The Story of Somersetshire With a New Map of the County And Upwards of Ninety
The Story of Somersetshire With a New Map of the County And Upwards of Ninety
W R Richmond
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Great churchmen attended from Glastonbury, Wells, and Taunton, and from distant parts of the land ; the people of Bath made much of their king, and ill return he showed special favour to their city. The coronation of ]^dgar is an event of tlie higliest national importance, for he was the first to reign with an undisputed title over united England. Hundreds of years afterwards, an echo was heard of King Edgar's Coronation festivities, for Leland. Writing in the sixteenth century, speaks of the m...en of Bath's gratitude for the goodness shown to their city in ancient times by Edgar. What be says we have put into modern spelling : " They pray in all the ceremonies for his soul, and at Whitsunday tide, at the which time folk say that there Edgar was crowned, there is a king elected at Bath every year in joyful remembrance of King Edgar and the pi'ivileges given to the town by him. " In the eighteenth century, when fashionable visitors bowetl low, PROM ATiFREn TO THE CONQUEST. 77 in the Puinp Room at Bath, hcforu the famous Master of the Ceremonies, Beau Nash, and called hmi King of Bath, they pleaded as an excuse for their folly the ancient custom which dated from Edgar's reign.
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