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BERNARD DE MORLAS, monk of Cluni, is not to be confounded with the great Bernard his contemporary, Abbot of Clairvaux, and Saint in the Romiſh calendar. The place of his nativity is uncertain, and the years of his birth and of his death are alike unknown. He lived during the firſt half of the twelfth century; he was born, according to one authority, at Morlaix, in Bretagne; according to another, at Morlas, in the lower Pyrenees; whilſt a third gives his birth-place to England, and claſſes him with her illuſtrious writers (De illuſtribus Angliæ Scriptoribus).1 After ſeven centuries of comparative forgetfulneſs, the genius of two Engliſh ſcholars has revived a portion of his works; and hereafter his name will be beſt known in that country, which may poſſibly poſſeſs his birth-place.
