Alfred_the_Great's_will.jpg


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English: Page from the will of Alfred the Great. The top part, above the 'I', describes the Witan's support of his case against his nephews. The will proper starts below the 'I', under the later title Testamentum .
Date circa 890
Source Photographed by Dudley Miles from Plate 24 in Alfred Smyth's King Alfred the Great , ISBN 0-19-822989-5
Author Anonymous Unknown author

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Page from the will of Alfred the Great

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