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# Albions England (Running Prose Page) This is a page of running verse narrative, not a title page or illustration. The text is a historical poem about English kingship and Norman conquest, recounting battles between English and Norman forces, the slaying of King Harold, and establishing a genealogical line through subsequent kings (Edmund, Edward, Henry, Mawd). The verse celebrates English courage and traces the legitimate succession of the crown through mixed Norman and Saxon bloodlines, apparently working toward justifying a particular royal claim through documented ancestry.
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