Lectis autem epistolis quas ab apostolico papa advexerat, Berctuald archiepiscopus, et Aedilred quondam rex, tunc autem abbas, libentissime faverunt: qui videlicet Aedilred accitum ad se Coinredum quem pro se regem fecerat, amicum episcopo fieri petiit, et impetravit.
Now when the letters which he had brought from the apostolic pope were read, Bertwald the archbishop and Ethelred, sometime king but then an abbot, were very readily on his side: the which Ethelred sending for Cenred, whom he had made king in his place, to come and see him, requested him to be a friend to the bishop, and this he obtained.
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