Asylum Editor E. Tomlinson Fort writes:

"While doing some research upon another topic I came across the following document. It is an Old English record of the presentation of a work now known as the Golden Gospels to the monks of Christ Church Canterbury:

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I, Ealdorman Alfred and Wærburh my wife obtained these books from the Viking army with our pure money, that was with pure gold, and this we did for the love of God and for the benefit of our souls and because we did not wish these holy books to remain longer in heathen possession. And now we wish to give them to Christ Church to the praise and glory and honor of God, and in gratitude for his Passion, and for the use of the religious community which daily raises praise to God in Christ Church, on condition that they will be read every month for the sake of Alfred and Wærburh and Ealhthryth, for the eternal remedy of their souls, as long as God has foreseen that the Christian faith will continue at that place. Moreover I, Ealdorman Alfred and Wærburh beg and implore in the name of Almighty God and of all his saints that no man be so presumptuous as to give away or remove these holy books from Christ Church, as long as the Christian faith may endure. [Witnesses] Alfred Wærburh Ealhthryth their daughter