[3] Elton, Origins of English History, p. 360.
[4] Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, Chapters in the History of Old St. Paul’s, 1881, p. 3.
[5] Archæologia, vol. xxxii. pp. 298-311.
[6] Norman Conquest, vol. i. pp. 44-46.
[7] The Treaty was really made at Chippenham.
[8] See Earle’s edition of the Saxon Chronicle. Mr Charles Plummer, who edited a new edition of Two of the Saxon Chronicles, Parallel (Oxford, 1892-99), does not altogether agree with Earle in these views. He holds that no distinction was meant between Lunden and Lundenburh.
[9] Quoted in Archæologia, vol. xxxix. p. 56.
[10] Heimskringla, done into English out of the Icelandic by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson, vol. ii. p. 14.
[11] Norman Conquest, vol. i. p. 418.
[12] This device of Cnut’s is one of great interest, although we have no details of how it was carried out. The late Sir Walter Besant contended that it was not the great work which some had supposed, and he made an elaborate plan of his suggestion as to its construction. (See South London, 1899, p. 40.)