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 with jutice for 31 years; being then old and unable to manage alone; he appointed four of his nobles as regents: They, as has too often happened, to enrich themelves abued their power; and the good old King, unable to ilence the clamours of his ubjects, by removiugremoving [sic] thee wicked miniters, died of grief in 762.

, on of Etin, in the year 788, in whoe reign the Irih made a decent upon Kintyre, but were oon expelled by the inhabitants, and lot many hips in their return home. They afterwards olicited Achaius for peace and friendhip which was granted them.—Charlemagne, or Charles the Great of France, entered into the trictet alliance with Achaius, and both nations mutually aited each other with troops.—Alcuin, a native of Scotland, a man famous in this age for his learning, being Charles’s Preceptor,