Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . r that the young people ofthe country might learn to read their native language. Hebegan the Anglo-SaxonChronicle, a record ofthe chief events thathad happened in Eng-land from the earliesttimes. The monks hadcharge of this book, andwhenever anything ofimportance happened inthe kingdom, they wrotethe story. This writingwas kept up for twohundred and fifty yearsafter Alfreds death. Alfred also improvedthe laws and enforcedthem severely but co
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . r that the young people ofthe country might learn to read their native language. Hebegan the Anglo-SaxonChronicle, a record ofthe chief events thathad happened in Eng-land from the earliesttimes. The monks hadcharge of this book, andwhenever anything ofimportance happened inthe kingdom, they wrotethe story. This writingwas kept up for twohundred and fifty yearsafter Alfreds death. Alfred also improvedthe laws and enforcedthem severely but collected the bestof the Saxon laws andadded to them the TenCommandments. Sogreat was Alfred^s repu-tation in after time as astern and upright king, that the story was told that hehanged one judge for condemning to death a man who hadbeen convicted by nine jurors instead of twelve, and thathe hanged another judge who convicted a man whenthe jury were in doubt. Every crime had its punish-ment, and generally the punishment was a moneypayment by the family of the wrong-doer to the family ofthe man injured. If a man strike another mans ear off,. 28 HISTORY OF ENGLAND [901-979 let him give thirty shillings to boot. If the arm be brokenabove the elbow, there shall be fifteen shillings to the thumb be struck off, for that shall be thirty shillingsto boot. King Alfred died in 901. He had saved his land fromthe Danes, he had begun the English navy, he had givenEngland a just code of laws, he had built churches andmonasteries, had opened schools and translated other king in the history of the world has ever done somuch for his country. He has well been called Alfredthe Great. 19. The successors of Alfred.—The kings who succeededAlfred wisely followed his policy of maintaining a strongfleet and garrisons of soldiers in forts along the was no serious outbreak among the Danes in Eng-land, or invasions from Denmark, until after the death ofEdgar in 975. Edgar was
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