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XII. Mr. Willis's Account of the Battles between Edmund Ironside and Canute

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Mr. Willis, in endeavouring to ascertain the place where some battles were fought between Edmund Ironside and Canute, which are mentioned by our old historians in such a manner as to have left the spot doubtful to Mr. Camden and others, observes, that Dr. Stukeley, in his letter to lord Pembroke, speaking of Figbury-ring, near Salisbury, says, “To the east is Clarendon, which your lordship first observed “from old writings ought to be called Clorendun, from the fa-“mous camp half a mile off the park near the Roman road; “this was made or repaired by Constantius Chlorus, father of “Constantine the Great: this camp therefore properly written “is Chloridunum, being a beautiful fortification of a round form, “on a dry chalky hill.”

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1787

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page 107 note [a] Sub anno 1016.

page 107 note [b] Lib. ii. 40.

page 107 note [c] Lib. vi. 208.

page 107 note [d] V. I. 293. col. 1. ad fin.

page 107 note [e] V. I. 195. col. 2.

page 107 note [f] Gibson says the Wiccii inhabited part of Gloucester, Worcester, and Warwick, shires. Brit. v. I. 456.

page 108 note [g] Pars I. 249. b.

page 108 note [h] Lib. VII. p. 169, 170.

page 109 note [i] Way-hill may be so called from its vicinity to the Port-way; Penton Grafton is in this parish.