Show NYES IiI HISTORY STORY OF ENGLAND rings kings were hard workers worker s in the middle ages LITTLE TM imi FOB GOLF OR TEAS why the coronation of edward the pacific watt delayed on III character bly political ties HM HOW ne ilia his lelh erge i copyright an by byj J B D lippincott company CHAPTER chapler V tho the ethels now made an effort to regain 0 1711 the th throna rone from edward tho the elder Ethel ethelwald wold a nephew of edward united t lie ilia danes under his own banner and relations were trained strained between the leaders rs il 90 when was slain even then the lest lesi danes anti and Er entler settlers were lver a source of annoyance until about when N hen edward died but at his death he was waa the undisputed km hing cf all britain and all ho be monarchs sab abdon aichs archs and associate anler i up hir clamis to him he wn wig nf f state by ilia his iu ea bister edward the lie elder had his fathers ability ns ag a ruler but was waa not so great as a s a schol scholar IT or litterateur ile he had not the unfaltering devotion to study nor the earnest calmest methods which made alfred great alfred not only divided up his time into eight hour shifts one for rest meals and d recreation one for the he affairs of t 1 in 11 I 1 THROW ING OUT state and one for study and devotion but lie he invented the die caud caudle lewith with a scale ou on it 03 a timepiece and many a abject came to the throne at regular periods period to set his candle by the royal lights think of tho those days when the geant at arms of congress could not turn bark back tho the deck clock in order to assist an all appropriation at the close oft of the 11 e sea session ion but when the light went out lie he ses session doll closed athelstan Athe litan succeeded hw his father edward the presiding elder arid and resembled him a good deal ly IT defeating the welsh scots and danes in those hose days day agriculture trade and manufacturing were diversions during the suii sua imir niner months but the regular business of life was warfare with the danes scots and welsh these foes of england could live easily aj for years v e ars on oatmeal sour milk aud and cods heads while the fighting clothes of a whole regiment would have been a scant wardrobe for t lie he greek lave flave F and after two centuries of almost uninterrupted carnage their war debt was only a a trifle over 8 Ed edmund inand the brother of at the age of 18 succeeded his bis brother on the throne one evening while a little hilarity was going on in tho the royal apartments edmund noticed among the guests a jobber lobber named leolf who had not been invited probably lie was a pickpocket et and as a royal robber hated anybody who dropped below grand larce larceny n y the ling king ordered his retainer to put him out bat the retainers ro shrank from the onder undertaking der taking therefore Idin edmund und sprang from the he throne hrone like a tiger iger aud and buried ilis talons in the there was waa a mixture of feet feel ings tenth teeth and features tor for a monio moment it and aben peace was restored lun kilk i edmund lidd a watch pocket full of bloch and tho the robber ell was wiping his ou on on of tile he royal tidies edred now spec ceded tl lc c ji diri gand his brother awl wit with 11 a 1 heavy he heart IC rt took up the lie eternal job ot of lighting fight in 9 the danes edred st set t up it 11 sort of provincial government over northumberland the refractory district and sent a governor and there to see that the danes paid attention to what lie he said S st I 1 dalstan hall considerable influence ill over edred and was wag promoted a great deal by alic king who died in the year he was succeeded by edwy V pair fair who was opposed by another ethel between the ethels and the welsh and dane there was vas little time left in englund Eng luid for golf or high tea and ed reign was vas choit aud and tall fall of trouble ile he had trouble with st dalstan Da ustan charging him with the embezzlement of church funds and compelled him to leave tile the country this was in retaliation for st order to the tha king idas one evening when a banquet was given him in honor bonor of hi bi coronation the king 1 ill I 1 excused himself noi n lien hen the speeches got rather corky and went into the sitti bittins n room to have a chat with w ith his wife elgiva 14 ava of whom he was very fond and her mother st dunstan Dim n ho he lind had still to make a speech on foreign ini missi orm with a yard or so of statistics insisted on eddys return an open outbreak was lie result the church fell upon the king with a loud annu annual al report and when nv hen the debris was cleared away a little round shouldered beam ail lit a ea g 4 CAME TO THE AT REGULAR PERIODS TO SET THEIR CANDLES BY TUB THE ROYAL LIGHT g gri e 0 ui ing we cue ne keiu rif all was mortal cf the king his wife was cruelly and fatally assassinated assassinate di and edgar his brother began to reign this was in the year and in what is ia now called the middle ages aes edgar wax called the pacific H flo ig paid aid off the church debt made Dian dunstan stall archbishop of at canterbury helped reform the church and though but ant if 14 years of age when lie h removed all explosives from the throne and seated himself there lie he showed that he had ball a massive ma asive scope and his subjects looked forward to touch much anticipation he sailed around the island every year to show the danes how bow prosperous he was arid and cluade speeches eche which displayed his education his coronation tool took place 13 years after his accession to the throne owing to the fact sigg given out by some of the 1110 more modern modem historians that the crown was wag at mr isaac Itie steins all this thio time whereas the he throne which wai waa bought on the installment plan had been redeemed pictures of the crown worn vorn by edgar will convince the reader th that it its rf redemption demp tion wis was no slight t wa while the mortgage mort gaga on the throne wm was 1 a I mere bagatelle bag a t ell e A bright idea of edgard was ras to tide rid in a rowboat pulled by eight kings un der the old regime reganie personally edgar was waa reputed to bf be exceedingly licentious but the historian wisely says aada these stories may have been the invention of his enemies Gie alnes atnes is certain tj to make of itself a target for fir the mud of its own generation and no lie one who rage above the level of his surroundings ever failed to r receive the fragrant attentions of those who had not succeeded in rising all hist history y is fraught also with the b bitterness s and jealousy of the historian except this one no bitterness can creep into this history edgar it is said assassinated the hu husband liband of elfrida in order that lie he might marry her it is alu also said raid that 11 he broke into a convent and earned cal ried off a nun but doubtless if these stories were traced to their very foundations polities politics would for thern them both ile he did not favor the secular C cler argy y and they of course disliked him nc lie cordingly ile he suffered buffered also at the tha hands of those who nho sought to operate the reigning apparatus while his attention was turned toward other matters ile he was wag the author anthor of the scheme whereby lie ho utilized utilised his erien enemies lies the welsh princes by demanding wolf heads per annum annam as tribute instead of money this wiped out oat the wolves anti and used up the surplus animosity of the welsh As the welsh princes had no money the scheme was a good one edgar died at the ago age of 33 32 and was succeeded by edward his son soil in ill 9 75 the death of the iha king at this early zat it 1110 7 lq tile idea ho a smi t 1 g aud that lip bit up late of aud cut up like via vr vr i X r EB M J 14 1 I 11 ily nil nl V everything but ant fins autv not be true death often take i the arnod the tine and the b e it 1 ti f iii philp h 1 1 young vo i il 1 g il however 0 v e y e r edgar E d g a r s coign i t i g n was wag a brilliant one tor for an an asislo lo saxon and his co COO laskin cap is said to to have cot cost over a p pound nind sterling BILL NYE KYE |