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Updated: June 22, 2025
"They look for some easily-beaten attack from this side of the Parret, and at the first sign thereof will leave Edington height for the level ground below, as they did when Hubba came. Then when they turn, on Edington hill will be our levy suddenly a levy of which they have not dreamed.
On the N. is a projecting chapel containing a fan-traceried roof of considerable merit, but the interior of the building is not now on view. Stawell, a parish 3-1/2 m. S.W. of Edington Station. Stawley, a village on the Tone, 3 m. S.E. of Venn Cross station.
Giles and others have at length established the claims of Edington, a village seven miles from Clay hill, on the northeast, to the spot where the strength of the second wave of pagan invasion was utterly broken and rolled back weak and helpless from the rock of the West Saxon kingdom.
Then I would hear of this from Alfred himself. "Ay," he said, when he had greeted me and heard that the ships were almost ready, "I have outdone you; for I have played the gleeman as I planned, and have been in the midst of them yonder on Edington hill." "It was an awesome risk to run, my king," I said. "Which you taught me yourself, cousin.
She stumbled once or twice from timidity, but Edington guided unerringly. Half-way round she suddenly struck the proper swing. "There that's it," cried Edington, enthusiastically. "Now you've got it! Fine!"
Edington had tried for a commission in an officers' training-camp and failed. He was extraordinarily frank about it all, and good-natured at the chaffing that Mrs. Condor and Stillman threw at him. "I'm going to wait now and be drafted," he announced. "As long as I failed to make a high grade I want to begin at the bottom and see the whole picture."
Possibly owing to the dearth of clergy caused by the Black Death, Wykeham, after the laying-on of hands by his old master, Bishop Edington, became an acolyte in the December of 1361, a sub-deacon in the March following, and priest in the June of 1362.
"This is luck!... I guess we'll have to rout out the Sherwins. It's something of a pull up the hill, but any safe port in a storm, you know." "The Sherwins?" "Another one of the Edington girls. They have a bungalow at the very dizziest point in Sausalito." But Claire objected and held firm. "I couldn't think of it, Mr. Stillman. No, really!... Please don't insist."
And as we listened they seemed to us to be wiser than mortal mind could have made, so simple and yet so sure were they, as most great plans will be. It is no wonder that his people hold that he was taught them from above. He bade us look across the fens to the wooded heights of Selwood Forest, to south and east, and to the bold spur of the Polden Hills beyond the Parret that they call Edington.
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