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CHAPTER III.
THE MAKING OF THE DANELAW.
858-878.

The
final at-
tack on
Britain.

A FEW months after his withdrawal to the Eastern
realm brought Æthelwulf to the grave, at the open-
ing of 858; 1 and Æthelbald enjoyed but for two
years longer the crown which revolt had given him.
The reign of his brother Æthelberht, 2 who followed
him in 860, was almost as short and uneventful;
and for some years there was little to break the
peace of the land save a raid of the Northmen on
Winchester, 3 which was avenged by the men of
Hamptonshire and Berkshire under their ealdor-
men, 4 and a ravaging of the eastern shores of Kent
by pirates from Gaul in 864. But with the death
of Æthelberht and the accession of his next sur-

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1 "Idibus Januarii", Prud. Trec. Ann. a.858 (ap. Pertz. i. 451).
2 By Æthelwulf's will, Æthelberht, who succeeded him as under-
king in Kent, should have remained there at Æthelbald's death,
while Wessex fell to his younger brother Æthelred; but the will
must have been set aside by the Witan as inconsistent with the ar-
rangement by which the brothers were to follow one another in or-
der of age. Both the bequest and the setting aside are of the high-
est import for our after history; the first as the earliest known in-
stance of a claim to "bequeath" the crown as a personal property,
the second as showing such a claim to be as yet not admitted.
3 This was under Weland, whom we find before and after this in
the Seine and the Somme. -- Munch, Det Norske Folks Hist. pt. iv.
pp. 200, 209, 210.
4 Eng. Chron. (Winch.), a.860.

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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: 81.
    
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