The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales: with ye successions, lives, acts & issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Cæsar, to our most gracious soueraigne King Iames. by Iohn Speed.
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The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales: with ye successions, lives, acts & issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Cæsar, to our most gracious soueraigne King Iames. by Iohn Speed.
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Speed, John, 1552?-1629.
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Imprinted at London :: [by William Hall and John Beale] anno cum privilegio 1611 and are to be solde by Iohn Sudbury & Georg Humble, in Popes-head alley at ye signe of ye white Horse,
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Great Britain -- History -- Early works to 1800.
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His Wife.
(28) Elswith the wife of King Elfred was the daughter of Ethelred surnamed M•…•…hel, that is the Great, an Earle of the Mercians, who inhabited about Gainesborough in Lincolnshire: her mother was Ed∣burg a Lady borne of the Bloud-roiall of Mercia. She was married vnto this King in the twentieth yeare of his age, being the second of the raigne of his brother King Ethelred, and was his wife twenty eight yeares, and liuing after him foure; died in the year of grace nine hundred and foure, and was buried in the Mo∣nastery of Nunnes which shee had founded at Winche∣ster; out of which afterwards King Henry the first took to his wife Ma•…•…d the daughter of Malcolme King of Scots, by whom the roiall bloud of the ancient Kings of England became vnited to the Normans, whereby he wanne much loue of the English nation.