[216] The monastery of St. Edmundbury.
[217] He here considers Ledo to imply the spring tide; but others say it means the neap, and express the former by Malina. See Du Cange.
[218] Corsham, in Wiltshire?
[219] March 12th, but the Saxon Chronicle says St. George’s day, 23d April.
[220] In Somersetshire?
[221] Sceorstan is conjectured to be near Chipping Norton.—Sharp. Supposed to be a stone which divided the four counties of Oxford, Gloucester, Worcester and Warwick.—Hardy.
[222] He passed the Thames at Brentford, followed them into Kent, and defeated them at Aylesford. Saxon Chron.
[223] Thought to be either Assingdon, Ashdown in Essex, or Aston in Berkshire.
[224] Henry Huntingdon says they actually engaged, and that Canute finding himself likely to be worsted, proposed the division.—H. Hunt. 1. 6.
[225] “Florence of Worcester and the Saxon Chronicle place his death on the 30th of November, 1016. Florence, however, adds the year of the indiction, which corresponds with A.D. 1017.”—Hardy.