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# This Page This is a page of running prose text from what appears to be a historical chronicle or epitome. The page (numbered 368) presents a continuous narrative account of Anglo-Saxon and Danish history, describing the conquest and subjugation of York, the campaigns of King Alfred against the Danes, and the subsequent reigns of English kings including Edward the Elder, Æthelred, and others. The text traces the struggle between English and Danish forces from approximately 834 to the reign of Æthelred, detailing military victories, conversions to Christianity, and the establishment of tributary arrangements. No illustrations or advertising are present.
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z= a « 7 a , . P a a WPT id gos An Epitome witweene = = and ofthe Citie of Yorke : which they held by the fpace of 60, yeeres after: and in {hort time following alfo fubdued and flaughtered Edmond King of the Eaft-C4ueles,and Bur- -. dredKing of Mercia: holding alfo for a while that Prouince, and perfeuering inmany Pagainecruelties: vatill about amma 83 4.that the aforefaid 4/ured, then King of the moft part of that which isnow Exg/and, after many battailes not onely re- couered from them much of their former Conquefts, but | exiled hence whofoeuer of them refufed to be chriftened: the refidue with Guthor or Gormond their Prince receiuing Bap- tifme,retained as Tributaries(with other peeces) the domini- ons of Northumberland and Eaft-Anelia. By thefe partly, but chiefly by the returne of the Dames as before exiled , newe but bootleffe attempts were eftfoones practifed againft this Land. Edward {urnamed the Elder,fuc- ceeding Mlured his father,about anu.g10.eurcted from the Danes the Province of Ea/?-Aneglia: fo that then remained to bes themonely the Dominion of Northumberland, Albeit the . watlikeprinces _4aelffane and Edmond thetwo nextfuccee- _ ding Kings feuerally had fundrie ouerhands of the Northm-— brian Danes, yetit {eemeth that that principalitie remayned to them vndiffolued(as is before touches) vnto the raigneof jj E/dred then next fucceeding: who, about amz.94.6. fubduing — this Regiment,and ioyning it tothe reft of his Empire, Eng- land (as before ) dilacerate and infefted afwell by the Saxons themfeluesas by the Daves, returned to a perfect Monarchy: fo continewing by the {pace of about 5 0, yeeres after: thatis, - during the feuerall raignes of Edwyn, Eagar , and Edward, {urnamed the Martyr: in whofe times the Daves were either quiet, or their interprifes of fome fewe incurfions quayled, ff But in the raigne of king Egelred ( of fomecalled Etheldred) that next fucceeded, newe forces of Daxes, incouraged 4 _ through the (hallow and euill carriage of the King, alfoinui- | - tedandaflifted by their Coustrymen, that of long time had | (S Omiebdooks:com or ta ) en ie > a < o° + Ry nw ° ~ - ans 4 Wl . _-_* al a ae P- eeee 4 - = = ~ ’ i. ba , ee ee ae as _--——— —