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thus got him into his power, carried him to Dorr, in Holland, where he inhumanly murdered him, and cast his body into a deep ditch, covering it with mud. Aldred, Bishop of Winchester, obtained his pardon for alluring Edgiva ; but his own conscience could not pardon his treacherous cruelty in. murdering Beorn, his kinsman, until he underwent the penance of going to Jerusalem barefoot ; - in which journey, he got so much cold, that he died thereof at Licia, in his return home.

Return through the marshes, by Wartling Hill, to

HURSTMONCEAUX,

The Lordship and estate of Godwin, Earl of Kent, as appears by Doomsday Book. When this Castle was first built, is uncertain ; but it appears that Roger de Fiennes made the Manor House here his seat, and obtained a licence from King Henry VI. to make a Castle of it, and enlarge the park with six hundred acres of land. It is the largest and -