Hunt.lib.5.

[u] A mancus was about the weight of our present half-crown: see Spellman's Glossary, IN VERBO Mancus.

[w] W.Malmes.lib.

2.

cap 2.] His eldest son, Athelstan, being dead, Ethelbald, his second, who had assumed the government, formed, in concert with many of the nobles, the project of excluding his father from a throne, which his weakness and superstition seemed to have rendered him so ill-qualified to fill.
The people were divided between the two princes, and a bloody civil war, joined to all the other calamities under which the English laboured, appeared inevitable, when Ethelwolf had the facility to yield to the greater part of his son's pretensions.