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. 1840 Excerpt: ...of his contempt for the welfare of others, -when his own gratification was in question, has been recorded. Visiting at Andover, he commanded a nobleman to bring him his daughter, whose person had been praised to him; but the mother of the young lady sent her attendant to personate her daughter (1). For these actions ...
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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. 1840 Excerpt: ...of his contempt for the welfare of others, -when his own gratification was in question, has been recorded. Visiting at Andover, he commanded a nobleman to bring him his daughter, whose person had been praised to him; but the mother of the young lady sent her attendant to personate her daughter (1). For these actions Dunstan imposed only trifling penances on Edgar (2). Yct'amid these defects, some traits of an enlarged and liberal policy appear, which reflect credit on Edgar or his ministers. The most important of these was his patronage of foreigners and trade. People from Saxony, Flanders, and Denmark, frequently came to him (3); whom he received so well as to excite a censure from one monkish chronicler, that he loved them too much (4), and from another, that they injured his people by the vices they imported (5). He showed his care of trade by his exemplary punishment of the people of Thanet, who had seized and plundered some merchants coming from York (6). His commuting the tribute from Wales into three hundred wolves' heads (7), in order to extirpate these animals from the country, was a scheme of sound wisdom and generous policy. His reformation of his coin was also intelligent. It had become so diminished in weight, by the fraud of clipping, that the actual value was very inferior to the nominal; he therefore had new coins made all over England (8). (1) Malmsb. 60. This author's expressions, nam caeteris infamias--magis resperserunt cantilenae, p. 56., imply that Ihe Anglo-Saxon poets made Edgar's dissolute conduct the subject of their poetry. (2) As occasional fasting, and not to wear his crown for seven years. Malmsb. 60. Osb. 111. One part of the penance was artfully chosen to promote the monk's purposes. The king was to lavish his treasures upon a...
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