134. At Beran-birig, or Barbury-castle, near Marlborough.
The Saxon Chronicle assigns the name and date. Camden
(Britannia, vol. i. p. 128) ascertains the place; and Henry
of Huntingdon (Scriptores post Bedam, p. 31 4) relates the
circumstances of this battle. They are probable and
characteristic; and the historians of the twelfth century
might consult some materials that no longer exist.