Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...foundation grants of his father to that religious establishment." Matthew Paris, in the life of Robert, the eighteenth abbot of St. Alban's, b gives a long account of a dispute between that personage and the Earl of Arundel respecting Wymundham, and of the manner in which the good abbot contrived to " tame" the " indomitable" Earl. He died at Waverley, in Surrey, 1176. on the twelfth of October, 1176, and was buried at Wymundham on the nineteenth of the same month/ Eloquent in council and bold in action, this nobleman was respected by his contemporaries both as a statesman and a soldier. His prudence enabled him to steer wide of the difficulties which involved so many others of his day in ruin; and his moderation always secured to him the esteem even of those to whom he was opposed. He left issue by his wife, Queen Adeliza, four sons and three daughters, of whom William, the eldest, succeeded him in the Earldom." a Cart. 13 Hen. 3. m. 15. per Inspex. Monasticon Ang. I. 592. II. 143, 274. Baronage I. 120. b P. 1032--1034. c Diceto, 595. " Anno 23 Henrici secundi Regis, MCLXXVI. obiit Wilhelmus Comes de Arundel senior, apud Waverleiam IV. Id. Octobris." Annul. Waverl. 161. V. WILLIAM DE ALBINI, SECOND EARL OF HIS FAMILY. Of William, the eldest son of the last Earl, nothing is recorded previous to the death of his father. In January of the following year, he was present at the council of Northampton, and there received from the unking the investiture of the Earldom of Sussex.b For some reason, however, with which we are unacquainted, the Castle of Arundel, with its appendant dignities and possessions, seems to have been withheld from him. We know that it was in the king's hands both in 1180 and 1183: it was still in the possession of the...
