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He believes the psalter's capital letters were based on designs created by a master scribe, Eadwig Basan, who is not known to have been working in Canterbury until a few years after Alphege's death.

—Mention of this road, in the neighbourhood of Malmsbury, occurs in two charters of the Saxon kings Athelstan and Eadwig, Nos.

While he was there, the people of the north revolted from Eadwig, and chose his younger brother Eadgar as king.

Upon this, Oda, taking courage, declared Eadwig and his young wife to be separated as too near of kin, and even seized her and had her carried beyond sea.

Eadwig was swayed by a woman of high lineage, �thelgifu; and the quarrel between her and the older counsellors of Eadred broke into open strife at the coronation feast.