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XXXVI. An Account of Saint Peter's Church in the East, Oxon, from an old MS. Communicated by Mr. James Theobald

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James Theobald
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Saint Peter's church in the East, Oxo˜n, was founded by Saint Grymbald, a Monk, about 814 years since, viz. anno Christi DCCCLXXXVI. according to the most credible account we find recorded in the annals of our English nation. This Saint Grymbald was a person of a sharp wit and immense knowledge, and therefore was by King Alfred (deservedly surnamed the Great, on a double respect, both for his noble atchievments in martial affairs, and his assiduous promotion of learning) elected one of the first professors of divinity in this most flourishing university of Oxon.

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Archaeologia , Volume 1 , Volume 1, Second Edition, 1779 2 , 1779 , pp. 151 - 155
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1779

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page 151 note [a] This account I find in an antlent author, Asserius Menevensis, de vita et gestis Regis Aluredi, edit. Francofurti 1603: which Asserius was very learned (Vita S. Grimbaldi MS. per anon. Script. out of which I have seen some collections in the Ist vol. of the Collectanea of the most celebrated antiquary John Leland. Vid. item Guliel. Malmsburiensem, de gestis Pondficum, lib.ii. pag, 247. edit. inter Scriptores Anglicanos, Franc. 1601. et ejusd. Malmsburiensis tract. de gestis Regum Anglorum, inter eosd. Scriptores, lib. ii. p. 44.

page 153 note [b] Annales Winton. MS. Ranulphi Cestrensis in fragmento quodam Polychron. MS. inter Cod. Digb. num, 218, fol. 106, &c. Asserius Menevens. in Vit.

page 154 note [c] He was Divinity Lecturer immediately after Saint Neot, who was first professor of that faculty. Vide Hist. et Antiq. Univers. Oxon. lib. ii. p. 30.

page 154 note [d] Asser Menevens. Joh. Bromton, ibid. He died the third year of Edward the Elder. Chron. Joh. Bromton, p. 832.

page 154 note [e] Malmsb. de Gestis Regum Ang. lib.ii. p 44.

page 154 note [f] Ibid.