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Excerpt from The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon: Comprising the History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Accession of Henry II
While yet a mere child, Henry was admitted into the family of Robert Bloet, a prelate Of great talents and in?uence, who held the see Of London from a.d. 1093 to 1123, taking a distinguished part in the civil, as well as the ecclesiastical, affairs of the time. Our author gives a lively account in his Letter to Walter1 Of the sump tuons magnificence of the bishops household, in which he had opportunities of associating with noble, and even royalz, youths, who, according to the custom of the age, were nurtured in such establishments. Here he pur sued his studies under the tuition Of Albinus of Anjou, a canon of Lincoln, and subsequently Abbot of Ramsey, Of whom he Speaks in terms befitting his learning and worth.
Henry appears to have continued in the Bishop Bloet's family until he arrived at manhood, and probably received from him, as his fiist preferment, a canonry Of Lincoln; which Bale3 states as a fact, though he does not refer to any authority for it. Our author informs us, that during these early years, he composed several books of epigrams, satires, sacred hymns and amatory poems, which he afterwards published with his more important works. He could not have been much more than thirty years of age at the tme Of his appointment to the archdeaconry, and he was probably indebted for his ea1ly promotion to so important an office, to the estimation in which his talents and his father's character were held by the bi shop.
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