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Excerpt from Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol and It's Neighbourhood, Vol. 2: From the Earliest Period Down to the Present Time
I. Translate his Anglo-saxon rhymes into plain English prose. Then began a new disturbance for men liked their own natural lord better than Lowis of France and by counsel of holy church, they began to annul the engagement, which they made with him, although they had brought him hither. Therefore the legate Galen and the barons of the land held a council at Martinmas at Bristowe. There the Legate absolved high and low from the homage which they had done to Lowis: and he made all the bishops present, who were no more than seven, and the earls and barons and knights, swear to the young King, that they would be true to him and he excommunicated all the English, who were against him. Many persons soon had themselves crossed in their bare ?esh, in token that they would live and die with him, and drive out Lowis. Some principal men of England, who were with Lowis, through natural affection had their hearts with king Henry.'
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