King Alfred the Great burns the cakes and is rebuked by the peasant woman who had given him shelter without knowing who he was. Alfred the Great, 848/9 - 899, king of the Anglo-Saxons. Engraving from The New, Impartial and Complete History of England by Edward Barnard, published in London 1783.

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