Of OXFO^p^SHlTiE. ^ 
ton^ An, 10. of Eclw,Sen\ at i^ofienettltne, hys Florent'mWi" 
gorn'unfis^ whkhhe chills Vil/am Regiam"^^ now Hok^-nor ton. 
76. As for Cbafileton harrow, by the above-mention'd r^/e, ic 
(hould be a Fortification of the Danes, perhaps caft up about the 
year 1016. at what time Edmund Ironfide met Canum the Danijh 
King hereabout, and defeated him after a long and bloody Bat- 
tle, fought at a place called Seorfian by Job, Bromton % Sternefton 
and Scerufdan by Matth, We^minfler ^ Scearftan by Florentiws Wi- 
gornknfis c and vSV/wot? of Durham ^, and Sejerflan by Iformius , 
from y^jer vi^ioria, and y?^« /j//5 ; whereof all the reft feem but 
corruptions, there being feveral fuch in Denmark^nd. l^orway cal- 
led by that name to this day * : which though they all fay ex- 
prefly was in HmnSiia or Huiccia, i. e. Worcejler-fh'm, yet I verily 
believe it with Camden-yto be that ^ont not far off, called Four /hire 
flone (or elfethat other near it) parting four Counties^ whereof 
Worcefter-Pjire is one. 
77. And as for the Entrenchments in MertonWoodi^, I guefs 
them caft up by King JEthelred, or the Danes in the year 871. at 
what time fays Floren. Wigornienfis, King /Ethelred and his Bro- 
ther /Elfred, cum fagankpugnantes apud Speretune ^, fighting with 
the Danes at Mereton (as I find this town was anciently written in 
the Leigier Book of Enjham ^) overcame them,and put their whole 
Army to flight. That the Danes had fomwhat to do hereabout, is 
further evinced, from one of their ^urs in the hands (if I mif- 
remember not) of George Sherman, of the Town of Bifeter not 
far from this place, which I took no care to get engraven, becaufe 
already done by Olaus Worm'm^ where the Reader n^-^y fee the 
exa6l 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 Mthelred, his Brother MIfred, and 
the Danes, was much rather here, than at Merdon in Wih-J/Are, as 
fome have thought it. 
78. And if AdwellCof m?iy ^2Xsior2i Fortification, zsiht En- 
trenchments about it on the South-eaft-fiide feem to promife,! guefs 
it made about the year i o i o. when the Danes^ as Simeon of Dur- 
ham teftifies, came forth of their Ships in the month of January, 
J Jn chrmiico Johan. Bromton. Ahbot. 'jornalens., in An.-\o. Ed. Sen. * Florentim Wigornienfis in Aniia 
914.. * Chronicon'^o. Bromton Abb. Jorn. invitaEdmundiFer. lat. Matth.Wcfimon. F/ores HiBor. in 
A?i.ioi6. « Fkr.Wigor. in At. citato. <* Simeon Dunelmenfis Hift. degeftisReg. Ang.in eodem. * OL 
H^arm. Mon. Dan. lib- 5. Monumentorum inter Ripenfia 5. p. 34^. « Floren. Wigornenjis in An. citato. ^ E 
JtegiSlro de En/ham, MS -penes ReverendiJJtmum Decanum Capitulum Ec^lef<e Cathedral. Chriji. Qxonia. 
• Qlai Wormii Monument. Danicor. lilt, i . cap. q.p, 50. Fig. E. 
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