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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Annales of Alfred of Beverley is in Late Medieval Books.
[4th September 925] And at Kingston he was consecrated king by Athelm, archbishop of Canterbury. In the second year of his reign he gave his sister in marriage, with great solemnity, to Sihtric, king of the Northumbrians, of Danish stock. When Sihtric died a year later, Æthelstan, having driven out Guthfrith, the son of Sihtric, added the kingdom of the Northumbrians to the kingdom of the West Saxons.
Et in Kingestuna ab Athalino Dorobernensi archiepiscopo consecratur in regem. Qui anno regni sui secundo sororem suam Nordanhymbrorum regi Sitrico Danica stirpe cum magna [sollemnitate] in matrimonium dedit. Sitrico post annum mortuo, Athelstanus, expulso Guthfritho Sitrico filio, regnum Nordanhymbrorum regno adjecit Westsaxonico.