44 Malmesbury. 



A.D. 



The Bones of St. Audoen of Rochester were brought to 

 the church, (p. 371.) 

 1042-66. Edward the Confessor. During this reign the second fire 

 took place which destroyed the monastery. [The roof of 

 the church roust have been burnt; as observed p. 41.] 



In 1060, Herman, Bishop of Wiltshire, builds a cam- 

 panile or bell-tower. " Hermannus, capellanus Regis 

 Edwardi, post episcopus Wilton : campanile Mail- 

 dulphesbir : suis sumptibus construxit." [From an 

 ancient chronicle seen by Leland in Malmesbury 

 Abbey, author unknown. Leland, Collect., I., p. 301.] 

 1071-81. Warin de Lira, a Norman, Abbot of Malmesbury. 



Having little reverence for Maildulph and other 

 Saxon worthies his predecessors, and being more es- 

 pecially "nauseated" by their bones being kept on 

 each side of the Altar in two hollow vessels of stone, 

 wherein the relics were separated from each other by 

 wooden partitions, this Norman dignitary orders them 

 all to be ejected. They are tumbled together like so 

 much rubbish ("conglobata velut acervum ruderum") 

 and carelessly thrown into a hole in the farthest cor- 

 ner of St. Michael's Chapel, which he had caused to be 

 widened and enlarged. The bones also of Johannes 

 Scotus the learned divine, whose memory had been 

 cherished at the monastery with a veneration almost 

 equal to that paid to Aldhelm himself, shared the 

 same fate. (Gale, II., p. 372. See above p. 27, Note.) 



The same Abbot Warin by a courteous recognition of 

 the great Aldhelm makes (in the Historian's opinion) 

 a partial atonement for his irreverent conduct to the 

 other Saxon Saints and Abbots. Together with Serlo, 

 Abbot of Gloucester, and Osmund, Bishop of Sarum, 

 he once more translates Aldhelm's relics out of the 

 stone tomb (above-mentioned), and replaces them in 

 the silver shrine, (p. 372.) 



