The Penny Cyclopędia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; V. 1-27 Volume 9

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...very probable in itself. It is certain however that on the breaking out of the war between Henry I. and his brother Robert, a few years after the accession of the former to the English throne, Edgar was found on the side of Robert, although the recent marriage of his sister to Henry might be supposed to have attached him to the interests of that prince. Ho was one of the prisoners taken by Henry at the decisive battle of Tinchbrai on the 27th of September, 1106, in which Robert Anally lost his dukedom and his liberty. The victor however treated the Saxon prince with more lenity or contempt than he showed in his treatment of his own brother. Soon after being brought to England, Edgar was restored to liberty; and some accounts state that he subsequently visited Palestine. But the remainder of his history is very obscure. Malmsbury only informs us, without specifying any date of his decease, that he died in England after having lived to a old age, without ever having been married or having Issue, leaving behind him the character of a weak ive and well-intentioned man. He has certainlv ion of being about the most insipid hero of anv I thing like romance on record, and t'ne narrative of his life may be quoted as a curious instance of the interest that v.. be sometimes awakened by the position and fortunes of sc individual however personally insignificant. EDGE. arris. EDGEH1LL. charles I. Of England. EDGEWORTH, RICHARD LOVBLL, an iogemoo, mechanical philosopher, but better known as the father and literary associate of Maria Edgeworth, was born at Bath, in 1744. He was descended from an English family, which had settled in Ireland in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and resided at Edgeworth-town, in the county of Longford, where bis boyhood was...

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