Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . thetown a royal charter, because of the gallantry and goodservice of the Malmesbury men in his great victory overthe Danes at Sodbury Hill, and he was buried here, nearto Aldhelm. They laid the devout king to his rest inOctober 949, not as his grandfather, the great Alfred,clad him as a boy, in a scarlet cloak, a diamond-studdedbelt, and a Saxon sword in a golden scabbard, but withall honour and decent pomp. Dishonour came afterwards, however, to this home ofone of the most famous of early EngUshmen, and one
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . thetown a royal charter, because of the gallantry and goodservice of the Malmesbury men in his great victory overthe Danes at Sodbury Hill, and he was buried here, nearto Aldhelm. They laid the devout king to his rest inOctober 949, not as his grandfather, the great Alfred,clad him as a boy, in a scarlet cloak, a diamond-studdedbelt, and a Saxon sword in a golden scabbard, but withall honour and decent pomp. Dishonour came afterwards, however, to this home ofone of the most famous of early EngUshmen, and one ofthe best known of our early historians. Mr. Stumpebought and turned the abbey into a cloth fate of the library has been piteously recorded byAubrey, who says: In my grandfathers days, the about like butterflies. The glovers at Malmesburymade great havoc of them, and gloves were wrapped up,no doubt, in many good pieces of antiquity. Mr. , the great-grandson of the clothier, had severalMSS., and when he brewed a barrel of special ale, his use. TORCH OF CIITJKCII, BRADFORTl-OX-AVON. 83 ALDHELM 85 was to stop the bunghole under the cla\ with a sheetof MS. The destruction of the manuscripts and convent library,once presided over by William of Malmesbury, precentorand historian of the abbe), is indeed a lamentable anddegrading tale. For nearly a century the brutal wastewent on, and only one MS. is still preserved in the neigh-bourhood. Years after the Dissolution, a traveller passingthrough the town found that even the bakers had notconsumed all the abbey books in heating their fanaticism also destroyed many a pricelessvolume, though let us hope the world has grown saner,and that Wordsworths lines will be true for the future. Our ancestors, however, were often far from being aswise as he gives them credit for : ? Our ancestors did feelingly perceiveWhat in these holy structures we possessOf ornamental interest, and the
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