... most of their time to the building of the new fort, living very simply, and expended the whole of the revenues of the lands on the payment of the freemen and masons engaged upon the work. The Roman ... a heap, and burnedthem, together with the church and all the buildings of the monastery; then, with vast herds of cattle and otherplunder, they moved away from Croyland, and attacked the monastery ... and muniments, the charters of the foundation of the abbey, given by King Ethelbald, and the confirmation thereofby other kings, with some of the most precious gifts presented to the abbey."Edmund and...