141.
57.

_Example from the Saxon Chronicle, written about 1160_.
"Micel hadde Henri king gadered gold & syluer, and na god ne dide me for his saule thar of.

Tha the king Stephne to Engla-land com, tha macod he his gadering aet Oxene-ford, & thar he nam the biscop Roger of Seres-beri, and Alexander biscop of Lincoln, & te Canceler Roger hife neues, & dide aelle in prisun, til hi jafen up here castles.

Tha the suikes undergaeton that he milde man was & softe & god, & na justise ne dide; tha diden hi alle wunder." See _Johnson's Hist.

of the Eng.