The charter of King Henry the First to St. Bartholomew's Priory : addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and to Gilbert the Universal, Bishop of London, in the year 1133 / edited, with notes, from the copy in the Record Office by Norman Moore, on the occasion of the restoration of the south transept to the use of the church by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London on March 14, 1891.

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1891
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Credit: The charter of King Henry the First to St. Bartholomew's Priory : addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and to Gilbert the Universal, Bishop of London, in the year 1133 / edited, with notes, from the copy in the Record Office by Norman Moore, on the occasion of the restoration of the south transept to the use of the church by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London on March 14, 1891. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    William de Albini, the Breton, was the builder of the oldest part of the fine church still standing at Wymond- ham in Norfolk, and visible from the Great Eastern Eailway on the north side of the line to Norwich. He was chief butler to King Henry I, and was made Earl of Arundel by the Empress Maud, whom he supported. A relative of his was one of the first abbots of St. Alban's Abbey, and both he and his father gave estates to it. When he made his grant he desired to be admitted into the fraternity of the Abbey, as his father, Robert, had been. Alberic de Vere was the king's chamberlain, and was famous in his day for knowledge of the law. An oration of his in defence of the arrest of Bishop Roger, and other acts of Stephen, delivered at Winchester in 1139, and preserved by Henry of Huntingdon, shows much subtle reasoning, and may perhaps be considered the earliest extant speech in England of a counsel learned in the law. He could perhaps write, and was certainly the most learned of the laymen. He has sometimes been spoken of as the first lawyer who founded a great family in England. Twenty Earls of Oxford were descended from him, of whom the last died in 1702. Alberic was killed in a fight in the streets of London. Milo was Earl of Hereford, and governor of the castle of Gloucester. He did some hard fighting against the Welsh when they were besieging Cardigan, and it is a curious coincidence that the next witness, Pain Fitz John, lost his life in the same war. Milo de Gloucester was a supporter of the Empress Maud, and Robert de Curci was her sewer. He founded a convent of Benedictine nuns at Canyngton in Somerset.