Old English Chronicles: Including Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, Together with the Spurious Chronicle of Richard of CirencesterJohn Allen Giles G. Bell, 1901 - 512 pages |
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... king of the Mercians assumed the monastic habit , when he had com- pleted twenty - nine years of his reign . A. 705. After twelve months died Alfrid king of North- umberland . And the number of years that was then ful- filled from the ...
... king of the Mercians assumed the monastic habit , when he had com- pleted twenty - nine years of his reign . A. 705. After twelve months died Alfrid king of North- umberland . And the number of years that was then ful- filled from the ...
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... king of Northumberland died and Ceolwulf succeeded to the kingdom . CHAP . XIV . Of the acts of king Ethelbud . A. 733. Two years after these things , king Ethelbald re- ceived under his dominion the royal vill which is called Somerton ...
... king of Northumberland died and Ceolwulf succeeded to the kingdom . CHAP . XIV . Of the acts of king Ethelbud . A. 733. Two years after these things , king Ethelbald re- ceived under his dominion the royal vill which is called Somerton ...
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... king ; nor was any part of his kingdom left to him except one province only , named Hamptonshire [ Hampshire ] . And he remained there no long time ; for , instigated by an old affront , he slew a certain duke , and Cynewulf drove him ...
... king ; nor was any part of his kingdom left to him except one province only , named Hamptonshire [ Hampshire ] . And he remained there no long time ; for , instigated by an old affront , he slew a certain duke , and Cynewulf drove him ...
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... king's friends spurn these offers , and rather seek to separate from the prince their relations who were in his ... king , and they would not accede to it . " To this the other party rejoined , " But you will remain unhurt , if you only ...
... king's friends spurn these offers , and rather seek to separate from the prince their relations who were in his ... king , and they would not accede to it . " To this the other party rejoined , " But you will remain unhurt , if you only ...
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... king Bertric was reigning over the west- ern parts of the English , and the innocent people spread through their ... king's officer , who was already stopping in the town of Dorchester , leaped on his horse and gallopped forwards with a ...
... king Bertric was reigning over the west- ern parts of the English , and the innocent people spread through their ... king's officer , who was already stopping in the town of Dorchester , leaped on his horse and gallopped forwards with a ...
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