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Of all princes in Europe I had rather Harold had fallen into the hands of any other than into those of William of Normandy." "Truly I have never troubled my head about such matters, Wulf, and thought that it would be time to do so when I became a thane, and had a vote at the Witan."
We have a sheriff and not a viscount; but his district is more commonly called a county than a shire. But county and shire are French and English for the same thing, and "parliament" is simply French for the "deep speech" which King William had with his Witan.
Again I say, failing the Atheling, whom could we choose but Harold, brother-in-law to the King: descended through Githa from the royalties of the Norse, the head of all armies under the Herr-ban, the chief who has never fought without victory, yet who has always preferred conciliation to conquest the first counsellor in the Witan the first man in the realm who but Harold? answer me, staring Vebba?"
After the holding of the witan Edmund and Egbert at once left the army with their followers, and for some months the young ealdorman devoted himself to the work of restoring the shattered homes of his people, aiding them with loans from the plunder he had gained on the seas, Alfred having at once repaid him the sums which he had lent at Athelney.
The next day was Epiphany, the termination of the Christian festival, the last upon which the Witan could legally sit, and had the ceremony not taken place then it must have been delayed until another great feast of the church another calling together of the Witan. All night the preparations for the two great ceremonials were carried on.
That evening he left the town and hurried to tell to Edward the tale that had so miscarried with the chiefs. The next day, the Northumbrian delegates were heard; and they made the customary proposition in those cases of civil differences, to refer all matters to the King and the Witan; each party remaining under arms meanwhile. This was finally acceded to. The Witan was summoned in haste.
They were numerous in London: in the precincts of which they had their own burial-place, to the chief municipal court of which they gave their own appellation the Hustings . Their power in the national assembly of the Witan had decided the choice of kings.
There was more than even the unanimity of the chiefs of the Witan, in favour of Harold; there was that universal noiseless impression throughout all England, Danish and Saxon, that Harold was now the sole man on whom rested the state which, whenever it so favours one individual, is irresistible.
Gilbert on the Court of Exchequer, 61-2. The opinion expressed in the text, that the Witan had no legislative authority, is corroborated by the following authorities: Durham's Middle Ages, Sec. 2, B. 2, Ch. l. 57 Lardner's Cab. Cyc., 53.
Alred, O holy father, at whose knees I once confessed my every sin, I blame thee not that thou first, in the Witan, liftest thy voice against me, though thou knowest that I loved Algive from youth upward; she, with her heart yet mine, was given in the last year of Hardicanute, when might was right, to the Church.
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