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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle : Year 1000

Details from the Chronicle This year the king went into Cumberland, and nearly laid waste the whole of it with his army, whilst his navy sailed about Chester with the design of co-operating with his land- forces; but, finding it impracticable, they ravaged Anglesey. The hostile fleet was this summer turned towards the kingdom of Richard. Key people and places ATHELRED (II The Unready, King of the English 978-1013, 1014-1016)

Translation by Rev. James Ingram (London, 1823), with additional readings from the translation of Dr. J.A. Giles (London, 1847).