| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Bede im-plies that King Ceolwulf of Northumbria was actively interested in theprogress of the Ecclesiastical History and indeed had asked for a copy of it.97We discover from a chance reference in a letter of Alcuin that King Offa ofMercia also owned a copy of Bede???s most celebrated work.98 A continuingroyal interest in history is re???ected in the fact that the ???rst literary work tobe produced
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