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laity were fairly represented by the secular members of the great 
council.! At this time, no doubt, the monastery of St. Laurence 
was still standing. Perhaps Dunstan’s election in this place to a 
_ bishopric was accidental, but it is not a little remarkable when we 
bear in mind the great reverence that he had for St. Aldhelm. 
Amongst what William of Malmsbury deems his good deeds he 
mentions expressly this, that 250 years after St. Aldhelm’s death 
he disinterred his remains, which had been buried at Malmsbury, 
in the Chapel of St. Michael, built by himself, and enshrined them 
with great solemnity. 
From a.p. 950—1000. 
It has been supposed by some, that towards the close of the tenth 
century, there was a Mint established at Bradford. In early times, 
the money circulated through the kingdom was struck at various 
towns to which the privilege was granted by the Crown, who ap- 
pointed certain officers or moneyers to ascertain that the coins were 
of proper weight and that the king received his dues. The county 
of Wilts is deficient in records relating to its local mints. The 
only towns known, or conjectured, to have had mints, are Bradford, 
Cricklade, Malmsbury, Marlborough, Sarum, and Wilton. The claim 
of Bradford rests upon an extremely slight foundation. Ruding® 
mentions a coin of Ethelred II., on which appears the word BARD, 
and, for want of a better locality, he supposes that there may have 
been a transposition of letters—that the word ought to have been 
BRAD, and the town possibly Bradford. The town was a place of 
_ some consequence in Anglo-Saxon times, and may have had a mint; 
_ but, in the absence of any corroborating evidence, it is rash to assert 
it upon the ground of a conjectural emendation of the reading of a 
_ single coin. . 
We have spoken in previous pages of the little traces that the 
Britons or the Romans left behind them in the names of places. 
Not so, however, with regard to the Anglo-Saxon settlers here ;— 
they, have left abundant tokens of their presence. There are 
1 Kemble’s ‘Saxons in England.’ ii, 221. 
* Annals of the Coinage of Britain. iv. 400. 
