ELdrede succéeded Edmunde his brother: for hys sonnes* 1.1 Edwyne and Edgar were thoughte too yong to take on them so great a charge. He tooke on him but as protector, but afterwardes he was crowned at Kingstone.
The chronicles of England from Brute vnto this present yeare of Christ. 1580. Collected by Iohn Stow citizen of London.
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This Eldred had the earnest fauour of the commons, by∣cause he was a great maintayner of honestie, and also most abhorred naughty and vnruely persons: for his expertnesse in feates of armes, he was much commended, whereby he quieted and kepte in due obeysaunce the Northumbers and Scottes, and exiled the Danes.
He placed the Bishoppe of Cornewal at Saint Germaines, where it continued tyll the time of Edward, nexte before the conquest, in whose time it was translated to Excester.
In the yere. 951. he committed to prison Wolstan Arch∣byshoppe* 1.2 of Yorke in Luthaberie, bycause he often had bene ac∣cused to haue commaunded manye Citizens of Thetforde to be slaine, in reuenge of the Abbot Adelme vniustly by them slaine: he was a yeare after released, and restoared to hys sea.
King Eldred builded Mich at Abindone, gaue gret lāds,* 1.3 and confirmed them Charters, with seales of golde.
He raigned. ix. yeares, and was buried in the Cathedrall Church at Winchester, in the old Monasterie.
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* 1.1
946 Sp••. Histo. Rich. Ciren.
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* 1.2
Ma••••••nus. Canturb. recordes.
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Asses.