Note 225 — Chapter VII · THE DANISH INVASION AND ITS SEQUEL

The passages which follow are founded on the narrative of Hugh “Candidus,” a monk of Peterborough, who in the reign of Henry II. wrote an account of the possessions of the abbey, and inserts a long passage descriptive of the events of 1070. The beginning of his narrative agrees closely with the contemporary account in the Peterborough Chronicle, but his tale of the doings of the Danes in Ely after the sack of Peterborough is independent, and bears every mark of truth. Wherever it is possible to test Hugh’s work, in regard to other matters, its accuracy is confirmed. See Feudal England, 163, V.C.H. Notts, i., 222. Hugh’s Chronicle has not been printed since its edition by Sparke in the seventeenth century.