Of 0XF0%<D~SH1%E, & 



ton, /4w. io.of Edw.Sen y . at ^ofieuertune, hysFlorentiusWi- 

 gornienfis, which he caHs Fi7/^/?z Regiam z , now Hokg-norton. 



j6. As for Cbaftleton barrow, by the above-mention'd rw/e, it 

 fhould be a Fortification of the Danes, perhaps caft up about the 

 year i o 1 6. at what time Edmund Ironfide met Canutus the Danijh 

 King hereaboUw, and defeated him after a long and bloody Bat- 

 tle, fought at a place called Seorftan by fob. Bromton \ Sterne/ion 

 and Scerufdan by Matth. Wefimin/ter \ Scearslan by Florentws Wi~ 

 gornienfis c and Simon of Durham d , and Sejerftan by Wormiut % 

 fromfejer vifloria, and yftjfl /j/> ; whereof all the reft feem but 

 corruptions, there being feveral fuch in Denmark^nd Norway cal- 

 led by that name to this day * : which though they all fay ex- 

 prefly was in Hwinclia or Huiccia, i. e. Worcejler-Jhire, yet I verily 

 believe it with Camden,to be that (lone not far off, called Fourfiire 

 Hone (or clfe that other near it) parting four Counties, whereof 

 Worcejier-fhire is one. 



77. And as for the Entrenchments in Merton Woods, 1 guefs 

 them caft up by King Mthelred, or the Danes in the year 871. at 

 what time fays Floren.Wigornienfis, King /Etbelred and his Bro- 

 ther JElfred, cum paganhpugnantes apud S^ZVttUtlZ e , fighting with 

 the Danes at Mereton (as 1 find this town was anciently written in 

 the Leigier Book o'lEnJbam f ) overcame them,and put their whole 

 Army to flight. That the Danes had fomwhat to do hereabout, is 

 further evinced, from one of their (purs in the hands (if I mif- 

 remember not) of George Sherman, of the Town of Biffeter not 

 far from this place, which I took no care to get engraven, becaufe 

 already done by Olaus Wormiut*, where the Reader may fee the 

 exaft figure of it : All which put together, and that this place is 

 near the meeting of two military ways , I am pretty well fa- 

 tisfied that this Battle between JEthelred, his Brother ALlfred, and 

 the Danes, was much rather here, than at Merdon in Wilt-fiire, as 

 fome have thought it. 



78. And if AdwellCop may pafs for a Fortification, as the En- 

 trenchments about it on the South-eaft-fide feem to promife,I guefs 

 it made about the year 1 o 1 o, when the Danes, as Simeon of Dur- 

 ham teftifies, came forth of their Ships in the month of January, 



T In ckrmieo Johan. Bromton. Abbot. Jornalens, in An. 10. Ed. Sen. * Florentim Mgornienfis in Anno 

 914- * Chroniconjo. Bromton Abb- Jam. iwuitaEdmundiFer.lat. b Matth. Wcftmon. F lores Hi Bar. in 

 An.ioib. f lor. Wigor. in An. citato. d Simeon Dunelmenfis Hift. de geftis Reg. Ang. in eodem. * Ol. 

 Worm. Mn. Van. lib- <; Monumentoncm inter Ripenfia f. p. 343. c Floren. Wigornenfis in An citato- ' E 

 HegiBrode En/ham, MS penes ReverendiJJtmum Decanum & Capitulum Ecclef* Cathedral. Cbrift. Oxonia. 

 Qlai Wormii Monument. Vamcor- lib. 1 . cap. 7. p, 50. Fig. E. 



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