Frontispicce. ALFRED THE GREAT. This conception of Alfred's features is probably at least 200 years old. It appears in one of the Bodlean prints with this legend: Alfredus Saxonum Rex, Coll. Universitatis Oxon. Fundutcr. Circa A. Chr. 877. Hujus Summ Regis Effigiem a Tubula in Bibl. Bodlirana factum Reverendo viro Nathan Withevell, ST.P. Nathan Wetherell was Master of University from 1764-1808, but the original to which he refers cannot be traced, |