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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 91<br />

1070<br />

SYMEON OF DURHAM, HISTORIA REGUM, VOL. II, PP. 190-192,<br />

S.A. 1070. *<br />

Bishop Ethelw<strong>in</strong>, return<strong>in</strong>g from flight, planned <strong>in</strong> his m<strong>in</strong>d<br />

to flee for ever. 2<br />

. . . T<strong>here</strong>fore a ship was prepared for him<br />

and, laden with the necessary th<strong>in</strong>gs, awaited a favourable<br />

w<strong>in</strong>d <strong>in</strong> the harbour of Wearmouth.<br />

At that time were t<strong>here</strong> also several other ships, whose com-<br />

and his<br />

manders were Edgar Ethel<strong>in</strong>g, with his mother Agatha<br />

two sisters, Margaret and Christ<strong>in</strong>a Siward ; Barn, Marieswe<strong>in</strong>,<br />

Alfw<strong>in</strong> son of Norman, and very many others who, after the<br />

storm<strong>in</strong>g of their castles at York, when the Danes returned to<br />

their own, feared for themselves the k<strong>in</strong>g's <strong>in</strong>dignation because<br />

they had aided them, and were prepar<strong>in</strong>g to go as fugitives to<br />

<strong>Scotland</strong>, and awaited t<strong>here</strong> a favourable voyage.<br />

Dur<strong>in</strong>g the same time an endless host of Scots led by k<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Malcolm passed through Cumberland, and turn<strong>in</strong>g towards<br />

the east wasted with fierce harry<strong>in</strong>g the whole of Teesdale and<br />

the districts near to it on either side.<br />

And when they came to the place which is called <strong>in</strong> English<br />

Hundredeskelde, and <strong>in</strong> Lat<strong>in</strong> Centum Fontes, they slew t<strong>here</strong><br />

certa<strong>in</strong> nobles of the English nation ; and the k<strong>in</strong>g, keep<strong>in</strong>g<br />

part of the army, sent home part with endless spoil by the way<br />

with <strong>this</strong> crafty purpose, that, when all the<br />

they had come :<br />

enemy was supposed to have gone, the wretched <strong>in</strong>habitants,<br />

who through fear of the foe had safely preserved themselves<br />

and their belong<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> what hid<strong>in</strong>g-places they could, should<br />

return <strong>in</strong> security to their vills and their homes, and that he<br />

might take them unawares by a sudden advance.<br />

And so it was done. For he harried Cleveland <strong>in</strong> part, and<br />

by a sudden raid occupied Hartness and thence he ;<br />

savagely<br />

overran the lands of St. Cuthbert and robbed all men of<br />

everyth<strong>in</strong>g, and several of their very lives also.<br />

Then, while he looked on, the flames k<strong>in</strong>dled by his men<br />

consumed even the church of St. Peter, pr<strong>in</strong>ce of the apostles,<br />

<strong>in</strong> Wearmouth. 3 Other churches too he burned, with those<br />

who had taken refuge <strong>in</strong> them.<br />

1 So Hoved., i, 120-122.<br />

2 In 1070, S. of D., H.D.E., i, 105 ; after March 20th, (MS. D, 25th,)<br />

ibid., 101. Ethelw<strong>in</strong> was outlawed at Easter, 1070 ; A.S.C., MS. D, s.a. 1068.<br />

Cf. Ann. of Durh., <strong>in</strong> M.G.H., SS., xix, 508, s.a. 1070.<br />

Before <strong>this</strong> date, " Ethelw<strong>in</strong>, bishop after Ethelric, appo<strong>in</strong>ted t<strong>here</strong> as<br />

prior Utred, Ulfkill's son. This Utred is the father of Gospatric, who is<br />

now sheriff <strong>in</strong> Teviotdale " ; Ra<strong>in</strong>e's Hexh., i, app., viii.<br />

3 St. Peter's had at <strong>this</strong> time long been a ru<strong>in</strong> ; S. of D., H.D.E., i, 113,<br />

112. Cf. H<strong>in</strong>de, Surtees Soc. ed. of S. of D., i, p. xxix.

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