By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



43 



A.D. 



St. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, out of love for 

 Aldhelm and for the sake of his own family connexion 

 with Wessex, gives to the Church a large Organ with 

 metal pipes, having a brass plate with an inscription 

 in verse upon it. In order to comply with the rules 

 of verse, St. Dunstan is obliged to assume poetic 

 license and to spell the Saint's name (being the last 

 word in the line) Adelmo, instead of ^/dhelino. (p. 366.) 



St. Dunstan also, for fear of the Danes, takes the bones 

 of St. Aldhelm out of their silver shrine and hides 

 them in a stone tomb on the right of the Altar, (p. 

 367.) 



978-1016. Ethelred, King. A party of Danes breaks into the 

 church. One of them going to knock off the precious 

 stones from Aldhelm's shrine, falls back on the floor as 

 if shot. The rest run away : and though all other 

 churches are despoiled, that of Malmesbury escapes, 

 (p. 366-7.) 



1016-42. Constantine, a refugee Archbishop residing in the 

 monastery, devotes much of his time to making and 

 planting a Vineyard for the monks. He is buried in 

 the church of St. Andrew, (p. 370.) 



1059. Abbot Brithwald is buried among his predecessors in 

 the church of St. Andrew, contiguous to the large 

 church ; but his habits not having been altogether so 

 correct as they ought to have been, the ghosts of his 

 predecessors disturb the place ; so, his body is taken 

 up and thrown into a marsh, (p. 368.) 

 No mention of this church of St. Andrew having been 

 elsewhere met with, it is possible that William of 

 Malmesbury writing from memory may have said 

 St. Andrew's by mistake for St. Michael's, the chapel 

 in which several of the Abbots had been buried. 

 Elflida, healed by a miracle, dies and is buried in the 

 cloister, (p. 369.) 



