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Two cardinals were present to represent the Pope, and on account of his simony, Stigand was deposed and imprisoned, while Eghelric and Eghelmar were also degraded. Yet Wulstan, clear of conscience, and certain of the validity of his own election, was not affrighted; so far from it, he boldly called on the King to restore some lands that Aldred of York had kept back from the see of Worcester.
Bilfrid also illuminated the large capital letters at the beginning of the gospels. This precious volume was still further enriched by Aldred of Durham, who interlined it with a Saxon Gloss, or version of the Latin text of St. Jerome. "Of the exact pecuniary value of books during the middle ages," says Merryweather, "we have no means of judging.
Aldred seems to have been a man like too many more, pious and virtuous and harmless enough, and not without worldly prudence; but his prudence was of that sort which will surely swim with the stream, and "honor the powers that be," if they be but prosperous enough. For after all, if success be not God, it is like enough to Him in some men's eyes to do instead.
"Ho! that is all I needed to hear. Now, I will not mince matters with you, Aldred. Either you give up this foolishness, or I am here to make you do so." Now, my father looked round at the men and saw that all the house-carles and one or two from the village were in the courtyard, fifteen of them altogether, besides himself and Owen.
Civil wars, invasions, outlawry of Godwin and his sons by the Danish party; then of Alfgar, Leofric's son, by the Saxon party; the outlaws on either side attacking and plundering the English shores by the help of Norsemen, Welshmen, Irish, and Danes, any mercenaries who could be got together; and then, "In the same year Bishop Aldred consecrated the minster at Gloucester to the glory of God and of St.
Andredeslegia. These Danes landing with their people builded a castle at Appledore. At Milton. Hasting the capteine of the Danes besieged. One of his sonnes also king Alfred held at the fontstone, and to the other duke Aldred was god father. But neuerthelesse this Hasting was euer most vntrue of word and déed, he builded a castle at Beamfield.
Aldred, Wulstan's former Bishop, now Archbishop of York, was the anointer of both Harold and William the Conqueror.
Then with a thundering crash a great timber beam was hurled against the gate, shaking its very posts with the force of the six men who wielded it at a run, and in the silence that fell as they drew back Erpwald cried: "For the last time, Aldred, will you yield?" But he had no answer, and after a short space the timber crashed against the gate again and again.
"The traitors!" he almost shrieked, as he turned and ran down the ladder to tell Malet below. Malet was firm, but pale as Aldred. "We must fight to the last," said he, as he hurried down, commanding his men to sally at once en masse and clear the city. The mistake was fatal. The French were entangled in the narrow streets.
* See his articles in the Revue Benedictine line, Nov. and Dec. 1891, pp. 481 and 529. * English Illuminated Manuscripts," Bibliographica," part ii. The interlineary Saxon gloss was a later addition by the monk, Aldred, and Billfrith, as we have seen, made the sumptuous metal cover.
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