[24] See Wright, History of Domestic Manners, p. 13.
[25] The Danish fortress of Nottingham is mentioned by the Chronicle in 868, but we are speaking now of purely Anglo-Saxon fortresses.
[26] Asser, ch. 91, Stevenson’s edition.
[27] “That same year King Alfred repaired London; and all the English submitted to him, except those who were under the bondage of the Danish men; and then he committed the city (burh) to the keeping of Ethelred the ealdorman.” A.-S. C., 886. The word used for London is Londonburh. Asser says: “Londoniam civitatem honorifice restauravit et habitabilem fecit,” p. 489.
[28] Birch’s Cartularium, ii., 220, 221.
[29] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 878, 893, 896. According to Henry of Huntingdon, the work on the Lea was the splitting of that river into two channels; but I am informed that no trace of such a division remains.
[30] Gesta Pontificum, 186. See [Appendix C].
[31] Birch’s Cartularium, ii., 222; Kemble’s Codex Diplomaticus, v., 142.
[32] He signs a charter in 889 as “subregulus et patricius Merciorum,” Kemble’s Codex Diplomaticus. See Freeman, N. C., i., 564; and Plummer, A.-S. C., i., 118.
[33] The dates in this chapter are taken from Florence of Worcester, who is generally believed to have used a more correct copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle than those which have come down to us.