Dewsbury.
This saying is quoted twice, as follows, in _The Chronicle of Battel Abbey
from 1066 to 1177_, translated by Mr. Lower, 8vo., London, 1851:
"Thus, '_Man proposes, but God disposes_,' for he was not permitted to
carry that resolution into effect."--P. 27.
"But, as the Scripture saith, '_Man proposes, but God disposes_,' so
Christ suffered not His Church to want its ancient and rightful
privileges."--P. 83.
Mr. Lower says in his Preface, p. x.:
"Of the identity of the author nothing certain can be inferred, beyond
the bare fact of his having been a monk of Battel. A few passages would
almost incline one to believe that Abbot Odo, who was living at the
date of the last events narrated in the work, and who is known to have
been a literary character of some eminence, was the writer of at least
some portions of the volume."
It is stated at the beginning to be in part derived from early document and
traditional statements.