FOOTNOTES, CHAPTER [ III]
[ [Footnote 1: ] "Here lieth Sebba, King of the East Saxons, who was converted to the faith by Erkenwald, Bishop of London, in the year of Christ 677. A man much devoted to God, greatly occupied in religious acts, frequent prayers, and pious fruits of almsgiving, preferring a private and monastic life to all the riches and honours of the kingdom, who, when he had reigned 30 years, received the religious habit at the hands of Walther, Bishop of London, who succeeded the aforesaid Erkenwald, of whom the Venerable Bede makes mention in his History of the English People.">[
[ [Footnote 2: ] "Here [ lieth ] Ethelred, King of the English, son of King Edgar, to whom, on the day of his hallowing, St. Dunstan, the archbishop, after placing the crown upon him, is said to have foretold terrible things in these words: Forasmuch as thou hast aspired to the Kingdom through the death of thy brother, against whom the English have conspired along with thy wretched mother, the sword shall not depart from thy house, raging against thee all the days of thy life, destroying thy seed until the day when thy Kingdom shall be conveyed to another Kingdom whose customs and language the race over whom thou rulest knoweth not; nor shall there be expiation save by long-continued penalty of the sin of thyself, of thy mother, and of those men who took part in that shameful deed. Which things came to pass even as that holy man foretold; for Ethelred being worn out and put to flight in many battles by Sweyn, King of the Danes, and his son Cnut, and at last, closely besieged in London, died miserably in the year of the Incarnation 1017, after a reign of 36 years of great tribulation.">[
FOOTNOTES, CHAPTER [ IV]
"This humble tomb our citizens placed here
Unequal to thy merits, father dear;
For London's people know how wisely thou
Didst guide their fate, and gladly feel it now.
Under thy guidance freedom was restored,
And noble gifts through thee on us were poured.
Riches and earthly honours cease to be,
But thy good deeds abide in memory.">[
[ [Footnote 2: ] [ See ] Mediæval London, p. 62.]
[ [Footnote 3: ] [ Page ] 25.]