Note 1521 — Chapter XVI · THE INTERREGNUM.[1503] October 15–December 25, 1066.
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Will. Malms. iii. 247. “Cæteri proceres Edgarum eligerent, si Episcopos assertores haberent.” The “cæteri proceres” are opposed to Eadwine and Morkere. “Sed proximo urgente periculo et domesticæ litis dissidio, nec illud quidem effectum.” The apparent discrepancies in the several accounts may, I think, be reconciled by assuming the course of events to have been as I have given it in the text. Men hardly knew how to describe an election which was followed by an abdication of the King-elect before the day of coronation came.