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  1. English prelate and scholar. He was abbot of
  2. Malmesbury from 673 and bishop of Sherborne
  3. from 705. Of his poems and treatises in
  4. Latin, some survive, notably his Riddles in
  5. hexameters, but his English verse has been
  6. lost. He was also known as a skilled
  7. architect.
  8.