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E) Cnute committed them to my trust and assurance, and to them will I
keepe my faith and loiall obedience. The scepter and crowne I heere lay
downe vpon the altar, and neither doo I denie nor deliuer them vnto you:
but I forbid by the apostolike authoritie all the bishops, that none of
them presume to take the same awaie, and deliuer them to you, or
consecrate you for king. As for your selfe, if you dare, you maie vsurpe
that which I haue committed vnto God and his table." But whether
afterwards the king by one meane or other, caused the archbishop to
crowne him king, or that he was consecrated of some other, he was
admitted king of all the English people, beginning [Sidenote: 1036.] his
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