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After much destruction in other places, at length he came to Canterbury, which he besieged, and was resisted twenty days: but at last, by treason of a Deacon,¹ called Almaricus, ⟨p. 119⟩(whom the Bishop had preserved from death before) wan it, and took the goods of the people, and set the town on fire: and tithed the Monks of Saint Augustine's abbey:² killing nine by cruel torment, and keeping the tenth alive, for slaves. So they slue there of religious men, to the number of nine hundred: of other men, women, and children, they slue above eight thousand. And finally, when they had kept the Bishop Elphegus in straight prison, the space of eight months: (because he would not agree to give them three thousand pounds) after many villainies done unto him, at Greenwich they stoned him to death.³

After much destruction in other places, at length he came to Canterburie, which he besieged, and was resisted twenty dayes: but at last, by treason of a Deacon,¹ called Almaricus, ⟨p. 119⟩(whom the Bishop had preserued from death before) wan it, and tooke the goods of the people, and set the towne on fire: and tithed the Monkes of Saint Augustines abbey:² killing nine by cruell torment, and kéeping the tenth aliue, for slaues. So they slue there of religious men, to the number of nine hundred: of other men, women, and children, they slue aboue eight thousand. And finally, when they had kept the Bishop Elphegus in straight pryson, the space of eight moneths: (because he would not agrée to giue them thrée thousand poundes) after many villanies doone vnto him, at Gréenewich they stoned him to death.³