Harold was accepted as monarch in a Witenagemot held at Oxford. In the year 957 the Witenagemot, or King's Council, met at Edington. This was not a dedicated court of law, instead a descendant of the "witenagemot". The witenagemot was more an advisory council. Under the Anglo-Saxon kings, there was an advisory council, the Witenagemot. In Anglo-Saxon England, Witenagemot was an early equivalent to the Privy Council of England.