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GOD 



The league of God's houfe is divided into II high jurifdiftions, and comprehends 21 communes. 





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I. Coire 

 II. Pregalia 



III. Upper Engadina 



IV. Lower Engadina 



V. Bivio or Stalla 



VI. Ortenftein 



VII. Obervats 

 VIII. Oberhaftein 



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Pufchiavo 



Munfter 



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XI. Four vlHages 



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1 . Coire - . - 



2. Sopra Porta 



3. Sotto Porta 



4. f Sopra Fontana Mcrla 



5. (^ Sotto Fontana Merla 



6. f Sopra Tafma 



7. (^ Sotto Tafma 



8. i Bivio and Marmorara 

 9..^ Avers 



10. L Remus, Schlins, and Samun 



1 1. f Ortenftcin 



12. I Furftcnau 



13. f Obervats 



14. I Breguns 



15. y Tinzen and Reamp 



16. ) Tiefen Caften 



17, 18. f Valley of Pufchiavo 



19. {^Valley of Munfter 



20. 1 Sitzcrs, Igis, Tremes 



21. 1 Unter Vatz 



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God's Mercy, Iflands of, thi-ee or four fmall iflands at the berland and Mercia, and being thereby fuperior to Godwin 



N.W. extremity of Hudfou's ftraits. N. lat. 63' 45. W. and his fons, he marched to London and fummoned a great 



lonp- 7*' council to pafs judgment upon the rebels. Godwin, with 



q'qj)-(yjj>j^ Earl, in B'wraphy, a powerful Saxon three of his fons, took refuge with Baldwin earl of Flanders, 



baron was the fon of Wolfnoth, governor of Suffex, and vhile Harold and another fled to Ireland. Godwin, after 



he himfelf, at the acceflion of Caiuite, was earl of Kent, and many misfortunes, failed with a powerful force to London, 



lord of very great poffeflions. When the Danifli poflellions and forced the king to an accommodation : Edward confented 



of Canute were attacked by the king of Sweden, Canute to banifti his Norman favourites, who had been, in a great 



took over as auxiUaries a body of Englifti commanded by the meafure, the caufe of the difcontents, and Godwin and his 



rl of Godwin, who obtained a complete viflory, which fons were reflored to their ellates, and the high offices which 



Godwin's death, which happened 



fo dehghted the king, that he beftowed his daughter in they had formerly held. Godwin's death, which happ 

 marriage upon him, made him large grants of land, and foon after this, while he was fitting at table with 



the 



king, prevented him from making farther inroads on the 

 fovereign's autliority, or from reducing him to ftili greater 



_ mage upon , ° ^' , r , j 1 r 



admitted him to the clofeft confidence. After the dcatli ot 

 Canute, the fucceffion bjing difputcd between Harold ^ 



Harefoot and Hardicanute, Godwin efpoufed the part of fubieftion. He was fucceeded in the government of Weflex. 

 the latter and was inltrumental in preventing a civil war. Suffex, Kent, and EfTex, and in the office of fteward of 

 It is reported that he afterwards concurred with Harold, the houfhold, by his fon Flarold, who was actuated by an 

 in a plan for deflroying the two Englifti princes, fons ot ambition equal to that of his father, and was fuperior to 

 Ethelred II. and Emma, and the murder of one of them, him in addrefs, in iniinuation, and in virtue. With refpedl 

 vl%. Alfred, is imputed to the vaft'als of Godwin. In the to Godwin, his charafter is blackened by the monkiih 

 reign of Hardicanute the furviving prince Edward pre- hiftorians, who pretend that his fudden death was the effeft 

 ferred an accufation againll the earl for the murder of his of a miraculous interpofition from heaven. With great 

 brother and loudly demanded juilice for the crime ; God- abihties, Godwin poffefled an ambitious fpirit, which rcn- 

 win, to appeafe the kino-, made him a prefent of a galley dered him a fubje<S oi wavering fidelity, and made him but 

 finely ffilt and decorated, rowed by fourfcore men, each of little fcrupulous in means that tended to his aggrandizement, 

 whom wore on his arm agoldbracelet, weighing fixteen ounces, Hume's Hift. vol. i. Biog. Brit. 



and they were all armed and clothed in the moil fumptuous Godwin, Tho.ma.?, was born at Oakingham, in Berkftiire, 

 manner. Hardicanute, delighted with the fpeftacle, forgot in 15 17, where he received at the free-fchool the elements 

 his brother's murder, and on Godwin's own teftimony he of a learned education. His rapid proficiency in grammar. 

 was allowed to be acquitted. In 1041, he was fo com- learning attracted the notice, and feeured to him the patron- 

 pletely reconciled to Edward, that on the death oi Hardi- age of Dr. Layton, archdeacon of Bucks, who received him 

 Canute he was the chief inftrument of promoting him to the into his houfe, and took care of jjis farther inllrudlion. 

 fucceffion of the crown : Jie now acquired much influence in In 1538, he was fent by his friend and patron to Magdalen 

 the ftate, and w;is created duke of Weflex, and the counties college, Oxford: here he purfued )iis ftudies, and in 1543 

 of Kent and Suffex were annexed to his government. The he took his degree of B. A. and in the fo!lo\i;'ing year he was 

 fricndftiip between Godwin and the king was not of long elefted fellow of his college, which rendered him inde- 

 continuance. Upon !iis refufal to act againft the inhabitants pendent of the pecuniary affiftance of his friends. His 

 of Dover, who had incurred Edward's dii'plcafure, he was Heady regard to the principles of the reformation rendered 

 threatened with the royal vengeance. The earl, feeling his his fituation at college in many refpefts very uneafy, and he 

 own power, adtually excited a rebellion againft his fovereign. gladly embraced the opportunity of a vacancy in the mafter- 

 Edward now fummoned to his aid the dukes of Korthum- ihip of the free-fchool of Brackley in Northamptonftiire, 



6 which 



