Lycoln & Derby, & [Snotingaham (vel Notinge|ham) aliis. Neque aliter qui|dem tam apud Florentium quam & Chron. Saxon. Stafford pro Stamford habet Speedus, secus atque auctores vett.] Southampton,
Leycestre & Stamford, þise fyue wan Edmon,
& yit þe kyng Anlaf so hard gan he chace,
þat he asked Cristendom opon Gode's grace.
Boþe he & Reynald was Guthefride's sonne,
He exilde þam out of þe North, þer þei wild wonne.
& gaf to Malcolme, kyng of Scotlande,
þat he suld be him leale, bi se & bi lande.
THE fifte ȝere of his regne he went to Canterbiri,
þe feste of S. Austine, to hold it fulle myri.
A thefe of his courte was outlawed late,
þe kyng knew him fulle wele, he mette him in þe gate.
Whilom he serued in his panterie,
& was outlawed for a felonie.
þe kyng tok þis pantelere, & strangled him right þore,
& he wonded þe kyng dedely fulle sore. [De mirabili morte regis.]
Seuen ȝere was he kyng, & seuen monethis mo.
At Gloucestre is he laid, þe pantelere did him slo.
þe date was nien hundreth fourþty & seuen. [Anno Domini DCCCCmo XLVII.]
þis was þe selcouthest cas, þat haf herd neuen.
EDRED after Edmunde had þe coroune, [Edredus rex, frater Edmuudi.]
Vpon þe Pask day, at London toune.
Siþen of all his barons he tok feaute,
Bot þe Northeren men held him no leaute.
