ALURED, or ALFREDUS, of Beverley, one of the most ancient and best English historians. He wrote in the reign of Henry I. There are no circumstances of his life known with any degree of certainty. It is generally believed that he was educated at Cambridge, and that he afterwards became one of the canons and treasurer of St John's at Beverley. And we learn in a note of bishop Tanner's, that, for the sake of improvement, he travelled thro' France and Italy; and that at Rome he became domestic chaplain to cardinal Othoboni. He died in the year 1128, or 1129; leaving behind him the following works: 1. The Annals of Alured of Beverley. Oxford, 1762. Published by Mr Hearne, from a manuscript belonging to Thomas Rawlinson, Esq. It contains an abridgement of our history from Brutus to Henry I. written in good Latin, and with great accuracy. 2. Libertates ecclesiae S. Johannis de Beverlac, &c. a manuscript in the Cotton Library. It is a collection of records relative to the church at Beverley, translated by our author from the Saxon language. The Biographia Britannica evidently proves these to be all that were written by Alfredus.