At last, overcome by the cares of government and the infirmities of age, he visibly declined, and he expired at St.Edmondsbury in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and fifty-sixth of his reign;[***] the longest reign that is to be met with in the English annals.
* M.Paris, p.

678, 679.

W.Heming, p.

520.
** Chron.Dunst.

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