Capitolo 69
burial. He went then to Winchester that, as Wimborne, is in
the south of England, to be crowned and it anointed king. Winchester was,
also in that the first days, a great ecclesiastical center. It was for
some calculate the capital of the Saxon kingdom and the west. It was an a lot of sacred
puts, and the crown had put there on the head of Alfred with the,
imposing more and solemn ceremonies. It is a curious and extraordinary
done what the stains from which you/they were consecrate in those first days the
religious establishments of the times, have preserved in almost each
case their sacredness a present day. Now Winchester is famous everybody
on England for his/her great Authoritative church and the enormous religious
establishment that has there his/her place--the annual incomes and
expenses of what far it exceeds those of many of the states of this
Union. The income of the bishop was alone for a lot of double of years that
of the salary of the President of the United States. The Episcopalian one of
Winchester is widely celebrated, therefore, all on England, for his
wealth, his/her ecclesiastical power the architectural grandeur of the
Authoritative church and the wealth and the importance of the university of
ecclesiastical on which he presides.
[The illustration: Chair of Crowning.]
It was in Winchester that Alfred has been crowned. Hardly the ceremony
he was finished taken the field, picked up his/her strengths, and it went
rincontrare Danish. He found the country in a more deplorable
condition. Danish had extended and you/they had strengthened their positions.
They had possession of a lot of the cities, and, not contained with
castles that plunder and abbeys, they had grabbed earths, and it was
starting to establish on them, as if theirs intended to make Alfred
new kingdom their permanent abode. The strengths of the Saxons, on the
other hand, was sprinkled and it discouraged. There it didn't seem left of hope
to them of head of creation against their invaders of pestiferous. If theirs
you/he/she was defeated, their cruel conquerors didn't show moderation and no