EDMUND. "Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.” SHAKESPEARE. EDMUND his eighteenth year had not yet known, The DANES encroaching still on English ground; By LEOLF, leader of a lawless band, The youthful Sov'reign was untimely slain.* * The King espied this outlaw presumptuously seated at a royal banquet and, being inflamed with wine, seized him by the hair, when the felon, instigated by despair, plunged his dagger in the body of the King: the intoxication of the nobles and attendants permitted the assassin's escape. SUMMARY SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF EDRED. Crowned A. D. 946. Had issue, Elfrid and Berfrid, neither Died 955. Buried at Winchester. of whom succeeded. PRINCIPAL Events. An Insurrection of the Danes quieted in Northumberland. The King submits to corporal discipline from the church, and founds several abbeys. EMINENT PERSONS. Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury; Otho, Archbishop of Canterbury. COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS. Pope. Emperors. Of the East-Constantine Porphyrogenitus, 912. Of the West-Otho I. 936. Kings. Of France-Lewis IV. 936. Edred. EDRED. "Priest-ridden by a man "Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking "Himself with Princes." SHAKESPEARE. "They who possess the Prince, possess the laws. ' THE name of EDRED we record in vain, DRYDEN. For this was properly Saint DUNSTAN's reign. The King, whose sword subdu'd a rebel crowd, Releas'd the master from his servant's chain. * The Monks in England married and supported their families with decency until the reign of Edred, when Dunstan introduced celibacy, and tore their wives and children from the Priests, styling them harlots and bastards. SCRIPT. ANGL. PASSIM. + Dryden. VOL. I. F SUMMARY SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF EDWY. Crowned, A. D. 955. Married Elgiva, an English lady, who was persecuted and eventually murdered by Dunstan and his partisans. Died 959. Buried at Winchester. PRINCIPAL EVENTS. The King's brother, Edgar, revolts against his sovereign, and is supported by the Mercians. The Monks influence the people against the King. 4 EMINENT PERSONS. Dunstan. Odo, archbishop of Canterbury. COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS. Pope. John XII. A. D. 956. Emperors. Of the East-Constantine Porphyrogenitus, 912. Kings. Of France-Lothaire I. 951. Of Scotland-Malcolm I. 949. Indulphus, 958. EDWY. EDWY. "Yet all was colour'd with a smooth pretence "Two names that always cheat, and always please." "The next successor whom I fear and hate, 66 My arts have made obnoxious to the state; DRYDEN So DUNSTAN thought, and so he wou'd have said, told F 2 ELGIVA, |