HISTORY.

He also confesses, That Alfred and his Complices were factious People, who re∣ported he was born of a Concubine,* to obviate his being Crowned; and that Sedition ne∣ver wants Abettors. Aethelstanus apua Re∣gia villa quae vocatur Kingston coronatus, quamvis Quidam Alfredus cum factiosis suis, (quia seditio semper invenit complices) obviare tentâsset: occasio contradictionis, ut ferunt. quod Aethelstanus ex Concubinâ na∣tus esset; and in another place, King Edward and his Son Elward,* or Ed∣ward, being dead, Tunc omnium spebus in Ethelstanum erectis; solus Alfredus magnae insolentiae homo cum suis clam restitit quoad potuit, dedignatus subdi Domino, quem suo non delegisset arbitrio. Then all Mens hopes were placed upon Ethelstan, only Alfred a Man of great insolence, and his Party opposed him, disdaining to sub∣mit to a Governour, that he himself had not set up.