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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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of its own, and one interwovenwith the history of England. It be-comes, and for centuries remains, theEnglish capital, the Royal City. Eg-bert, whose accession in 827 to theoverlordship or kingship of the nowunited Heptarchy marks an epoch inEnglish history, here proclaimed tohis subjects his new authority. Here CLOSE GATE AND porters LODGE. began the devel-opment of theEnglish mind andlanguage. In histranslations and inhis great work, theChronicle, may beseen undoubtedmarks of hispower and orig-i n a 1 i t y. Win-chester may wellbe proud that within her confinesAlfred made this first great his-tory-book of the English people.At the castle the earlier part ofthe work was compiled and copied;it was nothing more than a sim-ple record of facts down to thetime of contemporary history. Copiesof this earliest part went to differentplaces, one to the scriptorium atPeterborough, another to the monksof Christ Church in Canterbury, andothers elsewhere,—the original manu- WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL.
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KING ALFRED. script being kept at Winchester, inWolvesley Castle, fastened to the deskby a chain, that all who could readmight study it as it grew from yearto year. In the library of CorpusChristi College, Cambridge, may stillbe seen this very manuscript. Alfredhimself wrote up this copy of thechronicle for about twenty years, hiswork coming down to the year 891.In it, writes one, we have the firstvernacular history of a Teutonic peo-ple ; there is nothing like it in Ger-many nor in Scandinavia, nor amongthe Low Dutch. As we read it westand at the fountain-head of a liter-ature, which in breadth, extent andsplendor of masterpieces is sur-passed by none. The Peterbor-ough copy, which was carried onuntil 1154 and then dies out in themiddle of a sentence, was the littlerunnel through which our mothertongue was safely conveyed throughthe wilderness of Norman oppres-sion. From Winchester alsoAlfred set in motionmany of his plans for thebenefit of his people.Here he issued the newcode of We

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