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Excerpt from King Alfred’s Preface to the Translation of Gregory’s Pastoral Care

Anglo-Saxon text is according to the Hatton manuscript in the Bodleian Library, as printed in King Alfred’s West-Saxon Version of Gregory’s Pastoral Care, with an English Translation, the Latin Text, Notes, and an Inroduction, edited by Henry Sweet (London: Early English Text Society, 1871).

King Alfred greets bishop Wærferth with his words lovingly and with friendship; and I let it be known to thee that it has very often come into my mind, what wise men there formerly were throughout England, (...); and how foreigners came to this land in search of wisdom and instruction, and how we should now have to get them from abroad if we were to have them. (...) And therefore I command thee to do as I believe thou art willing, to disengage thyself from worldly matters as often as thou canst, that thou mayest apply the wisdom which God has given thee wherever thou canst. Consider what punishments would come upon us on account of this world, if we neither loved it (wisdom) ourselves nor suffered other men to obtain it: we should love the name only of Christian, and very few of the virtues

When I considered all this I remembered also how I saw, before it had been all ravaged and burnt, how the churches throughout the whole of England stood filled with treasures and books, and there was also a great multitude of God’s servants, but they had very little knowledge of the books, for they could not understand anything of them, because they were not written in their own language. As if they had said: “Our forefathers, who formerly held these places, loved wisdom, and through it they obtained wealth and bequeathed it to us. In this we can still see their tracks, but we cannot follow them, and therefore we have lost both the wealth and the wisdom, because we would not incline our hearts after their example.”

When I remembered all this, I wondered extremely that the good and wise men who were formerly all over England, and had perfectly learnt all the books, did not wish to translate them into their own language. But again I soon answered myself and said: “They did not think that men would ever be so careless, and that learning would so decay; through that desire they abstained from it, and they wished that the wisdom in this land might increase with our knowledge of languages.”

	Population
Town	Total	Avg	Additional
2	450	450
3	2,000	1,000	1,550
4	5,000	1,667	3,000
5	10,000	2,500	5,000
6	20,000	4,000	10,000
7	40,000	6,667	20,000
8	75,000	10,715	35,000
9	130,000	16,250	55,000
10	233,550	25,950	103,550
11	263,550	26,355	30,000
12	294,550	26,778	31,000
13	326,550	27,213	32,000
14	359,550	27,658	33,000
15	393,550	28,111	34,000
16	428,550	28,570	35,000
17	464,550	29,035	36,000
18	501,550	29,503	37,000
19	539,550	29,975	38,000
20	578,550	30,450	39,000
21	618,550	30,928	40,000
22	659,550	31,408	41,000
23	701,550	31,889	42,000
24	744,550	32,372	43,000
25	788,550	32,857	44,000
26	833,550	33,342	45,000
27	879,550	33,829	46,000
28	926,550	34,317	47,000
29	974,550	34,806	48,000
30	1,023,550	35,295	49,000
31	1,073,550	35,785	50,000
32	1,124,550	36,276	51,000
33	1,176,550	36,767	52,000
34	1,229,550	37,259	53,000
35	1,283,550	37,751	54,000
36	1,338,550	38,244	55,000
37	1,394,550	38,738	56,000
38	1,451,550	39,231	57,000
39	1,509,550	39,725	58,000
40	1,568,550	40,219	59,000