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The Font o£ Somertbrd Keynes is, by an error in copying out my 

 original notes, given as of fifteenth century date ; it should have 

 been thirteenth century. 



C. E. P., August, 1893. 



by the troops of his subjects who flocked to him, and called Egbert's 

 or Egbricht's Stone, with Brixton-Deverill, a small village about 

 half-way between Hindon and Warminster. Thence the army 

 marched the next day at daybreak, in the middle of May, to iEglea, 

 about the locality of which place writers are not agreed — and the 

 next day he marched to Ethandune/' 



Dr. Beke supposes that the day before the action Alfred made a 

 long and forced march of about thirty-five miles over the Downs 

 with his cavalry, and reached iEglea, and that the next morning he 

 attacked the Danish army by the road from Shefford. He bases 



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