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credit_v frustrate_v this_o design_n for_o though_o the_o queen_n and_o her_o complice_n out_o of_o their_o transcendent_a malice_n which_o o_o that_o some_o of_o late_a time_n have_v not_o overmuch_o imitate_v inimicitias_fw-la quas_fw-la viventi_fw-la ingesserunt_fw-la in_o mortuum_fw-la protelantes_fw-la sepelierunt_fw-la cum_fw-la sine_fw-la regio_fw-la honore_fw-la apud_fw-la warham_n ut_fw-la sicut_fw-la vitam_fw-la ejus_fw-la extinxerant_fw-la ita_fw-la et_fw-la nomen_fw-la ejus_fw-la extinguerent_fw-la hic_fw-la vero_fw-la compertum_fw-la 8._o est_fw-la contra_fw-la divinam_fw-la providentiam_fw-la non_fw-la sufficere_fw-la praâ—um_fw-la cor_fw-la hominis_fw-la et_fw-la inscrutabile_fw-la quem_fw-la enim_fw-la perfidi_fw-la terris_fw-la abjicerant_fw-la deus_fw-la coelo_fw-la gloriosè_fw-la suscepit_fw-la et_fw-la memoriae_fw-la aeternae_fw-la insignivit_fw-la eum_fw-la dominus_fw-la cujus_fw-la mentionem_fw-la proditores_fw-la obnubulare_fw-la studuerant_fw-la but_o mark_v the_o sad_a sequel_n of_o this_o prodigious_a regicide_n proditione_n gentis_fw-la suae_fw-la perfidae_fw-la thus_o register_v by_o 357._o henry_n huntindon_n a_o impartial_a historian_n ind_n dominus_fw-la iterum_fw-la ad_fw-la iram_fw-la provocatus_fw-la est_fw-la et_fw-la plus_fw-la solito_fw-la irritatus_fw-la genti_fw-la pessimae_fw-la malum_fw-la inextricabile_fw-la confer_v cogitavit_fw-la et_fw-la quod_fw-la facere_fw-la paraverat_fw-la non_fw-la distulit_fw-la veneruntque_fw-la dani_n et_fw-la operuerunt_fw-la angliam_fw-la quasinubes_fw-la coeli_fw-la to_o which_o 61._o william_n of_o malmsbury_n subjoin_v creditumque_fw-la et_fw-la celebritèr_fw-la vulgatum_fw-la quod_fw-la propter_fw-la elfridae_fw-la in_o edwardum_fw-la insolentiam_fw-la multo_fw-la post_fw-la tempore_fw-la tota_fw-la patria_fw-la servitutem_fw-la infremuisset_fw-la barbaricam_fw-la take_v the_o sum_n of_o his_o reign_n murder_n saintship_n in_o these_o word_n of_o *_o abbot_n ethelred_n translato_fw-la ad_fw-la coelestia_fw-la regna_fw-la regeâ—adgaro_n â—adgaro_z in_fw-la regno_fw-la terreno_fw-la filius_fw-la ejus_fw-la 362._o edwardus_fw-la successit_fw-la qui_fw-la injust_a ab_fw-la impiis_fw-la interfectus_fw-la tum_fw-la 〈◊〉_d sanctitatem_fw-la tum_fw-la ob_fw-la mortis_fw-la aâ—â—â—bitatem_fw-la sancti_fw-la nomen_fw-la et_fw-la meritum_fw-la deo_fw-la donante_fw-la promâ—ruit_fw-la be_v afterward_o translate_v to_o shaftsbury_n and_o there_o honourable_o enshrine_v king_n edward_n be_v thus_o treacherous_o murder_v on_o 979._o the_o 17_o day_n of_o april_n anno_fw-la 978._o when_o he_o have_v reign_v only_o 3._o year_n and_o 8._o month_n by_o hereditary_a succession_n thereupon_o on_o the_o 8._o of_o may_v 979._o his_o half-brother_n 46â—_n ethelred_n be_v crown_v king_n at_o kingston_n by_o both_o the_o archbishop_n dunstan_n and_o oswald_n and_o ten_o bishop_n more_o in_o the_o presence_n of_o the_o noble_n much_o against_o dunstan_n will_n and_o although_o ethelred_n so_o 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