witan in A Sentence

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    Then let us put it to the Witan!

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    The Witan is gathered.

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    The Witan or Council.

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    This my first Witan as your new king.

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    There's to be a Witan with the survivors.

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    After the Witan, you and I should speak alone.

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    The Witan will decide who rules Mercia, not Edward.

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    It has always been the preference of the Witan.

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    This is my first Witan as your new king.

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    Yet the Witan are minded to separate from Wessex.

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    Please, continue.- The Witan is closed to all but Mercians.

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    So, tomorrow the Witan will decide upon our new king.

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    The Ealdormen have called their Witan for after the funeral.

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    I can assure you, Wessex has no desire to influence this Witan.

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    If you agree, all we would need would be the approval of a Witan.

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    Overrule me on this and the Witan will say you seek to conquer us.

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    It is, and has ever been, the right of the Witan to decide Mercia's ruler.

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    They say you do not need to know and that you may not enter the Witan.

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    Because were she to marry, her husband could become the new Lord of Mercia, bypassing this Witan.

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    Lord God in heaven, grant this Witan the benefit of your divine wisdom as you guide us today.

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    The King's mother cannot be treated the same as a peasant… She can, if you are to respect the Witan.

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    Then Edmund bought the farm in 1016, and Cnut talked the Witan into handing over the English throne to him.

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    He immediately set sail across the channel and, at long last, the Witan elected him king(yes, that's how it was done in those days.).

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    This was quite the dangerous undertaking for such a young kid, but he appointed himself so nobly that the Witan, or Council forbade any future Danish kings in England.

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