...when 878~894. he came to the throne " Learning had fallen to so low a depth among the English nation that there were very few on this side of the Humber who were able to understand their church ritual, or to translate an epistle out of Latin into English :...

...perpetuated without their aid. " So completely," says King Alfred, " had learning perished from the land, that there were very few on this side of the Humber who could explain their Common Prayers in the English tongue, or translate any Latin passage into English ; —...

...bishops or ealdormen. record that when he came to the throne there were none south days of of the Thames who could understand their rituals in English, or translate a letter from the Latin ; very few south of the Humber and not many beyond1. The monasteries still stood with their...

...the evil. " So general was the decay of learning," says he, " that there were very few on this' side the Humber who could understand their rituals in English...translate a letter from Latin into English ; and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I can not remember a single one...

...had been broken up, and very few of the clergy were scholars. Alfred said of the clergy that " thera were very few on this side of the Humber who could understand their service in English, or translate an epistle out of Latin into English ; and I think there were not...

...of Gregory, though in this treatise Alfred does not say there was no grammar school. All he says is that there were very few on this side of the Humber who were able to understand their service in English, or even to turn a letter from Latin into English...

...how we must now get them from without if we would have them. So utterly had it (learning) fallen away in England that there were very few on this side of the Humber who could understand their service-books in English, or even put a letter from Latin into English; and I think there were not...

...and how they prospered both with war and with wisdom ; and also the sacred orders, how zealous they were both in teaching and learning and in all the...translate a letter from Latin into English ; and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I cannot remember a single one...

...and how they prospered both with war and with wisdom : and also the sacred orders, how zealous they were both in teaching and learning and in all the...translate a letter from Latin into English : and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I cannot remember a single one...

...in search of wisdom and instruction and how we should now have to get them from abroad if we would have them. So general was its decay in England that...translate a letter from Latin into English ; and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few that I cannot remember a single one south...