 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1875 - 480 pages
...not good I rejected them, by the counsel of my witan, and in otherwise commanded them to be holden, for I durst not venture to set down in writing much...of it would please those who should come after us. But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ine, my kinsman, or of Offa, King of the Mercians,... | |
 | John Allen Giles - Great Britain - 1848 - 458 pages
...rejected, by the counsel of my ' witan' [parliament], and in other wise commanded them to be holden ; for I durst not venture to set down in writing much...of it would please those who should come after us. But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ina my kinsman, or of Offa, king of the Mercians,... | |
 | Albrecht von Baron HALLER - Constitutional history - 1849 - 388 pages
...rejected, by the counsel of my ' witan' [parliament,] and in other wise commanded them to be holden ; for I durst not venture to set down in writing much...of it would please those who should come after us. But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ina my kinsman, or of Offa, king of the Mercians,... | |
 | English history - 1851 - 706 pages
...not good, I rejected them, by the counsel of my Witan, and in otherwise commanded them to be holden ; for I durst not venture to set down in writing much...of it would please those who should come after us. But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ina, my kinsman, or Offa, King of the Mercians,... | |
 | Charles Sandys - England Land - 1851 - 386 pages
...good, I rejected them by the counsel of my ' Witan,' and in otherwise commanded them to be holden; for I durst not venture to set down in writing much...what of it would please those who should come after me. But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ine, my kinsman, or Offa, king of the... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1856 - 552 pages
...not good, I rejected them, by the counsel of my witan, and iu other wise commanded them to be holden. For I durst not venture to set down in writing much...of it would please those who should come after us." J If some of the laws of Alfred appear very strange to us, from our want of knowledge of the minuter... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 708 pages
...not good, I rejected them, by the counsel of my Witau, and in otherwise commanded them to be holden ; for I durst not venture to set down in writing much...of it would please those who should come after us. But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ina, my kinsman, or Offa, King of the Mercians,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1866 - 704 pages
...not good, I rejected them, by the counsel of my Witan, and in otherwise commanded them to be holden ; for I durst not venture to set down in writing much...of it would please those who should come after us. But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ina, my kinsman, or Offa, King of the Mercians,... | |
 | Francis Andrew March - Anglo-Saxon language - 1870 - 194 pages
...my witan, and in other wise commanded them to be holden, for I durst not venture to set in «riling much of my own, for it was unknown to me what of it would suit those who should be after us. But those which I met, cither of Ine's day, my kinsman, or .¿Ethelbirht's,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 560 pages
...not good, I rejected them, by the counsel of my witan, and in other wise commanded them to be holden. For I durst not venture to set down in writing much...of it would please those who should come after us." J If some of the laws of Alfred appear very strange to us, from our want of knowledge of the minuter... | |
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I rejected them, by the counsel of my ' witan,' and in otherwise commanded them to be holden ; for I durst not venture to set down in writing much of my own, for it was unknown to me what of it would please those who should come after us. 
