Polydore Vergil' S English History; From an Early Translat. Preserved Among the Mss. of the Old Royal Library in the British Mus. Containing the First (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... THE EIGHTH BOOKE OF POLIDOB VIRGILL ON THE ENGLISH HI8TORIE. In the yeare of our Lorde Godde Mxxxvi. the nobles weare Harold, assembled at Oxforde, abowte the election of a kinge, wherin their wnom p Ttii iotas his was great altercation. Som thought goodd to chose Haraldus, father left whome his father didde substitute as cheefe governer of the lond, "eerorer at such time as hee tooke his voyage into Normandie; others this land at minded to preferre Canutus, begotten of Emma, as the heyre-i to No? apparrent of his father, whoe at that season governed Denmarcke. "j"" " Finallie, the greater parte condiscendinge in one sentence, Haral-kyng by dus, as xxxiij. in the order of the kinges, was pronownced the sole e aynsmonarche. The deathe of Canutus did noe lesse disquiet all thinges in foraine contries, for the Norvegians, slippinge sodainlie the coller, didd ordaine as their sufferaine prince Magnus, the sonne of Olavus, and the Danes Canutus the Thirde, to whome, bie right of inheritance, beelonged the whole imperie. And thus the ample dominion of the Danes was sodainlie appayred at this time, for as muche as the regall stemme and pedegree was allmost utterlie extinguished. The Englishe people weare not a littel carefull for the succession of their kinges. With this cogitation was especiallie sollicited one Brithovaldus, a monck of Glastonburie, whoe was afterwarde busshoppe of Winchester, or rather of Worciter, as I find in somm authors. It was crediblie reported that duringe this anxietee, at his reste, hee seemed to see Peeter the Apostle consecrate kinge Edwarde, the sonne of Ethelredus, at that time exiled in Normandie; and, demaundinge who showlde succead after him, the Apostle made aunswere, ' Force thow nott on suche thingges, for the Englishe...