Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

During his tenure as abbot, he supported the abbey with gifts ; the medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury said that they were splendid and many.

William of Malmesbury says that Ealdred, by " amusing the simplicity of King Edward and alleging the custom of his predecessors, had acquired, more by bribery than by reason, the archbishopric of York while still holding his former see.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury records a story that when the new sheriff of Worcester, Urse d ' Abetot, encroached on the cemetery of the cathedral chapter for Worcester Cathedral, Ealdred pronounced a rhyming curse on him, saying " Thou are called Urse.

Besides the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the medieval writers William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth used his works as sources and inspirations.

* William of Malmesbury ( c 1095 – c1143 )

Æthelstan's campaign is reported by in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.

John of Worcester and William of Malmesbury add some lively detail by suggesting that Edmund had been feasting with his nobles, when he spotted Leofa in the crowd.

" The chronicler William of Malmesbury asserts that Henry once remarked that an illiterate king was a crowned ass.

Other material from Thomas of Elmham, Gervase of Canterbury, and William of Malmesbury, later medieval chroniclers, adds little to Bede's account of Justus ' life.

Fulcher's chronicle was very popular and was used as a source by other historians in the west, such as Orderic Vitalis and William of Malmesbury.

This interpretation derives from the Chronicle attributed to the 14th-century chronicler of Scotland, John of Fordun, as well as from earlier sources such as William of Malmesbury.

Some Medieval commentators, following William of Malmesbury, claimed that Duncan was illegitimate, but this claim is propaganda reflecting the need of Malcolm's descendants by Margaret to undermine the claims of Duncan's descendants, the Meic Uilleim.

According to William of Malmesbury ( c. 1080 – c.

Around forty years later William of Malmesbury believing the Abbey older, said that David visited Glastonbury only to rededicate the Abbey and donate a travelling altar including a great sapphire.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury says that the king also seized and depopulated many miles of land ( 36 parishes ), turning it into the royal New Forest region to support his enthusiastic enjoyment of hunting.

According to William of Malmesbury, William Rufus was " well set ; his complexion florid, his hair yellow ; of open countenance ; different coloured eyes, varying with certain glittering specks ; of astonishing strength, though not very tall, and his belly rather projecting.

William of Malmesbury in his account of William's death stated that the body was taken to Winchester Cathedral by a few countrymen.

* William of Malmesbury, English historian

** William of Malmesbury, English historian ( b. 1080 )

Historians have puzzled over Edward's intentions for the succession since William of Malmesbury in the early 12th century.

* William of Malmesbury, The History of the English Kings, i, ed. and trans.

William of Malmesbury asserts that Godwin had been overwhelmed " in power and in numbers " by Harold.

William Sansom writes only about Europe in this book and frequently of such familiar places as London, Vienna, the French Riviera and the Norwegian fjords.

Erasmus used the Holbein portraits as gifts for his friends in England, such as William Warham, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( as he writes in a letter to Warham regarding the gift portrait, Erasmus quips that " he might have something of Erasmus should God call him from this place.

As William Gibbons writes, " Pastor Thomas also mentioned that the two pygmies mimicked the cry of the animal as it was being attacked and speared ... Later, a victory feast was held, during which parts of the animal were cooked and eaten.

Golden age hip hop ( cited as either just the late ' 80s or the late 80s to early 90s ) was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says " in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time " and Allmusic writes, " rhymers like PE's Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Rakim basically invented the complex wordplay and lyrical kung-fu of later hip-hop ”.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

* September 3 – William Wordsworth writes " Upon Westminster Bridge.

" The central idea of this psychomyth, the scapegoat ", writes Le Guin, " turns up in Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov, and several people have asked me, rather suspiciously, why I gave the credit to William James.

William Baker writes that Winterbottom, because of his " upper-class origins ", could not " effectively instruct, much less inspire, working-class footballers ".

Among the themes that would run through all of his work were " personal alienation and an outrage over social injustice ", writes film critic William Baer.

In the introduction to The World of O. Henry: Roads of Destiny and Other Stories ( Hodder & Stoughton, 1973 ), William Trevor writes that when Porter was in the Ohio State Penitentiary " there was a prison guard named Orrin Henry, whom William Sydney Porter.

Jack Zipes writes in When Dreams Came True, " There are fairy tale elements in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and ... in many of William Shakespeare plays ".

* 1898-De Lôme Letter: Spanish minister writes disparagingly of President William McKinley

William Francis Nolan ( born March 6, 1928 ) is an American author, who writes stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres.

Other evidence attributing this invention to William Murdoch takes the form of a letter from Boulton to a colleague concerning Watt's forthcoming October patents in which he writes:

Mary Pershall, who writes under the pen name " Susan Shelley ," is an author of over 20 novels, including a series of historical romances about the family of William Marshal:

Describing the character, Proinsias Mac Cana writes: " Cigfa strikes one as a slight though effective vignette of a contemporary bourgeois snob while William John Gruffydd hypothesises that the character was a later addition to the tale.

In his 1500 California Place Names ( 1998 ), William Bright writes that the name is Spanish for " where the chual grows ," chual being Mexican Spanish for pigweed or goosefoot, and derived ultimately from Nahuatl tzoalli.

Renowned historian Stephen Ambrose writes of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in Undaunted Courage, " When they shook hands Clarksville, the Lewis and Clark Expedition began.

William Stearns Davis writes in Life on a Medieval Barony:

In the Gesta Regum Anglorum of around 1125, William of Malmesbury records that Gawain's grave had been uncovered in Pembrokeshire during the reign of William the Conqueror, and writes that the great nephew of Arthur had been driven from his kingdom by Hengest's brother, though he continued to harry them severely.

* 1830-Church of Scotland missionary Alexander Duff arrives in Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta ); William Swan, missionary to Siberia, writes Letters on Missions, the first Protestant comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of missions ; Baptism of Taufa ' ahau Tupou, King of Tonga, by a western missionary ; arrival of John Williams of the London Missionary Society in Samoa, landing in Sapapali ' i on Savai ' i island