The Scouring of the White Horse. Hughes Thomas

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3

See Simeon, A.D. 870.

4

See Chronicle of St. Neot, A.D. 878.

5

See Saxon Chron. and Asser, A.D. 866.

6

See Asser, A.D. 867.

7

See Saxon Chron. and Huntingdon, A.D. 874.

8

See Simeon, A.D. 870.

9

N. B. This was written in October, 1857.

10

Here is Robert of Gloster’s account of the martyrdom: —

“So that atte laste to Estangle agen hym come:

Ther hii barned and robbede and that fole to grounde slowe;

And as wolves among ssep reulych hem to drowe,

Seynt Edmond was tho her kyng, and tho he sey that delvol cas

That me morthred so that fole, and non amendement n’as,

He ches levere to deye hym-sulf, that such soreve to ysey —

He dude hym vorth among ys ton, n’olde he nothyng fle.

Hii nome hym and scourged hym, and suthe naked hym bounde

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.

17

See Asser, A.D. 871.

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This is Robert of Gloster’s account of the Battle: —

“The Kyng and Alfred ys brother nome men ynowe,

Mette hem, and a batayle smyte up Assesdowne —

Ther was mony moder chyld, that sone lay ther doune —

The batayle ylaste vorte-nygt, and ther were aslawe

Vyf dukes of Dene-march, ar hii wolde wyth drawe,

And mony thousende of other men, and tho’ gonne hii to fle;

Ac hii adde alle ybe assend, gyf the nyght n’adde y bee.

Robert of Gloster, p. 263, apud Thomas Hearne. Ed. 1724.”