The Scouring of the White Horse; Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk

by Thomas Hughes

To a tre, and to hym ssote, and made hym mony a wounde,

That the arewe were on hym tho thycke, that no stede n’as byleved.

Atte laste hii martred hym, and smyte of ys heved.”

Robert of Gloster’s Chronicle, p. 263, apud Thomas Hearne. Ed. 1724.

[11] See Saxon Chronicle, and Huntingdon, A.D. 870.

[12] See Brompton, A.D. 870.

[13] See Sax Chron., A.D. 870.

[14] See Huntingdon, A.D. 871.

[15] See Simeon, A.D. 871.

[16] See Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 871.