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105 westward to Boulogne, and there they took shipping, so that they came over at one passage, horses and all. And they arrived at Limene mutha (New Romney ?) with 250 ships. This harbour is on the eastern side of Kent, and at the eastern end of the great wood called Andred ; this wood is from east to west 112 miles long or more, and 30 miles broad, and the river of which we have spoken floweth out of the weald. They towed their ships up this river as far as the wood, four miles from the outward mouth. They stormed a fortress in the fens; a few countrymen were in it, and it was half finished. Soon afterwards, Hastings came into the mouth of the Thames with 80 ships, and there he built a fortress at Middel-tun (Milton), and the other army one at Appledore.

"This year died Wulfhere Archbishop of the Northumbrians."

894.

This year, it being about 12 months after they had built the fortress in the eastern kingdom, the Northumbrians and the East Angles, who had taken oaths to King Alfred, the East Angles having also given him six hostages, yet broke their faith, and whenever the other