they construc ted a castle at Hasting's-port. This was then made known to king Harold, and he then gathered a great force, and came to meet him at the estuary of Appledore; and William came

inst him unawares, before his people were set in order. t the king nevertheless strenuously fought against him h those men who would follow him; and there was great ighter made on either hand. There was slain king rold, and Leofwin the earl, his brother, and Girth the ↳, his brother, and many good men; and the Frenchmen I possession of the place of carnage, all as God granted m for the people's sins. Archbishop Aldred and the ́nsmen of London would then have child Edgar for king, as was his true natural right: and Edwin and Morcar ved to him that they would fight together with him. But hat degree that it ought ever to have been forwarder, so sit from day to day later and worse; so that at the end passed away. This fight was done on the day of Calixthe pope. And William the earl went afterwards again Hastings, and there awaited to see whether the people uld submit to him. But when he understood that they uld not come to him, he went upwards with all his army ich was left to him, and that which afterwards had come n over sea to him; and he plundered all that part which over-ran, until he came to Berkhampstead. And there e to meet him archbishop Aldred,* and child Edgar, 1 Edwin the earl, and Morcar the earl, and all the ef men of London; and then submitted, for need, when most harm had been done: and it was very unwise that y had not done so before; since God would not better it, our sins and they delivered hostages, and swore oaths him; and he vowed to them that he would be a loving 1 to them and nevertheless, during this, they plundered that they over-ran. Then, on mid-winter's day, archop Aldred consecrated him king at Westminster; and he e him a pledge upon Christ's book, and also swore, before would set the crown upon his head, that he would govern s nation as well as any king before him had at the best e, if they would be faithful to him. Nevertheless, he Ia tribute on the people, very heavy; and then went, dug Lent, over sea to Normandy, and took with him archop Stigand, and Aylnoth, abbat of Glastonbury, and Id Edgar, and Edwin the earl, and Morkar the earl, I Waltheof the earl, and many other good men of Eng * Of York.