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the Peterborough Chronicle second continuation 1154

in a normalised Early Middle English (East Midland dialect c 1200)

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1154

On þis ᵹær warþ þe king Stephne dæd & bebiried þær. His wíf & his sune wæren bebiried at Fauresfeld, þat minster makeden. Þá þe king was dæd, þá was þe erl beᵹonde , & ne durste nán man dón óþer búte gód for þe micel eᵹe of him. Þá Engleland cóm, þá was underfangen mid micel wurþscipe, & king bletsed in Lundene on þe Sunnendaᵹ beforen midwinterdaᵹ; & héld þær micel curt. Þat ilke daᵹ þat Martin abbot of Burh sculde þider faren, þá séclede & warþ dæd iv Nonae Ianuarii.

& þe munekes inne daᵹes chusen óþer of hem self. Willelm de Waltevile is iháten - gód clerk & gód man; & wel lufed of þe kinge & of alle góde men. & on circe birieden þe abbot héhlíce; & sóne þe chosen abbot férde & þe munekes mid him Oxenforde þe king & ᵹaf him þat abbotríce. & férde him sóne Lincol & was þær bletsed abbot ær hám cóme. & siþen was underfangen mid micel wurþscipe at Burh, mid micel processiun. & swá was alswá at Rameseᵹe, & at Torn, & at Spall & at Sancte Ibres, & is abbot; & faᵹre hafeþ begunnen. Crístes him unne þus enden!