The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical history of England / [translated by J. Stevens] Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. With illustrative notes, a map of Anglo-Saxon England and a general index. Edited by J.A. Giles.

  • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical history of England / [translated by J. Stevens] Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. With illustrative notes, a map of Anglo-Saxon England and a general index. Edited by J.A. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    court at Gloucester; anrl there came messengers to him out of Normandy, from his brother Robert, and they .said that liis brother renounced all peace and compact if the kin- would not perform all that they had stipulated in the treaty; moreover they called him perjured and faithless unless he would perform the conditions, or would go to the place where the treaty had been concluded and sworn to, and there clear himself. Then at Candlemas the king went to Hastings, and whilst he waited there for a fair wind, he caused the monastery on the field of battle* to be conse- crated; and he took the staff from Herbert Ix>sange,f bishop of Tlietford.—After this, in the middle of Lent, he went over sea to Normandy. When he came thither he and his brother, earl Robert, agreed that they would meet in peace, and they did so, to the end that they might be reconciled. Rut afterwards, when they met, attended by the same men who had brought about the treaty, and had sworn to sec it executed, these charged all the breach of faith upon the king; he would not allow this, neither would he observe the treaty, on which they separated in great enmity. And the king then seized the castle of Bures, and took the earl’s men wlio were in it, and he sent some of them over to this coun- try. And on the other hand the earl. Avith the assistance of the king of France, took the castle of Argences. in which he seized Roger the Poitou and seven hundred of the king’s soldiers; and he afterwards took the castle of Hulnie: and frequently did each burn tlie towns and take captive the people of his rival. Then tlie king ,«ent hither and ordered out 20.000 Englislimcn to aid him in Normandy, but when they readied tlie sea they Avere desired to return, and to giA-e to tlie king’s treasury the money that they had received: this Avas half a pound for each man, and they did so. And in Normandy, after this, the earl, Avith the king of France, and all the troops that they couhl collect, marched tOAA-anls I'hi, Avhere king William then Avas. pur]iosing to besiege him therein, and thus they proceeded until they came to Liiiie- * Hnttlo Alihi'v. + ('i)ininonly called Horhort de Losinpa. His letters arc of much his- torical interest ; they were sup]iost'd to he lost, until they verc recently discovcrcil liy Kolicrt Anstrulher in the-Itrussels lihmrA', and published bvo, liruxcllis, apud Vandalc, et Londini .apud U. Nutt.