Note 367 — LECTURE III LIFE OF ALFRED PRIOR TO HIS ACCESSION TO THE THRONE
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So Wendover, i. 290, 291 (who makes this unction of Alfred as king at his father’s request, to the exclusion of his elder brothers, one of the main causes of Æthelbald’s revolt); so too a spurious charter, Birch, No. 493; K. C. D. No. 1057.