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believes this statement, and explains how the accident 

 occurred. The death of the king may have been caused 

 by his horse falling with him, though that is a rather 

 doubtful matter, as one account has it that he died from 

 the effects of a wound sustained in France ; at any rate, 

 it is certain that he was not the first, by perhaps at least 

 ten centuries, to introduce the art of shoeing into Britain. 



