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The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 874 — Chapter VI · THE DANISH KINGS IN ENGLAND.[818] 1017–1042.

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William of Malmesbury has a remarkable passage to this effect; “Omnes enim leges ab antiquis regibus, et maxime ab antecessore suo Ethelredo latas, sub interminatione regiæ mulctæ perpetuis temporibus observari præcepit [Cnuto]; in quarum custodiam etiam nunc tempore bonorum sub nomine regis Edwardi juratur, non quod ille statuerit, sed quod observarit.” (ii. § 183.)

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