Chertsey

[...] On þære fiftan nihte on Maies monðe. ætywde se mona on æfen beorhte scinende. and syððan litlan and litlan his leoht wanode. swa ꝥ he sona nihtes to þā swiðe mid ealle acwanc. ꝥ naþer ne leoht ne trændel ne nan þing mid ealle of hī wæs gesæwen. and swa þurh wunode fullneah oð dæg. and syðþan full and beorhte scinende ætywde. he wæs þæs ylcan dæges feowertyne nihta eald. Ealle þa niht wæs seo lyft swiðe clene. and þa steorran ofer eall þa heofon swiðe beorhte scinende. and treow wæstmas wurdon þære nihte þurh forste swiðe for numene. Ðær æft' on Junies monðe ætywde an steorra norðan eastan. and his leoma stod toforan hī on þet suð west. and þus manega niht wæs gesæwen. and furðor nihtes syððan he ufor astah. he wæs g'sewen on bǽc on ꝥ norð west gangende. [...] Ðis wæs swiðe gedeorfsū gear her on lande þurh gyld þe se cyng nam for his dohter gyfte. and þurh un gewædera. for hwan eorð westmas wurdon swiðe amyrde. and treow westmas ofer eall þis land for neah eall for wurdon. Ðises geares me began ærost to weorcenne on þā niwan mynstre on Ceortes æge.

On the fifth night of May the moon rose in the evening, shining brightly, and then little by little its light faded. As soon as night came, it went out so completely that neither its light nor its disk nor anything of it could be seen. It stayed that way almost until day, and then it appeared full and shining brightly. It was fourteen nights old that day. All that night the air was very clear, and the stars shone very brightly all over the sky. The fruit on the trees was badly ruined by frost that night. After that, in June, a star appeared in the northeast, with its ray standing out in front of it toward the southwest. It was seen like this for many nights. Later in the night, as it climbed higher, it was seen moving backward toward the northwest. This was a very hard year here in the land, because of the tax the king took for his daughter’s marriage and because of bad weather. The crops were badly damaged, and the fruit on the trees all over this land was almost all lost. This year work began on the new minster at Chertsey.