Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 141 
The Life of Aldhelm, by Faritius, Abbot of Abingdon, a Tuscan by birth, 
according to Wm. of Malms. (See Collect. 2, p, 253), 
Bede: on the song of Habakkuk. 
Do. Allegorical Exposition of Leviticus and Tobit. 
Claudius: 3 books on 8S. Matthew. 
The Sentences of Xystus, translated by Rufinus, who maintains that this 
Xystus was the Pope of that name, 
Questions of Albinus upon Genesis: a little book. 
Dionysius (the Areopagite), translated by John Scot. 
Cassiodorus: on the Soul. 
Hexameron of Basil. 
Gregory Nicenus: on the Condition of Man. 
Robert of Cricklade (R. Canutus), Prior of St. Frideswide (Oxon), 4 books 
called ‘‘ The Mirror of Faith, beginning ‘ Hear, O Israel.” 
Albinus, on Ecclesiastes. 
Grossolanus, Archb. of Milan: on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, 
addressed to the Emperor Alexius. 
Junilius to Pope Primasius. 
Apuleius—a book on Interpretation. 
Grammar of Eutyches. 
Tertullian. 
Letters of Albinus. 
Chronicle of Malms. Abbey. [Leland gives extracts, Collect. 1. 301). 
Another chronicle called ‘‘ The Praise of History,” written at the request 
of the Abbot of Malmsbury, A.D. 1361, by a monk of the abbey, name 
unknown. [L£ztracts from this, with a long account of Maidulph and 
Aldhelm are given in the Collectanea, 1. 302 & 11. 395}. 
[From a book of “‘ the Antiquitiesof Malmsbury,” he extracted several particulars, 
which have been used by most of those who have written the history of the town 
and abbey. For these, see Collectanea. 1.65, 241, 301. 11. 319, 325, 401]. 
Sum hold opinion that ther was sum tyme a nunnery wher the 
hermitage! now stondith in the dike of the toune at the west ende 
of the old paroche chirch. 
Sum say that ther was another nunnery toward the park a litle 
without the toune longging to th abbate in the way to Chippenham.” 
1 “Hermitage.” He probably means anold building called ‘‘the chapel house” 
long used as a dwelling for paupers, and formerly a chapel, in the part of the 
town called ‘ Burnevale”’; (the valley in which the “bourne” or brook of 
the Avon runs, on the south side of Malmsbury). It was destroyed some years 
ago. 
2‘ Another Nunnery.” Burton Hill Chapel, mentioned again in the third 
following paragraph. It is now destroyed. There is no account of any endowed 
nunnery either here or at Burnevale just spoken of. 
