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William of Malmesbury Quotes

1090–1143 England

William of Malmesbury (c. 1095 or '96 – c. 1143), English historian of the 12th century, was born about the year 1095 or '96, in Wiltshire. His father was Norman and mother English.

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That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie].

None became rich unless he was a moneychanger, none a clerk unless he was a lawyer, none a priest unless he was—to use a somewhat foreign word—a rentier.

Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125)

This Arthur is the hero of many wild tales among the Britons even in our own day, but assuredly deserves to be the object of reliable history rather than of false and dreaming fable.

Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125)

We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125)

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