people was chased out of the field, and fled to the castell of [Sidenote:  Framingham castell.] Framingham, where being enuironed with a siege by his enimies, he yeelded himselfe vnto them.  And because he would not renounce the [Sidenote:  King Edmund shot to death.] christian faith, they bound him to a tree, and shot arrowes at him till he died:  and afterwards cut off his head from his bodie, and threw the same into a thicke groue of bushes.  But afterwards his [Sidenote:  Eglesdon.] friends tooke the bodie with the head, and buried the same at Eglesdon:  where afterward also a faire monasterie was builded by one bishop Aswin, and changing the name of the place, it was after called saint Edmundsburie.  Thus was king Edmund put to death by the cruell Danes for his constant confessing the name of Christ, in the 16 yeare [Sidenote:  Wil.  Malm. Eastangles without a gouernour.] of his reigne, and so ceased the kingdome of Eastangles.  For after that the Danes had thus slaine that blessed man, they conquered all the countrie, & wasted it, so that through their tyrannie it remained without anie gouernor by the space of nine yeares, and then they [Sidenote:  Guthrun a Dane king of Eastangles.] appointed a king to rule ouer it, whose name was Guthrun, one of their owne nation, who gouerned both the Eastangles and the Eastsaxons.

Ye haue heard how the Danes slue Osrike and Ella kings of Northumberland.  After which victorie by them obteined, they did much [Sidenote:  Polychron.] hurt in the north parts of this land, and amongest other cruell deeds, they destroied the citie of Acluid, which was a famous citie in the time of the old Saxons, as by Beda and other writers dooth [Sidenote:  Caxton.] manifestlie appeare.  Here is to be remembred, that some writers rehearse the cause to be this.  Osbright or Osrike king of Northumberland rauished the wife of one Berne that was a noble man of the countrie about Yorke, who tooke such great despight thereat, that he fled out of the land, and went into Denmarke, and there complained vnto the king of Denmarke his coosin of the iniurie doone to him by king Osbright.  Wherevpon the king of Denmarke, glad to haue so iust a quarell against them of Northumberland, furnished foorth an armie, and sent the same by sea (vnder the leading of his two brethren Hungar and Hubba) into Northumberland, where they slue first the said king Osbright, and after king Ella, at a place besides Yorke, which vnto this day is called Ellas croft, taking that name of the said Ella, being there slaine in defense of his countrie against the Danes.  Which Ella (as we find registred by writers) was elected king by such of the Northumbers, as in fauour of Berne had refused to be subiect vnto Osbright.

* * * * *