Note 10 — Chapter I · The Early History—Before A. D. 843.
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Bed. Hist. Ecc., l. 2, c. 5; l. 3, c. 24; l. 4, c. 2, 12. Edd. Vit. Wilf., c. 19. The tenero adhuc regno of Eddius is changed by Malmesbury (de Gest. Pont.) into teneram infantiam reguli, an expression scarcely applicable to Egfrid, who was twenty-five when he ascended the throne. Thus inaccuracies creep into history.