A.D. 1030.] BIRTH OF WILLIAM THE BASTARD. presented at the tomb of king Eadmund, at Glastonbury, a pall of various colours woven with the figures of peacocks. Cnute gains over the Norwegians. A.D. 1027. Hearing that the Norwegians despised their king Olaf for his imbecility, king Cnute sent over to the nobles a great quantity of gold and silver, pressing them to depose Olaf and choose himself for their king. They greedily received his presents, and bade him come to them with confidence, for that he would find them all prepared to receive him. King Cnute subjugates Norway. A.D . 1028. Cnute, king of England, sailed to Norway with fifty vessels, and, expelling king Olaf with the consent of the nobles, subjugated that kingdom. In the same year was born Marianus Scotus, who received instruction in liberal studies, and afterwards composed a book of chronicles, wherein he narrated more fully than other chronicles the acts of the kings of England, and which he extended from the emperor Octavian Augustus to the time of Henry the First, king of England, noting the Dominical letter for each year. Return of king Cnute to England. A. D. 1029. Cnute, king of England, Denmark, and Norway, returned into England, and sent into exile Haco, a Danish earl, who had married Gunilda, a noble matron, daughter of Wirtigern king of the Windi ; for which cause Cnute feared lest he should be deprived of life, or expelled his kingdom by him. Birth of William duke of Normandy. A.D. 1030. Robert, son of Richard duke of Normandy, after a vigorous government of seven years, devoutly made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He left behind him a son seven years of age, named William, begotten of a concubine whom he chanced to see while dancing, and was so enamoured of her beauty that he lay with her the same night, and thenceforth, cleaving to her alone, he loved her as a wife. The boy who was born of her was called " William the Bastard," as not having been begotten in wedlock. This boy's future