The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - A Strange Event

The anglo saxon chronicle tells us there's a fear that there's a conspiracy. This is quite an unusual event, and it sticks out in the chronicle because it's quite strange. The act of organizing something like thisQuite striking. It shows ... quick, on the spot political action can happen. We don't see things like this elsewhere in this period by a long shot. And we do have some other evidence that shows this isn't just one sort of scribe getting carried away with things. Er. There's a charter from a couple of years later, so a kind of legal document for a church from one thousand four for oxford, er, which describes what looks