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Wealdhere, bishop of London at the beginning of the eighth century, writes a letter to the archbishop of Canterbury to consult him on the political situation involving the kings of Wessex and Essex and a possible meeting at Brentford in Middlesex.The letter is written in a spiky cursive form of script and is probably in Wealdhere’s own hand.

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The student of the book in early medieval Wales, and also in those other areas that remained British-speaking, labours under a modest handicap: there are no surviving books known to have been written in Wales or Cornwall before the ninth century. English books survived somewhat better because they travelled along both routes to preservation, Francia in the eighth and ninth centuries and into the libraries of reformed English monasteries and cathedrals in the tenth century. Details of the Latin orthography used by the Irish, as well as the way they pronounced Latin, have confirmed the importance of the British role in their conversion. It has been proposed that the Hibernensis was intended for the British as well as for the Irish church. Yet the Latin culture of pre-Norman Wales remained very closely attached to the book. In a more general sense, lector could, occasionally, be used of the pupil himself.

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I.31 - Archbishop Æthelred Grants Land to a Layman for a Sum of Gold

I.12 - Wealdhere, Letterto Berhtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury

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16 - The use of the book in Wales, c. 400–1100

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I.31 - Archbishop Æthelred Grants Land to a Layman for a Sum of Gold

I.12 - Wealdhere, Letterto Berhtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury

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16 - The use of the book in Wales, c. 400–1100

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