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HOw the kynge Aurilambros le∣te amende and redresse the house of Ambresbury / and there in put mon∣kes. But now there ben Nonnes a ly∣tell fro the place that was called Sa∣lysbury / are that the Saxons slewe the Brytons / where Engist and they sholde haue made a loue daye. In the whiche tyme were slayne a thousande knygh∣tes .lxi. thrugh treason of Engist. The
kynge therof had grete pyte & thought to make in mynde of them a monumēt of stone y• myght endure to the worldes ende. And of this thynge they toke ther coūseyll what therof was best for to do / ¶ Tho spake to the kynge the bysshop of London y• was called Ternekyn y• he sholde requyre after Merlyn. For he cou¦de best tell how this thynge myght best be made. And Merlyn after was sought and foūde & came to y• kynge. And the kynge tolde hym his wyll of the monu∣ment yt he wolde haue made. Merlyn an¦swered to the kynge & sayd. There ben grete stones in Irlonde / & longe vpon the hylle of Kyan y• men called Gyauntes karoll. And yf they were in this place as they ben there / they wolde endure for e∣uer more in remēbraūce of those knygh∣tes that here be entyred. ¶Per may foy sayd the kyng As harde stone ben in my londe as in Irlonde. ¶Soth sayd Mer∣lyn. but in all your londe ben none suche For gyauntes sette them for grete good of themself. For at euery tyme that they were woūde or in ony maner hurte / they wysshe the stones with hote water / and thenne they wysshe them therwith & a∣none they were hoole.