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William Smith. KINGS OF SCOTLAND AND CONTEMPORARY KINGS OF ENGLAND . SCOTLAND . ENGLAND . I. Old Line . Accession . Accession . 1004 Malcolm II . Ethelred II . 978 Edmund Ironside 1016 1034 Duncan I. Canute 1016 Harold Harefoot 1035 1039 ...
William Smith. KINGS OF SCOTLAND AND CONTEMPORARY KINGS OF ENGLAND . SCOTLAND . ENGLAND . I. Old Line . Accession . Accession . 1004 Malcolm II . Ethelred II . 978 Edmund Ironside 1016 1034 Duncan I. Canute 1016 Harold Harefoot 1035 1039 ...
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... ENGLAND , they still called the whole island Britain ; and to this day the " Queen of England " is also " Her Britannic Majesty . " We shall soon see how Wales and Scotland got their names . They form with England the island of Great ...
... ENGLAND , they still called the whole island Britain ; and to this day the " Queen of England " is also " Her Britannic Majesty . " We shall soon see how Wales and Scotland got their names . They form with England the island of Great ...
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... England . 66 Edwin became the fifth Bretwalda , and had power over all Britain , except Kent . " Such " ( says our first historian ) was the peace in Britain at that time , wherever the power of King Edwin had reached , that even a ...
... England . 66 Edwin became the fifth Bretwalda , and had power over all Britain , except Kent . " Such " ( says our first historian ) was the peace in Britain at that time , wherever the power of King Edwin had reached , that even a ...
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... England had attained at the end of the eighth century . CHAP . V. THE UNION OF ENGLAND , AND THE.
... England had attained at the end of the eighth century . CHAP . V. THE UNION OF ENGLAND , AND THE.
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... England ; but this is not quite correct , at least in the sense in which we now speak of a King or Queen of England . He was King of the West Saxons , but he won a ... England . The Union of England, and the First Settlements of the Danes.
... England ; but this is not quite correct , at least in the sense in which we now speak of a King or Queen of England . He was King of the West Saxons , but he won a ... England . The Union of England, and the First Settlements of the Danes.
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Page 331 - ... it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour, and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.