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An inquiry into the remarkable instances of history and Parliament records used by the author of The unreasonableness of a new separation on account of the oaths, whether they are faithfully cited and applied.
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Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700.
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Malms l. 1. c. 2. f. 8. a. n. 10. cujus affinitate fultus Egbertum solum Regalis Prosapiae Superstitem quem validissimum suis Vtilitatibus metuebat Obicem Franciam fugandum curavit nam ipse Brithricus caeteri infra Inam Reges licet Natalium splendore gloriantes quippe qui de Cerdicio originem traherent non parum tamen alienâ regiae stirpis exorbitaverant illo igitur expulso securo resolvi coeperat otio c. Supported by the Affinity of Offa he caused Egbert the only Survivor of the Royal Race to fly into France fearing he would be a great check to his Affairs for Brithric himself and the other Kings since Ina altho they might glory in the splendor of their Births as deriving their Origin from Cerdic yet they were not a little out of the way from the line of the Royal Progeny When Egbert was expelled the Kingdom he began to live securely c. From this Observation of Malmsbury's as the Author calls it if it be one the lineal Succession before Ina which might be here set forth if needful is as much proved as no lineal Succession after him and notwithstanding the several Usurpations that had been between the Reign of Ceadwally or Ina and Egbert who was much feared by Brithric as being the only Survivor and of right Successor of the Royal Line and therefore banished into France the lineal Succession in the West-Saxon Kingdom was in time revived and continued in the Saxon Monarchy which he founded as will appear in the further Enquiry into the Author's other Saxon Instances This if it had been fairly cited could not have been useful to him but he took what served his turn and left out the rest The Words of the Author p. 14. Aethelulphus King of the West-Saxons went to Rome Matt. West A. D. 854. 867. and there crowned Alfred his youngest Son King and married the King of France's Daughter in his return and made her Queen against the Laws for which reason he was excluded his Kingdom his eldest Son and Alston Bishop of Shireburn being at the top of this Act of Exclusion and he came back only upon the terms of receiving his Son into a Share of the Kingdom which shews that they looked on the Laws as the measure of Allegiance and where those were openly broken that it was in their power to transfer it HISTORY Rex Occidentalium Saxonum Aethelulphus cum honore maximo Romam profectus c. Aethelulphus King of the West Saxons went with great honour to Rome carrying with him his younger Son Alfred whom he loved beyond all his other Sons that he might be instructed by Pope Leo in Manners and Religion where he stay'd a year with his Son and caused him to be crowned King by the Pope and after few days returning to his Country he brought with him Judith Daughter to Charles King of France whom he had married But in the mean time while the King was beyond Sea there was a Conspiracy of certain great Men formed against him the chief of the Conspiracy were Aethelbald his eldest Son and Alston Bishop of Shireburn and Landulph Earl of Somersetshire who had resolved that upon his return he should never be received to the Government for which they had two causes One for that he had caused his younger Son Alfred to be crowned at Rome and postpon'd and excluded his other Sons the second was That he had despised all English Women and married a Stranger Moreover the Conspirators had heard that contrary to the Custom and Statutes of the West-Saxon Kings he called the King of France's Daughter whom he had lately married Queen and caused her to sit by him at the Table and eat with him which the West Saxon Nation did not permit nor that she should be called Queen but the King's Wife Haec autem infamia ab Eadburga Offae Regis filiâ ejusdem generis reginâ exorta est Quae Virum suum Brithricum â—eneno perdidit c. The occasion of which non permission arose from Eadburg the Daughter of Offa a Queen of the same sort who destroyed her Husband with Poyson and sitting by the King was wont to accuse all the Noblemen of the Kingdom and those she could not accuse she killed by Poyson Therefore for the lewdness of the Queen all conspired that they would never permit a King to reign over them Qui in praedictis culpabilis inveniretur who should be found culpable in what hath been said Revertente tandem a Roma Aethelulfo Rege Pacifico praedictus filius ejus Aethelbaldus conceptam nequitiam ad effectum producere attentavit sed Deus omnipotens id fieri non permisit c. When the peaceable King Aethelulph return'd from Rome his Son Aethelbald attempted to effect his wicked Contrivance but God would not permit it for to prevent a more than Civil War between Father and Son by the ineffable Clemency of the King the Confederacy of all the Nobles and Bishops was broken he dividing the Kingdom of the West Saxons between himself and Son which before was undivided so as his Son possessed the East part and the Father the West part Et cum tota regni Nobilitas pro Rege decertare filium a Jure regni depellere vellent si Pater id fieri permisisset ipse mentis nobilitate ab avaritiae sese vitio excludens filii sui concupiscentiae satisfecit sicque ubi Pater justo Dei Iudicio regnare debuerat illic filius pertinax iniquus regnavit and when as the whole Nobility of the Kingdom would have fought for the King and forced his Son from the right of the Kingdom if his Father would have permitted it to be done but he being free from all Covetousness satisfied the unruly Appetite of his Son and so where the Father ought to have reigned by the just Sentence of God the obstinate and wicked Son reigned This Story Mat. Westm had from Flor. of Worcester †A. D. 675. tho it is not in the last altogether so formal * f. 21. b. n. 50. l. 22. a. n. 10. 20. Malmsbury likewise hath it tho not intirely But the Saxon Chronology hath nothing of it nay rather it hath something contrary to it * A. D. 854. Eodem anno Aethelwulfus rex magno cum honore Romam perrexit ibique per Menses Duodecim moratus est cui mox domum redeunti Carolus Francorum Rex filiam suam in Reginam dedit hinc posteà ad populum suum reversus est qui mirificè laetabatur sed post biennium ex quo a Francis redierat defunctus est corpus autem Wintoniae sepultum jacet In the Year 854. Aethelwulph went in great Pomp to Rome where he staid Twelve Months To whom as he returned home Charles King of France gave him his Daughter for his Queen Afterwards when he returned to his People they rejoyced wonderfully within Two Years after he died