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	Malmesbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malmesbury is an old-established south Cotswold town in south west England in the county of Wiltshire.
		Malmesbury is the oldest borough in England, founded at the start of the 1st century BC.
		Malmesbury is twinned with the German town of Niebüll and partnered with Gien in France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malmesbury (266 words)

	MALMESBURY - LoveToKnow Article on MALMESBURY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He did very great service in furthering Pitts policy of maintaining Englands influence on the Continent by the arms of her allies, and held the threads of the diplomacy which ended in the king of Prussias overthrowing the republican party in Holland, which was inclined to France, and re-establishing the prince of Orange.
		In recognition of his services he was created Baron Malmesbury of Malmesbury (Sept. 1788), and permitted by the king of Prussia to bear the Prussian eagle on his arms, and by the prince of Orange to use his motto Je maintiendrai.
		Malmesbury did not publish anything himself, except an account of the Dutch revolution, and an edition of his fathers works, but his important Diaries (1844) and Letters (1870) were edited by his grandson.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MALMESBURY.htm (622 words)

	Malmesbury Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The wall levels, top to bottom, are the clear windows of the clerestory, the rounded arches of the triforium (windowless at Malmesbury) and the pointed arches of the nave arcading.
		Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, was founded as a Benedictine monastery in c.676 AD by Aldhelm, a nephew of King Ina of Wessex.
		Today the Abbey is in full use as the parish church of Malmesbury, in the Diocese of Bristol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malmesbury_Abbey (452 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! TRAVEL GUIDE: Malmesbury - Britannia's Magical History Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Malmesbury's first important personage is one Aldhelm, a Saxon by birth and related to King Ine of Wessex.
		William of Malmesbury (1095-1143), the town's connection to King Arthur, was the greatest historian of his time and was educated at the Abbey school.
		Malmesbury was the ancestral home of the Hanks family, and one charming tradition has it that the Wiltshire town was the birthplace of Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln.
	www.britannia.com /travel/magical/magic4.html (684 words)

	Encyclopedia: William of Malmesbury
		Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, was originally founded in the 10th century by secular canons, but soon came under Benedictine rule.
		The education William received at Malmesbury Abbey included a smattering of logic and physics; but moral philosophy and history, especially the latter, were the subjects to which he devoted most attention.
		His one public appearance was made at the council of Winchester in 1141, in which the clergy declared for the empress Matilda.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-of-Malmesbury (1391 words)

	Malmesbury Abbey
		Some restoration and alterations were carried out as early as the mid-14th century, but at the beginning of the 16th century the spire and central tower fell, completely destroying the east end of the church.
		Walking back along the public footpath, which skirts the western side of the church, it is possible to locate the position of the original west door from the finely carved corner turret that survives.
		Malmesbury is such a spectacular abbey, in a quiet unassuming way, and holds an enormous wealth of interesting history and famous connections, both royal and monastic, that it would be a tragedy not to take any opportunity to visit.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /abbeys/malmesbury_abbey.htm (459 words)

	Cotswold HyperGuide - Malmesbury
		Because it was a natural strongpoint the Saxons occupied the hill at an early date and an Irish monk Maildulph formed a hermitage close to the castle in 642.
		William of Malmesbury also tells of an 11th.C monk called Elmer who made himself wings and launched himself from the tower of the abbey, flying about 200 metres before crashing and seriously injuring himself.
		Norman carvings of the Apostles inside the South Porch, considered to be among the finest in England.
	www.digital-brilliance.com /hyperg/towns/malmes.htm (838 words)

	MThreeW - Skate Park Petition - Sign it NOW!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Malmesbury deserves more than a skate park because...we have shit all to do at least if we had somewhere else to go and meet up we would be in one place making it easier for the police to check up on us, which will free up more of there time to catching the real criminals.
		Malmesbury deserves more than a skate park because...i know what it is to be in a shit-pit of a town woth nothing to do.
		Malmesbury and Swindon, Wiltshire deserves more than a skate park because a lot of our ppl is gettin in trouble from the old bill and weeeeeeeeeee need somewhere to skate were ppl won't complain about us.
	malmesbury.homestead.com /skate.html (1341 words)

	William of Malmesbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He spent his whole life in England with his best working years as a monk at Malmesbury Abbey.
		He is an authority of considerable value from 1066 onwards; many telling anecdotes and many shrewd judgments on persons and events can be gleaned from his pages.
		Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: William of Malmesbury (http://www.bartleby.com/211/0906.html) from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907—21.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/William_of_Malmesbury (657 words)

	Malmesbury on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Malmesbury is famous for its Benedictine abbey, founded in the 12th cent., of which only the nave remains.
		The Malmesbury elections of 1698 and 1701.(Common Sense)
		In Malmesbury, there are few tears for Mr Dyson and his miracle cleaner.(News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Malmesbu.asp (310 words)

	Eilmer of Malmesbury
		William tells this story as an aside to a description of the appearance of the comet that was later known as Halley's.
		William of Malmesbury, also known as William Somerset, died about 1143 and ranks only after the scholar-monk, the Venerable Bede, as the greatest of the English medieval historians.
		William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum (The Deeds of the English Kings) is one of the great histories of England.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/bodhidharma/monk.html (593 words)

	Malmesbury Town Council, Wiltshire, England
		Reputed to be England's Oldest Borough - Established 880 AD Malmesbury is a special place, sacred and full of history yet vibrant and at the cutting-edge of new technology.
		Tetbury, some five miles to the North, was in Mercia; Malmesbury, in Wessex (the West Saxon Kingdom), and for centuries animosity between the two towns was very real.
		Until that time Malmesbury was a walled town with gates, to regulate the comings and goings of the people of this important and busy market town, but at the time of the Commonwealth the defences were slighted and were never to be rebuilt.
	www.malmesbury.gov.uk (456 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Malmesbury
		Returning to Malmesbury between 671 and 675, he was placed in charge of the school, and appointed abbot of a monastery founded there by Lothair (Leutherius), Bishop of Dorchester.
		Edward the Confessor sanctioned a proposal of Bishop Herman of Wilton to transfer his see to Malmesbury; the monks and Earl Godwin opposed this, and Old Sarum was chosen instead.
		A preceptory of Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, three churches, and one or two nunneries, a mint, an important merchant's guild, and a large population marked the prosperity of the place.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09572c.htm (591 words)

	Malmesbury Wiltshire - Town Guide
		Malmesbury lies about six miles north of Junction 17 of the M4, on the southern edge of the Cotswolds.
		That's just a taste of old Malmesbury, for more on the town's buildings and history take the town tour.
		Disclaimer: While every effort is made to ensure that the information contained in yourguide to Malmesbury is correct, neither the guide nor its contributors can be responsible for any loss due to errors or omissions.
	www.yourguide.org.uk /malmesbury (336 words)

	View The Malmesbury Guestbook
		Comments: I was born and bred in Malmesbury and have a lot of relatives that live there.
		Comments: My Grandmother, Olive Clarke lived in Malmesbury as long as I can remember, I also stayed with her for some time and was surprised to find this website.
		Comments: My grandfather (Charles Exton) left Malmesbury around 1890 at age18.His father was James born 1845 who married a Ruth Pike in 1871.His father was Richard born about 1804 who married Ann Lewis.My grandfather had a sister Annie.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /chippenham/malmesbury/guestbook/page5.html (328 words)

	Malmesbury -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		639–709), West Saxon abbot of Malmesbury, the most learned teacher of 7th-century Wessex, a pioneer in the art of Latin verse among the Anglo-Saxons, and the author of numerous extant writings in Latin verse and prose.
		Hobbes's father, a vicar, was “a choleric man,” and he disappeared after engaging in a brawl at his own church door and abandoned his three children to the care of his brother, a well-to-do glover in Malmesbury.
		When he was four years old Hobbes was sent to school at Westport, then to a private school, and finally, at 15, to Magdalen Hall in Oxford, where he devoted most...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050356?tocId=9050356 (444 words)

	William of Malmesbury -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He made a collection of medieval histories, and produced a popular account of English history, modelled on the (Click link for more info and facts about Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum) Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) of ((Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)) Bede.
		His one public appearance was made at the council of Winchester in 1141, in which the clergy declared for the empress (Click link for more info and facts about Matilda) Matilda.
		He is an authority of considerable value from 1066 onwards; many telling anecdotes andmany shrewd judgments on persons and events can be gleaned from his pages.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_of_malmesbury.htm (677 words)

	William of Malmesbury
		William of Malmesbury was born in Wiltshire in about 1095.
		William became a Benedictine monk at Malmesbury Abbey, and while working in its library he became interested in history.
		Malmesbury also used topography and buildings as evidence and was very interested in human character and motivation.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORmalmesbury.htm (515 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: Wiltshire: Malmesbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Malmesbury Activity Toys - Offers a range of TP activity garden toys including trampolines and climbing frames.
		Malmesbury Directories - Includes businesses, hotels and guest houses, clubs and societies, and places of worship.
		Malmesbury Memories - Stories of past and present with photographs.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Malmesbury (521 words)

	William of Malmesbury on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		La teologia agnostica y apofatica de Thomas Hobbes de Malmesbury.
		Narrating Matilda, "Lady of the English," in the Historia Novella, the Gesta Stephani, and Wace's Roman de Rou: The Desire for Land and Order.
		Leviathan harpooned: aware of the dangers posed by judges and the law, Thomas Hobbes offered a solution.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/WmM1alm.asp (333 words)

	MThreeW - Malmesbury's OWN Website
		That was the bizarre conclusion made by NWDC spokespeople when they met frustrated shopkeepers and locals in Malmesbury Town Hall last week to discuss the reasons why Station Yard car park has overnight become a money-making concern.
		The team of NWDC officials came to Malmesbury last week in a bid to defend parking charges, which have brought the town in line with other, larger places in the area.
		We have plans for a new Primary School in Malmesbury, to be built behind the current one.
	malmesbury.homestead.com (927 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William of Malmesbury
		He was educated at Malmesbury, where he became a monk.
		After this he spent ten years in forming a collection of historical and legal materials, now in the Bodleian library, and writing a history of Glastonbury and its saints, in which he speaks as though he were, for the time at least, an inmate of that abbey.
		About 1140 he made revisions of the two works "Gesta Regum" and "Gesta Pontificum", and began a new work "Historia novella", a sequel to the former, dealing with the period 1125-42, but in such a desultory way as to show that we have rather the first draft of a book than a completed work.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15633d.htm (404 words)

	View The Malmesbury Guestbook
		Apparently some of her ancestors are buried in the graveyard at the abbey church.
		Comments: I was born in Malmesbury in 1952 and went to Malmesbury Grammar School from 1963-69.
		P.S. Malmesbury is a town not a village!
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /chippenham/malmesbury/guestbook/page6.html (563 words)

	The Story of Malmesbury by John Bowen
		The New Millennium marks the printing of a new authoritative history of Malmesbury.
		is written by John Bowen and edited by Graham Allnatt, ex-Head of History at Malmesbury School.
		John is a well known local historian who has been researching his hometown for many years.
	www.malmesbury-memories.co.uk /42.html (187 words)

	St. Aldhelm's Church Malmesbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aldhelm's is a parish within the Catholic Diocese of Clifton and the Swindon Deanery, serving the historic town of Malmesbury and the surrounding villages.
		It is a member of Churches Together in Malmesbury.
		Our Patron, St. Aldhelm, was born in Wessex c.640 A.D. and became Abbot of the Benedictine community at Malmesbury c.675 A.D. Later he became Bishop of Sherborne, although still retaining connections with Malmesbury.
	www.malmesbury.co.uk /community/churches/catholic.htm (278 words)

	JAMES HARRIS, 1ST EARL OF MALMESBURY - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES HARRIS, 1ST EARL OF MALMESBURY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		JAMES HARRIS, 1ST EARL OF MALMESBURY - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES HARRIS, 1ST EARL OF MALMESBURY
		JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, 3RD EARL OF MALMESBURY »
		See: JAMES HARRIS, 1ST EARL OF MALMESBURY at LoveToKnow.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MALMESBURY_JAMES_HARRIS_1ST_EARL_OF.htm (670 words)

	Malmesbury Information Online - Property services in and around Malmesbury, UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If you have any news or information related to Malmesbury or would like an article to be published in Malmesbury Information Online, fill in a simple form or send it to us and we will do the rest.
		Malmesbury Information Online is part of the UK information network.
		Malmesbury Information Online is an independent site and is not affiliated with, or officially sponsored by any local authority or tourist information centre based in Malmesbury.
	www.britinfo.net /fp-M-CDH.htm (238 words)

	MALMESBURY - Online Information article about MALMESBURY
		castle built at Malmesbury during the reign of See also:
		It was not incorporated, however, until 1645, when it was made a free borough under the See also:
		Dissolution the abbey was bought by a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAL_MAR/MALMESBURY.html (894 words)

	Moving to Malmesbury - A Guide to Services
		If you are thinking about moving to Malmesbury this page has lots of information for you.
		Estate agents, removal services to get you here and the tradesmen you may need to stamp you own personality on your new home.
		Inclusion in these lists does not imply any recomendation.
	www.yourguide.org.uk /malmesbury/mmove.html (137 words)

	AllRefer.com - William of Malmesbury (Historians, British, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - William of Malmesbury (Historians, British, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		William of Malmesbury[mAmz´burE] Pronunciation Key, c.1096–1143, English writer, monk of Malmesbury.
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