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was also King of the Mercians, 46 ;
defeated by the Danes at Wilton,
100 ; buys their withdrawal from
Wessex, 100 ; sends alms to Rome
and India, 100 and note 2; doubt-
ful story of his besieging the Danes
at London, 100, note 2; marches
upon Guthrum's camp near Ware-
ham, 104 ; makes a treaty with the
Danes, 104 ; besieges them in Exe-
ter, 104 ; falls back upon Somerset,
105 ; encamps at Athelney, 105 ;
musters the West-Saxon host at
Ecgberht's stone, 106 ; defeats the
Danes at Edington, 106 ; treaty of
Wedmore, 107 ; his work of resto-
ration, 125, 126 ; founds abbeys at
Winchester, Shaftesbury, and Athel-
ney, 127 ; his military reforms, 127 -
129 ; his extension of the thegn-
service, 129, 130 ; his reorganization
of the fyrd, 130, 131 ; creates a na-
tional fleet, 131, 132 and note 4; his
conception of public justice, 132,
133, note 2; his difficulties in en-
forcing justice, 134, 135 ; becomes
King of Mercia, 137 ; sets up a mint
at Oxford, 138, 421 ; at Gloucester,
422 ; his laws, 25, 139 and note 1,
324 ; drives the Danes from the
siege of Rochester, 142 ; his strug-
gle with Guthrum, 143 ; his (second)
peace with Guthrum, 120 ; its true
date, 144 ; its terms, 144, 145 and
note 1; becomes master of London,
144 and note 1; restores and peo-
ples it, 144 and note 1; renews its
walls, 188, 441 ; rise of national sen-
timent under, 147 ; his intellectual
work, 149 - 151 ; his chaplains, 150 ;
education of his children, 150 and
note 4, 181, 182 and note 1; of his
nobles, 150, note 4, 153 ; his zeal for
learning, 150 and notes 3 and 4, 151 ;
sends for scholars from over sea,
151 ; learns Latin, 151 and note 1;
story of Asser's visit to, 151 - 153 ;
his work in the creation of English
prose, 153, 154 ; his translations,
155, 156, 161 ; work in the English
Chronicle, 159 and note 3, 160 ; its
effects, 160 and note 2; holds Hast-
ing at bay for a year, 164 ; his nego-
tiations with Hasting, 164 ; rising
of the Danelaw against him, 164 ;
defends Exeter, 165 ; cuts off the
retreat of the Danes on the Lea,
166 ; his mode of life, 167, 168 and
notes; his love of strangers, 168 and
notes; his court, 172, 173 ; his bud-
get, 173, 174 ; his foreign policy,
175 ; his dealings with the North
Welsh, 175, 176 ; his alliance with
the Scot kingdom, 178 ; his death,
178 ; his character, 178 - 180 ; of-
ficers of the royal household in his
time, 523.
Ælfred, son of Æthelred, his residence
at the Norman court, 454 ; prepares
to invade England with Robert the
Devil, 456 ; lands at Dover, 464 ;
seized at Guildford, 464 ; blinded,
464 ; dies at Ely, 464.
Ælfred, an English fugitive from Dei-
ra, settles in Westmoringaland, 264.
Ælfric, archbishop of Canterbury, his
death, 385, note 3.
Ælfric, archbishop of York, charges
Godwine with the death of the æth-
cling Ælfred, 464, 466.
Ælfric succeeds Æthelmær as Ealdor-
man of Central Wessex, 357, note;
negotiates a treaty with the Nor-
wegian Wikings, 360, note 1; joint
leader of the fyrd with Thored, 361 ;
joins the Norwegians, 361 ; returns,
and is reinstated, 366 ; becomes first
among the ealdormen on death of
Æthelweard, 378 ; heads the fyrd of
Wiltshire and Hampshire against
Swein, 380 ; his failure and its
causes, 381 and note 1.
Ælfric, son of Ælfhere, succeeds his
father as Ealdorman of Mercia, 342,
357, note; exiled, 357, 358.
Ælfric, scholar of Bishop Æthelwold,
his grammar and homilies, 325 ;
writes an English version of the
Bible, 325.
Ælfric, kinsman of Godwine, elected
archbishop of Canterbury, 505 ; po-
litical import of his election, 506 ;
set aside by Eadward, 506.
Ælfsige, Ealdorman, 298, note 2, 303,
note 1.
Ælfstan, abbot of St. Augustine's at
Canterbury, his struggle with Christ
Church for the possession of Sand-
wich, 429, note 1.
Ælfthryth, daughter of Ælfred, her ed-
ucation, 150, note 3, 182, note 1; mar-
ries Baldwin II. of Flanders, 175,
239.
Ælfthryth, daughter of Ealdorman Ord-
gar, 303, 307, note 1, 308, notes; wife
of Æthelwold of East Anglia, 303,

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Conquest of England. Contributors: John Richard Green - author, Alice Stopford Green - author. Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1884. Page Number: 566.
    
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