The deathbed of King Edward the Confessor, and passing of the crown to Harold Godwinson, and his coronation on a throne with Archbishop Stigand. At right, the comet of Easter 1066 surprises and shocks a crowd. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruce’s The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.

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