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Updated: May 14, 2025
"You have killed him," quoth Leofric the deacon, whom Hereward had beckoned to stop with him. "I hope not. Lend me a knife. He is a much slighter man than I fancied," said Hereward, as they got his helmet off. And when it was off, both started and stared.
Last of all lingered Leofric, the great Earl of Mercia; and when the rest had departed, he took the pale hand, that lay heavy on the coverlid, in his own, and said: "Old foe, often stood we in Witan and field against each other; but few are the friends for whom Leofric would mourn as he mourns for thee. Peace to thy soul!
Wherefore some power and lordship it were wise to give, without dispossessing others, and not more wise than due, for his father served you well." "And hath endowed more houses of God than any earl in the kingdom. But Algar is no Leofric. We will consider your words and heed them. Bless you, beau frere! and send in the cheapman. The thumb of St. Jude! What a gift to my new church of St. Peter!
But with the fall of the Danelaw the British princes were again brought to submission, and when in the midst of the Confessor's reign the Welsh seized on a quarrel between the houses of Leofric and Godwine to cross the border and carry their attacks into England itself, the victories of Harold reasserted the English supremacy.
So the powers who wait On noble deeds, cancell'd a sense misus'd." It is not my business now to prove that the legend is untrue in fact, or I should insist, first, that its omission by previous writers, who refer both to Leofric and Godgifu and their various good deeds, is strong negative testimony against it; and I should show, from a calculation made by the late Mr.
"For mercy's sake! you will not harm the lad?" "If I were a wise man now, and hard-hearted as wise men should be, I should I should " and he played the point of the sword backwards and forwards, nearer and nearer to the lad's throat. "Master! master!" cried Leofric, clinging to his knees; "by all the saints! What would the Blessed Virgin say to such a deed!" "Well, I suppose you are right.
"I cannot blame Harold for not remaining behind," Wulf said, "though it were certainly more politic for him to have stayed in London. As he could not do so, I think it would have been well had he bidden Gurth remain behind to gather another army with which to meet the Normans should we be defeated; or if he could not spare Gurth he might have left Leofric behind.
One act of sovereignty only is attributed to him, the confirmation of Brand, who had been chosen by the monks Abbot of Peterborough, in succession to Leofric, of the house of Edwin and Morcar, who had been present at the battle of Hastings and had died soon after.
Now, therefore, I come to my lord, and I ask, 'What lands and what lordships canst thou spare in broad England to Algar, once Earl of Wessex, and son to the Leofric whose hand smoothed the way to thy throne? My lord the King is pleased to preach to me contempt of the world; thou dost not despise the world, Earl of the East Angles, what sayest thou to the heir of Leofric?"
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