. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . g of the past, of the early years of his life. As to thepresent he can rejoice in that he has an abundance of learnedbishops, but he foresees that the time has not yet comewhen the continuance of knowledge may be deemed certain,or when men can be expected to read readily I/atin or evenSaxon. Alfreds Laws Alfreds labours in literature represented only a part of hiswork on behalf of the arts of peace. Possessing as he did anintensely practical mind, he not only reorganized learning,the navy, the mihtia, but interested himself in building andi
. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . g of the past, of the early years of his life. As to thepresent he can rejoice in that he has an abundance of learnedbishops, but he foresees that the time has not yet comewhen the continuance of knowledge may be deemed certain,or when men can be expected to read readily I/atin or evenSaxon. Alfreds Laws Alfreds labours in literature represented only a part of hiswork on behalf of the arts of peace. Possessing as he did anintensely practical mind, he not only reorganized learning,the navy, the mihtia, but interested himself in building andin the foundation of religious houses. Asser informs us thathe rebuilt I/)ndon, and from the cartularies we know that hewas always ready to aid in the erection of a new abbey orminster. Of all the things he helped to build, however, nonewas more fair than that monument to EngHsh greatness—EngHsh law. As he himself informs us, he was by nomeans an innovator; his practical mind rather preservedand estabhshed what was old and known and certain than226. BxAMPtE OF Anglo-Saxon Ii,i,uMrNATiNG Prom a Gospel in I,atiii written at New Minster, Winchester, early in theEleventh CenturyFrom Additional MS. 34890 in the British Museum ALFRED THE GREAT introduced new rules which from their newness might havefailed in justice or in utility. In the popular mind, for many a year Alfred has had theprimary and indeed the altogether supreme place among Saxonlawgivers. It may be that that vicious compilation knownas The Mirror of Justices ^ was first responsible for this the first chapter of that work we read that King Alfredcaused the Earles to meet, and Ordained for a perpetual usage,that twice in the yeere, or oftner, if need were, in time ofPeace they should assemble together at I/ondon, to speaketheir mindes for the guiding of the people of God, howeverthey should keepe themselves from offences, shotdd live inquiet, and should have right done them by certaine usages,and sovmd ju
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