The Saxons in England, Volume 2 (of 2) / A history of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest

by John Mitchell Kemble

[1040]. Vit. Ælfr. an. 878.

[1041]. Probably in 926.

[1042]. The author of the Gesta Stephani, a contemporary of Malmesbury, declares that the city was “vetustissimo Cæsarum opere murata:” and that its castle was “muro inexpugnabili obseptum, turribus Cæsarianis incisili calce confectis firmatum,” p. 21.

[1043]. Will. Malm. Gest. Reg. lib. ii. § 134 (Hardy’s Ed. vol. i. p. 214); see also Gest. Pontif. lib. ii. § 95 (Hamilton’s Ed. p. 201).

[1044]. Chron. Sax. 1003.

[1045]. A Few Historical Remarks upon the supposed Antiquity of Church-rates. Ridgway, 1836.

[1046]. Thorpe, ii. 256.

[1047]. Epist. Cnut. Flor. Wig. an. 1031.

[1048]. Now Tidenham in Gloucestershire, near the point where the Wye falls into the Severn, nearly 2° 36´ west longitude from Greenwich.

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