142. Hoc anno (490) Aella et Cissa obsederunt
Andredes-Ceaster; et interfecerunt omnes qui id incolerent;
adeo ut ne unus Brito ibi superstes fuerit (Chron. Saxon. p.
15); an expression more dreadful in its simplicity than all
the vague and tedious lamentations of the British Jeremiah.