King Alfred of England - Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

Capitolo 57

assembled in Rome. Also, Rome was the scene of many miracles from that
the imaginations of the superstitious one and the really devoted one it was
excited that it thrilled them with an idea on power in which they felt
a kind of confident sense of protection. This power was continually
inserting, now in a way and now in another, to protect the virtue, to
you punish crime, and to testify to the cruel one and the devotee to each,
in a proper way, that theirs respective actions were the objects,
according to their character, of the sorrow or of the approval
of Sky.

You says that the following accident is happened, on an occasion. The
narration of him will illustrate the ideas of the time. A child of
seven years old verse, called Kenelm, succeeded to the throne in the
Anglo-Saxon line. Being too much youth to act for him, he had put under
the position of a sister that was to involve him as regent until the boy became
adult. His/her sister, ambitious of creation power delegated this way
to her completely her really, definite on to destroy his/her brother. You
commissioned an assassin rented for perpetrating the action. The assassin
picked up his/her child in a wood, it killed him, and it hid his/her body in a thick grove of trees,
in a certain cow-pasture to a place called Clent. His/her sister then
supposed the scepter in his/her his/her own name, and suppressed all the investigations in
you respect to the fate of his/her brother;  and it is probable that its murder would have remained
forever unexplored, you/he/she had been not him miraculously revealed in Rome.

A white dove flew there in a church one day, and you/he/she made fall on the
altar of St. Pietro a paper on that you/he/she was written in Anglo-Saxon
characters,


    In Cow-lottery of Clent, Kenelme governs to feel happy of it, lieth under Thorne the head
    the aching ones.


For once nobody could read the writing. For a long time an Anglo-Saxon
saw it, and it translated him/it in the Latin, so that the pope and all others
you/he/she could understand him/it. The pope sent then a letter to the authorities in
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