days at Shaftesbury, on the 12 th of November, and was buried in royal fashion in the Old Minster in the city of Winchester. May his soul enjoy everlasting glory ! I think I ought not to omit, that wheri in the flower of his reign over the realms he had acquired, he caused his royal seat to be placed on the sea-shore at the flow of the tide, and, seating himself, he said in a threatening tone, " Thou art my vassal, and the land whereon I sit is mine, nor is there any of its inhabitants who would resist my rule. I now command thee not to mount up to my land, nor presume to wet my royal garments." But the sea, despising his orders, washed his royal feet and legs. Scarcely in time, the king leaped up and said, " Let all the inhabitants of the world know that the power of kings is vain and frivolous, and that there is no one worthy the name of king besides Him whose eternal laws the heaven, and earth, and sea, and all things that are therein, obey." After this the king never wore the crown as long as he lived ; but setting it on the head of the image of Him that was crucified, afforded to future monarchs an eminent pattern of humility. Coronation of king Harold. After the death of the great king Cnute, the nobles of the realm assembled at Oxford to elect a successor. There earl Leofric, and all the Danish nobles, with the Londoners, with common consent chose Harold, son of Cnute by Algiva a concubine ; but Godwin earl of Kent, and all the nobles of Wessex, preferred to have for their king Hardecnute, son oi Cnute by queen Emma, or one of the sons of king Ethelred by the same Emma, who were in exile in Normandy. But as Hardecnute was then in Denmark, and Alfred and Eadward, the sons of Ethelred, in Normandy, Harold's party prevailed, and graced him with the diadem of England. Immediately on his advancement, he hastened to Winchester, where he violently laid hands on the treasures which king Cnute had committed to queen Emma ; and moreover banished Emma from England, as being his step-mother. She directed her course to Baldwin earl of Flanders, who gave her the castle of Bruges for a residence, her kinsman, William duke of Normandy, being yet under ward, and not having the free administration of his duchy.