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211 1067.

This year the King went over sea, and took with him hostages and treasures. And he came back the next year on St. Nicholas' day; and on his return he restored to every man his land.—And this summer Childe Edgar and Mærleswegn, and many others with them, departed and went to Scotland, and King Malcolm received them all, and took the Childe's sister Margaret for his wife.

1068.

This year King William gave the Earldom of Northumberland to Earl Robert, and the men of that country came against him, and slew him and 900 others with him. And then Edgar Ætheling marched with all the Northumbrians to York, and the townsmen treated with him; on which King William came from the south with all his troops, and sacked the town, and slew many hundred persons: and the Ætheling went again to Scotland.

1069.

This year Bishop Ægelric, being at Peterborough, was accused and sent to Westminster; and his brother Bishop Ægelwin was outlawed. Then between the two feasts of St. Mary, the sons of King Swegn and his brother Earl