?lfric's translation of the Lord's Prayer, from a 17th century edition. With decorative initial letter.. From: 'Divers ancient monuments in the Saxon tongue : written seven hundred yeares agoe : shewing that both in the Old and New Testament, the Lords Prayer, and the Creede, were then used in the mother tongue : and also, what opinion was then held of the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ published by William L'Isle ... : whereunto is added out of the Homilies and Epistles of Aelfricus a second edition of a testimonie of antiquity touching the sacrament, and a sermon on the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacramentall body and blood of Christ, used to be spoken by the people at Easter, before they should receive the Communion'.