ÆÐELRED, A.D. 994.—A witena gemót met this year at Andover[[710]].
ÆÐELRED, A.D. 995.—A gemót at Ambresbyrig, now Amesbury, where Ælfríc was elected archbishop of Canterbury in the place of Sigeríc[[711]]. There seems to have been another meeting in the same year, one of whose acts we still possess[[712]].
ÆÐELRED, A.D. 996.—In this year a gemót was held at Cealchýð[[713]].
ÆÐELRED, A.D. 997.—This year a gemót was held in the palace at Calne: “collecta haud minima sapientium multitudine, in aula villae regiae quae nuncupative a populis Et Calnæ vocitatur[[714]].” A few days later we find the gemót assembled at Waneting or Wantage; and here they promulgated laws which we yet possess[[715]]. There is a charter also, passed at this gemót[[716]]. A previous gemót of uncertain year had been held at Brómdún[[717]], and another at Woodstock[[718]].
ÆÐELRED, A.D. 998.—A gemót was held this year in London[[719]]; and another apparently at Andover[[720]], where conditions of peace were ratified with Anláf or Olaf Tryggvason[[721]].
ÆÐELRED, A.D. 999.—At least one gemót was held this year, to concert measures of defence against the Danes[[722]].
A.D. 996-1001.—Between these years there was a gemót at Cócham, now Cookham in Berks, which was attended by a large assemblage of thanes from Wessex and Mercia, both of Saxon and Danish descent[[723]].
ÆÐELRED, A.D. 1002.—In this year the witan met and paid tribute to the Danes[[724]]. We have still an evident act of such a gemót in this year[[725]].
ÆÐELRED, A.D. 1004.—In this year a meeting of the Eastanglian witan, under earl Ulfcytel, took place. From the description I do not think it could have been an ordinary scírgemót. It shows, at any rate, that the witan were resident in the shires, and not permanently attached to the royal person or household[[726]].
ÆÐELRED, A.D. 1006.—Another gemót was held this year, somewhere in Shropshire, for the melancholy and shameful purpose of buying peace from the Danes[[727]].