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Section A Alfred
the Great
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘In dealing with legal issues, Alfred’s main aim was to protect the poor’.
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this view. [30]
Source A: King Alfred explains how judges should reach their decisions.
Judge very fairly. Do not give one judgement for the rich and another for the poor, nor one for the person who
is more dear and another for the one who is the more hateful. A man can consider this principle alone; that he
judges every one rightly. He needs no other law books. Let him think that he should give no judgement to
anyone that he would not wish to be given to him.
Introduction to King Alfred’s Law Code, drawn up by 895
Source B: A monk writes about how Alfred preserved law and order.
From the example of the barbarians, the English began to lust after violence, so that there was no safe way of
travelling without a military guard. Alfred appointed hundreds and tithings so that every Englishman according
to law must be a member of both. If anyone was accused of a crime, he was obliged immediately to produce
persons from the hundred and tithing to become his surety. Anyone unable to find surety dreaded the security
of the law. If anyone who was accused escaped either before of after he found surety, all persons of the
tithing and the hundred paid a fine to the king.
William of Malmesbury, Chronicle of the Kings of England, written before 1143
Source C: Alfred’s biographer gives an account of the king’s approach to the administration of justice.
© trans Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, Penguin Classics, 1983. From first line " Alfred was a painstaking judge in establishing the truth in judicial hearings and this," to last line " Indeed, everyone was more concerned with his o
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Source D: King Alfred defends his actions regarding his inheritance from his brother Ethelred.
When King Ethelred died, no-one made known to me any will or testimony that the position was any other
than as we had both agreed before witnesses. When we heard there were many disputes about the
inheritance, I brought the will of King Aethelwulf to our assembly and it was read before all the councillors.
When it had been read I begged them all that none of them would hesitate either for love or fear of me to
state what the law said, lest any man should say that I wronged my young
kinsfolk. Then they all rightly declared that they could not conceive any juster title. They told me that now
everything had come into my possession, I could give or bequeath it to kinsman or stranger, whichever I
preferred.
Alfred, Will, written before 899
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Section A Alfred
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Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘In dealing with legal issues, Alfred’s main aim was to protect the poor’.
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this view. [30]
Source A: King Alfred explains how judges should reach their decisions.
Judge very fairly. Do not give one judgement for the rich and another for the poor, nor one for the person who
is more dear and another for the one who is the more hateful. A man can consider this principle alone; that he
judges every one rightly. He needs no other law books. Let him think that he should give no judgement to
anyone that he would not wish to be given to him.
Introduction to King Alfred’s Law Code, drawn up by 895
Source B: A monk writes about how Alfred preserved law and order.
From the example of the barbarians, the English began to lust after violence, so that there was no safe way of
travelling without a military guard. Alfred appointed hundreds and tithings so that every Englishman according
to law must be a member of both. If anyone was accused of a crime, he was obliged immediately to produce
persons from the hundred and tithing to become his surety. Anyone unable to find surety dreaded the security
of the law. If anyone who was accused escaped either before of after he found surety, all persons of the
tithing and the hundred paid a fine to the king.
William of Malmesbury, Chronicle of the Kings of England, written before 1143
Source C: Alfred’s biographer gives an account of the king’s approach to the administration of justice.
© trans Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, Penguin Classics, 1983. From first line " Alfred was a painstaking judge in establishing the truth in judicial hearings and this," to last line " Indeed, everyone was more concerned with his o
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Source D: King Alfred defends his actions regarding his inheritance from his brother Ethelred.
When King Ethelred died, no-one made known to me any will or testimony that the position was any other
than as we had both agreed before witnesses. When we heard there were many disputes about the
inheritance, I brought the will of King Aethelwulf to our assembly and it was read before all the councillors.
When it had been read I begged them all that none of them would hesitate either for love or fear of me to
state what the law said, lest any man should say that I wronged my young
kinsfolk. Then they all rightly declared that they could not conceive any juster title. They told me that now
everything had come into my possession, I could give or bequeath it to kinsman or stranger, whichever I
preferred.
Alfred, Will, written before 899
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