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KING ALFRED'S WILL.

Ic Ælfred cingc mid Godes gife. 7 mid geþeahtunge æþeredes^[1] ercebisceopes. 7 ealra west-seaxena witena gewitnesse. smeade ymbe minne sawle þearfe. 7 ymbe min yrfe þæt me god 7 mine yldran forgeafon. 7 ymbe ꝥ yrfe þæt aðulf^[2] cingc min fæder us þrim^[3] gebroðrum becwæð. aþelbolde. 7 æðerede. 7 me. 7 swylc ure swylce lengest wære þæt se fenge to eallum

↑ Ethelred, archbishop of Canterbury; who died, A°. 888.
↑ Ethelwolf, the father of Alfred, died, 13 Jan. A°. 857-8, leaving four sons, 1. Ethelbald, 2. Ethelbert, 3. Ethered, 4. Alfred, who were successively kings of England; and one daughter, Ethelswith, who A°. 851, married Burthred, king of Mercia; and, after his death, A°. 873, became a nun at Padua, where she died A°. 889.
↑ K. Ethelwolf, made no mention, in his Will, of his second son, Ethelbert, having, in his life-time (on the death of Athelstan uncle of Ethelbert) A°. 851, given him the kingdom of the South-Saxons, East-Saxons, and Kent.

[1] Ethelred, archbishop of Canterbury; who died, A°. 888.

[18b-2] Ethelwolf, the father of Alfred, died, 13 Jan. A°. 857-8, leaving four sons, 1. Ethelbald, 2. Ethelbert, 3. Ethered, 4. Alfred, who were successively kings of England; and one daughter, Ethelswith, who A°. 851, married Burthred, king of Mercia; and, after his death, A°. 873, became a nun at Padua, where she died A°. 889.

[3] K. Ethelwolf, made no mention, in his Will, of his second son, Ethelbert, having, in his life-time (on the death of Athelstan uncle of Ethelbert) A°. 851, given him the kingdom of the South-Saxons, East-Saxons, and Kent.

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