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wich, he proceeded to Canterbury, where 
he was met by Earl Godwin, who ftretch- 
ed forth his right hand to the prince, 
{wore fealty to him, and took him under 
his protection. They propofed travelling 
by a circuitous route to London. When 
they came to Guildford, a royal feat in 
Surrey, Godwin divided his people into 
parties of twenty, twelve, and ten, and af- 
figned apartments to each. Having en- 
tertained Altred, and his men, with abun- 
dance of meat and drink, they retired to 
reft; but as foon as they were ali fallen 
into a deep fleep, Godwin’s followers, 
well armed, crept privately into the houfes 
where the gueits were lodged, removed 
their weapons, and bound them hand and 
foot in won chains. The next morning 
they were led out in this fituation to the 
amount of fix hundred ; they were’ feated 
in rows; fome were beheaded, and fome 
were fcalped. The prince himfelf was 
brought to London. With bis hands tied 
behind his back, he was led into the pre- 
fence of Haraid, who gave way to the 
mof indecorous joy on feeing the royal 
youth im chains. The king ordered the 
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heads to be ftruck off of two of the unhappy 
prince’s attendants in his prefence. Al- 
fred, half naked, was placed on a horfe, 
and his feet tied beneath; im this manner 
he was conducted along the fea coafk to 
Ely, where the foidiers were encouraged 
to treat him with all manner of indignity. 
A guard of the meaneft wretches that 
could be picked out was placed round his 
perfon. After experiencing a thoufand 
mockeries and infults, he was condemned 
to lofe his eyes. In order to carry this 
fentence into execution, he was conveyed 
on board a fhip, two perfons flood over 
him, and held bis arms; another fat on 
his breaft, and one on his legs; but fuch 
was their impatience to root out his eyes, 
that the point of the knife penetrated in- 
to his brain, of which wound he happily 
died in a few days. During all the time 
of his captivity, he was allowed only a 
little coarfe bread and water. I write the 
hiftory of men—and of men who called 
themfelves Chriftians!- The monks. of 
Ely begged his body, which toey decently 
buried on the right hand-fide of their 
church,’* 
NE 
NT PERSONS. 
ACCOUNT of ALDo MANUZIO, the famous 
VENETIAN PRINTER. 
HE three Manucci of Venice—men 
who contributed much more than 
any of their contemporaries to the refto- 
ration of the learning of Greece and 
Rome in modern times—have been lately 
made the fubje&ts of an highly curious 
and learned work, by Mr. Rezouard, of 
Paris. The new light which his refearches 
have thrown upon many parts of their 
lives and literary exertions, encourages 
us now_te make the elder Aldo, with his 
affiftance, the matter of a fhort memoir. 
Aldo Manuz‘o, the elder, was born 
about the beginning.of the year 1447. 
The place of his birth was Baffiano, a 
fmall town in the duchy of Sermonetta, 
‘fituate near Velletri, and in the vicinity 
of the Pomptine Marfhes. His baptifmal 
name, Aldo, is 2 contraction of Theobaldo, 
according to the Italian fafhion. 
- In his early youth, he ftudied under a 
teacher who knew of na betier elementary 
book for his firit inftru€tion in the Latin 
language, than the Dofrinale of Alexan- 
der de Ville-Dieu. The rules of this 
grammar, Aldo was obliged to get by 
art at a time when he could not well 
undeittand them. And, as it feems, he 
could never afterwards forgive this gram- 
mar for the trouble which it then occa- 
fioned to him. 
He went next to Rome, and there re- 
ceived leffons from Gafpar of Verona, and 
fiom Domizio Calderino, who was a na- 
tive of the fame city. Under thefe maf- 
ters, his proficiency was rapid, He re- 
tained through life a grateful fenfe uf the 
utility of their inftru€tions; and in feveral 
of his: Prefaces, he has mentioned their 
talents and erudition in terms of the 
higheft refpe&t. They were his mafters 
in Latin literature only. : 
He went to Ferrara to findy Greek un- 
der the celebrated G. Batt. Guarini, who. 
then taught the Greek language and lite- 
rature with great fuccefs in that city, 
It feemis to have been at Ferrara, that 
Aldo became preceptor to young Alberro 
Pio, Prince of Carpi, nephew, by a fitter, 
to the famous Giovanni Pico, Prince of 
Mirandula; or, he rather, perbaps, un- 
dertook the tuition of the Prince of Carpi 
immediately after finifhing his own fiudies 
at Ferrara. 
In 1482, Ferrara being clofely befeged 
by a Venetian army, Aldo retired to Mi- 
randula, and there {pent fome time in the 
fociety of the illuflrious Giovanni Pico, 
3 N 2 Whey 
