Ogygia; Or, a Chronological Account of Irish Events - Collected from Very Ancient Documents, Faithfully Compared with Each Other, and Supported by the (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 edition. Excerpt: ... we must believe, as Edgar was the conqueror of Dublin, so Athelstan, one of the ancestors of Edgar, was the first founder of a monarchical form of government, in diametrical opposition to all the writers of English transactions, who unanimously make Edgar, not lineally descended from Athelstan, but collaterally; and that Egbert, the great great grandfather of Athelstan, first changed the heptarchy into a monarchy. Nor do they admit any greater number of successors than the father of Edgar, from the, time of Athelstan to the passing of this patent. Moreover, Athelstan was not the first of the kings of the Angles that usurped the supreme authority over all the nations which inhabit Britain: nor was Edgar the first who extended his empire beyond the boundaries of Britain, otherwise the venerable Bede's account is false; who having died about too years before Athelstan, thus fays of the seven kings of the Anglo-Saxons *. " Edwin the fifth king of the Northumbrians, &c. with a greater degree of power and majesty, ruled all the tribes of the Angles, and Britons who inhabit Britain (except she people of Kent) in like manner he made the Mevanian islands of the Britons, which are situate beween Ireland and Britain, subject to the empire of the English. Oswald the Sixth and he, also the most christian king of Northumberland, enjoyed the kingdom with the same acquisitions. The seventh, Oswy his brother possessing the same extent of dominions for some time, subdued, in a. great measure, the nations of the Picts and Sects * In his Eccks. Hiit. of the English. who who were masters of the northern confines of Britain, and made them tributary," The Ostmen had obtained such a degree of power and superiority in those times at Dublin, that they...