BISHOP ALURED OF WORCESTER a.d. 



C.1058. 

 friendly entertainment, sent them over unto the bishop 

 of Ephesus ; and wrote his letters unto him giving him 

 charge, that the English Ambassadours might be 

 admitted to see the true, and material habiliments of 

 the seven Sleepers. And it came to passe that King 

 Edwards vision was approved by all the Greekes, who 

 protested they were advertised by their fathers, that the 

 foresaid seven Sleepers had alwayes before that time 

 rested upon their right sides ; but after the Englishmen 

 were entered into the cave, those Sleepers confirmed 

 the trueth of the outlandish prophesie, unto their 

 countreymen. Neither were the calamities foretold, any 

 long time delayed : for the Agarens, Arabians, Turkes 

 and other unbeleeving nations invading the Christians, 

 harried and spoiled Syria, Lycia, the lesser Asia, and 

 many cities of Asia the greater, and amongst the rest 

 Ephesus, yea, and Jerusalem also. 



The voyage of Alured bishop of Worcester unto 

 Jerusalem, an. 1058. Recorded by Roger 

 Hoveden in parte priore Annalium, fol. 255. 

 linea 15. 



Luredus Wigorniensis Episcopus eccle- ^D. 105 1 

 siam, quam in civitate Glavorna a 

 fundamentis construxerat, in honore 

 principis Apostolorum Petri honorifice 

 dedicavit : & postea regis licentia Wol- 

 stanum Wigorniensem Monachum a se 

 ordinatum Abbatem constituit ibidem. 

 Dein praesulatu dimisso Wiltoniensis ecclesias, qui sibi 

 ad regendum commissus fuerat, & Hermanno, cujus 

 supra mentionem fecimus, reddito, mare transiit, & per 

 Hungariam profectus est Hierosolymam, &c. 



The same in English. 



IN the yere of our Lord 1058. Alured bishop of 

 Worcester, very solemnely dedicated a Church (which 

 himselfe had founded and built in the citie of Glocester) 



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