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Alfred's cry was answered by a shout from the men, and Ethelwulf rode forward to meet his son, who grasped his extended hands and sprang up to sit in front of him upon the horse. "Your mother Osburga?" said the King hoarsely. "Ill, father, because you do not come," cried the boy excitedly. "Hah! Then she will soon be well," said the King, with a sigh of content.
On the one side of a sheet of paper it ran, "My dear Sir John, I am certain there are few in this kingdom who set a higher value on your services than myself, and I have the honor to subscribe," and on the other side it concluded, "myself your obedient faithful servant, ERSKINE." Swithin was tutor to Ethelwulf and Alfred. Becket was tutor to Henry II.'s eldest son.
Here lie the bones of the Saxon King Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the Great; of Canute, whose sturdy common sense silenced his flatterers; and of many others. A scion of the usurping Norman sleeps here too, in the tomb where William Rufus was buried, "with many looking on and few grieving."
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