[A.D. 1058] Aluredus Wigorniensis Episcopus ecclesiam, quam in ciuitate, Glauorna ą fundamentis constraxerat, in honore principis Apostolorum Petri honorificč dedicauit: et posteą regis licentia Wolstanum Wigorniensem Monachum ą se ordinatum Abbatum constituit ibidem. Dein pręsulatu dimisso Wiltoniensis ecclesię, qui sibi ad regendum commissus fuerat, et Hermanno, cujus suprą mentionem fecimus, reddito, mare transijt, et per Hungarian profectus est Hierosolymam, &c.
In the yere of our Lord 1058. Alured bishop of Worcester, very solemnly dedicated a Church (which himselfe had founded and built in the citie of Gloucester) vnto the honour of S. Peter the chiefe Apostle:442 and afterward by the kings permission ordained Wolstan a Monke of Worcester of his owne choice, to be Abbate in the same place. And then having left his Bishopricke which was committed vnto him ouer the Church of Wilton, and having resigned the same vnto Hermannus aboue mentioned, passed ouer the seas, and trauailed through Hungarie vnto Ierusalem, &c.
442This is Gloucester Cathedral, the crypt, the chapels surrounding the choir, and the lower part of the nave being the portions built by Alured that are still extant.
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