E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Alfred, King of England
(b. Wantage, Berkshire, 848; d. Oct. 27th, 901). Translated into English Bede’s “Ecclesiastical History,” Orosius’s “Universal History,” Bœthius’s “De Consolatione Philosophiæ,” and Gregory I.’s “Pastoral on the Care of the Soul.” “Biographies” by Powell (1634), Spelman (1678), Bicknell (1777), and by Thomas Hughes, M.P., in the Sunday Library. See also Wright’s “Biographia Britannica,” the “Dictionary of National Biography,” and Morley’s “English Writers,” vol. ii.
