ROGERI DE WENDOVER LIBER, QUI DICITUR, FLORES HISTORIARUM. De coronatione regis Willelmi primi. Coronation of INNO Domini MLXVII. dux Nor- A.D. 1067. ultatione a clero et populo sus- die ab Aldredo, Eboracensi archiepiscopo, regni diadema suscepit; timuit enim hoc munus consecrationis a Stigando, Cantuariensi archiepiscopo, suscipere, eo quod non legitime occupaverat illius excellentiam digni tatis. 3 Deinde homagiis a magnatibus, cum fidelitatis juramento, obsidibusque acceptis, in regno confirmatus, omnibus qui ad regnum aspiraverant factus est terrori. Civitatibus quoque dis NOTES AND VARIOUS READINGS1. The reader will remember that these, in the following notes marked C., are taken from the readings of the Wendover MS., destroyed in the fire of Ashburnham House, printed at the end of Wats' edition of Matthew Paris. VOL. II. 2 Rex acclamatus.] A full account of William's coronation is given by William of Poitou; Hist. Normann. Scriptt. p. 205. 3 Non legitime.] His election was deemed uncanonical, archbishop Robert being yet alive. B |