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 oU ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF EARL GODWINE. pirata foetus pr?cdis marinis virtutes majorum polluit." The cause of his taking to this Viking life ^YC find clscAvlicre. The Chronicle tells us that in 1046', after an expedition into Wales, '' then commanded he to be brought unto him the Abbess of Leominster," and had her ^vhile that he listed, and after that let her go home." The other version tells us somewhat later that " Swegen the Earl went out to Baldwine's land to Br^'cge ; " i.e. Bruges. Florence, who is copied by Iloveilen, apparently connects the two events, and supplies the name of the Abbess, telling us that "because he could not have in marriage Eadgyfu, Abbess of Leominster, whom he had corrupted, he had left England and gone into Denmark.'' I infer from this that Eadgyfu was a consenting party, and that Swegen forsook his earldom and his country in a fit of pique. At all events, there is a little colouring about Dr. Lingard's version, that " he had violated the person of Edgive. the Abbess of Leominster, and the indignant piety of Edward drove him into banishment.*' It does not a])pear that he was formally banished, and his treatment as an outlaw might well follow on his taking the part of Count Baldwine of Flanilers "" against the Emperor Henry, while the King was at war with the former on behalf of the latter.^ His Earldom was divided between his brother Harold and his cousin Biorn,^ both of whom opposed its restitution, when, tired of his warfare in Denmark and Flanders, he came to ask for restoration. On this he treacherously murdered Biorn, as is rehited in the Chronicle at length. He was afterwards restored, at the intercession, according to Florence, of Ealdred. Bishoj) of Worcester, and afterwards Archbishop of York, whom Stubbs " describes as being of that authority with King Eadward that he could reconcile to him his l)itterest enemies, instancing Swegen himself and the Welsh King Grulfydd. (To he continued.) ' MoHt Huroly tlio LiiomiiiHter in i|iiOHtii)ii of lw Godwiiic fiiinily, niid Hiildwine tlicir iH tlio WL-ll-kiiuwii LuoiiiiiiHteriii llcivConi- i-.ml Iriciid till jnHt lufore WiliiimrM iiivii- Jtliipr, ill Swojjcii'b own lOarMoni, and not nion. 'i'osti;,' iiiairicd his (liiiinlitcr .Juiiitli, Lf-oiniiiHtcr in Siis«''x, uh Mr. lIusHcy 8i.st<-r iif .Miitliilila,(^n<-i'n to tlu- ('oiniiieror. ((.'luii-cdieHor Kent, itc, j). 'Jl.'») tukcH for '■' l/ii|i|«-iiliirn, ii. 'Jll. f^ranto.l, infiTrinj; IVoni tli« Htatcnicnt ' Mahn< hIhiiv <'alls liini Unnio ; Wond- aljoiit .Swc^LMi that "u Hniall nunnery over niakcH liini tho Ivin^'H couuin inutend oxiHteil lii-rc in .Saxon tinicM.'' of .SwcfjcirH. ■^ I'luiidcrN Mccnm tliii favourite n-Hort -' Act. I'ont. Mbor. x. SiM'i|itt. 1700.