The battle of Æscesdun with some notices of the so-called seven barrows on Lamborne downs (by J. Wilson) communicated to the Newbury district field club and publ. in their Transactions1872 |
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admodum Æthered rex Alfred andlang anno appears army arrow head ash tree Asser Aston Aston Tirrold Aston Upthorpe battle of Ashdown BATTLE OF ESCESDUN Baydon Berks Berkshire Bishop Gibson Blewbury bones called Charter Cholsey Christiani comites Compton Beauchamp course Cuckhamsley cumque Cuthred Cwichelm Danes DISTRICT FIELD CLUB ditch diutius Dragon Hill earthwork East Ethelred express feet fought funeris dominati sunt gestis ground inclosed interment Kennet King LAMBORNE DOWNS late latter Letcombe Castle loco funeris dominati locum Lysons manors mentioned Mercia Messrs mons fraxini mound Nachededorne natural nearly neighbourhood NEWBURY DISTRICT FIELD noctem notice observations Paganorum exercitus passed possession of Uffington probably quod rampart regis remains ridge of hills Ridgeway Roman road Saxon Chronicle SEVEN BARROWS shew side skeletons spot stones supposed testudines Thames Tirrold traced trench Uffington Castle usque utraque valley victory Wallingford Wantage Wayland Smith Wessex White Horse Hill Wise wood ashes writer
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Pagina 11 - Ashes, where, as I have been informed by a curious and learned gentleman of this neighbourhood, grew, within the memory of several persons lately dead, abundance of tall and very fair ashes : these probably were the last of this sort destroyed hereabouts.
Pagina 5 - JEthered rex in tentorio in oratione positus, audiens missam ; et nimium affirmans se inde vivum non discessurum, antequam sacerdos missam finiret, et divinum pro humano nolle deserere servitium : et ita fecit.
Pagina 5 - Pagani parati ad locum certaminis citius advenissent : .¿Elfred tune secundarius, cum diutius hostiles acies ferré non posset, nisi aut bello retrorsum recederet, aut contra hostiles copias ante fratris adventum in bellum prorumperet, demum viriliter aprino more Christianas copias contra hostiles exercitus, [ut ante proposuerant...
Pagina 5 - ... hostiliter conveniunt. Cumque aliquandiu animose et nimium atrociter hinc inde utrique pugnarent, pagani divino Judicio Christianorum impetum diutius non ferentes, maxima suarum copiarum...
Pagina 5 - ... retrorsum recederet, aut contra hostiles copias ante fratris adventum in bellum prorumperet, demum viriliter aprino more Christianas copias contra hostiles exercitus, [ut ante proposuerant, tarnen quamvis rex adhuc non venerat,] dirigens, divino fretus consilio, et adjutorio fultus, testudine ordinabiliter condensata, confestim contra hostes vexilla movet.
Pagina 10 - ... harm than either any internal or external force could do. When winter approached, then went the army home; and the enemy retired after Martinmas to their quarters in the Isle of Wight, and provided themselves everywhere there with what they wanted. Then, about midwinter, they went to their ready farm, throughout Hampshire into Berkshire, to Reading. And they did according to their custom, — they 1 See a more full and circumstantial account of these events, with some variation of names, in Florence...
Pagina 5 - Paganorum exercitus in fugam usqne ad noctem, et etiam usque ad diem sequentem, [quousque ad arcem qui evaserant pervenerunt,] versus est ; quos Christiani usque ad noctem' persequuti sunt, et ubique prosternentes.
Pagina 4 - Readingum adicrunt ; cumque usque ad portam arcis pervertissent, caedendo et prosternendo quoscunque de Paganis extra arcem invenissent, Pagani non segnius certabant, lupino more, totis portis erumpentes, totis viribus bellum perquirunt, ibique diu et atrociter ex utraque parte dimicatum est; sed...
Pagina 11 - Mercia, tóffie foot of this ridge of hills. These Downs seem likewise to have been formerly adorned with Woods of Ash, from whence they received the denomination of Ashdown. Near Letcombe is a shrubby place still called the Ashes, and Letcombe Ashes, where, as I have been informed by a curious and learned...
Pagina 5 - Alfred vero, suus frater, cum suis cohortibus contra omnes paganorum duces belli sortem f sumere debere sciret. Quibus ita firmiter ab 5 utraque parte dispositis, cum rex in oratione diutius moraretur et pagani parati ad locum certaminis citius advenissent, Alfred, tune secundarius, cum diutius hostiles acies ferre non posset, nisi aut bello retrorsum recederet, aut contra hostiles copias...