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MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER The flowers of history, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain. Vol. I. B.C. 4004 to A.D. 1066.

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MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER
The flowers of history, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain. Vol. I. B.C. 4004 to A.D. 1066.
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390 MATTHEW 0 7 WESTMUTSTEB. A.B. 814. nity of the church of Canterbury, which had been lost. He was succeeded by Wilfrid, who governed that see twenty-eight years. A.B. 806. Wilfrid, the archbishop of Canterbury, who has been mentioned before, received the pallium, and was confirmed in his dignity. A.B. 807. Cuthred, king of Kent, died, and was succeeded in his kingdom by Baldred. A.B. 808. Eardulf, king of Northumberland, was driven from his kingdom, and succeeded by Alfwold, who reigned two years ; and it was that same Alfwold who drove him out, and occupied his kingdom. A.B. 809. Egbert, king of the West Saxons, approached in a hostile manner that district which is called Cornwall, and made himself master of it, and added it to his kingdom, after some battles, in which many persons were slain on both sides. A.B. 810. Alfwold, king of Northumberland, died, and Eandred reigned in his stead, and reigned thirty-two years. The same year, Egbert subjugated the northern Britons, and compelled them to become tributary to him. A.B. 811. King Egbert compelled the Welch to pay him tribute, as he had in the past year compelled the northern Britons ; and he traversed all their territories, piercing their borders in every part ; and ravaging their country from north to south with fire, he plundered it, and then returned to his own kingdom. A.B. 812. Saint Amandus was exhumed at the monastery of Elms, in France, and his body was found uninjured at a distance of a hundred and fifty-two years from his death ; and his hair and nails required to be cut, as they appeared to have grown ; and when some of his teeth were extracted out of his mouth with a forceps, blood flowed from the gums, which is still preserved, and is of miraculous power. A.B. 813. Charlemagne, king of France, and patrician of Rome, ordered councils to be held throughout Gaul; one at Mayence, a second at Bheims, a third at Tours, a fourth at Chalons, and a fifth at Aries ; at which councils some chapters of Holy Scriptures, necessary to the Universal Church, are said to have had their interpretation settled. A.B. 814. Charlemagne, king of France, and emperor of Rome, died, after he had reigned forty-five years. And he was succeeded by his son Lewis.


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