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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. ANGLO-SAXON MONARCHS OF ALL BRITAIN. ATHELSTAN, 925?941. By the will of his father and the choice of the Witan, Athelstan, the late king's eldest son, mounted the throne. He was crowned at Kingston, but a part of the West-Saxons, alleging that he was illegitimate, refused to recognize him, and a conspiracy to seize and blind him was formed by a nobleman named Alfred. The plot was discovered, but as Alfred denied his guilt, he was allowed, according to Anglo- Saxon usage, to clear himself by oath before a bishop. It was agreed that he should go to Rome and swear in presence of the Pope he accordingly repaired thither, and before the Holy Father swore that he was innocent. Instantly, it is said, he fell senseless to the ground, and he died within three days. The first wars in which this able prince was engaged were against the Britons of Cambria and Damnonia, who strove to regain their independence. But their efforts were unavailing the Cambrian princes had to come to Hereford and do homage, and agree to pay yearly twenty pounds weight of gold and two hundred of silver into the hoard or treasury of the ' king of London' they were to send him every year twenty-five thousand beeves, and their best hawks and hounds, and the country between the Severn and the Wye was to become a part of Mercia. The Damnonians, who hitherto had dwelt to the Exe, were now driven beyond the Tamar, and completely reduced beneath the sceptre of Athelstan. The king, in the hopes of maintaining peace, had given one of his sisters in marriage to Sihtric, the ruler of the Danes beyond the Humber but Sihtric dying soon after, (927, ) the northern chieftains urged his sons Guthfrith (Godfrey) and Anlaf (Olave) to cast'ofT allegiance to Athelstan " for in the old time," said they, " ...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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