Today's installment concludes Canute Becomes King of England,our selection from History of England by David Hume published in 1754. If you have

Canute, like a wise prince, was determined that the English, now deprived of all their dangerous leaders, should be reconciled to the Danish yoke, by

Among the other misfortunes of the English, treachery and disaffection had crept in among the nobility and prelates.Continuing Canute Becomes King