[71] Titles of Honour, p. i. chap. 1.
[72] See Mr. Turner's Anglo-Saxons, Spelman's Life of Alfred, &c.
[73] Taylor's Glory of Regality, Addit. Notes, p. 310.
[74] Lingard's History, vol. i. p. 350.
[75] See Hume's England, 8vo. vol. i. &c.
[76] Turner's Anglo-Saxons, 4to. vol. i. p. 389.
[77] "Princes beyond the baths of the sea-fowl, worshipped him far and wide," says a poem on his death: "they bowed to the king as one of their own kin. There was no fleet so proud, there was no host so strong, as to seek food in England, while this noble king ruled the kingdom. He reared up God's honour, he loved God's law, he preserved the people's peace; the best of all the kings that were before in the memory of man. And God was his helper: and kings and earls bowed to him: and they obeyed his will: and without battle he ended all as he willed."—Chron. Sax. p. 122.
[78] Osbern, 113. Eadmer, 220.
[79] Mr. Lingard has the following note on the accession of Edwy, confirming our previous observations on the meaning of the recognition. "It is observable, that the ancient writers almost always speak of our kings as elected. Edwy's grandmother in her charter, (Lye, App. iv.) says, "He was chosen, gecoren." The contemporary biographer of Dunstan, (apud Boll. tom. iv. Maii, 344.) says, "Ab universis Anglorum principibus communi electione.""
[80] Hickes' Inst. Gram. Præf.