Although Neil Ker reported that ‘manuscripts in Old English were considered to be practically without value in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries’, scholarly attitudes about that assessment are changing. Multi-lingual activity, including the use and copying of Old English manuscripts, continued in libraries and monastic centers after the Norman Conquest: Patrick Wormald has shown that Old English laws were compiled and translated into Latin and Richard Gameson has demonstrated that libraries in England were built up with texts current on the Continent. Benjamin Withers has recently pointed out that the illustrated Old English Heptateuch (British Library, Cotton Claudius B.iv) was ‘given an honoured status at least since the fourteenth century, when a catalogue from St. Augustine's monastery at Canterbury records that it was shelved in an exalted spot in its library, on the first shelf of the first bookcase’. Others, including Elaine Treharne, Mary Swan, Christine Franzen, Joyce Hill, Susan Irvine and Wendy Collier, have also demonstrated that later-medieval interest in and use of Old English manuscripts extends beyond the antiquarian to the practical, and beyond the work of familiar glossators and annotators, such as the Tremulous Hand of Worcester and Coleman. According to Treharne: