No great effort of scepticism is requisite to suggest that Edward, tired of the tutelage in which he was held, may have made way with Godwin by poison, and then circulated among a credulous generation the story related by the annalists.
[1085] Lives of Edward the Confessor, p. 119 (M. R. Series).
[1086] Dooms of Ethelred, IX. § 22; Cnut. Eccles. Tit. v.
[1087] Alium examinis modum, nostro etiamnunc sæculo, sæpe malo modo usitatum.—Cod. Legum Antiq. p. 1418.
[1088] De Mirac. S. Benedicti. Lib. I. c. v.
[1089] Gesta Treverorum, continuat. I. (Migne’s Patrol. CLIV. 1205-6).
[1090] Ayeen Akbery, II. 498.
[1091] Ali Ibrahim Khan (Asiatic Researches, I. 391-2).
[1092] Lieut. Shaw in As. Researches, IV. 80.
[1093] Institutes of Vishnu, XIV.—Yajnavalkya, II. 112-13.