{"collection":"Christian Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_bede_hist080_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_bede_hist080_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_chr_bede_hist080_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/bede/hist080.htm","summary":"Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, ed. by A.M. Sellar, [1907]\nAT this time, King Oswy was exposed to the cruel and intolerable invasions of Penda, king of the Mercians, whom we have so often mentioned, and who had slain his brother; at length, compelled by his necessity, he promised to give him countless gifts and royal marks of honour greater than can be believed, to purchase peace; provided that he would return home, and cease to waste and utterly destroy the provinces of his kingdom.","tags":["Anglo-Saxon Christianity","Bede","Ecclesiastical History"],"text":null,"title":"Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Book III: XXIV....","tradition":"Christian Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":1100}