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Rh abbot (of St. Alban's, his brother) and Archbishop Wulstan, were also legatees under the will. (See Hickes's Epistolary Dissertation, p. 62.)

The following lines written at a very early date in a copy of Ælfric's Glossary, prove the belief of the author that the grammarian and the archbishop were the same person.

"Præsulis hic redolent Ælfrici lypsana summi Qui rector patriæ perstitit Angligenæ. Inter pontifices rutilans ceu mystica lampas Defensor regni - necne salus populi - Heu nostram fera mors extinxit nempe lucernam Heu nostri cecidit fons quoque consilii. Hunc sexta decimaque Kalendas nempe Decembris Assumpsit Michahel seu dedit Emmanuhel -

It is worthy of observation, that although Ælfric was in his day greatly honoured at Rome, (as see Saxon Chronicle,) in his writings, nothing is said of purgatory, as being either a divine or an apostolical tradition, but on the other hand in the homily giving an exposition of the Catholic faith, the final awards of the last judgment are thus described: "Eac we sceolon gelyfan. ðæt ælc lichama ðe sawle undefeng sceal arisan on domes dæge mid ðam ylcum lichaman. ðe he nu hæfð. and sceal onfon edlean ealra his dæda. ðonne habbað ða godan ece lif mid Gode, and he sylð ða mede ælcum be his geearnungum. Đa synfullan beoð on helle wite à ðrowigende, and heora wite bið eac gemetegod ælcum be his