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The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 1594 — Chapter XVI · THE INTERREGNUM.[1503] October 15–December 25, 1066.

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Wid. Amb. 747;

“Novit ut adventum, factus Rex obvius illis

Cum puero reliquis oscula grata dedit;

Culpas indulsit, gratanter dona recepit,

Et sic susceptos tractat honorificè.”

So Ord. Vit. 503 A. “Ipsi ab eo benigniter suscepti, pristinas dignitates et honores receperunt.... Edgarus Adelinus, qui Rex fuerat constitutus ab Anglis, resistere diffidens humiliter Guillelmo se regnumque contulit. Ille verò, quia idem puer mitis et sincerus erat, et consobrinus Eduardi Magni[!] Regis, filius scilicet nepotis ejus, erat, amicabiliter eum amplexatus est, et omni vitâ suâ inter filios suos honorabiliter veneratus est.”

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