[94] Thanet.
[95] Wilts.
[96] Offa's dyke, between Wales and England.
[97] Ingram supposes this to be Stonehenge. Stæningham, however, is the common reading, which Camden thinks is Steyning, in Sussex. The Saxon Chronicle, a.d. 855, states, that Ethelwulf was buried at Winchester.
[98] We must understand this epithet as denoting his mother-in-law, Judith, rather than his own mother, who was dead in a.d. 856, when Alfred was not yet seven years old. When his father brought Judith from France Alfred was thirteen years old.
[99] This nobleman occurs as a witness [Mucil, dux] to many Mercian charters, dated from a.d. 814 to 866.
[100] Inhabitants of Gainsborough.
[101] Englefield Green is about four miles from Windsor
[102] Aston, in Berkshire.
[103] Stratclyde Britons.