Yorke, Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England, p | And in the winter King Edmund fought with them; but the Danes gained the victory, and slew the king; whereupon they overran all that land, and destroyed all the monasteries to which they came |
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"This year the army rode over Mercia into East-Anglia, and there fixed their winter-quarters at Thetford |
They made such havoc there, that a monastery, which was before full rich, was now reduced to nothing | Ridyard, The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England, p |
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At the same time came they to Medhamsted, burning and breaking, and slaying abbot and monks, and all that they there found | The same year died Archbishop Ceolnoth; and Ethered, Bishop of Witshire, was chosen Archbishop of Canterbury |