illius die sequenti Lundonie delatum, ab episcopis
Elnotho, Lincolniensi, & Alfuno Lundon’
& a ciuibus in ecclesia Sancti
Pauli honorifice sepelitur.
A[nno] moxiiiio Sanctus Edmundus Suanum
tirannum & blasfemum, in placito apud Gainesburc ipsum
uidentem, &
exclamantem armatus occidit, quo mortuo filium eius Cnutum classis
Danorum
constituit. Ac maiores natu Angl’ Elredum regem, de Normannia reuo
cauerunt.
A[nno] moxiiiio Leuingus
Dorobern’ archiepiscopatum suscepit. Suanus rex Danorum, cum ualida cla
sse Angliam
deuectus, ubique fere per Angliam feribundus debaccans, obsidibus acceptis sibi
illam subegit quod uidens rex Eilredus cum uxore & filiis, in Normanniam, ad
Ricardum ducem pro
fectus est.
A[nno] moxvo rex Eilredus egrotare cepit. Edmundus Ferreum Latus, filius
eius, regni curam habuit
Cnuto uero per multa loca predas agenti multi obsides
dederunt, cui & Edricus perfidus se
submisit.
A[nno] moxvio rex Eilredus, episcopi,
abbates, & nobiliores Anglie, Cnutum sibi in regem ele
gere. Ciues uero
Lundonienses, & pars aliqua nobilium, Edmundum Ferreum Latus in re
gem leuauere.
Qui postquam secties cum Cnuto congressus fueret ubi semper fere uic
tor exstiterat
pace facta inter ipsum & Cnutum, & Angliam inter eos diuisa. At quidam
proditor sub purgatoria domo Edmundum ad requisita nature nudatum
inter celanda
percussit, & mortuus est.
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Memorandum quod abbas d1 Dundraynand mutuauit cronica de Melros, in quibus fuerunt xiiii
quaterni, folia vxx ⁊ xix.
vio idus Nouembris, copulatus est
in matrimonium Alexander filius nobilissmi Alexandri
regis Scott’ Margaretae filie
Nicolai comitis Flandre, anno etatis peulle xi an
norum, ⁊ pueri fere xx ⁊ facta est
apud Roquebwrk in capella Sancti Iohannis ew2 in oppido.
was carried to London the
following day by Bishops Eadnoth of Lincoln and Ælfhun of London, and he is buried
honourably by the citizens in the church of St Paul.
In the 1013▬
th year St Eadmund slew Svein, the tyrant and
blasphemer who saw him in a hearing at Gainsborough and cried out that he was armed. At
his death the Danish fleet appointed his son, Knútr. But the greater men of English
birth recalled King Æthelred from Normandy.1
In the 1014th year Lefing received the archiepiscopacy of Canterbury. Svein, king of the
Danes, was borne away to England with a strong fleet, and, after hostages had been
received, he subjected it to himself, raving like a wild animal almost anywhere
throughout England. Seeing this, King Æthelred travelled to Normandy with his wife and
sons, to Duke Richard.
In the 1015th year King Æthelred
took ill, and Eadmund Ironside, his son, had charge of the kingdom. Many, moreover, gave
hostages to Knútr, who was taking spoils throughout many places; and the treacherous
Eadric submitted to him.
In the 1016th year King
Æthelred, the bishops, abbots, and nobles of England, chose Knútr as their king. The
citizens of London, however, and another part of the nobility, raised up Eadmund
Ironside as king. After he had engaged with Knútr six times, where he evidently almost
always had victory, peace was made between him and Knútr, and England was divided
between them. But a certain traitor under the cleansing house struck Eadmund—naked for
the call of nature—in the privates, and he died.
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Let it be remembered that the abbot of Dundrennan borrowed
the chronicle of Melrose in which were 14 quires, 119 folios.2
On 8 November, Alexander, son of the most noble Alexander
king of Scots, was joined in matrimony to Margaret, daughter of Nicholas3 count of Flanders, in the girl’s
11th year of age, and almost the 20th of the boy’s; and it happened at Roxburgh in the chapel of St John [the
Evangelist] in the castle.4