Note 1005 — Chapter IX · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE RETURN OF GODWINE TO THE DEATH OF EADWARD THE ÆTHELING.[921] 1052–1057.
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Chron. Petrib. “Þet he wæs unscyldig þæs þe him geled wæs, and on Harold his sunu and ealle his bearn.” This is the “purgatio” of the Biographer. So Will. Malms. ii. 199. “Probè se de omnibus quæ objectabantur expurgavit.” Compurgators seem not to have been called for.