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pter "On the Growth of the kingly Power." (_Saxons in Engl._ B. II. c. 1.) Upon this consideration I must rest for this somewhat lengthy investigation. The word UNLAED, as far as we at present know, occurs only five times in Anglo-Saxon; three of which are in the legend of Andreas in the Vercelli MS., which legend was first printed, under the auspices of the Record Commission, by Mr. Thorpe; but the Report to which the poetry of the Vercelli MS. was attached has, for reasons with which I am unacquainted, never been made public. In 1840, James Grimm, "feeling (as Mr. Kemble says) that this was a wrong done to the world of letters at large," published it at Cassell, together with the Legend of Elene, or the Finding of the Cross, with an Introduction and very copious notes. In 1844, it was printed for the Aelfric Society by Mr. Kemble, accompanied by a translation, in which the passages are thus given.-- "Such was the people's peaceless token, the suffering of the _wretched_." l. 57-9. "When they of _savage spirits_ believed in the might," l. 283-4. "Ye are _rude_, of poor thoughts." The fifth instance of the occurrence of the word is in a passage cited by Wanley, Catal. p. 134., {431} from a homily occurring in a MS. in Corpus Christi College, s. 14.:-- "Men etha leoces can hep re3
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