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Frontispicce.
THE TRADITIONAL PORTRAIT OF

ALFRED THE GREAT.

This conception of Alfred's features is probably at least 200

years old.

It appears in one of the Bodlean prints with this legend: Alfredus Saxonum Rex, Coll. Universitatis Oxon. Fundutcr. Circa A. Chr. 877. Hujus Summ Regis Effigiem a Tubula in Bibl. Bodlirana factum Reverendo viro Nathan Withevell, ST.P. Nathan Wetherell was Master of University from 1764-1808, but the original to which he refers cannot be traced,

King of the English

BY

DUGALD MACFADYEN, M.A.
(Sometime Exhibitioner in Modern History on the

Foundation of Merton College, Oxford)

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