¶How Aurilambros dyde redresse the londe of greate Brytayne / that whyche was destroyed thorugh the Saxons before sayde.
HOw the kynge Aurilambros lete amen¦de and redresse the house of Ambresbu∣ry / and there in put monkes. But now there ben Nonnes a lytell fro the place that was cal¦led Salysbury / are that the Saxons slewe the Brytons / where Engist and they shold haue made a laue daye. In the whyche tyme were slayne a thousande knyghtes .lxi. thrugh trea∣son of Engist· The kynge therof had grete py¦te and thoughte to make in mynde of them a monument of stone that myght endure to the worldes ende. And of thys thynge they tooke ther counseyll what therof was best for to do. ¶Tho spake to the kynge the bysshop of Lon¦don that was called Ternekyn that he sholde requyre after. Merlyn. For he coude best telle how this thyng myght best be made. And mer¦lyn after was sought and founde and came to the kyng. And the kynge tolde hym hys wyll of the monumente that he wolde haue made. Merlyn answered to the kynge & sayd. There ben grete stones in Irlonde and longe vpon the hylle of Kyan that men called. Gyauntes karoll. And yf they were in this place as they ben there / they wolde endure for eurer more in remembraunce of those knyghtes that here be entyred. ¶Per may foy sayd the kynge as har¦de stone ben in my londe as in Irlonde.
¶Soth sayde Merlyn. But in all your londe ben none suche. For gaūtes sette them for gre∣te good of themself. For atte euery tyme that they were woūde or in ony maner hurte / they wysshe the stones with hote water / And then∣ne they wysshe them ther with and anone they were hoole.