which belongs to- the R. the Pean and Chapter of LycA- 
field and which for its great antiquity is commonly 
called 5/ Chads book* Thrs ftory of St Cuthherfs appear- 
ing to K. Alfred is at large in William of Malmshury^ to 
whom I refer you for further information 5 and as the 
King ufed to commemorate the vifion he and his Mo- 
ther had of him, Xo it is very likely he ordered his Pi- 
fture to be made in the manner it is reprefented in my 
Book, to hang down by a ftring upon his breaft, for a 
conftant memorial ot the Saint, who appeared to him, 
to bid him give the Danes Battel in a time of great de- 
fpair, when he looked upon himfelf as conquered, and 
thought his Kingdom almoft loft. That he caufcd the 
Pidure to be made is plain from the Saxon Infcription. 
AELFRED MEc HETT GEWYRcAN 
Aelfreduf me jHjJlt fabricati. 
And that it was made to hang down upon his breaft^, 
is plain from B, the cone or apex of Fig. i. where the 
Golden Pin is reprefented in a manner different to what 
it is in Fig. 3. on purpoft to ftiew that the eriginat was 
made to hang in a String. And that the original is a 
true and genuine piece of Antiquity is alfo clear beyond 
all reafonable do ubt, not only from the place where it 
was found, the place of K. Alfred's retreat from the 
Danes, which he fortified in time of War, and where 
he built a Monaftery in time of Peace, but alfo from 
the Infcription, which is all, except tm>, in Roman, or 
Gallo'halick Letters, which the King, who was bred at 
the Englifh School in Rome, preferred before thofe of 
the Saxon dnS ^ and when he came to be King, as In^ 
gnlph teftifies, he brought them into u(e. Some I hear 
have fufpefted this Antiquity, becaufe of its extraordi- 
nary artifice, which they think too fine for that age. 
But it is not to be doubted, but that K. Alfred, who 
was 
