Note 10 — Chapter III
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Here is Robert of Gloster’s account of the martyrdom:—
“So that atte laste to Estangle agen hym come: Ther hii barned and robbede and that fole to grounde slowe; And as wolves among ssep reulych hem to drowe, Seynt Edmond was tho her kyng, and tho he sey that delvol cas That me morthred so that fole, and non amendement n’as, He ches levere to deye hym-sulf, that such soreve to ysey— He dude hym vorth among ys ton, n’olde he nothyng fle. Hii nome hym and scourged hym, and suthe naked hym bounde To a tre, and to hym ssote, and made hym mony a wounde, That the arewe were on hym tho thycke, that no stede n’as byleved. Atte laste hii martred hym, and smyte of ys heved.” Robert of Gloster’s Chronicle, p. 263, apud Thomas Hearne. Ed. 1724.