Qua adridente pace ac serenitate temporum, plures in gente Nordanhymbrorum, tam nobiles quam privati, se suosque liberos depositis armis satagunt magis accepta tonsura monasterialibus adscribere votis, quam bellicis exercere studiis.
And seeing there is the pleasantness of peace and quiet times, many of the Northumbrian people, as well noblemen as private persons, laying away their armour are eager rather to have themselves and their children shoren and enrolled under monastical vows, than to practise the pursuits of warfare.
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