[Footnote 242: Consult _Johannis Rossi Historia Regum Angliae; edit. Hearne_, 1745, 8vo., p. 96. This passage has been faithfully translated by Dr. Henry. But let the lover of knotty points in ancient matters look into Master Henry Bynneman's prettily printed impression (A.D. 1568) of _De Antiquitate Cantabrigiensis Academiae_, p. 14--where the antiquity of the University of Cambridge is gravely assigned to the aera of Gurguntius's reign, A.M. 3588!--Nor must we rest satisfied with the ingenious temerity of this author's claims in favour of his beloved Cambridge, until we have patiently examined Thomas Hearne's edition (A.D. 1720) of _Thomae Caii Vindic. Antiquitat. Acad. Oxon._: a work well deserving of a snug place in the antiquary's cabinet.] [Footnote 243: Edit. 1803, vol. i., p. 14.] Let us pass by that extraordinary scholar, courtier, statesman, and monk--ST. DUNSTAN; by observing only that, as he was even more to Edgar than Wolsey was to Henry VIII.--so, if there had then been the same love of literature and progress in civilization which marked the opening of the sixteenth century, Dunstan would have equalled, if not eclipsed, Wolsey in the magnificence and utility of his institutions. How many volumes of legends he gave to the library of Glastonbury, of which he was once the abbot, or to Canterbury, of which he was afterwards the Archbishop, I cannot take upon me to guess: as I have neither of Hearne's three publications[244] relating to Glastonbury in my humble library.