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Excerpt from Liber Monasterii De Hyda: Comprising a Chronicle of the Affairs of England, From the Settlement of the Saxons to the Reign of King Cnut, and a Chartulary of the Abbey of Hyde, in Hampshire; A. D. 455-1023
To this account it may now be added that John Stow's abridgment is of small quarto size; consists of fifty written leaves, comprising ninety-five written pages; extends to but little more than one-third part of the original work; is fragmentary, and frequently inaccurate.
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