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Finding therefore no object in that place, either for their rapine or violence, they suddenly turned back upon Mercia, in a quarter where they expected to find it without defence; and fixing their station at Repton in Derbyshire, they laid the whole country desolate with fire and sword. W. Malm. lib. 2. cap. 2. Ingulph. p. 869. Ibid. p. 22. Chron. Sax. p. 82.
W. Malm. p. 164, 227. Hoveden, p. 471. M. Paris, p. 43. T. Rudb. p. 274. Brompton, p. 1000. Wilkins, p. 303. Chron. After the principal controversy was accommodated, it was not difficult to adjust the other differences.
But yet when his people were assembled, he was warned to take héed vnto himselfe, and in anie wise to beware how he gaue battell, for his owne subiects were purposed to betraie him. Malm.
The death of this woman caused the king to commit an heinous offense. Malm. Herevpon returning to the king, he informed him that the damosell was not of such beautie and comelie personage, as might be thought woorthie to match in mariage with his maiestie.
These two brothers, observing the other provinces of Germany to be occupied by a warlike and necessitous people, and the rich provinces of Gaul already conquered or overrun by other German tribes, found it easy to persuade their countrymen to embrace the sole enterprise which promised a favourable opportunity of displaying their valour and gratifying their avidity. Gul. Malm. p. 11.
Finallie, after he had reigned 24 yéeres, he departed this life, and appointed his buriall to be in the same abbeie of Winchcombe, leauing behind him a sonne named Kenelme, who succeeded his father in the kingdome, but was soone murthered by his vnnaturall sister Quendred, the 17 of Iulie, as hereafter shall be shewed. Malm. Matth. West. Hen. Hunt.
The pope frequently turned the zeal of the crusaders from the infidels against his own enemies, whom he represented as equally criminal with the enemies of Christ. Chron. T. Wykes. p. 24. Annal. Waverl. p. 139. W. Heming. p. 467. Flor. Wig. p. 648. Sim. Dunelm. p. 222. W. Malm. p. 123.
This was a sore foughten battell, with much bloudshed on both parties. Malm. But the Scotish writers make other report of this matter, as in the historie of Scotland ye maie find recorded. I. Leland. Wil.
Also a great part of Cheshire was destroied by pirats of Norway. Fabian. Wil. Malm. Matt. About the eight yéere of his reigne, Egelred maried one Elgina or Ethelgina, daughter of earle Egbert.
Malm. Ye haue heard how the Danes slue Osrike and Ella kings of Northumberland. Here is to be remembred, that some writers rehearse the cause to be this.
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