The lives of the saints With introd and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work . umbrians gave earnest of their intentionsby plundering Northamptonshire, burning houses and corn,and carrying off hundreds of captives. Harold met themagain at Oxford, which the Northumbrian army had nowreached. He tried to persuade them to take Tostig back,but they would not hearken. So Morkere, son of Earl Alfgar,was made their earl, and Tostig was outlawed and Edward was very angry at having to part Avith hisfavourite, and at n
The lives of the saints With introd and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work . umbrians gave earnest of their intentionsby plundering Northamptonshire, burning houses and corn,and carrying off hundreds of captives. Harold met themagain at Oxford, which the Northumbrian army had nowreached. He tried to persuade them to take Tostig back,but they would not hearken. So Morkere, son of Earl Alfgar,was made their earl, and Tostig was outlawed and Edward was very angry at having to part Avith hisfavourite, and at not being allowed to chastise his Earl Harold knew that it must be so, and the king hadnothing left but to pray that God might punish them, andwhether through his prayers or not, certainly the Northum-brians suffered evil enough during the ensuing years. In 1066, at Christmas, King Edward held his Court atWestminster, and on Holy Innocents Day caused the abbeyhe had erected to be dedicated with great pomp to thePrince of the Apostles. But both before and during thesolemn festival of the dedication he was ill. As his illness ->i<. u «J c ?- >- a. S w ^ U ;3 J3 1) SSH^ > OJ . ^ uTn ^ JJ-S M m >i n O •- .-H a c: a-c; o •7D ^§ si ° U-i .,-^ ^ zo _ (U i_ u u 43 4-* a ?fe is ? K •* j3 H T3 1-- D fU > ?^ *:t -^ Q -1 c _- to 0) ^*- CQ O 2^ S uJ3 < smbroio the .the ps s o 1-1 fa a ?^ z Dfa ed with aneight mend, chanting •1-ro . (U .o c 0 C. 5E3 0 o t-H u-a :-• x: tH - Oct. 13.] ?^ Edward the Confessor. 345 increased he took to his bed, when, after lying two daysspeechless, and apparently lifeless, he revived on the thirdday, and fetching a deep sigh, exclaimed, Almighty God,if it be not an illusion, but a true vision which I have be-held, grant me strength to tell it to those who are by ; but ifon the other hand it be false, I pray Thee withhold from methe power of teUing it. After this prayer he said : I sawjust now standing by me two monks
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