Hic primus regum Anglorum in toto regno suo idola relinqui ac destrui, simul et ieiunium quadraginta dierum observari principali auctoritate praecepit.
This was the first King of England who of his princely authority commanded that the idols in all his whole realm should be forsaken and destroyed, and at the same time that the fast of 40 days should be kept.
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