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| - Often, if the heir was a minor, an uncle was made king; and, upon the uncle??s death, though he left issue, the crown reverted to the former heir, or his children, as the very inspection of a table of their succession shows. (See Mr. Squire??s Diss. on the English Saxon Government, an. 1753.) Cerdic, founder of the kingdom of the West-Saxons, in 495, from whom the Confessor descended, was the tent
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