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425.] [****** Osberne, p.84.Gervase, p.

1645, 1646] The English, blinded with superstition, instead of being shocked with this inhumanity, exclaimed that the misfortunes of Edwy and his consort were a just judgment for their dissolute contempt of the ecclesiastical statutes.

They even proceeded to rebellion against their sovereign; and having placed Edgar at their head, the younger brother of Edwy, a boy of thirteen years of age, they soon put him in possession of Mercia, Northumberland, East Anglia, and chased Edwy into the southern counties.
That it might not be doubtful at whose instigation this revolt was undertaken, Dunstan returned into England, and took upon him the government of Edgar and his party.

He was first installed in the see of Worcester, then in that of London,[**] and, on Odo's death, and the violent expulsion of Brithelm, his successor, in that of Canterbury;[***] of all which he long kept possession.