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A.D.

underline William I. /underline

note 1066 /note of being well disposed to the Church, & his enterprise had received the Popes approbation. All these motives concurring the priestly faction raised such an Opposition to Morcar & Edwin, that despairing of success, they retired into the North. The two Archbishops, Bishops & others and among the rest Prince Edgar swore fealty to William; & upon his farther approach to London, the Magistrates presented him the Keys of the City.

Soon after the Prelates & Lords offered him the Crown, which He